skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But training just allows it to replicate what it's seen.

Two steps deeper; even a mere Markov chain replicates the patterns rather than being limited to pure quotation of the source material, attention mechanisms do something more, something which at least superficially seems like reason.

Not, I'm told, actually Turing compete, but still much more than mere replication.

> It's the same when I have a conversation with it, then tell it to ignore something I said and it keeps referring to it. That part of the conversation seems to affect its probabilities somehow, throwing it off course.

Yeah, but I see that a lot in real humans, too. Have noticed others doing that since I was a kid myself.

Not that this makes the LLMs any better or less annoying when it happens :P
This is what I am wondering every time I am updating my TV (to a larger model, better HDR, etc. ]). I almost exclusively use the TV to watch movies. Movies that have been shot at 24fps, or 29.97 or 48fps. So this being my use case, all I need is that the player chain and the TV can change refresh rate to the actual movie refresh rate/fps.

For my use case, is there anything I am missing here? Or have I been in the wrong all these years to brush off the TV sales guys at the store trying to push me 240Hz etc. latest fads?
Unsure about whether it'll be commercial viable, but the easy prediction is that it's going to make the problem worse.
It's just marketing BS. 0 chance they tested durability for years.
That's great, I don't really like to manage secrets with only aws CLI so it's quite useful !
That was where my mind went to when I saw the headline. Granted that while I’m not on the Finance side of things and am in fact a developer, “six million” didn’t seem like much at all considering engineer salaries. It’s certainly an achievement, but at what short and long term salaried cost?
> This is the same reason why you can get a 65" 8K OLED TV from Samsung for "just" €2500, but you still pay €4000 for a Dell 32" 8k monitor. The market for 8k TVs is just so much bigger than 8k computer monitors.

I was with you until this point. I’m fairly certain that this is due to shrinking pixels to cram 8K in 32” is much harder than doing it at 65”. That’s why it’s cheaper. Recently, many super high resolution TVs debuted at CES (or whatever has replaced CES) start at larger sizes and it’s an accomplishment when they start to come /down/ in size.
> They do this on earth every time they fuel the rocket. I understand it will be more difficult in space, but I don’t see why specifically this problem is the real engineering target over say, reuse.

The article goes into this in some detail. In particular:

* You have to get the propellant into space. This is going to take a large number of flights (~15) at a pace that has not been done before for a vehicle of that size (a launch every six days)

* You need to launch at pace because otherwise the propellant will boil off, which is another issue - you need to shade or insulate the propellant for a much longer period of time in much harsher conditions

* There is no gravity: whereas on earth the propellant separates relatively cleanly into liquid and gas this isn't the case in space
The best solution was already there: have a canparse() to do up front if statement checks, and use the language's exception handling for the rest.

I understand people might not like exceptions, but special-casing certain calls like just makes the language harder to use.
And here’s a post about the Platonic, Pythagorean and the Popperian:
https://open.substack.com/pub/aixd/p/ai-might-not-need-exper...

Specifically about how AI might be able to “understand” even without the ability to feel or have qualia.
Planes can glide in case of engine failures, something FAR easier than a successful autorotation... Of course they still need a place to glide to the ground, gliding capacity of a typical plane it's not those of a glider, but even if a chopper successfully autorotate finding a reachable place it's not simpler, the range around is far, far shorter than a high altitude gliding airplane.

Also wings are fixed passive stuff in 99% of plain, of course thy can crack, but far less likely than a rotor mechanical failure...
60 years is way small. one person could have move in the end of of life. it should be 200.
It's right at the top of the page:

> What is CLDR?

> The Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) provides key building blocks for software to support the world's languages, with the largest and most extensive standard repository of locale data available. This data is used by a wide spectrum of companies for their software internationalization and localization, adapting software to the conventions of different languages for such common software tasks. It includes:
> very little progress on making 5K displays cheaper. Any reason why

Supply and demand is always the answer.

