skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW I do think you're right that we should treat a new entrant to the (mainstream) market with at the very least some "optimistic skepticism".

Personally I'd like to see some stronger competition in the market and wish them well, but I'd also like to see how the dust settles and some build-up of evidence for reliability etc when properly assessed against other makers.
I was wondering why there is only Y/N to choose from.

In Xposed Framework of Android, I can give a fake permission that allow to read empty contact list. Do we (or manufacturer) need to maintain the trust between APP and OS?
It does make a certain amount of sense, though. A specific 'I don't know' feature would need to be effectively the inverse of all of the features the model can recognise, which is going to be quite difficult to represent as anything other than the inverse of 'Some feature was recognised'. (imagine trying to recognise every possible form of nonsense otherwise)
I've been on call for almost 20 years. If a system is crashing often and disturbing your sleep but is not being prioritized to get fixed, then stop answering the calls. If it was important last night then it's still important this morning.

Be vocal and say "I will no longer respond when system XYZ goes down unless serious efforts are made to fix it."

If you get push back explain that you will also call the person telling you it's not important enough to fix each time it pages, and be willing to do so. What can they say?
In theory, yes, but that's not how policing works.

From personal knowledge of the UK setup, the goals are twofold, mass surveillance plus auto-revenue-generation (intended to raise sufficient to pay for the surveillance infrastructure to minimize the net cost which means auto issuing the absolute maximum number of tickets possible).

Doing validation to ensure correctness of the tickets being issued would be counter-productive to the revenue generation goal; just because police have evidence a crime (like cloning) has happened, does not mean they will not issue the ticket. There is an onus in the UK for the registered keeper of the vehicle to incriminate themselves or someone else for road traffic offences (confirmed by test cases).

Essentially you have to pay up or prove the cloning (and your innocence) yourself - very difficult because you do not have access to the surveillance database that would help you. The core objective of the police is to assert your guilt, not to provide you with any help for your defence.
Don't forget about tire pressure monitoring sensors (TPMS). They operate around 433 MHz and each have a unique ID to stop your car from misreporting a low tire pressure from a car sitting next to you at a stoplight. They are required by law. While some use various techniques to avoid transmitting all the time (to save battery), many just blit out their ID and pressure values on a regular interval whenever the wheels are rolling. That means that whenever you drive over a bridge or toll gate that is properly equipped, you're feeding them enough info to uniquely identify you, even if they don't have a camera or any GHz radios.
As an approximation, 10^0.5 = pi = 3, so $30k was what my mind immediately jumped to
Cloning or just plate theft only works if you put the plate on the identical make, model and colour of vehicle, as many ALPRs are also quantifying the traits of the vehicle and a non-match raises a flag and will likely get extra scrutiny.
It did. It mentioned PCIe connectors, what connects to what, and said this computer has motherboard with such and such PCIe, the card needs such and such, so it's compatible. Regarding physical size it, it said that it depends on the physical size of the case (implying that it understood that the size of the card is known but the size of the computer isn't know to it)
We hit "can actually be useful answering questions about it" within the last ~6 months with the introduction of "reasoning" models with 100,000+ token contest limits (and the aforementioned Gemini 1 million/2 million models).

The "reasoning" thing is important because it gives models the ability to follow execution flow and answer complex questions that down many different files and classes. I'm finding it incredible for debugging, eg: https://gist.github.com/simonw/03776d9f80534aa8e5348580dc6a8...

I built a files-to-prompt tool to help dump entire codebases into the larger models and I use it to answer complex questions about code (including other people's projects written in languages I don't know) several times a week. There's a bunch of examples of that here: https://simonwillison.net/search/?q=Files-to-prompt&sort=dat...
The referee, not the ticket counter.
I don't know if Levis are, but I have absolutely ordered other branded items that are different on amazon compared to in a store, including entirely different and lower quality fabric on amazon.

It's not at all surprising for anything to happen after co-mingled inventory, which should absolutely be illegal.

Walmart created a business practice where many black Friday deals were lower quality products produced explicitly for black Friday sales. So underhanded deceptive business practice in large retailers isn't anything new.

Without a regulatory authority we can expect companies to act in decreasingly bad faith, because who will provide consequences, the other definitely not colluding competitor?
Yeah, except Google doesn't allow using a PO box.
Data demand some damn respect
Bolshevism and Volkism indeed have roots in populism, though, to your point, their institutional counterparts arguably were the exact opposite.

Bolshevism is only one prevailing school of thought from late 19th/early 20th century Russia, but walking back through Narodnaya Volya and the Narodniks will lead you back to Going to the People.

