skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The virtual world parts such as video and 3d, and plausible physics, I think we are going to do as well as image/audio/text within the next 10 years. Maybe even 5. These things primarily need to be believable and mostly-not-directly-wrong to serve a lot of usecases. And the way to get it to that level seems to be "just train it on Internet scale amounts of data".

Whether we will really have cracked the physical world connections, of physics, genetics, etc that we can use it to make physical products, changes etc I am less sure. Many usecases like medicine require not just correctness, but also a degree of verifiability. It is being worked on a lot, with many promising results. But the just-scale-the-training data strategy seems less viable here, both because relevant data is less prevalent and may not give the level of correctness.
Human language is precise. Equal parts green and blue is the technical definition of cyan. Why are you imposing an erroneously calibrated device upon the whole of human language? Cyan doesn't stop being cyan just because your monitor is broken.
> was there, working on it, when it was 4 of us :)

raises eyebrow

When there were 4 of you?

So about $800k a year for that time period?

Just out of interest?
Wonder why now, maybe the EU asked them to take X off the App Store
Google loses EU court battle over €2.4B antitrust fine
You will find them in any fast spelling or grammar verifier.
> # If you can fit your problem in memory, it’s probably trivial.

A popular fallacy among some distributed systems engineers.

It's not at all trivial, it's just in a complementary domain of problems to be tackled. The fallacy easily leads to a situation where you need a 100-cluster machine to do the work that proper optimization would let you do on a single machine.
There’s a third party crate for this. C++’s STL also doesn’t have it by default.

The creation-order-preserving hash map is basically two data structures in one, it’s more complex and slower than a normal hash map, and IMO it’s rather bizarre and I have never really understood why anyone wants one.
Shortages are more endemic. I would suspect the issue is more prevalent in rural areas. Temp or travel nurses probably fill the gap until permanent positions can be filled.
Verbosec Tools
Honestly Poland already has a sever labor shortage and the natives have one of the worst birth rates of Europe[1]. This is actually one of the major sources of domestic inflation compared to the European block. If not for the inflow of Ukrainians labor shortages would cripple the economy, much more the growth. Also the newer generation is very very different from the older ones, even Millenials->GenZ, but this I have good hopes.

Even so i disagree with the article author that claims Poland has not left the middle income trap. On the contrary, with the recent huge increases in minimum wage and still strong dependency on manufacturing, the moment to check is actually now. Of course there is a lot of inertia in DFI but in my surroundings I hear of big corporations leaving for cheaper places. Volvo for example just left and 3M will have a local restructuring. There has been an inflection point on IT wages a well. Maybe it is a blip, but I think there is reason to worry.

All in all, Poland is a great place to live, and you kind of can see progress as time goes by. Something that cannot be said of many other developed places.

[1] https://notesfrompoland.com/2024/02/01/births-drop-to-new-po...
No!

Look instead to Skylanders. You need to make a 3d printed avatar for each movie with an NFC antenna in the base.
Terrible article. The author does not understand how LLMs work basically, since an LMM cares a lot about the semantic meaning of a token, this thing about the next word probability is so dumb that we can use it as "fake AI expert" detector.
I would imagine most of the wash away is not close to the exhaust, but down slope, mainly consisting of construction, maintenance, and vehicle activities.
Watch out, they may call you the problem when they're accidentally talking about themselves...

It's very bad and one can simply look through the Discourse and GitHub issues from earlier this year to discover the full extent of the problem. Watch how they turn a security issue into PR now, this is just a microcosm of the dishonesty.
I don't understand how someone could believe this in 2024, it's extremely clear that Russia's design for Ukraine was to incorporate it back as a client state at least if not completely annex it. This has been their stated objective from day one of the invasion that they have continued to pursue to today.
Surprising mechanism for removing dead cells identified
I doubt they anyways expect the majority of existing PS5 owners to rush to upgrade. Mid cycle console releases are done for the enthusiast crowd and the holdovers from the last generation.
>> software development has gotten infinitely easier

Software development hasn't even gotten a magnitude easier, let alone infinitely. Every improvement has addressed accidental aspects not the essence.
Not Invented Here Syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
These tools can be accessed via https://tools.verbosec.com
This article is a particularly relevant example of why there's broad support in the US for gutting the national government, eliminating entire departments, cutting those that remain by large percentages, and replacing the nonpartisan experts who somehow survive the cuts with know-nothings who can pass a test of loyalty and ideological purity.

Who is willing to spend 60 to 90 minutes carefully reading 12,450 words, with technical vocabulary like "longwall mining" and "abutment load", with long sentences that contain multiple clauses?

Who has the sustained attention and intellectual curiosity needed to grasp abstract relationships between ideas and complex, multi-layered concepts, such as the tension between safety and profitability, the inherent incentives of market economies, the power imbalance between workers and owners, and the long-term systemic changes resulting from the well financed campaign to blame government and collective action for systemic market failure?

