skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Social media, specifically microblogging networks like old Twitter, were uniquely effective at delivering near real-time breaking updates in ways that left older news delivery systems in the dust.

IRC did it long before some worthless derp even dared to coin the term "social media".
Is Apple or IBM the underdog in 2024
But there could be a simple explanation. For example, they could have tested many "engines" when developing function calling and they just left them in there. They just happened to connect to a basic chess playing algorithm and nothing sophisticated.

Also, it makes a lot of sense if you expect people to play chess against the LLM, especially if you are later training future models on the chats.
I wonder if there is a moral hazard here? Apple doesn't really have much in terms of AI, so maybe more likely to have an unfavorable view.
I was definitely leaning this way too, really well put. Training at work (for all roles) definitely needs an upswing. As a freelance for many years I always made sure to do my own training, be it certifications or meetup groups or conferences. I have little real insight into how common that is nowadays, but I often read that it seems less common.
Ask HN: What's your terminal and shell setup?
Currently using Terminator when on Ubuntu and iTerm2 on my macbook. Always with zsh + oh-my-zsh plus a handful of plugins and aliases.

Curious to know what the real terminal and shell wizards are up to.

Lately shell interactions have felt very slow and archaic without some kind of AI assistance now that I've become so used to having it when coding with Copilot. I've seen and tried some of the available AI shell tools but haven't liked any yet. Just typing command descriptions and waiting for the AI generated command doesn't feel like the right model. Literally just using copilot in a context where I could execute its output would probably be a better experience. If I remember correctly, when playing with Emacs there was one of the terminal options where the output and command line were in a single buffer and hitting enter on the last line would execute the command there. So I'm thinking that if there's a copilot plugin for Emacs and that terminal option, then combining the two might be pretty nice.
The receptive audience would notice and then find other venues, I suspect. Especially with the warning of the former webmaster.

Crazy bullshit is only tempting if it's part of your engrieved group. A clever roleplay won't have the spiritual depravtivy needed.
>And that’s a dealbreaker for many, many people.

Yup. The sole reason I haven't bought any of these meta headsets.

They come with strings attached. Or more like, they're fetters and chains.
Well I have a question for you: do you think this format of AI can actually think?

I.e. can it ruminate on the data it's ingested, and rather than returning the response of highest probability, return something original?

I think that's the key. If LLMs can't ultimately do that, there's still a lot to be gained from utilising the speed and fluidly scalable resources of computers.

But like all the top tech companies know, it's not quantity of bodies in seats that matters but talent, the thing that's going to prevail is raw intelligence. If it can't think better than us, just process data faster and more voluminously but still needing human verification, we're on an asymptotic path.
It just provides a different API for storage. You could say the same thing about IndexedDB being added when LocalStorage already existed - it's just a different API with some different performance characteristics.

And no, it's not for the benefit of you the user, but it's not to your detriment either. It's mostly for the benefit of the web developer. (It might be good for users indirectly if web developers make good use of it)
The 2024 DBIR, for whatever it's worth, repeatedly mentions software supply chain attacks.
But wait for security cargo-culters call it "security by obscurity"
> Decentralized social media is actually worse because it fragments information, which makes it harder to access, harder to collaborate on, hides subtle knowledge, and creates further in-groups and echo chambers.

Yeah, probably. But I hadn’t posted to the IPO garbage site since ~2013-ish. I enjoy my preferred replacement. There are actual dialogues. It’s missing a lot of great content for niche topics, but I consider the intimacy a strength.

True, I’m off all non-tech/science internet at the moment for mental wellbeing (USA citizen and I need less information about our current events, not more). And yes, that’s deliberate and it’s helped my state of mind. I’m reading more books and got back into a game I like.

I just don’t think decentralization is all that bad. Echo chamber? Yes. But who on FB or the shitty bird site hasn’t self-selected for that?
While one could argue whether Tesla or another company is the leader in this space, don't all promising self-driving approaches rely on this paradigm?
Those people can create their own projects then. If the library/foss project doesn’t make it because of popularity then natural selection of the code worked, if people choose to accept the latency then it succeeds because it’s utility is worth more than time saved during a compile.
> Where possible avoid simply using id as the primary identifier for the table.

