skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not just about errors. They have a lot more context than the LLM has, so it’s mostly about building the scaffold of boilerplate and adding in the specific detail of their points to the court. And I think every competent lawyer has heard the news of the complacent lawyers who got called out. He specifically said they don’t use the LLMs as a source of information on case law - they have powerful search tools already and they are skilled lawyers. He sees the LLMs as a powerful tool in their tool box, not as a replacement for junior attorneys.

Of course they’re a top firm and there’s a huge continuum in quality and diligence. But that existed before LLMs.
I wish they had a way for me to say I'm not interested in something as well. For years there's been a few of the same albums recommended to me every day. Like, I've ignored them for this long and it's clear I'm not interested but the space for things I might actually listen to is still being wasted.

What's worse is that they're not even obscure albums. Like, if I was ever going to get into the Eagles I would have already done so, I don't need to "discover" them.
No, it's akin to saying landlords care about the occupancy of their buildings and their tenants paying rent. Of course they do, and of course they're prepared to use media influence to try and make that happen.
Show HN: XORnaments – a logic puzzle advent calendar
I randomly thought about what an XORnament would be; a Christmas ornament that acts like a logic gate? Pun-driven development made me build a small game out of that.

No ads, trackers or other bullshit. Built from scratch in plain JS, no dependencies or build pipeline. It's a single html file, so feel free to save it for offline play -- though check in in a few days, because I haven't finished all the puzzles yet.
Makes me think of the "agony of defeat" though I do get used to going out to one of these games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_football

because "It's a beautiful fall evening where would be a nicer place to enjoy it than the stadium" even though I know my team will get crushed.
A large fifth-millennium BC cemetery in the subarctic north of the Baltic Sea?
But also experiment with recordsizes of 8k and 16k. The larger the recordsize, the more potential compression you get, which may be offset by additional delay caused by read/modify/write of the larger record (i.e. reading/writing 32k instead of 8k or 16k).
Might the OCRing of for example MIT's student magazine The Tech have used a similar stack as this, sans Markdown output of course? In the sense of the way any given historical issue's complex layout has been OCR'd so well?

https://thetech.com/issues

Random old issue for example:
https://thetech.com/issues/33/34
BrainScale – Working Memory Exercises
It's easy to forget the difference between an open source project and a corporate project. Feel free to contribute with your vast wealth of knowledge.
We hacked ourselves with DNS rebinding
A new technique for performing DNS rebinding attacks in split-seconds against headless browsers to extract information from internal networks (like AWS metadata endpoints).
If you are a diabetic you should always have a plan B for your 'lifesaving medical device' because they can break. For instance:

https://www.northwoodsendocrinology.com/wp-content/uploads/2...

Presumably whoever provided you your pump has a similar instruction.

Risking using an app/pump combo that has a known flaw, especially a non-deterministic one is bold, to say the least. Safer to switch to the regular controller (assuming you have it) until this is fixed.
It's interesting to hear you say that reducing complexity and building to last(?) is the solution. Do you know of any case studies (not even peer-reviewed necessarily, just examples) showing a "recovery" in terms of user freedom after making such changes? My view has always been that complexity should be reduced, but because it makes maintenance easier—reducing cost if you're paying maintainers—and can prevent bugs/vulns. Only tangentially related to privacy, via the latter.

Also, I don't understand your last point. Are they all React builtins or something? If you're suggesting that the "shape" of an app's navigation, or of network or system calls, etc. should be how business logic is made concrete, I'd have to disagree. That sounds like microservices but with worse intrinsic documentation (the purest documentation there is).
He was NEVER forced to buy twitter. At any point he could have cut a check for a billion dollars and walked away. He just couldn't swallow his goddamned drug fueled pride.
Mitochondria-targeting antibiotics extend lifespan in C. elegans study
The universe puts a hard speed limit on latency, but will give you all the bandwidth you want. There’s something almost mystical about latency, we should be very prudent when spending it.
Show HN: Turn YouTube videos into simple summaries
The puzzles are up year round. You can go back and do prior year puzzles any time. There just won't be any of the community from doing it during the event.
> I am proud that ASML has been able to grow a technologist like Christophe into the CEO position

So he is/was a techy. Nice.
It's good to see the broad but anecdotal sentiment backed up by data.

The RTO/WFH struggle is clearly about money (what else could it be about in a corporate world?), and it's fascinating to watch some companies chew their own limbs off (metaphorically speaking) to appease investors-at-large.

Here I speculate, but the pattern seems to be that board members are involved with multiple organizations, and are stakeholders in even more - and those with ties to commercial real estate (and all the funds heavily invested into it) will do whatever it takes to push for higher office occupancy. At the same time, they're doing this (arguably) to a disadvantage to the companies they're supposed to steward - forcing best talent out, paying a premium for half-empty office space, and generally eroding morale by this display of duplicity.

