skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why RLHF causes those overly verbose answers to simple questions, it's a fundamentally busted evaluation function so you wind up optimizing for the wrong thing
BackBlaze at $7/month is too expensive?

And when you are traveling you don’t keep your important documents backed up? What happens if your SSD goes bad?

And if a restore would be inconvenient when you are traveling, getting a new laptop and hypothetically connecting your SAD wouldn’t be?
Accounting of your holiday's expenses or hobby project? Sure. For a whole business and all the legal and practical obligation that entails? Nope. Not a chance. Just give me a proper accounting software so I don't have to second-guess myself at every turn as to whether my code or my interpretation of the law is correct.
But proportionally, wouldn't a solution without an epsilon loss be much better than a solution with epsilon?

I am not sure what's the exact conjecture that the author solved, but if the epsilon difference is between an approximate solution versus an exact solution, and the journal rejected the exact solution because it was "only an epsilon improvement", I might question how reputable that journal really was.
Probably relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_...
The definition of empathy is pretty narrow:

"Empathy is generally described as the ability to take on another person's perspective, to understand, feel, and possibly share and respond to their experience."

Understanding is required, sharing is not, and in particular, simply sharing in someones emotional state does not imply that your goal is to improve the outcome for the other person. It may actually be to deepen it to take advantage of it.

Empathy does not imply any system of values or consciousness, although, I recognize it is often casually meant that way, that was not the definition I was using.
Similarly, in every thread there’s an AI skeptic who says LLMs are “useless” for coding, and never provides an example query for what they were trying.
If you didn't consider these things before buying an H100 then I frankly wonder why you even bought it in the first place. Was CUDA burning a $30,000 hole in your pocket or something?
Hey, ChatGPT please write me a python program which randomly samples from various materials and various weights then poses a problem to the ChatGPT 4o API -- the goal is to find cases where the LLM fails to obtain the correct answer....
No WASD?! CAPTCHA fail — I can tell no human created this.
It’s okay Terence, it happens to the best of us.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42568936
Discussed at length at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36741910
Not criticizing, but I'd rather not have it in the Cloud at all.
Haven't stopped yet, I'm not above taking sage advice.
lol no, with a small amount of generally-applicable prompt-fu it answers with a ton of nuance that perfectly encapsulates the problem: https://chatgpt.com/share/6775b99d-2220-8003-993b-8dd008a97f...
Accustomed- to tech demos that never lead to real-world capabilities? That's what I'm pointing out in my comment.

Btw, computers are symbol manipulation machines and in general that's how we understand computation: manipulating symbols according to a set of rules; like Turing machines. Stochastic algorithms also ultimately work that way, and they will continue to until we can run all the modern AI stuff on, say, analog computers.
My favourite (fiction) book this year was One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. An amazingly intricate storyline with a perfect ending.
https://www.techradar.com/computing/macbooks/apple-macbook-a...

> The fact that the battery lasted over 14 hours on a single charge in our battery life tests again shows just how good the 13-inch MacBook Air is for people who want a compact laptop they can use almost anywhere.
Also bombs and guns are "cool" and bureaucrats aren't, and most programmers are more likely to have been "harmed" (had their taxes collected) by a bureacrat than a bomb or a gun, so they automatically side with the guns and bombs.
do diablo
Enterprise-grade at scale.
“We had two barrels of fertilizer, seventy-five pellets of gunpowder, five sheets of high powered C4, a salt shaker half full of nitro, and a whole galaxy of 50 cals, buckshot, slugs, tracers... and also a quart of kerosene, a quart of diesel, a case of grenades, a kilo of raw uranium and two dozen rockets.
Not that we needed all that for self defense, but once you get locked into a serious explosives collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.”

-Osama Bin Laden
Meh. Brands are slowly waking up to the fact that the vast vast majority of online publications are frankly cow shit.

Add in that 80% of published items (tweets, Facebook posts and so called articles) is just repeating the first 20% then why would you want to pay to be near such value-free claptrap.

And maybe that is the answer. The model from say the 90s was advertising sat next to some of the best news reporting and best fictional tv and radio ever, and then we exploded the volume of news and content - of course the value must go down. It’s only now that we have reached a point where the expansion of the content universe is so spread out that it’s thinned out so much it’s not worth a dime at any one point - so why pay?

Humans need to talk to other humans about the weather, their back aches and the local politics. That’s good for society, But the rest of the world does not need to listen or treat it as a publication.

Maybe we will learn that just as web of trust is the right way to do security, word of mouth might be the right way to do consumerism - that advertising will have to change - perhaps the only way to succeed is to build products that make peoples lives measurably better, not find the lowest cost product that can make a profit at the thinnest part of the broadcasting world - we don’t do broadcasting any more so don’t do broadcast advertising. Build a brand on your reputation- one sale at a time.
So this is just as difficult as every other captcha then
Retiring Script Debugger
Auto-deploy upon GitHub/Bitbucket `Git push` – for LAN servers (pure bash)
And sometimes the reviewer didn't read carefully and doesn't understand what you're doing.

