skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a self-inflicted bug resulted from incorrect heuristics (assumption that positive screenX/Y values represent mouse event), and the investigation was complicated by inadequate tracing/logging.

Instead of checking the more appropriate property that other commenters have suggested (pointerType), I'm a bit surprised that the solution given by the author is to patch up the shaky heuristics even more:

> We could deduce from our final two clues the solution: we need to check for negative numbers as well as positive numbers when checking the screenX and screenY coordinates.
This is such a weird comment. It's like an attempt to trivialize the article by stating something completely nontrivial with a lot of confidence.
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I have two examples at hand: chasing memory leaks when enumerating over 10,000 EBS volumes, and ensuring the 500-class response handlers behave correctly for S3 (which is exceedingly hard to reproduce using the real S3 api)

Another common one is introducing network stalls to ensure timeout code behaves sanely. I'm aware of Comcast and the various nf trickery but I mean something a normal developer could run as part of normal tests, not involving sudo anything

Even as I write this, I'm aware that "there's more than one way to do it" and I'm sure everyone has their own favorite. But my experience has been that only the most pristine decomposed software components have very clean boundaries for testing just this one aspect. So for the rest of us stuck using the AWS sdk and similar, one can choose to shim the interactions with the SDK just to be able to swap it out for testing (which I violently oppose), or feed the software you do control a pseudo-implementation that will explode in very specific ways
Muammar Gaddafi is a complex personage, a cruel dictator and a efficient benefactor. He was a force for the greater good with the Great Man-Made River Project, a project would not have been possible without him.

And it was gratious cruelty from NATO to destroy the pipes fabrication plant during the first Libyan civil war.
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What would this need to be compatible with Ollama? I would love to run this with a local LLM!
Fascinating. IDK how exactly I'd accomplish their goals without federal/state funds or building some housing (can you imagine??), but I feel like "AI in city hall" is not likely to be helpful. Also, isn't Sam supposedly kinda busy? He told everyone that he's the CEO of the most powerful AI company at the start of a new "Intelligence Era" of human civilization, a role of unimaginable importance -- kinda funny to imagine him balancing that with neoliberal SF politics. Godspeed, I suppose.

Obviously, cynically speaking, he's likely little more than a bauble, similar to Musk's short-lived contributions to Trump's first administration. I would guess that SF voters wouldn't want to see Altman's face around the mayor, but perhaps he's playing to the donor class.
Look at fords lineup now. No sedan. Its straight up embarrasing if you are the first lemming to start burning furniture to save on heat. But if the entire industry has been doing just this since 2008 then you are the fool for not playing the game your investors expect from you. Never mind how you might fare 10 years from now. Quarterly thinking dominates.
Firstly, Africa is a continent, not a sovereign nation or a monolithic politico-economic bloc. Cars aren't manufactured in every country in Asia, but primarily East and Southeast Asia. Asia proper extends from Anatolia to the Bering Strait, where many countries in between have no automobile industry whether domestic or foreign.

Secondly, there are plenty of reasons to avoid doing business in the many African countries, not the least of which are political instability, low literacy rates of the native populations, unfavorable and inconsistent economic policies (tariffs, board membership requirements, etc.), as well as inefficient and corrupt bureaucracies. That last one can create legal issues for you if you run a business incorporated in the US.
You can sample the result to determine the error rate, but if you find an unacceptable level of errors, then you still have to review everything manually. On the other hand, if you use traditional techniques, pattern matching with regular expressions and things like that, then you can probably get pretty close to perfection for those cases where your patterns match and you can just reject the rest for manual processing. Maybe you could ask a language model to compare the source document and the extracted data and to indicate whether there are errors, but I am not sure if that would help, maybe what tripped up the extraction would also trip up the result evaluation.
Did aviation software for 7 years. This is 100% the first assumption about waypoint / navaid when new devs come in.
Wow what a fantastic little article. Thanks for writing and sharing that.
If nobody did basic research in categorizing and cultivating Thermus aquaticus bacteria found in hot springs, we wouldn't have modern DNA tests.
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I can't believe that the average price of a car in the U.S. is almost $50k. For rapidly depreciating assets.

Here I am working out TCO costs for a range of mid-sized cars for my next purchase, and trying to decide if the extra $2k for a Prius Prime over a Prius will beat the differential in fuel costs for my driving situation. I feel like a chump, but I know it's the smarter thing to do with my money.

I coworker of mine just spent $100k on a regular old pickup truck that is planned to spend less than 5% of the time doing anything other than commuting him back and forth to work. It doesn't fit in any of the parking garages around here, or in his garage -- he has to park it at the other side of a surface lot because it doesn't fit in the normal spots. It gets like 11 mpg and uses the 92 octane fuel.