5K displays are out there in various forms, but they’re low demand products. Low demand translates to high prices.
I think that "life is objectively meaningless" is an unfounded statement. You should start by proving that to be true. I also think it preferentially loads words like "objective" and "existence". It also doesn't correspond to any common sense meaning of the word "meaning", since a servile dog's life is meaningful, a doctor's life is meaningful, and so on, in normal speech.

If you mean to say something like "all existence is objectively meaningless, and it is not objectively 'better' than nothingness", then it becomes another statement you need to usefully prove in order to go on with your argument.
At an individual level I appreciate when an app or service I use maintains all records from the start of our relationship, I’ve infrequently found myself going back and looking for something, and it’s always a breath of fresh air to see that nothing was deleted.
Astronomers are enlisting AI to prepare for a data downpour
I don't remember Java being that slow even on a 133MHz CPU. Maybe if it was a giant project, though.
The Complex Social Lives of Viruses
Sounds like it will take awhile for TB and it checks db integrity not data integrity
> I have the impression that in China is not so difficult to build nuclear power plants.

Up until the mid-00s Japan was building quite a few plants as well, and they took about 4-5 years from breaking ground to commercial operation:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_nuclear_rea...

Turns out that nuclear plants are like any manufactured widget: building at scale gets costs and time down once you have the workflow down and supply chain stood up.

The "trick" is settling on one standard design and just turning the crank.
I like the idea. „Hey I have a life treating condition and it might help if x is filtered out in my kidney, is that possible? Of course that will make an additional 5€/month , but since we would loose one of our valued customers we will give you 30% of for the first six months“

Somebody know some bio engineers, I’m hiring.
> Unlike mostly human-invisible refresh rate incrementalism (e.g. 240 vs 360), made worse by slow LCD pixel response, geometrics on near-0ms-GtG displays are where mainstream human-visible benefits are. 2x-4x increases in Hz and framerate, such as 120 vs 480, are more human visible.
This is probably a snarky reply, but here is the serious answer: proportional fonts, with appropriate kerning, is a lot more legible than monospaced font. There is a reason why the press moved into that direction once it was technically feasible. But the same people that bring books as an example why 80 character line length should be enforced would gag at the notion of using proportional fonts for development. It just goes to show that none of these things actually matter, it’s just legacy patterns that remain in-place from sheer inertia, with really very little relevancy today other than the inertia of the past.
Question: I've worn leather gloves most of my adult life. Last year, after using a new pair, I developed a severe rash that spread beyond my hands. Having used gloves regularly for many years, I initially assumed it was a reaction to formaldehyde or whatever substance was used in manufacturing. But now, without exception, any time I wear leather anywhere with direct skin contact, I get a persistent rash.

Also, I have an extreme sensitivity to poison ivy and react to mango and peach leaves. Perhaps there's a clue here? Anyway, I'd be grateful to understand why I spontaneously developed an allergy to leather, which really hinders my work at times.
Here's a nice piece.

https://www.fleen.org/old_generative_art_projects/powerbox_4...
Are you sure? You^H^H^H your grand-grand-grand-grand children will probably be able to get an usb-g to usb-f to usb-e to usb-d to usb-c to usb-a adapter chain.

Hey, what happened to usb-b?
The companies that have these types of problems all have AWS reps (or whatever vendor) that get first crack at a solution, even if their senior engineers or CTOs do some googling. Frequently discounts can be negotiated on products that aren’t a perfect fit, or companies will get early access to new products that solve their problem (AWS calls this “limited preview”).

A good chunk of B2B infrastructure products like this are developed using a “golden partner” model. The first customer (or few) gets a free or reduced cost license, the developer gets a real-world scenario with real data to use to figure out what the minimal functionality actually is to be a marketable product and to work out bugs. This arrangement frequently requires a preexisting relationship and trust between both parties.
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When I heard it, I thought, wow, they licensed Scarlett Johansson, what an amazing Easter egg.

