skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is the good side, recent article headline, "Shocking video shows special needs school worker slamming autistic, nonverbal toddler to the ground then dangling him upside down"
It's really useful for fast moving emergent stuff like wildfires where there is patchy information from multiple sources (some people report smoke, some fire etc.)
I don't think that's what the GP is going for – more like that language is a way to general intelligence, and it doesn't matter what your "implementation" of language is. Just like there's an incredibly diverse range of models and formalisms proven to be Turing complete and as such, equivalent to each other, even though at first glance many of them look just as non-Turing-complete as an autoregressive next-token predictor looks non-AI-complete.

(As all known human languages are Turing complete, every language should be completely equivalent in expressive power – only nuances are different and as such language doesn't affect thinking in any meaningful sense, and this seem to be corroborated by evidence.)

((On the other hand, it appears that individual people's brains indeed come up with "strategies" how to think – some think more verbally, others more visually, and yet others think in abstract, conceptual ways difficult to even put into words. For example, not nearly everyone has an "inner voice". Yet these strategies all appear to be approximately equivalent in their "thinking power".))
How do you know there’s no search involved?
> automatically clean up the FF once it's expired

Um what? How could that ever work. It's like you are trying to find new exciting ways to break prod.
>> LLMs just predict tokens.

Out of curiosity, how do you think human intelligence works? I am no expert and I don't claim to know how the human brain works but my layman's mental model of thinking would be basically that: biological neural networks that "do" the thinking are token prediction machines, except "tokens" are not words that appear on the screen but thoughts that appear in consciousness... while the underlying machinery is in both cases a network of units that fire (or not) based on the connections between them.

Sure, human experience is a lot more than just intelligence (I have no mental model of how consciousness or qualia might work) but it is surprising to me that so many people keep repeating arguments similar to yours - that LLMs do not really think, they are "just" doing [X] (where X usually describes how I imagine human intelligence works) - if there is more to human intelligence, what do you think it is?
Kubectl interacts with the kubernetes api and there is a python client for that.
This article feels like it was written by AI. Transit Costs [0] is a way better resource.

[0]: https://transitcosts.com/transit-costs-study-final-report/
It’s actually surprisingly common. For instance, butterflies and peacocks also use this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_coloration

(In fact, I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that only a handful of blue pigments exist in nature; the vast majority of blue animals and plants use structural colouration instead. Can’t recall where I saw it, though.)
Executive compensation is a function of profit/capital allocation for shareholders away from labor.

This doesn’t show the full picture. It’s not about redistributing their salaries. Have a look at the excess returns procured BY labor and where that went.
Security is always the reason we can't have nice things
Long live the link
A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 21
I’d certainly hope so. The number of things I have built that apparently no one but me has a use for is very high. I have an entire ecosystem of products that only I use.
could you give example what requires more work exactly and where virtual threads give more "observability"?..
You can't imagine how I hate these discussions: they make me feel old. Old, because I so vividly remember the Big News of Java 1.2 switching from green threads to native.

I'm actually not that old, I didn't use java at the time, but those news were my introduction to the term "thread" so they kind of stayed with me. A tiny part of my brain still files "threads" under "the thing java once didn't use natively" and wow, that part feels old now.
The difference between a set of hand warmers and an M80 is primarily speed of the exothermic reaction. And I love the corporation metaphor, because unlike humans, corporations have no soul and no conscience. If a man behaved like a corporation we would call him a psychopath. So our goal must be to provide AGI a conscience and to prevent psychopathy at all costs, or we can absolutely expect AGI to go off like a nuclear explosion.
Looks awesome but sadly limited to NVIDIA GPUs
Arguments are a lot more useful than assertions. What reasons do you have for these claims? I argue[1] that LLMs do understand in some cases. What's your response?

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/naturalism/comments/1236vzf/on_larg...
Especially in Cuba
Ask HN: How to find people willing to test side projects?
I'd love to receive open feedback on my side projects from tech individuals without incurring significant costs, aside from my family, friends, or colleagues.

Are there communities willing to try out digital products and tech tools without making explicit commitments?
Structural color is really amazing. Same thing on the wings of Christmas beetles that gives them a blue green oil slick look.

I'm waiting for a paint company to come out with this for house painting. 1 coat for life.
Seems novel. Does anyone know if any comparable technologies exist?
> Hard disagree. A subset of behaviors resembling or even "indistinguishable" from understanding should not be enough to meet the definition.

Nope, it doesn't work this way. One doesn't get to sit and try to say what something isn't w.r.t a 1st party experience (like understanding or consciousness), without saying how a 3rd party can define what it is.

There is no valid argument for "this isn't understanding because my gut says so" without giving a way a person (a 3rd party to an llm) can say what understanding is. We will never have a 1st person "perspective" of a machine LLM.

