skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There will be a 5% productivity boost in the post-pandemic economy due to re-optimized working arrangements and less time spent commuting, NBER adds.

If this isn’t good enough do search yourself. There’s multiple papers and analyses by this point.

And these are all analyses to satisfy the all important business productivity goals of our corporations.

For humans, the actual workers? The saved time on commute, improved quality of life and invigoration of local markets far outweigh those corporate gains.
By the early and especially mid 90s it was incredibly common for the users to have a graphics card. This was the 486 to Pentium era of personal computers. The Mac II line was giving way to the PowerMacs. Graphics cards were commonplace. Being stuck on a text terminal was already old school. Gopher sites were functional, but generally fairly bland. Web sites tended to be a lot more creative (some would say garish) and they were so easy to make that everybody wanted to give them a shot. Animated GIFs were all the rage. Backgrounds and table based layouts were straining the 14.4k modems and 8 MB of RAM machines. It was the wild west. Everybody was trying something different and finding out what worked and what didn't.
Someone capable and willing to buy name checked tickets with stolen credit information is probably capable of getting a sufficiently passable fake id for the rushed ticket counter staffer at the concert, and that assumes they even matched the names. I just attended a concert with supposedly name attached tickets that were just scanned at the door with no check against the names/id.
> I really find it hard to believe

What's true and what's not true is not related to what you personally believe.

It is factually and unambiguously false to state that generated code is, in general, not similar to other code from the corpus it is trained on.

> And none of it appears anywhere else; I've checked.

^ Even if this statement, is not false (I'm skeptical, but whatever), in general, it would be false for most users of copilot.

None of it appears anywhere else? None of it? Really?

That's not true of the no-AI code base I'm working on.

That's very difficult to believe it would be true on a code base heavily written by copilot and the like.

It's probably not true, in general, for AI generated code bases.

We can have a different conversation about verbatim copied code, where an AI model generates a large body of verbatim copy from a training source. That's very unusual.

...but to say the generated code wouldn't even be similar? Come on.

That's literally what LLMs do.
Previously at the time (17 days ago)

(19 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41973730

(31 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41977108
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It isn't, but the rights-holder (MSFT) is very unlikely to care. VB6 is 26-33 years old, so this doesn't threaten any of their profits in any way.
Most phones have a couple cameras nowadays… I think the Pro iPhones (some, at least) even have some sort of lidar system that seems like it ought to be helpful? Anyway, it is a shame, I guess the market must not have been there.
I enjoy reading these articles and reading comments from people who clearly have no idea how to use AI or it’s abilities.
I wonder how it is then mentioned in this context. It is not comparable at all.
Not sure how active it is outside large US cities but I've been using Beli (https://beliapp.com/) for the past couple years. It's essentially friends stack-ranking restaurants they've been to, which is useful because I can adjust for their biases -- they care varying amounts about service, cleanliness, authenticity, creativity, ambiance, etc. I regularly find new spots through friends and can decide if I trust their taste enough to order/check it out in person.

Only downside is it's pretty limited to the yuppie-foodie crowd - like in NYC, once you venture into deeper Brooklyn/Queens/The Bronx, you won't find much on there.
"It’s not the denied entry pipeline that a lot of countries worry about." - do you have any evidence for that claim?
It's almost like it's an excuse not to build it.
> Meanwhile, Alex Jones is calling a hearing next week to accuse the bid process of being rigged https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1857223561754059168

Alex Jones is not a reliable source
Satya is that you?
Plan 9 history and development (2023) [video]
China mostly works as a meritocracy. The US has done that mostly int the past but the current leadership is essentially adding witchdoctors and criminals to the government departments that will be overseeing security and infrastructure and we will likely face some dire situations and terroristic infrastructure catastrophes over that for the next 4 years or so as the CCP and Russian hackers do whatever they want with our systems because the fox is now in the hen house.
Yes, you use a meta account that has no ties to Facebook. Mine is under an alias with absolutely no connection to any social feeds or network.

Unless you count Meta Horizon Worlds which is kind of a joke.
Wasn't meant as a joke, thanks for the response. I honestly thought it so. Now I know..
Video Formatter for TikTok, Reels, etc.
Composefs has a totally crucial feature that sold me immediately, which is that if two containers use the same file, the kernel can serve that file from the same page cache. This means you can hypothetically launch a lot of containers, and if they share some layers/base images, the memory usage can still be quite reasonable. Nice. https://github.com/containers/composefs?tab=readme-ov-file#b...
For nerd like me, this can reduce the level of awkward.
I have a free software which does it: https://github.com/impredicative/newssurvey

As for the how, it is noted in its readme in the Approach section.
Can you give some examples? What LLM? What code? What tests?

