skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans totally do this if their prefrontal cortex shuts down due to fight or flight response. See eg stage fright or giving bullshit answers in leetcode style interviews.
Nuclear also has essentially zero growth, whichever turtle is fastest still wins.
Yeah, that's pretty much it.

If packets were sent while you were disconnected, they'll be gone, but if you're disconnected for only part of the burst, duplicate ACKing will trigger retransmits.

If you were gone for the whole burst, you'll get put right by timer based retransmits.

If you're gone for long enough, most peers will timeout on unacknowledged data (although that's not in the TCP RFC), and if there's no outstanding data, most peers eventually have some sort of periodic ping and timeout (tcp keep-alives is a reasonable fallback IMHO, if your application protocol doesn't have someything, although the default of IIRC 2 hours feels long in todays world of lots of NATs and much shorter timeouts).
> But no one really show how they're actually solving problems with LLMs and how the alternatives were worse for them. It's all claims that it's great with no further elaboration on the workflows.

To give an example, one person (a researcher at DeepMind) recently wrote about specific instances of his uses of LLMs, with anecdotes about alternatives to each example. [1] People on HN had different responses with similar claims with elaborations on how it has changed some of their workflows. [2]

While it would be interesting to see randomized controlled trials on LLM usage, hearing people's anecdotes brings to mind the (often misquoted) phrase: "The plural of anecdote is data". [3] [4]

[1] https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2024/how-i-use-ai.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41150317

[3] http://blog.danwin.com/don-t-forget-the-plural-of-anecdote-i...

[4] originally misquoted as "Anecdote is the plural of data."
20 years to pay 20k$?
Vim - https://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/usr_toc.html

Stripe

Django

Hubspot

Mercurial with comments https://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/a-tour-of-mercurial-the-bas...
Most good employers, especially in tech, don't require degrees these days.
Anecdotal, but I know the guys behind this. They're about as much free speech absolutists as you'll find. They're not going to remove anything unless it presents a large legal problem for them not to.
So TCP has slow start, and exponential fall off and shit.

but you can get round that in a lot of cases by just having a load of TCP connections in parallel.

TCP is cheap and well optimised, especially if you are keeping a bunch of connections open. (opening can be expensive)

so if you have a high latency connection, or a bit of packet loss, and you want to reach line speed without having to figure out cornercases with UDP, just open up 100-1k TCP connections and multiplex them.

bish bash bosh, mostly line speed over a high latency line (mind you this was in the days of 100m-500m cross atlantic internet, you'll probably need more connections to saturate a 10gig line.)
It will be a good time in the next 10 - 20 years to sell things the nouveau riche buy. Handbags, perfume, luxury cars, expensive restaurants that aren't as good as they are "exclusive".

The real jackpot will be awarded to the owners of such businesses.
Wasn’t that followed by a dot-com bubble burst, and then things actually started taking shape.

So are we expecting a ai bubble burst as well?
Good luck! That can be pretty hard to do when you're at the learning stage, and I would think doubly so given the LLM style where everything 'looks' very convincing.
What if I lost my parents before they got the chance to teach me that?

What if I was raised in a foster care and I never knew who my parents were?

And what if my parents don't know these things themselves?

There are many ways that this logic goes wrong. The school should teach that because it is very important lesson to engage in a society and be a good citizen.

Edit: Sorry I meant people raised in orphanages not foster care. I wasn't in focus enough while writing this. Sorry if this caused hard feelinga for anyone
https://zen-browser.app/ killer features for me:

- web panel: to show/hide messenger/mail quickly. I don’t see it — no distractions — but it is instantly there when I need it
- hor/vert. grid/tiling on keyboard shortcut: pair some web pages together so that they are visible/hidden at the same time
- Firefox addons work (that I use) e.g., Vimium C
- vertical tabs combined with compact mode that show/hides them on keyboard shortcut
Icelandic fishing giant Samherji sues art student for spoofing corporate website
BOFH is still a periodic fixture on TheRegister: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/
> I get why it is that way, but it feels icky.

There is no reason it has to be so boilerplate heavy, a lot of it can be fixed but someone has to put in the work. The only technical reason that could hold it back is compile times.
It seems the zeitgeist has changed. When I first started using HN 5+ years ago, whenever you'd see a similar new, Americans and jump in and claim that this is just the lazy Europeans extorting the poor American companies. The reaction is very different these days.
You just said yourself that raw files cannot be compressed... now you say that Nikon has your permission to compress raw files? What is the point you are trying to make?

