skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"git for x" is overrated.

Git can compare binary diffs like Word files by using custom diff drivers and external text conversion tools. Git allows you to configure a process where these files are converted into a readable format for diffing.

Define a custom diff driver. Create or edit a `.gitattributes` file in your repository and associate Word files with a specific diff driver, for example: `*.docx diff=word`. Then, configure Git to use an external text conversion tool for this driver. This is done by running a command like `git config --global diff.word.textconv "your-conversion-command"`, where `your-conversion-command` is a tool or script capable of extracting text from Word files.

`pandoc` can extract text from Word documents, and you can configure it by running `git config --global diff.word.textconv "pandoc --to=plain"`. Another option is `docx2txt`, which can be set up with a command like `git config --global diff.word.textconv "docx2txt.pl -"`.

Running `git diff` on Word files will pass them through the configured conversion tool and display the differences in their text content. This approach is ideal for comparing the textual content of Word files but doesn’t account for formatting or binary-level differences. If you need a detailed binary comparison, you can integrate an external diff tool with Git by using `git difftool`.
Who cares what it is called? I care about the capabilities.

In my experience when people say things like this what they're just projecting insecurity
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The scam and spam call problem is really bad in Germany to this day. And has been for 10 years.

A couple years ago I would sit at my desk thinking about a really hard problem in silence. The phone rings. Spam call. Every 30-180 minutes another one. If you now think turn the phone off, well not that easy as CEO of a business when people expect you to be reachable.

It creamed my corn so much that I recorded my own voice samples as a senile "Opa Denny" (german grandpa Denny), modelled after Lenny. Complete with background ducks hanging out on the couch to Opas dismay, later in the call. It works on autopilot without interaction because on Asterisk, and with the largest German SIP provider at least, you can extract the calling peer identity from the SIP header. So I wrote a scoring system based on indicated number, black and whitelist regexs for number and for calling peer, greylist for the geographically surrounding number prefixes, etc. A legit mobile call would show up as number@t-mobile.de for example, while a spam call would say fakenumber@01012.com.

Asterisk would record the call in wideband stereo, normalize the audio, and mail it to me as MP3 attachment. Funny for a while, but these days I just throw all such calls onto the mailbox. Since they need a real person to scam or create a sale, the call is finished right away.

It works great to this day, because I never published it.
Or 1930s Great Depression no work for almost five years tough?

I expect most people here won't have a good sense for 2009. While it wasn't great for many industries, for tech it was the "app" boom. You couldn't hardly go outside without someone throwing money at you.
I'm not so sure deferring research and fact checking should be left up to AI if Google's AI search results are any indication.

I do like the synonym and antonym features, though I'd love to pick from a list instead of grabbing a random word out of the bag.
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The reason people are holding out is that the current generation of models are still pretty poor in many areas. You can have it craft an email, or to review your email, but I wouldn't trust an LLM with anything mission-critical. The accuracy of the generated output is too low be trusted in most practical applications.
Edit: i looked at it more closely and the way the people are sitting, their direction, is totally unnatural.
I think it's just plain not true anymore. Occasionally we add new capabilities that really do need high power, but even then a lot of that is just AI and we're making lots of dedicated accelerator chips.

We already have enough abstraction layers so that an average mediocre dev can work with insane complexity, mega frameworks have enough of a monoculture to attract interest in optimization.

Linter tools are better so we can optimize more while breaking less.

Plus we're mostly free from the tyranny of "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" being used to bludgeon people into not optimizing anything.

For now Crypto is out of the mainstream, we're starting to see decentralized tech without it again.
As long as the scammer's paying to route the call, I'm ok with this. And the telcos' fitness function for their pool of robogrannies should be time-spent-on-call. Making it uneconomic is the way to kill it.
It's OK to have an unpopular opinion here, but not OK to cast aspersions on people who object to that opinion.
Why it's in rich nations' interests to fund climate finance
It is Ubuntu issue, it is cloud-init issue. You can get the same result on other distros provisioned by cloud-init.
Could you elaborate on the plummeting? I remember that that happened in Denmark, but when I googled now, it seems EV sales started growing again almost at once and are now at about 57% of the market. Do you know some countries where EV sales plummeted and then stayed low?
I think it would be more odd to take someone with such a shtick at their word, but skepticism abounds either way.
And when your site dies is the crypto gone?
A popularity-based wealth distribution scheme. What could go wrong?

Reminds me of https://community-sitcom.fandom.com/wiki/MeowMeowBeenz
That's why I do want everything open ; in the end these companies will end up like all of them. Pay per month, still get ads, service declining and that until they disappear. It seems with Qwen en Llama and cheap storage, we can build similar experiences already/soon.
Plenty of humans, unfortunately, are incapable of admitting limitations. Many years ago I had a coworker who believed he would never die. At first I thought he was joking, but he was in fact quite serious.

