skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We've all simply memorized what a red octagon means.

This is required learning to get a driver's license. If anyone doesn't know what a red octagon is, they shouldn't be behind the wheel of a car. That same is true for any common symbol used in street signs.

Music playback has pretty universal iconography. ▶ ⏏. I'm sure anyone who used a walkman or discman in their youth could readily tell you what all these icons mean. It doesn't seem unreasonable that standards could/should be made for cars as well. As the names for things get longer and longer, the words are too long for the button, so we need something else.

> My keyboard still labels keys with "Enter", "Delete", "PgDn", "Shift", etc. That's because there's no icon that means it.

Many of these do have symbols. Some keyboards include them. The symbols are commonly used in menus to indicate the shortcut for the command in the menu.

"Enter" - ⏎

"Delete" - ⌦

"PgDn" - ⇟

"Shift" - ⇧

etc - https://www.webnots.com/alt-code-shortcuts-for-keyboard-key-...

These were established decades ago and widely used to this day. Page Down isn't so widely used, but neither is that key in general.

Here is a Thinkpad keyboard that uses many of them.

https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/SuQsONNAdfeYp1ZV.lar...
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The result might take all night, but you'll never forget it.
Indeed and WTH is Zuckerberg thinking as I saw him say stuffing our feeds with posts from not our friends & family is the way forward.

It's annoying as I'm constantly clicking the X. I'm on Facebook to follow family & friends and groups I joined not other groups I didn't!
actually, on NextDoor, the population is so limited that it's fairly productive to Mute/Block the hateful or dumb people ("excuse me, but please pick up after your dog.")

FB, of course, has billions of users so that doesn't work.
This happens. I was challenged in person on my signature by a layman despite having matching photo ID (drivers license). There's no training on how to frank signatures, not in Florida anyway. I won.
This is at the heart of it.
The only decently prudent comment I've read in this thread so far
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> There were doctors and surgeons against the concept of handwashing, too, but fortunately they lost.

Did the thinking go something like "Every pathogen that does not kill our patients only makes them stronger"?
> You need to replace your UV-C bulbs every 1,000 hours or so

I don't think this should need to be the case. Low pressure mercury arc lamps (253.7nm) last 10,000 hours in water treatment applications - a much more palatable replacement timeline (1 year) vs every few weeks!

The short-lifetime bulbs are usually 222nm Far-UVC bulbs, which are safe for human exposure. These shouldn't be necessary to treat air as part of an enclosed HVAC system. I feel that the hype around 222nm / "safe" UVC has done a disservice to just using "dirty" 253nm UVC, which kills everything just as well as long as you keep people from being able to look at it.
A while ago antirez offered an interesting counter-perspective that is probably a more pragmatic approach:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38840626
..and, you know, maybe it's ok. Sometimes i fly over those countries and think to myself. Take Romania for example. Had a troublesome past. Currently not without problems I'm sure, but filthy rich by worldwide standards (not by US standards, but top50 gdp ppp per capita). Does some car stuff that got absorbed by France. Has some IT, some of it moves to/gets acquired by the US. Probably happy? why does everyone need to reinvent Google always.
It's important to note that he has only just been arrested, so there will be a case laid out, a defense offered, facts tried, and ultimately a conviction or not. I don't find a lot of sense in speculating about why or why it didn't happen as that will presumably be surfaced during the trial itself. Such events may or may not be followed up on HN as most of time these things turn out to not be wide ranging conspiracies but more mundane wrong-doings or acquittals based on facts presented and mundane things do not get clicks.
For most things I approach it from both sides: I give an English prompt but also provide some interface, function signatures, or even just a return type that constrains the LLMs output.

For example, I frequently have to implement Serde's traits for some serialization format or to marshal types, most recently to translate types from Rust to Qt QML's Javascript. By giving it some context (Serde traits and QT docs) I managed to do it with Claude in about an hour, which is roughly how long it would have taken me just to get up to date with the documentation if I had tried it myself.
That in particular would fall under the crime-fraud exception so there's no attorney client privilege.
Google is doing this. German and French companies are building a datacenter to GCP standards, will license the code and run essentially whitelabel GCP under full jurisdiction of the EU company. Google can only push updates with their approval and has no visibility into the operations.

https://cloud.google.com/t-systems-sovereign-cloud?hl=en
Ask HN: What's your secret sauce for maintaining product quality?
Curious, what strategies have you taken to improve product quality and catch bugs faster? Better QA? More customer support reps? Verbose logging?
Some of these are native apps; not Electron, Java, or what have you:

