skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ASCII digits do not always imply base-10 numbers, they can also be identifiers (e.g. phone numbers), parts of words (IPv6, Log4j), and used in various 'written slang' such as g2g, 4ever, m8 for mate, etc, etc.

And, crucially, I'd argue that for in "chatbot" tasks those other uses are more common than arithmetic, so arbitrary focus to specifically optimize arithmetic doesn't really make sense - the bitter lesson is that we don't want to bias our architecture according to our understanding of a specific problem space but rather enable the models to learn the problem space directly from data.
0.65 isn't that big a gap. This is probably less than one jart away from being optimised to real-time.
In addition to others Baidu has an waymo like system.
Can you propose one which doesn't use massive lookup tables?
No, this is not a slippery slope. There are already reports of doctors recommending assisted suicide[1]:

"The practice of referring or recommending assisted suicide has also spread well beyond the traditional boundaries of the health-care system. Notably, MAID is routinely practised within the Canadian prison system, despite similar measures proving deeply controversial in Belgium, a pioneer in assisted suicide legalization."

So don't come and "debate bro" me when you didn't even bother informing yourself beforehand.

1: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-maid-assisted-su...
Samsung Electronics union announces first-ever strike
> because it is not from Mozilla and includes patches to remove propietary bits

More specifically, because Mozilla won’t allow you to do that and still call it Firefox. (Except if you’re Debian, apparently Debian now gets an unwritten free pass after they demonstrated their willingness to protest that with Iceweasel. And either F-Droid is not big enough for that, Mozilla is not the same as it was back then, or both.)
Just to add, F-Droid is not a guarantee against adware. There are definitely adware apps (and by extension, maybe even spyware) on F-Droid.
Purely out of ignorance - what's the context here? I'm not in this space, but afaik Ghidra was released years ago so I'm guessing this post was triggered by a recent development, but it's not clear what that might be.
The come-back is that this principle leads to an absurd situation which doesn't allow you to comment on anything apart from yourself.
I wonder how Hex-Rays IDA sales are doing since Ghidra was released. Edit: If anyone can read French accounts: https://consult.cbso.nbb.be/consult-enterprise/0873473914
> Oracle did not design public replacement APIs until the restrictions on it where anounced.

The very opposite is true. All the remaining required replacements for Unsafe were put in place in JDK 22, and access to Unsafe has been unrestricted and unencumbered in any way until the upcoming JDK 23 [1]. It is precisely because we know people have come to depend on Unsafe that we had not started to restrict its use until all replacements were delivered.

> You might as well tell a starving person that eating bread is illegal.

Also no, because no functionality has been taken away. The only thing that has been taken away is the ability of a library (possibly a deep transitive dependency) to unilaterally use internals (again, not Unsafe, which wasn't encapsulated) -- something that has a global effect on the application -- without the application's knowledge and consent. In other words, doing the thing is not illegal; what's illegal is doing it without the application's permission.

If a library is, indeed, trusted by the application to do things that carry special risk, then it's easy for the application to grant it permission; if it isn't trusted, then surely there is no argument that the trust should be implicitly taken rather than given.

[1]: https://openjdk.org/jeps/471
A healthy forest comes from strict conservation laws, confiscation, expropriation, etc. When land is secured, what to plant is a technical detail.

Achieving a good approximation of pristine natural forests might have a lower priority than the variable needs to increase rare plants, provide an habitat for rare animals, make the forest robust against climate and geological hazards, dealing with people with friendly (e.g. edible fruit) or hostile (e.g. thick vegetation to discourage secret hemp cultivation) features, etc.
I think you’re responding to the wrong person.
Crowd dynamics and snap decisions are very different from individuals and carefully considering all aspects before jumping in.
seems to be fairly large amount of evidence that SA is a bit of an asshole.
>He comes in, buys existing companies, pays people to continue doing the work, and that's it.

Apart from Zip2 which he started from scratch and wrote the early code for, SpaceX which he stated from scratch, Neuralink likewise, OpenAI which he co founded and was the biggest early funder for and probably some others.
unacceptable risk until you pay enough for it to be acceptable
I was at Fukushima Daiichi on Monday, and they explained that they only want to take a few grams of the melted material to test the composition of the melted fuel/debris, e.g. what elements are in it.

Even just planning to remove all of the melted fuel is a long way away.

I can't remember if they were talking about Unit 1 or Unit 2, but from what I understood is that due the collapsed rubble above/around the reactor, they only have a very narrow opening, which means they've struggled to use larger robots.

And I believe the robot operating centre is a bit of a distance away from the reactors too (probably so that the robot operators don't need to wear protective equipment).

> What they need is a sort of "anteater-tongue machine" that just will try each crevice until finding the correct path.

