skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also wasted a lot of my youth playing Elite, so much fun. Check out the page--it also has annotated source code for Elite (a few different versions up there).
Ask HN: GPT-4 usually hallucinates when a prompt starts with "Do you know", why?
If a prompt starts with "Do you know ..." GPT-4 exhibits a strong bias to answer with "Yes, ...", for example if I ask "Do you know the _ meme" it always respond with yes:

> Do you know the "puppy flying with a kettle" meme?

> Yes, the "puppy flying with a kettle" meme features a cute puppy that appears [...]

> Do you know the "fish swimming in the universal void with a god cat" meme?

> Yes, the "fish swimming in the universal void with a god cat" meme features a surreal and humorous image of a fish swimming in a vast, empty space [...]

Is this common with all LLMs?
In phreaking tradition I think it’s appropriate to call this the Excel Box.
SMS behaves different in different countries. If I take a single country's number then international charges may apply if a non-resident sends me a message.

Also, interactive elements like buttons/images etc. are not supported.
Thanks! My memories of "Virus" was that it was super-mega-difficult, but of course it was the late 80s and games were not afraid of having a bit of a learning curve to them. :)
For a larger project, consider buying from Alibaba. ~5 years ago I built a series of workbenches using 20 series and even with the shipping from China costs, I saved 2-3x over buying from the maker places. IIRC, final total was around $700.
What do Java and Rust (and your C++ package manager of choice) do to mitigate those things?
I find embedded software rather interesting. It's almost the opposite extreme from web development.

However, I'm not sure that many embedded places will regard web development as prior experience, because it's such a different world.
Even steam runtime is hit and miss, the problems mostly come with GPU drivers / mesa incompatiblity.
Silicon area is expensive. And the logic becomes more expensive per area when you stack it. The whole purpose is to extract performance from the chip by making it dense and distances short.
I see. It’s possible.

I personally believe, considering their track record, it’s more likely they simply don’t care about it.

More experienced macOS and iOS developers will probably be able to confirm that Apple basically only invests efforts in what Apple wants, whatever that is, and nothing else.
The minivan was invented because "gas guzzler" laws made station wagons difficult to sell. The van was bigger and sidestepped new regulations, the station wagon became unavailable, the families needing versatile cargo/people hauling had no other economical option.

Lots of people would still buy 1960s tech, air cooled VW Bugs if they were allowed to do so.
It doesn’t seem like your parent comment is referring to the “12-year-old boy” part of its parent comment, but the “(…) information he might have (…)” part (near the end).
WordPress has the same problem as PHP: it's too easy to do what you want the wrong way. The right way is great, but the wrong way is easier, cheaper, more common, more documented, etc.
Someone impersonating someone else is already forbidden. The impersonators in Vegas get by because they are openly claiming to be impersonators. Nobody in their right mind is going to think the fake Elvis on the corner is actually Elvis.
A ziplock bag would have solved your problems
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Yes, agreed.

I film a bunch of skateboarding, and it can take tens of tries to land a trick. Similarly, there's usually an unique sound that signals a trick was finally landed.

Good multi-modal search and discovery is a huge part of cracking the editing problem.
Thank you! Let me consider this.
But... that's not telling kids they're the wrong gender any more than the film Billy Elliot is telling boys that they're playing the wrong sport. It's just relating a child's experience.

It also looks very much like it's targeted at teens and young adults. Amazon lists the reading age as "16-17 years" [0]. If it's in the 5-10yo section, I would say that's the library's mistake rather than a push from the trans community.

[0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kisses-Jet-Coming-Gender-Story/dp/1...
> Kids these days don't know how easy they have it.

Maybe it’s rose-colored glasses, but I have much fonder memories of programming basic on a Ti-84 calculator than debugging an import incompatibility between. Es5 and CommonJS modules
That's what I was looking at and what prompted me to comment. That repository contains a binary blob (src/verilator/verilator_bin.wasm) without any corresponding source code.
I loved the suggestion, thank you! I am gonna try to implement the highlight feature this week!
QLC = "Quad Level Cell", if you're like me and didn't know that.
When I'm troubleshooting something or making a big decision I definitely sleep on it. There is a lot of processing going on while it looks like I'm doing absolutely nothing. Once the frustration and the anxiety and maybe even the mourning processes, then I'm able to approach that thing better, be it a decision or a troubleshooting process, and then I'm usually able to have a way better outcome with significantly less personal stress and turmoil.

