skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The relevant bit of the article:

>The Court of Justice said Google’s practice of favoring its own shopping search results over rival services “was discriminatory.” The ruling can't be appealed.

>Judges said that EU law forbids behavior that prevents “the maintenance or growth of competition in a market in which the degree of competition is already weakened, precisely because of the presence of one or more undertakings in a dominant position.”
> Writing good software

Unfortunately, market pays mostly for CRUDs with various styles of APIs on top.
You Google a restaurant that appears to be open. You go there, and you find that the restaurant is no longer there.

Did Google "hallucinate" a restaurant? Because this is no different.
sorry, I work in game development so whenever we hit something that doesn't happen every time we call it RNG for fun
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Thank you everyone (all sibling posts) ! Very useful information
It would also be a fun experiment to write, fsync, cut power. Rinse and repeat. On differential drives. It would quickly show which drives are lying about syncing.
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AKA how the Nintendo Switch prevents firmware downgrades - https://medium.com/hackernoon/how-the-nintendo-switch-preven...
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41498377
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I can't wait for someone to make a 3d-printable version of this. I would totally print out a 20cm tall version of this to use as a food serving platform on my dinner table!
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There's really no "right or wrong" per se -- the question that's really being asked is "to what extent does it resonate with a person?"
Right. Out of curiosity I looked into what code gperf generates and it seems it would end up O(1) for misses (it's always three lookups into a generated table) and O(L) for hits, as a potential hit has to be confirmed by essentially a strcmp. Not sure how something like https://github.com/rust-phf/rust-phf would work, but probably similar?
To prevent ignoring other agencies/laws the FAA does not issue a launch permit unless the other agencies/laws are satisfied. Otherwise people would just do what the FAA directly regulates and ignore the rest and get a launch permit.
I won't use any version control system that doesn't let me stage individual changes in files. Staging entire files at once is just wrong.
Well of course, Windows XP is a direct decedent of Windows NT. Maybe you are referring to Citrix or Terminal Server, which are also Windows NT technologies.
> "Businesses today are in the midst of an AI transformation — one that promises to be as big or bigger than the internet, mobile, cloud, and other major technology shifts of the past century."

It's hyperbole like this that makes me a constant skeptic.
Relatedly, it is hard to understand how operating Google Code in a manner “never trying to win”, “not trying to make money, or whatever” and “just to prevent … a monoculture” was in the best interests of Google the corporation and its shareholders
Not much different. Except that there's a dumb thing that humans are doing which is giving weight to the magic brainy computers.
I play the single media file. Once the player is in "idle" or "stopped" instead of "playing" or "paused" the TV is turned off.
Thanks that explanation makes sense to me!
“Completely autonomous self-driving cars next year”, — every self-driving startup CEO in 2015. As someone said in the comments above, it’s a miserable way of life, but I’m still very pessimistic about this extrapolation.
This was my thinking, yeah; been playing too much Hearthstone lately so I had RNG on my mind o_o
It's the free users who want open source virtue signaling. Then hopefully you convert some of them to paying customers because the software is so good.
https://www.wired.com/1997/01/did-gates-really-say-640k-is-e...
Max Verstappen damns his 'undriveable monster' – how bad is it really?
I'm guessing the answer to this question is no, but... for an irrational number like pi, can we guarantee that a certain digit sequence will occur somewhere in its infinite reaches?

That would be a wildly impractical but very fun way to encode information - if everybody had a couple of petabytes of pi on their harddrive one day, you could just send the starting and ending digit to communicate an arbitrary amount of information this way.

Of course you'd first have to search through the whole universe of digits to find a sequence that's just right.
That's not what the GP is arguing, though
So the motivation behind this project primarily is humongous monorepos that git can't handle? Are such huge monorepos a good idea in the first place? The idea behind the monorepo is that you don't have to wait for changes in a dependency to integrate — as soon as the change is checked into the dependency it is available to you. But this also means it is easy for a commit into a dependency to break a lot of downstream projects as it is not possible for the person maintaining the dependency to test all the dependent projects, unless it is acceptable to rely solely on test automation. It would be better for the owners of the dependent projects to decide when to take the new version of the dependency, after thorough testing.
How does the shipping support work? Is it easy to add plugins for different shipping companies?
So it's about a lack of visual or smell input?

Because GPT-4o already can tell what is on images, so it is able to recognize a rose, and of course it has seen many images of roses.

It doesn't have the data for the odor, but it seems like arbitrary thing to train it with, for it to have a representation of the odor.