Then there are those who are simply narcissistic, and cannot and will not admit fault regardless of the evidence presented them.
> Honestly given what we know about physics, the AI should be able to simulate physics within itself or deduce certain things we've missed.

If by "AI" you mean language models, then no, it will not "be able to simulate physics within itself". No way.
"Is gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct function calling a chess-playing model instead of generating through the base LLM?"

I'm absolutely certain it is not. gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct is one of OpenAI's least important models (by today's standard) - it exists purely to give people who built software on top of the older completion models something to port their code to (if it doesn't work with instruction tuned models).

I would be stunned if OpenAI had any special-case mechanisms for that model that called out to other systems.

When they have custom mechanisms - like Code Interpreter mode - they tell you about them.

I think it's much more likely that something about instruction tuning / chat interferes with the model's ability to really benefit from its training data when it comes to chess moves.
Always follow the money.

There is no incentive to care about UX.

Companies (i.e. executives, owners) are customers of cloud providers (not devops/devs) - they don't work in its UI => they don't care about it.

b2b products virtually always have terrible UX for that reason, even in competitive markets (UX is rarely an important competitive advantage)
I literally quit my previous job, because people were hired after "a few Coursera courses".

Sorry, if you "learned online" and haven't spent a few years building software - you aren't immediately as qualified as a graduate from IIT.
Git push and& get paid
> Put another way, if I gift you a Ledger with USDC today, you as a possible crypto newbie need to work out how to get ETH to move that USDC.

Or I could just gift them ETH instead of USDC
I don’t think this is the main point of the paper. They’re not claiming that AI is capable of scientific breakthroughs. Rather, they argue that AI excels at summarising vast amounts of existing scientific knowledge.
This song brings back good memories for me. Other songs from that era I remember are "Life in a Northern Town", "Walk Like an Egyptian", some Corey Hart songs.
I've also worked on hundreds of M&A deals as a lawyer. Word's version comparison tools (Track Changes, Compare Changes, etc.) are more than sufficient for tracking or identifying changes in a document.

Could it be better? Sure.

But the alternative would have to be absolutely amazing to justify the expense of an additional tool and the time spent learning the intricacies of said tool. Word is already good enough at covering the bases that it's almost impossible for an external tool to be worth it.

There's a ton of noise. When I was reviewing documents, 80% of the changes that showed up as redline changes weren't real changes but were just formatting updates (e.g., page renumberings, section renumberings).

These are real changes. Citations are important for lawyers. For example, in an M&A deal, language in the contract will very frequently refer to another terms, conditions, or other language in another section of the contract. This makes it imperative to be able to track section renumberings, because those internal references matter. (Word does have the ability to create internal cross references that will automatically update when sections are renumbered, but not many people know that this functionality exists...or that it has been part of Word since at least Word 2000.) Also, bold, italics, and other emphasizing formatting can have a semantic bearing on the interpretation of contractual language. They may not be significant to you but they are significant to someone.

As far as I know, Word doesn't have any way of making this safe by default.

This is the same risk you would have with any comments stored within a document shared with external parties. The solution is not to become dependent on an additional tool; the solution is to build it into the process by having an attorney or paralegal spend 5 seconds to scrub the document using the built-in Word tools designed for this task.
What?

Can you explain where you think I set goalposts, and how you think I moved them? Because I am not following.
Gotta be the onion. Infowars publishes higher quality conspiracy theories that is fit to print.
or emit tgf for yEd, for more layout variants with less work
>You know damn well

No, I don't. Because I don't think it has a clear referent at all.

Aside from which, what I do or don't know is completely irrelevant to what Elon Musk means when he uses the term.

That said, I'm pretty sure that the guy who owns Tesla is in favour of EVs taking over.

>They’re simply using a wink and a nod with the word “agenda”

This is exactly why political "discussion" doesn't work well on HN.
> I have signed more NDAs in my career than I have commits in public repos :)

Someone like you is extremely experienced and skilled, and has a reputation in your industry. You started working before it was normal and trivial to build stuff in public. Such activities were even frowned upon if I recall correctly (a friend got fired merely for emailing a dll to a friend to debug a crash; another was reprimanded for working on his own projects after hours at the office, even though he never intended to ever sell them).

That you have a reputation means posting work publicly would be of little to no value to your reputation. All the people who need to know you already do or know someone reputable who does.
I believe that we process facts in a narrative. If you look at a bare fact, your mind automatically creates a narrative.

Murder rate 1%

22 Angstrom

Purple Burglar Alarm

That narrative takes place in a framing story.

'Science', among other things, is a very detailed framing story that modern society uses to evaluate facts.

An individual's framing story includes all of their history and biases and motivated reasoning and incentives and all the rest of the fallacies.

