skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a number of safeguards:

1) Our customers can decide which categories of end-user questions should be auto-escalated

2) We ensure that if a question cannot be answered based directly on knowledgebase content, we either escalate or try to ask followups to drill deeper

3) We offer an API which our customers can directly integrate with their own systems. For protection, we either limit the set of allowed actions, or if the customer prefers, they can handle the safeguarding code internally with advice from us.

Lastly I would say the usage of LLMs is young in the support space and things will only improve from here!
Did someone give you the impression that cars without FSD have ever been safe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

Most dangerous way to travel, full stop. FSD or not. I don't think a perfect safety record is possible. Only better than what people currently accomplish given the inherent unsafety of the whole system. If safety were a top priority, the cars would be on rails.
Indeed. "Limited conditions" being the issue here (and as per the article).
That's a very strange defense: you should have known we're lying you.
So things like the ScanEagle [1], have existed for 20 years. That catapult launcher works a treat, and they have hooks on the wings so you land them by flying into a cord and then the drone just slides down onto the ground.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Insitu_ScanEagle
> Hiding the truth seems like the exact opposite of that.

It seems like “true defamation” could be a lie of omission. If someone harps on about a past misdeed but omits N years of atonement, that’s misleading, even if true.
> Turns out you can sustainably push up company valuation on vapourware.

It is very nearly standard practice in startupland to describe a yet-to-be-developed product in the present tense prior to/during development.

Strictly speaking, it’s lying/fraud, but it is so pervasive and widespread as to be expected and could rightly be called standard industry practice.

This is in no way a Tesla-specific thing.
> The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.

I've heard this before. An obvious problem with the claim is that a stopwatch doesn't measure distraction. It might take longer to use the keyboard for a task, but using the mouse introduces a number of other things like moving off the keyboard, grabbing the mouse, figuring out where the cursor is, etc.

It's kind of like a colleague asking a "30 second question". It's only 30 seconds if you don't count the cost of the distraction.
This actually happens in the original Freenet (now Hyphanet): the communication tools use propagating trust and blocking. So if someone you communicate with regularly sees something objectionable and blocks it, it disappears for you, too.

But you can always create a new identity that does not trust the other person — or set your own local trust — to see the content anyway.

The important point is that this way resistence against disruption of communication scales better that the disruption (spam, libel, harassment, ...).
> Transient allocations that do not outlive Gen0 collections are fine.

Depends on the game. What if you have huge numbers of entities (100k), pulling huge numbers of fields from yaml (hundreds if not thousands) that live almost as long as the game (unless you use hot reload, or run admin commands)?

This is problem SS14 (multiple simulation game with ~100-200 players) had with YamlDotNet. To quote devs: it's slow to parse and allocates out of the ass.
That doesn't make sense . A good quality code is ready a lot, internally we reference good code as example for new employees and it is also being read, reused again and again. The author looks like just non-engineer manager.

The bad code is read a few times and refactor as soon as we get a chance.
Seriously, ha, time is a flat circle.
>Are any of those successful leaders?

Is the OP, or any of his friend group?
yes, a version is here: https://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/
I was told by nursery not to do any home reading tuition until 5/6, which seems to be in vogue advice here in UK.

unsure of the reality but I was happy to take this advice on board, I'm happy with an average happy child
At a minimum, new code should be ready more than it is written. It's written once, then reviewed by the author and by one or more peers on your team.

Not doing code review on a collaborative project? You're already setup for failure...

OP's point of view is valid if they are the only one working on the project. Only you are responsible for your low standards.
It was originally invented by Donald Knuth in 1984. He created Web (not the World Wide Web) for this purpose.

See e.g. http://www.literateprogramming.com/
Sounds like ZRAM implemented in HW
It would only require 4x AMD MI300x.
>You'll

Reconstituted value soup isn't "you" even if 100% of people say it passes their self-turing test. Before you know it you'll be rubbing shoulders with Ray in the Soylent Green factory.
We typically offer a package price for companies with >1k questions per month with white-glove onboarding and numerous custom optimizations to ensure higher performance.

For the fully self-serve pay as you go option, we are able to offer a lower pricing.
And centralized moderation tools gravitate towards favoring these lies.

Even worse: lies about climate change are nowadays being spread via paid Youtube advertisements. This kind of centralized power should never have existed in the first place.
This feels borderline tautological: good code is good because it’s good.

Good or bad, you’re going to end up needing to add new features to this code. Or someone misunderstood an input or output to/from this code and you’ll need to read through it to understand how it’s implicated in a bug.

I think ‘good code is easy to read’ is pretty profound: DRY code with the right abstraction is easy to read. DRY code with the wrong abstraction is hard to read.
This is really it. They feel safe doing it and will even openly brag about their discriminatory policies, safe in the knowledge that their brand of of discrimination is righteous. Where have we seen this before...
> This wasn't just a pile of titanium in a box. Scraps don't need the same kind of certificates.