So if you want to claim as a 3rd party what understanding isn't, you need to define, using tool available to a 3rd party observer, what it is beyond "when my gut says so".

And if you're defining something by external observation, you are duck typing.

Put succinctly, the only practical (non- philosophical) definitions of consciousness, understanding, and intelligence will all be done via duck typing. As no one will ever have a 1st person view of these phenomena for other entities.
I tend to agree. I haven't used Git in a large project, but...why would I want to rewrite history? The project is what it is. What happened, happened. If there are a couple of weird commits, who cares? At most, maybe edit the commit messages to explain.
Exactly, you don't want your children to need surveillance. And in the grand scheme of things even if they misbehave when unsurveilled, who gives a damn? The collective damage of them not learning to say "no" to immoral behaviour because they want to is way bigger than anything the surveillance ever could prevent.

If the US is really about "freedom" why do you try to educate your kids to be on the receiving end of an authoritarian dictatorship?
Guys, you are allowed to negotiate and ask for more money.

This is supposed to be a business centric forum and you all are taking the list offer at face value!

For a flexible contractor with the experience and a desire to make hay from a desperate client it should be a decent gig. The sort of gigs old timers talk about when reflecting on y2k preparation.
A true uber geek would see Corrosion and Rust and think its an article about Oxidation, because it makes sense.
I don't idolize anyone. I just find this recent vitriol from people who 5 years ago fawned over this man as a visionary exhausting and like to inject some sanity into the discussion. He was a darling to the progressives, until he expressed opinions. Now he's a lepper who never had a good idea in his life and paid other people with his inherited old money wealth to build several of the most successful companies in the world for him. Spare me.

The first article you linked to says it was a twin engine Cessna that he got for fifty grand. The second one says him and his brother sold 2 emeralds for 2000 bucks. Well off, sure. Comes from money? I don't think so.
Steam came out with the CSS beta, and for a week or two it worked fine, after the proper release of Steam... It went to the doghouse for a few months.
HTMX is a JS library that perfectly illustrates how HTML is too limited and unfinished.
Has someone written a better Turing test, like the Voight-Kampff test in Blade Runner, but to establish a conscious mind?
Herculaneum scrolls: 20-year journey to read the unreadable
If we care about energy use so much, why is Las Vegas gambling industry allowed to exist. Or for that matter Shein. It's like we are doing premature optimization of one aspect of economy (tech), while other industries are given free rein.

https://time.com/6247732/shein-climate-change-labor-fashion/
fulltime jobs that are not livable should not exist.

jobs that are not meant to be livable should never be fulltime.

people stuck in a fulltime non-livable job don't have the time or resources to upgrade.
Open Enterprise Linux Association
> This community especially can be very toxic to people that are starting out

This isn’t toxicity. This is normal human behaviour. Either you deal with it yourself internally or you will be suffering it forever.

Maybe this is why childhood trauma helps sometimes at being an entrepreneur (I have first hand experience), being bullied made sure I didn’t really care about negative feedback later on in life.

My point is calling it toxic doesn’t help. It doesn’t help you, because you place your own self worth in someone else’s hands. This is bad. Secondly, you’ll never change this, because it’s normal. People don’t like new things, except for a few exceptions. You have to build something really cool or people won’t care. Society just isn’t some 100% love, accepting place. Sorry. Evolution didn’t make it that way. Society doesn’t have an obligation to you to be nice.

But that’s the whole point of this article too. Just build stuff you enjoy. Who cares what others think? Stop blaming society for your issues.
In my experience, there is no one definition of moral. Your own anecdote is a great example of this. Personally, I find it disgusting because it only applies to a "person", which as far as I understand, means a human.

Edit: wow, the human superiority crowd doesn't like my comment
Most commentards here are referring to transfers of their own data.

How do people transfer their confidential information to say, their solicitors, who may be on different operating systems and behind NAT / firewalls?

Specifically if cloud services are banned by the solicitor's company.

You'd have thought by 2023 this would have been solved but I don't believe it has. Particularly as PGP email administration (including key management over time / replacement hardware) is non trivial and unlikely to be successfully achieved by the non tech savvy.
We should be wary of nostalgia for an idealized past that never existed. If you look at the semiconductor industry in the 1960s, the personal computer revolution in the 1970s and 1980s, and the dot-com boom in the 1990s, there was always a mix of motivations for working on technology.
A big part of the answer is that many people have a fear of looking stupid or having their ego shattered. You're probably not going to be laughed at for trying to do what others have already tried and that society accepts, but you risk being laughed at for trying some unique new marketing idea you came up with.

