skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny that you mention that, because I grew up watching both Speedy Gonzales and the Tijuana Toads. The latter one especially was pretty non-PC given the combo Japanese and Mexican stereotypes.
Debugging the Undebuggable (2023)
Can you help me understand why people seem to think of Connections as a more robust indicator of (general) performance than benchmarks typically used for eval?

It seems to me that while the game is very challenging for people it’s not necessarily an indicator of generalization. I can see how it’s useful - but I have trouble seeing how a low score on it would indicate low performance on most tasks.

Thanks and hopefully this isn’t perceived as offensive. Just trying to learn more about it.

edit: I realize you yourself indicate that it's "just one benchmark" - I am more asking about the broader usage I have seen here on HN comments from several people.
Yes. And non-technical people don’t know that goo.gl is a URL. Only that it looks like the word Google and Google is official, so this is fine.
If one wants to live an honorable pleasant life, than honestly vote for your own interests.

It is wise to acknowledge people as they are, and not as one would like them to be... Note this perspective is not necessarily incompatible with Neutral Evil alignments. =)
Where’s the tool for buyers? If I’m going to go to an empty home with a person I don’t really know, I’d like to know their criminal history. Before I sign a contract with a realtor, maybe it would make sense for me to know that my agent isn’t in financial trouble.
It would require Ma Bell. As the article correctly deduces (IMO), it was related to their quasi-monopoly. It was a partial and insecure monopoly; they did need to innovate or they would eventually be eaten. Telecoms was their business, in the very broadest sense. New ways of drawing wire more efficiently would benefit their bottom line. New forms of amplifier technology would almost certainly benefit them ten or twenty years down the line. Same with a new kind of treatment to make telephone poles last longer. So basic metallurgy, forestry, and cutting-edge semiconductor physics were all within the remit. In hindsight it's almost like a public/national research laboratory, that happened to be privately held.
Well, either "absolutely yes" or "not even them". Probably somewhere in between those.

Honestly, a question like this makes me wonder how large is the bubble of people that think this way.
>Q: What if Prolog is not suitable for my employer’s problem domain?

>

>Prolog is not suitable for any problem domain, although this is more readily apparent for some domains than others.

At least they are honest about it LOL
This isn't about toddlers and nobody here has argued that the parent who parents least parents best.

The list of things that are conceivably harmful to a child or teenager is practically infinite. It includes almost all sports, most hobbies, travel, and most food and drink. If you're going to ban everything that might be harmful of out an abundance of caution you will do tremendous harm to your kid. Yes, a smartphone might harm your kid but so might the absence of a smartphone. That's why it's good to look at the actions of other dedicated and thoughtful parents. If they all decide to give their kid a smartphone despite the known downsides it's not neglect, but the result of a thoughtful evaluation of the pros and cons. Demanding that a smartphone must be proven safe (impossible) is an absurd standard of evidence you don't apply to other areas of your life.
I'm sitting here paying all my bills from my house on such a machine. No nothin without it, indeed! No lies detected, Naya.
what the hell since when do emojis work on this site??
The value prop used to be "talk to other nerds around the world" but the internet does it better and easier now. There are other things ham radio could grow into, but the community does not seem to be interested in the radical change needed for them yet.
GoofCord: Highly configurable and privacy-focused Discord client
These things go quite quickly in a contingency, nobody thought they would run out of Soviet MT-LB of all things yet here we are:

https://x.com/Jonpy99/status/1811839479172464929/photo/1

Now that we allow nuclear states to act with impunity, expect lots and lots more money going into stored hunks of metal
Be careful not to mistake "real users" with paying customers. If your aim is to build a business, then making that distinction early on is crucial. As far as your first sale is concerned, ask yourself who is your target customer, where are they, what do they do, and how do they do it. Then, simply walk up to them and tell them that you understand that they have an urgent problem which requires an immediate solution. And that you are able to provide that solution to them today at a price that they will find agreeable. Good luck!
Dunno. Essentially AT&T founding is no different than tax founding. Any uni lab could recreate the conditions.