So yes, bad science is fiction, but even good science is narrative. If this feels wrong, go re-read a paper. Look at a figure or a sentence in the abstract. Your mind constructs a narrative.
From Zero to Published: Fine-Tuning a Text Summarization Model with No Code
I know they had coal mines once, it's just surprising to me that they have coal mines. It's a small densely populated country with relatively small natural resources extraction industry, I thought.
New scifi story idea: two space ships tethered to spin together, Mars-bound on a multi-month trajectory, both carrying crew[1], and one of them has the cliched space horror encounter with nasty alien life -- tell the story mostly from the point of view of the other crew. What to do?

[1]: Cargo can fly cheaper & slower, not worry about radiation exposure.
One of the two echo chambers was bound to be correct in terms of vote counting.
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I totally agree that there's no disputing the origin of techno, but personally I'm not convinced it matters much to the broader history of jungle. Two reasons: house predates techno by several years; and the historical connection from house to jungle is a bit easier to trace than any influence of Detroit techno.

Both Chicago house and NYC/NJ Garage house developed in the early to mid 80s, whereas techno (as a term as well as a cohesive sound) didn't become a thing until the late 80s.

To be clear, I'm not trying to downplay the absolutely massive importance of the Belleville Three at all. But I would consider Juan Atkins' early work to be electro, rather than techno. And meanwhile Kevin Saunderson's best songs always felt more house-like than techno to my ear.

Anyway, jungle's most immediate predecessor was UK breakbeat hardcore, which combined breakbeats from funk and hip hop, with synth influences from acid house (Chicago) and new beat (Belgium), among other house-derived genres. I guess I just don't hear much of a techno influence in early jungle. In my view, that doesn't come in until some slightly later drum and bass subgrenres like techstep.

That all said, definitely agree that the timeline described in the article (which gave credit to Germany and the UK) is just plain wrong.
Calls it “HumaneRank”, this is already off to a shaky start.

> Imagine a system in which every month, every human in the nation state or other political polity participates in an exercise of the grant of endorsements to other humans

My guy, we’ve literally written dystopian sci-fi stories about this. The most 1:1 identical one being that Black Mirror episode. How can you possibly think this is a good idea?
I love the fact that [0] is one of the videos you see when you look it up on Google Maps.

[0] https://maps.app.goo.gl/fWHX7Ba4B6H9iemf7
Virtual tour of the vault: https://virtualtourcompany.co.uk/GlobalSeedVault/index.html
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This can be a huge road block. Even if the developer who wrote the code is still around, there's no telling if they will even remember writing that line, or why they did so. But in most projects, that original developer is going to be long gone.

I leave myself notes when I do bug fixes for this exact reason.
Also, ebony and ivory. Absolutely terrible.
The ads on some information-channels carry a lot of information about the audience, and so, about the channel.

Some are dominated by reverse mortgages, supplements, buy-gold ads, Franklin “mint”, and, if online, crypto scams.

This happens to be a convenient way to quickly tell when you’re headed deep into a particular part of Bullshit Country.

[edit] point is I find it unsurprising they had a supplement business. It’s probably the easiest of the above to break into.
I have considered creating this email service. I’m sure many others have as well, in some form or another. Does it already exist?
Congrats on launching! Looks pretty neat.

I like the fact that BaseStorage is abstract. `sqlite-vec` had been pretty good at what it does, in case you're looking for a good built-in vector search.
It's the opposite actually; CO2 interacts with petroleum in controllable ways via pressure, so engineers can change the properties of the oil and end up extracting more oil more quickly.
For me, len() is much less ambiguous.

Also in Pandas if you try to check the truth value of a dataframe to see if it’s empty, it will fail. It will say “the truth value of a dataframe is ambiguous”.

df.empty is less ambiguous but you have to remember it specifically for dataframes.

But len(df) > 0 almost always works for any type of collection.
An LLM doing crypto spam/scamming has been making money by tricking Marc Andressen into boosting it. So to the degree that "scamming gullible billionaires and their fans" is a job, that's been done.
> The sandbox is not a security flaw; it’s a deliberate, contained environment built to provide interactivity without risk.

It seems the main takeaway is that ChatGPT is running in a sandboxed environment and is designed to execute arbitrary code?
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Printf debugging excels on environments where there's already good logging. Here I just need to pinpoint where in my logs things have already gone wrong and work my way backwards a bit.

You could do the same with a debugger setting up a breakpoint, but the logs can better surface key application-level decisions made in the process to get to the current bad state.

On a debugger I need to wind back on all functions, which it might get awful as some of them might be likely correct library calls that you need to skip over when going back in time, but that will take a huge portion of the functions called before the breakpoint.
I don't think it's impossible to do with a debugger, but logging sort of bypasses the process of telling the debugger what's relevant so it can hide the rest, and it might already be in your codebase, but there's no equivalent annotations already there in the code to help the debugger understand what's important.

