skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has got to be the most platitudes I've ever seen stuffed in a single comment... I almost want to say it's satire.

But yeah, there's a lot of real valuable businesses built on existential risks. We're currently getting a reminder that our banking system puts all its eggs in the idea not too many people will ask for money at the same time.

Optimizing for black swan events is just generally not good business.
Would recommend https://mynoise.net/noiseMachines.php specifically, they have a bunch of great sounds.
I thought UBS explicitly said they did not want to buy CS.
So not the state?
https://twit.tv/shows?shows_active=1 - more than dozen podcasts: tech news, apple, windows, google android and more.

https://latenightlinux.com/about/ - linux

https://changelog.com/podcasts - few podcasts about various tech subjects: tech/js/ai

https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/ - linux, self-hosting

https://www.latent.space/podcast - new podcast about ai

https://syntax.fm/ - mostly frontend webdev

https://shoptalkshow.com/ - mostly frontend webdev
A GPU|CPU hosted compiler written in 17 lines of APL.: ProgrammingLanguages
What a week right?
Erlang, Haskell, OCaml; which functional language and why?: programming
They involuntarily paid Microsoft some licence fees for the FAT32 file system way back when. This OSM contribution is voluntary.

I'm not sure what part or proportion of TomTom's services used by Microsoft either contain or rely on OSM data:

https://news.microsoft.com/2019/02/04/tomtom-expands-partner...
- Remote Ruby

- TLB Hit
It would be fun to see if some people change over time from one to the other, or flip flop back and forth.

I’m sure there are some of my opinions do both. Some topics are complicated.
Marketers and customer service need to be able to manage their social accounts, that's a product space which inherently relies on API access to those website. Maybe you wouldn't want to build that product, but clearly somebody will.
This is the second introduction to R. This will cover matrix, matrix operations, factor matrices, and more.
Conventional wosdom would say that liabilities were already priced in
Scott agrees: 'Why Do I Suck?' (https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/why-do-i-suck)
cant agree more, vercel likes ssr,and it now owns nextjs and svelte,then it forces ssr on the community,it is basically leveraging open source for its own business needs solely, which will not last long if they keep doing this down the road. disappointed.
ups for vergecast, it's like an overview of what's going on in tech, it's current, insightful, but also fun and humorous.
Yes, exactly. I was just lamenting the load time as an additional problem with that being the submitted link.

I would note as well that the Mastodon instance clearly struggled with the initial load from the HN traffic. Testing its load time when few users from HN were being directed to it won't be a very good benchmark against Twitter.
Some other modulators are in testing, but uncertain if they will be any better.

Here's a good resource for all the drugs in the pipeline:

https://apps.cff.org/trials/pipeline/
https://www.broadbandsearch.net/blog/digital-divide-urban-ru...

The issue isn't politics (though it is true that the ISPs have bought both political parties in Congress), it's economics. Building out basic infrastructure is one of the core necessities for widespread economic growth, and that includes roads and bridges, the electricity grid, the water supply, and the fiber-optic network.

It's not a very complicated issue, and I've never seen anyone present a coherent argument that privatized infrastructure improves economic activity overall, it's generally the opposite isn't it?

I suppose if your metric is the concentration of wealth in fewer hands, then yes, private infrastructure facilitates that outcome, but it shrinks the overall economic activity in terms of production of goods and services (i.e. consider the farmer who can't get to market because the bridge is washed out, the washing machine manufacturer who can't sell to the farmer who has no electricity, and so on).
It's just for liquidity. If someone want's money, the banc can't give them a part of a house (where they give the credit).
> They are not intelligent.

Citation needed. Numerous actual citations have demonstrated hallmarks of intelligence for years. Tool use. Comprehension and generalization of grammars. World modeling with spatial reasoning through language. Many of these are readily testable in GPT. Many people have… and I dare say that LLMs reading comprehension, problem solving and reasoning skills do surpass that of many actual humans.