Would you consider GPT-4o to truly understand what a rose? And what if it was also trained on odor data?
Why start a company to make this product? Why not go work at one of the existing chip manufacturers? You'd learn a ton, get to design and work on HW and/or SW, and not have to do the million other things required to start a company.
What are you talking about? They knew or should have known they would need these permits for years. ESGHound pointed it out years ago. This isn't a surprise that was dropped on them. Every other launch facility somehow managed to do it without any significant problems.
oversimplified you can think of it as

Ireland is required to collect the taxes it always should have collected

(but waved to get a competitive advantage for attracting tech giants and giving them in turn a competitive advantage over EU based competition)

as a side note tax benefits to attract companies aren't perse illegal but what Ireland did went far beyond what is healthy/acceptable for the EU
As I only play a single media file every time the script waits for the player going from "playing" to "stopped".
No city has enough space for all the roads everybody need to get everywhere by car. You'd pave the entire city and it would still not be enough.

But, of course, the people saying "better streets would only make people drive more" are stupid. It's just that the people insisting one can do everything by car are also stupid.
You're stuck on a problem. You grab a random comic book from the shelf and something that is written in the comic book sparks your solution in your head.

How intelligent is the comic book? Is it hallucinating or being correct or what?

The answer is none of those things, right? YOU did the thinking. Not the inanimate object; what it did was a happy coincidence.
Seems like an approach that is superficially similar in architecture to what Google uses:

Piper <-> Mononoke

CitC <-> EdenFS

Obviously, the immense scale of these companies constrains the possible solutions. I would be interested to know what design decisions are different between them.
I guess it does to you.
Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks[1] presents pretty clear argument for why this is a terrible idea.

[1] https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250074317/automatinginequ...
I went so far into this rabbit hole I've come to regard depending on anything but the Linux kernel as unacceptable.

To that end I created a freestanding C programming system of sorts. My own libc, essentially. Without all the legacy of C like errno and locales, and with no portability requirements. Then I implemented a lisp interpreter on top of it. I needed to implement some ELF stuff and eventually I realized I was recreating the linker well. I suppose that'll be the foundation of the lisp's foreign interface.

It's in my plans to create a freestanding Linux VFS for SQLite and integrate the database directly into the system as a module. I'll also try porting libsodium at some point, I'm not smart enough to roll my own cryptography.

Some day before I die I will complete it.
This is just false. They don't have a permit to discharge water.
We’ll see how long does it take the US to develop an immune response to this kind of threat.

It seems Brazil and Germany are ahead on that one. Germany could have noticed the pattern sooner, as it has previous experience with similar situations.
Caveat: Google Fonts, and by extension Fontsource which mostly just mirrors Googles files, strips out nearly all of the advanced OpenType features to reduce the filesize. It's worth checking the upstream version of your font to see which features it actually offers.

e.g. Wakamai Fondue lists 11 features for Googles version of Inter (some essential ones plus fractions, tabular numbers, numerators, denominators and contextual alts), while the full fat version of Inter has a whopping 44 features (too many to list, see https://rsms.me/inter/).
1/7 humans live there and many are perfectly happy with it. A lot of the ones working in our field have better career prospects abroad. It's an interesting country, go and see for yourself!
We can empirically test if hallucination is a good word for communicating this concept, by checking if people describe(d) that as a hallucination (they don't).

This is all IMHO, I'm not trying to be difficult or nitpick, I just don't understand the idea as communicated. As applied to LLMs, it sounds like hallucination == could be wrong, and this Google example seems further away even when steel-manning, ex. we don't say all Google results are hallucinated.
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Having seen / used / etc similar things: yes I fully agree.

For people who already know the code well, it can catch things you didn't think about, and that's kinda nice. I suspect it has cost me/my team more time on wild goose chases than it has saved on real findings, but it might still be worth it.

For others, I've seen it constantly mislead people, and convince them to make changes that look reasonable but lead to the PR being incorrect. Over and over and over. And the "look reasonable" part is particularly dangerous during code reviews - reviewers are less careful about things that look reasonable, that's a relatively normal and unavoidable thing for humans even though it's incorrect.

When it's exposed to everyone, there's a pressure to follow and trust it, like existing linters. Private use is less bad, but still risky due to the plausible-change-review-negligence issue.

