skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and then 1 api changes and you go to update that, but find out that dependency you ignored the deprecation warning for no longer exists, and then you have to refactor your whole codebase, and then another api changes, and then another service discontinues api access entirely but it happened to be your most sought after integration so then you try making a headless scraper but their UI keeps changing but then…
I wonder if anyone could successfully sue YouTube for lost revenue over a wrongful demonetization.
I was happy with Svelte. But it only does single-page apps. But it's simple and the tutorial is delightful.

When I moved to multiple pages, I had to use SvelteKit, which is complicated and not well documented.
No, but it would explain the irresistible urge to poop in a sandbox.
Definitely not coincidental.
A lot of people are saying to specialise your business or die. I think you have a good opportunity here to do what nothing else does quite well, and that is to implement a vertically integrated document management system for use cases such as ISO 9001 etc.

Use case 1, document management:
This basically just means that you need to implement the capability to “publish” a document version, permanently view that document version (think tag), and auto generate a document “identifier” using the companies naming convention (and allow this to be embedded automatically in the document so the client can use it too). The document ID might look something like SOP-2401001.

Once a document is published it should be read-only, and you should be able to put artifacts a long with published documents … ie exported PDF copies, or signed copies or something.

Use case 2, document siloing:
One of the most difficult parts of document management is creating forms for procedures, and then teaching everyone how to not ruin the document management of these forms once they are filled. I have always wanted a silo that automatically copies a form when you start to fill it out, allocates it a brand new document ID, and collects it together with all the other forms of the same kind.

This could be integrated with an automation platform so that ie if you fill out a form it sends someone an email or something like that. Or if you wanted to get really fancy, you could allow people to define “workflows” for documents and actually visually show a business process alongside a document.
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And for those wanting even less bloat, to the point of removing drivers and other unwanted OS components, there is nLite. :)

https://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html
It escapes into space and that's the main problem with it. But it doesn't create steam explosions and hydrogen buildup under ionizing radiation (also explosive). My main gripes with pebble bed reactors is not helium, but pebbles cracking, graphite fires and complications with fuel reprocessing. Helium just ads another layer of complications because it's quite scarce and easily lost. Also the installed capacity of this reactor is quite underwhelming. But it's nice that the Chinese have built it and are testing and advancing the technology developed in Germany during the '80s.
No, it's the same documentation.

I think even for the new APIs added in non-public betas, it's all on the main website now.

Also there's docs that aren't on the dev.apple site for things like Apple Pay, but it's not a perk of paying $99 a year. I suspect the actual hardware docs for the Vision headset are private too (they were for the Apple Silicon DTK).
Computer programs don't perjure themselves, LLM's aside.

The company that is running the offending program should be liable.

But who knows, I'm no lawyer.
> Billionaires are Machiavellian, psychopathic, and narcissistic, according to psychological research. They are malevolent self-promoters, emotionally cold, nonstop liars and highly aggressive.

Ironic considering the title of the post
You're misunderstanding the terms. For something to be computable is very different from whether or not we know or are presently able to compute it.

For something to be computable, it only needs to be possible to show that it is logically possible, by e.g. decomposing the problem into elements we know are computable or showing an example.

The existence of the human brain absent any evidence of any supernatural element is strong evidence that human reasoning is computable, and it's a reasonable, testable, falsifiable hypothesis to make: If you want to counter it "all" you need to do is to show evidence of any state transition in even a single brain that does not follow known laws of physics. Just one.

Alternatively, even just coherently describing a decision-making process that it is possible to construct a proof wouldn't be computable using known logic.

Either would get you a Nobel Prize, in either physics or maths. Absent that, even just a testable hypothesis that if proven would increase the likelihood of finding either of the above would be a huge step.

In the absence of all of that, it's pure faith to presume human reasoning isn't computable.
Complaining without action is pointless, especially when the action is so damned easy.

So, why complain if you're not going to do something about it?
A classic MIT report series. Of note is where it says they think cost performance is basically unrelated to specific core design. So all these thorium, molten salt, liquid metal, organic, blah blah reactors coming back, while cool, are not necessarily aligned with the key problems in nuclear, which are currently construction project management related.

I'd love to see some more startups focusing on the real problems in nuclear (project delivery, standardized QA procedures, standardized licensing document templates, analysis checklists, inspection techniques, data management, etc. ) rather than more and more and more somewhat goofy re-hashes of 1950s prototypes.

