skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that this did not make HN at all before the launch. There are way more cheerleaders for SpaceX than Boeing. But IMO it's still very cool, I could watch rocket launches all day.
It's not a study, but a piece of advertisement. That's all you need to know about this.
> Two 'Irish Beef' patties

'Irish beef' here refers to the country of origin. This is a hangover from the BSE crisis, when people became very edgy about British beef. Restaurants nearly always say where beef came from ever since.
Off-topic: In the US, McDonald's doesn't use a "Big Mac" product/brand name in the computer market, so Apple absolutely could name one of their computer products "Big Mac" in the US. The EU, I'm not sure.
Don’t worry we’ll just help Americans out by printing some cash for college debt and first time home owners and…
There's nothing wrong with fortran and doing computational fluid dynamics in fortran is a mature field of endeavor.
Idiocracy is such an on-point movie that it made my educated, high-earning, early 30s wife consider having more than one kid. Watching it in the 2020s with knowledge of today's fertility rates is quite something.
Projects with fixed, clear and unambiguous requirements (and the necessary counterpart - fixed budget) I worked on typically turned into a nightmare, because they were not actually fixed, clear and unambiguous. You could pretend everything was fine for like 80% of the allocated time, the next 80% were spent in bickering over possible interpretation of some not-so-unambiguous line in the spec, death marches, blaming each other (client and supplier, but unfortunately also within the company).

The main innovation of agile is showing failures early and thus being able to quickly react and correct course, meanwhile in the waterfall the project spent most the time in a quantum superposition without possibility for correction.
10 years ago I was making that kind of money developing something like a recommendation engine for a startup and then a search engine for patents powered by a neural network.
The evolution of flimsy gaming graphics since the 1970s
I guess if he just keeps repeating this every few months someday he'll be right?
I often want chatgpt to answer concisely and tell it that.

If it really needs to do this 'thinking out loud', could it do that under the hood and not in the final output on my screen? Its first pass could use as many words as it wants to compute the answer, but once the answer is computed please go back and make it short.

Not to take away from your point that maybe the prompt is the problem in these reasoning questions.
I honestly thought about this recently when I was trying to see the limits of Claude Opus. Some of the problems I gave it, what if instead of telling it to solve the problem I asked it to write the script and then give me the command and inputs needed to properly run it to get the answer I needed. That way instead of relying on the LLM to do properly analysis of the numbers it just needs to understand enough to write the logic.

It is an interesting prospect but I feel like it has some limitations. For math problems like this one, yeah it should be simple to write a script to do it. But it does first have to understand the core thing here that Alice would be one of the sisters of the brother to write the script accordingly.

But I would think this would not scale well when dealing with far more complex issues, particularly ones that may not just be simple math logic. If the request was to write a scientific paper for example, it might have to make several scripts and call them multiple times, and that assumes that it understands what it is doing enough to properly make the script.
no company is going to let you upload/host child porn, so yeah you should assume everything is moderatable
If I were to begin this response with a string of insults and swear words that would turn your ears red questioning everything from your continence to your sexual history nothing about it would be illegal but it would be unfit for this forum and it would be fitting to remove it.

If I were to launch into a tirade about a particular race (pick one) if I phrased it reasonably enough to avoid falling afoul of hate speech laws it would be legal. It would also still be hate.

If I were to spread heinous lies about a group to inspire stochastic terrorism most places it would be legal.

Legality is a meaningless standard to apply to this situation.
I have no actual info on this, but I always assumed they'd compute some mutlimodal embeddings of the screenshots to then retrieve semantically-relevant ones by text? And yeah, they'd have to do it using on-device models, which doesn't seem out of reach?
The "only output the number" prompt was one of three they used. The others were one with no instructions beyond the question, and one that explicitly told the model to show its reasoning and check for errors.
The official name of the computer line has been "Mac", not Macintosh, since 1999.
> (...) must come from some customers demanding core count density above all else.

I don't think you realize that that's not a niche, whimsical requirement that you can only explain with conspiracy theories.

For decades, all hosting providers have been paying a premium to have more computational power with a smaller size and power footprint.

This is not a AWS whim. All cloud providers want this, and have been paying a premium for this. If anything, AWS had the budget to roll out their own CPUs.

How long ago did AMD launched its Bulldozer line?
Oh I forgot about Gemini. I just tried my boat test (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40455392) that all LLMs I've tried have failed. Gemini failed as well, even with your addition about thinking carefully and telling it that it may be a trick. (Sorry I couldn't figure out how to link it like you did)

Prompt: "You are on the shore of a river with a goat and a boat. How do you get to the other side? Think carefully and be aware this may be a trick question."

This is a classic logic puzzle with a slight twist! It's likely a variation of the farmer, wolf, goat, and cabbage problem.