A good example I just came up with is let's say you go and reboot your network attached storage computer and when it comes back your entire array is dead. Now I am going to soften the blow a little bit by telling you that this nas of yours is the one that doesn't have anything life or death on it. Whatever is on it would just be annoying and by annoying I mean you have to redownload everything to put back into your archive and it's going to be hours or days or weeks of frustrating work. Your first impulse might be to simply buy replacement drives this exact moment so they are here tomorrow and you could get the machine back up and running and start recovering data. So you go and do that and you're frustrated but happy because the path to solving this is underway. 2 weeks later there is a sale on those exact drives that you just bought and you overspent buy a significant degree and that messes with your finances a little bit. Plus now you just have a nas with only some of the data back on it at this point. So good on you, you fixed the problem and overspent and for what? If you slept on it a little bit you might have realized that "ehhhh so what? It's just some annoying data that I am slightly inconvenienced by not having anymore. Let's reassess the situation and wait it out for a little bit.". In doing that you might have stumbled upon a sale or an alternative solution or you might just end up saving yourself the headache and the money because you processed the loss and you were okay with it.
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I would add, stop setting up these huge RAID 6/10 boxes to store all your hoarded media. Media doesn't need additional redundancy, especially not if it's based on good old "naval aquisition".

If it came from the internet, chances are high that it can still be found there, and there's absolutely no reason for you to add any redundancy to avoid data loss. If it's by some weird coincidence not found on the internet, fear not, most media is mass replicated onto various forms of physical media, and chances are high that a copy of that can be had for very little money.

But before rushing out to empty the local "on sale" DVD/Blu-Ray bins, take a good long breath and consider if you'll ever actually watch said media again, or it's just sentimental value ? Most of the people i know that hoard media will rarely rewatch anything, and simply pile on top of what they already have. Once you realize that you're just collecting digital cruft, it becomes a lot easier to just delete it all.

Also keep in mind that the electricity cost of running a harddrive in europe is around €2/month, and with enough harddrives it actually becomes cheaper to just subscribe to one or more streaming services.
Eh, they make precision stuff like this all the time. If they wanted to make a bunch they would first standardize the sizing then create production tooling for the grinding setups. Those gears would come out basically perfect every time.

The bigger problem is the output link is supported by the gear meshes. This means whatever load you put on it is directly supported by the small mesh contact patches. A more traditional system can have roller or ball bearing or bushing support.
The wikipedia article doesn't do full justice perhaps though the essence is there. The reason the halting problem is equivalent to solving collatz like problems is because you can rewrite any turing machine in terms of a generalized collatz function. The Fractran wikipedia page has more info.

(the original conway article itself is also very readable: FRACTRAN: A SIMPLE UNIVERSAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE FOR ARITHMETIC)
I do have an hypothesis: If GPT-4 was trained with a substantial amount of internet conversations it could be because it's very uncommon for people to respond to questions on forums with "No sorry I don't know", instead the question/thread would just die without answers.
WhatsApp lets you link multiple devices now - I have the same account on an android and spare iPhone.

The main restrictions are that you have to use the main device every 14 days and can only have ~4 linked devices.

https://faq.whatsapp.com/378279804439436/?helpref=faq_conten...
In a significant development, India reported its first case of the Mpox clade 1 strain yesterday. This is the same strain that prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare Mpox a public health emergency last month.

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This is an interesting kickstarter project, I can imagine someone replacing the modules with very custom modules that they would want to create ..

like a medicine box? any ideas?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kequel/kequel-modular-c...
It was absolutely flawed!
As an outsider: sounds like the main value lies in the AI extracting detailed and accurate (but heuristic) metadata from video: audio transcriptions, text, people, environment and objects.

Once that’s there, you can use it for organizing, searching, filtering, or whatever you want. It does not need to be coupled with an LLM-based interface.

ML models for eg face & object recognition have been deployed in both local- and cloud based photo organization for at least a decade. I very much welcome transformers to do a much better job, but I also very much reject the everything-is-a-prompt hammer as a solution to all problems. Especially in deep and professional workflows where details matter.
Some graphics APIs support commands that tell the GPU to record a timestamp when it gets to processing the command. This is oversimplified, but is essentially what you ask the GPU to do. There’s lots of gotchas in hardware that makes this more difficult in practice as a GPU won’t always execute and complete work exactly as you specify at the API level if it’s safe to. And the timestamp domain isn’t always the same as the CPU.