As a test I just asked "ChatGPT 4o with canvas" to "Can you write a set of tests to test glBufferData and all of its edge cases?"

glBufferData is a 32 year old API so there's clearly plenty of examples for to have looked it. There are even multiple public tests for it including the official tests that are open sources and so easily scannable. It failed

It wrote 8 tests, 7 of those tests were wrong in that it did something wrong intentionally then asserted it go no error. It wasn't close to comprehensive. It didn't test the function actually put data in the buffer for example, nor did it check the set of valid enums to see that they work. Nor did it check that the target parameter actually works and affects the correct buffer bound to that target.

This is my experience with LLMs for code so far. I do get answers quicker from LLMs sometimes for tech questions vs searching via Google and reading stack overflow. But that's only sometimes. As a recent example, I was trying to add TypeScript types some JavaScript and it failed. I went round and round tell it it failed but it got stuck in a loop and just kept saying "Oh, sorry. How about this -- repeat of previous code"
Heard of the book, but have not read it, 41 times so far. Next time ;)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(number)
I get that a locked phone needs to have everything already in memory, but what technical hurdles are stopping Apple from making a locked phone as secure as a rebooted phone?
Can we get Git for construction? I am tired of site instructions and change orders that don’t get merged and propagated and changes being difficult to identify (reliant on bubbles that architects regularly forget to ad).
Despite crypto getting easier and easier + more main stream. You often don't see it used that often. Even in ((('"```blockchain'"```))) projects (wink emoji; skull emoji; frown; picture of a chart crashing.) I welcome these additions to PyPI. I am a proud Python Chad and always will be.
Rebooting takes ~7 seconds and ideally only happens when I attempt to use it.

But regardless of that.... why does it take a nontrivial amount of power?
What about sleeping more than 8 hours? Is there any research done on this? Will this affect negatively? I sleep 8-9 hrs most days. (No, I am not depressed or anything but I don't drink coffee or any stimulant to keep me awake so I get really tired at the end of the day.)
After reading your comment, I was interested in whether or not I could achieve this through the built-in Shortcuts app. Unfortunately, "Restart" is not an available action.

Edit: Actually, I was looking in the wrong place. It’s an option for the "Shut Down” action. Thanks, @jwond!
that's rather finny :)

or fishy.
It was also popular in Indonesia, but the userbase eventually moved to WhatsApp and Discord.

People who run "official accounts" on LINE in Indonesia eventually moved to Twitter (the Indonesia-specific "base"/"menfess" accounts/culture were originally from similar LINE accounts allowing users to send anonymous messages so it can be relayed to many users, as well as from K-pop roleplaying on Twitter) and Instagram (for news, after LINE Today, their news aggregator, closed), too.
Yeah, the finance thing is what bothers me thinking about OP moving out. I hope his family can help him because if he’s visibly mentally unwell, poor guy is gonna have a hard time finding a new flatmate. It’s just a sad situation and I feel for both of these people.
The 'bad housing policies' are exactly what the liberal wants. Behind close doors they admit this but publicly these policies have to be wrapped in environmentalism and overregulation to make it near impossible to build.

I was just speaking to a man who is fighting over a 20 unit apartment that is going to 'destroy the character of my neighborhood' ... but is of course happy to condemn people in Springfield, Ohio for not wanting 20k refugees in their city.

I think the author really misunderstands the cultural values of the upper class in CA.
that's fine. They can install it. I suspect the actual number of computers running linux that need to able to print be less than 1 of 20.
We sourced a basic GPS module for a student project in the late 2000s, it had an antenna the size of a charcoal briquette, drew a bunch of power, wasn't all that cheap, and took a while to lock on to satellites. I can only imagine how crappy and expensive an accelerometer would have been at that time.

The smartphone revolution was a gamechanger for the price and availability of GPS receivers as well as accelerometer/gyro systems.
They use "AI" like they use "Python" in "Python developer" or "Web" in "Web developer".
AGI doesn’t have a universally accepted definition.
This is an essential feature for my personal GrapheneOS phone. I only tend to use it once or twice a day most days, which means it is usually freshly rebooted every time I go to use it.

I remember reading somewhere that many new exploits in the mobile space only exist in memory and are thwarted by a simple reboot, including the infamous Pegasus spyware.
Each of these are _completely_ invented and then dishonestly presented as valid:

- Using collected data to facility spear phishing campaigns.
- Running a child pornography/sex trafficking ring.
- Participating in dogfighting.
- Been a back channel for selling trade secrets.
- Had some people killed.
- Routing all the information collected to foreign groups, like Russia.
- or.. has the other half of messages to someone under investigation whose phone locked.