Americans won't buy cheap cars, they won't buy upmarket small cars, but they'll burn their children's college fund into the ground for a 2 second gain on 0-60 and bad ergonomics.

I can afford the fancy car, but I'd rather turn $100k into $200k in my index funds and buy an entire apartment in Spain overlooking the Mediterranean with the gains.

We can have nice things, but this is why we can't have affordable things.
If you look at the other two drafts, it was perfectly able to answer the question.
Processing speed is not the metric for measuring intelligence. The same way we have an above average intelligent people taking longer time to think about stuff and coming with better ideas. One can argue that this useful in some aspects but humans have different types of intelligence spectrum that an LLM will lack. Also are you comparing against average person or people on top of their fields or people working in science?

Also human can reason, LLMs currently can't do this in useful way and is very limited by their context in all the trials to make it do that. Not to mention their ability to make new things if they do not exist (and not complete made up stuff that are non-sense) is very limited.
Hello I am the author and, yes, I totally agree some generic 'trigger' event would be far better.

To use the keydown event means we have to assume that the 'Enter' and 'Space' are the only keys we need to check for. Using 'click' is far safer from an accessibility point of view because it will always respect what your device considers to be some kind of input trigger.

As stated in the UI Events spec:

> For maximum accessibility, content authors are encouraged to use the click event type when defining activation behavior for custom controls, rather than other pointing-device event types such as mousedown or mouseup, which are more device-specific. Though the click event type has its origins in pointer devices (e.g., a mouse), subsequent implementation enhancements have extended it beyond that association, and it can be considered a device-independent event type for element activation.

And to be clear, I would not want to do it this way if it was for some really critical difference in behaviour between pointer or keyboard interactions. I'm OK with this strange mechanism here because the fallback behaviour is not that different. If you're on Safari, for example, which can't check for `screenX === 0`, then all that happens is that there will be an animation when you open the menu.

However, sadly, because of the ways various developers have added to this code over the years, it's broken that fallback behaviour and stopped it working entirely. So I've just finished a refactor to sort that out and it will hopefully be going live soon.
Welcome to the real world. This experience is far more representative for the vast majority of the population than we usually see on HN.
Gotta love videos with useless titles and almost no text in the description...

Unreal 5.5 changes: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/...

Page on MegaLights, which appear to be the focus of the video: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/...

Key quote from the above:

MegaLights is a stochastic direct lighting technique, which solves direct lighting though importance sampling of lights. It traces a fixed number of rays per pixel towards important light sources. If a light source is hit by a ray then that light’s contribution is added to the current pixel.

This approach has a few important implications:

Direct lighting is handled by a single pass in an unified manner, replacing multiple existing Deferred Renderer shadowing and shading techniques.

MegaLights not only reduce the cost of shadowing, but also reduce the cost of the shading itself.

MegaLights has a constant performance overhead, but quality may decrease as lighting complexity increases at a given pixel.
See I work in accessibility. Like I provide and create solutions direct to end users with complex needs. Not regular web accessibility. I get the view of this. It’s the same idea of universal access. But actually I don’t fully agree. Yes. If you can stick to this principle - and do try / but I promise you edge cases - which in itself is what accessibility users are all about - cause headaches. At some level you have to do custom stuff. It’s the best way. Take for example switch users. Yes. If your ui is tab able - great. But what if you need your items scannable in frequency order. Your tab index needs to change to meet the end users needs. Or eye gaze users. The accuracy level changes. Add in cognitive issues. You can’t just make a one size fits all interface. At some stage you need to significantly customize it. You can’t rely on a user just learning a complex system level interaction technique- if they can’t do that you have to customise on an individual level.
MCP is the most user hostile OS I’ve ever had the displeasure of using. And don’t even start me about CANDE.
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> There's plenty of wealthy people that can afford to go solar ... subsidies are a useful tool to get them to take the plunge.

So you are in favour of taking taxes from the poor to give to the rich. Good to know.

Wealthy people's impact disproportionately comes from plane travel. That is highly polluting but nothing is being done about that.
Nissan has figured out how to comply and sell a Versa for just $17k like its 15 years ago still.
I agree, this is in the category of "if things were different, they'd be different".

All of these things had to be some way, and in every way they could be there would be something different now. However, they were they way they were so we're here now.

It's a lot like saying that it took a string of nearly impossible coincidences at just the right time for you to be born. Which is true. But just because dad plowed mom at half past two instead of quarter past doesn't mean we don't have a person, we just have a slightly different person. And that person would also be the result of a bunch or impossible coincidences. It's basically the lottery paradox. Every individual ticket is unlikely to win, however, it is guaranteed someone will win.
If I just built a house, and if there were some definitive test to know the wood came from somewhere illegally, who would I sue?