I've found the opposite true in my limited experience, at least when doing any sort of ORM, then having id implicitly as the primary key makes life so much easier.
Surprised to see Go in your list though.
v2 is still a separate binary, it can just be installed in different ways (on Linux). If GGGP was referring to v1, then that's legacy software since 2+ years and they probably shouldn't use it.
>> have something like a status report and I’m having a hard time phrasing things

I believe the above suggested that this type of email likely doesn't need to be sent. Is anyone really reading the status report? If they read it, what concrete decisions do they make based on it. We all get in this trap of doing what people ask of us but it often isn't what shareholders and customers really care about.
> OpenAI clearly downgrades some of their APIs from their maximal theoretic capability, for the purposes of response time/alignment/efficiency/whatever.

When ChatGPT3.5 first came out, people were using it to simulate entire Linux system installs, and even browsing a simulated Internet.

Cool use cases like that aren't even discussed anymore.

I still wonder what sort of magic OpenAI had and then locked up away from the world in the name of cost savings.

Same thing with GPT 4 vs 4o, 4o is obviously worse in some ways, but after the initial release (when a bunch of people mentioned this), the issue has just been collectively ignored.
It sounds like there’s a lot more edge case complexity to this than the GP originally thought.

Like most DIY tinkerer solutions, unfortunately, which is why people like paying money for productised solutions - the time it takes to debug and troubleshoot home made solutions is often prohibitive for a lot of people who aren’t techheads.
Calling a person "VR native" is perhaps the worst thing ever said. I think "addicted to VR Chat" would be a more apt phrasing.
There are many ways to test for reasoning and deterministic computation as my own work in this space has shown .
Contrary to the original one, this editor doesn't automatically capitalize keywords.
It was a sort of syntax highlighting that I haven't seen on contemporary editors and IDEs. Does anybody know of a plugin to do that for common editors?
Yeah shortcuts could be much more useful. I wanted to make a post request when I arrive at some place with some additional javascript logic to update an authentication token. It just doesn’t work when running in the background, I have to manually trigger it
There's two alternate visions: anybody can work with anybody they trust, and Only BigCo Can Protect You.

We know the first falls apart because the Web of Trust fell apart. When the UI asks people "hey, this is new, here's the fingerprint, do you trust it?", nobody actually conducts review, they just mindlessly click "yes" and move on. Very, very, very few people will actually conduct full review of all changes. Even massive organizations that want to lie to themselves that they review the changes, end up just outsourcing the responsibility to someone who is willing to legally accept the risk then they go ahead and just mindlessly click "yes" anyway. There are just too many changes to keep track of and too many ways to obscure malicious code.

We know the second falls apart because human beings are both the inevitable and ultimate weakest link in even the robustest security architectures. Human beings will be compromised and the blast radius on these highly centralized architectures will be immense.

Pick your poison.
My complaint was adding lots of breaking changes to minor version upgrades. The fact, that historically they didn’t do breaking changes in major version upgrades does not excuse going against industry standards.

There are literally companies stuck on PHP 7 because going to 8 is too painful. And honestly with my decade of experience your claim that going from 4 to 8 isn’t that painful sounds like nonsense and something you haven’t done. And the claim that php 4 code will work on php 8 is 100% nonsense. The syntax for how classes were defined in 4 is not supported in 8.

I’ve upgraded the code to the major versions of other languages without hassle. But they generally had fewer breaking changes in their major versions when I upgraded to Vue3 which was super painless.

And can you point to a minor upgrade where Go changed the syntax to the point the old one no longer works? With Go normally it's the tooling that changes. I can't remember the syntax changing on me. Especially since they have a Compatability Promise[1] it seems weird.

[1] https://go.dev/doc/go1compat
> His tweets were soaked in that glib faux-distinterested mid-2010s hyper-online style

I think this is generational rather than decade-al. That's just how Gen X/early millenials talk about everything, and it's why Bluesky is still like that.

The other big example is that awful Cory Doctorow babytalk word "enshittification" - they love dropping in the occasional swear but only to make things sound even more smarmy.
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Are you _physically_ in the EU too?

I'm surprised that this worked for you, my main Apple ID is a German one, with active CC/subscriptions/etc; but I am physically in Japan and definitely don't get to play Fortnite on my phone.
They were censoring leaked pictures of Hunter Biden's penis.

You can't run a service where it shows every single post that someone wants to put up, even if they're "legal". It'd get full of spam, offend everyone so much they leave, or just force everyone to see Hunter Biden's penis.
Ask HN: Where do you go to find good articles to read?
I used to find great links to great articles (be it tech, economics, and so on) on Twitter (when it was boring). But it's all politics now. HN was also a good source but IDK, less so.

Where do you go to read new stuff?
Not modern nor equivalent. More of an artistic statement of some sort.