I once wrote a paper along the lines of "look we can do X blazingly fast, which (among other things) lets us put it inside a loop and do it millions of times to do Y." A reviewer responded with "I don't understand what the point of doing X fast is if you're just going to put it in a loop and make it slow again." He also asked us to run simulations to compare our method to another paper which was doing an unrelated thing Z. The editor agreed that we could ignore his comments.
Hum, from your wg14 link: 6.5.2.3 comma 3 and note 95. I thought that was the note that was added on TC3.

Also the note is non-normative, so it is only clarifying preexisting behaviour.

But I'm far from an expert on the C standard. Also that was the C11 draft, maybe the note was removed before the final standard.

Edit: I believe the alias rules are in 6.5 comma 7; specifically:

> An object shall have its stored value accessed only by an lvalue expression that has one of
the following types:

[...]

>an aggregate or union type that includes one of the aforementioned types among its
members (including, recursively, a member of a subaggregate or contained union),

Edit2: neither commas nor the note have changed in the 202y Draft.
Judging by how they progressively loaded top to bottom on my usually fast (350 Mbps) internet, yes. Each tiny image was barely 128*128 on my phone screen but they still loaded very slowly.
We mean the whole level, not the three mobs for the captcha.
Confidential Computing also provides data-in-use protection and has a significantly more realistic overhead, often <10% in real-world workloads I've seen. However, in this case you might want to combine it with customer managed keys (BYOK) or self-hosting anyways - otherwise the customer has no opportunity to perform remote attestation and prove you're really running in Confidential Computing.

The visualization about halfway down https://www.anjuna.io/solution/secure-ai (my employer) is an example of the self-hosted flavor of this. Happy to discuss deeper, my contact info is in my bio.
same rules that apply to pornography should apply to any religious site too. no one under 18 should be subjected to lunacy of religious websites that exist and yet… :)
I don't think you would be able to convince a court of that because analogies will be made to existing types of works.

Would an adaptation of a book to a movie be any different? One that involves interpretation and thousands of man-hours in set design, actors, special effects, director, etc.

You can additionally argue it's a translation. From machine code to readable source code. Translation are directly covered by copyright law already.
Given the current incentive scheme in place it's locally reasonable, but the current incentives suck. Is the goal to score the most impact points or to advance our understanding of the field?
I would imagine the doors run off of the 12v system (or maybe 48v these days?) for safety reasons. The emergency release for the doors is for when that system fails.

The high voltage battery can actually sometimes be completely disconnected from the car during normal use, e.g. when parked and no sentry mode enabled.
Curious.

My "float *" was somehow changed to "float fraction".

Ah, the asterix became italics.
xstate and other libraries like it implement Harel's statecharts, which are an extension of FMSs with different semantics and composability (a.k.a. "hierarchy", where machines can embed other machines), so the relationship with regular expressions may not be that useful.

"Classic state diagrams require the creation of distinct nodes for every valid combination of parameters. For all but the simplest of systems, this can lead to a very large number of nodes and transitions between nodes (state and transition explosion), which reduces the readability of the state diagram." [1]

"What's missing in the traditional state machines is the mechanism for factoring out the common behavior in order to share it across many states. UML state machines address exactly this shortcoming of the conventional FSMs. They provide a number of features for eliminating the repetitions so that the complexity of a UML state machine no longer explodes..." [2]

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1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_diagram#Harel_statechart

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UML_state_machine#UML_extensio...
Thank you!

Working on this side project has been both fun and rewarding. I've learned a lot throughout the process, which keeps me motivated even without immediate financial gain. I have plenty of ideas on how to improve the software in various ways. Some of these enhancements could become part of a "pro" version tailored for businesses. My long-term ambition is to turn this into a full-fledged product, which would enable me to dedicate more time to its development.
Wait isn't cargo a package manager? Not a rust expect so I'm probably missing something
I would be interested to know how many people do formulate a whole sentence before saying it. "Think before you speak" as they say. I feel I do not have the cognitive window or processing speed to do this; instead, I formulate a concept of how I would like to respond abstractly, and then think of and say phrases of several words one at a time until the sentence ends itself. The latter process leans heavily on some kind of next word anticipation.
I've added a little motivation section on this :)

The final goal is to index DNA, say a human genome, or a bunch of them, and this is static data.

Then as new DNA comes in (eg is read by a DNA sequencer) we can efficiently query against the index built on the reference genome, and this reference is often fixed.
Thoughts and reflections on solo building a startup. This is my monthly blogpost number 2.
I have a feeling the fact you're only slightly varying the input means the model is falling back into the question it was expecting and getting things wrong as a result. If you just varied it a little more and added some general-purpose prompt-fu like:

"First break the problem down into known facts, then pull relevant world knowledge, then bring it all together to assess the problem from multiple angles and make a conclusion. Do not immediately just use the first obvious conclusion."