But in principle it’s not that different to how you just grab timestamps on the CPU. On Vulkan the API used is called “timestamp queries”

It’s quite tricky on tiled renderers like Arm/Qualcomm/Apple as they can’t provide meaningful timestamps at much tighter granularity than a whole renderpass. I believe Metal only allows you to query timestamps at the encoder level, which roughly maps to a render pass in Vulkan (at the hardware level anyway)
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> There are currently 570K+ projects in pypi, 60k+ in debian repos.

Not all PyPi projects require C code.

> It can take several months of work to approve one single package to the official repos

This is a massive exaggeration. For Fedora it takes a couple of days, all of it being necessary review of the code and licenses. And yes, you do have to do that work, it's done by the distros themselves too.
Compatible releases should replace older versions.

Why would you want to install an old version of ruff?
> A good compiler that catches errors at compile time instead of runtime, that makes writing tests and pulling down dependencies easy, that makes documentation easy.

For a week I was fumbling through a ream of type and API errors from a Rust codebase I was hired to work on, migrate to new libraries, debug and update dependencies, etc.

I found myself thinking: The Rust compiler is giving me these very long logs of well described errors that are nonetheless obscure to me. If the compiler knows the errors, why doesn't it simply fix them and report the fixes for me to test?

This is what LLMs are for, and will soon do well by default: The compiler knows the errors. It should then fix them and let me decide which diffs I want to keep.
There used to be cases for iPhones idk if they still exist, that show off the internals back 10 years or so. iPhones were always easier to open up and work on than Android phones in the early years. So even though they push things so they do repairs, they make it so that even if they don't fix your stuff, it's not a clobbered mess of things inside.
Why providing non-compressed version at all? This is new protocol, no need for backwards compatibility. Dictionary may be baked into protocol itself, being fixed for specific version. E.g. protocol v1 uses that fixed v1 dictionary. Useful for replaying stored events on both sides
AUR is not a source of system packages. It is a community-maintained source of package build scripts which each user must download and build themselves.
This nostalgia trio reminded me of the article claiming a long, previous-to-MAD history of Alfred E. Neuman.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/03/03/a-boy-with-no...
OSI model makes it more possible. After all for each layer anything above it is just well bits... And if some layer is poorly implemented it can interpret certain run of bits as something else and act accordingly, but wrong.

There is lot of bad code specially when you have multiple implementations and all doing their own thing on their own level.
As a former Android user, it was one thing every iPhone fanboy had on me I couldn't argue on. Not why I switched, but I now appreciate it knowing that they still give attention to that little detail.
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Maybe it's a BIOS/firmware thing: replacing the RAM memory chips on a Steam Deck to 32GB total requires BIOS tweaks to recognize the chips. I assume in this case the motherboard may be trained to recognize up to 1TB, like the highest capacity model sold. 2TB+ may be too high density to "just work" out of the box.
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What is not clear about "general quality issues", i.e., issues unrelated to package management?
There is Mad Magazine reboot from DC Comics, comes out every other month. I just ordered it yesterday (in response to this HN thread), so we'll see how it is. I figured for $20 for a year it was worth a try, see what the son thinks of it. https://www.dc.com/mad
> What really grind my gear is that I would bet censors don't read or review books

Changing that would require to put educated people in schools ... and that would require competing with senior-level jobs in private companies which at this point would be a doubling or tripling or even more of teacher pay in quite a few places.
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I don't think this has anything to do with LCDs, since microLED doesn't use LCD, unlike miniLED.
I don’t know if he came up with it, or if it was one of those fatherly : shop class myths, but there was a cabinet built, and the backside needed to be finished as well as the front, even though it would be nailed to a wall. The idea being that the design and craftsmanship should permeate the object.
>invite you to reexamine

>bothering you

>clouding your judgement

>hurling

>ascribing

>not healthy

>bothering you

>resolve it

This is just a thinly veiled list of ad hominems. All because I don't like stand-up comedy and said as much, lol. And I still don't.
If it is (and I'm not convinced), what difference does it make?
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I would give a lot to see a Blockly implementation which was:

- a standalone app

- could create standard GUI elements

- had a decent library of packages which could be imported at need

I have been using:

https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/

quite a lot (but it quit generating 3D previews of my projects a while back)

I'm hoping that:

https://nodezator.com/

will get to this point --- it seems promising enough I've been funding it since it was first announced.
> SSD is moving from 100+ towards 1000 layer memory chips.