Maybe should have [2018] in the title?
I track web engine development only loosely, but no I haven’t seen much movement in that realm.
And, what OP downplays, not taking it seriously, having many serious fatal flaws, and then covering all those flaws up while assuring the public everything was going great: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/science/nasa-moon-quarant... https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/724888

Something to think about: even if there are AI 'warning shots', why do you think anyone will be allowed to hear them?
A couple of points I can think of, 1) the Helium nucleus is exceedingly stable so the coolant won’t get radioactive from neutron activation, 2) the coolant being chemically inactive means you can use run the reactor at higher temperatures, thus achieving higher efficiency if you use the heat to run a heat engine (steam turbine).
I think that's a pretty common opinion here. Here's what I thinks: LLMs are not AGI but are currently the best way to leverage everyone else's knowledge.
Nice to see such an extensive work by such a recognized scientific body.
It gives hope in a future more sustainable world and I think we need it.
To be fair, the timing is great, nuclear energy is strongly coming back after having been « out of fashion » for 20+ years.
Especially since the classic theme was still available. XP with the classic theme wasn't too dissimilar from the proceeding Windows 2000. Much more professional UI.
If you want a front-end for a single-page webapp, I loved Svelte. It puts all the HTML, JavaScript/TypeScript, and CSS together in the same place. The tutorial is delightful.

BUT, if you need a multi-page webapp, SvelteKit is complicated and not well documented.
Launch HN: Hi everyone, I'm politician, and I'm happy to launch a new service called AppleDocs.ai. We use generative AI to make Apple developer documentation useful, since Apple has completely dropped the ball on this area. Pricing starts at $8/mo for individuals.

/satire, but only barely -- upvote if you want this to exist!
I agree. In fact, this is an important thing we need to establish. If your automation violates somebody's rights with a decision, that needs to be held to the same standard as if a human did it.

Failing to enforce this, while clearly pragmatic, has IMHO led us to the somewhat dystopian current-world where AIs falsely flagging people have led to accounts being suspend/revoked, small businesses ruined, etc.

Whether intentional or not, Disney should be liable to this Youtube channel for damages. They should have to pay a penalty for abusing the system, and also compensate the creator for the lost revenue.

Companies like Disney sure thought it was important to "make an example" of copyright violators (pirates) in the past. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, and we should not stand for the double standard.

IANAL, but if such is possible to win, I'd like to see this Youtube creator start a lawsuit.
Yes, owning one of the phones in question.

Disagree? It's too late to file an amicus brief on Apple's behalf, so arguing about it here is the next best thing, I guess.
So? What difference does that make? The battery ages to a certain point, eventually the phone shuts down prematurely. The phone then slows itself down to try to hide the battery loss from the user.

The user is aware of NONE of this. The user thinks, "Darn, time for a new phone already."

Except it's not time for a new phone, it's time for a new battery.

The real question is, why is this OK with you? Why do you, as a user, want less insight and control over your devices? Why carry water for a trillion-dollar company without being paid to?
What is 10 + 10?

Answer:
0 + 10 = 10 + 10 = 10 + 10 = 10 + 10 = 10 + 10 =

This seems like a waste of compute and time.
I can’t see how keeping human remains off of the moon is about to spread AIDS, so at least for now this seems to be an unfair comparison.

Can you see the dash of magical thinking present in the desire to put those remains on the moon in the first place?
This model does not appear to be fine-tuned for chat. I observed the same looping behavior with virtually any direct prompt.

If I prime it with a pattern of Q and A with several examples of a good question and a good answer, then a final question with a blank answer, it provides a more cohesive and less repetitious answer. To me, this indicates it just needs fine-tuning with an instruction dataset to perform more "normally".

Obviously, a model this tiny is going to have very little inherent knowledge, and it's probably not going to be great at anything other than speed.
> to give top entrepreneurs the space to philosophize about fundamental questions

Can't wait to see what those minds come up with.

Also, when trying to look up this "Cosmos Institute", I didn't find anything that would seem related to this article. Weird.
In my experience nowadays, if you use a mainstream distro life ubuntu or fedora, drivers either are built in/in the repos, or don’t exist at all.

Notable exception for those assholes at nVidia.

