skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't quite get why this is seen as stalling or hitting a plateau rather than the point where research has to move on to the next step for AI development (assuming that's the goal).

LLMs were never going to be artificial intelligence. At best LLMs would be an analog for the language center of a brain, and it sure seems like they nailed it.

What they would need next is the other functions of a brain beyond just language - imagine a human if the only part of their brain that worked was the language center. OpenAI kind of gets to that with o1, but at least what I know of it the attempt seems like a pretty hacky proof of concept.

If they really want AI they are very likely going to have to make breakthroughs in algorithm and architecture to best serve other brain functions, similar to what LLM architecture did for language.
So far, non-English inputs have been most telling: I deal with Ukrainian datasets mostly, and what we see is OpenAI models, the Chinese models, of course, and Llama's, to admittedly, lesser extent—all degrading disproportionately compared to the other models. You know what model degrades the least comparatively? Gemma 27b. The arena numbers would suggest it's not so strong, but they'd actually managed to make something useful for the whole world (I can only judge re: Ukrainian, of course, but I suspect it's probably equally good in the other languages, too.) However, nothing can compete currently with Sonnet 3.5 in reasoning. I predict a surge in the private eval scene when people inevitably grow wary of leaderboard-propaganda.

More people should host https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat
My guess would be that there's probably some correlation between lass choice and decision fatigue.

Whenever I go grocery shopping it always takes me quite a while to decide which rice is worth my hard earned money and which isn't, especially because some rice makes my tiny rice cooker to start foaming all over.
Fun local wikipedia: https://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haaptblatt

I'd have to imagine the intersection of Pennsylvania Dutch speakers and internet-active wikipedia-editing people must be small, but it's obviously not nonexistent!

https://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsilfaanisch_Deitsch

> S'menscht vun die Schwetzer sinn heit Amische un Fuhremennischte, wu Deitsch aa heit noch schwetze zu ihre Kinner, awwer's hot aa en latt Luthrische un Reformierte un Leit vun en Wisch annre Gmeeschafte, wu die Mudderschprooch noch gschwetzt henn, dieweil ass sie Kinner waare.
Ye thanks for the reminder arethuza. Better not forget I might get glass schrapnel in the left side of the face without notice. WFH would have its advantages.
That’s a common issue when copying files! When you copy a file, Windows (or most OS) sees it as a "new" file in the destination folder, so it updates the Date Created to the current date and time. Date Modified personal injury lawyer sometimes stays the same (if the content didn’t change), but this varies. https://www.flaxmanlaw.com/
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Will make your customers dull and dumber over time. As well as the user. Studies tba.
It's very simple: Transit in many places is underfunded. Travel info screens cost money to install and maintain. Ads, on the other hand, make money.
I was thinking more of a liquidator was doing retail as well.

A liquidator selling wholesale to retailers is going to sell for less but would also avoid the expenses of retail sales.
I listened to a review that said an i7 Thinkpad was cool and quiet with an 8-10 hour battery life. Fans scream at the slightest load, it's 45 degrees constantly and the battery life is 3 hours if you don't touch it and 1 hour if you do. And digging deeper, that's just normal for them. Serves me right for trusting a "real" reviewer.

Should have insisted on a Framework, by the sounds of it, it would actually have at least not worse battery life.
True. I quoted from the article of the first tweet you linked to. In hindsight I should've phrased differently instead of saying you

I meant to address people in general that share this worldview.
My university was the only place in my city that had a plant for liquid nitrogen so they supplied all the hospitals. They also were pretty cool about giving it out, so you could do diy ice cream or minor cosmetic procedures.
Ive seen RT call it a war. When Russian propaganda calls it an "SMO" it's not because theyre allergic to the word "war" but because they legally didnt declare war.

This is not unusual. The US, for instance, didnt declare war on Iraq when it launched its unprovoked invasion.

>The "peaceful" annexation of Crimea also came with Russian funding of separatist groups in eastern Ukraine and the shooting down of civilian aircraft. How peaceful is that?

Not very, but neither was the Andrey Parubiy led terrorist attack from Hotel Ukraina which kicked off this civil war.

Kiev could have put him in prison for taking a sniper rifle to the top of the hotel and committing mass murder against peaceful protestors but instead he was elected to the Rada.

The Ukrainian war hero Nadia Savchenko who identified him - she is still, ironically, the only person to be convicted and imprisoned in relation to the terrorist attack which kicked off this civil war.
GP is referring to universal Turing machines (those that can emulate an arbitrary Turing machine) and not a specific Turing machine.
Were they really, really bad quality? They might have been leftovers from the 1990s.

I used to download them over a modem.
But that should be the way it is done rather than be a joke.
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This is a bit odd coming from the company of chaos engineering - has the chaos monkey been abandoned at Netflix?