Very few people have the capacity, attention, interest or stamina to thoughtfully read an article like this and understand exactly why the wealthy mine owners wouldn't fix this problem on their own, why the market couldn't fix this problem, why it required deep expertise from a government worker to fix this problem.

It's far easier to simply parrot the idea that government is the problem, that corporations need less regulation, that tax cuts for the insanely wealthy will magically trickle down to workers, that our many serious problems can be solved by concentrating migrants and homeless in camps, that protesters should be imprisoned or killed, that democratic elections are fraudulent, that only a strongman ruler can fix it.
How do I get started on m1?
Now I want the version with a hidden camera and machine vision so it can follow me around like an obedient puppy.

“Be back in a few hun, just taking the table for a walk.”
I read about the Rohonc Codex and it seems that most people agree that it's a hoax, the language itself doesn't seem to share the statistical property of a real language it seems, Rohonc Codex is the level of sophistication that I would expect from a hoax, the Voynich manuscript is much more than that.
Effecience is NOT a goal. I want my computers ready when I want to do something. If you want effecency we should put them in universities only and make sure there is always a line of people waiting for their turn.

i want inefficient so that if I feel like a large calculation I have one ready at hand.
I'm not a fan of their website's aesthetic. Looks like they let the devs do it without hiring an artist.
True, starting a process and waiting until all its threads complete is a pain on Linux but I don’t remember it being less painful on Windows (although the last time I tried that on Windows was with Windows 2000).
Really they should charge more when it is colder out. What's the point of a free market if it can't respond to consumer demand? Our ChargeTooshie seat warmer uses our comprehensive 5g wiretapping network and innovative AI to provide drivers the absolute maximum value that they can afford. With ChargeTooshie, drivers can be assured that they will not freeze to death, because we now accept credit!
Chrome ends support for First Input Delay
Use case would normally be a small form factor x86_64 machine which can be price competitive with high end AP hardware and you don't have to play the game of finding compatible hardware (squatting in the aisle in a walmart looking at the hardware revisions of all of the APs they have in stock finding out that they have the AP you were looking for but the hardware revision was incompatible)

Being able to buy a "normal" computer and install tomato on it is a more attractive prospect for a lot of reasons.
Among all the other great things, I found the bit about how cathedrals were built by trial and error really interesting. It had never occurred to me that operating on that timescale you could make changes from one bay to the next based on how the first one was reacting.
He Was Lured by a Promising Job, but Was Forced to Scam People
Based on what calculation?
My wallet and battery life thank Nintendo for these compromises.
That's the mantra of this current LLM era
I think there's a distinction here because there's very tangible output from gen AI (content) and we can see it getting better, more advanced, more capable, and more realistic.

The applications are obvious: film making, content creation, teaching, etc. This is in contrast to crypto which was/is quite abstract (as is money in the first place) and the metaverse which required investing hundreds of dollars in specialized hardware.

In contrast, our world is surrounded by visual content so the applications and utility of gen AI seems far more obvious for the layperson.
Q* will have this
I don't believe that executable configuration languages are a good fit at a primary configuration source, I would prefer to have them spit out static config before use. From your list KCL fits that bill (and is a really nice config language).
Blood would probably be a better one.
As with all these discussions: accountability and consequence.

We can point at a media company, call out its vested interests, scream about its bias, protest in front of its office, sue it for slander and misrepresentation. We can call out individual personalities the same way. We can strive to drive the companies out of business and the personalities out of work, if we deem it necessary, and we can accumulate a paper trail that holds each one to account.

As neither individuals nor corporate entities, algorithms do not yet carry this kind of legal or public accountability even as we some start to hold them up as oracles. In most cases, failures of an algorithm are treated simply as bugs or user mistakes. Nobody is responsible for anything bad and the so the algorithm can persist and its vendor can shrug off their own responsibility by gesturing towards an perpetual development process instead of accepting consequence: "we work to make the algorithm better every day, try again tomorrow!"
> The reasoning for this is that the player experience is greatly hindered by searching up answers to problems found in a game.

This is an interesting statement to me, and I think the truth of it is debatable. It's certainly true if you're only looking at a specific sort of player experience, but there are other sorts of experiences some people want which is greatly enhanced by the use of reference material.

Why would a game designer want to reduce the appeal of their game to those sorts of players? Players who want the "pure" game experience can simply not look things up on the wiki.

Surely, in the end, game designers want to make games that are fun and engaging, so if the use of a wiki makes a game more fun and engaging to some, why would a game designer object to that?
My experience with RR is that the chance of it working without hitting a missing syscall or desync is only about 50%, which is why I want a different solution that doesn't rely on the fragile syscall recording approach.
Do you mean contributed in a negative way, because subsurface mining had to compete on cost with strip mines?