Volkism itself may be one of the best examples of unbridled populism ever, having posited that "true" Germans were being overrun by alien elites (Jewish folk and the like). The fact that the movement was leveraged by neo-pagan Bavarian aristocrats doesn't nullify the ideas that rallied the public behind them in the first place (especially when those ideas persist today).
IBM US cuts may run deeper than feared ‒ and the jobs are heading to India
I gave up on AI because of that. The old IDEs that use an AST for autocomplete still exist and work very well for allowing me to hit tab and get the correct function filled in. They are also very good at the little pop-up that tells me details about the parameter I'm trying to fill in really is - the AI has no clue what order the arguments really are and so often gets it wrong. They won't complete 1000 lines of code - but that is only rarely a savings as most 1000 line code snippets I've worked with just as fast to write myself (I've been programming for 30 years) as to figure out how the AI got some details wrong.

If the AI had access to the AST and could know what functions exist they might be helpful. Then they could write that function they wished existed if it doesn't. However that means they need to know how to understand the code not just the structure.
I wasn’t meaning to say to use laptop mics at the exclusion of a standalone mic, just that if you already have a nicer laptop then the parent comment’s recommendation to switch inputs for a “free” instant quality boost is particularly pertinent. It’s also applicable to situations where one is away from their desk.

The degree to which vibration of is a problem depends on your setup. If your laptop is mounted on a VESA arm bolted to your desk and you’re typing on an external keyboard for example, it’s not going to come through too easily, especially if you have the keyboard placed on a desk pad. This is true of a standalone mic on an arm too.
There's precedent where it's easier to spend some money and buy it from the third party data brokers.

Why go through lawyer hurdles when you can just buy it perfectly legally?
$1.4 trillion from Abu Dhabi.

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp50...
I wish they'd make LibreQuickbooks.
Just wanted to say that I really appreciated your level-headed responses here, John (& I am also this “DevOps/Systems Engineer/SRE” … must be all that incident response training paying off, calm
is contagious and all that )
This is WalMart all over again.

Since WalMart has so much leverage in negotiations, they get to essentially name their price for goods.

Which causes manufacturers to make special WalMart versions of their items.
In Manhattan, in a good building, good neighborhood, 1M USD for a 25sqm studio sounds fine.
I think the Pure Storage is at best half a rack.

I dont think it is 8 rack per DC, it is 4 rack per DC.

>We currently spend about $60,000/month on eight dedicated racks between our two data centers

And they are only doing 64 Core. We will have 256 Zen 6 core next year. And it seems by next year, if they were willing to pay for density they could have fitted everything inside one rack per DC.

Exciting times.

Edit: Actually if Intel were to push 18A on server it would make performance / density even better.
What I find interesting is that they are claiming pictures of the vehicle are identifying information.

Additionally, it's bizarre because the journalist isn't using the computer to gather the information, the police are... and they are legally allowed to -- the code specifically says only law enforcement may do this while performing job duties.

So they are arguing that there's some sort of transitive property where law enforcement are no longer law enforcement performing job duties if they are acting on request from a journalist... or that the journalist is a mastermind in a felony because he is requesting to see his own records.
Liked it. Especially level 4 with frog mutation ;)
Definitely bookmarking it.
Will there be any updates to add new levels?
NMRI – All the calculation power you need without the bloat
> it creates a false picture and it kills the imagination.

this reminds me of a certain voting population that think male and female are very simple XY and XX things and nothing else exists.

unfortunately a lot of people take dumbed down models and mistake the map for the terrain.

I'm not sure there's a cure for it - I have cousins who went through the same schooling and came out with very different abilities to generalise.
Considering how hard they were to detect, I'm guessing no.
Children are most hurt by low expectations. Especially young children.

There's subtlety to this, high demands are not high expectations. If there's consequences for not meeting some high standard you set for children, you're going to create a very life-destroying kind of learned helplessness. Kids shouldn't be punished for failure.

And if it's something dangerous to try, then of course it's gotta be something you limit.

But beyond that, just don't assume kids aren't ready for something without evidence. Let them try.
It's quite insulting that you just assume I don't know how to read specs. You're either assuming based on nothing, or you're inferring from my comment in which case I worry for your reading comprehension. At no point did I say I didn't know how to find the answer or indeed that I didn't know the answer.
We all have the potential to be like this, but not necessarily the predilection.

That said, we are all, by default, some part selfish from the getgo, for oursself, for our ethnicity, for our religion (or lack thereof), for our family, etc.

It's our actual, physical inheritance from our mammalian body construction. Pack mentality gives us if not outright pack warfare, then at least callous disregard for the happiness of those in which out-groups we conjure up out of thin air. Yes, kinship theory is real and human beings can transcend it, but it must be a conscious effort to do so.

That is the baseline human nature. That's why history is so belligerent and why our "evolution" hasn't really gotten us beyond warfare, destruction of the Earth, and ever-growing unhappiness. It's also why the most brutal and callous of our people are now our leaders.

