skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When did Europe start that process?

Why is that so important to you? For me it's irrelevant, because I could have left that behind as soon as I got aware of that sillyness.

Which I actually didn't until a few years later, because of 'opportunity costs'.

Took me 2 hours ping-ponging between desks in different offices, because loss of taxes, which federal government, state, county, city, and church did not want.

But that was all. No further harassment.

As far as I know, this has been the case in most of Europe for several hundreds of years, in one way or another. I have some doubts regarding Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland and Poland in these matters and timing, but not much more.

In most if not all islamic countries someone would have put a Fatwa on me, like I was rabid, for that percieved heresy.

Just being able to say: "No, I don't want this! Leave me alone!" is how it should be, overriding any other concern.

If you don't get this and expect me to refute every single point of your pedantry into all eternity, you're riding a dead horse as in the german word "Paragraphenreiter".

( https://dict.leo.org/german-english/Paragraphenreiter )

I won't do that.

I don't care.

I won't even agree to disagree, as politeness would dictate.

There is no politeness in this for me, just zero tolerance.
Very nice. I'd suggest adding another deluxe bundle for non-Guitarists without the guitar theory. I'd pay extra for the ear training + the base package.
I did a double take when I saw this here. I’ve lurked on LFGSS, posted from time to time and bought things through it. Genuinely one of the best online communities I’ve been in, and the best cycling adjacent one by far.

Having said all that, I can’t criticise the decision. It makes me sad to see it and it feels like the end of an era online
Well.. Galileo was yelled at too for a very long time. But it got quite good in the end.

Why?

- Galileo HAS. Offers precision down to 30cm without additional correction data

- Also it offers crypto graphically signed navigation data (OSMNA) which basically eliminates spoofing attacks

Both for free.
Not sure if we need AI to show that Bl4Z3 written in the same style everywhere is the same person.
It is also that big business can influence legislators, and small business cannot, so big business can influence regulation to their own advantage.
also bold take to proclaim, that humans will be required for teleoperation...
> Off the top of my head Oregon Senator Ron Wyden. I’m sure there are others

If we exclude politicians whose tech awareness is curated by lobbyists, Ron Wyden may be the entire list.
And a proprietary blob for actually communicating with the tower.
> AFAIK, in the US, T-Mobile still has a 2G network.

They do but most won't be able to use a phone this old on it. Reason being the SIM application was taken out of the issued sim cards years ago for T-Mobile (something like 6 years or so at this point). Newer 3G-era cellphones use the USIM application and can fall back to the 2G network.

So the only way to still use a device that's pre-3G (circa-2007 or so) on the 2G network is to have a SIM that's been activated the whole time. T-Mobile will not activate expired SIM cards that still contain the application.

Source: I have used back to the Sony Ericsson t68i this past summer on T-Mobile. If you have an ancient SIM and want to browse WAP 1.x as well you can use this site for the gateway: https://nbpfan.bs0dd.net/index.php?lang=eng&page=wap%2Fmain

EDIT: Funny thing about 3G-era phone support, you can use a euicc (removable ESIM) on a phone from 2007 (I used Sony Ericsson K850i) and it will work just fine with an activated esim to access 2G.
> A good designers is not going to be replaced by Dall-e/Midjourney, becuase the essence of design is to understand the true meaning/purpose of something and be able to express it graphically, not align pixels with the correct HEX colour combination one next to the other.

Yes, but Dall-e, etc. output will be good enough for most people and small companies if it's cheap or free even.

Big companies with deep pockets will still employ talented designers, because they can afford it and for prestige, but in general many average designer jobs are going to disappear and get replaced with AI output instead, because it's good enough for the less demanding customers.
It's also great because most people won't even try it and I can just have the whole pie...

I eat it with hot peppers and blue cheese. The sweet/spicy combo is fantastic and the blue cheese brings a fantastic complexity to the mix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#Controversy_over_...