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

(Of course, I don't know what qualifies as a major messenger to you.)
Indoor air environments are usually poor. Just having outside air from open windows would be an improvement.
I actually hope building codes eventually include some kind of positive pressure system in the future where incoming air is hepa'd. PPSystems tend to clean the air the most.
Yeah and we’re also going to end up with decades worth of dead and disabled people to end this willful ignorance/malicious stupidity. The “COVID is over” crowd already demonstrated this. Bad ideas rarely die until all or most of the people who have them do. And even then, only sometimes!
TIL (VHIG?)
Is it a protobuf based database store, or is it a database that uses grpc as its connection communication? Could be a bit clearer from the frontpage
While most Western governments have gotten increasingly good at communicating with their citizens (i.e. making their web sites and forms accessible in human language, rather than bureaucrat language), and often even go so far as to offer versions in "Simple English" or local-language equivalents, the EU seems to be going the opposite way.

I'd consider myself reasonably accustomed to and able to deal with bureaucracy and formal language, and still find every interaction with official EU sites massively off-putting. Now imagine someone who isn't a native speaker in any of the EU's languages, mentally impaired, or generally quickly feels overwhelmed by bureaucracy.
How performant is this without JIT support?

I tried using UTM on my iPad to emulate Ubuntu and Kali Linux and it was so slow and broken I gave up
The controversy predates the germ theory of disease and the concept of "pathogens."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
plenty of employees cant pick and choose their tools. Many working in service jobs etc have to use exactly what their employer tells them too.
I did that for Facebook (unfollowed everyone but my direct family). It worked great for a time. Now my feed is filled to the brim with suggested posts from pages and groups that have nothing to do with me and low-quality fake AI images to push controversial fake news. It's become unusable unfortunately, so I don't use it anymore.
If you are using a service for free, please be aware you are a user not a customer.

If switching to a paid plan is not on your horizon then you are not even a maybe customer. You are a consumer.

If you are a free user then be prepared to lose access to the system at any time. If it's not adding any value to you then that's no big deal. If it is adding value to you then pass some of that value to the creator.
> EU is a continent of old farts mostly reliant on Auto and Manufacturing industries and big burocratic corporations where there are 500 steps process to perform basic things and immensely risk averse to change to adapting innovation

You don't just sound like a cynic, you sound like an ass for basically insulting half a billion people.

Do you have much experience with big European bureaucratic corporations? I could tell you some stories of big American bureaucratic corporations. Old farts reliant on auto & manufacturing? By that token, the US is reliant on tar sands, fracking, and peddling SUVs.

So please, take a deep breath and try to find some more nuance to discuss, instead of producing a baseless cliché word salad.
Dassault has a cloud offering with 3DS Outscale
Probably a few we've never heard of.
Oh wow, that came out when I was in university. I often think about that series of articles and the little tricks and techniques he used to simulate the feeling of a city at night - almost entirely via artifice and very little intentional design. I always found these dirty little tricks in graphics super interesting.
The French government actually uses Telegram.
I suspect that most open image models are capable of creating illegal images without fine tuning (though perhaps with significant effort). Models are capable of generating images containing subject matter that has never been depicted by any human ever. It's not hard to imagine that a model that can produce images of nude bodies could adapt the apparent age of those bodies.

The legal challenges here will be important to follow.
Yes. Lots of new results in this topic. Get outside and exercise those eyes.
This is bad.. I really hope he prepared everything that Telegram is able to continue without problems.

Is there any information what will happen to the platform yet?
Nobody in their right mind gives up control or lets the LLM decide what's best. They take the output of the LLM as a starting point, changing it where necessary to accomplish their goals.

This is no different than starting with boilerplate code, e.g. from a tutorial or manual or other project (or, heaven forbid, an Internet search), and changing it for your specific needs.

As for imprecision, a developer is perfectly capable of writing imprecise, ambiguous, or just plain buggy code by themselves. If you think your code is better than that produced by an LLM (and I'm not saying it isn't), then by all means use it. But the fact is that an LLM, in some cases, can produce code better and/or faster than it would take some people to write themselves who don't want to spend several minutes or hours stumbling through finding the exact syntax or algorithm, let alone Googling for a good starting point.

As for the non-determinism that many people are decrying, this is no different from Googling and finding several examples, each of which is written for a particular use case, none of which ever seem to match yours exactly. Caveat emptor if you simply cut and paste without reading, just as with code produced by an LLM.
it's definitely not industry average

at least for jobs which often are referred to as engineers (through legally speaking are not as enginer is a protected title having little to do with software development)

maybe for jobs of people which mainly idk. replace hardware in servers all day but don't really administrate the servers at all
Let's go with "air purification" as in "what air purifiers are supposed to effect, as observed in the study being discussed in this thread"
I’ve talked to the boots on the ground. Government scientists publishing the official narrative are useless.
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The most recent number I could find is from 2021, and on average, states spent 21.5% of their budget on k-12 education.
> It's important to understand that large-language models like ChatGPT do not "think" about the prompt and do not in any meaningful sense "understand" the result they give you.

