skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually normal, because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39386244 only spent about half an hour on HN's front page, so it arguably didn't make sense to treat the next one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39388218 as a dupe.

Keep in mind the criterion for dupeage: has the story had significant attention yet? One can argue that this story was major enough that half an hour of front page time wasn't significant, even though the thread did get 100 comments.

The second submission, however, spent 16 hours on HN's front page and got over 800 comments. That clearly qualifies as the story having significant attention, meaning that it was both standard and correct to downweight the current submission. The only question is whether it should have been formally marked [dupe] or merely downweighted as a follow-up (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), but we don't have precise rules around that.
I think the problem is that any tool like this (even one theoretically much more powerful) is most beneficial to those that need it the least and least beneficial to those that need it the most. If you're an expert you can identify the mistakes and they are not generally a roadblock. But if you're a novice you can't and you'll simply be unaware of any hallucinations. The benefit SO has over this is just the extra friction of needing to copy paste or retype because it slows you down and forces an opportunity to think.

My worry is that we become too reliant on tools and outsource our thinking to them before they are ready to take on that task. This will only accelerate the shitification of things we have. More apps that use far too many resources. Things that are security nightmares. Interfaces with more friction. All of it.

The problem is pareto efficiency. 80% of your code is written in 20% of your time but 80% of your time is is required for 20% of your code. The problem is that the devil is in the details. So even a 95% or 99% accurate code generator is going to make for hard work. That's 1 in every hundred lines of code. I hope the compilers people are writing good error messages.
Will you notice the difference when you're asleep?
it really doesn't matter how many years they have been working, or how old they are, or how long they have been at the organization. we should all agree that someone who offloads the error correction of llms to their teammates isn't someone that's really 'senior'
Related.

Even as energy production prices from solar trend towards zero, end user energy costs is still going to be lower bounded by transmission costs.

California in particular is getting a nasty taste of this, with many customer's bill being mostly transmission costs. However, this is largely because they're paying for PG&E's lawsuit payouts and regulatory required upgrades.

Energy can be free, but reliable and safe transmission will likely always be expensive.
The discussion becomes simplistic because the moral wrongs are so blatant. See eg the cost of insulin (source from 2018):
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cost-of-insulin-by-country/

USA: 99$

Next most expensive country on that list: 21$

ETA: This is not intended to start a discussion about the price of insulin. The point is that a life-saving drug costs about 9-10x more in the USA than in countries with similar living standards, eg. countries in Europe.
What's wrong with misplaced anger, other than it's misplaced?

My point still holds, something is wrong, some boundary is violated, you need to do something.

Even if the anger is misplaced, you're not simply angry about "nothing" -- find out what the root is and fix it. The anger isn't the problem. Anger will give you the energy to do the work.

And, as I said, what you do in response may or may not be constructive/helpful. Yes I understand misplaced anger can cause you to focus on the symptoms rather than the problem. In other news, throwing fists usually doesn't help. There are a bunch of things you can do when angry that aren't helpful.

But the anger isn't the problem, it's the symptom of a problem that needs to be addressed.
Though the flavor text is heavily inspired by her works, the game doesn't reference any of them directly, and I think it stands pretty well on its own. It's not really specific to the Victorian era either, more of a general old-timey English aristocracy theme.

At its core it's really about allocating scarce resources and timing actions over a limited number of turns to build your family's standing in society, and the courtship element is a strong means to that end.

Personally I feel like the complexity score may be a bit low; I'm not really much of a tabletop gamer though. It's about as complicated a game as I think I could enjoy.
> Their very own Google Cache.

You mean the thing they recently announced they were shutting down, and suggest you use the Internet archive instead?

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/google-search-kills-...
[2]: https://searchengineland.com/google-search-officially-retire...
[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39234246
Don't know if it handles the forks but I've used The Unarchiver on Windows for sit.hqx, should be available on Linux at least through https://theunarchiver.com/command-line
There are m2 adapters that break out to 4-6 sata ports.

Ex: https://a.aliexpress.com/_Ey8htlr
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I am really hoping someone makes an AI version of reddit where each user can easily control and adjust the type of posts and interactions they experience.

Just imagine how great reddit would be if not for the other users, the moderators, the admins, and the CEO.
This is a good thing in the context of the article (it even explicitly says "They’re not made to give you verifiable facts or to say 'I don’t know'" in a context which suggests this is in fact a bad trait). Better to return no code than to return crap code.
I agree with most of the stuff in this article but I'm a bit puzzled by some of the attitudes of the author. They seem to care more about the LLM delivering code with poor accessibility than they care about the LLM delivering completely wrong answers.

The "any good developer would realize this is bad code" rings strongly as "no true developer would think the LLM's bad answer was correct". Seems like a short sighted opinion to me.

