skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My codebases are riddled with these gotchas. For instance, I sometimes write Python for the Blender rendering engine. This requires highly non-idiomatic Python. Whenever something complex comes up, LLM's just degenerate to cookie cutter basic bitch Python code. There is simply no "there" there. They are very useful to help you reason about unfamiliar codebases though.
I have got to say it was fantastic seeing my grandmas eyes glow when, for no reason, I thought "wait my xm4's could help her" and put them on her.

She was then able to hear our conversations even though the xm4 are not as good the real thing.

She didnt want hearing aids before that, but afterwards she wanted ones.
Aren't disks so large those days that losing a disk almost means you will lose a second disk during resilvering unless that by "basic raid" you're doing not-basic-raid things such as btrfs raid1c3?
Antibiotic misuse is a huge problem and even leading to resistance.

It is a good thing that we are developing verbose pathogen panels to ensure we don’t prescribe antibiotics when we have viral infections and vice versa.

Additionally the upcoming AI discovered targeted antibiotics will be game changer to remove negative or benign pathogens while maintaining your good cultures.

The challenge is that some become friends and some become foes depending on the diversity and quantity of certain species.

Gut microbiome discoveries are going to change the way we see disease in this next decade.
for now, but chat will be llm-fied before the content is created by an ai, that's for sure.
The documentation mentions "last change wins", which makes more sense in my opinion.
I'd like to see a reference to some GC actually doing explicit optimizations of this kind in a multithreaded scenario (not just as an indirect effect of theuir regular scanning), more or less linear scanning of memory is a natural consequence of a moving GC.

The Java gc's are doing some crazy stuff, my point however was that the acyclic nature of the Erlang object graph enables them to do fairly "simple" optimizations to the GC that in practice should remove most need for pauses without hardware or otherwise expensive read barriers.

It doesn't have to do a lot of things to be good, once you have cycles you need a lot more machinery to be able to do the same things.
I think you are wrong in a funny way. Memory safety and memory leaks and stuff dont always matter.

This sparked and interesting memory for me. I was once working with a
customer who was producing on-board software for a missile. In my analysis
of the code, I pointed out that they had a number of problems with storage
leaks. Imagine my surprise when the customers chief software engineer said
"Of course it leaks". He went on to point out that they had calculated the
amount of memory the application would leak in the total possible flight time
for the missile and then doubled that number. They added this much
additional memory to the hardware to "support" the leaks. Since the missile
will explode when it hits it's target or at the end of it's flight, the
ultimate in garbage collection is performed without programmer intervention.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.ada/c/E9bNCvDQ12k/m/1t...

while a funny example, you are very wrong. High assurance systems have a specification and a bazillion tests because memory safety is an insanely tiny problem in the sea of problems they face. [that is why, frama-C and friends are preferred over Rust,Ada, ATS, and whatever else that exists.]
Correctness of the spec and perfectly following the spec is far more important.
Zig allows correct code to feel easier to write when compared to C. Thats why it was chosen in tigerbeetle and thats why, if the community wants, it will have an insanely bright future in high assurance systems.
China has 'throttled' its private sector
This is extremely well articulated, and is exactly true in my experience.

People take gossip as "gossip"- an unrealiable approximation and gross-oversimplification of an individual. Thus give people with poor reputations the benefit of the doubt, believing themselves to be open minded. (which is true).

When they are shown just how 1-dimensional some people can actually be, and that the gossip depicts people precisely, it can be jarring. Especially as, like you mention, many people are very personable, charismatic, charming etc;
It does mean something. It means that the model is still more on the memorization side than being able to independently evaluate a question separate from the body of knowledge it has amassed.
If I recall, it turns out that his "failed rapper" son had some sort of natural talent for this and has got nothing but accolades even from other animators ever since. Although I do get your point.
After paying a monthly premium for my coffee-lifestyle of I'd say 100-200 EURs just by buying most premium sorts of beans for ages, not including drinking at cliché hip coffee bars of competition-winning baristas (face-tatooed mustaches are to be expected) and having endless discussions about taste and techniques with the average tech co-worker, I happily reverted to the one and only, un-hipersterable, supermarket instant.