> They model intelligent behavior

It is not at all clear that modeling intelligent behavior is any different from intelligence. This is an open question. If you have an insight there I would love to read it.

> They don't know or care what language is: they learn whatever patterns are present in text, language or not.

This is identical to how children learn language prior to schooling. They listen and form connections based on the cooccurrence of words. They’re brains are working overtime to predict what sounds follow next. Before anyone says “not from text!” please don’t forget people who can’t see or hear. Before anyone says, “not only from language!” multimodal LLMs are here now too!

I’m not saying they’re perfect or even possess the same type of intelligence. Obviously the mechanisms are different. However far too many people in this debate are either unaware of their capabilities or hold on too strongly to human exceptionalism.

> There is this religious cult surrounding LLMs that bases all of its expectations of what an LLM can become on a personification of the LLM.

Anthropomorphizing LLMs is indeed an issue but is separate from a debate on their intelligence. I would argue there’s a very different religious cult very vocally proclaiming “that’s not really intelligence!” as these models sprint past goal posts.
This seems like your position: don't try to improve things. just work around the situation.

that seems silly, and I don't think that's ever been a widespread driving philosophy. Much more common (and sadly, also lost these days) is building a better world for our kids and their kids, etc. Trying to improve life for us and those around us, with hope that the next generation has it better than we did.
It is patently evident that you resemble a Zuckerberg shill who frequents technology discussion boards, disseminating tangential remarks extolling gratitude for a corporation that is, in essence, detrimental and morally unsound.
That’s why I said it’s possible it’s a good deal.

Totally agree with you.
The week is just starting…
That does not matter because the Treasury funded it with their t-bonds and t-bills, not with CPI (with a small exception for the TIPS notes). The US government is running with a constant debt unlike say Saudi Arabia which has a massive fund. Though they also have bonds.

Let me illustrate this with an example:

1. I borrow $1M at 5% p.a., for a year
2. I lend out this $1M to someone else at 7% p.a., for a year
3. A year passes
4. My debtor has not defaulted! Great, I collect my $1.07M
5. I pay back $1.05M
6. I am $20k ahead

Nowhere in the above logic we need to know what happened to the CPI or any other inflation measure.
In what world would that ever be possible? Some of these models require compute power equal to that of some nation states, regardless it the technology will be open or not and it won’t be - the resources needed would make it impossible for all but the largest of the corporate entities to run.
How do I get full-disk encryption on Linux without having to type a password twice on boot? This is not a surface-level issue you can solve at distribution / DE level, and it’s not the only one.

A good pre-installed environment of current tools would be nice, of course.
I think the problem is that the paperclip maximizer will have developed its own military tools that are just better than ours.

It may not be concerned with ethical constraints and would be happy to use biological and chemical weapons.
I've been interviewing with a lot of companies in the past few weeks. I'll agree that one week is probably optimistic, but most of them seem to have requirements that are in fact pretty simple.

Admittedly, reaching the one week stage might require better programming platforms and APIs.
Timestamp for the OS question (but the whole talk is great): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaandEt_pKw&t=3470s
Man extradited to the UK for a 41-year-old pub brawl
Ask HN: Is Bootstrap still used in new projects?
I've been a heavy user of Bootstrap since the beginning a decade or so ago, and I still use it to spin up my hobby projects. Have people moved on to other frameworks or is it still heavily used?
It's the line of credit the UBS allegedly secured from the Swiss national bank
I have no idea about how either triscuits or panko are made nowadays. Thus, I referred to them in the past tense talking about how they were made when they were originally created.
An association fallacy is an informal inductive fallacy of the hasty-generalization or red-herring type and which asserts, by irrelevant association and often by appeal to emotion, that qualities of one thing are inherently qualities of another. Two types of association fallacies are sometimes referred to as guilt by association and honor by association.
Because an omniscient brain in a tin can is still a brain in a tin can. It doesn't matter how intelligent something is if it can't otherwise affect the outside world. It's like executing a pure function: regardless of what it's computing, the computation is pointless because it cannot be observed.