I also think you can replace "accessibility" with any number of programming meta concepts and find problems too.

How about "internationalization"? Are LLMs any good at producing code that is nicely internationalized?

Or more importantly "security". Are LLMs going to produce millions of lines of poorly secured code that people never double check? Almost assuredly.

The fact is that LLMs are prediction engines. They run off of probabilities based on the prompt and the training model. Thus, unless the training model is weighted towards cherry picked examples of excellent code, it's going to follow the masses.

And the masses write bad-to-average code mostly.
I'm more taking about the hypocrisy since Elon made a huge deal about bots
Seconded and the book is https://man7.org/tlpi/. One can even reads parts of it digging deep into the area one is trying to understand better.
Maybe he needs to get a stern talking to by his manager? Has that happened?
> When your team faces a problem and you are unable to solve it, your team will notice that and they will stop looking up to you. In fact, any engineer who solves the problem will be the hero everyone admires.

This is quite revealing. Being a hero, or being looked up to, might be some people's goals. But definitely not everyone's.
Large Language Models for the Automated Analysis of Optimization Algorithms
Believe or not ...I can't

A couple of months (more like years, maybe?) ago it was fairly easy to find many articles about FSB money being laundered through Vivid. But, lo and behold, a search for "FSB" and "Vivid" returns some very ...strange articles: https://imgur.com/VOCNvna

Did Vivid create specific articles to thwart any specific results from appearing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz8RjPAD2Jk

In Germany only, the company "lost" 60+ millions euros (the information for Netherlands is not available/public?) - https://www.northdata.de/Vivid+Money+GmbH,+Berlin/Amtsgerich...

[edit on my previous comment: it seems Vivid moved from Germany to Netherlands, one might think that BaFin is doing something after all?]

[later edit: searching some more https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/ot5guf/vividmoney_...]
Don’t get it. So many reviewers have the tiniest of ide windows up, like on a 11” laptop. When I code in Vision Pro, I can set 5k resolution to the Mac link since my studio is hooked to a studio display. I’ll get over 100 readable lines, similar to a vertical 4k monitor.
In a typical civil court cases, what is the ratio of wins (including settlements) to losses by the plaintiff?
> Their very own Google Cache

They permanently disabled that recently.
If it helps I think you're right to take this approach.

In my experience defining error as 'handled' or handleable in code can often not be particularly helpful. Are the values from errno(3) always considered as handled?

EINVAL is almost always in "your" terms a fault, ENOSPC or EPIPE likely could only be handled as complete failures.

What I see too often is code which which propagates
It would be more accurate to say that they don't publish their training databases (including sanitized pointers to the copyrighted stuff) because they aren't sure that training is fair use.

They are sure, however, that it is a kind of infringement. Citing "fair use" is an admission of infringement - just a specific kind of infringement that is allowed.
Too many British people are suckers. That's what I see in the last several General Elections. They allowed themselves to believe that even though the Tories are the problem, maybe more Tories is the answer, that shouldn't have passed the laugh test.

Not that it's so simple necessarily, I remember one friend lived in Vauxhall at the time of one of those elections, after the Brexit referendum and its aftermath but before implementation. People there had been such reliable Labour voters that they weren't even looking at their candidate. Which had been Kate Hoey. Now, Vauxhall is the kind of place that's voting Labour because of social politics, they're proud of their gay night scene, they've got a lot of Vegans, they're inner city folks so they don't want hunting with guns and dogs, they're against wars and they like Europe. Hoey is [at that time] a Labour MP but she's anti-gay, she supporting hunting and wants more guns... and of course she's Pro-Brexit. She's a terrible fit, but hey, they're a solid Labour constituency. Nobody I met there had any idea. To them you go to the poll, you pick Labour, you're done. Sending some woman who wants you and your friends dead and opposes everything you stand for? They had no idea.

I urged him and his wife to actually read about their candidates now that Hoey was gone (she resigned), but not sure if they ever did before they moved out here. You don't need to know your representative very well (I do, but won't when he is replaced next time) but you should at least know who they are and what they're about (his would-be replacement is the woman who leads my city government, unremarkable, seems basically competent)
I don’t think so - I’ve been in promotion committees to L7 and I feel fairly confident those are examples of L7 impact. Not by themselves sufficient maybe, but they’re the kind of stuff L7 SWEs do with their time.

I suppose I have heard that the L6 bar has lowered somewhat from ~2015, mostly in response to people complaining about being stuck at L5. But I wouldn’t have any first hand experience with that, other than my own promotions, which surprised me every time. So maybe the bar has been lowered.
Unreal Engine 5 can now run in a web browser
Please feel free to open a PR replacing the image with one from a volunteer.