Another part of the answer is that very few people are experts at all of the skills needed to start a business: being a domain expert in some field, understanding technology, understanding business and money, understanding people, being good at communicating, understanding design, being a good writer, etc. If you're smart, you know that you don't know everything, and you're willing to hear out the advice that others provide.
I own a Prusa and I'm happy I bought it even at a premium. The team is always cool at the 3D printing fairs I attend, the slicer is nice, they release a lot of cool and open stuff, designed printable face shields during Covid etc. It feels like a company well worth supporting.

BambooLab on the other hand seems to be almost the exact opposite (OrcaSlicer etc.).
I just moved to Brooklyn and have seen this property. Stories like this are precisely what gives this city texture and excitement. Just about every visible feature has a long and compelling history.
Ardurover discourse and Endless sphere could be worth checking out. I've built a Ardurover rig many years ago for a bit of fun (https://agmapsonline.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/autonomous-veh...)

I have fun researching building something bigger in my spare time.
cant make a fully static build:

https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/4499
Do we really need more languages?
MitX quantum mechanics series. And intro to Bio. And molecular bio. And, of course, Khan.

A lot of the MitX couses from 2017-2020ish were outstanding.
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10671#c16

Doesn't make sense that you would want to support other HTTP methods apparently.
Run it in Australia, it's schedule was lowered so you can actually run studies on it. Here's one happening right now:

https://www.monash.edu/medicine/scs/clinical-psychedelic-lab...
It doesn't, it removes/reduces one step, and leaves another one that is there regardless.
The EU will add around 70GW [1] of renewables this year, again a strong increase to last year, which again was a strong increase to the year before. You can come up with any conclusion if you don't know the facts.

What's crazy though is that smart people predicted this would happen before it happened [2]. I am not that smart, but it takes also a certain talent to live in the present and not realize what is happening. You will wake up in a very different world a few years from now.

[1] https://www.pv-tech.org/eu-to-add-69gw-renewables-capacity-i...
[2] https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/putins-war...
Is there a language you like? If so, which and why?
>The method signature at the end doesn't matter you are right there but what the model is trained to do matters a ton.

You're being loose with semantics and drawing bad conclusions. The training describes the nature of the feedback given to the system. Being trained to predict tokens means it gets feedback on the quality of its predictions. This does not constrain or determine the structure of the learned model. The learned model is a function of the training time, quality and amount of data, as well as the architecture that is biased towards capturing certain features or entails limits on what can be captured. The point is, the space and properties of solutions to the problem of "predicting the next token" is not constrained by the nature of the feedback.
They’re also saying they’re open to someone working a “grand total of 7 days”

If you get a job done or want to only work for 7 days, but they offer a higher pay if you want to stick it out for longer.
Ask HN: How do I stop overthinking personal project management?
I am a solo dev working on a personal web project.

As ideas for features and enhancements are starting to accumulate, I feel that I need to introduce some structure to my process. However, every time (yes, I've done this many times before) I attempt to do so or try to add tools to my workflow , things quickly get OCD for me and I spend all of my time NOT working on the project but managing the project instead.

Thanks to this latest incarnation of madness I've done the following:

- Set up projects in Notion, GitHub Projects, and Jira, and compared them to one another to make THE BEST choice.
- Began doing detailed documentation of requirements and tracking design decisions in Notion or Confluence.
- Began thinking of what kind of process would be the best for me. What Kanban columns to set up? What issue types should I create? What labels to set up? Do I need to organize user stories into epics? Etc., etc., ad nauseam.

Meanwhile, somewhere deep inside I KNOW that all this is waaay overkill. That my time would be much better spent actually designing or writing code. Keeping things minimal and frictionless.

And yet, the lure of the perfect system is ever present. Maybe, just maybe, if I set things up right, this effort will be worth it. Maybe in the future I will want to know exactly what the thought process that made me choose one font over another was. Or how I came to decide which aspect ratio to use for the images. Maybe these things are important to keep track of?

But I suspect that all this specification and documentation is just going to result in a bunch of outdated artifacts specifying and documenting time well wasted. Because experience has shown that I am at my most productive with a structureless .md file and pen&paper setup.

Do you have any suggestions? How do you stop yourself from overthinking and over-engineering task/project management? How do you determine what is worth specifying/documenting/archiving, and what should be ephemeral and only exist for the sake of facilitating taking the next step? Thanks.
Hickey has made the point that in real world (not asymptomatic) uses, the constants and depths make a difference he cares about. 10x takes seconds to a minute.
Ideas Are Dimes a Dozen: Large Language Models for Idea Generation in Innovation [pdf]
> but ls, grep and cat are not among them.

Really?

Let me see you write this in native python with the same level of conciseness as the shell can pull off.
There used to be the external-storage-provisioner[1] but what you need today is the second link[2]

[1] https://github.com/kubernetes-retired/external-storage/tree/...