Gemini cannot be upgraded (or fixed). It was done as a one-off.

Gopher lives on.
Around the time this started, Google was going to penalize sites in its search ranking if they greeted users with an obtrusive popup. I thought that would strongly discourage cookie banners but then suddenly there was an explosion of stupid popups everywhere - newsletter signups, cookie banners, "special offers", overlaid ads, etc. I guess Google never did that thing?
The Guardian deleted their X account and will probably get on Bluesky at some point. There seems to slowly be a groundswell developing.
All that private key nonsense falls in this bucket as well. What else is a private key than an attempt to guard your system behind a thin veil of "an obscure number I know and you don't"? Classic security by obscurity.
HadesVR is the 6DoF capable low cost open source VR headset project with an active community.

https://github.com/HadesVR/HadesVR

It is derived from Relativty and the communities overlap.
Having done a few such forms in the past, it was easy enough for a simple dialog with a list, two buttons and a text field, but it quickly got unwieldy.

Which was okay back in the day. Everyone had low display resolutions, so simply scaling a window's controls when resizing was okay. No need for responsive layout and even too fancy layouts, I guess. But what we got later with anchor in WinForms, layout panels in WinForms or WPF, layout managers in Swing, and CSS layout die help reduce the math you'd have to do yourself, especially for more complex layouts or even when the layouts change due to different requirements.
What are named something like “limited liability company” in other countries are, as GP said, not equivalent to LLCs, they are approximately the same thing as US corporations.

US LLCs are a comparatively newer business form that was created mainly to be a streamlined form (compared to a corporation) for corporate joint ventures. They've since become popular for other uses beyond the original focus.
I was following you up until that first comma.
> Outside of the journalist and media class, nobody used twitter.

??? What???

Twitter has basically been the place for artists to share their stuff. It's a huge place for game and tech discussions and sharing knowledge. It lets absolute normies share stuff with thousands of people.

Meanwhile, facebook stories is much more limited in reach. People sharing pictures of their baby and vacations with family who'll click a thumbs up just to show they know you exist but don't care about the content. Instagram, facebook's other child, is for people to pose and post pictures of their lunch in an exotic location and pretend they just casually decided to eat 10000 miles from home because they're rich and spontaneous like that.

Twitter has been huge for creative types, and the content that thrives on Facebook-style platforms struggles there. A lot of them are currently migrating to bluesky due to various problems recently. Tumblr still kind of has a thing going on, but it's for much more niche art/fan fiction type stuff. But they're all for normies to go and see cool shit and not have to stare at endless feeds of "Me and my baby. Did you know I have a baby? I have a baby btw" type stuff.
You are correct to state over-reliance on AI as a data source will probably lead to society's intellectual atrophy. One could argue we have been on this path with other things but the whole thing more and more to me looks like eating your own vomit and forcing a smile on your face.

AI will always have a specific narrow focus and will never ever be creative, the best AI proponents can hope for is that the hallucinations will drop to a more unnoticable level.
You can block him and that doesn't happen. The main problem is the algorithm is wildly oversensitive and will show you 100 of any one thing you linger on for too long.

Same thing happens with competitors though. That's all Threads is. I enabled Bluesky's occasional algorithm posts in the following feed and it will not stop trying to show me hardcore gay porn I very much didn't ask for.
Ever since they introduced that, it tries hard to switch you back to for you and has never let you stay away from it permanently.
HN is a social media and was designed as such back when it was a smaller group of tech founders an angel investors sharing knowledge and opportunities. That it has since grown into what is essentially a mix of various Reddit STEM subsides or whatever they call them doesn’t exactly make it any less of a social media.

I think one of the few things that has kept it at least a little safe aside from the massive work of Dang is that you need a certain level of “karma” before you can interact with a lot of the functions. Still, if you look at the content and the discussions today they are very different from what they were. I haven’t used my original account for several years because it was associated with my real personality and that became toxic with the increase of Reddit users who would actively stalk you.

It doesn’t have doom scroll, but it does have doom update.
Accelerating LLM Inference on AMD with Brium
What are “normies”?
I'm happy to use LLM products for what they can do right now, while they're still cheap. Even though they're maintained by high investment that may never pay off, enshittification has not yet set in.
Yes, or via the (very slow) built-in serial port. The broadband adapters are quite rare.

Interestingly, for a long time there were no publicly available tools for or docs on dumping GD-ROMs. New releases from Echelon and Kalisto would appear promptly, so there was obviously a way, but you could only partake in the rampant piracy by downloading the (occasionally-massaged to fit on a CD) disc images online.