I think the problem is that once you get through all the debris, there's a big cavern. Hence why they're using some sort of crane robot on a rope (it reminds me a bit of a [claw machine game][1]).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claw_machine
Well, I was sort of explaining it to the wider audience, but fair enough, I wasn’t actually aware it was the author.
Do you mean as an additional step to determine whether the content the rag wants to pull is actually relevant? Or as a filter of sorts as to hat projects to work on?
What an absolutely ridicolous way to spin this. Now I'm 100% sure you're not poor by the way.

Weird that only poor people will get recommendations for assisted suicide.

Why aren't middle class families recommended it based on their income?

I've heard a good ol' assisted suicide can solve pretty much anything nowadays!
Azure too.
In my experience, meeting people in person at the coffee machine or at lunch creates way more social cohesion compared to exclusively using mail, chat, and video conferencing.

This is important even in bigger organizations, because you want to catch errors early on. It helps if people bounce ideas off colleagues to see if there is anything they missed.

With people you barely know, if it is not your responsibility to comment, why bother? Better to get get some work done, then to read the chat all day.

Personally, I think about two days per week at the office is best for this purpose. But that may very from person to person.
This "trimming" is not just about features, but more generally to simplify and minimise the codebase (less code = less bugs).

Such refactoring is an essential part of maintaining software, regardless of how old or bloated it may be.
I'm always on a lookout for the best TTS for my language learning app.
Perhaps going by the "leaks" we know about we can have some idea? And as far as I know, almost all leaks point to the US doing the spying (and I would dare say the EU spying agencies are much less competent, so proportionally there should be more leaks from EU spies than US spies - but that's not what we observe).
That's what they said, yes. Only certain access points are whitelisted to access things. If you aren't using one then you're blacklisted. VPNs aren't one. You claim there isn't a global whitelist and then proceed to explain a global whitelist.
The whole "unalive" thing started happening on US-based platforms even before TikTok existed, so blaming this on the CCP is either very ignorant or intentional misleading. Normal YouTube videos is where this started. Blame Google and their advertisers.
The next wave of AI hype will be geopolitical. You're paying
It's always with you anyway. The contract and the labour relation is there always, even when you sleep.

Whether you can shut it out of your conscious mind isn't necessarily about location, though I get that it might help. It's not obvious that you might want to either, many problems in software development require slow, sustained thinking over several days or weeks.

What's important to me is to be able to stop people from work to contact me. And if I want to take a half hour stroll because the weather is nice and I enjoy it, I will, and I can stretch it out to an hour if I find something fun to sit and watch, like some birds or something. No one can stop me, and no one will question it, because the only reason they'll know is that I've told them that I was on such a nice little stroll and saw some baby geese the other day. Or played with my kids or went grocery shopping or whatever.

To my employer and colleagues the important thing is that the work gets done, with clear communication about whether it'll be done on time and why it won't be if that's the case. We're all full remote, in part because the stuff we do require a fair bit of personal maturity and professional seniority, and with that comes kids, grandkids and long established hobbies and side projects.
https://archive.ph/XlZUJ
This study is of Indian workers doing data entry and employed either direct to office or entirely remotely.

I'd expect pretty different results in different industries, demographics, countries.

Cherry picking indeed.
Just wait for the AGI robots!
Ghidra is an amazing tool, and indeed the fact that the NSA contributed this to the public is amazing, but understandable if your goal is to enhance cyber-security: it is the perfect swiss knife to figure out if there's nasty things embedded in binary blobs.

The one thing I would love to see come to Ghidra is an ML powered assistant that adds two features:

- AI-powered automated, semantically relevant, routine and variable naming

- AI-powered compiler recognition and improved recovery of loop structure

Both things should be possible using LLMs and the fact that compilers can be used to generate an infinite size training set for almost free.
> and revoke API keys sent over the unencrypted connection.

Excuse me, short question:

If I am not offering a non-TLS endpoint in the first place, and the client, for some reason, decides to take something that is literally called "SECRET", and decides to shout it across the open internet unencrypted...

...how is that my problem again?

Why should my setup be more complex than it needs to be, to make up for an obvious mistake made by the client?
Because a purely competitive operating environment favors the sociopath.
In my opinion this is most likely.

Scenario A, Sam Altman continues as CEO and the for profit arm of OpenAI continues to call the shots, growth and market share continue to be priority number one.

Scenario B, Sam Altman is fired, OpenAI non-profit board (re?)-asserts more control. Safety, alignment and other things like that take priority over growth and market share.

x% of Employees are Sam believers, and when the remaining x% of ambiguous/non-Sam believers realize the first x% might leave, their PSUs would be worth significantly less, so they sign the letter as well. There is also the peer pressure / fear of retribution factor as well once it becomes likely there is even a chance of Sam being reinstated.