In the US, you would sue the person you paid (who would then sue the middleman company who sold them the wood, and so on down the chain until the chain eventually ends).

It’s interesting to think what a market would look like if we removed indemnity and limitation of liability from contracts (which allows liability to easily be passed down to vendors) in certain cases. I think that’s how it works in certain other countries.

E.g. what if the liability was solely with the person who sold me the wood (even if they’re actually “innocent” and simply bought from a fraudulent distributor).

I can easily see how it would help to keep all liability at the closest link to the consumer in the chain, but then again how realistic is it that any home builder is going to (reasonably) be able to do enough vetting of distributors and suppliers to know exactly how and where everything was made.
What is the acceptable latency , if we have to use this outside of Ec2 , lets say mounting S3 from on-prem/GCP/Azure ?
Among all the other bullshit, this is a pretty circular definition:

MOBA is the world’s only museum dedicated to the collection, exhibition, and celebration of art that would not be welcomed to any traditional art museum

Bullshit - plenty of traditional art museums have "outsider art" exhibitions.

That term is arguably still a bit snobby, but it's better than just calling it "bad art" because a lot of it isn't actually bad at all!
My old TI-86 can calculate stuff faster than me. You wouldn't ever ask if it was smarter than me. An audio filter can process audio faster than I can listen to it but you'd never suggest it was intelligent.

AI models are algorithms running on processors running at billions of calculations a second often scaled to hundreds of such processors. They're not intelligent. They're fast.
Can we not bribe enough Russians to dismantle what is left? Visas, fiat, whatever, spend to disable. We’ll come cleanup the warheads later.

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/what-happened-sovie...

https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/post-cold-war-worl...
In the same sense (though to greater extent) that calculators are, sure. Calculators can also far exceed human capacity to, well, calculate. LLMs are similar: spikes of capacity in various areas (bulk summarization, translation, general recall, ...) that humans could never hope to match, but not capable of beating humans at a more general range of tasks.
I still wonder if all the charge moves from left to right, or if some of the charge stays behind.

And how would that work in a CCD chip where thousands of positions are shifted through?
Despite what Hollywood would have you believe, there would be nations that survive a NATO/Russia war. Namely, any nation in the Southern Hemisphere not called Australia or New Zealand. Mother Nature's winds and Father Physic's half lives combine to give unaligned southern hemisphere nations the break of a lifetime. (Or of a species' lifetime I guess?)

All that said, you are absolutely right about "spoils". No one is gonna be thinking about "spoils". Probably top of everyone's list of questions will be, "How many warheads are left? And what remnants of NATO or Russia control them?"

We're talking about two groups who would have conclusively shown they are perfectly willing to use their nuclear arsenals to achieve their goals. That, combined with the fact that their goals would become a whole lot less lofty overnight makes me think the world would become a very precarious place.
Of all the places in the world to build factories, you choose Africa? Not India, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia? Nothing personal against Africa but there are just a lot of options that aren't china with better industrial policy and want to build stuff to export.
This does not work when the mouse is actually at 0,0
Those summaries are pretty lousy and also have hallucinations in them.
Ok, so it's two problems to solve. Get on it MIT!
Can't go wrong with Slim: https://www.slimframework.com/

But if you're looking for something more modern and interesting, then Hyperf looks pretty cool. They have a mini-framework version you can check out: https://github.com/hyperf/nano

It does require Swoole, but that is a lot easier to get your hands on these days
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They process the audio but they stumble enough with recall that you cannot really trust it.

I had a problem where I used GPT-4o to help me with inventory management, something a 5th grade kid could handle, and it kept screwing up values for a list of ~50 components. I ended up spending more time trying to get it to properly parse the input audio (I read off the counts as I moved through inventory bins) then if I had just done it manually.

On the other hand, I have had good success with having it write simple programs and apps. So YMMV quite a lot more than with a regular person.
You've hit on the idea that intelligence is not quantifiable by one metric. I completely agree. But you're holding a much different goal for AI than for average people. Modern LLMs are able to produce insights much faster and more accurately than most people (you think you could pass the retrieval tasks in the way that the LLMs do (reading the whole text)?... I really encourage people to try). By that metric (insights/speed), I think they far surpass even the most brilliant. You can claim that that's not intelligence until the cows come home, but any person able to do that would be considered a savant.
Figure 2 in the paper shows what I really dislike about a lot of vision model benchmarks.