I do know how good coffee tastes like and would say: It's not worth it.
You are definitely correct ni that the screen takes a bit chunk of the power, but it is my understanding that the cpu is taking the most. This is why you cannot run x86 systems on battery power very efficiently.

Look at it this way. Older laptops on x86 have the same screens as the newer arm based laptops, but the arm laptops have significantly more battery life using the same battery tech. This is definitely a sign that the processor is the biggest user of power in the system.
Not too many in Northern Australia I imagine.
I guess it's to prevent scrapping, but good luck people who depend on a11y tools... :(

And you can't log in using a password manager
I mean, 1250 euros is a lot of money, but that is very much on the lower end of prices for mid-range espresso machines.

If you don't like espresso and don't find it valuable, that's fine!
> I see this repeated often - blame placed entirely on management and not the workers. Why do you believe that?

Because it is management who hire and fire workers, who pays them salary, who says them what to do, who does the quality checks on the work done and so on. If management couldn't get their workers to do a quality work, it is the management's fault. In this case the management should be fired and the company better find more competent managers.

When you place blame, you need to do a causal analysis and ask the question: who could change the outcome and didn't? The workers? Don't make my slippers laugh, the workers could do nothing. While management had all the power, including the power to fire bad workers and to hire better ones. Including the power to force workers into compulsory training courses, including the power to create a system of incentives that would encourage good work, and so on.
What's wrong with asking that? I thought it's all about people being open.
We built the Biggest iPhone in the World [video]
If you're interested in experimenting with coffee drinks and technology, then why would you want to be stuck with buying the stale pre-ground coffee that's typically sold in the nespresso cups?

(In theory, you could experiment with grinding and filling a user-fillable nespresso type capsule, but you'd get so much more flexibility and quality by not being tied to that specific design)
Those rules aren't taken from the thin air though. It's really easy to argue that sexual gedonism is detrimental to society, and its online incarnation is even more so: as any addiction it steals productive time from people's lives, it puts hormones over culture which patently breeds violence, it leads to social atomization, and consequently to mental issues (which means violence again), economically bad on a level comparable to fentanyl imports, and the list goes on.
Churchill's autobiography [0] is actually a great read. I'm nowhere near qualified to judge a literature Nobel prize but I loved it. His history of the English speaking peoples is pretty good too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Early_Life
Agree completely.

From a user perspective too, I was a subscriber from the first day of gpt4 until about a month ago. I thought about subscribing for the month to check this out but I am tired of the OpenAI experience.

Where is Sora? Where is the version of chatgpt that responds in real time to your voice? Remember the gpt4 demo that you would draw a website on a napkin?

How about Q* lol. Strawberry/Q*/o1, "it is super dangerous, be very careful!"

Quietly, Anthropic has just kicked their ass without all the hype and I am about to go work in sonnet instead even bothering to check o1 out.
The doctor is obviously a parent of the boy. The language tricks simply emulate the ambiance of reasoning. Similarly to a political system emulating the ambiance of democracy.
What's the difference between replication and synchronization in SignalDB?
S6 – Skarnet's small supervision suite
To be fair, in the case of hearing aids you are both in the right.

Excessive regulation has created oligopolies and kept prices high in the US. The OTC hearing aid category is meant to help. Before that, low-cost devices tended to remain niche.

OTOH the regulation(s) were introduced due to blatant sales of substandard devices, esp in the 1970s. A high-amplification device runs the risk of further damaging your hearing. Many hearing aid users are vulnerable elderly.
GPT-4 will often get the modified question of you change its "shape" enough. It's clearly overfit to that question so making the modified question not look like the one from training. Sometimes changing the names is enough.
This feels like such a speculative non-article, trying to read really deep into a shallow interview.
In fact, it might be a great way to filter out narrow minded people / organizations you don't want to deal with anyway
It is. The chap they hired to do port his solver has done really great motion solving work in the past (and, amusingly, had an application called "FreeCAD" before FreeCAD existed).

http://www.ar-cad.com

It's very positive that he's working for Ondsel.
>I wonder why that's a socially acceptable way of "selling" their body, but prostitution is not.

