skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VW has also learned a lot about making cars over the years. Fit and finish is reportedly better on VW vs Tesla. (this is very hard to measure though - once someone buys something as expensive as a car they are not emotionally willing to admit they made a mistake and so they will tend to ignore problems with their own while piling on perceived problems with the other)
So basically you just completely skipped what I said and replied to something I didn't say?

The topic at hand is not the existence of global warming, the topic at hand is what to do about it.

> Yes, that is the point.

Try this exercise: Write an argument against taxing it. A good argument. If you can't do it, then you are unable to understand the topic and I don't know how to reply to you.
We should calculate how many calories you burn in the time it takes you to write an essay, versus how many calories ChatGPT burns.
> My life has gotten much easier since I got my elderly parents and non-technical siblings to move completely to the Apple ecosystem. That's the tradeoff here.

Yeah, but this is hacker news.
I wonder what happened to fruit of the poisoned tree? Seems a lot more liberty oriented than "good faith exception" when police don't think they need a warrant (because police never seem to "think" they need a warrant).
Fridge snake that crawls through the fridge and maps out the food
I don't get it either. People will say all sorts of strange stuff about how it writes the code for them or whatever, but even using the new Claude 3.5 Sonnet or whatever variant of GPT4, the moment I ask it anything that isn't the most basic done-to-death boilerplate, it generates stuff that's wrong, and often subtly wrong. If you're not at least pretty knowledgeable about exactly what it's generating, you'll be stuck trying to troubleshoot bad code, and if you are it's often about as quick to just write it yourself. It's especially bad if you get away from Python, and try to make it do anything else. SQL especially, for whatever reason, I've seen all of the major players generate either stuff that's just junk or will cause problems (things that your run of the mill DBA will catch).

Honestly, I think it will become a better Intellisense but not much more. I'm a little excited because there's going to be so many people buying into this, generating so much bad code/bad architecture/etc. that will inevitably need someone to fix after the hype dies down and the rug is pulled, that I think there will continue to be employment opportunities.
Right so the issue then becomes: how do we make sure the person at the concert is the person who purchased it. Are we IDing everyone? (We could, but now you (the promoter) are spending much more on gate agents to support a feature that probably cost you money.)

Do we tie it to your ticketing account? Ok fine, the scalpers just sell whole accounts.

Do we tie it to your phone? If so, scalpers get a really cheap Android to send the e-tix to. That’ll cut out the flippers on the less hot tours, but probably just make Taylor Swiftc resales more expensive. And what about people who get a new phone between ticket purchase time and the show (a lag of often several months).

Also you now just helped the scalpers every time they misfire. No more eating 30% on stubhub and selling below market!

It’s not a bad idea but it’s not as trivial as it sounds.

I personally think a better idea is to just break up live nation. This is a problem that could easily be solved if the venue owner, promoter, and ticket agent aren’t all one company.
Companies rule the United States. Companies that do business in China are ruled by China. Therefore, the United States is ruled by China.
trivial code could very easily include the vast majority of most apps we're building these days. Most of it's just glue, and AI can probably stitch together a bunch of API calls and some UI as well as a human. It could also be a lot of non-product code, tooling, one-time things, etc.
They probably use AI for writing tests, small internal tools/scripts, building generic frontends and quick prototypes/demos/proofs of concept. That could easily be that 25% of the code. And modern LLMs are pretty okayish with that.
Even if I have analytics disabled?

Genuinely asking: are there any specifics on this? I understand that blocking at the firewall level is an option, but I recall someone here mentioning an issue where certain local machine rules don’t work effectively. I believe this is the issue [1]. Has it been “fixed”?