If they didn't and just cloned her voice, it's more disregard for creators and artists than I would have thought possible. What were they thinking?

Edit after reading the official story... not sure I believe it, seems disingenuous, at best they chose someone because they really really sounded like Scarlett Johansson, and no one said, it might be a problem.

https://openai.com/index/how-the-voices-for-chatgpt-were-cho...
In general it's good to have products with reliability as a first class citizen, but the best way to keep data for lots of years is to replicate them onto a reliable media from time to time.
4. If they didn't notice anything, we can wait more and send them a spy probe to learn their culture. If they are mad foresters, we might genocide them, but if they aren't, it's not more dangerous than having France with nuclear weapons. Under this strategy only foresters get what they want :)
It doesn't matter if the the special FRAM memory cells in this gadget are good for 200+ years. All modern electrical stuff is hellishly complex, from a materials engineering PoV, and there are many other parts of this flash drive that will likely fail in <2 centuries. Plus, why would you believe that (working) systems able to read USB drives will be available in 200+ years?

SO - unless the data you're storing is worth a major effort by future computer historians, just find an old daisy-wheel printer, and save your 8K to archival quality paper. That'll be good for a thousand years or so.
Natural causes in this case mean aging and disease. So an infection from a virus would be a natural cause.
Nope, I'm sure. I install them.
It's the normal boot console. Just KMS changes the resolution during the boot. It's very useful for reading long log lines if the server needs close attention for any reason.
0 covid policy was great thing after that. For years they used to wrong method not weeks or short term. Then suddenly they gave up. It's like there is no intelligent
Using the cldr (and contributing to it, though that can be frustrating) is likely better than trying to reinvent its dataset.

It has a number of issues which I don’t think it properly warns about (well they’re more LDML issues) e.g. the original date time pattern system had significant cross-cultural compatibility issues if you wanted something other than the main date/time patterns. The skeletons system improves that a lot, but is decidedly less complete.

Also some placeholders are straight up unusable e.g. it was a month-week system which was designed off of the iso weeks system, but doesn’t provide a “month” placeholder for it, so W is literally just a trap.
If I recall correctly what a TV was, it’s not clear to me why you’d ever want to have one. This article is about monitors.
LLMs are much more deterministic than humans
Natural causes in this case mean aging and disease.
That's pretty cool, but we're already past a few generations of devices that were supposed to store data for decades and we no longer have computer with interfaces to use them. What are the chances that people will know what USB is in 50 years?
Tiny nitpick, just for reference

> Konrad Zuse Museum in Hünich

I believe you refer to the museum in Hünfeld
I’m interested; how is reading (static?) text better with a higher refresh rate? Or are you meaning scrolling text in support of reading it is smoother and more appealing?
Taking this way too seriously[0], quite likely more than the USB drive, given its retail price of €29.95[1].
Note that I've omitted any shipping fees -- that comparison is likely to fall in the USB drive's favour, in any case.

[0] but ignoring obvious simple answers like "depends on the size of the stone"

[1] https://machdyne.com/product/blaustahl-storage-device/
typo was not the point of the comment though :)

also is there a demo or some sort of technical whitepaper.
No-paywall version: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/their-trains-were-stall...
I think that this is sort of cheating. You could have a language that uses "?" as sugar for the more wordy try-catch-return code that you've written here. These examples aren't really showing the semantic difference between errors as values and thrown errors, which is the implicit propagation across multiple code locations.
Why do you need blockchain for signing with private key.
Yes, but then for use this, you need the boot to have completed succesfuly. So, it is of no help to you if you want this information to figure out why the boot is crashing.
NASA had only contracted for 15 Saturn V stacks, and in 1968 declined to start the second production run. Nixon only assumed office in 1969, at which point the only question was how many of the remaining ten stacks would fly as part of Apollo. Under Nixon the final three Apollo lunar missions were cancelled, with one of those Saturn V stacks being used for Skylab instead. But even if all three had flown to the moon stagnation was inevitable as NASA's focus had already been directed to the shuttle.
What is the point of arguing definitions in this case? It seems you think one thing. The Wikipedia article says another.