> All but one of the programs cited in her notes had been prepared by Babbage from three to seven years earlier. The exception was prepared by Babbage for her, although she did detect a "bug" in it. Not only is there no evidence that Ada ever prepared a program for the Analytical Engine, but her correspondence with Babbage shows that she did not have the knowledge to do so.

> Bruce Collier wrote that Lovelace "made a considerable contribution to publicizing the Analytical Engine, but there is no evidence that she advanced the design or theory of it in any way"

The common claims are that Ada Lovelace was the first person to write a computer program, or that she was actually the primary driver in developing the analytical engine. Both such claims fall into the area "DEI retcon" as you choose to phrase it.

Although on a more pedantic note, Babbage wasn't the first person to program a computer either. Computers that aren't Turing complete are still computers. The Jacquard loom is one such example, and unlike the analytical engine it was actually built and put to practical use.
Unexpectedly best combination I've found: pineapple and *cinnamon*, on a mildly spicy tomato sauce.
I did some experiments of my own after this paper, but letting GPT-4 run wild, picking its own scene. It wanted to draw a boat on a lake, and I also asked it to throw in some JS animations, so it made the sun set:

https://int19h.org/chatgpt/lakeside/index.html

One interesting thing that I found out while doing this is that if you ask GPT-4 to produce SVG suitable for use in HTML, it will often just generate base64-encoded data: URIs directly. Which do contain valid SVG inside as requested.
I figure Dan would be an ISO-8601 guy.

I’ve gained a reputation as a sort of hipster for using YYYY-MM-DD for all dates I record, even outside of computing.
> Humanity has its ways of objecting accelerationism.

Actually, typically human objection only slows it down and often it becomes a fringe movement, while the masses continue to consume the lowest common denominator. Take the revival of the flip phone, typewriter, etc. Sadly, technology marches on and life gets worse.
It's more that the "negative nancies" became necessary nancies. Back when Amazon sold books, they became a considerable player but otherwise big whoop. Now they threaten to dominate logistics AND hosting, and are expanding their grip and stamping out competition in other markets. Google is pretty much synonymous with the web. Meta owns a big chunk of messaging and social media. Computers used to not matter much but now we're glued to one

It costs even more to be reckless today.

Re: "whitey on the moon" - I'm not sure the space program would be my first target there but I think it makes a more poetic contrast and forces people to pay attention by targeting a beloved cultural narrative. Cyberpunk - by my reckoning a bit later - has been preaching a very similar message of massive inequality in the presence of incredible technology and wealth disparity and power concentration. And yet that doesn't draw the same ire. I guess in that case it's easier to dismiss the core message because robot limbs and cool neon lights are too much of a distraction.
>Amazon et al are fighting back by requiring a photo on delivery now

And yet they are perfectly happy for that "photo of delivery" to be a picture of the box still in the truck.

They aren't fighting back. Fighting back would be removing the negative incentives that encourage drivers to fake metrics.
This wouldn't align with what Apple is going for though. Their selling point in this category is first and foremost that your data stays private. They're looking to do as much as possible on-device, not in the cloud. This rules out models akin to o1 because they're just too large in every respect. I agree that Apple has the chance to do amazing things here, but I think it will take a while until small models are as capable as they need them to be.
Try easily finding admins and heldesk staff to manage your 1000+ org using something other than Active Directory and M365. MS absolutely owns this space.
I still don't understand what you are talking about.

> The underlying reality is you can’t.

But the actual real reality is you can ... because it was done and it is working pretty well.

> As the debates over some extensions are showing not all ISAs are equal

I don't know what that means. And even if I knew, 'equal' is irrelevant. The B extension and the V extension don't have to be 'equal' in any sense of the word I can think of.

> This is especially true if there is a core insight which your main competition are not telling you regarding the rest.