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/01/14/apple-drops-exclu...
Yes, otherwise for ticket owners who are not sure if they will make it to the concert, waiting until the last minute to request a refund becomes a dominant strategy.
It is to a certain extent. I forgot the exact brand but they give you a spool that’s $100-200 for 500g but that includes an autoclave service. You can ship the part to them to fire up in the furnace. But realistically, it’s cheaper and easier to outsource this whole thing.
Isn't that a good thing? Personally, I would much rather be spied on by the CCP than the NSA.
> Sure, I supposed you could calculate a limit by looking at how many human eyes there are, how many frames per second they can see, and max resolution visible. That still isn't actually a limit on how many images could be made, only how many could be consumed.

Sure, absolutely. But I can say the same of food, which is why I drew the analogy between them previously.

> That said, if we got to such a massive scale I'd expect us to hit other limits first (electricity available, best produced, storage space, network transmission, etc.).

Difficult to guess when the quality isn't yet at the right threshold: GANs are already this speed on phone hardware*, so we're not bounded on that specific combination with available electrical energy; on the other hand, 2 years ago I was seeing images for about 3 kJ, which is in the region of hundreds of kilowatts for 2 eyes at 60 fps, which is absolutely going to be a problem… if they were limited to that hardware and with that model (though both are moving targets, I'd be very surprised if the unknown hardware that I've seen doing 4-5 fps was burning 12-15 kW, but it's not strictly speaking impossible it really was that power hungry).

* Specifically: on an iPhone 11, BlazeStyleGAN model was generating images in 12.14 ms, which is just over 82 fps — https://research.google/blog/mediapipe-facestylizer-on-devic...
Did AI have to go thru several rounds of Leetcode interviews?
What’s more interesting to me here are the calibration graphs:

• LLMs, at least GPT models, tend to overstate their confidence.
• A frequency-based approach appears to achieve calibration closer to the ideal.

This kinda passes my vibe test. That said, I wonder—rather than running 100 trials, could we approximate this by using something like a log-probability ratio? This would especially apply in cases where answers are yes or no, assuming the output spans more than one token.
It has nothing to do with morality.

Price is one way to allocate scarce resources. History suggests it is the least worst.

But why, morally, should someone who had the free time to sit in a queue, or was lucky enough to win a lottery, be more entitled versus someone willing to pay 10x what someone else is? Scalpers facilitate this. I don't have time to try to get face value tickets. But I work hard in a good job and I have disposable income. So I can, effectively, pay a scalper to do this for me. Am I less deserving of a ticket?

The reality is that the vast majority of secondary market supply comes from artist/venue/promoter related parties. Taylor Swift cannot price tickets at $5,000 because it would be a PR nightmare. So she sells a small amount publicly, which are snapped up by scalpers who know the true price is much higher. And TS quietly sells a ton more at these true prices while saving face.
How much code was "written by" autocomplete before LLMs came along? From my experience, LLM integration is advanced autocomplete. 25% is believable, but misleading.
If the documentation is out of date, such that it doesn't help, this doesn't bode well for the training data of the AI helping it get it right, either?
That's why upthread we have https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41992562

"You can [accurately and meaningfully measure software engineering productivity] - but not on the level of a single developer and you cannot use those measures to manage productivity of a specific dev."

At the level of a company like Google, it's easy: both inputs and outputs are measured in terms of money.
Well, their lack of software spend also hurts their GPU driver quality. I have been an AMD graphics fanboy since they were ATI, and yet I finally bought NVidia since I like it when my video games don't crash for stupid fucking reasons. This affected Unreal engine games way worse. Now I can finally play whatever game I want, even running the GPU full bore, struggling it's absolute best to give me any frame it can, and not have any worry about stability.

Meanwhile, for several years, the default GPU driver for my RX 5700xt used a fan curve that was hard capped at 20% fan RPM, such that the card consistently overheated itself and died. Every single game I would play that pushed that card hard would crash it. Despite having suitable grunt, I would have to turn down graphics settings in games to not crash. That just doesn't happen with my modern NVidia card.

This is Windows specific.
What makes you think it would be a new one as opposed to a refurbished used one.
They do not.

Edit: I have not posted a source for this claim, because what sort of source would be acceptable for a claim of the form "X has not occurred"?

