skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number of 9s that can be assigned to these "bounds" currently is zero. They are not even 90% reliable. And there is no straightforward way to get to 90%, never mind 95%, 99%, etc. The sliding scale of reliability you originally presented just does not exist.

Yeah, sure, we can hypothetically engineer a system that tolerates a key step in the process which has, say, a 30% chance of being wrong, including a 10% chance of being dangerously wrong (appears correct but is broken in subtle ways), and a 5% chance of being batshit insane, but why would we? The amount of training, vetting, and supervision of human operators necessary to make a working process here immediately raises the question of whether the machine serves man or the other way around.

The best uses of an LLM are those where engineering levels of precision are neither required nor useful.
Right, but what if unauthorized happens? How do you distinguish authorized from unauthorized?

Obviously, you can ask Biden: did he authorize such and such a document or not.

This suspicion would only be a problem in the case of someone deceased.
Web Components vs. Framework Components: What's the Difference?
I really have to agree with the "easier to debug" part. I one time had to debug a particularly nasty networking issue that was causing HTTP connections to just "stop" midway through sending data. Turned out to be a confusion mismatch between routers and allowed packet sizes. It would have been so much worse with a non-plaintext protocol.
Ford is still somewhat relevant in Europe, though possibly less so than it used to be. It certainly has a decent chunk of the van market, but you don’t see its cars as much as you used to.
Statistical mechanics is the lens that makes most sense to me, and it's well studied.
What alternatives have you found? Do you mostly go to smaller vendors?
'Audible enclaves' could enable private listening without headphones
We have also beaten plants on some experimental schemes for air-carbon capture. But organic synthesis is still incredibly inefficient.

We are probably on the low 0.1%s of total efficiency of converting solar power into organic molecules. And it's still very capital intensive.
Have you tried using git with Windows clients?

There are so many random line conversions going on and the detection on what is a binary file is clearly broken.

I don't understand why the default would be anything but "commit the file as is"
I believe stainless steel has a slight anti-microbial property not present in glass.

Either way, both are far better than plastic. Plastic has no such anti-microbial effect AND tends to scratch from cleaning which makes wonderful footholds for bacteria. Further, because plastic is a hydrocarbon it is a potential food source for bacteria and fungus.

Even if the bacteria/fungus is harmless, you are looking at ingesting a bunch of plastic as it starts to degrade.
Huh. I just assumed that they’d have chosen a name that no-one else had…

(There’s an office building called Lumen round the corner from my house; it contains an aircraft leasing company, which is about the most boring possible thing that macrodata refinement could be.)
Open-Source AI Matches Top Proprietary LLM in Solving Tough Medical Cases
DeepSeek has banned its employees from leaving China
Ha this took me down a rabbit hole. I once did food packaging design and we had to sort out correct labelling including the barcode so I had vague memories of the barcode system.

If I’m not mistaken, food packaging is generally labelled worldwide with the same primary bar code type, which specifically is the GS1 standard. Maybe in your head “a normal product barcode”.

More here:

https://www.gs1.org

Seems the country of origin, is encoded into the barcode spec using a 3 digit ISO country code format.

I’ve not yet worked out which digits..

But practically once worked out it should be easily determined with a knowing read of the code in numbers (look for the number X which is Y digits in) sort of thing.

Or equally fairly trivial to make a scanner app that reports the country of origin or visually responds to certain counties of origin.

Deeper spec here:

https://ref.gs1.org/standards/genspecs/

I found country of origin stuff on page 178, but doing this on my phone haven’t yet worked out .. how many digits across the county of origin code is stored.

Section titled “3.7.1.5 Country of Origin of a Trade Item”.
And there are no other parties involved before the trade? That was not my understanding.
cppreference says [1]:

A prvalue of floating-point type can be converted to a prvalue of any integer type. The
fractional part is truncated, that is, the fractional part is discarded.