Again, what are you even talking about. You are never actual concrete. Do you believe there is a magical 'core' insight that ARM and Intel have? And if so why do you think non of the countless people involved in RISC-V that have worked all all these companies for the last 30 years don't know about it?

> SiFive does not need to push things through, they damage things by promoting inertia. They are so effective at it it would be tempting to say it is a conspiracy.

SiFive isn't in control. RISC-V International is gigantic with lots of members that have input. What you call 'inertia' I would call 'lots of hard work by lots of people to get the best outcome' and most people are pretty happy with the results and the progress.

The only possible thing I can think of that you might reference is Qualcomm attempted to take over, something that was not opposed by SiFive, but by literally everybody else. If you think they were right you can just say so.

And if it turns out Qualcomm is so uniquely brilliant and insightful they can publish their own extensions and because its so superior, people will adopt it. The same goes for anybody else.
Gemini is impractical for forums and other forms of content
I like a lot of aspects of Gemini. The inability to actually do a lot of secured uploading other than I think like 1024 characters is a problem. How are we gonna run forums or anything on it? Are there any protocols that have more practicality for running lightweight forums? I'm not talking about something that can put images in line or anything like that, literally just something like gopher+ that isn't dead.
Thank you, Ministry of Safety.
Profit margins matter a hell of a lot to publicly traded companies. Share price is a multiple of earnings.
We're running an agentic LLM system in production that generates marketing strategy. As of now, we're up to about 60 agents and as we add functionality we'll add more. And yes, it's not easy to get them to stay on track and cooperate.
https://www.goguma.io
Static kernels like that used to be a lot more common when the kernel was simpler. I semi-fondly remember trying to optimize my 2.x era kernels on my Slackware box to eliminate everything I didn't absolutely need.
They shouldn’t be expected to improve in accuracy because of what they are and how they work. Contrary to what the average HackerNews seems to believe, LLMs don’t “think,” they just predict. And there’s nothing in them that will constrain their token prediction in a way that improves accuracy.
Another big benefit of these older devices is customizability and repairability. I am working to refurbish an MPC1000 right now (drum machine) and the fact that it is repairable at all was a big factor in choosing to sell a newer, nicer device in favor of an older one that wasn't fully working.

Not everything can be treated that way, like a phone or a laptop I would prefer to be no more than 5 years old. But so many things don't need to be terribly modern in order to work well.
I don't see anything wrong here. here's what could also happen, but has not:

> EU does thing the US hasn't

HN: OH SHIT USA NEEDS TO HURRY UP AND DO THING TOO

EU just needs to stop being behind technologically.
> ... they're just kind of a peripheral vision, pink abstraction, not something I focus on understanding

are there pink pelicans, or are you thinking of flamingoes?
Perhaps "TV" should be in quotes as well.

In many cases, e.g., where the owner does not have good reception of digital free-to-air stations, the "TV" is effectively used as a monitor used to watch video downloaded to a internet-connected computer with an HDMI port ("set-top box", small form factor SBC, etc.). Despite cheap storage there is a culture of throwing away the downloaded video and replacing the word "download" with "stream".

A monitor may also be combined with a computer in the same housing, but the fundamentals are the same: monitor, computer, video downloaded via internet.

To me, "smart TVs" are just a way for someone else to keep a running list of everything the owner watches.
They still do not beat GPT-4, however.

And benchmarks are very misleading in this regard. We've seen no shortage of even 8B models claiming that they beat GPT-4 and Claude in benchmarks. Every time this happens, once you start actually using the model, it's clear that it's not actually on par.
I've never thought as deeply about my love for pineapple on pizza as you have. Maybe I should grill some young pineapple and throw it on my next pie for that caramelized, charred flavour.
Even with the weirdness so far, I assumed the title wasn't literal. I was wrong.
Cloudflare: Please make your Emails readable in plain/text
Dear hard working cloudflare sysadmin,

above is a mail which was send to me as text/plain attachement.
Please escalate that issue: This E-Mail is nearly unreadable!