If you are going to claim Apple's security model has been compromised, you need not only evidence of such a compromise but also an explanation for why such an "obvious" and "cheap" vulnerability has not been disclosed by any number of white or grey-hat hackers.
Or perhaps that even for excellent engineers and complicated problems a quarter of the code one writes is stupid almost copy-pasteable boilerplate which is now an excellent target for the magic lArge text Interpolator
Online archive of Humphry Davy's notebooks opens to the public
https://archive.ph/K7rEt
Cyrix 6x86
Unless they’re an even bigger shit show. Mobs of extortionists, networks in the tens of thousands, mostly bumbletard screwballs. A few elite who are as their gods.

Power is more easily developed by condemned men serving decades to life in prisons than smart successful savvy persons who live a prosperous life. They themselves are mostly pyramid schemes of extortion (these days, I am assured it was not always so.)

The things these do for fun and for profit cannot be paid for with money or be accomplished by anyone in their right minds.

You know how Americans and power are, always taking things too far, without regard for consequences.
Honestly, I'd never expect it get 'correct's for every little fact like this, but it'd be great to get a lot more 'not attempted'.

"I seem, then, in just this little thing to be wiser than this man at any rate; that what I do not know I do not think I know either." - Socratos, from Plato's Apology of Socrates
It was in good faith. Not knowing much about the UK, I took the largest city to be the densest. Seems I was off.
If I import hundreds of pounds of poached ivory and store it in a shipping yard or move it to a long term storage unit, the owner and operator of those properties are allowed to notify police of suspected illegal activities and unlock the storage locker if there is a warrant produced.

Maybe the warrant uses some abstraction of the contents of that storage locker like the shipping manifest or customs declaration. Maybe someone saw a shadow of an elephant tusk or rhino horn as I was closing the locker door.
Sure. But not everybody. That’s how I ended up on a Mac. I needed to develop for Linux servers and that just sucked on my windows laptop (I hear it’s better now?). So after dual booting fedora on my laptop for several months I got a MacBook and I’ve never looked back.
The engineers know this.

Now, how do you get the people buying these things to buy the better engineered one when the one sitting right next to it is $200 cheaper?
More code could just be useless code that no longer serves any purpose but still looks reasonable to the naked eye. An LLM can certainly figure out and suggest maybe some conditional is impossible given the rest of the code.

I can also suggest alternatives, like using existing library functions for things that might have been coded manually.
curl.exe does ship with Windows. Given a Windows 11 ISO freshly downloaded from microsoft.com, we have

$ 7z l /Volumes/CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV9/sources/install.wim | egrep ' 1/Windows/Sys.*/curl.exe'
2024-09-06 00:02:14 ....A 672312 343918 1/Windows/System32/curl.exe
2024-09-06 00:02:14 ....A 585160 323710 1/Windows/SysWOW64/curl.exe

This is, in fact, curl:

> C:\Windows\System32\curl.exe --version
curl 8.9.1 (Windows) libcurl/8.9.1 Schannel zlib/1.3 WinIDN
Release-Date: 2024-07-31
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps http https imap imaps ipfs ipns mqtt pop3 pop3s smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS HSTS HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz NTLM SPNEGO SSL SSPI threadsafe Unicode UnixSockets

My personal favorite *nix utility nobody knows ships with Windows is tar.exe, which is libarchive's bsdtar and therefore supports a wide variety of archive formats.

["1/…" is 7z syntax for the first image in the WIM file — Windows 11 Home, in this example — included here to avoid redundant output; curl.exe is included in all images.

"…/SysWOW64/curl.exe" is a 32-bit curl build (32-bit Windows programs see "Windows\SysWOW64" as "Windows\System32").]
Sanofi spins out its consumer healthcare business
https://archive.ph/Ef1rB
> then we will email you once the page is ready.

Ah, I completely missed this part. Long day.

> Ya sorry, brand new and working on the profile to improve it and the image bit.

