skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was actually quite surprised at the ability of top-tier LLMs to make indirect inferences in my experiments.

One particular case was an attempt to plug GPT-4 as a decision maker for certain actions in a video game. One of those was voting for a declaration of war (all nobles of one faction vote on whether to declare war on another faction). This mostly boils down to assessing risk vs benefits, and for a specific clan in a faction, the risk is that if the war goes badly, they can have some of their fiefs burned down or taken over - but this depends on how close the town or village is to the border with the other faction. The LM was given a database schema to query using SQL, but it didn't include location information.

To my surprise, GPT-4 (correctly!) surmised in its chain-of-thought, without any prompting, that it can use the culture of towns and villages - which was in the schema - as a sensible proxy to query for fiefs that are likely to be close to the potential enemy, and thus likely to be lost if the war goes bad.
Per one of their engineers it's probably in the ballpark of one intervention per 50 trips: https://x.com/brianwilt/status/1850667523781562534

But also, each intervention only makes up a fraction of the trip's duration. So one operator might be enough for hundreds of cars. That doesn't include operators for cleaning, charging, maintenance, and other downtime activities though.
nit: Isn't it spelled glyphosate?
It's a product that I was willing to pay for (until I required native E2E encryption). _iCloud Drive_ is a feature, mostly — aside from the fact that you still have to pay for it to be useful, so kind of still a product.

Steve Jobs was wrong about many things, and this was one of them.
It's difficult to see the relevance of your point. Are you saying we should build nuclear now because we didn't then? That would make no sense. This isn't some sort of arena where we have to be fair to inanimate objects.
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On the flip side the biggest power plants in the world are the new massive solar installations, eg. Gonghe Talatan Solar Park.

It's fun to view these large solar plants on satellite view. Absolutely massive. https://www.google.com/maps/place/36%C2%B010'54.0%22N+100%C2... and with the nearby pumped hydro that is itself in the gigawatt range and growing ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longyangxia_Dam ) removes the concerns of "how do you store the power!".

I'm not convinced small scale solar is the future when large integrated hydro+solar like this has such huge advantages.
People who have mission and vision of the future are entrepreneurs because they want to solve problems and help other people not because they want to become rich and sail with yacht.

Listen to Snapchat's founder and CEO Evan Spiegel[0] why he didn't sell to Facebook for $3 billion. He even didn't sell to Google which offered 10x more ($30bn) for Snapchat.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVu6M72XWUI
Aye; much of the various restrictions and requirements place on it seem pretty sensible.
I wonder. Do you do a lot of doom scrolling?

I can’t understand the people who notice the 120 hz adaptive refresh whatever and one guess is their use is a lot twitchier than mine.
I do not know how it is financed, but I would rather have them use these funds to fix desktop version first.

Content advisory: longish rant ahead.

I have 4 email accounts: 2 Gmail, 1 Outlook, and 1 ProtonMail. I also use Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar. The reason I switched to Thunderbird was to manage them all in one uniform UI instead of keeping 6 open tabs.

I tried hard to love it, but after about 6 months, I am ready to give up. The main annoyance is that I cannot see sent and received messages in a single thread. I know this feature is coming soon, but I do not know how long to wait.

The second problem is that Thunderbird’s search, frankly, sucks. For example, while focused on a folder, if I start a search, it doesn't automatically narrow it to that folder; it searches across all my mail. I've noticed that when I need to find something, I open the Gmail web interface.

Finally, there are bugs. Most of them are relatively minor, but combined, they ruin my user experience. There are strange calendar event reminders that will not go away, bugs when event modifications do not sync to the server, and the most bizarre bug: when I reply to my own message, it sets the FROM field to one of the recipients, making it look like I’m faking someone’s email. Sometimes, when I reply to an HTML-heavy message, the editor in my reply starts in white font on a white background, so I cannot see what I’m typing until I change it. Etc.

I do not want to belittle the hard work all the developers put into Thunderbird. It’s a very complex piece of open-source software that does many good things. It just seems to fall a little short.

So, I am seriously contemplating giving up and going back to the web interfaces for my respective email accounts.
Yes. Swiss is good for non-duplicate lookups. For highly duplicate data the extra memory fetch for the metadata byte really kills the performance.

For this contest, there’re a billion lookups with only couple hundreds distinct keys. That means for most lookups, the full path of locating the key is executed - hashing, metadata comparison, hashed value comparison, and full key comparison. It’s actually quite expensive. Removing any part from the execution path really helps.
Yeah, I thought that was weird. None of the Apple announcements this week had WiFi7 support, just 6E.

https://www.tomsguide.com/face-off/wi-fi-6e-vs-wi-fi-7-whats...

