skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The key point here is that knowing that the thing in front of the robot is a coffee cup and a coffee machine and identifying how those things fit together and in what context that is required are all things that LLMs can do.

I'm skeptical that any LLM "knows" any such thing. It's a Chinese Room. It's got a probability map that connects the lexeme (to us) 'coffee machine' and 'coffee cup' depending on other inputs that we do not and cannot access, and spits out sentences or images that (often) look right, but that does not equate to any understanding of what it is doing.

As I was writing this, I took chat GPT-4 for a spin. When I ask it about an obscure but once-popular fantasy character from the 70s cold, it admits it doesn't know. But, if I ask it about that same character after first asking about some obscure fantasy RPG characters, it cheerfully confabulates an authoritative and wrong answer. As always, if it does this on topics where I am a domain expert, I consider it absolutely untrustworthy for any topics on which I am not a domain expert. That anyone treats it otherwise seems like a baffling new form of Gell-Mann amnesia.

And for the record, when I asked ChatGPT-4, cold, "What is Gell-Mann amnesia?" it gave a multi-paragraph, broadly accurate description, with the following first paragraph:

"The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a term coined by physicist Murray Gell-Mann. It refers to the phenomenon where people, particularly those who are knowledgeable in a specific field, read or encounter inaccurate information in the media, but then forget or dismiss it when it pertains to other topics outside their area of expertise. The term highlights the paradox where readers recognize the flaws in reporting when it’s something they are familiar with, yet trust the same source on topics outside their knowledge, even though similar inaccuracies may be present."

Those who are familiar with the term have likely already spotted the problem:
"a term coined by physicist Murray Gell-Mann". The term was coined by author Michael Crichton.[1] To paraphrase H.L. Mencken, for every moderately complex question, there is an LLM answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_amn...
So I'm old. PhD on search engines in the early 1990's (yep, early 90s). Learnt AI in the dark days of the 80's.
So, there is an awful lotl of forgetting going on, largely driven by the publish-or-perish culture we have. Brooks' subsumption architecture was not perfect, but it outlined an approach that philosophy and others have been championing for decades. He said he was not implementing Heidegger, just doing engineering, but Brooks was certainly channeling Heidegger's successors. Subsumption might not scale, but perhaps that is where ML comes in.
On a related point, "generative AI" does sequences (it's glorified auto complete (not) according to Hinton in the New Yorker). Data is given to a Tokeniser that produces a sequence of tokens, and the "AI" predicts what comes next. Cool. Robots are agents in an environment with an Umwelt. Robotics is pre the Tokeniser. What is it the is recognisable and sequential in the world?
2 cents please.
This is kinda neat.

> 2. The recipient organization is as opposite (and hopefully as offensive) as possible to the site operator that funded the donation.

This is vulnerable to "false flag" abuse, from faux-morons.

> 1. The recipient organization does share our values.

This partly mitigates that risk.

Faux-morons can still generate more funds for recipients chosen by the site, and/or hurt the profitability of the site, but at least it's for causes within the values of the site.
How much did they get acquired for?
IMHO the main downside of AI is that it is really easy to generate this kind of site.

I know that people can do that all by themselves (without AI), generating fake stuff on the internet, but it took time, effort, so you had to be really committed to the joke to actually do it.
In that case, I think it took less time to create this site than it took me to realize the stuff it had in it did not exist.
I was under the impression that these CDR/FDRs were independently powered. But a quick Quack on DuckDuckGo didn't answer anything.

That two different recorders both went titsup at the same time I find mind boggling and very sus.

edit: apparently they have both AC and a battery backup, if the internet is to be believed.

Which makes a simultaneous loss of two devices with battery backups... curious.

Did they get hit with an EMP?
I would just change the percentages, but is about as true as it gets.
No it isn't unless you are salt sensitive. You would know if you are salt sensitive, you would have high blood pressure.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-t...
Meta allegedly used copyrighted material under instruction of Mark Zuckerberg [pdf]
In the late 90s, I was a member of Microsoft's MVP program for VB6 and later IIS/ASP. Having used every version of VB (including DOS) I was one of the many who was furious when they petulantly refused to commit to updating VB6 on a parallel track. At one point there was a significant number of us with a petition, and they basically told us to pound sand...

So, I did. This was literally the push I needed to switch to open source tooling, and it put me in the right time and place to be a Rails early adopter.