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Also PR descriptions in particular are borderline useless when written from an LLM, because they just summarize the changes (or mislead summary-readers about the change, when incorrect). So you're just littering your commit history with the equivalent of auto-generated blogspam. No thanks.
Right. And I totally understand why the people of Poland would not just blindly assume NATO would keep them safe. Nobody should leave their security to others.

It’s just strange to me when people act like it isn’t a huge part of the calculus, or that invading a NATO nation is an obvious next move for Russia, when 70 years of history indicates otherwise.
Yeah, I just get the unlimited plan. I've had this for ages. When I've wanted to tether, I've tethered. Two button presses.
The Essence of Apache Kafka
There really is no ethical or moral defense for natural diamond mining. When presented with the human and environmental impact, one’s response is pretty informative of their character and motivations.
This is a very cool and helpful tool. How do you keep up with the massive amounts of nuances in all these rules that seem to change like clockwork though?
Great article that is largely on point. I find it funny that it ends with a bit about how the Windows UI might kill off the Windows OS.

Predicting the imminent demise of Windows is as common, and accurate, of a take as saying this is the year of Linux on the desktop or that Linux takes over PC gaming.
Such numbers are called "normal numbers". Pi likely is one based on all the digits we've computed for it, but we don't have any way to prove a given number like pi is normal or not.

Relevant Numberphile video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TkIe60y2GI
All that training data would make even grep look smart. I'm just glad those magical forest creatures made the data in the first place.
For what it's worth, UTF-8 didn't exist when UTF-16/UCS2 was created. I'm sure Windows, JavaScript and a lot of other things would be very different if UTF-8 came first.

Aside: a bit irksome how left out cp-437 is in a lot of internationalization/character tools. PC-DOS / US was a large base of a lot of software/compatibility.
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SE is not glued inside like newer models and it is easy to work on. New battery set with tools is only $9 on Ali.
> Bullshitting implies knowing that you're lying.

Harry Frankfurt had a more useful definition of bullshitting. The essence of it is that while liars care about the truth and intend to deceive, bullshitters don't know or care about the truth - they want to impress, or avoid looking stupid, or something similar.

Hallucination is clearly the wrong word here, as is lying. Bullshitting isn't much better. Confabulation, however, is very close to what LLMs are doing when they make up stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation
Why would those need to be red?
GPU Purses at New York Fashion Week
I don't understand why this is Apple's fine and not Ireland's?
We started using content hash addressing with our assets build system (i.e. combining CSS & JS into a single URL), so that we'd get maximum cache life without needing to artificially manage cache busting query strings.

The more substantial use now though, is for the "content" of the site (purchasable ebooks/etc and associated artwork) which is constantly growing and occasionally old content gets updated with newer editions/revisions. We use content hashing to actually store the files (free de-duplication) and obviously it then gives us the same caching benefits.
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In manufacturing, quality control teams will often need to 'balloon' or 'bubble' inspection drawings so that each feature on a part can be inspected. They then need to have these features and tolerances listed for first article inspection (FAI) reports and data collection.

This involves using specialized QC software, which is often expensive, or using a PDF editor, which is time consuming and repetitive.

Balloonist is an affordable alternative which helps streamline the process.

My hope is that balloonist might be beneficial for smaller machine shops and jobs shops that need an alternative to using a PDF editor, but my not have the budget for or the need a full fledged QC suite.

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They are in a strange position, but I don't think they are going the way of Sega right now. The market is very different now than it was at that time.

We are applying the status quo as the only possible way to run game consoles when that doesn't have to be true. AMD and Nvidia compete just fine on the merits of their hardware alone without exclusive games.

Even Sony is realizing that they can't only publish on their own consoles. What Microsoft is doing now with Playstation they have already been doing for quite some time already with their games launching day one also on PC.

We also can't ignore that the need for the console is changing with things like xcloud (which runs Xbox hardware on blades, so it gives them incentive to continue making xbox hardware that can both ship as a home console and in blades). xCloud you can even use without any extra hardware (other than a controller) right on your TV with Samsung.

Obviously xCloud isn't going to be the solution for everyone. But we can't apply how things previously worked to how Xbox is trying to just have a different business model. And it isn't anything new with the ABK acquisition. It is continuing what they have already been doing.
This! We also discovered out teeny tiny local library has a movie section. Each time I feel like a kid in a video store from the 90’s!
You can even book a title on their webapp and pick it up when available, it really feels great.

Having offline and finite media consumption feels much more satisfying than the modern endless scrolling IMHO.
No, not a bug.

We don't have an app or an interface - it's just, as you say, a filesystem and there aren't any real guardrails. If your source files are 0000 and you 'rsync -a' you will achieve just that.