Can’t say the same for windows, i still have to download printer/scanner drivers like it’s 2005.
If you haven't seen a team using Feishu/LarkSuite, then I'd make an effort to see how that works. It's essentially a super office app that does the whole "everything is integrated" significantly better than Microsoft and Google have with their office products. For example, you can share a document during a call and interact with others inside the live document.
Funny related observation - 3DMark2000 displays a little transition/animation during setup before it begins copying files. On a modern SSD, the animation takes longer to complete than the actual installation. I'm sure there are plenty of other examples in modern software.
I've sworn in front of a FAANG CTO who was I think 5 or 6 levels above me in the management chain at the time. Nobody batted an eyelid.
I think you've shown otherwise. And me, too.
It’s gotten worse over the years. The new Swift stuff tends to be cursory, but I frequently hit “archived” legacy docs that are super well written and go in depth on whole systems (although it’s now 10 years out of date). My favorite bit of technical writing is the old text system docs: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Te...

My hypothesis is that in the old days, technical writers on teams would lead the docs effort, but today’s culture may have many teams with only developers, and those developers are primarily interested in shipping code, not docs.
The Origins of 'Foo'
It is a simple program that (1) hosts a webserver, (2) runs server-side code, and (3) hosts a database. It also has built-in support for logging in and permissions to data.

Thus, if you want to write a simple website that needs permissions, storage, and server-side code, it's a great backend solution. The limitation is that it isn't high performance.
Netflix is about the only one making money. Disney+, Hulu, Time Warner, etc... are all losing a lot of money on their streaming ventures. Expect to see consolidation incoming. The strikes also helped since it gave them cover to cut a lot of costs.
What I'll say to that advice is that it boils down to self-bubbling, which isn't what some want, and not what most need.
Transatlantic slavery continued for years after 1867, historian finds
Yeah... somehow it's hard for humans to compare normal operating combustion sources like fossil and biofuel killing ~8 million people/yr from air pollution while also causing climate change against a few bad reactor accidents.
If you take a look at this article as a heuristic as to where our new neigbors arrived from https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/15/us/where-immigrants-come-...

You will notice that since the 1960's the new americans have come from societies where kindness is definitely seen as a weakness because of how corrupt their societies are. So people adapt and view kindness as so.

Just because they have arrived here does not mean they have shed their previous world views.
The free market is crippled by 'the tragedy of the commons' when it comes to anything whatsoever that isn't simple self-interest. "Somebody else should do that" is typical, or more likely "If I spend anything on a social good, I will be less competitive and go out of business"

Solving problems like this are precisely where government, with all its flaws, is essential to doing it at all.
I can't stand comic book movies and my list of content to watch right now is probably more than I'll ever be able to get to.
I don't think that's generally true, especially if you build nuclear as cost effectively as China does.
Very cool!

I think programming a microcontroller without an operating system is a good exercise for most coders / software engineers. It gives you a perspective of how much you can accomplish using MMIO and an imperative programming language. (C, C++, Rust generally).

These days, microcontrollers span a range of price points and capabilities. (CPU speed, flash, RAM, onboard peripherals etc). There are even <$1 32-bit ones (See STM32C0), and ones that cost $10-20 and have 2MB of flash run at 500Mhz, have 64-bit FPUs, loads of hardware IO protocols and ADC/DAC channels etc. Also some that are ~$3USD and have onboard Wi-Fi, Btle, LoRa etc, and can run for years on small batteries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timnit_Gebru

> Gebru has used the acronym TESCREAL to criticize what she sees as a group of overlapping futurist philosophies: Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism. She considers this to be a right-leaning influence in Big Tech and compares proponents to "the eugenicists of the 20th century" in their production of harmful projects they portray as "benefiting humanity".
This is probably mostly right. I consider it worth noting that each single coal plant operating normally kills more people than Chernobyl, even in the high-end estimates, roughly every 5 years. I think the psychology of radiation is somehow a lot scarier than the psychology of particulate air pollution, for some reason.
> nobody wants to read [documentation].

OP wants to read documentation. It's in the article.

Quite a few commenters say that they're resorting to LLMs, not because that's how they want to learn about the code they're using, but because the documentation is terrible and LLMs summarising snippets from dozens of different forum questions and blog posts is the only alternative they have to terrible documentation.

> most popular open source projects seem to prioritise guides for common use cases over extensive documentation.

Open source projects that people aren't being paid to work on probably don't have extensive documentation, because writing extensive documentation is hard, and the kinds of people who like hacking on code that solves their problems are probably not people who enjoy writing extensive documentation when they could be implementing another feature. Even if a large segment of their users would prefer that, and it's what would be best for the project.
The model may not be fine-tuned for instruct/chat.
It's a weeeee bit "ca. 2003, my nephew's neighbor's friend did it for $50", but kinda refreshing vs. the usual "huge hero image, followed by cringe-inducing 'personal statement', followed by three columns" we usually see with portfolio sites
It is an interesting piece of economics / public policy history. I think using the phrase 'throw money at any UK firm' though does a bit of a disservice to how credible Inmos's technology was. They were building at or close to leading edge RAM chips and the Transputer, although it looks like a curiosity now, had lots of interesting (not really flashy) innovation.

