skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
clearly her, her friends, and a lot of fans disagreed. and OpenAI didn't hedge their bets on "it didn't sound much like her", so I'm inclined to believe it was the closest.
Taking it a step further, building that infrastructure may contribute somewhat directly to limiting the other resources actual wars are being fought over.

This man needs to get out of his own head.
I wonder whether it's the editing which is still in progress, or also the writing? The publication date seems very close if it's still being written.

(edit-clarity)
It's very eery to sail through a 100 strong fleet of chinese squid ships and seeing them all turn off their AIS as they see you approaching.
Understandable.

I do have some songs I'd like to ensure perpetual availability, but they're few in number enough that I may go buy them separately, but still use Spotify as my main consumption medium.

I've also found that I'm able to both discover and listen to songs in some genres via Spotify that I've historically found difficult to acquire anywhere else.
The Python Package Index Should Get Rid of Its Training Wheels
> That’s really it; humanity discovered an algorithm that could really, truly learn any distribution of data (or really, the underlying “rules” that produce any distribution of data)

So because we have an algorithm to learn any distribution of data, we are now on the verge of the Intelligence Age utopia? What if it just entrenches us in a world built off of the data it was trained on?
I'm potentially in the market for a 3d printer for our office. Mostly for one offs and some prototyping, and we don't necessarily need one but more a wouldn't-it-be-nice kinda thing. The Bambu Lab printers look like they could fit our needs/wants really well, but I'd love to do a bit of compare and contrast before placing an order. Are there any buyer's guides out there you would recommend for hobbyists such as us?
ChatGPT appeared to be messaging users unprompted
I do think deepfakes or anything done to intentially mislead/impersonate should be illegal, yes. Intent is 90% of the law.
> But what you are missing is that a carrier locked phone isn't worthless, it is worth quite a bit. A carrier locked iphone 14 sells for ~$400 on ebay, an unlocked one sells for ~$525.

A reduction in average selling price is a reduction in incentive to steal, full stop. I'm not sure how you can argue with that. I'm not stating it's 100% effective, I'm not stating that it's worth the cost, all I am saying is that it is a disincentive.
Pretty useful for an old phone, pretty annoying on a primary device. I had something similar setup, but as an macro deck.
> and yet, outside of 4K Ultra HD discs, much of what I see on OTA broadcast, cable, satellite and streaming looks pretty awful.

And that's why I keep my grandfathered Netflix 720p subscription. Shitty compression with low resolution vs shitty compression with higher resolution means the same amount of artifacts anyway.
No, sorry. Honestly I spent a long time going to the source of the 3-volume Intel manual. (There's link to them as well in my Readme.) I think that's really what you need to do for machine code, if you're not using Assembly or Assembly-ish that has done that work for you. But then any Assembly language will have its own manual you need to bone up on.. That's mostly why I built SubX: the manual is like 10 pages, and I distilled down the parts of the Intel manual you need to know. But yeah, only for 32-bit. I always found x64 very hacky with the register bits split up between bytes and whatnot. 32-bit is a legitimately nice ergonomic machine.
I still have an Alfred E. Neuman for President bumper sticker somewhere IIRC.

When I was much younger, an older relative was overseas for a year, I used to trace some of the marginal humor (little funny drawings literally in the margin of the magazine pages) on "onion skin" airmail sheets (a thin piece of paper, to minimize weight, that you wrote your message on one side, then folded up into an envelope-size document with Airmail/Par Avion printed on the outside where you wrote the address, can't remember if postage was prepaid or you had to affix stamps). Because it was onion skin, it was semi-transparent which allowed for tracing. He appreciated the effort.
Technical Editor: Brian Goetz - you have my attention...
This is a strange statement. That said debugger also comes with base C# extension, which is free and debugger aside, MIT, in VS Code on all platforms. Xamarin Studio and VS for Mac are deprecated.

Given the confidence of your reply, one would assume you'd know this? Unless it's the exact problem I outlined previously, in which case please consider sharing grievances about something you do use actively instead, rather than what you think are .NET's issues.
There is never a guarantee that a third party part works identically to a first party part regardless of what device you are repairing.

You're saving money, but taking a chance.
Balancing the Need for Speed and Accuracy in LLMs
Parameterized Local Search for Max $C$-Cut
headlines don’t reflect the reality. they’re at worst average reliability-wise. The reason I know you’re talking purely off headlines is because the wet thing was suuuch an obvious rage bait from a software bug
Are there any Mad Magazines of today? Are there some publications that we'll look back on in 20 years and say "that really shaped humor and it's crazy how many interesting people seem to have all read this when they were young?" Are they online?
I think that battle is lost, unfortunately :( In every single team I've ever been a part of, Agile is used exclusively in the Scrumfall sense (I didn't come up with that second term either; it's just what the post-Agile blogosphere calls it).