From the article it appears to me that the mines still stayed somewhat viable despite the added safety, and were mainly lacking a mechanism (=> the regulator) to have everyone prioritize worker safety sufficiently at first...
What's ironic is that the escrow account is now lesser because they used that money to buy eurozone government bonds which have since fallen.

From https://www.ft.com/content/d6b7d0fd-a41b-45a9-a830-9cacb10c5...

> The total in the account has fallen from the original €14.3bn set aside in 2018, as the money was invested in eurozone government bonds, which have dropped in value.
Yep. Major turn off. I do not buy, unless forced.

Just have no need for the hassles.
Windows is no different. Next time you're in front of Terminal, try:

cd HKCU:\SOFTWARE

You're now browsing the registry and can use terminal commands.
Oh yes, I'm sure there are. I maintain a few; none are ultra-popular but some are kind-of-popular. And I am sure that others have had this sentiment before and wrote something which others now rely on, without being particularly passionate about continued development of that thing. And it becomes like a chore which you know is important to many people rather than just one or two.
As far as I'm aware, there really aren't any firm theories, it's just a completely baffling artifact. Based on dating, it's (probably) not a forgery. It's an incredible amount of effort for the time to be just some person's fancy. There just doesn't seem to be even a theory that fits all the evidence. It's truly bizarre. I love it.
I also believe that. People locally are quite more wary understandably so, given history, but I also believe Poland, a EU and NATO country would not be invaded as lightly. Even from the logistical point of view, Poland has borders with many friendly countries and shipments of weapons and personnel would be to easy for the relatively weak Russian conventional forces. All this unless a Ribbentrop-Molotov happens again but I dont see it.
I highly doubt you can build a PC that performs better in games than the PS5 Pro for $700. That is a very low price when a $300 RTX 4060 will be a slower GPU than what the PS5 Pro will have. Not to mention that consoles generally are more efficient, and have better visuals at a given compute level, than running games in a general-purpose OS.
Start here: https://ollama.com/download
Microsoft was upfront that they didn’t think a mid-gen price cut was in the cards, so here’s the series s, it’s what we can do and we’ll do it right now, etc.

They were right and not only have prices not really come down, but in some ways they’ve increased.

The unfortunate consequences of a post-Moores law reality. Like yeah nothing is getting 2x better for the same price even every 3-4 years anymore. Your expectations based on past history will no longer hold true, and this has been clear for a number of years now.

You can’t make a gamer understand something when his wallet depends on him not understanding it. People have been in active denial for years, in ways that have crossed into objective denial of reality. The "AMD is just choosing to join NVIDIA and gouge!" stuff has been joined by "and sony is in on it too!" etc. Yes, corporations suck but the margins are not actually very fat here, this is just what it costs now.
> But you don't have to be very smart to outsmart other animals.

Of course you do. You are not competitive with a cave lion. You are slow and weak. Your hearing is poor. Your sense of smell is poor. Your night vision is poor.

You will die.

> For instance you don't need mathematics.

Of course you do. If three lions enter a cave and only two come out, you need the memory and the mathematics to work out that there's still one in there.

If you don't count right you will die.
sure, you can put it that way
Sure! https://thegradient.pub/othello/
"Assume Pi is 1" is such a great conversation starter!

https://www.xkcd.com/2205/
I actually agree with this in practice. OSS purists might argue that AGPL and non-compete source-available licenses are fundamentally different, with the former being OSI-approved, but in reality -- at least in business -- they're used to serve the same purpose: to give the author an unfair advantage. And that's totally fine -- I'm all for unfair advantages in business. But the distinction between these licenses is blurrier than the OSI would like to admit, yet they insist it's a crystal clear line. /rant
Given your (default) backend is ChatGPT, how is it a ChatGTP alternative?
There is also this fun novel series I read some of as a teenager:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Midshipman_Easy
XBox is in a strange position, there are rumours of a next generation console, but I don't believe it matters.

Microsoft has been behaving as if XBox has become an umbrella brand for Microsoft Game Studios, after ABK acquisition.

They are going the way of SEGA, regardless how much Phil Spencer says they aren't.
> Only because they are underpowered with old hardware.

yes, adversity breeds character. did Star Wars get better when Lucas got unlimited money and green screens?

Having hardware limitations forced devs to scope their vision appropriately and focus on the aspects they actually wanted to emphasize.
I've been waiting for the server-side of things to be open-sourced ever since this announcement.

In the meantime, I've been enjoying jj/jujutsu (https://github.com/martinvonz/jj), which started as a 20% project and has been out (and developed) in the open ever since.