Don't worry about AI. Worry about humans with access to AI.
Maybe, but credit suisse was a mess even back in the "good days", since at least 2018. They went from blunder to blunder, even when other banks were doing just fine. The only other bank I can think of that has struggled as much is probably Deutsche Bank. In comparison, most other banks are very well capitalized even in the current situation.
That’s not really what I asked: do you have any actual evidence of a commercial relationship rather than the notion that it wouldn’t be a bad idea?
Key quote from the FT article (cited by Axios):

SVB made the fatal decision in 2021 to make a bigger-than-average bet on long-dated securities at the same time it embraced a working structure that meant its executives were scattered across the US, even while aggressively pursuing an expansion to become a full-service bank.

“It is harder to have a challenging call over Zoom. It makes it harder to challenge management,” said Nicholas Bloom, a professor at Stanford University who has studied remote working extensively. “Ideas like hedging interest rate risk often come up over lunch or in small meetings.”
You don't understand risk or business if you think a good business mitigates all risks, or even its largest risks.

The biggest risk for a medical company is harming patients. Do they just throw up their hands and stop being a medical company?

The biggest risk for social media firm is the social media they serve through goes down. So what, they throw up their hands and stop being a social media firm?
A former airline pilot has developed the Explorer, a modern high-end STOL with a Pratt & Whitney turbine as its power plant, capable of carrying almost 1.5 tons.

https://www.nf-aircraft.com/

I believe their Facebook page has some videos from a recent Iceland journey, hopping between backcountry runways.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063480673163
Navigating the Unpredictability of Everything
I try. Which is why I reject a lot of the digital nonsense that's just attention vampires for the sake of advertising profits.
First my pocket computer hugely outperforms my 90’s desktop, space rockets get privatized and much cheaper, there’s probably an actual AI online, and now we’re putting a nuclear reactor on the moon. Awesome! (I hope)
That’s because you are looking at the tools right now. These tools would definitely eliminate some links in the chain and would reduce the need for some others.

How many companies still employ people today to do data entry?
GPT-4 lists twenty jobs it can "potentially replace"
Possibly more interesting should be the country next to Jordan that has gone from desert, barely producing enough for itself to net exporter of agricultural products.
1) Economic theory says that marginal product of labor (value) is equal to wages, at least in simple models.

2) With GPT-4 you still need to know how to program. A product manager can't replace you.
As other comment said, you're describing feudalism. So why are you making this sound like it's desireable?
I use Bootstrap on almost all of my websites
That's simply untrue. Suicide among the Greeks and Romans was at least prevalent enough to have laws written about it (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_suicide) and suicide among samurai was also certainly non-zero.

If those examples are not "primitive" enough, already in 1894 Steinmetz collated an extensive list of at least forty-two documented cases of suicide amongst what he terms "savage peoples" like the "Polar peoples, North American Indians, Bedouins, Polynesians and native races of British India". Many of the terms he uses would be frowned upon today, but the article is available for free at https://www.jstor.org/stable/658295 and clearly documents many cases of suicide even in societies untouched by Western ideas. It's quite the list, from women killing themselves for "unrequited love" to adulterers committing suicide out of fear of repercussions. In fact he concludes that suicide may even be more prevalent in primitive cultures, relative to the size of the population, because some of those societies did not seem to have a stigma or taboo against suicide (unlike western civilizations where it is/was a sin).
Does this happen often? If your first response to a woman asking that question is a direct answer, you lost already. And if she demands a direct answer you should run away.
Commercial real estate is next
So a pathological liar lied about his pathological lies? I'm shocked!
What most people don't account for is that we're not in a classical inflation scenario - we're, at least fundamentally, in an energy cost inflation scenario where the countries with more than enough of oil and gas to spare jack up the prices just because they can.