When I point out that, done this way, it goes against the entire philosophy of the original Agile Manifesto... I just get shrugs. People don't care what it used to mean; when they say it now, they mean the points and ceremonies and masters and the whole ugly shebang. It's not a battle I have the energy to fight.

When a workflow isn't like that, but is just lean & simple on its own, they don't go out of their way to call it Agile or agile, uppercase or lowercase. It's just "a simple workflow" or something like that, or else some explicit other workflow (like Shape Up). I think a lot of folks have been burnt out by Scrumfall and try to practice alternatives.

I've made a point to start asking potential employers how they handle project management. If they say Agile of any sort, I'll assume the worst and just walk away...
Until the hallucination problem is solved, we can't trust LLM-type AIs to do anything on their own. This limits uses to ones where the cost of errors can be imposed on someone else.
yes, and if it became, say, 10-20% squiggles we'd have a different conversation. Those 0.0001% will be fought in court. I think it's obvious which industry I'm referring to.
Ahh... so it's really the family plans that are increasing? Two euro seems fairly trivial.
What about LTT is objectionable?
Because currently models output a stream of tokens directly which are the performance and billing unit. Better models can do a better job at producing reasonable output but there is a limit to what can be done "on the fly".

Some models like openai o1 started employing internal "thinking" tokens which may or may not be equivalent to performing multiple passes with the same or different models but it has a similar effect.

One way to look at it is that if you want better results you have to put more computational resources in thinking. Also, just like humans, a team effort yields better results in producing well rounded results because you combine the strengths and you offset the weaknesses of different team members.

You can technically wrap all this into a single black box and have it converse with you as if it was one single entity that internally uses multiple models to think and cross check etc.
The output is likely not going to be in real-time though and real time conversation was until now a very important feature.

In future we may on one hand relax the real time constraint and accept that for some tasks accuracy is more important than real time results.

Or we may eventually have faster machines or more clever algorithms that may "think" more in shorter amounts of time.

(Or a combination of the two)
It is not that complex. The nice ways to describe UI in code do exist. It is a business problem of a zero-sum game, where cross-platform UI is prohibitively expensive when it’s not done on the ugliest UI stack (HTML/CSS/JS).
By the sound of it you’re a little younger than me. I grew up managing my music collection and growing it as you describe. It was a lot of fun. But it took time in my day that I no longer have between kids and work and whatnot. Finding and listening to good music is still something I enjoy but I don’t have all day to be preoccupied with it, manage metadata, set up a home server to stream it, etc. Spotify is a rounding error in terms of cost for me.

So the decision for me is not between “stream” or “have a personal collection”, it’s “stream” or “don’t have as much music in my life”. I suspect this calculation is similar for most
I was quoted $73.19 from I-solids, just FYI
Why not? People believe in all sorts of weird stuff, theirs just happens to be one you don't agree with. Some people believe there are gods up in the sky that will smite them, and go to war with people that believe in a different god that will smite them for different reasons. Some people believe we landed on the Moon, others do not. What matters is what can you convince others to do based on your rational.
Ask HN: How often do you read Hacker News?
Is reading hackernews part of your daily routine?
Do you do it periodically?
What other tech forums would you suggest?
Thanks, I appreciate that. As much as many people here didn't seem to have read the article or the note I linked, I should've phrased it differently so the context was apparent.
Think of it as your brain "breathing" with the day.
I am more worried about the fact that, these AIs will become the commercial moat of knowledge that we currently have available freely. The quality of knowledge you can now openly find is getting scarce or prominently moving behind paywalls. However, these AI models have access to the same knowledge somehow freely.

Once we start relying on AI for knowledge(see how people frequently just ask few questions, copy paste answers without further in depth knowledge or research, just like the parody stack-overflow copy paste era), it will continue to get locked behind further paywall and will no longer be accessible to general populace without the financial means.

I am just afraid that, while we are too awed by the magic, the magic will eventually close the doors behind us on knowledge and only cater to the rich and powerful.

Also there is that one fact when AI gains adequate power in societal terms of utopian abundance where AI/robots do everything. One day, the AI decides that to save the globe from further climate damage, fastest way is to delete the walking CO2 emission machine who also use other CO2 emission devices or consumes stuff that also generate CO2, a mass extermination and burial will immediately cut all CO2 …
Maybe don't think of it as curves or functions. Just go through an LLM and think about all the things that could be improved. It's a long list once you get into the details. By and large...sota models are:

a) trained on crappy data, including questionable RLHF feedback.
b) trained with questionable embedding layers.
c) trained with questionable loss functions
d) trained with questionable optimizers
e) trained at questionable precision (somewhat related to d)
f) are very big which stops fast iteration around all the above.

