skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Code Llama2 trained on human + LLM generated dataset.

Do you think this is educationally significant?(compared to existing coding educations)
Have you tried perplexity.ai? It's like ChatGPT and Google had a baby. Looks very promising and I'm seeing a lot of tech leaders (example Toby of Shopify) moving to it.
I spent years building tons of big applications in the worlds first true low code environment - Lotus Notes.

Sure it had limitations but you could get an awful lot done within those limitations.
Idk if I’m convinced by “HCI dogma disproven because sometimes customers are contradictory or unclear”. If you forgive the clickbait headline and actually read the (pre-promotion?) article, it’s good stuff - totally agree that it’s about asking customers questions that help you answer your questions, not just letting them design the product directly.
Macroeconomic conditions changed or demand for the product they work on wasn’t what it was expected. Tech companies are encouraged by investors to take risks which is why risk taking isn’t punished.
Seems to work if you select the first and last letter of the word you want to spin
Me too. I only heard about it this morning and it looks kinda perfect so far.
A company called Festo has been showing prototypes of biomimetic flying machines for many years now [1].

After a little more digging, they do have videos of prototypes in their 'news' section, it's odd that these are not easily findable via the home page: https://www.silentflyer.tech/testing-its-wings/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUE8o056Cpc
TBH I expected that everyone would lose the free food
> it just takes too long to get info from videos.

I can’t wait until video transcripts get fed into LLMs just to eliminate the whole “This video is sponsored by something-completely-unrelated, more about them later. What’s up Youtube, remember to like, share, subscribe… 5 entire minutes pass on similar drivel… the actual thing you want, but stretched out to an agonizing length”
In particular, in the film they do a bit of trickery with the shots to hide how much smaller the omni-treadmill is than the actual running stride of the actor.
"anti-ship ballistic missiles"

Interesting guidance problem.
As a teenager in the 90s, I built a huge site off of CFML, IIS 4.0, Apache 1.3 pre-fork, Windows NT, and MSSQL (6?). Really grateful for that tech back then.
Exactly! This is how it should be.

Researchers/Scientists with their hard earned PhDs should only concentrate on doing cutting-edge "researchy" stuff. It is hard enough that they should not be asked to learn all the intricacies/problems inherent in Software Development. That is the domain of a "Professional Software Engineer".

There is now in fact a new class called "Research Software Engineer" who are Software Developers working in Research developing code specific to their needs - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01516-2 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_software_engineering
The ease in which I can just drag and drop things, and write some logic behind it, and it later compiles the code for me to execute elsewhere.
This book explains when wars serve national policy. For example, authoritarian states who failed to handle the Pandemic would also strongly suggest a tragedy must unfold to retain power.

"The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics" ( 2011, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith )

https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Po...

Not a pleasant read, but a well reasoned model of violent human behavior. =)
> And now the Houthi rebels have become battle-hardened guerillas and insurgents, capable of projecting force into the vital shipping lanes of the Red Sea.

Their ability to attack the red sea has nothing to do with being "battle-hardened". They can only do so because Iran decides to supply them with missiles.
> The position that what I said is in any way problematic

That’s not what was said either. You keep putting arguments in other people’s mouths and assuming the worst version possible.

Unfortunately it has become clear there is no point to this discussion. You’re bent on only rambling about the point in your own head instead of what was being discussed.

I wish you a happy new year, but I do not wish to further this interaction.
Yemen is backed by Iran and has some tech capable of striking US ships. US is probably eager to start another proxy war but not right now
I have concluded that Google definitely censors search results relating to the Ukraine war, after vainly searching for articles about documented Ukrainian war crimes (reported in mainstream Western media like NYT/WaPo).
It's time to read some Clausewitz. That book outlines the philosophy of how most western states think about war. The short version I would say is that war is a tool of politics, so if there is no political goal, there will be no war, regardless of how bad the supposed Causus Belli is.