Laptops/desktops (with 16GB+ of memory) could make use of the faster speed/more bandwidth aspects of WiFi7 better than smartphones (with 8GB of memory).
monopsony = monopoly on the buyer side
I was hoping for a 20% price reduction.
Discussion (90 points, 21 hours ago, 78 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41988760
Ultimately it'll be subjective, but the fans don't really spin up on my Framework 16 unless I push things. Running a game or compiling on all cores for a while will do the trick. The exact battery life, thermals and noise will be heavily dependent on the laptop; the TDP of modern laptop CPUs is probably mostly pretty comparable so a lot of it will come down to thermal design. Same for battery life and noise, depends a lot on things other than the CPU.
M2 pro has 256 bit wide memory, mostly benefiting the GPU perf.

M3 pro has 192 bit wide memory, GPU improvements mostly offset the decrease in memory bandwidth. This leads to memory options like 96GB.

M4 pro has 256 bit wide memory, thus the factor of 2 memory options.
But why do I have to log into Dropbox to do this? I haven't logged into the site in 2 years and don't plan on it. I just find it odd that they keep threatening to delete my data but from where I'm standing it looks like they will keep my data indefinitely.

I'm not forcing them to do anything. I terminated my service and they're still keeping my data. Seems like shitty consumer rights that they'll just keep the data regardless of what I do.

That's what I'm trying to figure out, if others have similar stories.
If you’re willing to buy from a retailer you can usually get two or three year financing terms. sell it at the end of the payment term for half (or more) of what you paid in total and get a new one on a similar plan if you want.

don’t think it’s wise though, i bought a base m1 pro mbp when it launched and don’t feel a need to upgrade at all yet. i’m holding off for a few more years to grab whenever the next major increase in local llm capability and battery life comes.
I see it as WHERE clause joining is the "can't mess it up" way to do it, and JOIN clause joining is "better in some situations".

Imagine you're using SQL fragments. Using JOIN clauses make your code extremely clean:

<sql id="getRecentReturns">
<fragment id="ReturnOrderFragment">
where returns.order_date between sysdate - 30 and sysdate <------- Nice, clean code. No chance bugs from forgetting to add `returns.order_type = "Return"` or `employee.customer_type = "Employee"` or whatever.
</sql>

That said - if the guy making the table didn't make an index that includes your attribute (order_type and customer_type above), don't use it."
> I would guess worst case QuickJS probably can compile to WASM

That's actually exactly what Figma is doing for their plugins. [1] Seems to be working ok, though not without some pain [2].

[1] https://www.figma.com/blog/an-update-on-plugin-security/

[2] https://macwright.com/2024/03/29/figma-plugins
GitHub Spark
?????
I was clear on the dependence - an ever increasing amount of the government's funding will come from these folks. You seem to believe that because they are required to do so, it somehow does not create dependence, but that seems very strange.

For example:
Your parents were required to feed you as a child, or they would go to jail.
You were still dependent on them.

Dependence and penalties for non-compliance are totally orthogonal.
I personally find title images pretty helpful to remember a certain blog post, quickly identify it when I have several of the same blog open as tabs etc.

Of course it can be overdone, but it definitely does add utility for me at least sometimes.
Thomas Gale Moore RIP
There's a green trend in much of central-north europe to use electric heating, mainly by promoting air heat pumps.
Yes! They just moved the settings around compared to K-9. You have to open the folders side bar, hit Manage Folders, then tap your folder and turn on "Enable Push" (and probably Sync and Notifications too). Annoying that you have to do this manually for every folder but it does work great!
The more the author lays out the detail, the more I like what they're describing.

We don't want to (further) sleepwalk into a society where we're governed by algorithms we don't (or can't) understand. There is a real risk we build systems where humans end up just blindly accepting what their computers are telling them.

Computers are powerful, but ultimately people work on incentives. Even a rigorously tested system fails in the presence of misaligned incentives. Adding in AI so you can't even rigorously reason about the system further obscures the real issue of misaligned incentives.

If we get AI "wrong", then we forever bake wrong incentives into the systems and our societal fabric. Attempts to correct these will be hampered by those same systems.
March should be the 1st month then I'd think. I'm pretty sure that's how the roman calendar worked. War started in spring.
> a good number of systems I manage do have liblua installed

/thread
Ooops, so maybe Hindenburg's recent report wasn't only hot air, as many industry analysts dismissed it?

Edit: after reading it on Yahoo finance (ft is paywalled, without archive link yet):

> Super Micro said in a statement it "disagrees" with EY's decision

I just love this sentence. There is so much to unpack in this, I don't even know where to start.
Work just upgraded my M1 Pro to M3 Pro and I don't notice any difference except for now having two laptops.
The instinct to acquire resources does not have a limit. When homo sapiens evolved, such a limit would not have been a useful adaptation. There were no billionaires then.

Also it's nice to boss people around, probably for the same reason.