It's kinda like semiconductors. You don't have to think of it as a curve - just ask people who are really close to them and they'll have a laundry list of stupid stuff which is currently done and will likely be improved upon over time.
But I don’t have a large enough BT “network”, my zigbee networks spans my house (and entire premise).
The api is still up and they still haven't done anything to remedy this. Like, that should be your first priority, first send an email to your customers apologizing for this and then start working on it.

Yikes.

As one commenter on X(itter) said that the only way this company will think about fixing this is when another competitor who will gather all their customer's details and send emails to them to migrate to their service if they don't want their precious data to leak.
I agree with you. My insurance agent sends me a birthday card, but it's a service they pay for and they likely don't even know it's happening. It's the opposite of a personal touch.
Yes, I'm a bit moralistic about this, you're right. I think eating at a restaurant is a skill that a lot of modern people are not taught. It's not about eating, it is about socializing – unless you're going alone. Portion sizes have nothing to do with it, because you can order more food until you are satisfied.

Or, if money is tight and you really don't want to order more than your main meal, you can always have a bite at home before going out.

It's also possible to train your resistance to hunger, so that you can stand being hungry for 12 hours easy (let's hope service is not that slow). The way to train is to skip your meals during a day and wait until you become extremely hungry. Then just don't eat and after a couple of hours it passes. Do this three times on different occasions and after that you are trained for the rest of your life, and will never again become frustrated or desperate because of hunger.
Interesting article. It does include the word "scrutineering" which I found amazing. Is this F1 jargon? I haven't followed F1 since the year Nigel Mansell and Ricardo Patrasi came in 1-2 almost every race.
Checksums! Bah, I used to have to code uphill both ways in the snow, and I liked it!
I am thinking about picking up a shield as a client in a similar setup. If you're using subtitles -- does the shield handle them well? That's the part that keeps breaking in the native TV client.
Rear Projection TV History: The Giant Screen Nobody Wants Anymore
I wonder if computers have (will?) replaced pens in schools?
I agree with you. Hence why I’m saying this supposed statement by Apple isn’t really saying anything. They’ll allow it to work, but probably none of them will actually support True Tone since they don’t know what proprietary secrets Apple has for their displays. Not really apples problem.
I did a lot of paper crafts with that wide format paper that one of my parents brought home from work pre-recycling. There was a certain thing I liked to make where the aspect ratio of the sheets was just perfect. That paper had neat green and white stripes on it too.
Unlike Linux, Windows and etc. I don't think even GPU makers can provide their own implementation of Vulkan there - only Apple can do that. And they refuse. So it can be considered a deliberate blocking.
The article says they also valued them 10% higher, meaning they would have been willing to pay 10% more for something which gave them no actual additional value. (although I don't know if the conclusion that sleeping on it made them better at evaluation, or simply more forgetful of what made them different causing a regression to the mean, which also just happened to align with the study design)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3nWw8qSYgk

Were you inspired by this guy who also made the same clock?
I’m not sure why you’d assume that rather than the inverse. The house is set to fit a certain number of square feet based on economic concerns (heating and cooling costs primarily), then the ordinances on setback and separation come into play, then the very clear rectangle that results is your starting point for interior planning.
Edit: the vulkan-based system I was thinking of is datovis
F# is great, but what toolchain is your favorite? (i'm in a Rust phase as an old C person for work the last couple years, so am out of date with F#'s world)
My mower?

The east coast really is 50 years behind...
I always sleep on big decisions, but I also can't think of any instance in which I changed my mind after sleeping on it
One criticism of Bambu that I've heard is that sending prints over the network requires the public internet, which is not true with Prusa, which can do local-only network printing.
RSS feed via MiniFlux, and aggressively filter. I can't read it all, I try not to stay in my bubble, but I only have so much time on this planet.

Kinda like how I check whether a post (like this one) merits a response: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/do-they-deserve-the-gift-of-y...
It has been awesome working with him.

There are few things as intimidating as having the Java language architect review your book on Java (haha). It's a much, much better book thanks to his involvement.
For people who're not aware: "Brian Goetz is a Java Language Architect at Oracle." (from the linked page.)
what is the next step? Not allowing the sale of cars without remote shutdown switch? something else?
Which is pretty exciting

https://inl.gov/news/going-digital-idaho-students-engineers-...
Congrats on launching the early access! I'm familiar with data-oriented programming from Clojure and F#, and I'm interested in seeing how you approach it in Java, so I just picked up a copy (ebook). Wish you all the best on completing the book!
The 2^120 Ways to Ensure Unique Identifiers (2015)
Harper – The Grammar Checker for Developers
>they are mostly in satire

Satire is one of the few use cases of fair use that hasn't been torn down. So that tracks.

> there is yet to be a case where there was a litigation over this or prior approval needed.