I'm more than happy to make to make the switch and give credit to a proper artist if there's one willing to work for free.
> tower thefts were not unheard of.

US? I'm guessing you mean smaller towers like ~50' used for local links, utility radios, etc. Or do you mean like 75' or 150'+? Do people grab commercial towers?
If on Monday of last week someone had predicted Apple would kill off web apps on iOS, you'd have surely given exactly the same response. And so on Saturday, now they they have, I find that unpersuasive. Make that of it what you will. One person's "preaching doom" is another's "reasoning from evidence".
I think a lot of these are actually solvable problems today, Copilot just hasn't prioritized actually improving the product (don't need to improve the product for breakneck growth when you have github.com as a distribution channel!)

It feels like there are a lot of well-intended AI coding products that just don't pay attention to getting the details right. I actually started building my own extension recently, with an emphasis on getting all the little things right, because I got so frustrated at Copilot. Things like closing brackets properly, not interrupting me and destroying my train of thought when writing comments, not suggesting imports unless it's highly certain (or verified with intellisense), etc. Like why am I wasting my precious time talking to copilot chat with gpt3 when gpt4 exists?

It's still a pretty early version, and ultimately we're using the same underlying model for completion, but I think getting these details right make a huge difference (at least to my biased self).

If you want to try it: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=doublebo...

You'll need to install the pre-release version for auto-complete.
Not everybody wants to get promoted to their level of incompetence. Some of us want to stay at a level that we are good at, and not endlessly climb a ladder.
You haven't purchased my work, please stop saying you have. Your argument ends there despite your words continuing far beyond.
> One payment of $49 for a landing page, and the user will have all benefits of whatever the paid plan will have - for life

This will almost guarantee your product will have a cohort of users that will one-star-review you and do everything they can to hurt your business if you don't implement their often insane feature requests (patio11 calls them "pathological customers")

A lifetime deal where there are ongoing costs incurred by you is almost always a bad idea (unlimited plans too). Someone with a ridiculous workload will come along and take advantage of it, and I'm speaking from experience.

You aren't evaluating interest in your long-term product with a lifetime deal, you're evaluating whether people are interested in paying almost nothing for years of using your product.

Instead, talk to people in your personal network that are already using products like this, and work out what they're already paying, and price around that.
> In one case, one user who'd been screened out submitted the same application but tweaked the birthdate to make themselves younger. With this change, they landed an interview.

Are candidates across the pond expected to put their age in their applications/resumes? Because this is a prime example of why no one seems to in the US... I don't even put the graduation year for my B.A. lest that serve as a proxy.

(Kind of the opposite in my case, but I did have a boss once who noticeably soured on me after he realized (1) how young I was and (2) my salary.)
Anecdotal non-evidence. You've never noticed or had specific evidence of silent corruption that probabilistically risked silent corruption to quiesced to permanent storage or caused unexplained storage. Perhaps you've never heard of domain bitsquatting but it was rampant before https:// became widespread. All network gear, servers, and client devices need ECC or parity on all buses and at higher level storage, compute, and networking protocols to ensure integrity. Retail consumer electronics manufacturers throw out features customers lack the expertise to understand the consequences of. ECC RAM would need to be enforced by government mandate because that's the only way things will ever change. It's a massive, still present security and data integrity hole that could be closed today by spending a trivial amount of money if it were implemented at large scale.

See also:
PDF https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2021/DEF%20CON%2021%20pre...

https://cr.yp.to/hardware/ecc.html
What a bizarre notion. Which elite exactly do you think are responsible? Love stories are arrested at least as far back as ancient Greece, so clearly romantic nonsense pre-dates any current elites.
My impression (trying to read charitably) was that the 756MW figure included some capacity factor, if an extremely optimistic one. (For the nuke, a reasonable capacity factor of 95% of 1100W is still more or less 1100W.) Of course you are correct if the stated figure is maximum output of the solar farm.
A US productivity boom may explain how inflation slowed amid a strong economy
> The issue is that often you do want heavy repetition when programming.

Up to a certain number of tokens, yes. But, I doubt any high quality code would have the exact same sequence of N tokens repeated 25 times consecutively. There's a certain heaviness of repetition at which it is unlikely to be genuinely useful.

> Or JSON, or a bunch of imports and exports

A human programmer, when evaluating whether code is repetitive, doesn't treat all tokens as equal – they ignore "expected"/"necessary" repetitions, and focus on the "unexpected"/"unnecessary" ones. So, penalising repetitions in sampling doesn't have to treat all tokens equally either. For example, in a JSON document, one might choose to ignore the tokens required by JSON syntax. In Java, one might penalise repetitions less in the import block than in a method body.