An introduction by Chris Krycho for those familiar with some form of vcs: https://v5.chriskrycho.com/essays/jj-init/

"Jujutsu brings to the table a few key concepts — none of which are themselves novel, but the combination of which is really nice to use in practice:

Changes are distinct from revisions: an idea borrowed from Mercurial, but quite different from Git’s model.
Conflicts are first-class items: an idea borrowed from Pijul and Darcs.
The user interface is not only reasonable but actually really good: an idea borrowed from… literally every VCS other than Git."
Agree.

> It's an expense they rather not have and not enough people complain about the quality

My argument is that there is a positive ROI to this expense that should be apparent to these businesses, despite those benefits being intangible and not being immediate profit.
Disc movies get trashed by children young enough for an NFC system to be appropriate.
Depends on who you are, I'm going to care about which one I'm investing in which is the context I was looking at this from
One time I had the brilliant idea of writing recursive cloud functions, and boom! $4,000 in just a few hours due to a bug.

Luckily, my credit card had a reduced limit, and later Google Cloud forgave the debt as long as I promised not to do it again.
Reminds me of a certain fake watch seller here in Bangkok…
Exactly, that is why the phrase “iPad kid” isn’t a thing that describes a phenomenon.

Calling handing a child a 6” screen “inadequate parenting” and calling handing a child a 9” screen “adequate parenting” is rational because 9 is 6 upside down, which everyone knows means that it’s the opposite
I think that people just have friends who like to take them on vacation - nothing untoward. Just nice friends who do nice things for them. Out of the kindness of their hearts.
Someone should keep track of which streaming service I’m about to need and make sure I have a valid subscription which is subsequently disabled once I don’t need it. For instance I don’t need Peacock except during one half of NASCAR season.
The biggest threat, IMO, is the crashing fertility of the country.
Interesting, I have always noticed a pattern in my social experiments whereby a topic about AI complimented with AI generated content always results in a negative sentiment. Like a feedback loop.
I'm confused as to why you think you can replace all the things in TLS that provide security with some sort of magical SecureConn function. TLS is the secure connection, so much so that your code example is exactly what happens in Golang when you use the TLS library. net.TLS provides a Dial() and a net.Conn implementation.

Your argument seems to be "TLS is bad because it is complicated. We should replace it with something logically equivalent, but better in some way that I have not defined." This is a fundamentally unserious argument, unless you can say what is wrong and what the requirements for a new solution are that are not provided by TLS currently.
AI That Works: How to Build a Youbot
SpaceX did not obtain a permit from the EPA to discharge industrial process water into the ground and therefore did not go through the steps the EPA requires to show that they aren't contaminating the water. I don't know if the tests they ran are reasonable or acceptable to the EPA --- we have expert agencies for a reason --- but in any case are only a part of the permitting process, where I imagine you have to show a number of things like how the contaminants will not build up over time, documenting mitigation and ongoing testing procedures, change processes etc.

It's funny too that apparently it's simultaneously tap water and also water that contains contaminants not found in tap water and that requires testing.
OpenAI plans to release 'Strawberry' for ChatGPT in two weeks
I liked the take that LLMs are bullshitting, not hallucinating.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chatgpt-isnt-hall...
I take it there are languages that are locked to a particular GC, and this is a point of pain and friction? A good garbage collected language would make automated memory management both optional and modular. I recall D having a GC that can be disabled?
Japan to start building first 'zeta-class' supercomputer in 2025
Good point. Nyro uses ChatGPT's API but provides a cheaper, desktop-integrated interface. We're working on additional OS-level features and supporting other AI models too!
Are you affiliated with this project? The account you're posting under was created at about the same time as the article submission, but your text (i.e. "Nice to see the launch post here!") looks like it's crafted to look like you're a long time member that's stumbled across this by coincidence.

Naturally, you might be a "long time reader, first time commenter". Given that multiple clearly associated accounts are already here... I'm sure you can excuse my thinking something is "off" here.
> software development has gotten infinitely easier in recent decades.

I don't agree here. It was way simpler in the 90s. The programmer experience probably peaked around the transition from TUI:s to win32 where you could do either. Different screen resolutions is probably what made programming gui:s suck. And all the churn of Microsoft and Oracle frameworks didn't help.

Nowadays the overhead of making an app that passes procurement is insurmountable. And consumers seem to not buy apps at full price anymore.
Disney Pauses Adaptation of 'The Graveyard Book' Amid Neil Gaiman Allegations
You missed the ole' reliable, temp tables. I always end up using them heavily for non-trivial analytic queries since it gives you so much control over query execution.

In terms of actually using SQL more effectively, I think the ideal is just a small utility to use reflection and map a ResultSet (or equivalent) into a strongly typed object using reflection.

Even inserts can get tricky because there are so many different knobs you can tune. It's pretty rare that people just need to insert into a single table with no additional selects beforehand which means there is room to play around with preemptive locking, isolation level, etc.