There's quite a few over impersonation. Most broadcast media knows how to skirt the rules though.
We've had the capability to feed the entire planet for decades now, and yet, a large portion is underfed. Even if Sam's wildest dreams come true, this sounds like another "divide the world into haves and have-nots". One way to justify this unethical view is to consider that his audience was a set of target customers, rather than "people in the world". IOW, this was just fancy marketing fluff.
I feel so out of place when interviewing for firmware/embedded roles and the interviewers turn out to be java snobs. I honestly still have a hard time comprehending the situation; how does it come to this? Thanks for your insight
Jevons Paradox says that's not the direction it'll go in.
A timeline:

- The MS Debugger was use in Rider - thus was perfectly functional from a technical perspective.

- It was later discovered that the license was proprietary, allowed only for MS products. VS Code is one of those. The extension may legally not be used with VS Codium or other such telemetry-neutering builds.

- The debugger was removed, and debugging of Core CLR apps was unavailable while JetBrains found an alternative (which did not take very long).

As I alluded to, the fact that this worked, and was just prevented by licensing makes it a construct solely of proprietary software licensing. It was well documented at the time:

- https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2017/02/15/rider-eap-17-nu...

- https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2017/02/23/rider-eap-18-co... news-about-coreclr-on-windows

As for daily driving: I was the first person outside of JetBrains to get hands on Rider. The fact that I don't write C# _daily_ in 2024 does not mean I have no first-hand knowledge of what was happening in 2016-2018, or indeed today.
Now replace geese with homeless or peasants, and we've reached our goals for 202X "future" dystopia life.
The little darlings just are not safe in anything less than a tank. Walking the 500m to school with all those massive 4WDs that congregate around schools is tantamount to child abuse.

That is why everyone I know buys a 4WD and spends an hour driving their children 500m to and from school every day.
I'm with the other commenters in wanted less software in cars.

Here's you're new Bloat SUV, its has the most software of any car in its class. It spies on you more, costs the most for maintenance (because mechanics need even more expensive propriety software to talk with the cars software) AND subscriptions! So many of those! You can put the windows down for free, but it'll cost $19/month to put them up! Software!!!
Last time I checked, multipathd does not and cannot detect faults on the write path as it only performs small reads to check the health of any given path. Checking writes would involve allocating space on the disk for multipathd to safely write to. Maybe someone has changed that in the past decade? I don't know as I'm not involved in anything SAN related anymore (and thank goodness for that!). SAN hardware is particularly awful as the underlying network is essentially hidden from the operating system most of the time. Storage subsystems built 30 years ago were built without any consideration that they might running on top of networks.

These and many other performance issues left me with a particular hatred of SANs.
>2. Of course it is relevant. Because the more false positives they have the more money they can extort. They have negative incentive for their system to work properly.

What are the "false positives" in this context? It's specifically for blocking bots, and enrollment into the program to get unblocked is designed for bot owners. It's obviously not designed to extract money from regular users. I doubt there's even a straightforward way for regular users to pay to get unblocked via this channel. As the people who are running blocks and are blocked, I don't see what the issue is. Isn't it working as intended by definition?
How many times are these naive questions going to resurface?

Of course this all depends on what you mean by "better", or for whom the product is better.

AI, like every technical advance in history, will be deemed "better" if fewer people make more money from it.

This has nothing to do with you, mister insignificant user...
Check out graphicsprogramming sub-reddit, people ask that question there fairly frequently. Writing a real-time renderer basically comes down to learning a graphics API like Direct3D and then implementing various tricks and techniques from books like "Real-time Rendering".
where did that happen?
Of course this all depends on what you mean by "better", or for whom the product is better.

AI, like every technical advance in history, will be deemed "better" if fewer people make more money from it.

This has nothing to do with you, mister insignificant user...
I know little about it and I'm not sure that it works. It might.

I do know that for regular std-using programs, std has its own panic strategy that it was compiled with, so even if you set your own code's panic strategy to abort, it still ends up pulling in unwind-related code from libstd. The solution to that is to also recompile libstd with the same parameters as your own code, which is what `-Z build-std` does.

I don't know if the same thing applies even to libcore, ie for no_std programs. FWIW, coincidentally I spent yesterday making a no_std panic=abort program for a custom freestanding target, and the only missing symbols it needed from me were memcpy and memcmp, even though the code does do panicking things like slice indexing. That program requires `-Z build-std=core` since it's for a custom freestanding target.
Why Elon Musk Is Betting Big on Supercomputers to Boost Tesla and XAI [video]
Not to be crude, but they have ears. and you'll hear uncanny likeness of a voice you follow everyday when it comes up.

It's kind of like saying "how do we know that face is similar/identical"? Humans are surprisingly good at knowing when something feels off in other humans. Even if we lack the vocabulary to fully explain the difference.
> AI scrapers are parasites.

I've been making crawlers for a living! Thanks for informing me that I'm a parasite.