skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LLMs are incredible about mapping to a space of already seen things. When this space is unimaginably large, you can be fooled for a long time.

But, they clearly struggle with generalization and rule following. This failure to generalize (extrapolate, deduce, compute) is why we still can't fire all of our DBAs.

Has anyone encountered an LLM-based text-to-SQL engine that actually gets the job done? I think that's your best canary. I stopped caring somewhere around "transpose these 2 letters of the alphabet" not working consistently.
A lot of the names of the pubs came from the depictions of highly recognisable objects (given that the population was illiterate) that they would use to attract customers.
like murder-suicides and/or dictatorships?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder%E2%80%93suicide
changing "place new tab (general rule)" to "panel start" in sidebery will put the new tab right at the top. unless you mean you want it only at the top of the group?

zen also has a "compact mode" than hides the native tabs, but it hides other things you might want as well
We need MSGA hats!
Depends entirely on how you define the parameters of the question. Egypt has been around for a very long time, but is the ~3000BC Egypt the same country as the 2024 Egypt? Did Egypt stop being Egypt during the period of Roman rule? What about during Macedonian rule? Did people 5000 years ago even have a concept of a “country” that would align with what we think makes a country in 2024? Do people in 2024 even have an agreed upon concept of what a country is today? (I would say evidently not) Does the country of ancient Persia still exist? If it’s longest contiguous self-sovereignty then probably Japan would be pretty high up the list. If its longest surviving constitution, then the USA and San Marino would also be two of the oldest countries in the world. But is San Marino even a country? Certainly not by every single metric you could possibly use to define one. Is the Magna Carta still in effect? Some of it is, but is that enough to make it the oldest surviving constitution?

To make the question meaningful you probably have to make it a lot more specific. Otherwise the answer is just a debate about what constitutes a country, and what constitutes it coming into and out of existence.
> Even identical males twins don't have the same penis structure/routing. Thanks for sharing your own personal example (I am the twin, in mine).

Did you and your twin, um, compare penis structure/routing?
I mean I'll be calling (pronouncing) it Tablespoon, that's a great name:)
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Imo having people stationary in their community for longer timespans contributes to greater community cohesion and health. Most places in the us have a transitory feel to them because people move so often, which contributes to shitty levels of care for infrastructure and other aspects that make a place nice to live in. Why would you work to improve a place if you plan to leave in a few years?
We're gonna build a wall, and Slashdot is gonna pay for it!
The camels don't have valuable tusks though...
yo let me help you out a little and recommend some resources. here are some series free on youtube: David Spivak and Brendan Fong did a lecture series on their book, Seven Sketches in Compositionality, you can find it on the "Topos Institute" youtube channel. "The Catsters" also have a great introductory series. as far as straight textbooks go, the only intro ones I recommend are 1) Awodey, 2) Riehl, and 3) Seven Sketches.

and one last general tip: categories are simultaneous generalizations of monoids and posets, so whenever you don't understand something, try working it out in the cases where there's only one object (= monoid) or when there's at most one arrow between a pair of objects (= poset)
Agreed. I like almost everything about discord. I just wish it did threaded replies in a more low key way.
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You just need to have the skill to overcome whatever non-technical, legacy, lack of education, or poor judgement issues that are steamrolling you into choosing to use awk instead of a sane rational decent modern efficient maintainable language.
You can even avoid using passwords altogether by using hardware security keys.
That's absolutely not the case for everyone. Dismissing all treatment for psychiatric disorders as "always worse for the patient" is dangerously ill-informed.
In my case of selling software licenses - yes, still a thing. A lot of companies are only willing to pay with bank transfers, even if it is 100 USD.
Yes, and when various people start to fake-claim that they work in Founder Mode, you're more likely to hire the wrong managers or CEO, once it's time to find someone for whatever reason.
> As the pandemic showed with JIT supply chains, efficiency and resilience are often at odds.

I’m not convinced this is necessarily true. JIT implies making all of your buffers more obvious, and you will want to reduce unnecessary buffers to save cost, but maintaining some buffers for the sake of resilience isn’t incompatible with JIT supply chains. The problem comes when you combine short-term oriented management with JIT supply chains; if you quantify the cost of a buffer, you make it easier for that type of management to make that kind of decision.