You're gonna get a lot better responses. I suspect this is more of a "look! LLMs make bad kneejerk responses when we try to trick them from what they were expecting!" rather than "Look! They aren't even smart reasoners, they can't even figure out these problems without memorizing!"

They do memorize. But that cuts both ways - making problems very close to the memorized one mess with their perception, the same way humans will instinctually respond to something that looks like a face before stepping back and assessing.
As someone who reads a lot - probably more than 99% of people, I guess? - I mostly agree.

> People should be able to have hobbies and self improvement separate and each one delivered in whichever medium they happen to prefer.

Agreed.

> Read what you enjoy.

Semi-agree on this one.

There are different reasons to read. You can read for pure entertainment. You can read to learn things. You can read to be motivated. You can read to calm down. You can read to be part of the conversation.

Reading what you enjoy is good advice, and it's a valid approach, but so is reading something that's a little but hard and not very enjoyable, because you want to expand your knowledge, to learn and grow.

Read what you want for whatever reason you want, would be my recommendation.

(I personally mix most of the reasons above.)
Playing devils advocate, there isn’t a consensus on what is incremental vs what is derivative. In theory, the latter may not warrant publication because anyone familiar with the state-of-the-art could connect the dots without reading about it in a publication.
Unfortunately this is yet another article on this subject where the author can only offer head scratching. I'd like to see some more international reporting done. We know that fertility is dropping worldwide; we've been told about "lying flat" in China and about Korea's gender wars. What about Latin America? What about Africa? Are young people giving up there, or do they feel ascendant even as they decide not to start families as often?
- Unironically considered whether Feng shui is negatively affecting your productivity

- Concluded that Feng shui must be negatively affecting your productivity
is this written by a VC? seems quite egoistical with a few common stats known already to hedge risks of looking like an idiot

i love how quickly HN ignored this submission. I think the BS detection is stronger than ever
Amiga Point of View Issue 5
This is the SF/Partiful networking tech scene quite different to a regular person there
I think they’re asking the question: “Is there really value in the product” or is it a gimmick like the cyber truck.
What about hardware? If a part breaks, how long do you have to wait for a new one? (Insurance
costs for Teslas are extremely high because parts take so long to acquire).

How often does it break? (Tesla notoriously don’t use automotive quality parts, which reduces costs, and increases MTTF).

And who can fix it? Can you get service manuals for it?

Not every car is a Hilux, notorious for being extremely fixable, but every serious car manufacturer had a whole infrastructure for serious after sales support.

Tesla is still not there, and by choice. That was never a priority for them.
Practically, Django's admin *becomes* the SQLite UI editor you are referring to, I suspect. Starting with it, the amount of UI code, backend code or SQL code to be written becomes a matter of how far you want to stretch the PoC in either direction (more effort on the views for a prettier/more unique front-end, more controller code for more business logic/cases covered, more database work to assess how the data model will scale).
Find me the folks who see nothing but good will in OpenAI’s actions and I’ll find you the folks who have been hyping up AGI for the last 2 years.

4 was literally sitting on a shelf waiting for release when 3.5 was launched. 4o was a fine tune that took over two years. o1 is embarrassingly unimpressive chain of thought which is why they hide it.

The company hit a wall a year ago. But showing progress towards AGI keeps the lights on. If they told the truth at their current burn rate…they’d have no money.

You don’t need game theory to figure that one out.
I think some of these are purposefully vague, but I've been following Fred for a while and his predictions are often pretty good.

Many will likely 'technically' happen, but probably not in full. Which I think is a sign of good predictions.

I.e -- an animated film that uses AI significantly is nominated. An AI 'doctor', for some unconventional definition of doctor, becomes popular. The air taxis launch and have flights, but are exclusive and not widely popular (eVTOL become akin to the current helicopter subscriptions to the airports, certainly not replacing the L anytime soon).
The comic book industry nearly died before. Some artists fear AI will kill it
>We don’t need to conduct any analyses to know that LLMs don’t “know” anything in the way humans “know” things because we know how LLMs work.

People, including around HN, constantly argue (or at least phrase their arguments) as if they believed that LLMs do, in fact, possess such "knowledge". This very comment chain exists because people are trying to defend against a trivial example refuting the point - as if there were a reason to try.

> That doesn’t mean that LLMs aren’t incredibly powerful; it may not even mean that they aren’t a route to AGI.

I don't accept your definition of "intelligence" if you think that makes sense. Systems must be able to know things in the way that humans (or at least living creatures) do, because intelligence is exactly the ability to acquire such knowledge.