And unfortunately, on top of that comes profiteering. The price hikes of everything that went far and beyond reasonable increases due to rising energy costs are insane - and outside of Spain which has introduced serious price controls and other counter-inflationary measures and Hungary where Orban misdirects EU funds into bribing his voters, no major Western government is doing anything about that.

At least the French are bringing out the pitchforks.
…what industries are being killed by “insane inflation”?

ironically long duration tech stocks and crypto have been surging all year and outperforming basically every other sector
Why not? The actual work that language models do is to complete the conversation. It doesn’t actually answer questions, it just tries to make the text look real.
Credit Suisse Controversies
It is not an exception. It is a consequence.
Tech meme is the one or "ride home podcast"

Covers random stuff, if you wanted programming specific I could suggest some of those but many are already pointed out by others
This marks the first instance in history where the Swiss government has utilized a financial backstop to restore confidence in the international financial market.
There’s a broader lesson here about finding ways to teach kids to handle minor failures in a consequence-capped environment.
Great points.

To reach the point where no-code is a no-brainer further implies inflexibility in the capabilities of applications and moreover, fungibility in their fundamental uses. The question to ask is are the upper layers of abstraction reducible to what's analogous to the outputs of a parse tree.

If we reach this point where creativity and actual innovation is lost and we're all simply attempting to make the next 'facebook for dogs', I anticipate my future personal career switch to starring in geriatric pornographic films.
They've said in the press conference that SNB is providing 100B CHF in liquidity, and (IIUC) additionally the state is insuring UBS against 9B in losses from the deal.
You can use Next.js in SPA mode – you don't have to use SSR. Here are the current docs (https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/static-html-export) and we're working on an improved version for the new App Router (https://beta.nextjs.org/docs/configuring/static-export) based on community feedback. With this export, can you deploy anywhere you prefer.
Reminds me of Nim, but with more Python influence on the standard library and overall syntax. It does share the ideal that a Python-esque syntax can be nice for system's programming.

Its surprising how fun programming can be when you eschew unneeded syntactical complexity! Though personally I prefer having memory management and lifetimes handled automatically by default, but with the option for manual management when desired.
I'm sorry to hear about your experience! I feel like noting that my primary driver has been Kubuntu on an (nvidia) laptop for a few years now, and it's been the most pleasant experience. Sure, you get rough edges every now and again, but I was honestly getting rougher edges on the Mac (it's been a long time since they 'just worked', alas).

Certainly no involuntary grub prompts to date, thankfully! Happy as a clam with my Linux laptop as a daily driver, including for gaming (!) and work.
CS was gobbled up in a truckload of scandals for years now; I'd guess only Deutsche Bank surpasses them.

It is not surprising at all that all the mistrust finally caught up with CS.
When I was first granted access to Bing Chat, I had it writing comedic screenplays and sea shanties. Although it often clammed up after realizing it was mocking public figures, creating an story of incest(!), or using intellectual property that it was told not to. (Bing Chat's way of clamming up was hilarious; it'd output several paragraphs and then sweep them all closed and retell its response as "I'd rather not talk about that, because <XYZ>.")

I am perhaps one of the "testers" who helped Microsoft to put the kibosh on long-form responses. As of last week, I could still extract limericks from the thing, though.
Just take note that mergers of CS and UBS have been discussed a few times over the past 20 years. Don’t be fooled into thinking that there wasn’t a lot of planning/analysis already done for this. In fact it might even have happened the other way around in 2008 and again there was no doubt planning for that too!
Yes this is a great example of what it can do with good input. What seems to be missing is grading the input, like a PageRank for ingested information sources. Ultimately it could develop its own pageranking senses.
I assume that will come well after Amazon uses the technology to remove the memory of rights holder content when you cancel your Prime subscription. Or after Disney uses it to retroactively edit the Star Wars movies for the nineteenth time, digitally gaslighting people by amending the original memories in place.
like https://www.chatwithme.chat ?
I love Radio-T (the oldest russian-speaking podcast). I'm pretty sure my post will be read by authors because HN is a main source for them. They use to love Java, Apple, mechanical keyboards and correctly filled fields in MP3.
That's a bit like putting a website password check in the client-side JavaScript. Attacker removes lockout, continues brute-forcing.