Don't worry, so far I like the site quite a bit, especially since there is much more about ancient mesopotamia than I had thought!
> It should not legally matter whether the eyes are meat or machine

But it does matter, and, perhaps ironically, it matters in a way that gives you STRONGER (not weaker) fourth amendment rights. That's the entire TL;DR of the fine article.

If the court accepted this sentence of yours in isolation, then the court would have determined that no warrant was necessary in any case.

> if anything, machine inspection should be MORE strictly regulated, because of how much easier and cheaper it tends to make surveillance (mass or otherwise).

I don't disagree. In particular: I believe that the "Reasonable Person", to the extent that we remain stuck with the fiction, should be understood as having stronger privacy expectations in their phone or cloud account than they do even in their own bedroom or bathroom.

With respect to Google's actions in this case, this is an issue for your legislator and not the courts. The fourth amendment does not bind Google's hands in any way, and judges are not lawmakers.
How do you position FlyCode differently from Butter Payments [1]

[1] https://butterpayments.com
>I've never kept any laptop as long as I've kept the M1

What different lives we live. This first M1 was in November 2020. Not even four years old. I’ve never had a [personal] computer for _less_ time than that. (Work, yes, due to changing jobs or company-dictated changes/upgrades)
You'll be glad you did. I loved my 2015 MBP. I even drove 3 hours to the nearest Best Buy to snag one. That display was glorious. A fantastic machine. I eventually gave it to my sister, who continued using it until a few years ago. The battery was gone, but it still worked great.

When you upgrade, prepare to be astonished.

The performance improvement is difficult to convey. It's akin to traveling by horse and buggy. And then hopping into a modern jetliner, flying first class.

It's not just speed. Display quality, build quality, sound quality, keyboard quality, trackpad, ports, etc., have all improved considerably.
But it can't save the day.

The problem with Google search is that it indexes all the web, and there's (as you say) a rising tide of scam and spam sites.

The problem with AI is that it scoops up all the web as training data, and there's a rising tide of scam and spam sites.
An open source LLM that is being used for inference can't "learn from or remember" interaction patterns. It can operate on what's in the context window, and that's it.

As long as the actual packaging is just the model, this is an invalid concern.

Now, of course, if you do inference on anyone else's infrastructure, there's always the concern that they may retain your inputs.
Does the paywall on the archive page mean we cannot archive theintercept? : https://archive.is/Lqfyr
Less than four months ago there was a lot of hype urging people to buy SMCI. Can anybody really trust the financial news outlets these days?

https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/07/13/is-super-micro-com...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/investor-hub/article/is-super-m...

https://investorplace.com/2024/03/smci-stock-alert-does-this...
Yeah life sucks when everything and everyone has to be untrusted (applies not just video games).

The solution is to build trusted spaces again IMO.

For video games assume that each user is trusted by default. As soon as they violate that trust by cheating, they are banned permanently for that copy of the game. If they want to be trusted again they have to buy another copy of the game to get another license. Make it hard to become a member of a trusted community and easy to be kicked out of a trusted community for violating trust. This would eliminate the vast majority of cheating and bots because most gamers are kids and having to buy a fresh copy will hit hard. If they abuse it enough, make them jump through more hoops like ip bans and computer fingerprint bans.
Getting a Steam Deck has done wonders for my piece of mind. I don't need to worry if whatever games I'm installing are malicious, because the machine is airgapped from anything critical.
And yet you install driver on Linux without knowing it, I mean Linux has 0 security for drivers.
Dropbox was barely cash-flow positive (basically meaning profitable excluding equity compensation) when it had its IPO. It's been having trouble expanding from the consumer space into the business space, and I wouldn't be surprised if its profits are slim.

Also, they've repeatedly tried to create new products. Carousel, Mailbox, and others. Dropbox has had little to no success outside of its core business. While it does that core business very well, it has stiff competition, and the market seems to be already tapped out.
GB per second
What's the difference between a CPU, GPU and TPU?
Okay, I think we are both misunderstanding then. My original point was a fairly mundane one. Pixel was asking why CEOs don't suffer substantial financial cost for bad performance. My point was simply that they do! Poor performance often incurs millions of dollars of opportunity costs to CEOs. I suspect that the deeper question was why don't CEO suffer more than just opportunity cost, in harsher way that would be more emotionally satisfying.