I believe the academic system is way too gamed nowadays for these kind of institutions to not drown. Like, there is focus on metrics and numbers rather than fundamentals.
On top of all this people keep uncritically posting news like "Meta will not provide AI models to EU due to regulatory uncertainty"

Shit like this is the only "uncertainty"
Dictators and mass murderer roots are not a problem.

For example I don't think there is much fuss about Hugo Boss (Sponsor of the Nazi's, designed and produced the SS uniforms), Volkswagen (car brand literally created by the Nazi's), Porsche (Ferdinand Porsche was a decorated SS officer and Nazi party member) or Ford (Henry Ford was a big fan of the Nazi's and was even decorated by Hitler).
> Tungsten carbide is magnetic

Pure tungsten carbide is not. You just got some magnetic contaminants in it.

This has is a good test for fake "gold" that can consist of tungsten core with a thin film of gold on top. It's pretty much impossible to get pure tungsten, so such "gold" ends up being magnetic.
Other than pure nostalgia is there anything interesting you can run on this? Definitely a cool way to push the limits of a rp2040 regardless.
My smile of course :)
This article appears to be written by an AI and contains no useful information whatsoever, and only the blandest of trivially obvious suggestions for how to do data analysis with an LLM. The lead-off embedded ad suggesting you can make six figures doing freelance AI-assisted copy writing is a pure-scam red flag. This should be taken down.
Fine-Tuning Content Security Policy (To Block XSS)
As a developer interested in web application security I find it interesting that so few businesses employ content security policy (especially web shops).

After doing some research it seems there is a huge lack of awareness about CSP and high maintenance costs (marketing people injecting tons of 3rd party code so it's hard to manage).

Do you think such an adaptive solution would make it easier to implement CSP?
Link: https://script.watch (video explainer on the page).

Just asking about your thoughts.

Thanks
All we need now is the "slam head on keyboard" version :)
> Being a subsidiary of a government-sanctioned, vertically integrated monopoly gave Bell Labs a broad research scope and freedom to pursue long-term research projects unavailable to most other industrial labs.

This feels like a big-hitter. In the UK, most government expenditure these days is subject to a sort of KPI management process. It's very difficult to do long-term work when the team has short-term targets to fulfill. That said, I wonder if security-critical organisations like GCHQ work that way. Obviously Bell labs was a US phenomenon, but I'd be surprised if the same problem doesn't persist over there to some degree.
>> Often, an abstraction doesn’t truly hide the data structures underneath, but it is bound by the limitations of the initial data structure(s) used to implement it. You want to refactor and use a new data structure? Chances are you need a new abstraction.

Data structures are abstractions :-)
I wasn't going to go there but 9 errors, warnings and infos.

https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https://naya.lol/
Google or Microsoft are pretty close nowadays. Look at all the infrastructure both of these sponsored over the years. It may not be as foundational as what BL did, but then again there is not as much low hanging fruit today either.
that wasn't it but yeah lol
Can't wait for a cancel article from the Amazon people now.
I did some core work on TTS at Google, at several layers, and I've never quite understood what people mean by streaming vs. not.

In each and every case I'm familiar with, streaming means "send the whole audio thus far to the inference engine, inference it, and send back the transcription"

I have a Flutter library that does the same flow as this (though via ONNX, so I can cover all platforms), and Whisper + Silero is ~identical to the interfaces I used at Google.

If the idea is streaming is when each audio byte is only sent once to the server, there's still an audio buffer accumulated -- its just on the server.
Note that Boeing does not supply the engines for their passenger aircraft. (I think GE, Rolls-Royce and Pratt and Whitney supply the engines for the 767) It appears that the Boeing airframe protected passengers from the engine fire.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_CF6

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_RB211

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_JT9D
I've been using this for a while (the voice input, not their keyboard) and it's so refreshing to be able to just speak and have the output come out as fully formed, well punctuated sentences with proper capitalization.
RFID have small distance
yes BT and RFID is ok but wifi im more popular and long working distance
Only need to sign up for informed delivery via website, then the service sends e-mail and/or texts. Have rarely needed to use their site directly.