Many employees choose scenario A because it is likely their "profit sharing units" will be worth more than with scenario B. There's a non-zero chance that OpenAI (the for profit arm) eventually joins the ranks of the "FAANG" companies. Those PSUs might be worth millions today, but in the future could be worth "fuck you" levels of money.
Microphone array beamforming: http://www.labbookpages.co.uk/audio/beamforming.html
From a single image, one cannot get a good grasp.

If you want to show the world a new fractal, I think the best way is to write a js+webgl program and put it online, so people can explore it themselfes.
Whatever man...

> So, the Series B Investors are giving 10% of our shares in this round to the people in the reddit community, and I hope we increase community ownership over time. [1]

[1] https://blog.samaltman.com/reddit
For arbitrary documents and queries, how do we reliably segment the text between those two different languages? And if we can do that, why can't the model do it implicitly?
Discussion about original article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481808
Mechanism design is broadly the study (with a practical as opposed to theoretical emphasis) of the way that incentives shape human behavior.

For better or worse Mark was/is able to see some deep minimal structure that allows what used to be a web page and is now a mobile app to elicit responses that bear an uncanny resemblance to the way human beings behave and interact in a setting unmediated by either a priest or a protocol. On the properties he runs people act a hell of a lot like they do in a bar or any other place where sapiens mix and match.

I’m not sure that turbocharging spinal-reflex humanity via computer networks is going all that well, which is one of the main reasons I parted ways with the endeavor once the true scope for mechanical advantage became clear, but he clearly sees things about what motivates people that Freud was throwing darts at.

I might have been one of the few true assassins he sent after people like Vic Gunderotta or Evan Spiegel and certainly he knows how to delegate the mechanics of leaving would-be adversaries on the scrap heap of history, but he knew who to send the hitters after and when.
Imagine you have build a boilerplate for next js. You put hard work in it and now want to sell the boilderplate. You go to our side connect your Repo and set a price. Then you get a link that you can share with friends or socialmedia. Of course their could be malware, but a repo doesnt install itself. You dont actually sell the ownership of the repo just add buyers as team members to your repo.

To adress the possible theft. Of course someone could just use the code and mark it as their own. But thats a problem with every online medium. Pirating will always be a problem.
I hope I could answer your questions. Let me know what you think
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation
Prior discussion with more comments and points, not on front page at the moment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40506582
At risk of sounding like the Dropbox-guy: it's not that hard to implement these yourself. I've had to write a service mimicking a PostgreSQL database for... reasons, and expanding the Postgres connection protocol to have functionalities for load balancing/caching/cookies would definitely be possible and not even crazy hard, especially if you at some point in your connection can just start proxying to an actual PostgreSQL server so you only have to intercept the handshake.

The bigger question is: what would that solve? Caching is mostly relevant if you are repeatedly executing the same, relatively heavy, query. Load balancing is mostly interesting if you have read-only queries that you can easily execute against any of X replicas, in which case you might as well do that application side instead of having some transparent layer in between. And I don't get why you'd need cookies for something that is a persistent connection instead of individual requests?

The tabular data thing is tricky though, you're right. The impedance mismatch between tables and nested object structures isn't easy to solve.

The reality of the situation is that ODBC isn't going away any time soon, and proposing a breaking change on top of protocols like that is not realistically going to see lots of adoption unless you come up with a really great alternative AND some good marketing around that.

I've come to the conclusion that the best way to spend my efforts is to work with the ecosystem and build tools that try and fix the impedance mismatch is easier than hoping for something better to come along. Making it easier to write performant code is yielding more results for me than trying to adapt SQL-protocols to horizontally scale. A single box with some well placed indexes and well written queries is ridiculously fast.
very hard to comment...
> might it put your mind at ease to know that there may be many reasons to think the comment you replied to might be correct?

Yes. Thank you very much. :) All very interesting and very good points. Thank you for the detailed answer.
The problem is that this is a title, understood in the context of other terrible clickbait titles on the web; only in titles ancient aliens are a likely occurrence, while "portal" is an appropriate term for stone structures that wouldn't have raised an eyebrow in a paragraph of description.
Has Sam actually caused any cool technology? It seems Loopt was kind of meh, he's just an investor in Helion. OpenAI was largely funded by Musk and would have happened without Sam and it may have actually lived up to the Open bit if he hadn't been there which would have been cooler. Now it's just another corporate.
I Had a Great Idea – E2E Testing for Free
I’ve edited it to be a framework to assess smoothness and approached it more rigorously (humbly as I’m still young) and clearly.
https://ollama.com/library/llava-llama3 llava-llama3
It's a great idea, but how on earth can you quantify happiness? That seems like a good way of fooling yourself by metrics on the unmeasurable.
From interviews it sounds like Altman is personally very involved in all hires. So it's not surprising that employees are incredibly loyal

He's also presenting the openai missions as a holy crusade. The alternatives for a cutting edge AI guru (who wants a disgustingly huge salary) is working for anemic bureaucratic advertising companies (Facebook and Google). While openai has a sexy new business model that nobody quite understands.. It's "not for profit" and "working for the good of humanity". Employees eat that up, while getting a fat paycheck - and I think very sensibly convince themselves it's true

Add on top of that, you're part of an exclusive club working on some Manhattan project-like cutting edge stuff. You wanna miss out on all the fun ?