[2] https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/sig-storage-lib-external-...
Cattle and pets both exist. You want cattle? Make cattle. You want pets? Make pets. Why the absolution?
Knowing you’re always being watched means that you can never figure out who you actually are because you’re continuously putting on a performance for the cameras.
"Drones that can plant 100k trees a day"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16260892

FWIU, to grow a forest to prevent and fight desertification, you have to plant more that trees; trees and all of the other little plants.

Forest ecology > Matter and energy flows:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_ecology

Ecological succession > Succession by habitat type > Forest, Wetland, Grassland:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_succession#Successi...

/? desertification:
https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=Deserti...

TIL about residue mulching and no till farming. You can just mulch leaves around the trees with a lawnmower if you don't get into the roots (and that fertilizes the tree, prevents mud, and keeps the lawn from getting marshy from counterproductive leaf removal)
Both of course pay something, but virtual threads may pay less.

Is this significant for virtual thread use cases? OS threads are cheap since there's no virtual memory context switch.
> Norton's idyllic view of the past ignores that in the 19th century city streets were full of manure.

Norton is less passing judgement as opposed to describing what various actors did.

There's also a difference between saying there should be no vehicles (a strawman that is often brought up), versus de-emphasizing the use of vehicles for private transportation (still allowing some, and also for commerce/industry).
It is a problem in all decentralized systems. Once you publish something, there is no going back. Anyone of your peers can decide to leave with your sensitive data. That's also what make them so resistant to data loss.

Now if you know everyone who has a copy of your repository, you can have them run a bunch of sqlite commands / low level git commands to make sure that the commit is gone.

If you didn't publish anything, as someone else said, your best bet is to make an entirely new clone, transfer the work you did on the original, omitting the sensitive data, then nuke the original.

The difference seems to be that commits are serious business on fossil, and they encourage you to test before you commit. While on git, commits are more trivial, pushing is where things become serious.
Their new compiler is a clang fork, they contribute at least to LLVM.
(PBS) "Leave it to Beavers" [to irrigate the world; they are drawn to a walkman cassette of running water; they have bee airdropped]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30738322
Didn't know about fossil. It's unfortunate many people are saying they stopped reading at the "fossil is everything into one" part because It still looks an interesting way of doing vcs.

> 95% of the code in SQLite comes from just four programmers, and 64% of it is from the lead developer alone. The SQLite developers know each other well and interact daily. Fossil was designed for this development model.

They propose it as a way to do development with few members who all know each other, rather than making an open repository for anyone on the Internet to contribute.

I want to try it now and see what does it bring on the table and whether it's a viable alternative to git in this regard.
What this does is create an entire generation conditioned to believe the camera is the reason they shouldn’t do that.
Very neat. Can't count the number of times I've needed to go back and forth between shell and python and the built-in Python apis were found sorely lacking.
Thanks for mentioning this but would be more useful to provide some context here.

This works via WebRTC, and since the wtrc package for node.js is not well maintained, the CLI for drop.lol has been abandoned. Therefore croc solves a huge problem that I can't solve in drop.lol right now.

For anyone who needs a web application, this should work though.

(Although: I've stumbled upon a really good implementation of WebRTC in pure Rust, so I might end up trying to get it working with that or even trying to port that to node.js somehow)
Screw everyone else, it looks interesting and fun. I'll be following your RSS updates. Good luck!
The internet used to be a place to interact with other humans. Would you rather send your content “into the void”? Who are you publishing for?
It is relevant to anyone writing portable code, or requiring certification.
Rain is water. Water is not rain.
Excellent, that's good info. Seems like they're handling things like this pretty well.
Kind of stupid to compare Godots native multiplayer to a Unity addon.

Why not compare it to Unity's native hot mess - Netcode for GO

or

Why not compare it to a good Godot netcode addon? ie - https://gitlab.com/snopek-games/godot-rollback-netcode
I think the thing is women don’t need apps. They get hit on all the time, throughout their daily lives. Dating as a woman is not about trying to find opportunities; it’s more about wading through the morass to find a man you deem worthy.
Because when I am developing in my local repo I have a stream of commits that go “adding xyz because abc is being a pain”. They’re informational for me as I progress through iterating on a feature, but when I’m ready to merge I really don’t want that mess polluting the global commit history. I may also be working on multiple things in parallel and want to isolate them from each other, both to keep a cleaner history but also for code review purposes.

There’s plenty of reason to use rebase, but if you’re fine letting the occasional mess slip into the history then it’s fine to NOT use it as well.

The one universal case though. Rebase before you submit a patchset for review. I don’t want to fight through merge conflicts to review a change, make sure it’s applied to the current HEAD before you send it.