I have long advocated randomly restarting things with different thresholds partly for reasons like this* and to ensure people are not complacent wrt architecture choices. The resistance, which you can see elsewhere here, is huge, but at scale it will happen regardless of how clever you try to be. (A lesson from the erlang people that is often overlooked).

* Many moons ago I worked on a video player which had a low level resource leak in some decoder dependency. Luckily the leak was attached to the process, so it was a simple matter of cycling the process every 5 minutes and seamlessly attaching a new one. That just kept going for months on end, and eventually the dependency vendor fixed the leak, but many years later.
It’s kind of hard to reconcile that with their love for unnecessary and over-bearing bureaucracy, though..
This seems like the opposite of a meaningful relationship. A bot cannot offer emotional support, or share experiences. You've made yet another simulated friend, a high-tech version of the talking doll little kids have pretend relationships with.

If you notice "many" colleagues and friends suffering from loneliness and isolation why not reach out to them directly? That seems more ethical than trying to profit from them.
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Should've gone for Miele. Not even kidding.
I'm in a custody battle to allow shared custody of my daughter. I don't really have anybody else that's important to me here. I understand your message is about positivity and resilience, but I can't help to feel sad for not having had parents, and the lemons life is throwing you. I admire your attitude, and can't but hope you will find the love and connection from others to make the bitter sweeter.
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Yeah, it was also sad to see his mom's smile fade after that.
Tbf, it's not like this approach can't work at all. Airbus was born out of a similar dynamic, and it's giving Boeing a run for its money now. Afaik France has a couple of other giants in technology-heavy industries such as shipping or mining, but I couldn't speak to their success. What seems clear by now, though, is that the approach isn't suitable for "tech" (in the typical SV sense of the word), especially consumer-centric.
I'd like to add some more constraints, like "I'd like to maximize my time off around christmas", where you can see different alternatives e.g.

using 3 days off, you get 7 consecutive days
using 4 days off, you get 9 consecutive days

Because sprinkling them to maximize the total number of days isn't really interesting in reality, even though it's an interesting programming challenge. The reason is that I want to have at least maybe 4 out of 6 weeks off consecutively in the summer months, even if that's not maximizing the total number of consecutive days off. It's those remaining 5-10 days I'd like to optimize for particular holidays and so on.

You could also imagine assigning weights to the months. E.g. 1 day off in July is the same value as 10 days off in January (Say you live where the sun doesn't rise without saying you live where the sun doesn't rise)
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I found the job posting for Hadrius on the front page of Hacker News very interesting and would like to ask HN how they feel about it. However, there were no link for discussion and I could not repost the link to start one. Is it normal for Hacker News to have posts like this where discussion is disabled ahead of time?
This has been done forever. Ops team had cronjobs to restart misbehaving applications out of business hours since before I started working. In a previous job, the solution for disks being full on a VM on-prem (no, not databases) was an automatic reimage. I've seen scheduled index rebuilds on Oracle. The list goes on.
Should be interesting when they find out the reality of abortion laws in much of Europe. There's a tendency for some in the US to view Europe as everything they like about the US minus the stuff they don't like. The reality on the ground often turns out to be much more mixed, especially on things they assume to be the US way in Europe that simply aren't. Ultimately moving to a state like California or Washington is going to get them far more of what they want in return for effort required.
I think that's right. Probation periods themselves are required to be 'reasonable', and I think 6 months is usually given as a figure that's definitely reasonable. But indeed, you don't have full rights until two years have passed.
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Yes it does make sense in the general case.

In the approved countries a regulatory body has had to approve this as a medical aid. If medical aids etc did not have to be approved then things that actually hurt and kill people could be sold as medical aids.

The issue here is that this case appears to be a non damaging aid and so it looks silly to ban it. But regulations have to work otherwise they are of no use.

The issue here is either regulators in other countries are slow or in the worst case Apple has not applied for approval.
I agree that the popular vote is a key metric, extremely important, perhaps even more than maintaining a close relationship between those elected and the voters, which is often the goal of the balancing rules.

As for an example, look at Germany before 2011 or Britain even now. (If you're not familiar with Germany, it used to allocate about half of the Bundestag seats in a manner like the British, and the Bundestag elects the government. In 2011 the system was modified to keep the distorting effects small. I glanced at a random wikipedia page now, for 1994, and the winning coalition got 47.5% of the votes and 51.1% of the seats.)
If you mean Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable OO software by Gamma et al, it was published in 1994. Java came out in 1995.

The Patterns book was originally a C++ text.

All programming languages have design patterns, they aren’t patterns as in “templates you should follow”, they are patterns as in “concepts you will see frequently for solving classes of problems”.