Precisely, and that's why I compared it to receiving croissants but without any brand name or receipt. You don't know who made the croissants using with what ingredients under what quality control. That doesn't change that they are in fact croissants and not a completely different type of food.

And unlike croissants, it's comparatively quite easy to test the relevant properties of elemental metal and alloys, especially when those are intended to be used in manufacturing (as opposed to decorative pieces like jewelry). In fact, TFA states that the counterfeit titanium in question is currently being tested for its grade and quality.

This isn't even a new or unique thing when it comes to metals. Forged or missing bar codes/certificates are often used to smuggle very much real gold bars that were either stolen, sourced from a country that blocks trading gold with the destination, or have some other reason to be passed under the radar. That there's no proper trail to trace their origin doesn't somehow mean that it's not feasible to determine whether they are actually gold (and what grade of gold they are) or counterfeit bars made from other metals.
Don’t forget that sun-diving at high warp speed also gives us more time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_IV:_The_Voyage_Home

But if we are warp capable, then we can definitely catch up with V’Ger, I mean Voyager.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%27Ger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Motion_Picture
> the problem is that twitter has as much censorship as before, might even have more

Would be a stronger claim if it were accompanied by any evidence. Say, can you name five most prominent political figures booted from or silenced by X recently for their political speech? I would have no trouble naming many examples from pre-Musk times.

> he only did it because he think it will benefit him

That would be in now way different from what facebook, google and other are doing, but again, before discussing that, would be nice to know what we're discussing - specifically.

> but he also banned a bunch of people he did not like on the other side to compensate

Can you name some specifics?
What About libjpeg v9? (2013)
In the real world, code is read often and for many reasons. The main ones I can think of are:

1) To understand the system without necessarily wanting to change anything. This is common with new employees or anyone wanting to learn more.
2) The system often needs tweaks, bug fixes or new features. Each of these normally requires that the code in question is read by several people several times.
3) The architecture is normally not perfectly modular, so changing one part often requires one to understand and tweak the neighbouring parts of the system, too.
> In conclusion, good code is rarely read.

i offer the entirety of sqlite as a counter-example. Based on that project's forum traffic and my participation within that project, i estimate that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of people who actively read that project's C code. That doesn't make it "bad code," that just makes it code which people want to understand (which, in turn, requires reading).
This is a very badly written and highly inaccurate article. I think it is AI generated, and, if so, I sincerely hope that AI improves before the internet gets flooded by more nonsense like this.

If you really are interested in Pythagorus, please read the Wikipedia entry instead.
Wouldn't United Health have been in the same position as HP when they acquired Autonomy for $10b in 2011 on the basis of their cooked books?
Cascadia Subduction Zone, One of Earth's Top Hazards, Comes into Sharper Focus
I haven't built too much UI at all, but with a little that I did it worked fine.
Did you see that there is nowadays information about abortion on the original Freenet (now Hyphanet)?

I for sure did not expect that this would be needed for people in the USA. But that’s what happened.
Offtopic, but I really like the UI/UX of these games. Very intuitive building. Would be cool to see some of these concepts get into Unreal Editor. They already have some when it comes to landscaping.
So code that gets read a lot isn't good code, got it.

This means that core algorithm bundles in business applications that necessarily carry a lot of complexity and need lots of careful maintenance over the decades can never reach the status of good code.

On the other hand, the twenty lines of bash I use to hook mpv into SomaFM streams are very good code.
I'm certainly not going to defend minimalism-to-the-extreme design that gave us the ribbon in macbooks, removed the stalk/buttons in cars, or other movements that pretend that palpable controls using one of our fundamental senses (touch) are superfluous.

They're from the same "material design" hipster insanity that removed shadowing and numerous other visual cues from UI design that we still suffer today.
Oracle is prohibited from selling to Huawei - that is why they have built an alternative.

And OpenGauss is based on Postgres:

https://gitee.com/opengauss/openGauss-server
Different people have different abilities, just like with literally everything else.

For some people it’s easier to zone out and drive on auto, for others its easier to use FSD. Some people find it easy to zone out in bumper to bumper traffic, others not so much.
> less money is spent by the state on kids in choice programs and in most self selected charter schools. That seems like a win-win

Charter schools cherry pick students (eg they don't generally have to deal with the added expense of special needs students), tend to have more students from more affluent families (so less remedial teaching, which is more expensive), pay their teachers less (overall on average) and give less job protections to teachers.

Additionally, charters have a severe lack of accountability and a huge fraud and waste problem [1].

