skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent work! Would be very interested in something similar for Azure.
Why do you think I presented those questions side by side?
Which one? The article has four examples, none of which are particularly "cool" or impressive.

If anything, the examples involving moving the mouse to the address bar or getting csv's of results are very poor examples, because we can already do that much better without "computer use".
Do you think that Qualcomm bought Nuvia with the expectation that Nuvia's royalty agreement would remain intact? Perhaps they wouldn't have paid as much, or purchased them at all if the license is able to be terminated in that way.
Accessibility tools are made for humans. If there is information only available visually and not via a screen reader or other accessibility tools, that is a problem that needs to be addressed.
All these AI models do quite well in games because there are set rules, finite moves, and they can iterate in a tight loop (without humans) to get immediate feedback on pass/fail.

I think this is what differentiates the speed at which AIs have gotten from ok -> good -> great -> better than humans at say chess, versus say driving a car, summarizing a paper, understanding human requests, recommending music, etc.

I think a lot of people are extrapolating the rate of progress & possible accuracy rates from chess bots to domains that do not compare.
sadly linking to youtube this week is like linking to xitter earlier. i cannot see any of the content as google now requires me to create an account.

ironically when talking about losing control of cloud compute.
Somewhat related to this is a conversation I was having last night. I was asserting that if you're just starting to learn a thing, the worst teacher you can have is someone who is an expert in that thing. (The best teacher you can have is someone who is an expert in the art of teaching.)

That's because experts tend to be so far removed from when they were beginners that they've internalized the really important, baseline introductory stuff and don't even think about it anymore. That means they're less likely to teach those things as they're "instinctive", or if they do enter the expert's consciousness, they seem too obvious to be worth mentioning.
> if it compiles it typechecks is kind of tautological

It's not tautological at all, because the type system in Rust and Haskell is not a trivial condition of the language.

> not particularly effective as a saying or slogan

Neither is "if it compiles it runs", rather less so in fact, everyone is sick of hearing it, and rolls their eyes so hard it's actually audible.

Every one of these 764 bugs compiled and passed type checks:

https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/labels/C-bug

Not picking on tokio in particular, mind you, finding and fixing bugs is a sign of quality in a library or program.

> I believe it’s meant to be more of a “works, relative to what you might expect from other languages” kind of thing versus, “is a completely perfect program.”

Which is why I describe it as meaningless puffery. What you're saying here is that you know full well it isn't true, but want to keep saying it anyway. My reply is find a way to express yourself which is true, rather than false. I bet you can figure one out.
everybody saw the exact same ads though, and due to regulation, it was impossible for newspapers to do things like broadcast outright misinformation as advertisements. Deepfake Musk and Bezos praising some shitcoin on a YouTube ad is par for the course, but would be logistically impossible on a traditional cable news channel or newspaper.
Well, Crew 8 was also delayed by the Starliner issue. [0] Just not by nearly as much as the flight test crew!

So I think the headline is accurate, but still misleading because there are two crews that the headline could (eventually) refer to — one where there's basically no story that anyone is interested in (Crew 8) and another where the story is full of drama and closely watched (flight test crew).

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Crew-8
The Next Chapter in the Sordid Love/Hate Relationship Between DBs and OSes
skia - shade / shadow
> There's no reason to suspect this feature is not implemented in a reliable way.

As I said in my earlier reply, that is not what “reliable” is referring to in the context of browser support. “Reliable” means “We can rely upon our users having it available in their browser”.

This feature does not have reliable support and will not have reliable support until common browser support matrices – of which Firefox ESR is a part – includes support.

OP was correct to say that browser support is unreliable and that Firefox ESR is the thing causing this and will continue to be until next year.

Are you a web developer? “Reliable browser support” is a very well-understood term of art.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCollough_effect is evidence to the contrary. This seems to rewire something outside the optical pathway. The effect can last for months. Works on almost all brains, no epilepsy required...
"Small welding"? Do you mean brazing?
And that's why I always archive before submit links to HN!
smoke and mirrors.

there is no private other-people-computer, by definition.

what those attempts try to do, is to change the definition.
This would assume the rich some how oppresses everyone to pieces. If I have access to all this wonderful automation tech, I'm sure as fuck not going to sit around and starve, I'm going to try automate my food production to make more food, more efficiently ?
90 percent of failed products aren’t failed in terms of functionality- actual scams are rare- what makes them fail is that they don’t appeal to the majority of consumers. Google glass may have worked but it looked nerdy which wouldn’t be a negative here, but not to the casual Black Friday electronic consumer.
Self-Supervised Learning for Autonomous Driving
I’m relieved. Maybe the company would have survived this somehow, but they sure wouldn’t have been the techies’ darling anymore and that was going to be expensive.