Please make sure, that further E-Mails are send better readable,
especially, if you want that people read E-Mails.

Please also send me the internal ticketnumber.
I will be onsite during summer, and will check the progress.

Thanks in advance,
Bastian Bittorf / greeting from germany
That's a great question, but its hard to get enough insight into how Groq is serving models to properly know what's missing.

If I had to hazard a guess, it would be that their system architecture (# of chips and chip architecture itself) might not be designed for a high concurrency situation.
Things that work well are hard to identify, it takes time and effort. Worse, companies are constantly changing products (either they stop making models or change the way they are made) so even if you successfully identify one thing the knowledge will rapidly become obsolete. So rapidly that you'll often not even have an opportunity to reuse that knowledge a single time.
AirPods Pro 2 hearing aid and hearing test features approved to launch in Canada
This is why AI advances so quickly. There are easy economic mechanisms to encourage it, while AI safety laws have to go through an arduous process. Seems rather lopsided when the technology can be potentially dangerous. We should have mechanisms to take a step back and examine this stuff with more caution, mechanisms which have equal force to economic force but we don't. The Amish have a much better model.
what are you talking about? this is happening all the time in the US with Spacex+USGOV, Boeing+USGOV, etc.
He was pretty great! He was super smart, super passionate, and had a great sense of humor; everything I could have asked for in a teacher.
Crashing rockets and recovering data from damaged flash chips
Gyro support is also Andrei's work, not mine.

I found the (awesome) video where he presents ngraph:
https://youtu.be/vZ6Yhlxv7Os

Edit: not loading? surge.sh has been less reliable lately, will get to finish that project some day and will publish elsewhere.
Exactly. People think it's okay to waste memory just because.
That is true, and I guess technically you don't want a house with no leaks, only with leaks that you have complete control over.

Spray foam insulation can seal essentially any structure, and it doesn't require much more than a small hole drilled into the wall between the beams which is easily spackled over.

It can also be put on as insulation in attics and crawlspaces.

Combine that with a full ducting audit if any of your ducting pierces the envelope, a full intrusions audit for power boxes and the like, and new windows/house sheathing/ proper roofing, you can get very close to as good as a new built.

Most of these I would not suggest doing as a DIY, therefore I still say it is expensive, and even moreso if you have lathe and plaster instead of more modern drywall or encounter any of a myriad of issues likely to be uncovered when doing these things to a very old house.
Personally I like apple laptop keyboards now, I find them better than many windows machines, or at least tolerable; I have a Razer laptop as well which has a decent keyboard.

Thankfully on the macOS front, there’s more than just the laptops. The Mac Mini isn’t a bad machine, albeit you supply the keyboard that inflicts your own misery there
I've been noticing similar patterns as well.

One instructive example was when I was implementing a terraform provider for an in-house application. This thing can template the boilerplate for a terraform resource implementation in about 3-4 auto completes and only gets confused a bit by the plugin-sdk vs the older implementation way. But once it deals with our in-house application, it can guess some things, but it's not good. Here it's ok.

In my private gaming projects on Godot... I tried using CoPilot and it's just terrible to the point of turning it off. There is Godot code out there how an entity handles a collision with another entitiy, and there are hundreds of variations out there, and it wildly hallucinates between all of them. It's just so distracting and bad. ChatGPT is OK at navigating the documentation, but that's about it.

If I'm thinking about my last job, which -- don't ask why -- was writing Java Code with low-level concurrency primitives like thread pools, raw synchronized statements and atomic primitives... if I think about my experience with CoPilot about code like this, I'm honestly feeling strength leaving my body because that would be so horrible. I've spend literal months chasing a once-in-a-billion concurrency bug in that code once.