The Design Patterns book was a bestiary not a guide to replacement features.
Apple doesn't want you to use it while charging. They succeeded.
I have a 27inch Phillips 4K and its pretty good. Comes at a price point of 400 bucks though,ast I checked.
Looks like an Arc alternative, but how trustable is this? I read some comments here mentioning how electron is not very safe. Besides, it's a one man project. Can a browser be a one man business?
Your dad is surely still suffering from this loss and if I had to guess, is probably awfully lonely and misses you. Life is too short to estrange family members over their political beliefs. Have you tried finding common ground in other areas, or asking your dad not to talk about politics? Along the lines of, “I miss you but your politics drive me crazy, can we hang out and not talk about anything political”?

If your dad can’t agree to be apolitical when you spend time together then it’s his choice to be estranged from you. But maybe he can, and maybe you guys can find a connection again.

I speak from personal experience here. I hope you’re able to find some reconciliation.
No, creating a throwaway account and making a superfluous claim creates the thread sentiment.

There might be valid comparisons for specific Epyc generations and their Xeon counterparts. But processors are a bit like car engines. Power and torque numbers doesn't tell the whole story.

Datacenter processors are optimized for different scenarios. Use the wrong processor for the wrong job, and you get abysmal performance. We have an AMD system which won't win any speed records, but that thing has enormous number of memory channels and PCIe lanes, so it's basically a semi with an extra long trailer.

Fittingly, that processor lives in a storage cluster and delivers tremendous amount of I/O both in IOPS and throughput. Same processor would look silly in a compute cluster, though.
I think they meant that compared to specific chips.

AMDs x3D chips are exceptionally good for gaming but are relatively very poor for MT “productivity” stuff (this gen seems to be a lot better at that, though).

13/14th gen also seemingly also had somewhat better price/performance overall than AM5 chips.
It's definitely valuable in the domain layer of a business application, Typescript and Go support it as well.
When using implicit typing, definitely `var foo = (int Foo)12`. Less sure what the explicit variant should look like, since parsing may be trickier, but `(int Foo) foo = 12` might work?
Very convenient.

Or you could back up your claim with actual data.
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Hey, Simon! Have you ever considered to host private evals? I think, with the weight of the community behind you, you could easily accumulate a bunch of really high-quality, "curated" data, if you will. That is to say, people would happily send it to you. More people should self-host stuff like https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat without revealing their dataset, I think, and we would probably trust it more than the public stuff, considering they already trust _you_ to some extent! So far the private eval scene is just a handful of guys on twitter reporting their findings in unsystematic manner, but a real grassroots approach backed up by a respectable influencer would go a long way to change that.

Food for thought.
“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”.

If we distanced ourselves from everyone who made a mistake or who believed something different than we believe, we would have no relationships at all.
> if you can't afford it, the state will pay it for you.

So like in the US?
I've been trying to get my hands on one of these for years, but they were only ever sold in the US and Ebay was either just full of scalpers, and now full of grifters trying to sell a near useless device for ridiculous prices as a collectors object. It's still e-waste.
Job ads for YC companies have comments disabled, yes.
>Garbage collector needs to prove that what's being collected is garbage

Some collectors may need to do this, but there are several collectors that don't. EpsilonGC is a prime example of a GC that doesen't need to prove anything
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Hi HN.

I work for a small business (5-10 people). We like to think of ourselves as a software company, but for all intents and purposes we operate like a consultancy. We're mostly devs, no *real* sales, marketing or BD people on the team.

Each year we try to get more projects signed off with more clients, hoping one may stick and turn into a SaaS type offering. But so far that's only worked once.

FWIW, we primarily deal with computer vision (object detection, segmentation, etc) in a fairly niche sector, where all our potential clients are behemoth corps that move slowly and are not used to a change of process within the corp.

For the time being I've given up on the dream of becoming a SaaS with a single core product. So, how do I focus our efforts on scaling up this consultancy?
You could write to them and ask them to support London. Maybe they'll fly Etienne over and have him ride the whole system!
In my city, I noticed that some shops in some streets keep changing hands over the years, and some are stable even if they don't look like they get a lot of traffic. I never investigated this or looked deeper into it, but I have a hunch that it also has to do with "fluid dynamics" in some sort of way. Meaning that the shop is located in a "low pressure" zone of foot traffic where people are either moving fast, distracted, or pushed away by some kind of obstacle. Or, the shop is somewhat less visible than the surrounding ones. This leads the shop to not getting many visitors, and eventually closing. I wonder if there's been any research behind this.
> irrelevant stuff like the stock market

The stock market is a good idea. Without it you wouldn't have most things you think are a good idea, nor probably half the things you think are a scandal because not everyone has them.

> But our economical model can only handle things that make more money for rich people, so we won't.

No, it handles all sorts of things.
Since almost everyone doing telemetry feels entitled to it, thus doesn't even try to convince or justify it to the users - yes, all telemetry is equal until proven otherwise.
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General dead reckoning is hard.