There really isn't a solution if the entropy is low and the enforcement mechanisms are in the hands of the attacker. Even a TPM or secure element is just a financial obstacle to a sufficiently motivated attacker.
They probably didn't/don't want to. I assume that there was a fair bit of arm twisting behind the scenes.
You're thinking of HVCI which requires Mode Based Execution Control only available on 8th gen Intel or later and Zen 2 or later.
What Makes Art Good?
The fed has absolutely abandoned QT.

The fed has already added hundreds of billions to their books this week and is looking at a 25bps hike. From where we're at, this is effectively QE.
This article is kind of late to the party. HN has talked about this on the same day the paper was published.

It isn't anything strange that an LLM trained to reflect humanity adopted one of the most basic skills we have.
Yes, pins can be bruteforced when they are stored locally, on device. That should be pretty obvious to those of us who know anything about security. However, the average user doesn't know about security. They shouldn't be expected to understand the nuance of security. So many people in this comments section are saying 'well obviously a pin can be cracked' but it's not obvious for the average user! Stop blaming the user here when Bitwarden should only offer features which are secure or at the very least provide a warning when a feature is unsecure.
I'm only semi-joking, but perhaps join an obstacle course race, or a gymnastics class for adults. I've done both, and it's been so much fun. The obstacle course is all kinds of weird things you have to climb over and under (I'd avoid the mud variants, unless you like that aspect, though). And even though I never did gymnastics as a kid and am stiff as a stick, it was great fun to play around in a big hall with other equally bad adults trying to do gymnastics, climb ropes, forward rolls, jump into foam pits etc.

Like being a kid again.
This recent post has been considered by some a return to form: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-the-geogra...
Yeah there was something like this for reddit. Maybe part of Reddit Enhancement Suite? Probably would be relatively easy to port that functionality for HN, or other sites with users.
Sorry, but what is wrong then? The example is grammatically correct, because it fits established pattern, i.e. you may have never heard that exact same phrase, but you definitely heard multitude of phrases exhibiting the same pattern/rules
They don’t want CS to go under either
Can we build them for earth too? We need to quit oil yesterday.
Most likely nothing is being covered up, it is just the Minnesotan way. Excel Energy/State Regulators probably only released the statement to beat the Federal/NRC report on it since that would make it look like they were hiding something. To succeed here you need to understand the Minnesotan mentality, the so called "Minnesota Nice," you will be punished for making people needlessly worry so you don't release a statement about a leak at a Nuclear power plant unless it is a run for your life situation, if it turns out to be no big deal you casually slip it into the conversation a month later.
Yes I agree. Time will tell how it will grow. Hopefully it will have a good use.
At incredibly high cost.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dream-of-mini-nuclear-plants...
A true con artist is good at what they do because they believe everything they tell you while they're saying it, which means all the usual signals that someone is lying to you don't fire.
> A small minority of the homepages

I see exactly three in total. A small minority would be 1 then.
To beat information overload, we need to learn ‘critical ignoring’
I don't think that's a fair way to describe the landing/takeoff distance. It would be more fair if they put two steep walls at the beginning and ending of the runway.

Although, for things like an aircraft carrier ship, the metric could be useful.
We think that GPT-5 is being trained on $225M NVIDIA hardware: Morgan Stanley
One from FT: https://next-media-api.ft.com/renditions/16577943424950/1280....
Variable/Parameter names are nicely aligned so there's less scanning to read them. Personally I usually read function arguments before return type, but I can see instances where I'd want to look at return type first. If you're line breaking on parameters for long function signatures, it's not so bad though—the return type will be in a predictable place.