As for the original thought experiment, a one way chute for information that you can retrieve out of band is kind of interesting ... so Mallory can't gain anything with your credentials because you intentionally mis-wrote your backups but, of course, you could still formally attest your identity and retrieve them from (whatever organization).

Again, just a thought experiment.
I think of it like speech synthesizers. First they were their own machines, then cards you plug into a computer, then once people figured out how to mash human speech together, they were, in some cases, a good 1.5 GB. Now, Siri voices, which are tons better than the concatinative models, used with the VoiceOver screen reader are a good 70 MB, Google TTS, even though it's awful and laggy with TalkBack, offline voices are a good 30 MB for a language pack, and in iOS 18, we can use our own voices as VoiceOver voices. So I think eventually we'll figure out how to run amazing AI stuff, even better than today, on our devices. And I think tons more people are working on LLM's than were ever working on TTS systems.
No, it's possible on modern phone screens. My Pixel 8 Pro has Victus 2 (AFAIK), which scratched very easily from fingernails alone.
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Drinking contaminated water to show it is safe is such a bad trope and doesn't prove anything; it's just the sort of stunt Musk would love to pull and we just may see it.
People are just now catching on that Google services always fold and leave you hanging. Your comment is insightful. You're ahead of the curve predicting that eventually non-Google services will screw you too.

Whats the solution? Is the future self hosted? Making it accessible for non-technical people?
For VC funded startups, I would imagine sec 174 is less bad. For bootstrapping, I just can't imagine how to make it work. A Canadian company can hire globally without the craziness of this amortization too.
as a designer by education, this level of font control for web is delusional. and mostly a waste of time (both for the designers and the users receiving on unexpected screen ratios/resolutions/tech/era/etc and getting a worse experience if the designers hadn't wasted the time)

this brings me bad memories from the time websites were done by "desktop publishing" designers and html was crafted "pixel perfect" (with tables)

thankfully I can easily be a curmudgeon and just set all sites to use my favorite fixed width font and disable the designers choice with one checkbox on firefox.
>The federal and state governments aren't paying to maintain your neighborhood.

That might be true in your state, but at least in Michigan it goes into a huge pot which is then redistributed to counties/cities. https://www.rcocweb.org/DocumentCenter/View/188/A-Guide-to-R...

>If these mega corps don't operate in your city, they aren't contributing to it financially in any way.

But by your own admission they contribute at least a portion of the budget for local schools? I'm sure state and federal funding ends up at the city level through a multitude of other programs as well (eg. medicaid). Moreover, such companies have to exist somewhere. Your city might not have an office of megacorp A, but it might have an office for megacorp B. That doesn't mean you should only buy stuff from megacorp B, because it's more efficient for companies to consolidate their operations and adopting this attitude would make everyone worse off.
How do you handle shipping price calculations? Is that also a feature in Stripe's Product Catalogue?
Congrats, always cool to see YC founders working on silicon!
Why do you like monopolies? GitHub is already abusing its position by refusing to let me have an account without SMS verification, and refusing to let me delete my account without SMS verification.
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As they said though, the hash function on a string type requires looking at every element in the string. Also, modulo is historically very slow. So, they still have to deal with O(n) operations, where n is the length of the input string. If they can improve the memory hopping problem associated with lists / graph structures (which they claim to have done in their library), then a trie could would be much fast enough, which is what they observed. Combined with the fact that they claim that 90% of the time there is a miss when querying the trie, then you exit early a lot, whereas you always need to compute the whole hash on the input string when doing the hash map strategy.
I think we're all having different experiences and conversations with LLMs, and sometimes framing them purely as "statistical word generators" or expecting them to function like AI in the traditional sense of automated problem-solving might not capture the whole picture.

Like many in this community, I use LLMs daily. My main use case now isn’t software development but rather getting assistance in connecting concepts that I don’t know precisely, guided by my intent. In some ways, it's more akin to "out-of-the-box thinking" but with a tool that helps me explore ideas I might not reach on my own or suffer within the economy of search [1][2]. I might know something about X, Y, and Z, but there's a concept W that ties them all together. Without using W, people in that field might not grasp the connections between X, Y, and Z. Apologies for the abstraction here. I suppose it's my epistemological bias showing!

Even if LLMs don't precisely connect the dots, they help my brain connect them faster.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_theory

[2] https://www.di.ens.fr/~lelarge/soc/varian2.pdf