There were lots of issues with the running of the company of course, but I think it was the sale to Thorn-EMI (a really unsuitable owner) that ultimately sealed the fate of the firm.
Glad I’m not alone. I’m a relatively senior developer who’s worked 30+ years on a ton of different systems, and every time I wade into the Apple ecosystem in the last 10 years or so to build a native application for macOS I feel like an idiot since it’s much harder to find what I need to know to accomplish something. I always assumed it was because I wasn’t their target demographic: I don’t do iOS apps, and the things I want to write are often not just a matter of throwing together a bunch of widgets and a data model and calling it good. I guess their terrible documentation isn’t a me problem, but an Apple problem.

Add to that the annoying use of videos: I hate finding out that something I’m interested in is buried in a WWDC video instead of written up. I don’t have time or the desire to watch videos as reference material: please stop.
>analysts expectation of slowing iPhone demand

Has Apple considered making decent phones at budget prices for a change?

Something in the Samsung A34-A54 ~€300 price range.

There's only so many people willing to spend €1k+ on a phone these days.
The thing is, usually you just have hardware (a given) and want to (re) install an os on it that works. Each time i installed a Linux on a machine there were some issues like for example hibernate not working, my usb drive not working when connecting to a hub, the boot manager not showing, the laptop keyboard not working, etc.
Not surprised, where Apple has concentrated brand and product line value, Microsoft has breadth of business.

Apple has the i-line of products, MacBooks and “services”. Microsoft has desktop, devices, games, cloud. It’s no surprise to me.
That claim of reduced fatalities is also getting outdated now, since the introduction of roundabouts with more than one line. Also accident rate for the cyclists is actually higher on roundabout than in a a standard intersection. So all in all, roundabouts are not as great as many insist and my beef with them and their supporters is that they keep bringing up the same talking points that were presented _before_ roundabouts started to be built on a massive scale and don't want to hear the empirical evidence about how these roundabouts actually work in practice.
> I’m not a big lit guy but I read this. The first 10% was hard to get through due to how different Milton’s english is from my own.

I agree. Milton's English is beautiful but easily on the level of an unmodernized Shakespeare in terms of deterring a reader, who spends as much time cracking the puzzle as they do on any kind of esthetic appreciation.

As an experiment, I was trying rewriting _Paradise Lost_ in contemporary blank verse with GPT-4/Claude-2. It was OK, but what I discovered was that what really works is an alliterative verse translation! (I was then informed that it is believed that Milton may have been drawing on an Old English poem about the Fall, "Genesis A", and so this may not be an accident.)

Two example renditions of the prologue:

1. Man's first folly, the fateful fruit's taste,
From forbidden tree's tempting twig it came,
Death and doom dealt, despair in our world,
Eden erased, exalted man to mend,
Restoring realms of radiant bliss, sing,
Sacred muse, who soared on secret summits,
Oreb, Sinai, sharing whispered wisdom,
With shepherds, teaching truths to chosen kin,
Heavens and earth hewn from harrowing haze,
Sion's slopes, Siloa's silver stream,
Flowing fast by God's grand guiding hand,
Grant thy aid to my aspiring anthem,
Aiming high above Aonian heights,
Pursuing paths untried in prose or rhyme.

2. Man's fatal first taste, the forbidden fruit
Whose bitter bloom brought bale and sorrow bleak
With paradise perished, till One more mighty restores what was lost
Reclaims the radiant seats—O sacred Muse,
Who on Sinai's summit secret
And Horeb's height inspired
Chosen seers to teach the tribes since time first woke,
How heavens and earth arose from Chaos hoar,
Or if thou rather tread Sion's summit steep,
And Siloa's silvern stream that rushed thereby
Where dwelt the oracle and rock of God,
That poured forth fates—now lend thy light, that I
May soar on song's ambitious wings
Above Parnassus' peaks, pursuing lofty themes...
Great matters meet for grandest strains of lore.
Thee chiefly, thee, heart's truth, soul's purest shine,
O Spirit blest, who scorneth shrine and show
Inspire my strain; for thou, who knowest all,
Hast known since earth's first sunrise. Mighty wings
Did brood with wings outspread upon the formless void
Kindling Chaos into teeming, shaping flame;
To attain the epic theme, this lofty matter,
In hymns that hallow Heaven's eternal ways.