At the same time, I love seeing the quiet resistance by the rank-and-file and even some middle management. The new reality is here, and there's no going back. The % of days WFH has flatlined, and I imagine over time it will begin to slowly but steadily trend back up.
I think they all belong in the trash especially about things like this which have been beaten to death. One just happens to make me laugh
Within the last few days I booked a hotel on Booking.com and then got a call the next day from the hotel saying they actually don't use the Booking.com anymore (and that their account is inactive so they can't log in) and that I needed to cancel the stay through booking.com (the booking was pay on arrival but I still entered a CC).

I re-booked with the hotel directly through their site (small independently owned hotel in a ski town). The whole process felt _shady_ but also it seems like the owner couldn't find a way to get their Booking.com listing removed. I am regretting not using a virtual card number for the initial booking through Booking.com.
I saw the Pogues in Brixton too, and I couldn't believe Shane could stand - I think I remember that when he was dancing during the break or outro of Fairytale, he DID fall down! He looked like a pickled piece of fish in a glass jar. He made noise, but it wasn't singing.
I wanted to point this out, albeit slighty less cynically. NickB invested a lot of capital into becoming the expert on WFH (see e.g. https://wfhresearch.com/project-team/ ).

Whenever I see this in other economists, more likely than not their findings tend to go towards where their capital is invested.
Sorry but who actually thinks that being a scientist is the “key to prosperity”?

I think far and away most scientists become researchers despite the fact that it’s generally not at all a prosperous venture.
> Code is a means to an end. Software should have a purpose, it’s supposed to provide a service to some user.

I will accept this as a premise for the sake of argument, but it's certainly not a universal truth.
> Also, probably something like the creation of the image of the black hole is closer to computational photography than “AI”, and it seems a bit like yours is a populist argument against it.

I do have reservations about that image, and don't consider it a photograph, because it took lots of crazy math to assemble it from a weak signal, and as anyone in software who ever wrote simulations should know, it's very hard to notice subtle mistakes when they give you results you expected.

However, this was a high-profile case with a lot of much smarter and more experienced people than me looking into it, so I expect they'd raise some flags if the math wasn't solid.

(What I consider precedent to highly opaque computational photography is MRI - the art and craft of producing highly-detailed brain images from magnetic field measurements and a fuck ton of obscure maths. This works, but no one calls MRI scans "photos".)
Usually stroad development is surrounded by parking spots and it is easy to change where the entrance is. Sometimes entrance from the street is already in place (parking has multiple entrances), you just need to block the road access.

I just tried implementing this on some random stroad and you can easily remove more than 2/3 access points without any investments.
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> Providing office space is effectively an entire industry, so a

But using office space costs companies money, and they're not the ones leasing it. It is totally against their own interests to pay extra facilities costs, when they could just shirk that burden onto their employees who have to pay for a home office themselves. We're not seeing big real estate companies push this while big tech companies try to distance themselves from it and disavow it.

And as for the theory that mutual funds and whatnot are pushing it... it just seems like an opportunity for them to short this crap and make money sabotaging real estate.

The more I think about this, the more it seems like something really bizarre is going on.
Do You Really Need an API Gateway?
Yeah I thought that is how GPT4 works (remember reading it somewhere). Some 10-11 expert models in an ensemble
As they should be. This is a process failure and a QA failure.
Reminder to HN:

Only a tiny sliver of the workforce are tech workers who are tasked to write lines of code on a laptop all day.

RTO articles are about RTO in general, not RTO for developers.
Less than the other (and generally bigger and more dangerous) pickup trucks?
As a reader of the Financial Times, I haven't seen a bias for or against remote working with its articles.

The FT articles on remote work can be found listed at: https://www.ft.com/search?sort=relevance&q=remote+work

Long-time columnist Simon Kuper's column [1] published on September 21 was in favour of working from home, with the position: "Homeworking is not just a corporate issue, it’s a chance to create a better society." Another article from columnist Sarah O'Connor published in May 2023 [2] argues that "More flexibility has improved work-life balance for many since the pandemic began."

Though the FT has also featured opinions in favour of more in-person office time (such as a podcast [3] featuring an interview of a professor who speaks about the benefits of in-person work), there is no clear bias for or against remote work from the search results.

To sum up the search results: there are opinion articles in favour of remote work, news articles about major companies ending work-from-home with quotes from executives who favour in-person work, and articles that report on the benefits of hybrid working arrangements.

For the FT, I've seen a diversity of opinion, without any clear effort to sway the readership one way or another about the issue.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/74b43b83-1af1-4045-9bd1-15fc85569...

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/44e81232-9b25-4f4a-91ab-4462978dc...