(Also, try reading the thread you linked and reconcile it somehow with your previous claim that losless compression of raw files is unacceptable)
You can send corrections to at.hiker.photos@gmail.com
University of Austin Enters Its First Academic Year
I don’t know who/how the term was initially coined in this context, but I’m concerned that the things that make it inaccurate are also, perhaps counterintuitively, things that serve the interests of those who would overstate the capabilities of LLMs, and seek to cloud their true nature (along with inherent limitations) to investors and potential buyers. As you already pointed out, the term implies that the problems that are represented are temporary “bugs”, rather than symptoms of the underlying nature of the technology itself.
It didn't even occur to me as something to be done when I was dealing with my mother's estate. I would have thought it was automatic (SS# shows up in the death index) but even if it wasn't a registration with nobody voting it will eventually get scrubbed.
> banks did it

Banks didn’t?
Their laboratory high school taught billiards as a phys ed class on the university's tables, too.
I wondered too. It may simply indicate that the portraits were (intentionally) unflattering.
Or, you know, fiction writer. Some of us like little stories.
It does seem to depend on the hearing aids as to whether people can see them. I have NHS hearing aids - made by GN Resound, I think. I really like them, but as they use sound tubes rather than wires to a speaker in the ear canal (the oddly named "receiver in canal"), they are fairly low end. Ok, so that means I have small tubes snaking in to my ears. I still had to tell a cousin four times that yes, I was wearing hearing aids, and no, I hadn't forgotten them. In fact that was how I got my mother to get hearing aids - I told her I'd been wearing them for three years and she had not noticed.

As to being excluded: one of my jobs is funeral officiant. Several times I've found the spouse of the deceased being left out of the funeral conversation because of hearing and I've even been told not to bother talking to them because they won't hear. Every time I've found that we can talk perfectly well - it just needed a bit of effort on my part.
Does their activity support healthiness, or does their healthiness support activity?
No, if I ask a human about something he doesn't know, the first thing he will think about is not a made up answer, it is "I don't know". It actually takes effort to make up a story, and without training we tend to be pretty bad at it. Some people do it naturally, but it is considered a disorder.

For LLMs, there is no concept of "not knowing", they will just write something that best matches their training data, and since there is not much "I don't know" in their training data, it is not a natural answer.

For example, I asked for a list of bars in a small city the LLM clearly didn't know much about, and gave me a nice list with names, addresses, phone numbers, etc... all hallucinated. Try to ask a normal human to give you a list of bars in a city he doesn't know well enough, and force him to answer something plausible, no "I don't know". Eventually, especially if he knows a lot about bars, you will get an answer, but it absolutely won't be his first thought, he will probably need to think hard about it.
Here is a source I found and repayment rates tanked after 2009

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/education/our-insights/t...
Nutritional science has come on a little in the last 21 years. Do you have anything more recent?
> Do you want an admissions process that is partially trying to decide if you're financially responsible? Do you want your school pressuring you to choose a more lucrative major? Do you want communications from your school reminding you that it's important to be making good financial decisions? If your school is co-guarantor of your loan, it's their business to make sure you're going to repay on time.

I wouldn't particularly enjoy this... but at the same time, the alternative seems to be students that "don't know what they're doing" taking out loans over $100k to get degrees that are not in demand. These people will then claim they were ignorant of the true cost, job prospects, potential salary, etc.

The elephant in the room is that many degrees simply don't leave students with a lot of earning potential. I never understand why the discussion seems to trend (not implying your comment did this) towards how we can pay for these degrees or make them affordable. It sounds harsh but I don't know how to see it any other way.
> But no one really show how they're actually solving problems with LLMs and how the alternatives were worse for them.

I'm an iOS dev, my knowledge of JS and CSS is circa 2004. I've used ChatGPT to convert some of my circa 2009 Java games into browser games.

> Chatting with a LLM look to me like your intent is either vague or you don't know the units to use

Or that you're moving up the management track.

Managers don't write code either. Some prefer it that way.
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In general they do, it might not be a guarantee, but a degree helps pass hr filters. The only way to bypass that is having years of experience in a big company or a recommendation, for junior positions a degree is very necessary.
Why?? To defend AI you used yourself as an example of how we can also be that dumb too.

I don't understand. Your example isn't true - what the OP posted is the human condition regarding this particular topic. You, as a human being obviously kno better than to blurt out the first thing that pop into your head - you even have different preset iterations of acceptable things to blurt in certain situations solely to avoid saying the wrong thing like - I'm sorry for your loss. Thoughts and prayers" and stuff like "Yes, Boss" or all the many rules of politeness, all of that is second nature to you, a prevents from blurting shit out.

Lastly, how do dumb questions in the mornings with coffee at a tech meeting in any way compare to an AI hallucination??

Did you ever reply with information that you completely made up, has seemingly little to do with the question and doesn't appear to make any logical or reasonable sense as to why that's your answer or how you even got there??

That's clearly not the behavior of an "awake" or sentient thing. That is perhaps the simplest way for normal people to "get it" is by realizing what a hallucination is and that their toddler is likely more capable of comprehending context.

