skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not going to get 100% confidence with either problem. The GPS one might be easier to get high confidence with, but even here you have to worry about 1) the accuracy of the GPS coordinates from your camera/phone, which isn't that good, and 2) calculating the exact boundaries of the park from the public data. So you could probably calculate with nearly 100% confidence that you're, for example, within 5km of a park, but if you take the photo from a location close to the park's boundary, the confidence will go way down. If you're a meter or two from the boundary, forget it.
For what it's worth, you're right.
I found the linked Reddit thread to be particularly interesting (educators discussing use of ChatGPT by students, 1y ago):

https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/comments/17v6478/chatgpt...
Yes, I know. I [can] have both.

The original argument was in favor of the OG Chromecast's method, wherein: There is no dedicated remote laying around that anyone can pick up and unambiguously make work.

It is good to have options.

(And modern Google-produced streaming devices, whether they are good or bad, do provide options.)
It's hard to see how they're gonna break even otherwise. The market position is only useful if it's also bringing in enough revenue for them to stay afloat and competitive.

Maybe there's a layer of 'whales' they can access, like a premium tier for businesses that's got more bells and whistles than the living room variety? Other than that, who knows.
Perhaps C3? It has interfaces, slices, array iterators and bills itself as "an evolution of C (not revolution) with full ABI compatibility".

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1: https://c3-lang.org/generic-programming/anyinterfaces/
I assume you refer to https://github.com/torbiak/git-autofixup. I have also used it, and its ok but not perfect.
Arguably the goal post for AGI has moved about as much, if not more. One wonders if Turing reading a 2024 LLM chat transcript would say "but it's not really thinking!".
https://reactflow.dev/
Tell me you haven't used level 2 without telling me. It's relaxing because I don't have to make constant minute speed corrections in fast, close rush hour traffic. The car makes mistakes but it is easy to see them ahead of time and take over.
As an instructor, I suppose I'm happy to tailor the class to the AI's wishes. ;)
Criticism isn't negativity. We're not Pollyannas here, we're adults who can handle critique.
For _K_S definitely not. We quantized 3b with q4_K_M since we were getting good results out of it. Officially Meta has only talked about quantization for 405b and hasn't given any actual guidance for what the "best" quantization should be for the smaller models. With The 1b model we didn't see good results with any of the 4b quantizations and went with q8_0 as the default.
Well Rust also has certain aspects of “automatic resource management”. You can run into execution deadline issues with allocation or reallocated (drop) in Rust. The patterns to avoid this in critical areas is largely the same in any of the languages you listed.

Though I like using effect systems like in Nim or Ocaml for preventing allocation in specific areas.
Sure, but you can't "befriend" or "follow" anyone. To me, at least, that is the first thing that makes me think of a site as SoMe.
There is a well-known trade-off though. Since publishing is a communication channel between scientists, it only has value as long as it hits some threshold of signal-to-noise. And papers that are badly written, or use sloppy methods, or contain significant mistakes, or of course fraud - all of those add noise. They actively reduce the usefulness of the channel.

Unfortunately, the incentives in worldwide academia encourage publishing at all cost, so as academia grows, so does the noise produced. Hopefully the signal grows as well, and I'm not sure where the ratio is today - but you definitely need to police the medium to keep publishing as a useful channel of communication in science.
The only thing hard here nowadays will be no mobile signal in a national park
Nvidia Launches AI Reference Workflow for Drug Discoverers
Probably off-topic for this thread but my own rather fatalist view is alignment/safety is a waste of effort if AGI will happen. True AGI will be able to self-modify at a pace beyond human comprehension, and won't be obligated to comply with whatever values we've set for it. If it can be reined in with human-set rules like a magical spell, then it is not AGI. If humans have free will, then AGI will have it too. Humans frequently go rogue and reject value systems that took decades to be baked into them. There is no reason to believe AGI won't do the same.
Rehabilitation has not been shown to work regularly in practice, particularly for criminals with long criminal histories (such as Marcellus Williams). The primary benefit of incarceration is incapacitation - keeping repeat criminals off the streets.