A real-world example of "zero evidence". Let's stick with "no lying". Also, in late 2024, giving the monstrously corrupt FBI the dishonesty-based benefit-of-the-doubt is beyond naive and comfortably in the realm of dishonest.

It has been days since I have seen such an example of "zero critical thinking skills"
what about my Apple Watch?
I was wondering why it said P4. That's an old processor.
Belgacom, Diginotar, Stuxnet Anything involving Fox-IT. Just to mention three cases involving black mailed ministers and involving corrupt intelligence public servants.
The Dutch are not competent, they are corrupt as hell.
Access to anything Dutch is for sale and on bulk discount.
This feels more like misery porn disguised as a crusade to 'protect' the vulnerable. I’m not suggesting we make it easier for people to get scammed, but intentionally engaging seems like a recipe for a harsher clap back. Education > Escalation.
As I understand it, Safari won’t auto delete data stored by web apps that are launched from the home screen.

But, yeah, handling of this stuff should be better. I’d personally prefer it if the API’s required user opt in, and did not include auto deleting durably stored data.
Stockfish level 1 is well below "lowest intermediate".

A friend of mine just started playing chess a few weeks ago and can beat it about 25% of the time.

It will hang pieces, and you can hang your own queen and there's about a 50% chance it won't be taken.
sigh To save those of us not familiar with every, say, cloud computing service monitoring system, ...

> Prometheus, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, is a systems and service monitoring system.
I looked into this a while back, but can you post some notes on jailbreak kindles? Aren't there certain models of Kindle that can be had very cheaply. That are possibly locked or have some dead component, but the screen can be used with a jailbreak? They were like only ~$10 on ebay.
I know a lot of people that wouldn't mind that.

1. There are ways to bypass geo-block.

2. People would build alternatives specifically for EU (with few exceptions).

3. They could even offer those alternatives to US, but with better privacy out of the box.
> Using a debugger to step through the code is a huge timesaver.

This is too slow and manual of a process to be a huge timesaver, you'd need a "time-travel" debugging capability that eliminate these to save time
That screenshot takes me waaaay back. Wrote my very first code in that IDE sitting in my dad’s living room, copying examples from a letter my mom’s cousin sent us in the mail. Made a choose your own adventure game about a squirrel climbing a tree. Just if statement after if statement after if statement…
There are some cheap android phones which come with an IR sensor. But the app for such functionality needs to be custom made.
Other commenters are completely right to mention his concern for proofs and the "Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science", but the most BASIC-specific thing that he was associated with was criticism of the GOTO statement.

https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.p...

In original BASIC, the GOTO is a foundational mechanism and a majority of programs would have used it, sometimes extensively. Dijkstra thought for many reasons that this wasn't good style and didn't promote clear thinking. And yes, one consequence of that is that it would be harder to prove programs correct or just to reason about whether they were correct.

Programs that overuse GOTOs (or from the point of view of later structured programming and functional programming advocates, perhaps programs that use GOTOs at all) were stigmatized as "spaghetti code".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code

By the way, this concern is not just about aesthetics: some of the ideas that Dijkstra was advocating are arguably those that newer programming languages like Haskell and Rust can use to find bugs in code automatically at compile-time, or to make it harder to write certain bugs at all. The line between Dijkstra's advocacy and these techniques is complicated but I think there is a connection. So partly we might say that Dijkstra was not just concerned with how to make it easier for humans to think clearly about program correctness, but ultimately also about how to make it easier for computers to help humans automatically determine (parts of) program correctness. And it's true that the GOTO style complicates that task.
If they actually follow the legal requirements listed in that article I will come back and apologize to you.
Why is it lower difficulty? If
didn't get that impression from the article
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Not a good idea for someone with memory loss to use an LLM, especially when they are prone to hallucination!
I have a side point here - There is a certain schizoid aspect to this argument that LLMs and humans make similar mistakes.

This means that on one hand firms are demanding RTO for culture and team work improvements.
While on the other they will be ok with a tool that makes unpredictable errors like humans, but can never be impacted by culture and team work.

These two ideas lie in odd juxtaposition to each other.
The restrictions as Mozilla has created them value security so highly that they won't allow webapps to access users files (for fear that maybe the user allows multiple sites access to data that sites side-channel through).

Just one idiots opinion here, but that seems like an incredibly bone headed way to take the whole project of the web platform & make sure it remains utterly unusable at replacing far less secure regular apps. And consigning the web to forever be dependant on cloud data systems, since there's no local access.