Shooting down a drone usually doesn't do it partly because of the political implications: it would be deeply unpopular to put "boots on the ground" over a shot-down drone.
That will happen a bit later
The stupid bit is that iOS "backups" don't actually include your apps.

There really should be a "full backup" option.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/lifi-standards

We also had to engage with all the big Wi-Fi companies and in the end convince them of the benefits of Li-Fi. But when people began understanding that we’re not arguing for Li-Fi against Wi-Fi, but claiming a complementary use, they really began seeing the benefits of using light.”

The standard was developed for Li-Fi to work alongside Wi-Fi ... Li-Fi simply appears as if it was another band of Wi-Fi ... We are enabling interoperability of Li-Fi and Wi-Fi, positioning Li-Fi as a complementary and additive technology to the existing ecosystem.
Yeah, its me, and to be fair I made a comment to a similar effect myself. Assessing search result quality is very hard, and this is definitely a pretty flattering selection of queries.
No. Your head has a gyro too and it can tell the difference between the floor tilting and running on flat ground. It doesn't matter what happens at your feet. The accelerometer and gyro in your inner ear are not fooled.
I think I might be future you, perhaps 10 years ahead of where you are. Also a dilettante by nature, I've spent time working across multiple roles, levels of seniority, technology stacks and business domains and I think this variety of experience has ultimately helped my career.

I've progressed up the corporate ladder about as far as I care to. My days are now largely spent bridging the gap between business folk and technologists, helping design or remediate systems and processes, and guide both sides of the divide towards a place of least regret.

That said, corporate life has drained me. My role often boils down to trying to make lemonade from the rotten lemons thrown my way. As a manager I am responsible for selling corporate BS that I don't believe in to the team, and taking on other's problems as my own.

I am however paid reasonably fairly for my ability to keep the team productive and the lemonade flowing. And this allows me to pursue things that do bring meaning to my life, as well as consider saving for an early retirement. I could find a job that is better for the soul, but it would likely delay retirement or mean I would have to cut back on other fun activities.

As it is I volunteer at a number of local charities, and try to spend my non-work time doing things that are good for the soul (outdoor activities, travel, photography, music, reading, making things etc).

My current perspective is if you have a job that pays well, allows you to support your family and maintain interests outside of work, even if the job is just barely tolerable, you're probably doing okay. Stick at it. Just make sure that you do try to 'balance the books' with enriching activities, because a lack of balance can catch up with you quickly.
I think an omni-treadmill could fake it a little if you were harnessed in place over it, by way of directionally locking up based on available in-game movement. There would still be a gap in perception there, but it would get closer to, for example, being able to navigate an area blind.
This is a good point, using an LLM means that writing even more smart code is now unlocked.

One still needs to find that balance between smart, functional / practical and maintainable. That’s the art of coding.
The ugly legacy of ColdFusion lives on in tools like Vue and AlpineJS.

If you like working with HTML, don't use tools that introduce proprietary syntax to inject janky control structure and looping logic.

Instead, consider StimulusJS, which allows you to add behaviors to elements in your DOM. It's the sharpest tool you're not using. Give it a shot before smashing that down arrow.
One of my favorite HN comments of all time.

I feel like this all happened just out of frame in a flashback sequence in The Invisibles.
Any specific book of his you recommend? "On War" seems to be the one that popped up on a search but wanted to confirm. Sounds like an interesting topic.
Didn't they try this 20 years ago?
On War is the book.
It didn’t used to be this way. Books would ship in a tight fitting corrugated cardboard package that would protect them. I suspect it was some kind of custom packing machine that would fold and cut to size.

Now it’s either in a padded envelope - still space for the book to move around - or it’s in a box with whatever else.

Creased covers, ragged corners, torn dust jackets… It’s awful if you want to give a book as a gift.
Looks like it's available for macOS as well: https://timesnapper.com/
In the 1800's Germany started behind Britain and raced ahead of it in industrial might. One factor in this was Germany did not recognize copyrights. Printers went looking for something, anything, to print and printed up a storm of technical literature that enabled this rapid industrialization and the increase in wealth of its ordinary citizens.
I don't know what those LCDs cost. It was the Sony CRT that cost $20k in 1993.
Nikon, Sony and Canon fight AI fakes with new camera tech
I wonder how much influence google had in lowering the content quality over the years? After all, most SEO spam was a direct response to all the ludicrous requirements they've forced the whole web into, which eventually only SEO spam were willing to commit to.