I downloaded XYplorer mostly out of curiousity, and it's actually so fast that I am slightly shocked to say that I might be switching to it.
High resolution imagery of LA fire damage from earlier today
Put this together to help some people determine the state of their houses because I couldn't find a better data source anywhere that could easily be viewed.
a nuclear battery would last a few years.
And that happens not only with developers, but in any profession, which gives me shivers when I go to the doctor!
MessagePack is self-describing (it contains tags like "next bytes are an integer"), but Protobuf uses external scheme.
This is called Kepler's Third Law, right? Radius^1.5 :: Period
Skype founder thinks EU can still win the AI race
Great idea. It is magical, makes more room for thinking, less of distractions.
Definitely. But I also tried with a picture of an absurdist cartoon drawn by a family member, complete with (carefully) handwritten text, and the analysis was absolutely perfect.
Do you have some examples of large and complex C# applications with really good performance?

I’m hard pressed to think of any Microsoft software at all that I think feels really nice. Except for VSCode, which is of course built on Electron and not .NET.

The only thing that comes to mind is Paint.NET, which doesn’t seem like all that big of an application. It’s very nicely done, but I think it’s only got like a single dev working on it, so couldn’t be that big.
Everybody cares about growth. The world will end the minute we finally stop growing. The entire economic system and society will unravel
Nearly free speech for me is one of those services still (excellently) run by nerds.

Its no-frills, functional UI reminds me of the old internet before services and sites began coalescing into bigger, faceless, soulless monoliths. I didn’t know about this policy before today, but now I love them even more.

If you’re looking for a place to host your next project or domain, I can’t recommend them enough!
Some sources would be beneficial here.
Most of my simple C projects have make.sh instead that has something like:

clear
gcc some options -o foo && ./foo
Nvidia Slams Biden for Trying to 'Preempt' Trump with Policy
If the motor was just shutdown, it should still make power off windmilling. If they discharged the extinguishers, then there is no more power. In any case, that should be recorded.
It's too complex, and the implementation is poor[0].

[0]: https://github.com/getml/reflect-cpp/tree/main/benchmarks
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The reason why it sounds counterintuitive is that neurology has the brain upside down. It teaches us that formal thinking occurs in the neocortex, and we need all that huge brain mass for that.

But in fact it works like an autoencoder, and it reduces sensory inputs into a much smaller latent space, or something very similar to that. This does result in holistic and abstract thinking, but formal analytical thinking doesn't require abstraction to do the math or to follow a method without comprehension. It's a concrete approach that avoids the need for abstraction.

The cerebellum is the statistical machine that gets measured by IQ and other tests.

To further support that, you don't see any particularly elegant motions from non mammal animals. In fact everything else looks quite clumsy, and even birds need to figure out flying by trial and error.
I’m not implying that immigration is the only reason for higher housing prices. My opinion is that 0% interest rates and loose credit are the primary reason.

However, simple supply/demand would suggest that immigration AND 0% interest rates both affect demand quickly while supply requires securing land, building homes and getting approval to build homes takes significant time. Migrations are happening at a faster rate than housing can be built so it definitely has an impact on prices.
The C part of ZFC is a challenge for constructive theories
I'd argue there's a qualitative difference in approach between testing, a procedural approximation to a proof of absence of bugs by exhaustion, and the more declarative (more "formal") method of directly proving things about a model. Might be splitting hairs, though.

It reminds me of the question about whether programming is math. Depends on what you think you're doing. Are you doing things with state to get results, or building a system of facts that results in the answer?
http://cboxdoerfer.github.io/fsearch/
I honestly don't even know what to answer. You just generalized some places you think you saw as Europe.

I live in Switzerland, you can earn 500k if you want to. But you can also have a relaxed live. All your neighbours aren't poor so you barely have to be afraid of anything. Junkies get their heroin from the state, even them are nice people on the streets. Vacations is part of our lifestyle and even the poor have that. Tax burden is way less, startups are common and usually don't require a lot of investor money...

Also I have no idea why people always bring up silicon valley. That's not even 1% of the US, the rest of the country still is an obvious shit hole, in every single metric. And silicon valley is just barely better with super high wages.

You can build your walled mansion, but you can also enjoy being part of a healthy society.
Hopefully the radiation does not clear the memory…
Batteries are there for at least 30 minutes
30 years work of one man

blink, blink, it's not a render!, blink

there is a school of philosophy that proposes the idea that humans primary purpose is as landscape architects, which this man work lends credence to
Your comment asserted that that was the only justification I gave. Even if that were true, it would still make you the kind of asshole who makes fun of elderly women with incontinence problems—in fact, who advocates omitting basic safety features from engineering designs because you think it's hilarious when elderly women with incontinence problems wet their pants. Or, interpreting your comment with more charity than the annual UNICEF budget, you think it would be hilarious if elderly women with incontinence problems had to pull down their pants and pee on the passenger seat.

But it's not true, which makes you a liar as well.