Still it’s a major oversight on their part. I wonder if the tracking pixel is loaded as part of “social login” or “social media integration”.

Yet another reason I don’t use that shit, and heavily block them across all sites.
How long before Anthropic releases Claude-3.5-Haiku at the same price with significantly better performance? OpenAI in trouble...
> color space is 2D

Human eyes have three different color receptors, each tuned for it's own frequency, so it's already 3d. However, apart from human perception, color, just like sound, can have any combinations of frequencies (when you split the signal with Fourier transform), and may animals do have more receptors than us.
Well if it's someone that would be fooled by google-site.com then you don't really help them by shutting down goo.gl in particular.
(Talk about "air gapped", eh?
Discrimination against who? The poors? Isn't that a major part of what banks do?
I don't have kids so it's hard to tell if this is the equivalent of web dev prodigy or finger painting on the fridge :\
I like to imagine that the animated gif featured at the top is in fact in real time, not accelerated, and they have long passed the point where this is an issue.

Perhaps that was even the inspiration.
Is it even possible to core dump on AVR, with no storage and MMU?
You will not "recreate" it, as everything now is short term shareholder profit/dividend driven. As others and the article notes, they held the long view on innovation.

We could really use a large number of bell labs today. It will not happen.
I worked on a subcommittee for ISO 20022 on the semantics of financial messaging. I worked out the theory for expressing the EMOF model of ISO 20022 as an OWL DL schema, the article talks a lot about how to deal with many of the practical problems that the RDF community ignores in a way that keeps the schema valid.
Has "serverful" ever left the party? When was it less popular? On youtube or twitter? Has serverless spending actually overtaken the world?

Nothing has shifted. It might have gained some market share but that's about it.
Stock trading is indistinguishable from gambling :)

But true, I forgot that this, too, is part of finance
I think in practical terms (at least for me):

- streaming == I talk and the text appears as I talk

- batched == I talk, and after I'm done talking some processing happens and the text gets populated
i saw this with github copilot a few days ago, not sure which model it was. it messed up a single character of markup causing the resulting output to be formatted weirdly
Yeah, City Slickers in Oakland stopped testing the soil and just told everyone that they should use raised beds. Problem is that there are so many fruit trees and self starting plants that I want to eat (I'm looking at you collards), but I'd like to know what I'm getting into.

Also I've read that sunflowers are really good at pulling up heavy metals, and all of the bags that I purchase have warning labels on them. I'm curious if this is a real concern!
The reason that companies align models is so that they don't get on the front page of the new york times with a headline like "Techaro's AI model used by terrorists to build a pipe bomb that destroyed the New York Stock Exchange datacentre".
How will it work?

I open an Excel spreadsheet and also the AI Copilot. Then whenever I want to do something with Excel like "Show me which cells have formulas" CoPilot will interact with Excel and issue some command I cannot remember to do that for me?

Menus are good but often hard to navigate and find. So the CoPilot can give me a whole new (prompt-based) user-interface to any MS-application? Is that how it works?
It is is going to be somewhere under ISO 20022 and I think is in the final stages of processing. Send me an email.
That doesn't make their explanation any good.
You ask about sendin morse code trought wifi using normal wifi card/modem?
Interesting idea. Meybe exist any root usb dongle wifi card. But I dont know any models.
> that's basically a solved problem. ... why not use the internet?

Pretty close to everything you can do with radio signals is "solved", just like almost everything you can do with computers is solved.

But these problems have been solved by other people. Not you. What are your motivations for hacking at all? It's probably not because you're in entirely novel territory.
Loved the cat's page :)
I think this is a strong conclusion to jump to. Maybe it's better at spotting content that needs to be moderated because it stands out more from what it's been trained on?
No one has challenged this. Because LLMs haven't been (widely) used in legal or legally binding contexts
Looks like they do not care about CCPA or GDPR.

https://www.forewarn.com/opt-out-policy/
>I unapologetically love this thing.