These are all personal choices, however subconscious, that stack up into the majority -- and we are, across the globe, across cultures, like this, until we choose to embrace compassion as our core precept, but few have, because they're still in their default state, raised by callously unconcerned, yet confident, "traditional" cultures.
Jason Stanley? Jason Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University? [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oomvEjJAI44
It's not limited to Black Friday items.

A lot of companies have general WalMart versions of products.
What changed my point of view regarding LLMs was when I realized how crucial context is in increasing output quality.

Treat the AI as a freelancer working on your project. How would you ask a freelancer to create a Kanban system for you? By simply asking "Create a Kanban system", or by providing them a 2-3 pages document describing features, guidelines, restrictions, requirements, dependencies, design ethos, etc?

Which approach will get you closer to your objective?

The same applies to LLM (when it comes to code generation). When well instructed, it can quickly generate a lot of working code, and apply the necessary fixes/changes you request inside that same context window.

It still can't generate senior-level code, but it saves hours when doing grunt work or prototyping ideas.

"Oh, but the code isn't perfect".

Nor is the code of the average jr dev, but their codes still make it to production in thousands of companies around the world.
Tool Complexity Might Have a Cure: Those People Who Say No (2024)
I think you completely missed the point. Altman is definitely engaging in 'creative' messaging, so do other GenAI CEOs. But unlike Holmes and others, they are careful to wrap it into conditionals and future tense and this vague corporate speak about how something "feels" like this and that and not that it definitely is this or that. Most of us dislike the fact that they are indeed implying this stuff as being almost AGI, just around the corner, just a few more years, just a few more hundred billion dollars wasted in datacenters. When we can see on a day-to-day basis, that their tools are just advanced text generators. Anyone who finds them 'mindblowing' clearly does not have a complex enough use case.
Both the requirements and the workload challenges of server-side applications differ greatly from client applications. The JDK has had a pauseless GC (i.e. <1ms pauses) for 18 months now. The need for fast startup and warmup in server-side apps is newer than for client apps, and even with it, optimising for peak performance is still a higher priority than for client apps.

You should expect a runtime that is used more on the server side to be "behind" when it comes to concerns that are more prevalent on the client and vice-versa, and that's exactly what you see.
Agreed. If one compares ChatGPT to, say, the Cline IDE plugin backed by Claude 3.7, they might well be blown away by how far behind ChatGPT seems. A lot of the difference has to do with prompting, for sure -- Cline helps there by generating prompts from your IDE and project context automatically.

Every once in a while I send a query off to ChatGPT and I'm often disappointed and jam on the "this was hallucinated" feedback button (or whatever it is called). I have better luck with Claude's chat interface but nowhere near the quality of response that I get with Cline driving.
That will only cause the update to be rejected, leaving it on the normal version. But maybe you could make it non-compliant by changing server-side content without an app update.
This is exactly what I was hoping to find in this thread. Thanks for the additional content.
KK&R bought the company my Dad worked for, then fired him to make more money from what was already a profitable company.

That's evil enough for me, and is the default lens I use for all private equity.

When will private equity companies stop funding fossil fuel projects?
Yeah, likewise, just wish they did Linux
>Publicly-funded broadcasters are restricted from running traditional commercials

So I wonder if the GOP gets their dream come true and cuts the 1% funding. Then I would say NPR could then raise funds via commercials.

Then their dream may become a nightmare since no other US news org is even pointing out the illegal actions by Trump and Friends. NPR may be free to report real news without the fear of funding cuts.
We have national companies like https://drndata.com/ that aggregate LPRs from every possible source and sell it to... a lot of uses.

Motorola/Vigilant cameras feed into DRN especially.
In general kids follow their parent's lead for things like this.
Why SQL hang for exactly 940s? TCP and Async Rust!
The actual phrasing I've heard was much harsher and I was trying to keep it more neutral for a public forum. Feel free to substitute.
> several key supporting points been mostly disproven scientifically (early humans often hunted by running to exhaustion, for example)

This article from 2024 [1] that discusses newly published research seems to refute your claim.

[1]: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-distance-runn...
Exploring a Paper on Scaling Laws and the Speed of Animals (2015)
I've used SqlAlchemy in a biggish project. Had many problems, the worst ones were around session scoping and DB hitting season limits, but we had issues around the models too.

The argument for hiding SqlAlchemy is nothing to do with "what if we change the DB"; that's done approximately never, and, even if so, you have some work to do, so do it at the time. YAGNI

The argument is that SA models are funky things with lazy loading. IIRC, that's the library where the metaclasses have metaclasses! It's possible to accidentally call the DB just by accessing a property.

It can be a debugging nightmare. You can have data races. I remember shouting at the code, "I've refreshed the session you stupid @#£*"

The responsible thing to do is flatten them to, say, a pydantic DTO. Then you can chuck them about willy-nilly. Your type checker will highlight a DTO problem that an SA model would have slipped underneath your nose.