But dead reckoning for train travel should be massively easier. Train movement is constrained to tracks so you only need to resolve how far along track train has moved + possible junctions, which should already make the problem much simpler than e.g. airplane ins where you are resolving full 3d position. To make things even more easier, you only need to reckon between individual stops which prevents error accumulation over the whole trip. Lastly you have schedule information, so you know roughly where the train should be at any given moment.
Another tidbit: on high speed trains (maybe on regular trains too idk) the 'door flange' which is actually a hollow pneumatic tube (it can detect spike in pressure that's how the train know it's trying to close the door on somebody's hand) get's pressurized higher before entering the tunnel, to mitigate the "slam" effect due to the difference in pressure.
You'll also see this in wireshark as retransmissions of packets. It's really great for discovering that a service you've written isn't filling packets and can only get 50-ish bps throughput due to head-of-line blocking and sending lots of tiny packets.
Thanks, that is an idea I didn’t have and worth considering. Exclusion traumatized me in the past and that still haunts everyday. I didn’t thought it can be used for good.
I was just wondering how well this would do on a system in poor repair with mixed generation trains that stop mid tunnel, i.e. Boston.
A commenter on Reddit [1] pointed out that you can access the hearing test feature directly by using a special URL:

x-apple-health://HearingAppPlugin.healthplugin/HearingTest

I wonder if there’s a similar deep link to be found to enable Hearing Aid mode?

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/AirpodsPro/comments/1gftyqo/is_the_...
The current admin was very close to excluding Tesla by applying EV credits to only union companies, would be interesting to see if the next admin can use some loophole to prefer Tesla.
"Classifier" how quaint. I am impressed that they wrote the whole article without mentioning "AI" one time.
Every time this story comes up I ask.

How did they light fire, and what vessels did they use to boil water?

I ask this after years of adventure is the Yukon wilderness, where we play the game “if the canoe flipped and we lost everything, could we survive?”. Often the answer is “not unless we luckily rescue our rifles or lighters or gps beacon. Maybe we could walk out in a month. Maybe.
That’s an existential threat to Russia. If Ukraine succesfully made a change more Russian sattelites would get the idea that it’s possible to escape the Russian grip. Second is the power projection on the Black Sea Russia was set to lose.
The vat bit is interesting. In Europe, the companies are the one responsible, in the USA, it's the consumers.

I think VAT is a bad tax overall, a vestigial appendage from colonialism, and would prefer to ultimately remove it, but I think the US system is overall better. At least more transparent.
> I'm unsure what planet you're from with that comment.

Let's put it this way: there's that much variance in population density on this planet.

Around myself, personally owned roof is a luxury. A parking lot is a 5-story building if not 5-stories structure directly below a building. On the other hand, to some others, solar panels as sheds in a ranch is just a fancy shed that they're going to need anyway.

Rooftop solar for one household on a midrange under-$1m 50-story mega-condo with 20 rooms per floor reduces power draw of the building by 1/1000th. Outside the mega-city is mountain ranges and water sources. The rest 999/1000th of power has to come from there if it can't be sourced in-city, which means stripping mountains to bare soil and covering lakes in mega floats and dealing with environmental releases all the time, or alternatively just finding a valley in the mountains and building massive metal cans to boil rocks could work too.

Might sound like a William Gibson parody, some places are just like that. Some parts of his works are effectively just portrayals.
I imagine this could be understood as making use of a monad. Right?

The main problem with generalised regexes is that you can't match them in linear time worst-case. I'm wondering if this is addressed at all by Raku.
A piece of text written by someone with actual experience, how nice :)
If you actually look at the issue you can see it was closed because Valve shipped a fix and people confirmed it was fixed. Then later some other people reply that they still have problems but without any useful information.
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You can login with a second account that is an EU account, my wife went this route. You get the best of both worlds.

I ended up transferring my account to an EU account (pro-tip, you may be on the phone with Apple support for 6+ hours if the automation fails). I still have access to both US-specific features (like Apple Cash in USD and the feature in this article) and EU-specific features (like the new app store stuff).
A much simpler way to do this is to move to a country or join a company where you get a lot of vacation days, and then you don't need to worry about it.
I know it’s upvoted so the community must find it interesting but this is an article from a site called "Hitsubscribe" which could as well has been written by ChatGPT (and to be fair I’m fairly certain that ChatGPT would give a better answer to the question "How to effectively delegate?").

Intro to management is not a common topic on HN so I was wondering if something special was linked to it.
It's a lot. Think about it this way with taxis. That was an economy that prior to ride-sharing stayed entirely within the local economy. Now there is a giant funnel the takes most of that money and funnels it to Silicon Valley and investors. That money exits the local economy for the most part now. And take this and apply it to everything tech.
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