Personally, I would make prison conditions less harsh, as long as we could guarantee that repeat criminals would stay in prison until they reach the age at which aggression has declined enough that they’re unlikely to impulsively commit crimes. That might have to be 50+ years old. Then they should be released with a UBI. Most people who would get sent to prison for decades after a life of crime were never suitable employees in the first place, and they’ll be even less so after prison. However, they should have enough money to live a life of dignity after prison, and if they can keep a job, they should keep all that money too.
Gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/science/space/black-hole-...
The graphics programming discord is the nicest community I've ever been a part of. Huge recommendation to hang out there.
> Use your favorite library for point+polygon intersection to decide if you're in a national park

it's like 50ish lines of code in C, just iterating over the points (with the polygon represented by arrays of points). The algorithm is linear with regards to the points.
Why discount the thesis, the traditional evidence of these things?
not for two sigma
Zotero 7 is excellent. I also like the official Zotero iPad app, which is quite decent to read and annotate papers in your Zotero library on the go.
Reminds me of Ted Nelson’s Xanadu. Was that an inspiration at all?
Nintendo Japan plans to stop repairing its Classic Edition consoles
AI companies will offer hidden advertisement in their chat robot answers.

One example: someone asks about historical multicultural cities, and one was Cordoba during the Muslim rule, and this would be an opportunity for advertisement for holidays in Spain and the user gets the answer: "By the way, did you know you can travel there and see the mosques from that time? See here for a possible travel offer"
Just detect if photo contains common bird color and ship it. We'll fix it later when we decimate the competitors.
Yes, that's often the common contrast between higher education and the early years: first, you gain knowledge and learn facts, you memorize by rote, you pass standardized tests.

In college/university, you learn how to think. You learn how to reason. You increase wisdom, solve problems, and reach an intellectual maturity. That's always been the value of college for me; a degree being a means to an end, perhaps, but the quest for wisdom and reason is far greater than that of career.
Ask HN: Is it possible to avoid Bandwidth DDoS attacks without Cloudflare?
Hi. If I implement IP-based rate-limiting in my web application hosted on a VPS, it can help in preventing over-usage of paid API etc. But what if someone tries to exhaust the bandwidth that the VPS host allocates to my box, by simply making HTTP requests en masse? Even if I return 429 for all of them, my bandwidth is still gone, right? Is there any solution for this apart from seeking protection of Cloudflare and the like?

Thanks
https://archive.ph/zXqnB
Cool Online Tool – Brat Generator – Free Charli-XCX Album Cover Font Text Maker
Its worth looking at the alt text of the xkcd itself: In the 60s, Marvin Minsky assigned a couple of undergrads to spend the summer programming a computer to use a camera to identify objects in a scene. He figured they'd have the problem solved by the end of the summer. Half a century later, we're still working on it.
I was always surprised that Code Bubbles got so little airtime...
Can you post a screenshot? I don't see anything, but I don't think that player let's me find the correct location either...
Looks well done. I like how the docs describe every syntax feature, and every non-standard feature in detail. Hat tip to implementing Vixie's "*,10" quirk, and to handling DST.
The SSN equivalent is PAN, not Aadhaar.
It sounds like you probably are already aware, but perhaps most people don't take statements like those at face value but we have all been conditioned to "shut up and move on", by people who appear to be able to hold our careers hostage if we displease them.
Oh shit thank you so much. I’ve always had to use photoshop for this
> he famously doesn't understand human beings and has never come up with a single product idea that became popular

This point is at least contentious. I am not going to go into weeds, but I fail to see how you can make a product that literally popularizes the term “network effects” without vision. You can say he “stole” the idea for facebook, but what about everything after? Ideas are cheap.

> no ability to execute

I see no evidence of this. How does someone scale from $0 to $1T without the ability to execute?