You and lots of people say would do something or other. I submit that it's different when you're actually in that position, as opposed to imagining it. Lots of us imagine we're going to go to the gym for years, and give up after a month or two.
100% agree on this. Ive had this thing for 3 years and I still appreciate how good it is. Of course the M4 tingles my desire for new cool toys, but I honestly don´t think I would notice much difference with my current use.
How is that different. In either case the farmer is paying someone (interest/rent) more for the use of the tractor than just outright buying it (which he does not have the capital to do).
Writers, and 99% of the people they write for, don't care about the difference between MW and MWh, bit and byte, or million and billion.
> Once a model is designated as a general purpose model, then the firm must give an overview of all the training data that is specific enough that copyright holders may identify that their data was used, who then have the right to reserve to withdraw participation.

Oh no, accountability for one's actions - we can't let that get in the way of profits!
Intuitive is a synonym for "what one is used to", so I believe you when you say that according to your intuition, what you're accustomed to makes the most sense.

In a place with considerable skew in daylight hours between the summer and the winter, this would be quite unintuitive, because daylight hours would become longer (and night hours shorter) during winter and spring, and the opposite for summer and autumn.

Either that, or a fixed conventional notion of "dawn" which only corresponds to the sun rising around the Equinoxes. Either way would be unintuitive.
to play devils advocate, there are different levels one can look at that. From the level of the companies and owners, the goal is to make money.

From the perspective of society there are tons of answers. A common answer is that companies provide goods and services that give consumers more value than they cost, thereby enriching the lives of consumers.

It seems like some people, especially those who take issue with layoffs, tend to think the social purpose of companies is to give jobs/money to workers. This leads to a lot of frustration for those people because the entire economic system is set up such that jobs are an optional byproduct of making goods, not the other way around.
I've recently seen a lot of Rust rewrite projects that have talked about how much they've been required to use unsafe blocks. I'm currently in process of my first C++-to-Rust rewrite, and I haven't needed to reach for unsafe at all yet.

What kinds of projects or C++ features are requiring such high usage of unsafe? I'm not implying that this is bad or unnecessary--I'm genuinely curious as to what requires unsafe to be used so frequently. Since by all accounts unsafe Rust can be harder to use than C++, this may help inform me as to whether I attempt using Rust in future rewrites.
Based on what research is that universally true? (Other than base physics like statistical mechanics.)
The diesel generator will provide power at night however. Or for a week of cloudy winter days (assuming you have that much fuel).
Logging is the most dangerous jobs you can have. Maybe it’s okay if the industry sunsets?
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And now in 2024 they've issued an emergency order...

> Effective Aug. 7, DCPA may not be sold, distributed or used in any manner. Consumers with current stocks of the product cannot use it.

We need to start retesting pesticide safety more often and be more strict. Currently pesticides are only rechecked every 15 years
> Is there any way to get push notifications instead of polling?

Push support has been there for a long time now.
You can enable it on a per-folder basis, check in Manage folders.
I have started a company[1], but that's neither here nor there. I vehemently disagree with your insinuation that I couldn't challenge leadership culture had I not.

Founding a company doesn't make one infallible or irreplaceable. Though to be fair, it doesn't feel that way when it's your company though!

1. I will note that this is an incredibly low bar.
Birth defects

> DCPA exposure in pregnant women can cause thyroid level changes in their unborn babies. These changes are linked to low birth weight, impaired brain development, decreased IQ and impaired motor skills later in life.
Kinda, it's up today but DBX has been pretty flat all year after a big drop in March. YTD it's down around 10% while SPY is up over 20%, layoffs seem like a desperation move along with their AI strategy.
It means he’s saying people should be mad at him instead of at someone else. It seems to be working.
So it's ok to rent out money but not rent out tractors?
A simple change should be possible by editing a small number of files; you shouldn’t have to edit 5 back end files and 11 front end files plus some type definitions just to add a form to a field but often you do.
Exactly, I feel a lot of my coworkers fell under this trap: if you need cashflow for mortgage on your 4m mansion in (affluent neighborhood), you can't really afford it.
Thanks for the numbers. Someone here on hackernews got me convinced that a Threadripper would be a better investment for inference than a MacBook Pro with a M3 Max.
I would normally never upgrade so soon after getting an M1 but running local LLMs is extremely cool and useful to the point where I'd want the extra RAM and CPU to run larger models more quickly.
Because they have not understood the core issue. It's impossible to store / sanitize data correctly, when this is absolutely context / output dependent.
It rather work to live than live to work.
User agents are trivially fungible thing in this. That's the nature of the internet and how connections are established. Personal hardware constructs whatever packet that is going out and there's nothing special if that packet comes from a sanctioned or unsanctioned client. There's no way for a provider to distinguish the difference between what created an acceptable packet.