The difficulty you have following that is that, when you have nested models, you need to know in advance what fields you want so you don't overfetch. I guess you're thinking "duh, I handcraft my queries" and my goodness I see the value of that approach now. However, SA still offers benefits even if you're doing this more tightly-circumscribed fetch-then-translate approach.

This is partly how I got from the eager junior code golf attitude to my current view, which is, DO repeat yourself, copy-paste a million fields if you need, don't sweat brevity, just make a bunch of very boring data classes.
I'm not familiar with the show, but dystopian science fiction doesn't predict the future, it criticizes the present.
I think “people who daily drive Windows” is an invalid set for comparison here.

I suspect there is a lot more overlap if you instead consider “people who give a shit about FOSS licences” in relation to “people who know what a tiling window manager is and want to use one, and daily drive Windows”.
Your neighbor has a lack of empathy, which is a trait of narcissism.

However, I don't think we should be feeding the troll.
And if you can encapsulate the 3 different domains well, if you switch brokers you should have any external dependencies. Make your functions/domains deep.
Ah, it's like communism, then (to its diehards). It cannot fail, it can only be failed.
> America as a whole benefits from being the world hegemon. Having the dollar as the reserve currency has allowed the US to run massive deficits, impose economic sanctions, and get cheaper resources (especially oil). All Americans have benefited from this - even the poorest American state would count as one of the richest nations in the world if it were independent.

That's the propaganda line, but it sounds like GDP-per-capita, where it neglects the effects of inequality (as you mention later). It's not going to resonate for the guy who lost his job and had his community decimated, because his employer moved the factory he worked at to Mexico or China.

> That American society is so unequal is a decision that Americans have made. I doubt this is really because of the elites - America makes a big deal out of its democracy and even party leaders are elected by the people. But it is still a choice Americans have made.

It's "a decision that [SOME] Americans have made," it's not a decision that was made, freely and fairly, by Americans, collectively.

I think the thing you're missing is that inequality leads to an inequality of domestic power. The people who benefit from that inequality have is disproportionate effect on the discourse (by funding think tanks, etc.), on candidate selection, etc. That leads to a menu of options where the elite always win (Anand Giridharadas has written some stuff on "win-win" that's relevant).

> Reliniquishing the empire will not help the people at the bottom. A world in which China dominates, in which the global reserve currency is the yuan or the euro, is not one in which Americans of any wealth prosper.

It will not, but ultimately the blame lies on the wealthy Americans who got too greedy, not the Americans that are typically blamed (e.g. people on the bottom who voted for the disapproved guy).
When something breaks in dagger how do you troubleshoot it?
Normally "small" requests get fee-waived out.

When I FOIA'd the Furby memos from the NSA, it was low enough I got it for a whole $free.
I identify as far left and am always scratching my head over conspiracy theorists in my realm. I get tired of hearing about vaccines, 5g, and wifi when I just want to improve the economic and material conditions of people.

Violent reaction to conspiracy I think remains in the far right camp I believe though.
And birds. And fish. And…

We seem to have a very very strong bias towards assuming less/no intelligence in anything that isn’t an adult human.
Show HN: Chrome extension that converts currencies on webpages to local currency
While reading content on the internet I always see currency which are not in my local currency and was forced to google the current price and multiple with the current rate.

Created a chrome extension just to solve that.
Open Launchpad and then try to click the spotlight icon in the menubar after. Even after returning to the desktop the system won’t allow me to click its own menubar. Reproducible on all machines, drives me insane.
The Biology of B-Movie Monsters (2003)
More abstractly: maybe you want to pick your preferred app to do it with instead of being artificially prevented by the phone's maker.
>they're doing sales and marketing and it's you that interprets this as possible/true.

You've moved the goalpost from "they're not saying it" to "they're saying, but you're not supposed to believe it."
What does it even mean to "light a fire under the butt" of a middle class home owner who is scared to rent because they'd be unable to evict a destructive junkie? What kind of fire do you have in mind, that would scare them even worse than that possible outcome?

Whatever it is, it will probably make you or any politician who advances it very unpopular.
So what? That doesn't make the video itself bad (the "content" if you will).

You could easily aim the same criticism at books and book titles and cover art, which by the same standards is in a constant state of sloppified titles and cover art that never strays too far from the norm. But who cares? There's still enjoyable and valuable content in those books, regardless of how they represent on the outside.
Interview with the Creator of Deluxe Ski Jump
I've noticed that "outlet stores" (stores with names like "<Brand X> Outlet" that you can find at outlet malls, such as the San Francisco Premium Outlets) sometimes sell SKUs that aren't sold by the company normally. Likewise, on Black Friday, you might find inventory in stores that isn't there normally. If an item isn't normally in stock, it's retail price is only hypothetical, and they can get away with saying that it's "60% off" or whatever.