Toyota, for example, is one of the firms that popularized JIT, but they don’t usually run into the same short-termist problems that afflict other firms. Relatedly, Toyota’s senior management have all spent decades if not their entire careers at Toyota and still includes members of the Toyoda family. Those guys are probably not going to play fast and loose with resiliency just to make quarterly numbers look good. They are going to look at the quantified and understood cost of their resiliency buffers and say, “removing this buffer might save lots of money next quarter but in the long run that represents a risk to a company I intend to pass down to my grandchildren so I won’t do it”. Whereas a different manager at a different company might say, “this will definitely make the next quarter’s numbers look amazing and if there are consequences in the long run, either I’ll have switched companies or I can just say it’s not my fault”.
I don't agree. This isn't about different behaviours in Linux vs Mac/Windows but rather about Linux apps having different shortcuts for common basic operations in different apps. That's just poor UX.
You don't necessary get 100% certainty but the probability of success increases exponentially with each new run.

Thus you can get very fast to a probability smaller than you quantum tunnelling through a wall
If you think AWK is hard to parse then try C++. The latter is so hard to parse thus very slow compile time that most probably inspired a funny programmer skit like this, one of the most popular XKCDs of all time [1].

Then come along fast compilation modern languages like Go and D. The latter is such a fresh air is that even though it's a complex language like C++ and Rust but it managed to compile very fast. Heck it even has RDMD facility that can perform compiled REPL as you interacting with the prompt similar to interpreted programming languages like Python and Matlab.

According to its author, the main reason D has very fast compile time (as long as you avoid the CTFE) is because of the language design decisions avoid the notorious symbols that can complicated symbol table just like happened in C++ and the popular << and >> overloading for I/O and shifting. But the fact that Rust come much later than C++ and D but still slow to compile is bewildering to say the least.

[1] Compiling:

https://xkcd.com/303/
For Rust, there is also Sunscreen.

https://github.com/Sunscreen-tech/Sunscreen
you must have been living under a rock. The hype last year was unreasonable. Everyone thought AGI would be with us in a single digit year period
You can bypass Kobo registration by connecting it to a PC over USB and modifying the SQLite database on it.

Then you can use calibre to transfer ebooks to it.
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I've created an app to help people find people to gig with
Hello, I've created an app to help people find other people to gig. I'm not sure if it's a good idea but it's something I thought I would use - meeting people with the same music tastes is nice :)

The project is build using a Python/Django backend and interestingly React Native (Expo) web on frontend - an experiment to see if I could build web, Android and IOS apps using the same codebase. If the app gets any kind of reaction I'll try to release it on mobile app stores.

Any feedback is welcome - if the idea is worth the effort and any improvements/bugs found.

Thank you:)
You mean, it was designed that way to make canceling subscriptions as frustrating as possible. Just like they've been doing with foreign call centres.
This is a nice comment and speaks to the notion that every medium has its own characteristic feel even is not "better" by some metric (e.g. vinyl vs CDs, vs cassettes, vs live radio, vs mp3, etc.).

A similar feeling of immediacy without any intervening concerns is hacking away at a Processing [https://processing.org/] sketch. In some sense it's the complete opposite of retro computing, but it engenders similar experiences. Such as a programming novice typing in a few numbers and being amazed that they've immediately made something interactive and colorful, and temptingly close to being called a game.
Reasonable Colors is a color system for building accessible, nice palettes
> With new, advanced computational techniques, we are making progress.

I hope I’m not alone in thinking this article ended just as it was getting interesting.
Analogy as the fire and fuel of cognition is basically Hofstadter's view on intelligence. He actually has a book with that title. Also check G.E.B.
what is the difference between the Catholic Church and a business?
Why do you keep posting this exact same thing? Are you a recruiter? I am going to flag it.
"The theme of Brian's talk was that the conventional wisdom about how to run larger companies is mistaken. As Airbnb grew, well-meaning people advised him that he had to run the company in a certain way for it to scale."

I looked up this company Airbnb. I always used VRBO, which predates Airbnb by over a decade. I booked entire houses months in advance for extended stays.

According to this blog post Airbnb grew. But the stock is down over 8% even after the latest market rally. What's going on.

The question I have is what Airbnb grew into. The company has been around for a while. I let Big Tech show me the latest news. I did not ask for negative news, just any news.

Below is what I got. I must be missing why this Airbnb CEO is doing a good job and is worth listening to in spite the company's name appearing in all of this bad press.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevj77rdp89o

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article291610590.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/vrbo-nick-saban-ad-trolling-2...

https://www.kake.com/home/city-of-wichita-looking-to-add-law...

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2024/08/26/man-shot...

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/crime/2024/...

https://globalnews.ca/news/10723835/airbnb-hidden-camera-san...

https://www.businessinsider.com/restoration-train-car-airbnb...

https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/love-humor/airbnb-moun...