[3] https://www.ft.com/content/b35e3643-de04-4a0e-ae4a-c0f2db6b5...
The average income of FT readers is £221k [0] and the average income of WSJ readers is $234k [1]. I'm guessing the average reader of most online only newspapers is closer to the US median of $74k [2]. These readers belong to different economic classes with different financial interests, so the agenda divide is not surprising!

[0] https://commercial.ft.com/our-products/financial-times/
[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Business/IndustryInfo/story?id=342198...
[2] https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-27...
> Pilat frequently refers to herself as a “propaganda artist” for machines

At least she knows her role I guess
I think I have made the argument above that the feasibility of single-pass code gen boils down to how the program is structured, not so much the language design itself. Perhaps current compilers should be reworked to generate code about as quickly as TP did, if optimizations are totally disabled and the code is written to eschew unresolved forward references. But I'm not sure there would be much of a point. And you would still have many language features where going back and performing a second pass over what was previously parsed (and perhaps codegen'd) just can't be avoided.
> scientific misconduct

At what point do we just call it "lying" and "fraud"?
Denoising is often great, but sometimes it really destroys details. It is basically impossible to capture a snowy day (or heavy rain) with a digital camera. The denoiser will remove 90% of the snowflakes. Analog cameras, by contrast, remove nothing.
I love how it has to be some massive conspiracy, not the well-known fact that junior employees and productivity both take a hit with full-time remote work. A lot of these orgs are coasting and the impact won't be known for a while.
"Plain text" over an encrypted connection you mean?

How else could it work?
Do you think operating systems look polished early in development? Of course they didn't. Most of the work going on isn't visible in a UI. From what I gather in the discord there have been some quite large refactors going on under the hood
The other pickup trucks are worse. Less shard edges but far more dangerous frontal area (bigger and flatter).
Maybe, but how many "your moms" would even actually notice this on their own?

As far as computational imaging goes, I've seen way way way worse and much more offensive. Samsung's total replacement of the moon comes to mind as being much more offensive. This one just makes me laugh as a developer at the realization of what happened as being such a strange edge case. Other than that, I've seen similar results from intentional creative ideas, so it's not offensive at all to me.

It's just another example of we can not believe anything we hear, and only half (maybe less) of what we see.
Maybe we should not move the goal posts and accept chatbots as fellow humans.
Fortune in particular has been maddening over the years. I keep seeing articles about how interviewees aren't professional in the interview process. I've never seen them mention that this is a learned behavior from how they are being treated in interviews.

To be fair, they may be better now. It's been years since I've read a Fortune article.
Nor of reset, normalize etc.
Ask HN: Is there a browser plugin which replaces webpage with its screenshot?
I am being exhausted from observing interactivities of some webpages which are typically being fired while scrolling the webpage. Typically the interactivities are some pesky features like demonstrating me a video or some banner which wants some actions from me, typically expecting me to click "X" to get rid of the pesky demonstration. All I want from webpages is plain text, but I can agree with rich text - different fonts, with colors, with shadows, with stupid pseudoelements, you know what I mean. I have discovered some relief from reading links from HN as screenshots and all I want is a little bit optimization of obtaining screenshot instead of the webpage in a browser. Any plugins for any browser capable to do this?
Neither of these fixes are great because neither of them include tests. This is a dataloss bug in a filesystem, no existing test covered it, and no new tests were added to demonstrate the efficacy of the supposed fix or prevent regressions.
Show HN: Generate a video to animate stars of any GitHub repository
I made this as a fun tiny project to experiment with Remotion [1] to generate videos. You can find the source code on GitHub [2].

[1] https://www.remotion.dev/

[2] https://github.com/scastiel/github-stars-video
Those are all reasons why things will take time. And in the transition period a fair number of people won't be very happy with their situation (which is often the case anyway).
Could it be you’re under and immense amount of stress from your environment and have fallen into a self-fulfilling prophecy world view?

Normally, emotions should not flare this intensely and sustainably.
I really levelled up my git skills with this tutorial. Definitely worth putting in the effort.
Yep. While Anduril's AI drone weapon sits on the front page for half a day with plenty of commenters celebrating it.
Sliding Puzzle Game - 15 word
U.K. Biobank has 500k peoples' genome sequences available
Not really when all they check is the solution output. They just ask politely knowing cheaters gonna cheat.
It is easy to justify the need for regulation. It is very hard to justify the removal of regulation. Someone need to take a responsibility for that. And that's a hard sell.
If that's a "well-known fact" then could I trouble you for some sources to that end?
> You condescension is off the scales.

The irony is palpable.
I can't search the WSJ or FT due to paywalls, but searching Fortune.come other than the straight news (Amazon executive threatens promotions will be blocked) all the top 5 or so articles I saw are about RTO being challenging.
Pssst, don't say that too loud! I resisted RTO, but at least now I still have two days of home office per week, which gives me at least a bit of flexibility. If the opinion that hybrid work is not a good compromise settles in with the powers that be, I think the pendulum will swing toward "fully in office" rather than toward "fully remote".
There are three reasons this happens, and money is at the root of all of them.