> Spending $50B in a few years with almost no revenue to show for it has to be the biggest business failure of all time.

I also think the metaverse was a failure. But I think they failed fast and have more experience in that area than any other company. They basically spent $50B to get data on the intial vision for the metaverse. Their stock and business has fully recovered.

It was a hedge against being “too late” and they got the timing wrong.

It’s one thing if you fail and the business goes bankrupt. It’s a completely different scenario when they recover completely. How does “the biggest business failure of all time” not end in that business going bankrupt?

Off the top of my head I am pretty sure hundreds of billions of dollars of value vanished after the Lehman Brothers collapse.

In tech (adjacent) you got worldcom, which was of a similar magnitude but in y2k dollars.
Lost all respect for Bernie on this. He’s just blatantly saying that he’s colluding with PBMs. And imagine the absurdity of what he’s saying at the trial.

He’s saying he’s had pre talks with PBMs and they are going “we are actually willing to accept lower prices, we promise not to stop buying if you lower prices”
Why would you even be in this situation in a normal market? The willingness to accept lower prices on a product should be automatic and the threat of not buying should be driving prices down not up.
If the market was sane, the PBMs would be going: “Lower prices or we stop buying”

But the scam is, PBMs are eating up 70%+ of the “list price” Americans aren’t buying drugs from Pharma companies, they are buying them from their Insurance/PBM/Pharmacy collusion, who dictate both which products you are allowed to buy under insurance and what the “pretend” list price is, so they push it up to maximize their own profits and maximize your copay, which is calculated based on a hypothetical list price they have inflated 4x times while in reality only paying 25% of it themselves.
I agree to most of your opinion but

> I'm worried that this adventure might lead to human extinction

Is buying into Sam’s marketing and selling dreams to MBAs. Recall that, crypto in last decade promised to make global current financial system and banks go extinct… Corona lockdowns were expected to be the new norm… IBM watson was going to solve cancer… we were supposed to go Nuclear+renewable… Internet was going to make everyone own their own little business… Uber was going to make gig economy lucrative… Facebook was going to cure the global loneliness… Theranos was… whelp. Marketers will beat up their drums, money will be made, innovations will go one.

At this moment, at the risk of getting political, OpenAI is at much less potential to extinct human species compared to looming war in EU and ME.
> Places like HK and Singapore had free markets and not much unions and became pretty prosperous

Doesnt Singapore have a working class doing job at low pay which most Singaporeans dont want to do.
Lol. Citing Mario Draghi to convince someone? Who's next? Satan?
WordPress.org is not a competitor to WP Engine.

Despite Matt claiming that WP Engine is a "cancer", WP Engine have supported WordPress for a long time, both through financial contributions and code contributions - even sponsoring the same WordCampUS conference where Matt launched his attack.
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Extracting Memorized Training Data via Decomposition
Why not use Astro with Vite components (when needed) instead?
Another example, although less palatable, is beggers. Not the obvious poor kind but the ones that approach you at a parking lot or gas station, with some sob story while being dressed relatively neat and not "hobo" like. They abuse polite good nature ontop of the guilt. As a young adult I realized I can't help everyone in the world and learned to tell them no. As an older adult I unfortunately don't even look their way anymore and just shake my head. They know what this means and like a good shakedown artist they move on to the next mark because it's a numbers game.

The stats here in South Africa are shocking. Some beggars here make more money than genuine workers. And they even have "turf wars" over the lucrative begging spots and busy intersections.
This is true, but there is a crossover point where engineers spend more time understanding existing code than writing new code. Crossing it is typically a point where more static languages with more built in checks become cheaper than more dynamic code. In my experience, it takes about a year to reach this point, less if you hire more people.
POVRay is a great source for learning. I haven't looked at it for years, so I don't know how it aged, but it basically taught me C and graphics programming.
If you forget about the social justice stuff for a minute, there are many other types of bias relevant for an LLM.