They allegedly have tons of secret stuff in the pipeline, it must be exciting to be on the inside

From the point of view the lies and manipulations are all small potatoes in the grand scheme of things and just look like Altman trying to get shit done in the face of stupid layer of bureaucracy in his way (ie. The board)
My own opinion on Altman is the same as with GPT-2 getting a slow roll-out for safety: regardless of the reality, it is best to have a system and process which assumes the worst and can cope with that possibility being a reality.
And the pile of evidence that demonstrates Altman is a high-IQ psychopath grows ever taller.
Maybe this should be a Show HN: Greenplum archived; Cloudberrydb as Greenplum alternative

Or something shorter without the archived part in the title.
Maybe disappointing is not a good way to describe it but I couldn’t find a better word. I meant that it seems that multiple dispatch won’t be highlighted.

I would have liked to see a better S4 - fixing some of its issues and adding things like before/after/around method - and I’m not sure this goes in that direction. It can still be an improvement in practice over the rarely-used S4 though.
I love to read every intelligence news but it seems The Guardian has many issues finding what Putin or others are really doing.

Today the problem is not only the truth and the signal vs. noise but the context. This all seems like the spotlight fallacy.
I work for a big, old-timey, international company. The current policy is WFH or from the office, whatever you like. Some managers have rules that their team members have to show up at the office 1-4 times a month. Our office can hold about 400 employees and this is about the number of employees that could technically commute every day. To my knowledge, there are about 20 people who commute to work daily. No one else is going there unless they have to. It's a very nice, freshly renovated office, with a lot of green plants inside, free coffee, height adjustable desks, ergonomic chairs, relaxation zones, lockers (so you don't have to take your stuff to work every day), etc. located in the city center that is well connected via buses. trams and subway. You can even drive a car to work if you want. And still given that option only about 5% of employees decided to work there daily. People like you exist and their needs have to be filled however most people, if given a chance they'll prefer WFH.
I think that few days in office, especially as few as one per month, should really be about socialising.

Maybe start with a team meeting for a general update then smaller face-to-face discussions on topics best suited for in-person interaction. Then break for a team lunch and spend the rest of the afternoon on whatever people want to.

> The one day a week I'm required to spend in the London office is a complete waste of time and money and usually involves me sitting on Teams meetings all day as I very rarely need to interact with anyone else in London

Yes, same here. A mandate to be in office one-two days a week with no thought about the aim, and no planning for others to be there at the same time is a total waste of time and money.
Except for when that big o' pandemic that just happened couple years back.
The primary peculiarity and cause of issues is the Microsoft "filter driver" concept that allows I/O to be intercepted for a variety of purposes. A primary use-case for this is Just-in-Time anti-virus scanning, both for Windows Defender and third party products, which makes tasks that involve many small I/O operations (like compiling sources, using git, dealing with training sets or unzipping something with many files) very slow.
It's "amazing" that this is amazing.
This article is the usual case of decide on a conclusion then build the data sources. It's probably the norm now.

How many are going to click and share:
"Popular belief inconclusive, meta research suggests"
vs
"A research paper finds popular belief validated!"
WhatsApp boss in online spat with Elon Musk
For something that you could actually sell in volume, you may not be thinking large enough in terms of "party".

It's common to wear ear plugs at concerts, to avoid destroying your ears. Not imagine replacing those ear plugs with in-ear headphones that filter everything except your family/friends and the concert, while regulating the volume (if your SO talks to you make that one voice loud over the rest), maybe keep the "crowd noise" going with the flow but remove normal conversations for people around, etc ...

I'm not in ML/AI/etc ... At all but my understanding is that none of that is actually impossible with current tech ? Sure the battery and power limits exists, but this is a concert those headphone with a "band" going behind your head to keep them in place / not lose them if it falls makes sense. Would need some training for "your voice" but if alexa can do it in 10 seconds then a phone app can do that too.

Hell, if it existed for movies theater at below 200€ I would probably buy one right now and maybe go to the movies again.
> Almost the entire company

Almost the entire company is composed of wide-eyed young AI researchers who probably were never confronted in their entire life to the kind of psychopathic predator Altman seems to be.

One of the thing these type of folks excel at is winning the hearts of bright yet gullible folks.
If you watch the second half of the video, it still picks up the person when they're not facing them (walking around a fountain), so it's only used to target the person for the initial capture.