I hope they realized that being FOSS is their moat and it nets them a lot of goodwill (it’s the whole reason I bother with their not-quite-the-best product in the first place). The bold claim „the most trusted password manager“ was kind of justifiable while it was FOSS (if we don’t count keepass), without it not at all.

I’m still not sure how I feel about them now. I can now somewhat trust that the applications will remain free software, but trust in the company has eroded a bit. I still haven’t seen official communication about this.
Israel has similar artifacts, both of WW2 under the British Empire and of the subsequent austerity/rationing during the state's first decade.

1. During WW2 the British established a ration of "standard bread" to eliminate wheat imports. This is still the price-controlled bread type, and led to the replacement of some pita consumption.

2. The austerity years coincided with (and were in large part caused by) a rapid doubling of the population by expellees from Arab countries. Lots of them were used to rice, but with food rationing and price controls were in place, rice would have been a strain on government finances. So the state pushed "Ben Gurion Rice", aka Israeli/pearl couscous, a good-enough substitute that could be made from cheap American wheat imports.

I'm sure there's more hiding under the surface, I just don't know all the history.
China's WeRide raises $440.5M through US IPO, placement
You're not far off. Anecdotal but I shared the Anthropic demo video and a few articles in a company slack and a lot of PM's/admin folks that are only tangentially aware of LLM powered use cases at this point shared that sentiment. Welcome to the party folks!
> If you buy a package on Amazon or Craigslist, who do you trust to deliver it to your door tomorrow?

Amazon tracks which small businesses on their platform do decent business and then use that data to create a competing product and crush the original business.

I don't consider that trustworthy even if that thing is delivered to me on time.

> If you buy your heart medication you buy it from Bayer or an indie startup?

I don't trust either. I trust the regulations put in place by our democracy.
I know next to nothing about planes, but I think another comment here suggested some newer planes do have a large Li-ion battery banks.

That said, a household smoke detector runs on next to no power. Obviously not the same device but surely it can operate on the same principle.
> Hikage, who said he will be too busy working in his restaurant to vote, hopes the victors will consider introducing subsidies to offset rising costs.

This kind of logic really bothers me, just putting your head in the sand and hoping things get better when you have an easy civic responsibility way to at least do something.
Maybe you could find shortcuts that aren't used by major browsers. They should be documented somewhere.
Microspeak: The Long Pole
I'm pretty close to dropping my subscription, and this news
doesn't fill me with confidence that the necessary investments
in Q&A will be made.

... or Jetbrains is trying to get more paying customers in, so they can get these issues resolved.
It's literally three clicks... Select text, right click, create link to selection.

I agree you should prefer IDs but they aren't always available, and often using them is very convoluted for users (how many are going to know how to use the element inspector, or even what an ID is?).
The one time I didn't quote. Thanks for the reminder to post better. I'm doing my best lol

In all seriousness though, I did second-guess myself. I knew better.
And F6 is one of them, but I can't remember which one.
give it a bit, it then reappears (as described in the paper, btw)
Of course ghosts wouldn't appear naked, we can't see beyond the veil
The point is he is wrong.

AI isn’t better than humans but we still have now less radiologists.

Now imagine it were a free market:

To raise the profits people get replaced by AI but AI underperforms.

The situation would be much worse.
> Instead of using whatever scripting language available

This is just another scripting language available. It only differs from something like Lua or Javascript in that it claims to have less complexity. Complexity which, while not fully elaborated on, apparently bogged down their efforts when they originally tried using Lua and an embeddable Go engine.
> How do you know that haven't tried?

I'm not aware of any evidence they have, so evidence that have not tried outweighs my fantasies that thy have.
ARM is not becoming a foundry. Almost no one wants to become a foundry because the margins are too low.

This is why they are subsidized for tens of billions of dollars by countries all over the world.
The only place I see where wireguard can be set up is as a proxy for DNS. Perhaps that would still allow changing the default gateway?
I remember some tradition that Roman ghosts were often associated with or seen as blue for some reason? That's only my fuzzy and likely incorrect memory though, from when I was studying in college. I have a memory of a play or piece of literature where a candle flame turns blue and it was meant as a cue to what was about to happen.
man you would be a good villain, wp
Polish radio station replaces journalists with AI 'presenters'
Yeah, I dunno. They are asking for raises at the worst time for the manufacturer. They should do this when the company is running on all cylinders --then they can strike and have leverage and not "shoot themselves in the foot".