Probably because its not the same at all. Getting naked and spreading your legs is neither as productive nor difficult as serving your country. Neither should it have the same social status.
Did you just verb verb?
Thanks, I was not sure if it was light hours or minutes away, but I knew for sure it's not light weeks (emphasis on plural here) away. I will probably forget again in a couple of years.
NocoBase vs. NocoDB: An In-Depth Comparison of Open Source No-Code Tools
> No amount of batteries can protect a solar/wind grid from an arbitrarily extended period of "bad" weather.

Sure there is, let's do some math. Just like we can solve all of the Earth's energy needs with a solar array the size of Lithuania or West Virginia, we can do some simple math to see how many batteries we'd need to protect a solar grid.

Let's say the sun doesn't shine for an entire year. That seems like a large enough N such that we won't hit N+1. If the sun doesn't shine for an entire year, we're in some really serious trouble, even if we're still all-in on coal.

Over 1 year, humanity uses roughly 24,000 terawatt-hours of energy. Let's assume batteries are 100% efficient storage (they're not) and that we're using lithium ion batteries, which we'll say have an energy density of 250 watt-hours per liter (Wh/L). The math then says we need 96 km³ of batteries protect a solar grid from having the sun not shine for an entire year.

Thus, the amount of batteries to protect a solar grid is 1.92 quadrillion 18650 batteries, or a cube 4.6 kilometers along each side. This is about 24,000 year's worth of current world wide battery production.

That's quite a lot! If we try for N = 4 months for winter, that is to say, if the sun doesn't shine at all in the winter, then we'd need 640 trillion 18650 cell, or 8,000 years of current global production, but at least this would only be 32 km³, or a cube with 3.2 km sides.

Still wildly out of reach, but this is for all of humanity, mind you.

Anyway, point is, they said Elon was mad for building the original gigafactory, but it turns out that was a prudent investment. It now accounts for some 10% of the world's lithium ion battery production and demand for lithium-ion batteries doesn't seem to be letting up.
Indeed. My expectation of a good intern is to produce nothing I will put in production, but show aptitude worth hiring them for. It's a 10 week extended interview with lots of social events, team building, tech talks, presentations, etc.

Which is why I've liked the LLM analogy of "unlimited free interns".. I just think some people read that the exact opposite way I do (not very useful).
I've been working on a o1-preview and recently hit some limitations with OpenAI's cap. But I’ve made progress—added all the steps, details, and code on GitHub https://github.com/mergisi/openai-o1-coded-personal-blog . The result isn't bad at all; just a few more CSS tweaks to improve it. Check it out and let me know what you think! How does it compare to tools like Claude Sonnet 3.5?
Mayan Languages are a different story from Turkish and Magyar.

There is a close genetic affinity between ancient and modern Mayans [0] that doesn't exist between Anatolian Turks and Turkmen, or Magyars and Khanty.

The Mayans never died out - they remained in the Yucatán and what is now Guatemala to this day, and weren't fully conquered until the early 1700s.

Furthermore, the language has always been alive and well because Spanish and Mezito settlers never tried settling in much of the Mayan region, because of how late they were conquered. Even today, Mayan groups like EZLN/Zapatistas have strong autonomy (and the guns to back it).

It's also had an impact in the US, as most undocumented immigrants from Guatemala tend to be ethnic Mayans from the highlands, and can barely speak Spanish because Guatemala puts almost no money in rural development. This has drastically clogged the immigration court system as the number of Mayan-English translators is extremely limited (I think UIUC is the only university that still teaches modern Mayan due to it's training contract with the CIA).