- If the truncated value cannot fit into the destination type, the behavior is undefined (even
when the destination type is unsigned, modulo arithmetic does not apply).

Ugh. Like, surely the C++ stdlib could provide a "give me the best int approximation" function without triggering nasal demons. Sometimes I feel like C++ is not just difficult to use but actively trying to harm me.

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/implicit_conversi...
> Buttons, lists, input boxes

Make it a web page and be done
Hard to tell with Apple stuff. The idea on the "way of getting it to device to run persistently, not until reboot" is quite different too often. There was Pegasus
There are/were also a number of companies and organisations called Isis/ISIS.
They’ve been working on AI and autonomy for ages now, it’s not some super secret.

They for sure can’t compete in high end market (which goes against their mission anyway) and low end market is likely to be filled with chinese stuff. The niche they still got is autonomy and premium segment.
Cost calculations are often different at the enterprise scale from the individual scale. Hypothetically

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open

is an affordable storage medium if you need to store petabytes but for what the drive costs

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1724762-REG/quantum_t...

you could buy 400 TB worth of hard drives. Overall I'd have more confidence in the produced-in-volume hard drives compared to LTO tapes which have sometimes disappeared from the market because vendors were having patent wars. Personally I've also had really bad experiences with tapes, going back to my TRS-80 Color Computer which was terribly unreliable, getting a Suntape with nothing at zeros on it, when the computer center at NMT ended my account, the "successful" recovery of a lost configuration from a tape robot in 18 hours (reconstructed it manually long before then), ...
More prominently, microsoft go
It's a poor bluff. Since Biden is still living, he could easily confirm what pardons he approved.
"Claude calls removing a watermark from an image 'unethical and potentially illegal.'"

This is why we need local-only LLMs. Tools shouldn't have opinions.
As someone who remembers the 80s quite well, I think it's a giant mistake to just say this is some kind of cyclical, "Oh, it's like the 80s again" moment.

While I don't want to delve too much into politics, I think the situation at the moment in the US is without precedent at least since the Civil War. And the tech situation is far, far different. I know a lot of people seem to think that folks who point out societal concerns with tech are "Luddites", and love to give (IMO very poor) analogies like "it's just like buggy whip manufacturers!", but I think we're at a point where tech, either now or very shortly in the future, will start to kill off more jobs than it creates (and, if you think about it, in some sense that is actually the point of many technologies), and modern society is far from figuring out how to function if most people can't make a living by selling their labor.

Again, I totally agree that on one hand there are standard business cycle forces at play, but there are other longer term forces that have been building steam for decades, and I think it's a mistake to confuse these two things.
I've had some annoying landlords, but I would take every one over Trump.

People tend to imagine a counterfactual where the state is idealized instead of looking at the state they have.
I wonder how random it is truly given that the environment something resides in shapes and changes it. For instance, imagine if there is some sort of environmental variable (temperature, humidity, light, or more) which produces an indiscernible, yet impactful, change in the behavior of the wall over time. In that way, there may not be true randomness, but a complex pattern which can be studied and acquired over time.
Why would AGI align with ”ideal”(according to who? Certainly not the people developing it) human values?

Seems like pure wishful thinking to me.
LLM Training Without a Parallel Filesystem
Machines of Ruthless Efficiency
Some animals have provably some sort of language, and most probably have them for tens of millions of years, or their ancestors did. No reason to believe there was no language before those 135k. Clearly you don't need something very special and unique to us.

Now where is the threshold when we consider something a proper language and something... less lets say I don't know. Science probably doesn't have a clue neither. The evolution was probably very gradual, ie every 1000 years the complexity grew up by a notch, on average. Compound it to a million years.
Oh ya know, a spreadsheet or a to-do list. The first feature you implement when making a tool like this is tracking your own stuff in it. The tool has to be able to iterate on itself.
If you think this is cause for concern, consider that most economic activity in the US isn’t even on an exchange to begin with.
Its cool that we're watching in real time as one branch of government openly ignores the other 2 and accelerates the timeline to WW3
Filename extensions are pretty useful. They were adopted for very good reasons, and every attempt to hide them, pretend they don't matter, or otherwise make them go away has only made things worse.