It's like if you are a prehistoric hunter and you ask yourself while injured and vulnerable to bag your biggest most arduous prey. I'd save that for a healthy day and today just catch something to live for tomorrow.
it wasn't the CEO who left a broom inside the rudder assembly of a jetliner

Boeing has had decades of bad management for sure, but the unions have gone along for the ride

so now, Boeing products are considered inferior; how can Boeing charge more than Airbus for an inferior product?

the unions have a weak hand anyway...where else will they work? they are Boeing lifers one way or another
Sliver of cool surface water helps the ocean absorb more carbon
And watch the value of those assets the US gov currently prizes become little more than nothing.
Computer Scientists Establish the Best Way to Traverse a Graph
I don't normally go for comedy on HN but this one got an audible chuckle.

TBH, while I giggle at the thought of anybody being replaced, I dont think it's likely, it's just that the standards and expectations have shifted in some domains. I think if anything LLM's raised the tide for everyone (in relevant roles) and we're all able to move a little faster now, like when we went from abacus to calculator a while back, just a different scale of magnitude.
"The Pope? How many divisions has he got?" - Joseph Stalin

NATO "expanding" on a map - when the size of its combat-credible forces was fading toward zero - was a threat only in the minds of small children, attention-hungry alarmists, and senile paranoids. If Russia had cared to, it could have used self-serving western politicians to "Peace Dividend" NATO out of existence.
And on mobile, it is called “create link”
> Google has massive issues with SEO spam, and has for a long time. Does that mean they're not trying to deliver higher quality search results?

Google has a history of publicly discussing their efforts to fix this, not to mention conflict with legitimate businesses complaining that they've been caught in the crossfire of Google's war on SEO spam.

I'd consider that powerful evidence they're trying.

Is there similar evidence of legitimate businesses getting in trouble by Amazon's sincere efforts to stop counterfeit sales? Or instead is there evidence of legitimate businesses getting hurt by Amazon's failure to do stop it?
To tack on to the amount of complexity; your brain’s operation allows you to perceive a world outside your brain, but the actual perceiving of it happens inside your brain, which again rests inside the perceived world more or less..
The seagull added itself to the sculpture in modern times, not long before the picture was taken :D
Capital is a tool for progress not the source.

Newton, Einstein etc. didn’t do neither for nor by the capital.

And we all know that those “freed” people are less likely to gain any capital.
Description on App Store says “Iphone” then “iPhone”. One of the images says “compatable” (you mean “compatible”). “Pixe-perfect” does not mean what you think it does¹. AI-generated images can never be pixel perfect because the term implies¹ carefully, meaningfully, and deliberately placing every pixel in its place.

¹ Though the expression is so overused, it basically no longer means anything.
So, to hell with it and sink the ship you're on to spite the captain? I think you can fight those fights when you get through the storm not while you're in the eye of it.

I have not sympathy for management, but this move is cutting off their noses to spite their faces. It's not symbiotic.

Obviously management have been absolute bastards in managing the company almost to the point of bankruptcy, but it would be foolhardy to add insult to injury and speed up the company's demise --which it can only blame itself for.

If I were the union, rather than ask for large raises at inopportune times, I would ask for veto power in the Board to overrule stupid moves like the 737-MAX fiasco. This would save jobs and provide more opportunity for profits and raises.
Or even the actual device on the latest Mac OS.
ChatGPT and others can’t reliably sum several integers together still, when is an LLM going to replace anything meaningful in higher math?

I spent more time deciphering ChatGPT’s mistakes than programming something in python to sum some integers this week.
Discussed at the time, though with an other URL:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28660131 (2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28660157 (112 comments)
That sounds annoying, even if the only work required was to press `Home`. Does this only happen with the featured snippets?
The Japanese ghost stories recorded by Lafcadio Hearn in the late 19th century are different:

> "For the face was the face of a woman long dead, and the fingers caressing were fingers of naked bone, and of the body below the waist there was not anything: it melted off into thinnest trailing shadow. Where the eyes of the lover deluded saw youth and grace and beauty, there appeared to the eyes of the watcher horror only, and the emptiness of death." - Lafcadio Hearn, In Ghostly Japan

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8128/pg8128.txt
Humans are evolving right before our eyes, everywhere, always.