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_genetics
This is a great description.
IDEs will show you the docs for whatever method you're using… but their support for navigation or exploration tends to be somewhere between "absent" and "severely lacking".
The main worst thing about Nespresso capsules is the waste and the staleness. The two worst things about Nespresso are the waste, the staleness and the expense. The three worst things about Nespresso are the waste, the staleness and the expense and supporting such a corrupt mega-corporation. Amongst the worst things about Nespresso... hold on, I'll come in again.
All the data I keep seeing suggests drug use (including alcohol) is on the decline.

https://nida.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/2023/12/repor...
I would bet lot of producers and consumers live in different countries. A lot of online porn is produced in eastern europe and ex-USSR and societies there a lot less prude and religious compared to US. Some bullshit politicians might state otherwise, but US is far more conservative.
That's taking something that happened about a century ago and using it as an argument for the current situation.

If you're looking for something much closer to home, look at how in the past half century unionized corporations were forced to take over pensions, and how they're doing now because of this. Pensions are a financial product, which should be paid for by each employee - quite likely with supervision and safety net from the state. Putting it on the employer's tab turned out to be more or less giving away the future of the company. And that's pretty much 100% on the unions.
The Djb Legacy
An individual has no obligation to respect a societal order that doesn't respect them back.
> I mean, I can't turn globbing off -- applications do not do glob expansion in unix...

You can turn globbing off, you just find operating without it to be inconvenient and don't like it.

Just as I find the inconsistency and irregularity that comes from Windows demanding that software do its own glob/wildcard expansion inconvenient and don't like it.
A cynical way to look at it is that we're pretty close to the ultimate limits of what LLMs can do and now the stake holders are looking at novel ways of using what they have instead of pouring everything into novel models. We're several years into the AI revolution (some call it a bubble) and Nvidia is still pretty much the only company that makes bank on it. Other than that it's all investment driven "growth". And at some point investors are gonna start asking questions...
Sounds promising! I was literally just evaluating OpenSuse MicroOS for upgrading an embedded sensor. The whole buildroot/yocyo thing gets tiresome. Anyone else tried this yet?

However, it had the same pitfalls of Canonicals Ubuntu Core / snap stuff. They all seem to require booting the device with full internet to run the setup. Then updating the local OS without internet seemed infeasible.
> At least with this kind of sex work, all parties to transaction tend to benefit, and all are in it voluntarily

Beautifully put!

> Sure, prostitution is shameful and sinful and whatnot

Only according to some. Imo it's much more immoral to work in fossil fuels or the police/military (where you abandon morals to execute orders).
In addition to my AeroPress I also regularly use a ROK espresso machine, which is pretty similar to the Cafelat I believe, and I can attest it's pretty awesome.

https://www.rok.coffee/
How high do you think are the chances of China taking Taiwan by force? And how would US or NATO respond to that?
I speak as a Russian. In the US, you have your own protestors for those issues, which I am not qualified to discuss.
> only solution

Other than "don't put sewage in the rain collector".
This is why we need anti-SLAPP laws.
> I can trick people who have never heard of the trick with the 7 wives and 7 bags and so on. That doesn't mean they didn't understand

They could fail because they didn’t understand the language. Didn’t have a good memory to memorize all the steps, or couldn’t reason through it. We could pose more questions to probe which reason is more plausible.
I was thinking about joining them to try it out.. but now I feel yucky.
Norway is special. 94.3% of new cars sold last month were electric cars.

Actually, in the private marked it was 96.7% !

Links to info (in Norwegian)

- https://elbil.no/vi-kan-klare-hundre-prosent/

- https://ofv.no/aktuelt/2024/nybilsalget-i-august-h%C3%B8yest...
‘That's ok for humans but not for machines.’

This is a really interesting bias. I mean, I understand, I feel that way too… but if you think about it, it might be telling us something about intelligence itself.

We want to make machines that act more like humans: we did that, and we are now upset that they are just as flaky and unreliable as drunk uncle bob. I have encountered plenty of people that aren’t as good at being accurate or even as interesting to talk to as a 70b model. Sure, LLMs make mistakes most humans would not, but humans also make mistakes most LLMs would not.