IMO, the most simple framework-fill-in code segment will suffer from LLMs. But a well-coached junior can move past that stage quite quickly.
Why? I can say that, in my personal experience, AI has allowed me to work more efficiently as a senior engineer: I can describe the behaviour I want, scan over the generated code and make any necessary fixes much faster than either writing the code myself or having a junior do it.
I'm telling you you've not read the entire thread, which I started with:

"Programming languages should be safe by default, except in clearly delimited sections of code (as small as a single expression) where the programmer requests less safety."

In terms of the word semantics of the situation, people writing in a safe subset of a language are writing safe code. Once they use the unsafe bits, then they aren't.
Biden Prepares to Target Chinese Legacy Chips with Trade Investigation
Yeah. I have a good track record with picking things to bet on the future, and the people involved often color that. I stopped caring about bcachefs after watching Ken's extraordinarily unprofessional, gas-lighting (yes, I know how to use that word properly) behavior on LKML. Similarly, I cannot fathom anyone betting the farm on WordPress right now. It will coast for a while, but this is some childish, unserious behavior.
> Together, these tools provide the state with an enormous capability to gather data both covertly, as in the case of spyware, and overtly, through the unlawful and illegitimate use of Cellebrite mobile phone extraction technology.

Interestingly, while this is horrible, here in the west we just give the data away. And we are not constrained by illegal measures, but by legal economic forces.
I can’t speak for OP but usually the issue with #3 for me is that the other criteria it needs to meet is that it works with whatever other integration I want. I remember when I looked the TP-Links were a good option but you just needed internet to set it up. Afterwards it just went on a vlan without internet. The camera needs to support Scrypted/Frigate for my use case but depending on needs for PTZ, Wi-Fi, resolution, night vision, etc, I may or may not be able to find one at a reasonable price that doesn’t require internet access for setup. TP Link makes good cameras at a good price but they require internet access to setup, so any camera that falls into #3 will get compared to a TP Link in #2
ego? LLMs goof on basic math and cant even generate code for many non public things. theyre not useful to me whatsoever
It is great so see a limitations section. What would be even more honest is a very large list of videos generated without any cherry picking to judge the expected quality for the average user. Anyway, the lack of more videos suggests that there might be something wrong somewhere.
> It's insane that they never carved out any provisions for "non big-tech".

Very little legislation does.

Two things my clients have dealt with: VATMOSS and GDPR. The former was fixed with a much higher ceiling for compliance but not before causing a lot of costs and lost revenue to small businesses. GDPR treats a small businesses and non profits that just keep simple lists for people (customers, donors, members, parishioners, etc.) has to put effort into complying even thought they have a relatively small number of people's data and do not use it outside their organisation. The rules are the same as for a huge social network that buys and sells information about hundreds of millions of people.
What's new in the payments industry? PCI/DSS 4.0
I think OP feels it indirectly creates massive personal liabilities for site operators, in that a user can deliberately upload illegal material and then report the site under the Act, opening the site operator up to £18M in fines.

This seems very plausible to me, given what they and other moderators have said about the lengths some people will go to online when they feel antagonised.
Nice collection. I'd suggest adding an unsubscribe option to your initial email, particularly if people reflexively login via Google, etc.
I can't wait for AI slop art to stop being a fad.
In our complex society, we have to outsource our gathering of knowledge about the world to other people. If we know what these people are being censored or are censoring themselves then we can no longer trust this information. Our society will no longer have generally agreed upon truths (an epistemic crisis).
> Contrary to what the average HackerNews seems to believe, LLMs don’t “think,” they just predict.

Anecdotally, I can't recall ever seeing someone on HackerNews accuse LLM's of thinking. This site is probably one of the most educated corners of the internet on the topic.

> They shouldn’t be expected to improve in accuracy because of what they are and how they work.

> And there’s nothing in them that will constrain their token prediction in a way that improves accuracy.

These are both incorrect. LLM's are already quite better today than they were in 2022.
Agreed, but as I mention elsewhere, my point is more about people react to the sustained high profits before they have the context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42432352