I also wonder if google just stopped existing, would the web heal over time?
Start writing, get my name out there, talk openly about my business ideas. Have fun talking to like-minded ppl.

Stop bothering so much about my well paid engineering job, pays the bills, nothing fancy to make a big deal out of!
Measure time-to-results = compile-time + execution-time, for jit/O0/O2/O3. Fairly basic.
How much longer can this go on? It seems like there are so many parties whose economic interests all align that this would just be dealt with swiftly and decisively. Am I just naive? Is there no reasonably straightforward way to stop the Houthis? Wouldn't much of Europe, Saudi Arabia and others be very interested in ending this as quickly as possible?
People on pushing side already don’t care about quality of translations. Even Microsoft Windows has lots of parallel movements is creating unnecessarily singular batch of detection, that do make sense when translated back into English.

That’s indeed a bit problematic, I guess we’ll see if they finally feel it.
What a trip. That must have been what I remember ... I think it was on a trip to Los Angeles and I saw this thing in a mall. I remember one of the songs (that I put on my cassette) was a cover of "Cry Baby Cry" by Richard Barone (of the Bongos) which was such an odd and random thing.

I wish I still had the cassette.
It went pointy end up I guess?

Was scratching my head over the same thing.
I will admit that I can't read between lines here and just go ahead an ask: What does "bluesky thought leader" suppose to mean? (1) Any guesses who this may be? Why is he not quoted directly? (btw, the term is used 3 times, presumably to refer to the same person).

1: my reading is that this is a sarcastic denomination for someone that is supposed to be an innovation thought leader but actually is just defending the broken search landscape status quo.
Also true the old adage "if you try to please everyone, you'll end up pleasing no one". Your most vocal complaints do not necessarily translate to the largest majority issue (I'd say often quite the opposite). Make sure any changes won't alienate your core demographic.
I've been writing code professionally for about 45 years now. People have cribbed my code and ideas since the beginning. At some point, I just stopped caring about it.

I no longer sell code, just my services.

I did have one case where someone stole my code, and then tried to sue me for copyright infringement. Too bad for him that I had a registered copyright on it :-)
Ahh I remember the memes from 2013 which were the MS Paint drawn ones, "Forever alone", "Ma Gusta" ahh the rage comics.

Ever since I installed and started using EFF Privacy Badger I know a judge a website on the amount of trackers EFF Privacy Badger shows.

I get frustrated when I see my bank (Westpac) have trackers on their site :(.

This site is good as no trackers are showing up (for now).
But I-JEPA is non-generative. It does semantic image interpretation.

Okay, I guess it is related as my brain only does semantic image interpretation.
(edit: my brain can create images, but only when I'm unconscious)

So with such a model, if you ask it to create an image, it would first create a semantic grammatical model of what you had asked for, and then perhaps draw it with colored pencils. I sort of like that. It's all that I could do. And it would be unlikely to violate any copyrights.
Apple's 32-bit apocalypse killed so many games on both iOS and macOS.
It is possible if you have static vessels like the board game Battleship.
Any country with the ability to completely erase entire countries (i.e. has an enormous stockpile of nuclear weapons) is a superpower.
> Instead, consider StimulusJS, which allows you to add behaviors to elements in your DOM. It's the sharpest tool you're not using. Give it a shot before smashing that down arrow

I did. And that’s exactly why I’m smashing that down arrow. It’s highly subjective whether it’s the sharpest tool for the job, because for me it’s not.
i have a radio that can "hear" down to -130dBm, i've proven this empirically. Cellular signals work at -12dB or more below the noise floor, wspr works even lower than that. Lightning is broadband noise, and yet i can still use digital stuff when there's lightning storms.