(I am not trying to equate humans and LLMs, just to be clear) (also, why isn’t equivelate a word?)

It turns out we want machines that are extremely reliable, cooperative , responsible and knowledgeable. We yearn to be obsolete.

We want machines that are better than us.

The definition of AGI has drifted from meaning. “able to broadly solve problems the (class of which) system designers did not anticipate” to “must be usefully intelligent at the same level as a bright, well educated person”.

Where along the line did we suddenly forget that dog level intelligence was a far out of reach goal until suddenly it wasn’t?
Project Borealis Arg (Fan Made UE5 Half 2 - Life Episode 3)
What I find fascinating/disturbing with OnlyFans and in some way with Twitch and streaming in general is more the client side than the creators. Here are basically people paying, and paying a lot, for parasocial relationships. Because clearly it’s not about the content per see which is a dim a dozen and available for free in trove.

I think it says something quite dark about our society as a whole that we have basically commoditised distress and are encouraging some people often themselves in dire circumstances to prey on others to the benefits of the middle men. I find these new pimps scarier than the old sort in that they pretend to have clean hands.
> How would you even "improve" table of contents anyway?

See the Rust example at the top of the post.
Techcrunch have completely misunderstood this haven't they.
ath3nd did not write same social status, they wrote socially acceptable. Relevant username, I guess.
> These strict requirements mean the fund has had to reject good investments — including one profitable company with strong growth and customers — because the founder refused to be personally liable for the loan, the person adds.

No "skin in the game" to use the tired cliché?
If you show the source you'll be showing it to both. If you don't, hackers will still go poking around anyway. They'll find the exploits the old fashioned way.
Maybe they were doing "first-person research" on dishonesty. /s
1000+ people for a city of 600k people doesn't seem like much? Maybe I'm overestimating how much people use each "thing" a city offers.
Reclaiming control from the beancounters and misers to rein in their destructive influence? I'm not optimistic.
I wonder how JCS didn't write a Gopher client. I know there are several, but he might
add some nice features such as converting most Unicode chars
to Mac-Roman or whatever did Mac OS
use in the 90's.
Show HN: Claude 3.5 Sonnet in GitHub Copilot Chat (VSCode Extension, BYOK)
Hey everyone!

If you are still using Copilot, I made a VSCode extension that adds Claude 3.5 Sonnet and possibly other models to the GitHub Copilot chat. The additional models are available as chat participants. Type the @ symbol and select the model you want to use.

You need your own API key (BYOK) - this is not covered by GitHub Copilot subscription.

It's still in early development, so if you try it out and run into any issues, let me know. I'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions too!
Full ack. Water quality can be very good. Sligtly dangerours, witch makes it exciting.
Just had a bit of fun with it with simple mortgage scenarios and let's just say things are extremely shaky... lol - Do not trust these tools - simply play with them for high level scenarios...
I’ve been working on some fact-checking projects myself and developed a blog website. Check out my work here https://github.com/mergisi/openai-o1-coded-personal-blog
Apple brings Activation Lock to iPhone parts with iOS 18
In this interesting video, Sia shared various ways and tools for web performance auditing and monitoring.
It seems to be normal practice. Two weeks ago Russia poisoned a river flowing across the border into Ukraine. The standard monitoring tools and infrastructure seemed sufficient to monitor the situation.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/toxic-substances-flowin...
It's whataboutism, isn't it? It surely hypocritical when someone only fights other's sin while ignoring own (and one mainstream religion has a special piece about it - speck in a brother's eye). But my harmful behavior still doesn't make your harmful behavior good, and vice versa
> ... and it's never night all the time around the world.

I'm not sure that is 100% true. >99.99% true, but it can happen in practice. https://www.newsweek.com/when-sun-disappeared-historians-det...
AMD's Victor Peng: AI thirst for power underscores need for efficient silicon