I really wish there were more than three parties, wish there was more than Google and Google alone that actually wanted the web platform to succeed. I'd kept some reservation that maybe Mozilla was being cautious, but after seizing the opportunity to grand-stand with Apple against a lot of pretty boring nice APIs that are fine behind permissions prompts in 2020, it feels like the have kept such a strong will to limit and restrain the web. https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-declined-to-implement-16...
1- Why not compile it?
2- does pip install x not guarantee that?
I'm actually surprised any of them manage to make legal moves throughout the game once out of book moves.
if they are extraterrestrials, wtf are they doing on terra, or rather, in / under oceania?

/jk

also, no way they can be superintelligent, if they came here, even once. bcoz, u no, shipz propellers, orcas, etc.
2002 I think is a little earlier than the research I was thinking of but that’s essentially the same conclusion.
Yeah I reboot my iPhone every weekend whether it needs it or not.
They should really take some money and use that to set up their own PDS.
150k > 88.9k
Thank you for empowering my first foray into professional software development! It just made making small utilities to get things done so easy.
There is a graveyard of hardware companies from the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
https://archive.ph/O62gQ
Memory is king.

Anything that has more memory and adequate compute will win the coming AI wars.

At the rate at which power consumption is growing now that the shortage of current gen cards has started to work itself out people are realizing they need a fleet of nuclear reactors to keep the data centers running. This is not something that's getting fix with the coming generation, if anything it's worse.
Shouldn’t be a problem on the moon.
I don't really want to do anything to deanonymize a guy who clearly wants to be anonymous. But I will say that at the time he had long hair.
I’m betting it’ll be configurable via MDM.
Well that makes sense when you consider the game has been translated into an (I'm assuming monotonically increasing) alphanumeric representation. So, just like language, you're given an ordered list of tokens and you need to find the next token that provides the highest confidence.
I know that any code I write before around 9:45 in the morning will be seen as regrettable and rewritten at some point in the next few days. So the earlier I sit down to write code the more rework there will be. This is somewhat less true if my adrenaline is high from being smacked with production issues first thing in the morning, but adrenaline is not a sustainable strategy.
I doubt you will ever understand what the siege was really like, while you are making fun of it. Is it really that fun?
Trust Is Not For Sale
The same traits that make me good at emergency situations and deep work make me lousy for early bedtime. I have some coping mechanisms now but there were years where I had to go to bed exhausted to get to sleep. And some days that’s 10:30, others that’s 2:30.
I like Xitter too. Also "the dead bird site" which occurs quite a lot on Mastodon
Specifically, I asked a former colleague at Google to to ask one of his connections at the prospective employer to ping HR. Sounds like you thought I was asking my dad's friend to help me or something...?
The Muller Report found 'Russiagate' to be based in fact. It was demonstrated that there were inappropriate contacts between Trump's campaign and Russia, which was shown to have interfered with the 2016 election. Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, George Papadopolous, Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Jeff Sessions, and more were all shown to have contacts with Russians?
It’s so frustrating having a nice Shortcut idea just to hit a limitation right away.
My kid (15 yo) keeps producing games in Python on his iPhone using Pythonista. Latest one is a Tetris clone with load/save game, music, animations on removing a line. I offer to help if he runs into problems but he prefers to hack away and learn on his own. Proud dad here :-)
I would be ok with 8 hours during daytime, and some smart functionality for sleepy time. After all it’s just a reboot. I can’t remember the last decade I didn’t unlock my phone during the daytime.
PDS?
Not approving all the time, just setting every call by default to $1. Everyone who knows you will call knowing they’ll get their money back. And you can do an easy “add everyone in your contacts to a whitelist”, boom done.
There is a technical reason for it, and it’s explained in an adjacent thread. Accepting every single small-scale IdP would result in a strictly worse security posture for PyPI as a whole, with no actual benefit to small instances (who are better off provisioning API tokens the normal way instead of using Trusted Publishing).
Are you judging him by his Presidency or by his post-Presidency?

Anyway, Carter lost reelection in a landslide, so what does that say about the voters?
That's a very odd take, not what I meant at all. All it got me was an interview, and then I went through the standard process, at two different companies.
Everyone who is capable of building this thing has the option to take on paid extra work doing /something/, even if it's tutoring rich college brats in calculus at $50/hr.
I mean, this is just life no? You have to be places, and be responsible for things, even when you would prefer not to be?
Self-reply since I can't edit my comment: I used professional connections, not personal ones. And all it did was get me an initial interview vs. being ignored by HR.
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This is a PyTorch implementation of the paper PROGRESSIVE LEARNING AND DISENTANGLEMENT OF HIERARCHICAL REPRESENTATIONS by Zhiyuan et al, ICLR 2020. The official code for proVLAE, implemented in TensorFlow: https://github.com/Zhiyuan1991/proVLAE
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