I don't buy the signal to noise argument. For example, whenever i get on youtube and get fed some content, i can immediately tell if it's had AI involved anywhere, and thumbs it down. I won't recommend it, i've called people out for linking such tripe to me (or others).

Hear me out - google got bad about 11 years ago when the dorking stopped being effective, right around the time of the spotlight search results and the sponsored junk taking the top results. Around this time, various agencies (news, etc) started gaming the SEO to respond to any remotely related search with whatever the news was currently. Google chose not to "fix" this, because we're not the customer. DDG was better for a few years for real results, too, but that has gone downhill as well.

The current zeitgeist uses stuff like tiktok and facebook for "web searches" - "food trucks near Austin, TX" or so. No one really uses web search like people on this site do, and google couldn't care less if we don't like the search results.
It would be very hard. You would fall. Which would be wrong because you’re not falling in game. You said harness but it would need to by a smart dynamic harness that adapts the tension which would be weird if you moved your leg oddly.

Some relevant edge cases:

1) you’re at a ledge and trying to dip your foot down (or conversely as shown in ready player one the film, you’re at a precipice and feel off balance because your VR foot is not fully supported by VR ground)

2) you’re running and a limb or foot hits a small object in a way that should realistically cause you to fall or be obstructed. Extremely tough problem to solve with the harness idea.

You can handle different edge cases with reasonable band aids but not comprehensively in a way that will work for general movement.
> GPT has this information encoded implicitly in its neural weights in a much more sophisticated way than linguistic theories can achieve

"More data beats clever algorithms" strikes again.
What people say they want is usually a stone's throw from what they already have.

If you radically want to change what people have, asking people what they want won't get there.
My impression is that neither of us knows much about these issues (correct me if I'm wrong). It would be interesting to see the rules for such buildings, and the reasonings behind them. Beyond that, at least I am not in a position to say what's sensible.

IME such rules are born of a wide variety of interests that come together and work it out.

Public parking is a commons; commons with high demand need rules to share them fairly.
> I'll search the most inane things, like lyrics to a song, and get results for local businesses

Query: “I’m coming out of my cage…”

Result (Ad): “You’ll be doing just fine with these amazing year-end closeout prices at Al’s Discount Car Barn. Gotta come down—you’ll want it all!”
I haven't spent that much time thinking about it, but my guess is that there may or may not be:

* a "tail" -- some initial part of the path before you get into a true cycle (like the 002, 004 in the example above)

* an inner repeating cycle before you reach a node you've seen before.

In the case given |t| = 0 and |c| = 1, but it's easy to construct a more complex example with nodes (A, B, C, D), edges (A->B, B->C, C->D, D->B), and 'ending nodes' being B and D. In this case left and right paths go to the same node. This case would have a tail of length 1, and then the inner cycles would be of length {2, 1, 2, 1 ...}.

As a result, valid 'ending states' (Z-nodes) for this graph would be after {1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, ...} steps.
"The Singapore-flagged, Denmark-owned/operated container ship requested assistance, and the USS GRAVELY (DDG 107) and USS LABOON (DDG 58) have responded to the ship."

Why does a Danish owned and operated container ship fly under the Singapore flag?

Why did the US Navy get involved?
So far so good. I'll try using this first from now on, and see how it does. Good luck!
We didn't accomplish a launch in 2023. Not a failure, but a little disappointment. More to come in 2024 tho! :)

Stay optimistic HN readers. 2024 will be the year :crossfingers:
But the key is that not all creativity can be copyrighted. Both US law and the Berne Convention (which almost all countries are party to) permit copyright only for artifacts fixed in a tangible medium, and it must be a human that does the fixing.

Tweaking knobs or writing prompts before the actual fixing is done doesn't count. Selection can't be copyrighted, just as ideas and mathematical formulas can't be.
This may sound silly, but until this comment I, a non-gun-user, always vaguely thought that the AR in AR-15 stood for Assault Rifle. Apparently it's ArmaLite Rifle. Huh.
You need SponsorBlock.