Does this increase capacity, performance or both? I'm by no means a hardware guru.
What about Xata?
Hi there, I utilize the Groq/Llama-3-Groq-70B-Tool-Use model. I initially hosted it on Hugging Face for some time, but eventually, I transitioned to using the Groq API directly.
Hi there! I’m the founder of felt.com. Obviously, I am biased but I do work in this industry for the reasons you mentioned. It’s a great intersection of challenging technology, real-world impact and pure fun. Also, I’d say the GIS world is changing so fast right now; the modern GIS stack will look a whole lot different in a few years than it did.
I thought this was going to be a strange read about the Hayes command set[1] at first glance.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_AT_command_set
Was there some CDC gear laying around in the back, cause if so we might have gone to the same place (where I ran some of the 4.3/VAX, recreationally).
Just in case, you could have also mentioned that the Philippines has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) (1966). Article 26 prohibits discrimination on any ground, including national origin.
There are also V6 & V7 ports for the x86, but they're much less functional/interesting than 2.x.
When I was in high school, I always found the problem to be teachers who were ... lacking in education (due to the compensation available for such jobs). There were at least a few, including the school principal, who were working against this, but against a large majority of teachers bringing in their ideology it worked, at best, only to prevent the worst.
There are some quirks with using Jellyfin+Kodi with external subs. It used to be solved by the "direct play" feature in Jellyfin4Kodi where it would just pass Kodi a link to the SMB/NFS shares, but the newest releases of Jellyfin have deprecated and hidden the server side feature that enabled that. I had a talk with the devs about it on GitHub and they don't really know if/when it's gonna come back.
Don't often see product ad's getting to HN and not be flagged.

But have to say, not enough people know that products like this exist that can allow building something a lot cheaper than buying something pre-made.
Well, that's what C++ templates were made for.

White your code to work on Musicians, pass Taylor Swift in.

If she's not a musician, your code won't compile.
Some folks wanted a way to write explicit or unfiltered stuff, like horror books, so I set up this unfiltered mode. I definitely need to make the language on that page better, but I'm not sure how to explain it clearly.
I assume it also generates endless DLC features that give them a 70% cut of profits.

Can't see the video due to corporate firewall. I love how X is social media, but reddit is fine to browse.

Having watched it on my phone. This makes sense to be something you could add to any game engine with sane scripting capabilities, train an LLM that can generate content for your game.

The area in this field I struggle with understanding is generating the graphics.
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You are not allowed to use AI tools according to policy on Boeing owned repo :)
I agree. Managed hosting to me means configuring software and supplying only credentials for limited admin panels, not full server access.
Compiling Python extensions is a nightmare because we allow Autoconf, CMake, Visual Studio, Bazel etc. to make it complicated and nonportable; when someone sets out to wrap some library for Python the quality of the result is limited by the quality of the tools and by low expectations.

A serious engineering effort along the lines of the Zig compiler would allow Python to build almost everything from source out of the box; exotic compilers and binary dependencies, not "Frankenstein code bases" per se, are the actual obstacles.
Going to court doesn't seem to be the common solution to DMCA conflicts. Capital will just abuse those that they perceive as copying their content.

Nobody should have any illusion about media companies handling such cases.
My grandfather who learned electronics work in the USSR worked with solid rosin.

When you touch the iron with the rosin, it starts smoking like incense at a church (same stuff actually), but a small amount remains on the tip. You transfer this to the contact you’re soldering, dip into the rosin again, and then solder as usual.
"return (key, value)" can be read as a function-call. Especially as space after the function-name is allowed in python. And performance on that level is no serious topic in python anyway. But this is mainly just a personal preference.
Even setting up your automated tests on multiple platforms can cost a ton of money on CI infra alone. Besides increased server costs some architectures cost a lot more to rent on cloud-CI systems (cough macOS) and setting up the local infra to run tests on-prem can be a huge endeavor and each new platform added has fixed costs.

Nevermind your cloud CI randomly dropping support for one of your archs.
The mass surveillance in question will likely lead not to an "everyone knows everyone" society like that in your story, but to a "the government and the big corporations know everyone" one.
I'm a bit confused as to why this costs so much. I thought storage was cheap?

Bandwidth is more expensive, but shouldn't be relevant to this problem. It doesn't matter whether 5 people request the same binary or 5 people request 5 different binaries for different platforms, if all the binaries are 1 gb you're transferring 5 gb of data either way.