Comments like that one undermine my faith in the capacity of humanity for goodness. You managed to combine dishonesty, unprovoked rhetorical aggression, engineering irresponsibility, and fantasies of a breathtaking degree of sadism into a few short lines. It's honestly one of the most contemptible comments I've ever seen on HN.
Looks great. I have heard Finland has very affordable housing.

Yeah I do agree we should build better housing now than post WW2 economies. The main point I want to make is that affordable housing is already solved.
> 4 minutes is an eternity.

private pilot here: 4 minutes is nothing while flying and coping with an emergency! NOTHING!
> but no one has really brought it up in years

Yes, it hasn’t been brought up during the last four years because he wasn’t president. Now that he’ll be president again it’s suddenly relevant.
You can just use array of array like most scientific applications do.
> Punishing people thousands of generations removed who have no responsibility seems sadistic and cruel

If you want to be theist but also not close your mind to reality then maltheism is the only feasible way to go.
people can cheat in anon interviews?
Sounds kinda terrible to me. If you don't want to host content, don't. I fully support that decision.

But don't pretend to be free speech defenders then siphon money to fight your own customer because it makes you feel better.

It makes me feel like the margins are too high all around to even have such a plan. And judging by prices last time I looked, that's about right.
Mike Masnick has a good thread on it

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3lfgh7dbg...
It drops the most useful aspect of JSON, which is that you can open it in a text editor.

It's like JSON in that it's a serialisation format.
One question I've always had with this: How does the rotation of the earth affect an airplane's flight time, if any? And how does this change with altitude?
> myriad reasons why Common Lisp is far superior to Clojure

Some narrow view. Have you tried thinking that maybe Clojure intentionally chose not to include type declarations because they can lead to a messy middle ground? After all, maybe not every feature from Common Lisp needs to be replicated in every Lisp dialect? Besides, Clojure's Spec and Malli can be far more powerful for validation as they can define complex data structures, you can generate test data from them, you can validate entire system states, and they can be manipulated as data themselves.

If CL so "far superior" like you say, why then it can't be 'hosted' like Clojure? Why Clojure has Clojurescript, ClojureCLR, ClojureDart, babashka, nbb, sci, etc.? I'm not saying that to argue your specific point. Neither of them is 'superior' to another. They both have different purposes, philosophies, and use cases. Each has its strengths, pros, and cons. And that is actually very cool.
yea same boat. I've always wondered what normal depth perception looks like. On the plus side, it is fun to challenge people to wear an eye patch and play table tennis or some other activity and see how bad they are when they haven't developed monocular depth perception cues.
You do not have time to start the APU. Moving any switch is a procedure with a checklist, at that hight, once you lost both engines… they had no chance.
I don’t have a lot of experience with this, but that’s mainly because there’s no way to compile my company’s application with Native AOT. At least not without a significant amount of work.

This is because there are many limitations in what can be compiled this way, and most C# applications and libraries were never built with such limitations in mind.
> I am unconvinced that people have a stronger affiliation for those than their country.

Why is the affiliation the relevant axis? Why not indirect political power (unions strongest) or direct political power (regions strongest)? You're arbitrarily choosing an arbitrary measurement.

> Further, measuring emissions levels for the country as a whole. On a practical level, getting emission levels for a specific region or a specific union, must less particular individuals, is going to be much harder.

I don't see how it could be more complex for unions since they are made up of countries. If we have measurements for countries, we have measurements for unions.

Similarly, you can't create country-wide measurements without measuring individual regions. At least in Germany we have pretty good coverage for the individual regions, which gives you much higher resolution data. So why not use that?

I don't see how you can arrive at "countries" as the best/most logical axis of measurement. The only use I see is if you want to tell people that other countries have much further to go (but I'm not accusing you of doing so).
> And COM/OLE/ActiveX components [] could have been used just as easily from Delphi

I wanted to use Excel from within Delphi - I wasted more than a few weeks and ultimately failed. I always suspected that the COM/OLE integration had problems with some of the advanced features I was trying to use (I was trying to do something rather complicated). Plus the documentation and support was lacking for Delphi - Microsoft best supports Microsoft tools. I did use Delphi and COM successfully in many other situations but that one failure really soured me towards COM and Delphi together. I am typically capable of making complex integrations work, so I was surprised to fail.
> Makefiles are a good example. Every makefile author must write their own functionally identical "clean" target. Shouldn't there be an implicit default?

At some point you have to give the system something to go on, and the part where it starts deleting files seems like a good one where not to guess.

It's plenty implicit in other places. You can for example, without a Makefile even, just do `make foo` and it will do its best to figure out how to do that. If there's a foo.c you'll get a `foo` executable from that with the default settings.
- Let me in so I can save you.
- From what?
- From what I'm gonna do to you if you don't let me in.