You still need a way to make it hard to fool people with deceptive extensions, though, and that's where the magic numbers come in.
That really depends on which police you're talking about, and one's views on the Constitution. State and local police have fairly broad powers, and I don't know much about California's laws, so I'm not in a position to judge this.
Also, I know it is namby-pamby, but that hasn't been what I've heard people say for a while now.
Yes. But you cannot follow a person around indefinitely.
How Long It Takes to Get over an Ex Emotionally
The last thing I need is another bullshit generator.
> KOReader never contacted us: I don't think they know how low the certification fee would be

It's between 350USD (per platform) and 1,700USD per year. So the possible range is between 1700USD, and 3k USD... Yeah, that's totally reasonable for a FOSS project where the lower yearly cost is 110% of the amount they make in donations every year.
Try to ask support in a technical manner. Provide ID if asked
MLPs are compositions of generalized linear models. That's not very enlightening though; the "mysterious" part is the macroscopics of the composition, which you can't really understand with the tools of statistics.
Magic numbers aren't for parsing files, they're for identifying file formats.

And yes making it obviously binary is helpful, e.g. for Git.
I have followed a fair few StatQuest and other videos (treadmills with Youtube are great for fitness and learning in one)

I find that no single source seems to cover things in a way that I easily understand, but cumulatively they fill in the blanks of each other.

Serrano Academy has been a good source for me as well.
https://www.youtube.com/@SerranoAcademy/videos

The best tutorials give you a clear sense that the teacher has a clear understanding of the underlying principles and how/why they are applied.

I have seen a fair few things that are effectively.

'To do X, you {math thing}' While also creating the impression that they don't understand why {math thing} is the right thing to do, just that {math thing} has a name and it produces the result. Meticulously explaining the minutiae of {math thing} substitutes for a understanding of what it is doing.

It really stood out to me when looking at UMAP and seeing a bunch of things where they got into the weeds in the math without explaining why these were the particular weeds to be looking in.

Then I found a talk by Leland McInnes that had the format.

{math thing} is a tool to do {objective}. It works, there is a proof, you don't need to understand it to use the tool but the info for that is over there if you want to tale a look. These are our objectives, let's use these tools to achieve them.

The tools are neither magical black boxes, nor confused with the actual goal. It really showed the power of fully understanding the topic.
I guess I’m surprised at how quaint the commercialization is then.
The effect, very often, is to force anybody with specific reading habits to buy Amazon or be unable to read their books. This is especially bad if you don't just buy books, but read through the library or especially if you get ARCs (advance reader copies, for pre-release reviews). Advance readers who don't have Kindle are jerked around constantly by DRM and especially changes in DRM schemes. It's really hard to not see this as collusion, as it suspiciously always works for the benefit of Amazon and the detriment of every single other person and company involved.

> how is it bad behavior to say you’ll issue a takedown notice if your copyright material is republished

It's not. That's not what happened here, though.

It is bad behavior when you threaten legal action against somebody working within their rights to legally allow people to read things that they paid for on devices that they've paid for. The DMCA has specific carve-outs for interoperability. Threatening legal action there is bully behavior. I'd argue that the ethics are pretty clear-cut here too. A ton of copyright law is incredibly badly balanced against the consumer and even against small artists in favor of the biggest players. If this was illegal, it would be the law that is unethical.
Yes, exactly. As a data hoarder myself I've been thinking 'what data is _really_ important to me?'. And the answer is - not that much of it. The work, mental space, time, money you have to invest into storing your own data is so much effort, it is probably not worth it.
Parent comment was edited, it no longer seems to include "Rust", difficult to follow. :P
“Modern” FTP clients would auto detect if you were sending text or binary files and thus disable line conversations for binary.