You raise good questions about how prevailing compensation is set and the relative power of corporate governance. I tend to agree that executives have a lot of leverage and it seems like boards are relatively weak. They don't have a lot of incentive to pinch pennies push back on CEO compensation. There's a pretty huge cost to shareholders if they want to fire or even replace a CEO, and uncertain upside.

There might be some class/roll solidarity going on as you propose. However, I think the bigger factor is that minimizing CEO comp simply is not a priority for boards and shareholders, despite the attention it gets from outside critics.
If the parts show no signs of wear and tear, what is the difference? Theseus' iPhone.
Do you mean Garmin Basecamp or Basecamp{dot}com?
I switched to iPhone after they added the tracker blocking to the OS.

Everything is a tradeoff.

I’d love to live in the F droid alt tech land, but everything really comes down to utility. Messaging my friends is more important than using the right IM protocol.

Much as I wish I could convince everyone I know and have yet to meet to message me on Signal or whatever, that simply isn’t possible. Try explaining that I am not on Whatsapp or insta to a girl I’ve just met…

Also it is nice to spend basically no time maintaining the device, and have everything work together coherently. Time is ever more valuable past a certain point.
Once again, an employment check is not like a WARN act filing. I want to know for a given startup exactly who was fired and why, when, etc.

It’s one thing to be laid off from a startup in general. Another entirely to be laid off right now.

The number of recent layoffs is everyone’s concern right now because of how hard it will be for you to find a job afterward. Layoffs always were going on, and always will for startups, but the days of turning down job offers due to small uncertainties are mostly paused or gone at this point. The demand crunch is very real.
We live in the age of kayfabe capitalism
Lessons from a Nobel laureate teach us how to think better
https://archive.ph/e3TUe
25% of new code might be boilerplate. All my apps in my organization start out roughly the same way with all the same stuff. You could argue on day one that 100% of the code is boilerplate and by the end of the project it is only a small percentage.
This exactly. Bad people have to go free in order to incentivize good behavior by cops.

You and I (as innocent people) are more likely to be affected by bad police behavior than the few bad people themselves and so we support the bad people going free.
that is not what I was told. I bluntly pointed out that I expected to make good money that year despite being laid off (and I did), and he said it did not matter, since I was unemployed, my expectation for the current week was zero. It has nothing to do with whether you have a lotto ticket or a company exit.

Although obviously if you're working at your company, you are not unemployed and do not have zero income expectation.
Yesthat’s a deflection not a denial
Rampant cheating will wreck competitive multiplayer games fast, so there are perspectives from which this critical.

(I’d still lean towards expecting game houses to find another way, kernel drivers are still client side trust mechanisms).
Same, but I am only using it for couch gaming
> The issue of course being the government then pressuring or requiring these companies to look for some sort of content as part of routine operations.

Was that the case here?
There are reasons to prefer full avenue instead of half full, even if second one brings more money for this single event:

- artist might prefer the full-avenue energy

- it produces positive hype (it's often newsworthy when show is sold out)

- you can sometimes add new dates in the same avenue, maximising profits since lot of stage, travel, staff, marketing costs don't increase if you have another concert the next day.

- You grow fan base instead of shrinking it. It's better to have twice the number of satisfied fans when you revisited the city in few years. But it can also increase future album sales, streaming revenue, etc.
That's true, but if you over-leverage yourself and the market goes through a downturn it can spell financial ruin. It's not something to lightly do without the cashflow/assets to back up your financial knowledge - which most people don't have.
Show HN: Costco for LLM Tokens
The kernel level anticheats are almost always written for Windows. They are relevant to gaming on Linux because those games won't work on Linux even if wine/proton run the user space portions fine