Are you claiming there is only one internally-consistent way of defining terms? Hopefully not.

Do you think that definitions exist "out there" as objective realities? Hopefully not, as they exist in your head. On what basis is the definition in your head better than Wikipedia's? Or vice versa?

Are you claiming definitions are determined by authorities? Hopefully not. What do you think the editors of dictionaries themselves have to say about that? As I understand it, they view themselves as collecting popular usage.

Does popular usage serve as the "proper" and "fixed" definition? If so, does that mean usage {1, 10, 100, 1000} years ago was wrong?

Are you making some kind of statistical claim; e.g. "most people would think that cursive is..."?

The trope of "No, Thing X is not Y, see Source S" is rather myopic. There is often no disagreement once you speak clearly about what you _mean_.
> the USA there is tolerance for the job not getting done, but not for stealing.

Well, at that level it's playing loosely with semantics..

The money didn't get pocketed directly, but it got misused to pay a vast amount of costs and salaries with no result. As there are no results, the costs covered can be considered fictional. Which brings us back to bribery and stealing..
https://youtube.com/shorts/eVMNvm67Y-A (daily show skit)
I don't think it does
My son is 4 and saw me watching one of his videos with the colorful Pi characters and was intrigued. After multiple repeated requests to watch "Pi friends" we ended up getting him one of the plush Pi creatures which he still loves.
A Terminal UI for browsing security vulnerabilities (CVEs)
CLDR could be improved, but it is better than alternatives.
Breaking working functionality is not cool. Sure they should perhaps license from Scarlett Johansson directly though. It might cost 1% of their GPU budget though. Pulling the rug though, really gives end users a lack of control of the interface, and harms trust in their product and organisation.

Edit: I know it's not really Scarlett Johansson, but it does sound very similar, and they can do better to make it right, in terms of sound and legality!
Strange, I didn't hear it, now I can see the resemblance, but doesn't seem like a big deal. It was the only voice I really used. I wonder if Spotify will follow, with their sound-a-like Ice-T voice?
If you actually dig into the details of RISC-V — especially the variable width extensions, it scratches all of my CISC-y itches just fine. Is it as CISC-y as ARM or x86? Not yet; not yet.
They know what they're doing. No way this is not intentional. It's work and they got free publicity.
Mullvad give you practically unlimited bandwidth around the world for €5/month.

And Hetzner will sell you 1TB of hot storage on a 1Gbps connection for €3.49/month.

Taking these consumer level price points, you just need to make more than €4/user month to cover your marginal costs. Quite a demanding, intensive user too.
And even if we assume that there is no further improvement in perceived smoothness or your ability to predict motion; a monitor that updates every millisecond instead of every four millisecond will show you any new information earlier, like say somebody appearing around the corner. It's basically a 1-2% boost to your reaction time just because you get to react earlier. At a competitive level that's nothing to sneeze at
CVE-2024-4367 – Arbitrary JavaScript execution in PDF.js
I feel like Swift is a big miss from Google/Microsoft.
If they supported Swift on their systems (properly supported), they would immediately open up their platforms to lots of Swift developers, and I think the benefit would be more than they would need to invest into supporting Swift.
The famous study to discover that "a bit is better the zero or too much", sorry to be rude but...
Human embryos embrace asymmetry to form the body
Sunlight filtered by a window is very different from natural sunlight.
There are two main reasons this is a very poor indicator for sunlight exposure:

- since UV that is filtered out by glass will cause good metabolic reactions, this example takes out the positive of sunlight

- sunlight has a natural "stop it" mechanism. Feeling that you are getting a sunburn would naturally cause you to avoid sunlight, creating therefore a macro regulation mechanism. This is absent from light behind a glass.