Godlike compassion, morality and consistency.
I've always found these loud DEI programs incredibly uncanny - every career website loudly how important diversity and inclusiveness is for them, but in flowery language, as implying they'd actually discriminate against non-diverse hires would be illegal in most places. Which begs the question of the point of these programs, considering of why they were needed this outwards messaging against discrimination, considering it was illegal in the first place.

I've witnessed the DEI transformation from the inside - which amounted to a chief diversity officer being hired, a lot of incredibly sanctimonious online trainings got scheduled for us, and rainbow flags started popping up in the weirdest places.

A few coworkers I had, who checked a lot of the boxes got dragged into interviews and company events (which some found somewhat uncomfortable).
Very little changed in practice, and if you didn't care to read the company newsletter (who does that anyway), then you didn't experience much of it.
In a system that requires the absolute speediest throughput compression is actually usually the worst thing in a parsechain - so parsing without first decompression is valuable.

I've tried messagepack a few times, but to be honest the hassle of the debugging was never really worth it
I don’t disagree that speculation on a critical resource like housing is a really harmful phenomena. Another concern is when people use housing as a store of value for diversity in their portfolio. These long term “investors” are less likely to care whether their houses are rented or occupied as they have enough wealth to weather the loss of revenue or even fluctuations of the asset prices.

The empty home tax is a great idea, but my guess is the tax/fee is not significant enough to change investor behavior. Or possibly it’s not being enforced at the level it should be?
Wouldn't faux-morons be better off just giving the money to their target charities? Why set up a website pushing the agenda they don't support, and pay to do that, in order to get some of that money they pay be siphoned away to causes they do support?
Note that just shutting down normally the engine would not cause a power loss. Only in the case of a turn off with extinguisher. Of course after bird strike you shut it down with extinguisher.

Now there is clear procedure, with checks that has to be memorized, where you first identify the engine. Pilots are regularly tested for that procesures. Why it went wrong?
Which Web API can encode and decode CBOR? I'm not aware of any, and unless I'm mistaken you will need to ship your own implementation in any case.
I think the principle is solid though. Tax should effectively be 100% of the market value of the property after a certain point though - say one year.
The grandson of the 10th US president is alive and well. That president was alive when George Washington was. This is a young country.
Parent post was talking about employment. Members of the board of directors are not employees. Management is also typically not covered by most employee protections in EU countries.
I'd take some years off my life if it meant I could continue to enjoy salt.
Now consider that most homeless in Poland are male. There _exist_ people who never had family, or ruthless real estate grabbers who'd rather have real estate for themselves and a homeless family member.

> people removed from homes for domestic violence by court (divorce)

This is classic why the husband moves out, have you ever dealt with family courts as a male in Poland, nothing rings the bell for you? So a male homeless must be violent alcoholic, right? I'm happy that your life and family are doing okay. Once your life will turn more difficult, Polish society will dismiss you as a violent alcoholic and no help or support will be awaiting. Will reveal you one more secret, Polish male homeless are in Germany and Netherlands. Occasionally you hear about them in media when someone beats them to death or sets them on fire.
You might benefit from make, as you wouldn't need a full rebuild every time, or have to spell out every step.
People still make a lot of clothes even though huge percentage of the ends up in landfills after barely any use.

Future purpose of childbirth is fashion.
How "test your adblocker" websites can harm users and the adblocker ecosystem
Seems like a another possible fix would be to change the best fit mapping table to never generate control characters, but only alphanumerics. So map quote-like characters to 'q' and so on.

This might be uglier and slightly change behaviour, but only for vulnerable applications.
Just use the included zsh.
FFS, can humans not just keep creating plastic crap that'll ruin the planet. Make your own wooden spoon and you have a beautiful object created with your own hands.
You can decode protobuf in the same way, I've written several decoders in the past that don't rely on an external schema. There are some types you can't always decode with a 100% confidence, but then again JSON or something like it isn't strongly typed either.
Downright shocking that a policy like this would be adopted without the necessary social supports in place. There should be regular visits by care workers, addiction councillors, mental health professionals, access to education and jobs programmes etc. Even in the absence of mental illness and addiction (which are of course both rise in unhoused populations) living on the street leaves people with enormous unaddressed trauma, skill deficits and physical health issues.
Just for the sake of argument, what if they were just pretending to be Democrats?
I think the "fair weather voter" is a real phenomenon - people are often more attached to being part of the winning team than they are to their political beliefs. And I don't see why tech leaders would be immune from this.
Sure, if you skip what should we do/don't.