But go back to the 90s and before, and you’d have to manually select whether you were sending text or binary data. Often these clients defaulted to text and so you’d end up accidentally corrupting files if you weren’t careful.

The pain was definitely real
It is not as easy as that. AI responses currently are probabilistic (intentionally).
that was more about shielding your face, non?
No, it's just disablement of a hardware-based feature that won't be able to run the new software.
> Basically, we have already beaten nature. Aiming to copy nature at this game is probably fruitless.

As long as nature only consists of electricity. If it involves matter we might not be quite at 20% efficiency (output: physical work).
Does it store the history at least? So you have a record. Neat idea!
Why not use mdisc and effectively solve the “has my cd/dvd degraded beyond the point of being readable” question entirely.
And then the web app eats all that saved ms with ease.
It doesn't work for the newest encryption scheme for epubs. Current epubs downloaded from NetGalley won't decrypt with it, unfortunately.
I mean did you have some sort of code (I cannot remember the name) set. Or what did you see if screen is off and you hard reset it, or at least soft reset, or just locking it with power button and waking in up the same way?
So with HTTP/3 it’s just 9.9 sec
Are there any viable nginx alternatives that support HTTP3 and are mature for prod workflows?
Title was modified from what it originally said.
to put a finer point on it: decibels are logarithmic, e.g. a tenfold increase.

as in, an increase of 10 decibels corresponds to a tenfold increase in sound intensity.

this means 160dB is a lot. a loooooooooooot
I edited it because it's not just my own experience of dealing with this. On twitter, I follow a couple Japanese developers from mainly gamedev scene and even they complain they started hearing more about "but it only works on windows" and "it's not open-source". Don't you find it strange that it should be the other way around the more years pass since .NET went OSS?

The link itself is also quite outdated and mainly consists of posts from Miguel de Icaza who's promoting Swift, arguably less OSS language. Take from that what you will.
> If your users need to resort to HN....

True - but if a user resorting to HN receives a very positive, public reply from their CxO within 2 minutes...that's a pretty favorable sign overall.

(And even if jgrahamc does nothing except fix this n=1 problem, his brighter underlings are likely scrambling to minimize recurrences.)
Totally agree. Most of the benefit of HTTP 2/3 comes from minimizing TCP connections between app->lb. Once you are past the lb the benefits are dubious at best.

Most application frameworks that I've dealt with have limited capabilities to handle concurrent requests, so it becomes a minor issue to have 100+ connections between the app and the lb.

On the flipside, apps talking to the LB can create all sorts of headaches if they have even modest sized pools. 20 TCP connections from 100 different apps and you are already looking at hard to handle TCP flooding.
>That is what Google markets it as, for sure.

Can you point me to this Google "marketing"?

Google doesn't particularly care if you use HTTP/3. They don't even build it into the tools they build like Go or Dart, at least not in a timely manner. There was a passing bit of technical notes for RFCs and as they added it in Chromium, but otherwise they've been remarkably silent about it.

Yet they moved trillions of web requests to HTTP/3. Maybe they really don't know what they're doing. Cloudflare also clearly hasn't the slightest, right? Fools!

>while the article we're in comments to decries

HTTP/3 is complex to implement. Very complex. It's pretty simple to understand why it hasn't seen wide implementation in every random tool. And for many people HTTP/2 is fine, especially as you're probably just going to drop Cloudflare (which has HTTP/3) with caching in front of it anyways.
if you're bringing FPV drones you're well past the point of protesting
I can pinpoint the burst (at least for me) to a very specific date. March 21st 2000. When Lycos Europe IPOed and closed the day below its issue price.
Silicon Valley is an aberration due to its low housing density. Places with more apartments and condos are much more likely to have infrastructure improvements since you can reach a lot more customers with a lot less money.