It's difficult for me to envision how that's rigorously enforceable to prevent something outside of the app (like a browser) to access something ultimately consumed by an API without resorting to (expensive and crackable) digital rights management at the hardware level. You can run down whatever train of thought you want, but ultimately since the client is running on machines controlled by the consumer, it can be cracked, reverse engineered, decapped, or whatever. This has been the end state for every attempt the industry has made to control user behavior. DVD CSS, Bluray, Sony's CD rootkit nonsense, every game console, satellite TV cards, analog cable TV, on and on, all broken.

I'm confident google/youtube wishes there weren't applications like FreeTube and yt-dlp. The fact of the matter is it's practically impossible to exclude them but still keep their own ecosystem functioning at an acceptable cost and with consumer buy in.
I mean sure, but this is exactly the argument against using a calculator and doing all your math by hand also.
And the EU still has work to do:

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/other/proven-child-of-florist...
0W of a pulled plug is hard to beat
I stopped using them when they refused to work with valid windows paths - to wit, files and folders with emoji in their names.

Now I pay for google drive instead.
Agreed. Even with a top-end GPU I almost always turn off RT features. I expect we will continue to see hybrid RT approaches for the foreseeable future.
I honestly thought just from the headline that this was going to be some AI dreck, but it's roughly equally cool and ghoulish that they combed through hours of his cast-off recordings to piece together his dialogue for the show.

We would have been fine with a different voice actor, I believe. We don't have to resurrect the dead to enjoy media.
Why did I know them? Or why do I think of them as extraordinarily smart?

I think of "smart" as highly situational. I've known people with genius math or programming skills who can't change a tire or follow a recipe for making pasta.
I mean, I struggle even getting Dall-E to iterate on one image without changing everything, so this is pretty cool
I wonder how it will play out with the data which was already stolen by neural network companies a long time ago. Most likely such cases will be swept under run.
The cars were estimated to cost 150k, based on information that's now a few years out of date. Given that they've had time to push down the costs I wouldn't be surprised if it's significantly less now. (Probably still over 100k since the Jaguars are not cheap vehicles.)
I guess you'll support vCards when you implement QR scanning as one of the kinds of data that is encoded in a QR code is a vCard and you'd want to import and export those as that's what is likely to be appear on other people's phones that aren't using your application.
I miss Linux, it respected me in ways that MacOS doesn't. But maintaining a sane dev environment on linux when my co-workers on MacOS are committing bash scripts that call brew... I am glad that I gave up that fight. And yeah, the hardware sure is nice.
I use ms edge for this exact use case. Works well enough on any platform
Software Development Fragmentation
I like the M1 comparisons. They got some free improvements from the x86 -> ARM transition but everything past that is on them, so it's interesting to see how far they've come.

But that aside I agree it feels like marketing slime to tout improvements over 3 gens ago. At least include comparisons to last gen. Preferably with numbers on the chart.
There are entire books on workholding:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53168863-jigs-and-fixtur...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5042096-jig-and-fixture-...
You keep repeating that as if you think it's going to convince somebody, but, in fact, when you divide an amount of energy produced, such as 4 terawatt hours, by a length of time such as a year, you get a power, such as 500 megawatts, which does indeed tell you how much energy was produced over that length of time.
I prefer it for better control of the shift points and I have an admittedly unfounded theory that manuals are more reliable and longer lasting than automatic transmissions.
Can I avoid inflationcreep? How?
plus with every advancement in cost and efficiency the amount of sun needed reduces. If you're a bit more north you might just need a couple extra panels compared to really sunny places. Even if it's just to offset instead of completely replace other fuels
I dislike them because the odds are overwhelming that they're sending the video off to some company I don't trust. I'm pretty averse to being spied on (especially by companies), even in relatively innocuous ways.

I don't like even being in neighborhoods where these things are in common use. Privacy issues aside, I take a prevalence of surveillance systems as an indication that the area they're in is an undesirable place to be. Either it's actually dangerous, or the people living in them think it's dangerous. Either way, that's a bad sign.
Tournament of World Rulers [pdf]
Personally, I think Bolivar could have easily won. Who do you got?
To clarify, I actually kind of get it for businesses that actually have a important mission (using my definition of important of course). If you’re working on curing cancer, I would understand that a CEO doesn’t want to leave even if he’s set for life. I just don’t see entertainment and service businesses like Snapchat or Dropbox as actually meaningful endeavors. To me they are nice to have and something I would work at for money, but I wouldn’t feel like I’m making the world a better place. Maybe that’s exactly the thing I was misunderstanding about those CEOs, they truly think their work is needed and important for the world.
The base M4 Max only has an option for 36gb of ram!? They're doing some sus things with that pricing ladder again. No more 96gb option, and then to go beyond 48gb I'd have to spend another $1250 CAD on a processor upgrade first, and in doing so lose the option to have the now baseline 512gb ssd