If the public schools in your area are "failing", it's because they've been set up to fail. Starve them of resources and sell the voters on private, unaccountable schools.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2019/12/10/new-repo...
The US is definitely out to kill Huawei.
I made a D&D game for my kids using llama. It went surprisingly well. Lots of potential here.

https://blog.katarismo.com/2023-05-26-i-m-a-dad-i-replaced-m...
PCIe doesn't have to be over an edge connector. PMC and XMC standards use board-to-board stacking. You can also do PCIe over cabling.

What's the point of low speed single ended I/O into an FPGA module? Seems like a waste of effort.
My way of thinking about it is that a civilization capable of interstellar travel has enough energy and resources (which is probably the same) to terraform any “free” planet to their liking. For all we know, space is mostly devoid of any life. So you can build intergalactic empire for 100,000 years and still not encounter anyone. I see no point for such advanced species to conquer someone. The Dark Forest is an interesting concept but seems unlikely.
In this context, RAG isn't what's being discussed. Instead, the reference is to a process similar to monte carlo tree search, such as that used in the AlphaGo algorithm.

Presently, a large language model (LLM) uses the same amount of computing resources for both simple and complex problems, which is seen as a drawback. Imagine if an LLM could adjust its computational effort based on the complexity of the task. During inference, it might then perform a sort of search across the solution space. The "search" mentioned in the article means just that, a method of dynamically managing computational resources at the time of testing, allowing for exploration of the solution space before beginning to "predict the next token."

At OpenAI Noam Brown is working on this, giving AI the ability to "ponder" (or "search"), see his twitter post: https://x.com/polynoamial/status/1676971503261454340
This is neat. In theory, you could hook llama.cpp into into a GOAL-based planner (https://www.gamedevs.org/uploads/three-states-plan-ai-of-fea...) and have much better default bots navigating your nav mesh. Even better, if you record player actions as GOAL actions within the nav mesh, you can use that to fine tune the model. Or even feed it back in realtime so they learn the modus operandi of the player.
There is an entire discipline on the idea that the effort to make code easily read/understood will result in source code which is easier to maintain and write:

https://literateprogramming.com/

(or if that's off-line, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming )

and published books which exist so that folks can read the source code of programs:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/21394355-william-adams...
My doctor checked for that with a CT scan and X-ray. I have a spot where my sinus narrows that is prone to infection but no abscesses or anything like that, but thank you I know this advice could be very important.
I also frequently see the slightly weaker form of argument hypothesizing "diminishing returns" of intelligence or some other claim that humans are close the practical upper limit of intelligence.
I’m not wild about vertical videos either. But are you sure a technical solution is the best solution for this issue?
DARPA Shows Concepts for the Future of VTOL Uncrewed Aerial Systems
It is definitely regional. I read in a book about grocery stores that the stores only stock about 10% of items that are uncommon for a given market area. Everything else is based on priory buying history, which is why you might find different items in different parts of the country for the same grocery brand; i.e. Kroger.
There's also Tauri which https://dioxuslabs.com/ uses.
> Perhaps it’s theoretically possible. But honestly, it’s likely no one would.

> Neither exists here - there’s especially no positive reputation to be had in hacking something 46 years old that likely can’t be fixed again after you do.

This is perhaps the most plainly wrong thing I have read in a long time. Being able to claim "I hacked Voyager" is one of the most ultimate hacker flexes one could possibly perform.

A long long time ago I read an account (which may have been fiction, but had too many details to be casually dismissed) on a very private BBS of someone hacking a NASA space probe over many months. I think it is ridiculous to assume that nobody would try to do this.
I started with that book but moved to https://reading.com - it is the same pedagogy and essentially the same curriculum but with more engaging stories, larger fonts, and interactive sliders my kids enjoyed.

To be super clear this isn’t an app you hand your kids. You still sit side by side and teach the lessons.
FAQ/knowledgebase are not enough to reach 95%. If that was the case then this problem would've been solved long ago with the advent of semantic search engines.

You also need the following:

1) General principles of instructions split across topics - essentially distilling a support training manual into a flow chart of prompts.

2) Algorithms to detect best past resolutions to create new knowledge-base material on the go.

3) Continuous retrain and feedback loops which we have written models to perform on behalf of customers.

And continuous R&D effort into how these systems can improve.
> it opened up politics for her

I'm so happy I wasn't politically aware until I was older
A law can have chilling consequences even if it is not often prosecuted.