I live a little north of you, and had Webpass (wireless) in 2012 - $50/mo for 100 Mbps. Now it's $70/mo for 1 Gbps, but I'm with another wireless ISP for $35/mo for 500 Mbps.
I could see this being an option for a car. Imagine embedding this in a headrest so passengers could listen to something different from one another.
Using (formal) specification languages doesn't guarantee a specification is "correct" either.

You have to write more code, and in a different language, but unlike just testing you can actually prove that invariants hold for all possible inputs.

Formal verification is needed to show that the code actually implements a specification. If anything, a formal specification is really good for generating test suites for the implementation code.
A task is deleted and removed the board once you X it out, and then the entire board's state is reset at the start of the next day :)

I could perhaps offer a choice in the settings if you want to disable the auto-reset in favor of historical tracking by day with export!
I really do appreciate the 90s, Video Toaster-esque[1] aesthetics

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster
> Perhaps from a fear of being made redundant?

Not for me, nor, I imagine, most skeptics. If we thought that was a real imminent threat, then we'd be believers, not skeptics.
It ebbs and flows, like every other circle jerk ping ponging around within an insular internet community.
What are your issues with the memory requirements being small? One of the programs was a MUD that consumed a couple hundred megabytes, and I never had issues with it.

I mentioned gigabytes because of how mine specifically worked. It allocated chunks in powers of 2, so there was some % of memory that wasn't being used. For instance, If you only need 20 bytes for a string, you got back a pointer for a chunk of 32 bytes. Being just a game, and side project, I never gave it much thought, so I'm curious to hear your input.
Very nice! Reminds me of something I built on Shadertoy a while back: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4ttGRf
How else do you ensure somewhat consistent CI...? VM images?
agree! I feel like there must be a good workaround. Currently, I just need to go back and run a bunch of cells again..
I assumed .NET is Windows-only and proprietary, too, but it has to do with me not having done enough research, so if it is not the case anymore, the blame is on me.
hg fa is basically just an optimised blame/annotate "fast-annotate"
the awesome feature is --deleted which gives you the file with all the prior removals in context with revision info in it, which is incredibly useful for seeing how the file changed over time in a fairly concise way. Not a full unreadable mess, but those removals often have key details...
I thought security people found it fun to do polyglots, as in the magazine POC||GTFO
> Their only realistic option is to require SafetyNet.

... which almost all of the mentioned apps do, and that's my point. Even with all the various hacks enabled.
Numbers of H1B applicants per country are available. The equivalent for the UK and France is also available.

If you believe there's nearly as many people trying to get out than there is trying to get in, you will be surprised.

The difference (per capita) is a factor of at least 10x
But by breaking up the order they have to wait and the market can move in reaction to their sell off unless they do it very slowly. Dark pools can completely hide a large sell or buy order from the market long enough to execute at the current strike if there's another member in the pool buying. They wouldn't use it if it didn't give them an advantage because it costs more than regular trades.
We can, in fact, rule it out by dissecting the device and monitoring chip traffic. That’s my whole point - people who understand technology know that it’s nearly impossible for Amazon devices to routinely spy on conversations in people’s homes without detection.
I remember when I set up integration between GitHub Issues and some external ticket system, I've introduced infinite loop and issues being created on both sides. I'm glad that I didn't pay per task.
> But in plain ones.. nope. C++, Java, whatever - noone checks things at runtime. Most of those do not have a way to know what some n-bytes represent

But then my question is, what are you doing that you need to manually check for types ? I mean i get it at some point, usually at the time of user input usually you need to run checks to actually convert some input into a valid type. But once it is inside your program you don't need to check anymore because well... static typing and all that, you should know what you have in every step just at a glance
no, securities aren't the same as retail products
Generative AI use surging among consumers for online shopping: Report
Ask HN: Squarespace Sites Down
I'm noticing a bunch of sites built on squarespace are down, but don't see anything on twitter/their status page? Anybody else noticing this?