A lot of discussion in the (tbf probably quite young and inexperienced) community was around how this was possible. A popular theory/rumor at the time was that they were using CD drives with modified firmware, for example.

This probably also helped keep the piracy amd homebrew scenes fairly well separated on the Dreamcast, as there was a lot of info and examples around running your own code. This is in contrast to eg. the Xbox scene, which was in many ways the equally vibrant successor to the DC scene, but where piracy and homebrew seemed much more intertwined. Not least because all the homebrew binaries were built using the off-limits Microsoft SDK, so you had to go to some shady FTP site via links found on IRC to download them.
LLMs are not hype.

In education at least, we've actively improved efficiency by ~25% across a large swath of educators (direct time saved) - agentic evaluators, tutors and doubt clarifiers. The wins in this industry are clear. And this is that much more time to spend with students.

I also know from 1-1 conversation with my peers in large-finance world, and there too the efficiency improvements on multiple fronts are similar.
- I use normal ubuntu terminal with tmux(super useful stuff).
- For shell I use fish + oh-my-fish (I feel it is better than zsh).
An outcome of two-party systems is polarization. A voter in a true multi-party democracy can vote in a multidimensional way, whereas a voter in a two-party system is forced into one of two "sides" on a one-dimensional line. As the values people hold dear are threatened, they will inevitably flatten their values and be pulled towards a pole.
Is it really that hard to provide a gitlab workflow?

AFAIU it'd be enough to have a docker image and use that in a standalone workflow which is a few lines of yaml in both GitHub and gitlab, what'd be the problem with that?
https://archive.ph/OkddJ
Will we care about frameworks in the future?
But.. they did not implode? They put forward a reasonable candidate that they all agreed on. Macron then refused that candidate and made clear he wouldn’t verify any PM that wasn’t center-right. He stole the election, plain and simple.
So far I've gotten two of those, and each time I've thought the lead headline on the front page was super clunky. It always tries to fit in a joke by being twice as long as it should be.
Because it's a straight forward stochastic sequence modelling task and I've seen GPT-3.5-turbo-instruct play at high amateur level myself. But it seems like all the RLHF and distillation that is done on newer models destroys that ability.
This one hits close to home, especially if you're the kind of person who's allergic to "bragging."

I recall an old Dilbert comic, where the engineer is thinking to himself:

"I don't ask for much...

And boy, do I get it."
The "9DoF" in IMU datasheets is a marketing term, they just add up all the sensor dimensions they have.
Some IMU modules talk about "10DoF" , because they have added a barometer to it.

So even a good "9DoF" IMU is not usable for 6DoF VR, as it still drifts way too much.
Sadly the magnetometer in the IMUs suffers from all the magnetic fields generated by the rest of the electronics around it.

This might also be one of the reasons why 9DoF IMUs are increasingly rare on the market.
They thought it because we have an existence proof: gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct can play chess at a decent level.

That was the point of the post (though you have to read it to the end to see this). That one model can play chess pretty well, while the free models and OpenAI's later models can't. That's weird.
I like the idea of a stream of knowledge in one file, I usually used the Saved Messages in Telegram for that.

I'd rather use Markdown though, for the formatting capabilities alone.
>loads of desert, enough to make PV stable.

No they don’t. They can provide a stable curve during the day at scale. But that doesn’t help with night time or the fact that demand does not peak when the sun does.
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I've tried it myself, GPT-3.5-turbo-instruct was at least somewhere in the rabge 1600-1800 ELO.
PsychoPy
> they’re made for handling language, not playing games with strict rules and strategies

Here's the opposite theory: Language encodes objective reasoning (or at least, it does some of the time). A sufficiently large ANN trained on sufficiently large amounts of text will develop internal mechanisms of reasoning that can be applied to domains outside of language.

Based on what we are currently seeing LLMs do, I'm becoming more and more convinced that this is the correct picture.
i think you underestimate the amount of data a driver experiences in a single 5 minute drive
This article title should have "(2004)" added; this is seriously old information.

For modern use, something about ARM CPUs would be much more useful since that's what microcontrollers all use now. No one's doing ASM programming on x86 CPUs these days (and certainly not Pentium4 CPUs).
Reminds me of https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm

I wonder if what you describe is kind of the reason for this.
You have to get the model to think in PGN data. It's crucial to use the exact PGN format it sae in its training data and to give it few shot examples.