The New York Times had an article a few years ago about Swedish defamation law in the context of the #MeToo movement, so there’s another example for you.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/15/opinion/cissi...
Large quantities of chili pose a risk

That may be true, but what about a small quantity of a potent chili? While I am not a fan of very spicy foods (quite mild if you don't mind) I think this is a waste of government resources and time. As long as the customer is clearly made aware the product they are purchasing is very spicy, that is enough.
USB-C fixes this, only to replace the problem of orientation with the greater specter of alternate mode support, or lack thereof. This is why we can’t have nice things.
The person you interviewed gave a better definition. “Code that is easy to read” is often a good code. Code that is rarely read only exists in the manager’s imagination.
That's a weak response because unlike answering a question from a coworker, "moving off the keyboard, grabbing the mouse, figuring out where the cursor is," then moving the cursor are all "perceptual" tasks that most people can do without disturbing the "cognitive" tasks involved in programming or communication.

But (zooming out now) many users of Emacs use the mouse a lot and do not make any attempt to keep their hands on the keyboard: in a survey of Emacs users, 80% responded that they use graphical Emacs (Emacs not running in or communicating with a terminal), one of the main advantages of which is that the mouse behaves much like it does in a typical GUI app. I use graphical Emacs exclusively (the code I've written to extend Emacs does not even work right in terminal-based Emacs) and I make extensive use of the mouse, the menu bar and a pop-up menu on my right mouse button.

Are you surprised that 80% of Emacs users use graphical Emacs? That is probably because for some unknown reason, users (Emacs users and user in general) who like to always keep their hands on the keyboard are much more vocal than users who alternate frequently between keyboard and a pointing device. One consequence of this is that although VSCode has the majority of the usage share according to all the surveys, there are many more HN comments extolling the benefits of Vim or Emacs than there are pro-VSCode comments.
This is only (theoretically) true in the sense that if you build the perfect abstraction, you should not have to think too often about it.

Building good abstractions requires:
1. skill that is in relative terms rare in the profession;
2. enough experience with the problem domain that the abstraction provides the perfect balance between ease-of-use and flexibility as the context changes;
3. a dedicated individual or a small team who nurtures and gatekeeps the evolution of the abstraction obsessively.

For the other 99% of real world cases, the best you can do is try your best to build decent, not-too-leaky abstractions for the problem as you face it today, and the underlying code better be readable because you'll need to maintain it constantly, as will all kinds of other people in varying states of cluelessness.
This is essentially how bitcoin's proof of work algorithm works. They maintain the difficulty by adding 0s as computers get faster.
> Did someone give you the impression that cars without FSD have ever been safe?

Did I say anything resembling or implying that? I don't think so.

> Most dangerous way to travel, full stop.

I love a quote from a famous driver, paraphrasing: "Racing is some people knowing what they're doing driving in a closed circuit. Traffic is the same, but with people who don't know what they're doing".

On top of that, I had enough incidents to know that what humans can do in traffic. They make good stories though.

> I don't think a perfect safety record is possible.

Me, too.

> Only better than what people currently accomplish given the inherent unsafety of the whole system.

I think cars with driver monitoring is more secure than cars with FSD or hands-free driving. I love to drive cars with lane hold, adaptive cruise and driver monitoring, because these systems improve safety and augment humans at the same time.

I don't believe that AI and/or computer vision is close to matching human perception and reasoning to handle a 2ton steel box like humans. Augmenting humans' capabilities is a far safer and reliable (if not unsexier) way.

> the cars would be on rails.

I love trains to death, but they're not perfect either.
That’s why moderation must scale better than lies.

In the original Freenet (now Hyphanet) it does, because when several people you communicate with block something, it disappears for you, too. When that was added (years ago, because having no centralized power means it was needed much earlier), communication got much more friendly in a pretty short amount of time.

You can create a new ID to see it anyway — or explicitly make a spammer visible — but there’s usually no need, because you’ll actually not want to see stuff your friends identified as lies. And you can see who blocks what, so if you should doubt your friends (i.e. because something you like disappeared), you can stop their blocking from affecting you.
How low can we go? Ultimately we just need to send "who's speaking" at the beginning and the content as text. So about 20 bps. Plenty of room at the bottom.
I have found that what developers consider easy to read varies. So unless you have a lead developer with the political clout to enforce a standard you will end up with a code base with a very inconsistent style.

Unfortunately in the corporate world the people with the required clout rarely want to spend the time necessary to enforce a style.
This stands as an example of the opposite of a universal right. Denying me to true knowledge that someone is awful is abuse. I think we can infer the author knows some real jerks.
Why is this notable? It was flagged as fixed years ago
Huh. You think you'd proofread the copy in your lead marketing image.
Can you share some search terms / company names? I'm very interested in this as a parent
>“Why are windows called frames, and tabs called windows?”

Windows are called frames in Emacs, yes, but it is panes, not tabs, that are called windows. Tabs are called buffers. (More precisely, the closest analog to a browser tab is an Emacs buffer, and a tab in VSCode is an almost-perfect analog to a buffer in Emacs.)