LLM/MLMs are human intelligence as a service. With enough context memory (think terabytes, petabytes) and a well-engineered system, it can simulate artificial intelligence in a way that humans wouldn't be able to distinguish. And it could program itself to improve in ways that me, you and Angela Collier have no possible way to know. Dismissing AI makes some people feel smarter, I think this is dumb. Your reply, for example, looks generated by ChatGPT (similar structure, it is long and gets repetitive).
No, there is no logical link between the two events. Russian govt can protest that for propaganda reasons: to make a point that Western governments are restricting freedom of speech.
Thanks for the feedback! I agree with your comment on targeting a specific audience. While other services offer in-depth (and much more expensive) analysis with targeted audience, Two Cents is designed to gather brief insights with a quick turnaround at a reasonable price ($1). Hope this helps :)
I would recommend you give ParadeDB pg_search a look. It's got support for tokenizers in all major languages. You can think of it as the next generation tsvector for more complex workloads.

Disclaimer: I work at ParadeDB
A separate company doesn't interact with Azure either. If you want to be "sovereign" there's a price to be paid.
LLMs will become as evil as calculators: they obviate the mathematical ability and create reliance in most, but are a magnificent aide to experts--those who could survive without a calculator albeit at the cost of speed.

As we approach this point, programming (program creation) will become a largely non-technical skill but the few who have that skill will be needed to solve the problems which LLMs create and which its operators don't have the know-how to fix.

I use LLMs as an alternative to asking a question on stackoverflow. And I'm not confident LLMs can currently save time on large projects: take a couple of hours to write the code or spend a few seconds to generate the code and then a couple of hours understanding and debugging it.
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The Emulator in that article, UTM SE, is a a GUI for QEMU. It’s also a MacOS app. I can confirm the “SE” version on iOS can run Linux, though I’ve not tried BSD.

UTM’s site also has a handful of pre-built images of various operating systems to make it easy to setup a VM to mess around with
https://mac.getutm.app/gallery/
Ya, I'd actually agree with your whole comment, and for that reason I was somewhat hesitant to frame my last sentence as I did, because what you suggested is what I've come to learn to do anyway. Part of the reason I was hesitant is because it's not about me, so much as it is about reconciling that ambiguous difference in expectation when they express that they have an interest in something.

Unfortunately, there's some amount of skepticism and doubt I have to embrace, being careful what I express an interest in, and letting them be as serious about whatever commitment as they're authentically prepared for. I typically only do things for myself now, and extend an invitation to people I think might want to join, but I don't bet on it, and only rarely plan more involved activities with people who've clearly put in some organic initiative. On the extreme shallow end of this paradigm, I'm sure as hell not going to agree to go on a hike "sometime" with anyone who's hopped up on coke or drunk at a party, obviously. But sometimes it's just less clear, and I have to ask myself "how likely is it that this person would plan this themselves and take the initiative, and do they even have appropriate footwear or baseline level of fitness?", and I might ask that explicitly and go from there. I also do the same for the them, such as if I'm asked if I want to "get into Tennis" or something. I just say "nah, not really, I might join if you have a spare racket but right now I couldn't give it the investment it might deserve" and we can spend time doing other things we already enjoy together.

Otherwise though, I try to keep a small list of easy stuff in my back pocket to accommodate people with more rigid schedules and less innate drive for that specific outing; if after a few they want to take things further, I'll extend myself, and that's how good friendships last.
It's all just an evolution of their existing disk drive technology that started well before the last-minute decision to go with the Sony 3.5" drive.

The variable drive speed comes of the development of the "Twiggy" drive, which was an 850 kB 5.25 disk format originally intended for the Apple III in 1980 but never worked reliably.

BTW, the Atari ST uses the same floppy disk format as the IBM PC, 360 kB per side.

The Amiga uses a variable drive speed like the Mac, but they eke out extra capacity by eliminating sectors. This allows an extra 512 bytes per track, but the trade off is that the disk controller can only read or write an entire track at a time, rather than individual sectors.

An infamous Apple II copy protection scheme used the same trick to expand 5.25 disk capacity from 16 sectors to 18 sectors (512 bytes per track).
LLM output can't really be trusted so I need to "proof read" it and convince myself that it is correct. In the language I use every day and have a high degree of fluency, it's faster for me to simply write what's in my head than to proof read unknown code. So how can LLMs make me more productive in actual programming?