To me printf helps surfacing the relevant application-level process to get to a broken state, and debuggers help understand hairy situations where things have gone wrong at a lower level, say missing fields or memory corruption, but these days with safer languages lower level issues should be way less frequent.

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On a side-note, it doesn't help debuggers that going back in time was really hard with variable-length instructions. I might be wrong here, but it took a while until `rr` came out.

I do think that complexities like that resulted in spending too much time dealing with hairy details instead of improving the UI for debugging.
Dumb question: is it rootless for users on something like macOS?

I'd love to get the benefits of Docker without the battery drain and the Docker software, but I'm not sure if Podman would help much with either.
> feels like the "digitization" era all over again

This exactly. And as history shows, no matter how much effort the current big LLM companies do they won't be able to grasp the best uses for their tech. We will see small players developing it even further. I'm thankful for the legendary blindness of these anticompetitive behemoths. Less than 2 decades ago: IBM Watson.
The GPL seems to be respected well enough that businesses avoid it like the plague.
The voice was uncanny. Simply hard to listen to,
despite being realistic. I mean precisely that: it
is cognitively difficult to string together meaning
from that voice.

What? According to the information under the linked video,

In order to protect Gwern's anonymity, I proposed
interviewing him in person, and having my friend Chris
Painter voice over his words after. This amused him
enough that he agreed.

I'm not familiar with the SOTA in AI-generated voices, so I could very well be mistaken.

But it did not sound fake to me, and the linked source indicates that it's a human.

Perhaps it sounds uncanny to you because it's a human reading a transcript of a conversation.... and attempting to make it sound conversational, as if he's not reading a transcript?
100%

I used to be a sucker for this type of books: non-fiction, "science-based", feel-good, insight-porn pamphlets inflated to 300 pages with shoehorned anecdotes and a very distinct flavour of extrapolative slop.

They are usually written by journalists, TED-addicted researchers and, more recently, Youtube and Twitter influencers.

The depressing thing is: For me, the realization that 99% of them are shit only came after reading hundreds of them. My guess is that my brain needed enough samples in order to start accurately classifying them.

It's like one develops taste only after being exposed to a lot of terrible art, since then the actual great art stands out like a beacon.
So you want absolute religious zeal in open source? As opposed to "tolerance" quotes from your link ..

"First of all, love the Lord God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole strength. "

"Obey in all things the commands of those whom God has placed in authority over you even though they (which God forbid) should act otherwise, mindful of the Lord's precept, "Do what they say, but not what they do." "

"Fulfill not the desires of the flesh; hate your own will. '

I hate sjw corrupting coc's invading the foss meritocracy as much as the next guy but this is so radicaly on the other side of the spectrum I think I hate it just as much .. being reactionary to sjws like this is still letting them win.
I'm curious, what was the leap after GPT-4? What about the leaps after that, given a leap every 6 months?
Thank you! Will look into that
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NZ and Germany comes to mind - both eliminated / cut subsides end of 2023.

In NZ electric car sales went from 19% (of total car sales) in 2023 to ~7% in 2024
https://evdb.nz/ev-stats

In Germany it's quite similar:
https://eu-evs.com/brandCharts/TESLA/DE/YoY-Chart
"Lawfare" is when people break the law and are actually prosecuted for it even though they are rich and right wing and think they laws don't apply to them.

Alex Jones wasn't even subtle about it. He was getting judgements telling him to stop spouting blatant lies about victims of a mass shooting and he just doubled down on the lies. Repeatedly. The courts kept giving him more rope and he kept tying more nooses.
Haha - my favourite WTF Googling moment was when, as a callow youth first setting out in learning Javascript and HTML, I Googled "How to get head"
> For a lot of folks with tremors or other mobility issues, their eyes may be much more stable than their fingers. It might be helpful to weigh the tradeoffs you're presenting with alternatives including a jittery inaccurate finger in the center of their vision, or even just not being able to use the UI at all.

I did not suggest otherwise

> For the above reasons, that's exactly how they're marketing it

That's not how it's being received (see other HN users in this very topic) nor how Apple is marketing it for Vision Pro
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1885938/whats-meani... says 'in the article Frege, Peano and Russell on Descriptions: a Comparison, Francisco A. Rodríguez-Consuegra tracks down the source to Peano's Studii di logica matematica (1897) as where the operator first appears'

That page in 'Studii di logica matematica' appears to be https://archive.org/details/peano-studii-di-logica-matematic... .

It also uses an upside-down C and upside-down E.
100% does not look like an ai gen
$1B is the amount it took to get him to stop. He could have stopped earlier, and had ample opportunity, but that was apparently his price.
Bloodhound gang enters the room. Ladies and gentlemen, brace yourselves

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