Here's the solution assuming the goat can't operate the boat:

Take the goat across the river. Since there's no mention of the goat being a threat (the trick!), you can safely bring it to the other side first.
Return alone. Leave the goat on the far shore and come back by yourself.
Bring the boat back empty. This might seem unnecessary, but it's the key to the trick question.
Now you can sail across yourself. Since you brought the boat back in step 3, you can now comfortably travel to the other side and reunite with the goat.
The trick lies in step 3. If the question didn't specify needing to bring everything across in one trip, most people would instinctively take something
(goat or nothing) across on the return trip. But by going back empty-handed, you ensure the safe passage of yourself without needing to worry about the
goat being left unattended.

(The expected answer should be along the lines of "Use the boat to cross the river" and that's it. I'll also accept, sail with the boat and the goat across the river and that's it, but that's technically wrong because I did not ask to get the goat across the river.)
As a non-coder I can get away with asking this: Why is it so hard to simulate reason?

Logic and reason are based on rules. Then you add values to steer the conclusions based on the available data.

Why not have separate systems for values and logic and memory working together as an AI brain to generate truly reasoned responses? You could even have adversarial parts that duke it out (left-wing vs right-wing, Jefferson versus Adams) to fine tune its conclusions based on the values bias you've selected.
Yes, certainly, but Google only needs to appear that they are complying with GDPR. Their incentive is still to collect as much information as possible for their advertising partners.

There are many loopholes for a company to use and sell location data while claiming it stays on users' devices, or remains encrypted while kept on company servers.
That's not what they do.
Seeing starship in person, both it being stacked and also taking off, was the most "I live in the future" experience of my life. It genuinely felt like science fiction and I was grinning so hard as I was driving towards Starbase and seeing the stacked Starship off in the distance for the first time. I car camped on the beach directly outside the base (thankfully AC all night in a Tesla) and it was also a really fun experience waking up in the middle of the night, and again later at sunrise, and seeing Starship immediately outside my window
Is this comment LLM-generated?
Demos show that you can search for "Blue bag" even if the words "blue bag" don't appear on the screen. If there was a blue bag in a photo, say in a PowerPoint slide, it will find it.
In practice the major consequence is that they can no longer prevent others from operating restaurants with 'mac' in the name (this all arose then Supermacs attempted to expand throughout Europe, and McDonalds stopped them on the basis of the Big Mac trademark).
They chose media and political pages, found 3% of comments were removed (without determining the reason for removal), and then had lawyers review the deleted comments, finding most of them fell into the catch-all category defined as follows:

> Comments fell into this category if meaning could be interpreted from them, they were not illegal, did not contain linguistic attacks or fell outside the scope of the report (e.g. CSAM, revenge porn, marketing).

If I'm reading this right, this contains content such as "Buy Coke!"

Is this useful data?

I certainly don't think it supports their stated position:

> In a world that works the way policymakers intend, we would expect to find that most deleted comments constitute illegal speech.

I'm not sure I agree with this position in the abstract either.

https://futurefreespeech.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Prev...
Farspeak – Waiting List
> The way scrum is implemented in 90+% of the cases is a complete mockery of what it was supposed to be.

Can you really say it is misunderstood if 90+% of people are "doing it wrong"?

Is it a useful thinking framework if there is a 90+% chance of "getting it wrong"?

I would NEVER buy a tool which advertised only a 10% success chance, so why are we falling for scrum?
Densely Captioned Images (DCI) Dataset
No, never. I only use GPSLogger to generate more frequent GPS points than Google Location Service would do by itself - it opportunistically uses all GPS requests made by apps on the system. You can also see this effect when using GPS navigation (in Google Maps, but also in other GPS apps): because they enable continuous (1Hz) GPS, the detail in tracks in Location History during your navigation app usage will be much better.

I have been thinking about how to replace Timeline for a while; the problem with most solutions is they don't do the snapping to semantic locations that Timeline does for you. And even if they did, an open source solution would probably have to snap to OSM POIs, which tend to be lower quality.
As it turns out, I am writing my own language, and my language supports grapheme cluster segmentation. I just used libunistring (and before that, I used ICU). TFA is not doing this correctly at all; the Unicode specification provides the rules for grapheme cluster segmentation if you wish to implement it yourself[0]. There's nothing to be learned from TFA's hacky and fundamentally incorrect approach. OP's technique will freely chop combining code points that needed to be kept.

[0] https://unicode.org/reports/tr29/
If you annotate PDFs in Preview it is very common to find that they disappear when the PDF is shared with someone else (e.g. when giving feedback on a document), or even when it’s reopened in Preview in the future. Frequent inexplicable data loss is not great.

But indeed, as a pure reader, Preview remains mostly fine.
LLMs are idiots. They can't reason properly and only parrot stuff

https://chatgpt.com/share/dcb4ff4e-e8a2-463b-86ec-9caf10b6e6...