I use an LLM to generate ideas, to rubber duck, to get a lead on unknowns, and to generate boilerplate occasionally. So I do everything except replace the coding part because that's what requires the most precision, and LLMs are bad at precision. And yet, people claim massive productivity gains in specifically coding. What am I missing?
I would say the difference between drugs and images is that the first amendment doesn’t protect drugs. This then becomes an argument about the limits of the first amendment.
There are valid reasons, like stopping people from destroying evidence or fleeing.
There's no way I could describe it without sounding conspiratorial, so I'm just gonna lean into it: imagine the EU-US relationship suddenly turning very hostile (like Russia-EU relationship already did), how long would it take before all of EU's tech suddenly stopped working? Not saying that's gonna happen or is even likely to happen, but I don't think investing money into bootstraping some sort of a backup is necessarily a bad thing.

China's tech is already self-contained, to a lesser extent so is Russia's, the US is investing a lot in semiconductors just in case something happens to Taiwan, and India has already banned pretty much every Chinese app. The EU, on the other hand, is completely reliant on the US for core tech infrastructure and trying to address that.

None of it makes sense economically, but essentially every superpower is doing something towards at least making it a possibility to "self-contain" their own tech sector. I don't even think this has anything to do with the current political climate (Russia-Ukraine war included), I think it's more in preparation for when climate change consequences start ramping up.
Instead of just a few pictures showing rich area around a mountain that can afford it because companies like Apple have plenty of flat area, let's use available data provided by government agencies: https://topochange.cr.usgs.gov/topochange_viewer/viewer.htm

Cumberland, MD vs San Francisco. Wow, when I overlay urban areas of Bay Area, it's heavily built up in much flatter areas and gets much less dense as elevation change gets steeper. Not to mention, sea access gives you massive advantage since you are not having to move as much over really tall mountains.

Cumberland, MD has none of these. It's in a valley between two larger ridges of mountains but is heavily constrained. Also, not having sea access means transporting goods there is much more difficult and requires more infrastructure. And since we are one nation, you could just move west to much flatter Ohio and Great Lakes or East to flat parts of Maryland and Chesapeake Bay.

Sure, Bay area built up with creating really excellent schools that created really high paying industries but thinking it was "We lifted ourselves up by our bootstraps" and instead "Our geography and World War with Navy on our coast desperate to win really did help us."
Who administers the more general standardized yearly exam?
>> I take it you're not using a compiler to generate machine code, then?

The dismissive glibness of your comment makes me wonder if it's worth it trying to point out the obvious error in the analogy you're making. Compilers translate, LLMs generate. They are two completely different things.

When you write a program in a high-level language and pass it to a compiler, the compiler translates your program to machine code, yes. But when you prompt an LLM to generate code, what are you translating? You can pretend that you are "translating natural language to code" but LLMs are not translators, they're generators, and what you're really doing is providing a prefix for the generated string. You can generate strings form an LLM with an empty prefix; but try asking a compiler to compile an empty program.

>> Even the Apollo spacecraft programmers at MIT had a black box: they offloaded the weaving of core rope memory to other people.

You're referring to core rope memory:

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

There is no "black box" here. Programmers created the program and handed it over to others to code it up. That's like hiring someone to type your code for you at a keyboard, following your instructions to do so. You have to stretch things very far to see this as anything like compilation.

Also, really, compilers are not black boxes. Just because most people treat them as a scary unknowable thing doesn't mean that's what they are. LLms are "black boxes" because no matter how much we peer at their weights, arrays of numerical values, there's nothing we can ... er ... glean from them. They're incomprehensible to humans. Not so the code of a compiler. Even raw binary is comprehensible, with some experience.
This is like saying “I don’t understand how airplanes fly, so I’ll happily board an airplane designed by an LLM. The reality is determined by how much I know about it.”
Yes, i mean towns the size of the towns russians captured since the start of the war. russia will have to trade their small towns for the small towns they occupied. Which large +500 000 cities do you claim russia captured since the start of the war? only city changed hand since start of war is kherson city that russians had to surrender due to being to weak to hold the city they claim is part of russia
Indeed, a flex wrap was missing. As for the menu, it looks fine on my phone? Thanks for the heads up.
Eh, different scales of toxicity. "Might give you cancer after years of exposure" is different from "you won't survive until tomorrow". Like people were straight up using this green pigment as rat poison.
Yeah, I'm very aware. I'd love to know what it'd take to skip over that part.
Wrong comparison. It's not ungarbled text vs garbled text. It's treating each word as 1 image vs trying to sound out the letters.