You dismissed a plainly stated and correct position, with self depreciating humor - for why?
The key difference is that this is a multidisciplinary conversational interface, and a tool in itself for interrelating structured meaning and reshaping it coherently enough so that it can be of great value both in the specific domain of the dialog, and in the potential to take it on any tangent in any way that can be expressed.

Of course it has limitations and you can't be sleep at the wheel, but that's true of any tool or task.
Let's assume this graph is correct. Why did humans 100 years ago consume fewer calories? The body is a complex system with many homeostatic mechanisms. We stop eating when we're full (generally). What has adjusted that homeostatic thermostat upward? Why did obesity increase linearly for half a century and then suddenly increase exponentially starting in 1980? Why are wild animals and laboratory animals also more obese than 100 years ago?
Liverpool was the second city of the British empire at this point, so again, its “roughness” could be debatable.
Two hamsters on a treadmill could outperfom nuclear power 8-/

Nuclear is the biggest boondogle in electric generation history. And a huge fraction of that bloated cost is still hidden in externalities, as the overwhelming majority of all spent fuel is still sitting in "temporary" storage onsite with the reactor where it was used.

Geothermal aside, using money to increase grid storage is a vastly better investment than nuclear can ever be.
It's not an api, but just in case people don't know... It is possible to hide the horizontal tabs via userChrome.

https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-fo...
For one, I spend less time on Stackoverflow. LLMs can usually give you the answer to little questions about programming or command-line utilities right away.
Falkland Islands. It is normal, only requirement is to have permanent residence. It is wide open, any type of study...
> Your parents should've taught you those things, and if they didn't do that they failed you.

Please be charitable. Your comment is unnecessarily mean. Unless you know the commenter personally, I don't think anyone can diagnose the commenter's upbringing from a single Internet comment.
When the state pays, what matters is the ROI to the state. There is a need for teachers, social workers, and people familiar with various cultures, but the market will never pay them well.

Public funding models often have incentives for delivering the degrees the state wants. For example, there could be field-specific quotas for degrees. The university gets paid for each degree up to the quota, but not for exceeding the quota. That can have interesting effects in fields that are popular but in low demand. For example, the acceptance rate to psychology can be as low as 2-3%.
The only time the LLM can be somewhat confident of its answer is when it is reproducing verbatim text from its training set. In any other circumstance, it has no way of knowing if the text it produced is true or not, because fundamentally it only knows if it's a likely completion of its input.
I’ve said it before on HN and I’ll say it again: I don’t support any reform with respect to student loans that doesn’t see the academic institutions participate in the pain. I’d like to see a large number of universities get bankrupted by assuming some portion of the student loan liabilities of their alums, then allow the alums to file bankruptcy if they can’t pay off any remaining balances.

Did you know that federal student loans cannot be discharged via bankruptcy AND if you carry federal student loans into retirement, your social security income can be garnished?
Yup, I try to explain it with shouting a message to someone in a crowded room. You can yell at your boss "I fixed the bug", they can confirm it or ignore you, which is delivery at most once if you don't repeat the message. If you try to repeat the message until they confirm it, it is at least once delivery.

edit: Point is in confirming that message is received. If you don't receive the confirmation the message was delivered at most once.
I've seen this a few times, also. There's hope that the big sale is only another month or two out. More often than not, it never happens. Meanwhile, small sales happen, they trickle in, but nothing that moves the needle. Pretty soon you waste 5 to 10 years.
Not really. Pigs will eat almost anything if they need to. But eating meat is one of the last things they'll eat before starving.
I'm sorry for you loss. Thanks for posting the story - I volunteer with the AT Museum to maintain this site, and it's always nice to hear some of the stories behind the pictures.
> Outside of the Ffx ecosystem, I'm using Brave (today) to test Google products and deal with Google's passive-aggressive hostility to Firefox.

Well said! I do the same.
A primer on different approaches to autonomous software development with AI
the vast majority of employers will not work with you without a degree, its viewed almost equivalently to being a felon.
One reason I already use them as hearing aids is because I use Airpods for phone calls, and it's a lot easier to leave them in than change to my hearing aids. So the question of what they look like doesn't arise.
At least Haskell and OCaml also offer exceptions as alternatives.
And highly palatable means processed foods are easier to consume in large quantities.

So it's not just an issue of chemical composition but how we respond to these foods behaviorally.

A 7.5oz bag of potato chips is made using around 6-8 medium sized potatoes. Eating a whole bag of potato chips in one sitting is frighteningly easy to do. But I challenge anyone to eat 6-8 medium potatoes at once, despite being around the same amount of calories.

Going on a whole foods diet often results in weight loss without any increased hunger sensation.
What is the best format for an investor update that you’ve seen?