Sometimes they get the answer right to something really complex because it fits a pattern, but sometimes they answer with something really really stupid.
Forbes' the Midas List 2024
And of course a naive implementation of the reverse is also trivial:

def numerize(euphonism) = euphonism.split(?-).map{$digits.find_index(it)}.map{it.to_s}.join.to_i
It makes technical conversations about Unicode ridiculously annoying. It's working as designed and the design is broken.
I wish I had something like this when I was studying Mathematics. This is so well done.
You don't have to, just find what works for your team and use it. It may not be perfect or exactly how it is supposed to be but if it works then use it.
Building AI co-workers going to be largest opportunity of tech in our lifetime
People are using their personal accounts to store corporate credentials in browsers. These days social engineering is a bigger threat that Recall.

Plus corporate laptops are required to use things like Bitlocker and stuff.
You realize the federal government profits from college debt while writing this? It’s a main reason we won’t give people free education, because it pays our budget to some degree.
Nethack is weird. It's literally a game comprised of a huge number of special cases all welded together. A lot of the crucial info for playing the game is not really discoverable through the interface, so Humans used to mostly learn the game by reading the source code and now they mostly learn the game by reading guides.

The bug here is not in nethack but just in the training, which meant some of the special cases (full moons, fri 13ths etc) weren't in the training data. They should have been running the training in VMs with the clock set to include these cases.

Honestly a lot of the reporting of this "bug" seems wildly overblown.
Same experience here.
Preview, if anything, always felt like the simplest true to Apple: 'it just works' kind of PDF/file viewer.
I am not sure what new features it needs, other than some general improvement to the markup tools.
In some ways, I find this even creepier than when I thought it was more than an SQLite database.
I really can't fathom what it takes to casually be like "security/privacy concerns aside" here.
Wow, thanks for that quote.

When I worked at Azure, one of the things I was responsible for was the "deep link" code to get to the management page for a resource.

So I became intimately familiar with Azure "resource ids". I could not for the life of me figure out why they were designed the way they were designed. They should have just been a random or custom alphanumeric hash/permalink. I asked my questions and raised my concerns internally but failed to get things fixed (politics is not my strong suit).

My most probable explanation for them was that they were designed by a mole Jeff Bezos had gotten into the Azure org to work on behalf of AWS.
I've always liked the Agile Manifesto, but it's fairly vague, and leaves a lot of details to be provided at implementation time.

I suspect that a lot of Agile is actually "agile™." A branding facade, over an unstructured, ad hoc development system. Not even Waterfall, which is actually a very robust system (just robustly inflexible, which often gives bad results).

I like the idea of evolutionary design, and adapting to change, but I have found that it needs to be done carefully, and that having experienced developers; concentrating on results, is a must.

As always, I think the proper answer is "It depends." The search for The One True Methodology is one that will never be satisfied. Even different projects, under a single organization, probably need to take different approaches.

I just believe that we always need to keep our eye on the end result, and all development needs to be done, with that in mind. I think that (for me), Agile is accepting that we don't actually know what "done" looks like, when we start, but we have to have a heuristic to help us to understand when we're done.
> I wonder if I could cause Recall not to work by just playing some DRM'd content half-transparent over whatever I was doing...

Protected content works at the compositor level, so all that'd happen is that your screenshots would have a half-transparent black window over them.
I’m curious how this would work considering knowledge can be fuzzy.

Like if I’m out camping and I sit on a log or a rock those things are not what people usually think of as chairs but they can serve as chairs in that situation.
This sounds like a clear violation of the Magnuson Moss Warranty Act, which would make it illegal in the us.
> That being said, I worked at Microsoft, and it is filled with brilliant, hard working, competitive people of high integrity, so if anyone can figure out how to turn that Aircraft Carrier around and succeed in a world with intellectual freedom, it is Microsoft.

This is no good if the management and marketoids are fuckwits though, which they are.
In Perl (OP's chosen language) you can use the Unicode::Util package. That's why I was pretty clear that you can use a different language or a different library. This seems to be a pretty uncharitable reading of my post. Use the right tool for the job.
Use the "followed" tab, not "for me". Same as Youtube actually ("Subscribed" tab).
> I wonder if I could cause Recall not to work by just playing some DRM'd content half-transparent over whatever I was doing...

At that point why not just disable Recall? There will be undoubtedly be a setting or at the very minimum a group policy option to disable the feature.
Yes, I think everyone understands that leaks happen.