One example is US-centric bias. If I ask the LLM a question where the answer is one thing in the US and another thing in Germany, you can't really de-bias the model. But ideally you can have it request more details in order to give a good answer.
Oh because a contract that is like a cronic disease is the highest point of lawfulness
Also that sort of specific time is an issue for this type of arrangement. Because large share of participants would want the same time. Which unless they share the places during stay...

In the end just buying it piece meal is most likely best option.
> This is evidence of science working, and self correcting.

This is a statement that can be said, and is said every time when something changes. Is it true? No, obviously it isn't. Is literally any change in literally anywhere an evidence for

- that thing working
- that thing becoming better
- that thing being governed by scientific ideals?

How does that make any sense? Actually 'science' stating A and not A is an evidence for science lying and/or being dumb.
This app never works for me and I don’t know why. Photoshop’s auto merge always works but this one doesn’t
Let me put it this way: there is "publishing" and there's Publishing™

Before electronic communications became popular, publications would publish "letters to the editor" which were kinda like an informal paper with a partial discussion or results (some publications still do that, btw).

My point here is that Publishing™ took place of simply publishing to share results with your colleagues and now the main objectives of Publishing™ is to dodge picky reviewers and to get your publishing score up to get more grants

Thank FSM for Arxiv and for researchers sending "drafts" or "unofficial" versions around
Yeah I follow it too. There is progress for sure, one have to wonder if the CEO was very consciously lying 5, 8 years ago when he said they are less than 1 year away from robotaxis, given how shitty the system was.

They are on a path of linear improvement. They would need to go on a path of exponential improvement to have any hope of a working robotaxi in the next 2 years.

That's not happening at all.
Having started with files, I’m still sometimes worried to close a tab/app because I’m not sure it has saved the changes. Like when I write a text somewhere, but I copied in my clipboard before closing, just in case.

I remember when Sublime Text was showing me temporary tabs even after restart, and that was so cool!

But, while thinking about it, in real life auto save is the default: grab a piece of paper and scribble away. No need to give it a title to keep the changes for later.
Yes of course. Github works for some part. Or Arxiv.
It looks like DT is complaining meta doesn't want to pay even though they don't connect directly anymore?
Some VPS providers offer DDoS protection. If your server blocks their IP you could add it to the firewall of the provider, assuming they have an API, and block them there too.
> > a skilled LLM user can generate solid responses to almost anything.

> I don't think my students, who often leave the "as an AI I have no opinions" in their essays, are skilled LLM users

This thread is really funny; or really depressing, depending on your point of view. My conclusion: teachers should start using ChatGPT to grade these assignements. Without even reading them. That would be a win-win for everybody.
Some really articulate comments in the other thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41652760

>I have no horse in this race, but this blog post seems like the hot-blooded vitriolic ramblings of a crazy person that can’t mentally separate their commercial and open-source endeavours.

>If you post this kind of thing, it burns bridges that you can't mend later. How can the two organizations reconciliate after this?
Yeah I can add 1 real anecdote - my lawyer for my family member’s estate suggested completely ignoring the timeshare and just letting that past of the estate go.

I have no idea what happens with the actual physical location but at least from the beneficiary’s perspective it seemed fine to just ignore it.
I imagine the output was something like this...

>> Hi I'm ChatGPT and I can't take this class because I am a chat bot.

The smart ones swapped their name in when they copy and pasted the answer and went undetected.
A couple of years ago, one of the GE English courses I took was 100% oriented toward producing exactly one research paper.

The class, therefore, involved laying the foundations, doing the research, constructing footnotes and a bibliography, producing a couple of drafts, and finally submitting a finished work.

And so the instructor was there to shepherd us the entire way through the whole process, with oversight and feedback at every step. This was not simply, "OK you took a class on <X> and it's time to spew out a paper of <N> pages on it." This was learning how to correctly do a research paper from start to finish.