Or: what are the main KPIs you’d like to see?
So hallucinations are something like cancer, it will have sooner or later, in another words, it is inevitable.
Yeah, I'm not sure large scale geothermal electrical production will ever be a thing outside some specialized locations like Iceland.

I do think geothermal has a part to play, specifically for heating and cooling of neighbourhoods and multifamily developments. The construction has to move a ton of dirt anyway, so might as well install some ground loops while you're at it. If you're forced to drill due to site conditions, the load is lower than pure electricity generation meaning the wells are not that deep. For private homes it's far too expensive to be much more than a curiosity, but amortized across a whole new neighbourhood or collection of apartment buildings it's very affordable. Especially in northern climates accessing the consistent ground heat source/sink that allows you to run heat pumps at max efficiency all year is a huge win and is a huge amount of electricity you never need to generate in the first place.
And an operating system that's designed for it, because if you want to you can hook up those things now you can cobble something together hooking up those things but to call that experience "desktop like" is mostly held back by how much consideration iOS has put into the concept of a "cursor" designed for clicks. If you hook up a mouse to iOS and want a cursor, you need to turn on some assistive touch accessibility feature to get a circle that's about the size of an index finger tip, with about 10 times the click surface of an ordinary cursor. If you can activate a setting that feels like a hack and get past the bad cursor, only done 2/3 at a given time myself, but I'd imagine if you hook it up to a bigger screen, the resolution probably won't adapt and your cursor will be massive, but you can mirror an iPhone screen to a monitor. As far as using a wireless keyboard though, no issues I've really noted there, behaves like I'd expect a keyboard to, I was surprised when I could CMD-Tab to switch between apps on iOS like a desktop machine, surprised that feature exists in iOS because I don't see how you would invoke that except without an external keyboard, i.e. via touch, so it exceeded my expectations there by supporting that shortcut. If Apple elevated the cursor to less of an afterthought it would open things up a lot more.
0-1x is bad when you could put it in the public markets and double your money every 6 or 7 years with much less risk.
Sorry ABB from Sweden/Switzerland. It was one of the competing crane companies in the report, Liebherr, that has factories in Germany.
And I wrote this as a knee-jerk reaction after reading the parent, I imagine people will be putting way more effort if it can get them a great job. And to be honest, if they can fool you, they can most likely do the job as well. Most of the industry tests at a higher skill level than what they actually require on the day to day anyway.
I imagine at some point you’ll be able to take your phone to any screen and use it as a desktop computer. Obviously there are a lot of UI differences for touch vs keyboard interfaces, but it feels like that’s going to be the future at some point.
POC for an async notification task in Go
It's almost inspiring, isn't it?
This source strongly suggests that the original claim is not true. I don't understand exactly what the X axis is meant to be, but if we assume the 2012 number is meant to represent 2009 graduates, it seems incredibly unlikely that the median graduate has made no progress after 12 years if ~62% of them began making progress after 3 years.

(Can you come up with a story where the two numbers might be consistent? Probably, yeah. Thus the impracticality of disproving weird conditional statistics like this.)
Almost 60% of U.S. undergraduate students take out either federal or private loans and there are 5x as many undergraduate students as graduate students in the U.S.

For those downvoting:
54% of US graduate students take out student loans, while around 55% of US undergraduate students take out loans. The average undergraduate student loan debt is around $29000, while the average debt for graduate school borrowers is $71000. Given that there are five times as many undergraduate students as graduate students and given that a greater number of undergraduate students take out loans, the average graduate school debt would have to be nearly $150k to be greater than the undergraduate debt.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/student-loans/avera...

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/student-loans/average-student...

https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/money/average-student-lo...

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/student-loans/avera...
Sam Altman "would make OpenAI a more traditional for-profit company"
Except for anything more production quality, one needs to lean on third party crates to compose errors without explicitly write tons of boilerplate composing result types.

Something that should be supported directly.
You're correct except for one word: "lucrative".

To this day, almost two decades after I left my philosophy PhD program (without a PhD), I still have massive student loan debt.

Even if I had completed my degree, though, philosophy PhDs aren't particularly lucrative. Tenured professors at major universities do ok, but the road to getting tenure-track jobs and then tenure is littered with the bodies of grad students.

I don't think starry-eyed 21 year olds deciding what to do are much different from starry-eyed 17 year olds deciding what to do.

It's worth noting, by the way, that the United States has a shortage of medical doctors.
Fair: A Go library for serving resources fairly
It should be part of every AI related story on the news. Just like they keep saying "X, formerly Twitter".
I find this "falsehoods programmers believe" format of making pointed claims that you intentionally don't clarify to be unhelpful and obnoxious
Incomes must go up.
Everyone says Chrome devastates Mac battery life, but does it? 36 hour test
TypeScript for Tiny IoT Devices (ESP32, RP2040,)
kdb is mentioned. Possible it was added after your comment in the last 30 mins, but the article is about open source not proprietary.