So this is showing the exact point I was making that people take something that is not natural sunlight and falsely equate the two.
Seems more likely it's to do with running the systems and networks.
LedgerStore Supports Trillions of Indexes at Uber – Uber Blog
I've also heard some handwavey explanation about how certain parts of the panel manufacturing process is essentially separated by DPI. That you can reuse certain aspects of a ≈ 100 DPI manufacturing line across varying refresh rates (and physical sizes).

Then those line can probably serve a large part of the gaming / normie market, while the ≈ 220 DPI (e.g 5K @ 27") have a very small market.
It's ironic that she was in a movie called Her as an Ai
Is there some information on why they need to store this much data for immediate retrieval? And why is it so much?
The linked website literally has a link to a page called "Zuse vs von Neumann" (not available any more) on the front page.
I don’t know.

I had a similar perspective on gratitude when I was broke. I wasnt unhappy necessarily.

But when I became “rich” things definitely changed and I don’t even have Woz money.

Being “rich” helps in that you don’t worry about money anymore at least not in the way you did before…

But as Larry David said as soon as “making money” disappears as a worry than something else tends to take its place in your head. A good example would be “losing money” or “trusting others.”

The biggest goal should be becoming debt-free and avoiding consumerism. If you can do this you can reduce money as a worry and focus on gratitude as Woz says.

It can be hard to be happy and find direction when you’re broke.
Why couldn't a mobile app that everyone uses work for this. The person who wants to verify who they are uses the app, does digital signing and the other person gets notificatiom and the certification.
Wonder if there's any legal risk here. It's long been legal to imitate someone's voice as long as you don't try to make people think it really is that person's voice. This is very common in parodies.

In the case of computer-generated voices, there are qualities that are desirable that also happen to be attributes of a real person's voice. How many of these desirable attributes can a computer-generated voice have before it's considered too close to the set of attributes a particular person's voice has?
I'd like a better source for that information than an ad for a commercial product.
They look hideous.
A small victory. I truly hope Assange is released from custody as a free man soon.
Has Tesla moved to 48V in any platform beyond the Cybertruck? Last I read, they have delivered ~4000 of them, and I don't know that they've updated the manufacturing of the existing lines to 48V yet.
Anyone interested in consistent hashing should take a look at the simpler and more general rendezvous hashing[1] too.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_hashing
I read "ancient cheapskate site" and was imagining a price comparison website from the early 2000s.
It plays pretty well on my 8 year old phone (hint to others: make adjacent dots, don't drag)
That was the point. OpenAI is pretty good at marketing.
Is OCR still not working reliably with all the recent innovations in ML?
> People who aren't in a position to worry about self-actualization because they're trying to stay fed and clothed are unlikely to agree that money doesn't matter that much, if asked on their deathbed at presumably a young age.

Lets be real though, almost everyone who reads HN are in the self-actualization phase, instead of the "how not to starve" phase.
I'd be curious as well to see a more complete cost-benefit analysis, and I'd be especially interested in labor cost.

We don't know how much time and head count Uber committed to this project, but I would be impressed if they were able to pull this off with fewer than 6-8 people. We can use that to get a very rough lower-bound cost estimate.

For example, AWS internally uses a rule of thumb where each developer should generate about $1MM ARR (annual recurring revenue). So, if you have 20 head count, your service should bring in about $20MM annually. If Uber pulled this off with a team of ~6 engineers, by AWS logic, they should about break even.

Another rule of thumb I sometimes see applied is 2x developer salary. So for example, let's assume a 7-person team of 2xSDE1, 3xSDE2, 1xSDE3, and 1xSTAFF, then according to levels.fyi that would be a total annual salary of $2.3MM. Double that, and you get $4.6MM/year to justify that team annual cost footprint, which is still less than $6MM.

Of course, this is assuming a small increase in headcount to operate this new, custom data store, and does not factor in a potentially significant development and migration cost.

So unless my math is completely off, it sounds to me like the cost of development, migration, and ownership is not that far off from the cost of the status quo (i.e. DynamoDb).