Usually people leave a "highlight" marker which tells you where you're supposed to jump to. Along with the regular "This video was brought to you by <insert>VPN".
So then how did the US trick Putin into invading Ukraine?

That's the simple question that nobody who espouses this silly set of beliefs can ever answer.
That depends on whether he got paid for the first printing of the damaged, returned book, which I don’t think he was. He mentioned in a comment that he got 50 author copies, checked them, and returned the damaged ones. I assume he was not paid for the free author copies..?

So if they sold a returned author copy that is known to be damaged then Amazon 1) failed to pay him for a sold book, and 2) broke some kind of rule in their contract where it promises to sell high-quality prints of his book to his readers. Sure, QA is not perfect and problems will happen, but selling a book that is known to be damaged does not count as an honest mistake.
Haha. I read the comment and wondered "How does this guy knows so much about ad....". Oh. Its Josh!
>The US wants a war with Russia without putting boots on the ground. Ukraine was a convieinient excuse.

This is a complete fiction. The defense apparatus was in the process of shifting its focus from the middle east to China when this broke out. It is making the preparations for a pacific war much harder.
Show HN: TriviaRex – Trivia combined with find the word
From what I understand, and I could be very wrong, the fear is that directly attacking the Houthis will be seen as an escalation by Iran. The west doesn't want to get mired in yet another war in the Middle East, so instead they've adopted a defensive posture around their shipping lanes with Prosperity Guardian. This is also why Saudi Arabia's own navy vessels are conspicuously absent from the operation, despite the Houthis being a geographically prominent thorn in their side.
my first too! booted it from a CD drive because vista was dog slow on 512m ram
I'm sure you know but windows command prompt always came with its inbuilt pager -- more. So, you could always do "dir | more" or "rg -p "%*" | more ". (more is good with colors without flags)
no snark here, but the subtitle was the start of my confusion: what does "user-friendly" mean in the context of grep, and why should I believe the claim?

regular expressions are not friendly, but the user friendly way for a cli filter to behave is to return retvals appropriately, output to stdout, error messages to stderr... does user friendly mean copious output to stderr? what else could it possibly mean? do I want copious output to stderr?
Reminds me of this excerpt in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy":

"Ford!"

Ford looked up from where he was sitting in a corner humming to
himself. He always found the actual travelling-through-space part
of space travel rather trying.

"Yeah?" he said.

"If you're a researcher on this book thing and you were on Earth,
you must have been gathering material on it."

"Well, I was able to extend the original entry a bit, yes."

"Let me see what it says in this edition then, I've got to see
it."

"Yeah OK." He passed it over again.

Arthur grabbed hold of it and tried to stop his hands shaking. He
pressed the entry for the relevant page. The screen flashed and
swirled and resolved into a page of print. Arthur stared at it.

"It doesn't have an entry!" he burst out.

Ford looked over his shoulder.

"Yes it does," he said, "down there, see at the bottom of the
screen, just under Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted
whore of Eroticon 6."

Arthur followed Ford's finger, and saw where it was pointing. For
a moment it still didn't register, then his mind nearly blew up.

"What? Harmless? Is that all it's got to say? Harmless! One
word!"

Ford shrugged.

"Well, there are a hundred billion stars in the Galaxy, and only
a limited amount of space in the book's microprocessors," he
said, "and no one knew much about the Earth of course."

"Well for God's sake I hope you managed to rectify that a bit."

"Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the
editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement."

"And what does it say now?" asked Arthur.

"Mostly harmless," admitted Ford with a slightly embarrassed
cough.

(Quoted from https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~hqi/deeplearning/project/hhgttg.tx...)
No idea you implemented it. Thanks a lot for that!
You're taking the term "Coastline" literally. It's an abstract idea, and a coastline is a good way to conceptualize it as a real thing.
Asking customers what they want - or rather what their problem is - doesn’t work but it’s the best method we have
Ads would make sense, but there's no way my local city council is paying Bing and they are the most frequently listed result.