Still an interesting article, though!
I would argue that the future belongs to people who can actually make useful things! If we revert to cave dwelling (which perhaps we might given the way things are going!), then being able to flake flint tools might be a far better skill to have than being a social media "influencer".

And today, most physical products require a combination of mechanical, electronic and programming skills. Fortunately, I have all three. I suggest people likewise diligently acquire all three.

It's also fun to build useful machines.

I worked in banking all over the globe for 30 years. I did not acquire my useful skills in that profession. Money yes. Useful skills no.

I acquired my mechanical/electronics/software skills long, long ago while a postgraduate in experimental physicist at Oxford, building space instrumentation. Why did I go into banking then, you ask? Poverty is the answer!
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the permanent seats on the security counsel are the winners of WW2.
I’ve never understood the “my body isn’t my body” anxiety. I’m not suggesting the lascivious behavior ought to be tolerated or disregarded, I merely fail to understand how it effects such a sentiment. One’s body is not one’s own in the same sense as other concepts of ownership (eg, possession of a water bottle), just like “my mind” doesn’t refer to something I possess, but rather to describe it as an aspect of me, of my multifaceted being. My body, my mind, are me. So this expression is confusing to me, the idea that the body could cease to be an aspect of my self. Even if I start from a context of mind body dualism (it still doesn’t become possessive “my”, right?) I struggle to comprehend the idea.
Fair - I'm not personally familiar with state of the art in UI QA automation, but I know theres been various screen recording type tools available for a decade+ with mixed success.

I come more from a "big data" background, and have dealt with CTOs who think "can't we just use AI?" is the answer to data quality checking multi-PB data lakes with 1000s of unique datasets from 100s of vendors. That is - they don't want to staff a data quality team, they think you can just magic it all away.

The answer was always - sure, but you are fixated on the easy part - anomaly detection.
Actual data analysis on what broke, when, how, why, and escalating to data provider was always 95% of the work. Someone needs to look at the exhaust, and there will be exhaust every single day.. so you can kill your dev teams productivity or actually staff an operations team responsible for the tickets the thing spits out.
I never used an Atari computer, nor did I know anyone who did, but I always wonder what the world would be like if Windows and macOS didn't "win".

If Atari and Amiga had won instead, what would the world look like?

What would the server world look like? Would there be some weird "Amiga Server Enterprise Edition"? Would servers just be Linux without any meaningful competition?

Would Atari have shook the world by introducing a new CPU that resulted in amazing battery life compared to the Amiga competition? Would some of us be using AtariPhones? Would Android be a thing?

Would retrocomputing folks talk about their Windows 3.1 boxes the way that Ataris and Amigas are currently talked about?
Unfortunately Twitter Matts (Matt Yglesias, Matt Bruenig etc) are an invasive species to blue sky, and the native species don’t know that annoyance and anger is what they feed on.
The world wide web has moved beyond documents to apps. With apps there is nothing left to interlink.
Just my experience, but at multiple companies, which are in the 50-70 employees range, their C# codebases were over 1 million LOC and I didn't get the feeling that they were exceptionally large or doing anything significantly different. I would put 1 million LOC as "medium enterprise . NET" which would place 100k in the small or possibly medium sized if there was significantly more LOC in another language that is part of the project that you aren't counting (eg. different web front-end).
There is the same enforcement power as there is for Security Council resolutions, the coordinated action of member states.

UNEF, the first UN peacekeeping mission, was deployed under a GA resolution passed under Uniting for Peace in an Emergency Special Session called due to British and French vetoes creating a deadlock over the Suez Crisis.
New UI and UX patterns in Gen AI powered products
A Chat with Tech Recruiter Will Wegert [video]
Tor Browser releases major service update
A scientist that only publishes results supporting a political agenda and keeps quiet about the the rest is obviously not doing science and should be ignored.

That of course doesn't mean you invalidate the whole research field.
I thought about it some more.

> Once AI developers will be out of a job everyone will be out of every job. If not then the AI developers still have a job to work on those jobs which hasn't been automated yet.

This may not be true if data is the bottleneck. AI developers may be out of a job long before the data collection has been finished to train the models.
This was first announced in July: https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/23/alphabet-to-invest-another...

Pretty sure Waymo sees very little threat from Tesla, who don't even have a single driverless mile on public roads.
I will give that a shot. A family member was a signalman for the railroad for over 40 years and got melanoma back when there was no treatment for it. Perhaps that may suffice.
reality often is, unfortunately.