I'm not really into the apple ecosystem, but I kinda like this as well. Smart watches don't really appeal to me, but something like this does.
USPS is not the government, they are one of the world's most prolific spammers.
It really seams like there is a law already on the books that applies to this company, they are just claiming the reports they provide about consumers are not "consumer reports" and thus the Fair Credit Reporting Act doesn't apply.
Similar problem for me. It seems like most folks near me do a lot of contesting which I have neither the time nor the interest to do.
> Pretending the venue is about to run out of places and there are only "2 places left..."

Lying to a potential customer to make a sale is criminal fraud, no?
Considering every online retailer asks for your phone number, I'm not surprised. The shopping history Shopify has one everyone is also a goldmine.
I think so. My company's new refresh policy is "buy your own recycled corp device from us and we'll install all of our tracking software on it so you can use it as a corp device" (the _worst_ kind of BYOD imaginable). So, I'm probably using the initially "free" Intel Macbook until it dies, I do, or my job does.
I am very aware that this submission is likely to be ‘disappeared’ in minutes.

HN submissions are almost never 'disappeared' so that awareness is probably misplaced. The question itself, in various forms, pops up quite frequently - here's one thread from a few months ago and you can find piles more with the search interface.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38698710
Indeed the typical VHF repeater conversation is quite dull. It's a combination of the demographic and the statistical fact that (as a broad generalization) the people who spend much of their day chatting on the repeater don't have all that much interesting going on in their lives.

That said, there are absolutely some fascinating people in amateur radio, and on the air. I'd recommend:

2M FM simplex (146.520 MHz)
VHF SSB (6 meters or 2 meters)
HF SSB, specifically 30 meters or 17 meters

That's about trying to randomly find interesting technical people to talk to on the air.

Even more interesting is the specialized communities around microwave (10GHz point-to-point) and satellite (skip the old VHF/UHF FM satellites and check out the 5/10 GHz geostationary and other recent projects).
Your daughter also put spying trackers on the web-site?
I neglected to check the boundary of Carmel-by-the-Sea, and you are correct, thanks! I happened to pick a nearby address outside the boundary. Here's a house in Carmel-by-the-Sea named "Carmel House" according to the placard on the dwelling.

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.5481627,-121.9235433,3a,73y,...

I feel bad for map developers. Searching Google Maps for Carmel House yields a house at 26177 Scenic Rd, not the house at the above link.

Within Carmel-by-the-Sea, some addresses on Zillow are like "Lincoln 7sw 13th," but that address is not known to Google Maps.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/Lincoln-7sw-13th-Carmel-B...

Certain addresses on Zillow appear to be in standard form, such as 225 The Crossroads Blvd, Carmel, CA 93923, but notice the URL isn't Carmel-by-the-Sea. EDIT: Nevermind, that address is clearly erroneous, the house is on Delores St.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/225-The-Crossroads-Blvd-C...

Putting that address into Google Maps returns a location in The Crossroads Shopping Center, not the location in Zillow.

Years ago, I had to routinely redo my searches for Carmel addresses, since Google Maps assumed I was referring Carmel Valley near San Diego, zip 92130, not Carmel-by-the-Sea. That changed at some point; Carmel now "redirects" to Carmel-by-the-Sea. There is also a Carmel Valley zip 93924, east of Carmel-by-the-Sea.
The mobile web app is fine.
Google already did this. Google X, Google Brain, Deepmind...

The invention of the transformer architecture that underpins modern AI, dozens of core papers in the field.

What they haven't revolutionized is materials science. Memristor technology for example, is still grossly underdeveloped.
There's no legal ramification of changing their name. Companies change their names every so often; it doesn't erase their legal rights or obligations.

Technical? Not sure what huge problems they are, but as a Software Foundation you'd think they'd be well placed to deal with the issues.

Financial? That may be true, but it costs less if you do it as part of the one branding refresh.
The vertical monopoly is the big key. A uni lab couldn't replicate that.
https://archive.ph/cjckM
A typo I can no longer correct. That will be a thorn in my side now.