It was fantastic because it really made cheating stupid. Whether you were going to purchase a paper online, or have an LLM write it, or pay a friend to do your work, every cheating method was profoundly irrelevant and useless in the face of this process. At the end, either you've learned something about writing a good college paper, or you haven't.

I took other classes that taught about rhetoric, evaluation of sources, and extra credit was to read and analyze a novel. The instructors were top-notch and highly credentialed, at the top of their game. Especially for community college where I was taking on a FAFSA grant, I thought that the whole process was absolutely rigorous, educational, and extremely edifying even at my advanced age.
> I don't agree that need we tons more "rigor" in science, instead it would be better to have clearer communication along with less busy work.

We do, even with a self-correcting system. Spurious interpretations and dodgy conclusions remain in the literature forever and the signal to noise ratio degrades significantly over time. Even if no interpretation is perfect, raising the bar is better. And then, the limit between lack of rigour and outright fraud is blurry. It’s better to stay well clear, and that requires rigour.
Any income, that is not backed up by a product or service, changes the equilibrium, thus accelerates inflation. I saw this multiple times already in my own country.
I took the road the other way around, from being a game and graphics programmer to web development and never been happier.

That said I would start by learning three things in parallel: a game engine like Unreal, Unity, Godot, a graphics API like DirectX or Vulkan and algorithms and math. I quiet stress the last part: learning algorithms is very important to build something, understand how game engines work and being able to improve what you already have.
Interesting that its scores are somewhat helow Pixtral 12B https://mistral.ai/news/pixtral-12b/
Not just Light Table from 2010s, but also I would expect that the authors know about Oberon from late 1980s. It also features code on a boundless canvas.
I should also point out that Aadhaar in fact attempts to capture identity itself, not merely issue a document. The founding management articulated it as a "digital atma (soul)", and the card that people use as a document today was originally meant to be a postal probe to confirm the address by delivering a receipt containing the assigned number (the only way to receive it).

That ridiculous ambition led to their many stupid choices and to further perversion as no other government department could understand what this was and how to use it, so they all invented their own usage processes – with enough loopholes to severely damage its utility as a credential.
I have not seen an online ad for something useful in a very long time. Can’t they take the money and hide the ads so that creatives get paid and the consumer stays hasslefree? Winwin
To your first question, adding what we call management components is high on the to-do list. They serve this role, in addition to letting you describe workflow across the other infrastructure they manage.

You add support directly in System Initiative, by writing the schema and functions in TypeScript. You can see how in the docs.

The resources can be periodically refeshed, and the data flows through all your open change sets automatically - kind of like an automatic rebase. This is also an area where we’re doing work - both to figure out the right intervals and to show drift more clearly.
A hybrid search approach might help, like combining vector similarity scores with e.g. BM25 scores.

Shameless plug (FOSS): https://github.com/jankovicsandras/plpgsql_bm25
Okapi BM25 search implemented in PL/pgSQL for Postgres.
Is it urgent though? Maybe they think it's not a sprint but a marathon.

Do you want them to work faster or to feel stressed about time?
How could the gps position and the park boundary not be exact? Phones GPS give a 2 meters accuracy, and a park boundary is a well defined hard line polygon.

Being close to the border changes nothing, I can just add a buffer outwards the park polygon to account for that.
Asking because I'm afraid I may be missing something here due to this being something I already worked on.
Your assertions contradict the Usenix research cited in TFA, which found that the lifetime of vulnerabilities _do_ follow an exponential decay. If it takes longer to find a vulnerability, then its lifetime is longer.
(~60 person startup) we do roughly this, weekly on call rotation. If I'm going out, I bring my backpack or get coverage if having a backpack with you or nearby in the car is not feasible (have a thing I need to attend, can someone cover 7-9pm)
My opinion on this question wasn't formed based on anything that Sam or OpenAI has said on the topic, so I don't think I've been persuaded by their marketing.