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/jail-sentence-sought-for...

https://www.wxxv25.com/four-arrested-after-shooting-at-gulfp...

https://nypost.com/2024/08/20/lifestyle/i-stayed-in-a-1-a-ni...

https://buffalonews.com/news/local/business/gov-kathy-hochul...

https://www.summitdaily.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-fri...

It goes on. The reply will likely be "The reason is ... and this has nothing to do with Airbnb. Airbnb is doing fine. I love Airbnb. And so on." This is a forum sponsored by the Silicon Valley VC firm that financed Airbnb so I expect HN commenters will defend the company's actions or inaction.
I think it would be interesting and adequate to hear about and link to the reflections of the original awk authors (Aho, Kernighan, Weinberg et al) considering they were also experts for yacc and other compiler-compiler tools from the 1977–1985 era and authors of the dragon book. After all, awk syntax was the starting point for JavaScript including warts such as regexp literals, optional semicolons, for (e in a), delete a[e], introducing the function keyword to a C-like language, etc. I recall at least Kernighan talked about optional semicolons as something he‘d reconsider given the chance.
> 2022 is not an outlier in this regard

Yeah, 2022 was absolutely not an outlier in electricity production in Europe...

> the imports and exports in the link are priced in USD, so if your thesis is true, then it would mean even bigger _volumes_ of electric exports.

That is, indeed, true. Germany's export prices are noticeably lower than Germany's import prices for electricity [1].

That means Germany exports _a lot_ of cheap electricity when electricity is abundant, and requires some expensive electricity when it is not. From the pov of reliability of supply, it's not great. From the PoV of market participants, however, that's pretty good, of course.

[1]: average export/import price, fig. 4 - https://www.ffe.de/en/publications/electricity-imports-to-ge...
Would it be so hard to introduce higher speed limits for tinier vehicles ? That might motivate people to trade "down".
This is the exact same comment as in the previous thread from days ago. This is some kind of automated collection activity.
Hi, is it possible to add a virtual machine mode to OrbStack? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41423667 for why. I'm okay with most (or all) nice integrations unavailable.

Basically I want a true UTM replacement, the one I can run my own kernel.
I would recommend you get some people with IT security knowledge on board, either permanently or at least to do a review.
> You can learn to context-switch.

Presumably experienced users know how to change shortcuts/profiles.

But that's fine, such a design philosophy just means that Linux will never become appealing to non-advanced users.
> SpaceHey is a small, independent social network, funded by your donations.

https://spacehey.com/support
"tax policies subsidize heavier vehicles"

Interesting post. Can I ask you/somebody to expand a bit on the quote above please?
Why is this exact same thread up again?
What most people don't know is that vista was not all that different from 7. As you mention after SP fixed the bugs. The main issue was hardware requirements were quite hefty with all the new stuff and people put it on 2gb ram laptops with 5400rpm disks.

In any case the issues got much worse with 10 and now even worse with 11. The os itself is not good but it is what it is. Now the invasive trash happening lately is truly bad and should be enough to move people away. Seems there is not much of an effect so they will keep pushing.
> So while there is a best practice, dismissing solutions that are "good enough" (while sharing tradeoffs) isn't as helpful.

In many environments, sharing passwords is never "good enough".
It kind or makes sense: I always thought, if we were take an undead corpse for real, lacking any élan vital, this wouldn't be driven by hormones or reproductive drives (as in popular fiction), but may rather be an abstract, crystalline existence. Or in other words, with Augustinus, the pursue of primordial intrigues, as portrayed in fiction, should be a mere ornament to such an existence. Which leaves counting as a worthy activity and as an attempt to persist basic object relations in due abstraction…
Pricing is truly annoying with password managers. I know this is an edge case but I volunteered for my kid’s school PTA and discovered to my horror that all the passwords were stored in a single Google Sheet. But the pricing for the number of users we were looking at (a very small core number of staff but a large number of volunteer parents) made pretty much every password manager service unaffordable, even with non profit discounts. Per seat pricing doesn’t work out for everyone.

We ended up using Dashlane because its free tier allows sharing between users but the administration is so much more work than it needs to be.
>"FB and there isn't really a reason for AI spam."

Heh good joke. Facebook is full of spam bots, phishing etc.
Using following template, hack legitimate account, buy ADs for your phishing campaign with stolen CCs, phish people, rinse and repeat.

And quantity of phishing/spam is so huge, Meta is basically unable to fight this.
But you have to know the other thread first
Yes definitely, I think so too.

And there's a difference between working with curing cancer or optimizing people wasting money in Candy Crush
Totally.-

PS. But, can you do fence-wire comms with fiber? :)
> The confusion, especially on X, is caused by focusing on what advertisers want vs what users want

Is it? Last time I heard about it advertisers were going away because Musk is focusing on what loudest users want (being able to speak loudly) and not what advertisers want (moderation)
> The first one gives us our answer: the URL is stored in the registry. It’s actually written by the InstallShield setup.