Of course, this means the sampling actually has to be aware of the syntax of the language being generated – which is possible, and can have some other advantages (e.g. if sampling only samples tokens which are allowed by the language grammar, you can eliminate many possibilities of generating syntactically invalid code.)
Sonar os actually an incredibly powerful tool for dev teams WHEN they know how to use it and configure it according to their agreed upon standards.

When it's used thoughtlessly, as it often is, it's terrible.
> The safety valve here is that judges and juries do test against whether a reasonable person would believe a stated offer or policy; I can't trick a chatbot into offering me a billion dollars for nothing and get a court to hold a company to it.

Sure, but a billion people could each trick it into offering them $100, which would bankrupt the airline.

> they should be on the hook for false advertising to the customer and unfair competition against Chevrolet and Toyota.

But all you're really doing is requiring everyone to put a banner on everything that says "for entertainment purposes only". Because if something like that gets them out of the liability then that's what everybody is going to do. And if it doesn't then you're effectively banning the technology, because "have it not make stuff up" isn't a thing they know how to do.
> Is there anybody who believes that the West is not doing absolutely the same towards Putin for decades already?

It's pretty obvious that the disinformation coming from Russia is on a whole other level.
As much as I appreciate articles like this, you're not going to win over the HN crowd with them. Especially now that Ethereum has been so successful with PoS and decimating power usage, not just on that chain, but all GPU based PoW chains.
I've been considering asking the lawyers I work with to do a lunch and learn for founders(or I guess anyone) on AI tools in the workplace and how no to run into trouble. In terms of implementing such tools.. Outside of HR, is anyone evaluating anything or thinking about anything that it would be valuable to have an assessment of? Chatbots and hiring tools are already on my list.
Yes. They usually are quiet, but if something drop on surface, emit Roentgen, etc.

But anywhere, gravitational forces will be very strong, and their magnetic field also very strong, so you will feel them.

Experience might be something like MRT. - With all precautions, probably nothing special, but if do sudden movements, will be strange feelings, also gut may not feel comfortable.
Another being sex workers. Part of my exit from dating apps was a frustrating number of matches asking for money in some form, some of them offering something in return. (some of them hoping their very existence was sufficient)
Earliest public evidence of drone attacks reaching Moscow are dated 30.05.2023
Both of those already have more rights than actual people right now.
In-person starting venues appear to be more scarce -- or have higher entry thresholds -- than in times past. I'm not so sure it's guaranteed to be better for everyone and everywhere.
Seems to me like the 1%ers not handing down profits is a problem in Silicon Valley and beyond too...
That's actually an interesting situation, but it doesn't support the assertion that the power would "otherwise go to waste" or that this is something a lot of bitcoin miners do. The argument that it's non-trivial to just transmit the power elsewhere is a persuasive one, the argument that bitcoin mining is somehow uniquely able to take advantage of that power is not as persuasive.

Even if the argument is that compute heavy data centers are the only use-case that makes sense, there's lots of compute use cases other than bitcoin. And obviously the former presence of the aluminum shelter suggests data centers are not the only good use-cases. I understand the appeal of the argument that bitcoin mining has less energy impact than people think because it can uniquely take advantage of weird edge cases, but it doesn't make sense to me.
The problem as you say likely being that the drone shares properties with predatory birds that make hamsters scurry away ;-). Many endangered plants won't be visible from above due to other, larger plants and you'd need millimeter resolution or better.

I wouldn't underestimate how effective experienced and qualified humans can be in finding and interpreting signs of the presence of a small number of specific species in a large area. Drones and AI will probably get there at some point, but I doubt that its close.
> With MIT licensed software, sometimes you have software that you can't legally adjust (or help others adjust).

Really? The MIT license explicitly allows you to "modify" the software without restriction.

https://opensource.org/license/mit/
I'll use a locally hosted Llama 2 or CodeLlama instance as a 'consultant', via a chat window. These models can be great for that! A well-formulated question often elicits a precise and accurate answer, even from the unspecialized model.

I won't use Copilot or anything else that integrates that tightly into my workflow, even though it is now possible to do so without losing the incremental-cost and customizability benefits of selfhosting.

The context switch is important. To a very good first approximation, our task as engineers is to think before we assume, and I have found Copilot recklessly encourages the latter at the expense of the former.
Sure. This sounds like an app that thinks pretty highly of itself - too valuable to let close.
I’m hiring for 2 positions. We have 400 candidates that our recruiters need to filter through. By the time they’re done we will have 200 more.

The instructions I give these recruiters are designed to whittle the number down to a manageable amount that I can go through in detail.

I don’t think today’s LLMs with good fine tuning and prompting would perform any worse than the nontechnical humans doing this particular task. I’m actually shocked our ATS doesn’t have this feature already.
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