I care about whether these VLMs can accurately _see_ and _describe_ things in a picture. Meanwhile the vision part of these benchmarks are a lot of extremely basic OCR that any VLMs of the past year can do. The gains in score come from the LM improving logic skills not from the actual vision ability improving.
you're just angry, and anger makes people incoherent. You do benefit from the police in the next town, and turns out, you don't pay for it, so I have no idea what you are talking about.

liberals should be stuck on the $7500 rebate, read my separate response about achieving even more climate benefit.
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Yes, Google deserves to be distrusted and avoided as a whole, but Google Scholar is a genuinely net good for humanity.
The ICE engine in a Prius is a special branch of tech that is more efficient at the cost of basically kneecapped performance. Americans cannot stand needing a full ten seconds to get onto the highway, because we all drive like a bunch of roided up chimps who refuse to move over to give the merging onramp any room.

For two decades there has been a roughly free 5% or so in fuel economy available to any ICE car if only we could manage to be slightly more patient drivers, but American car buyers would literally rather spend twice the cost on a V8, gasoline truck, that gets worse fuel economy than it's $8k more expensive diesel variant, worse performance, and often a less reliable engine.

Americans will swear that a ten cent increase in gas prices will drive them to financial ruin, and then choose to buy the SUV made out of a terrible truck chassis that gets 20mpg. They did this despite having to learn the hard way back in 2008 what it actually meant for gas to be expensive.
Ye olde 4chan's reputation for being an evil website is funny in retrospect. The mortality rate on phony pizza deliveries is pretty close to zero and harmless compared to what goes down on the internet these days.
I think it's fair to assume that by "Russians" they meant "the society within the Russian Federation, which as everyone knows is multiethnic, and which by and large supports or acquiesces both the dictatorship and the war, or at least says so when asked by pollsters" rather than "Russians" as an ethic group.

One could also say "The problem is with Americans, not Trump" and that would also not be interpreted as racist.
You're referring to the Anthropic principle, which is a hypothesis, not a law of nature.

It also says nothing on inevitability. These things could easily have just not occurred (knowing what we know) and then we wouldn't be here to observe them.

The causal arrow is important.
US automarket is not a free market is why. Protective tariffs and other taxes or else we’d already be driving something hammered out of bangladesh as of decades ago.
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How is it crippling? My 1900 sq. ft. loft in SF cost like $100/mo most months. That’s 5 hours of minimum wage work here. Even the $200 it hit at peak is 10 hours of minimum wage work. That was with 4 people living in it.
If they didn't occur, we wouldn't be here to note that they didn't occur.
It's the Anthropic Principle[1], basically it's the idea that those coincidences having occured can be explained by the fact that if they didn't, we wouldn't exist, and thus there would be no one to wonder why they happened. In other words, those coincidence happened necessarily, in a way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
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While I like the idea of SWEBOK, the actual SWEBOK book is not very useful though, quite incomplete, biased, and not up to date.

There was recently a HN thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41907412
> humans could never hope to match, but not capable of beating humans at a more general range of tasks.

If we restrict ourselves only to language (LLMs are at a disadvantage because there is no common physical body we can train them on at the present moment... that will change), I think LLMs beat humans for most tasks.
I didn't know about "Voice of Fire" but it is the story makes it interesting.

By itself, the painting is not bad, kind of like a flag, just not particularly remarkable. But that it was bought for $1.8M with taxpayer money and the controversy it created is where its real value lies. With a name like "Voice of Fire", it is almost as if it was the plan. According to the Wikipedia article, it has been valued $40M in 2014, which, if real, would have made that $1.8M a worthy investment!
while I'm sure it's been poorly maintained, there only needs to be enough nukes to ruin global civilization, and it doesn't take that many.

a few hundred, maybe, and back in the day they had thousands.
I think their thought process was "It uses the sun to desalinate water, so it must be the same"
I know that Amazon in general has large ingress and egress cost how much overhead will this application incur?
I disagree slightly here. There may be one (1) dominant formal language that's used as the glue code that gets run on machines and verified, but it will have numerous font-end languages that compile into it, for ease of typing and abstraction/domain fit.
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Age-gating certain experiences and limiting chat options for kids under 13
Except the LLM can solve a general problem (or tell you why it cannot), while your calculator can only do that which it's been programmed.
Those costs only apply to data transfer into and out of AWS. If you're running EC2 instances in AWS, your Regatta file system is in AWS, and your S3 bucket is in AWS -- then you shouldn't incur additional data transfer fees.
> They process the audio but they stumble enough with recall that you cannot really trust it.

I will wave my arms wildly at the last eight years if the claim is that humans do not struggle with recall.