Mark Roþer. There (and yes, that's very wrong).
Craigslist is an example of where this doesn’t occur but the innovation also doesn’t exist.
On the other hand, this is exactly the kind of thing I imagine people at the Apache Software Foundation to spend their day doing. True rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic stuff here.
Also Google and Microsoft for the most part are not even trying to be innovative. Rather they try to milk out every last cent of existing products, driving people to buy their cloud services, or directly or indirectly sell user data to third parties.
Exacly. I've myself been looking around HAMs from networking point of view. I am networker and I would love to get hands on some digital radio.. at least 128Kbps, ideally 1024Kbps stuff where I can slap all the protocol to build network on top of it and then IP. But nope, cannot find anything interesting with decent ranges and cheap enough to buy for tinkering. It seems to be a nische that noone cares to claim.

I know about HSMM, but they are using normal WiFi AP and just slap custom software on top of it and use HAM frequencies. Not bad idea...

They communities are also awfully closed. I tried to find some IRC servers for HAM/network related stuff and no luck really. Found one channel, but they are mostly US people out there (TZ issue for me).
Adjusted for inflation, $1000 of 1983 is more than $3000 today.
Ma Bell was regulated and they used the labs partly as a slush fund to smooth out their apparent earnings. When they got a rate increase, the labs would be well funded for a while, so AT&T wouldn't have to show an unseemly spike in profits. When they went for a long while without an increase, the labs would run lean until the next increase came. At least that's what someone told me back then.
To be honest all URL redirectors should be killed with fire.

I loathe all the "safelinks" and similar crap in emails. Absolutely awful practice with long-lasting effects.
This LLM was forged deep in the mines of reddit, scalded in the waters of 4chan. It's embued with the souls of a billion YouTube video transcripts. It is a dishonored weapon. Use it well, for it comes from blood.
There's market for small models with large context, for cases where there’s little need for reasoning (summarization, searching etc). 4o-mini is probably better and cheaper to run than 3.5.
I'm no Steve, but I'm shamelessly stealing the structure for my next "What's up with AI" talk.
Lots of companies recreated Bell Labs.

It's not the 20th century though.
groq just released:

llama3-groq-70b-8192-tool-use-preview
llama3-groq-8b-8192-tool-use-preview

Sonnet3.5 also has tool usage, and is slightly cheaper than 4o ($3 input vs $5).

If you _only_ need tool usage, then 4o-mini or others will be cheaper...

mistal's Mixtral 8x22B has function calling for $2/$6, which is a bit cheaper than 4o.
It's cheaper to change the name and logo in one go, than to change the logo; then later change the name and logo.

I cannot agree they want to change the name, otherwise they would be.
More than $0. There is no consequence to turn down (and sunk cost of labor doing the work), cost to keep running is above $0. If the argument is good will, the value of good will to current state Google appears to be $0.

Throw a few dollars at the Internet Archive [1], ask ArchiveTeam to add the Google link shortener to the Warrior archiver [2] [3], understand why to avoid Google in the future.

[1] https://archive.org/donate

[2] https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Warrior_projects

[3] https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/URLTeam

(Google DGAF about anything that doesn't make money anymore; support public goods that actually GAF)
Since the topic of the article is about reverse engineering, I think it is extremely important to remember this. R&D time is very expensive. As people predominantly in CS, we should be aware of this, as this is typically how we are classified. And I think everyone innately knows how much more difficult it is to create something from scratch, the help you get just by having a reference, and how much easier it is to copy (or modify) when you have the thing in your hands (or source).

And it is worth noting that prices are vastly different in China. Labor is much cheaper and licenses aren't respected. The cost of living is cheaper to a smaller profit margin goes a much longer way. As tfa mentions, there are identical cameras sold by different manufacturers. It is unclear if this is typical reskinning or designs being taken. Both significantly reduce the cost of things. I have no idea how much hosting costs in China.