- Publish-or-perish: You want to keep that professorship, you had better publish, frequently. Experiments that don't yield results don't count.

- Grant money: You want to get funding for your lab, your assistants and your students, you had better publish. Experiments that don't yield results don't count.

- Start-up culture: Just another permutation of "get rich quick", but you need a saleable product. Experiments that don't yield results don't count.

So there are massive incentives to fake results. "Fake it until you make it", only with actual lives at risk. Say hello to Elizabeth Holmes.
I think the work that needs to get done is all getting done regardless, but one of the reasons executives like people in the office is to bore employees into inventing more work to do when there is nothing else they could be doing during that downtime.
Science needs grant rewards for whistle blowers?
You'd pretty much have to repeal a ton of safety laws. Today's Tacoma is the size of an f-150 of 20 years ago, but still can't tow or haul as much. Gotta deliver practicality!
Could the NIH file some kind of civil suit here?
With the bug I saw years ago, just having certain accessibility features of the browser enabled _at all_ caused the bug (we were able to temporarily mitigate by disabling some obscure Edge accessibility feature via a launch parameter). So, my theory here is Grammarly is just enabling an optional accessibility feature in Chrome that has this bug when trying to "read" the gif.
Some companies own the buildings they operate out of rather than lease them, but I think that's less common. So your point largely stands.
I don't know if that's generally true, but it seems clearly to be true if your personal blog is about how you run the company.
I have some 3D printed PEEK laying on my desk right now. Strong material, but difficult to print like most high performance polymeres. These melt at a high temperature and this often leads to stress when the material cools down after being extruded. For many shapes designs this leads to deformaties that even after annealing cannot be prevented.
At least you noticed!
Sandra Day O'Connor, First Woman on the Supreme Court, Is Dead at 93
it’s enshittification
Another thing is that they’re saying the animation is causing the entire page to reflow because it’s a square rotating out of bounds

My understanding is that transforms can’t cause reflows because they occur in the compositing layer. And as a sibling comment points out: everything round in css is actually a rectangle. Unless it’s a path drawn in an svg element. But then that lives in a rectangular frame. You could animate it with svg, though.

Regardless, I want to say I reject the premise here. I’m not sure why a transform would be so inefficient. I have a feeling it could be something else at work here.
I can often get better latency by throwing a few extra bucks at vertical scaling. Still cheaper than a few hours of dev time a month.

Like I said, it works until it doesn't, and then you do have to optimize for performance to some extent.
~$120B in enterprise value of remote first or full remote companies indicates this isn’t accurate. Remote may pose development and pipeline challenges, but they’re clearly surmountable.
Heroin surprisingly doesn't have a lot of long term effects to health (so long as you don't OD). It's the use of needles and blood born illnesses that can really well: kill you. Hepatitis, HIV, etc.
> The more I think about this, the more it seems like something really bizarre is going on.

That's only because people refuse to accept the obvious. Executives, whether correctly or wrongly, genuinely believe having employees colocated in the same geographical space is beneficial for their companies.

It's not even such a stretch to imagine this because we absolutely know they believed this before the pandemic. In fact, most SV companies were willing to pay employees located elsewhere huge sums of money to move to the Bay Area.
Kinda is their fault... the recipient might be the dictator but the sender can choose not to play or can display a checkbox to consumers authorizing an unsafe transmission so they can make an informed decision. Instead they just do it and you assume the store is secure because isn't store security mostly a solved problem at this point?

Those of us who transact directly with the hotel instead of booking agents stay winning I guess.
It seems like a false trade-off in the first place. The point of writing readable, maintainable code is that your team will be able to edit it later. Including adding performance enhancements.

Another way of stating the relationship could be something like: You have fewer brain-cycles to apply to optimization than the combined sum of everyone who will ever read your code, if your code matters. But that is a mouthful and kind of negative.
It looked like that until version 4 where they switched to the more common interface with windows, menus and whatnot.
I found the use of poetry a bresh of fresh air compared to the usual python silliness. Painless, as opposed to getting the cuda stuff working which took a lot longer.
You could probably get away with changing the tires, rather than replacing the entire wheel.

The more interesting question to me is what happens if you get a flat tire? Does everyone need to carry a spare uniwheel, or wait to get towed?
People are down voting me, but I am really enjoying the answers.
> which it isn't, when you're building a mostly-renewable grid at continental scale

Can you give any arguments for that surprising statement?

I hope we can agree that solar energy will dry up across all of China on a nightly basis.

Wind strength is also often strongly correlated over large areas. Sweden has learned this the hard way in recent winters.