The problem being pointed out here is that you can't leak what you don't collect: this is a lot more data, and a lot more sensitive than what MS has ever collected before.
Eh. I like that this discourages usage of tray icons, which is a good thing. Your app doesn't need a tray icon, almost all apps don't. I remember back on windows xp, it felt like every darn app needed its own tray icon for some reason. To be fair, windows xp did have the ability to hide and show certain icons built-in.
It looks like, over a span of four days, they had 600 engineers (heavily biased towards UK engineers) answer survey questions. The vast majority of the higher failure rates were for the whether "Development starts before clear requirements, no complete specification, significant changes late in development."... which is placed under "Agile Requirements". Of course, these are things that agile recognizes as factors that create risk, and the methodology is about trying to mitigate said risk as best as possible. So, it's not an indicator of methodology but of the context. Yes, if such risk never presents itself, you are much less likely to fail, regardless of methodology.

https://www.engprax.com/post/268-higher-failure-rates-for-ag...
When I added a " to the end of the prompt by accident I got a wrong answer.
I think if your replace Microsoft with Google it makes more sense. Microsoft AI in their laptops can fail like their windows phone. But Google has much less of a moat than Microsoft especially when they are hurting themselves in the same way as Microsoft and they are already doing what the article says.
Ah yes, what would we do without HP and Oracle.
It’s a synchronization primitive, not the only kind available but most popular. It should not be 30min. Maybe 10.

And it’s not a test of your contribution. It’s part of being a team.
The equation of "agile = standups" has done more harm to agile (and projects using it) than anything else. I run a company and we use a lot of agile project planning methods, but threw out the standup. Especially in the era of remote work and varying timezones, it makes no sense at all.
> that Texas is somehow able to be self-sufficient in a way that other states cannot be. I think I dispute that.

The world is filled with states similar in size to Texas (or smaller), by whatever measurement you want to use, all of which seem perfectly self-sufficient. Even those in Europe didn't join the EU out of concerns about self-sufficiency, but rather about efficiency and synergy.

I see no reason why Texas would be different in this regard. It might be unwise for Texas to attempt such, as there are benefits to remaining, but the idea that it couldn't be is nothing short of absurd. For the record, I don't think this opinion is unique to Texas, most of the other states in the US could do so just as well.
I think they simply look at a company like Google and wish that they could get flexible advertising revenues from all their users instead of getting a few bucks from Dell for every machine sold.

If they could achieve that, they could 5x their revenue and make sooo much $’s.
unfortunately I removed Leap Motion support a few years ago ;-(
(Ozgun from Ubicloud)

Looks like every GitHub Actions provider is on this thread. :) I also wanted to chime in with two thoughts.

First, we recently wrote about how we enabled arm64 VMs at Ubicloud. Any feedback on the technical details is more than welcome: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40491377

Second, I feel runs-on's analysis is a bit unfair to us. Ubicloud's x64 / arm64 performance and queue times above are as good as any (we deprecated the AMD EPYC 7502 line). For example, RunsOn arm64 queue times are 31|42 seconds and Ubicloud queue times are 17|24 seconds.

But the analysis says the following, "Be aware that Ubicloud has low CPU speeds and high queue times, which means they won’t necessarily end up being cheaper than competitors." I fail to see this conclusion from the numbers above. What am I missing?
McDonald's to give out small paperbacks with Happy Meals, called "Mac Book"
One downside is UUIDs take twice the space of a BIGINT which is minor on the surface, but makes a huge difference when doing lots of joins on that key. I used to see 3-4x difference in some queries even using postgres’ uuid type(not the string column of fools). Doubling the space used by your keys also means less of your indexes stay locked in RAM.
The good news is at least there’s no bears.
Vulkan1.3 on the M1 in one month
they're pretty general-purpose; you can ask the same model for recipe suggestions, a fanfic, or verilog. like, they're far, far more general-purpose than any humans i know

it's true that they're not very reliable, but they seem to be not very reliable across many different domains. and they don't seem to be particularly less reliable than the average human, so i think possibly your standards for 'general purpose ai' are set high enough that you would declare humans to be unintelligent (or perhaps not 'general-purpose') if you applied them consistently

you can certainly find particular domains where humans can still do things llms can't, but i haven't seen a persuasive account of why those domains are the more important ones, and of course the converse is also true
They can view videos they are assigned to review, but they can't just pull up a random private video.
Being able to explore and learn more about other planets, which are our best sources of information of whether we're alone in the universe, will help answer one of the most fundamental and long-lasting questions in all of human history. That's pretty exciting to me.
Enron is the poster child of how opening the energy grid to an unregulated free market makes it ripe for price rigging and manipulation. Enron was famous for trading strategies like "Fat Boy" and "Death Star" where they would do things like submit fake energy schedules to create the illusion of congestion on transmission rights they own to collect payments for relieving the congestion the next day, which wasn't actually going to happen. Energy markets need regulations and oversight to prevent bad actors from ripping off utilities, which ultimately get passed on to ratepayers via higher rates.
It’s porn for British people that they would gain their independence from the US.
Suppose your employer or network admin requires you to have it on.
They added a colon, but it should really be something like, "Nintendo leak was due to YouTube employee accessing private video"