I... I mean, I get why they did this, rather than building a proper userspace application... but who the fuck thought this would be something that's acceptable to ship to consumers? And what happens in case there are multiple different disk models installed in the same system?
Crush your faking employees is the advice of the day. Founders are superheroes who can do no wrong and miss no context! Founders favoritism leading to being in an in-crowd never attracts faking employees, and the founders can famously always tell!

Never heard the nonsense idea that it’s good or frequent advice to step back and let people do their thing in a startup.
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> The root of the issue is that Alexandre de Moraes, a single justice on the Supreme Court, has been issuing secret orders to censor content, ban accounts, and jail people over political speech. This is unconstitutional in Brazil per article 5 of the 1988 constitution, so X refused the orders.

Oh... so now Twatter/Musk is "god-like" and above the law? Judge Dredd?

Why Elon doesn't bring "peace and liberty" to China? Or other nice countries?
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You can find used Pixels almost anywhere (I know because I'm using one), which saves you from giving money to Google.

About software support, isn't that true for all devices and all manufacturers? Google guarantees 7 years of android updates and security patches, which is way better than most competitors, and Graphene adds in some years of extended support.

Not to mention that once all support is over, if you don't care about the fact that firmware, kernel and vendor code will never be updated, you can still switch to LineageOS, which still has nightly builds even for the first Pixel with extremely updated security patches.

The only valid point is that hardware is controlled by Google. There could be some sort of extremely-low-level backdoor or spyware, and we would never know. That's also true of each and every other CPU, modem or device with vendor-specific code.
It gets worse. What they are saying is quite openly, "We have the data you're after. Force us to disclose it."

> Q: Do you process data requests?

Secret chats use end-to-end encryption, thanks to which we don't have any data to disclose.

To protect the data that is not covered by end-to-end encryption, Telegram uses a distributed infrastructure. Cloud chat data is stored in multiple data centers around the globe that are controlled by different legal entities spread across different jurisdictions. The relevant decryption keys are split into parts and are never kept in the same place as the data they protect. As a result, several court orders from different jurisdictions are required to force us to give up any data.

Thanks to this structure, we can ensure that no single government or block of like-minded countries can intrude on people's privacy and freedom of expression. Telegram can be forced to give up data only if an issue is grave and universal enough to pass the scrutiny of several different legal systems around the world.

To this day, we have disclosed 0 bytes of user data to third parties, including governments.
Do some plants have medicinal powers because we evolved with them (meaning we are just reinventing what we already knew for thousands of years), or is it more a random phenomenon?
:DDD And you gonna check it every time? Nah, humans are not wired to this.
Perhaps the Russian supplier was more competitive or the product of better quality or just more precisely what was needed. Just the same as plenty of people in Europe now buy Japanese cars despite there being a huge car industry in Europe.
Install python from source into a directory that does not need sudo.
Use poetry init and poetry install to do the rest. Poetry manages the environment itself. I have been using this setup for a while and it works quite well.
What you are good at picking up is incidents. That is how we work. How many lives would be saved by using Tesla for surveillance is a lot less tangible, and thus, meaningless in direct comparison. Because there is no comparison, if we don't feel it compares.

Whenever I see people seriously argue against statistics by leaning on stories, it tends to be complicated and sinister. If you are that afraid of your government, if you deem your government to be that irresponsible and also out of your control, that on average you would rather not default support it when fighting crime, then I think you are you confused about what battle you should actually be fighting.
Isn't 'VK_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock' kind of like programmable blending?
Or Raster-order-views in DX land.

This is a great example of using it:
https://vulkan.org/user/pages/09.events/vulkanised-2024/vulk...
As long as this site doesn't implement the ActivityPub protocol, I don't see any reason for me to move to this site. I don't have time to maintain another account, and I want to keep in touch with people from Mastodon and Threads.
Religion is not a genetically determined characteristic, and I do see how he could ave been "a bit of a Christian".
I usually use fwupd on Linux, which also downloads (and installs) SSD firmware. At least for my SSD, it did (also a Toshiba SSD IIRC)
I was very stressed last year and had what felt like a dissociative episode: Knowing what was becoming possible with LLMs, I one day just couldn't shake the feeling of unreality while reading any online spaces, including hacker news. I felt like maybe 70% of comments I was reading might not be real. Everything, including HN, just seemed so predictable or unsurprising

It was an altered state that felt like the leading edge of... something