It boggles my mind that I have to explain to people that sophisticated use of language doesn't inherently evidence thought, in the current political environment where the Dead Internet Theory is taken seriously, elections are shown over and over again to be more about tribalism and personal identity than anything to do with policy, etc.
I was really confused and surprised that Meta was using a commercial product for indexing instead of building in-house...until I realized that they weren't talking about the AI search indexing tool at glean.com
Privacy of Photos.app's Enhanced Visual Search
One common suggestion I've seen: convert your old laptop into a server.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Wilson_(financier)

He's a smart, quirky, kind dude, who lives in NYC and is extremely well known in VC/startup circles generally. Also iirc his Fund1 is the highest performing VC fund of all time.
With a zero knowledge proof of the service type. With client side managed and generated temporary IDs.
“ From what the text shows, Henry Jenkins and his wife Caroline (the boy’s mother) are asking the Orphans Court to void an apprenticeship arrangement involving her minor son, James Timmons. They claim James—about 15 years old—was bound out as an apprentice without proper authority or the mother’s consent, and they cite Maryland law (an act from 1793 and its supplements) which they believe was not followed. They request the court declare that the indenture is invalid and restore James to his mother’s care.”

No idea if that’s correct (and no doubt not useful to an expert able to read this directly, but curious if it’s close?
Yeah, I confused multiple acronyms here :)

Anyways. Hibernate works on top of JDBC, so, if you like its interface, then it means you could make your own, but skipping >99% of the rest of Hibernate code that has nothing to do with wrapping the driver.

Or, imagine there was a library Hibernate', that threw away all the ORM stuff, and only offered mapping of SQL results to Java objects and sending queries to the database. Then, why not use Hibernate' instead of Hibernate?

NB. About triviality. From experience: trivial apps tend to work OK with ORM. Non-trivial will usually ditch the ORM because of performance, missing functionality and general difficulty with servicing it. So, it's the other way around: if you are shooting for the stars, you are probably not going to use Hibernate, Hibernate is one of the variety of tools that helps losers loose less, it's not a tool for the winners.
Is there an opposite list, a list of underused and trendy words?

Or does this sort of recognition already ~makes it cringe~ sorry, disqualifies the word?
Are you using one database per customer or a shared database (with an additional key on the tables)?

Because for enterprise clients they're going to want their own database. Which has it's own licensing and operating costs - that you should be building into your price. And since they will have their own database it can be encrypted with a key that is unique to them.

For small business customers, a shared database is the only way to stay profitable.
I acquired it to experiment with models firsthand and so far made myself a nice RAG-based webapp (in a rather niche field).

Would be nice if it paid for itself somehow though.
Thr Dev Container ecosystem for VsCode really is quite impressive at the moment. All your dev dependencies, wrapped up in a docker image per repo.
Try to get spare parts for teslas. Or fix them at a non-Tesla owned shop. Both are 100x more complex and expensive than any other mass produced car made in the last decade 20 years. And it is like that by design: it was never a priority for them.
BTW - the model may be wrong depending on the example. More voluminous objects displace more air and due to buoyancy are lighter for the same mass.

The proper way to ask it would be to ask which object has more mass.
Yes, no one is going to force you to go to burning man
Amiga Research Operating System (AROS): Summary of 2024
Oh certainly! The problem is that it's yet another thing to add to the pile of things I need to configure, etc, at this point and it's of lower priority than many, many, many other things - and will easily take as long as so many other of the steps, which are all taking a long time due to learning curve.
Developers know it's limits. Or you have developers with vague "scaling issues" or "buggy caching" who don't understand why they have them or suddenly start suffering from them at inconvenient moments.
I'm a QMK user with a custom no -standard layout myself. I think you're referring to mapping keys to a given keycode as part of the firmware config. That's not inherently a problem, do it properly and it still lines up with whatever OS layout you load. If you're purposefully changing the keycodes to avoid letting the OS know the layout is different... well, you got what you explicitly configured you wanted it to behave like? Leave a layer if you expressly don't want said behavior, it's not up to the app developer to assume you meant to do otherwise.
Prebuilts of various LineageOS apps are available here: https://www.sebaubuntu.dev/lineageapps.html
Totally resonated with me re software lifecycle etc. Great article.

I know this is not what the article is about. But perhaps exec should have spent resources and time trying to increase revenue instead of cutting cost marginally, and creating an expensive system down the road. Derailing team focus.

Build vs buy… Build is almost always not cheaper. Many other reasons to build though.
The open domain frame problem is simply the halting problem.

https://philarchive.org/rec/DIEEOT-2

While humans and computers both suffer from the frame problem, the LLMs do not have access to symantic properties, let alone the open domain.

This is related to why pair programming and self organizing cross functional teams work so well btw.
related/previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42533685

Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15(https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/12/3.html)

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