skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Once an article gets featured on Hacker News, it is picked up by multiple sites that use Hacker News to filter quality posts

The HN queue is a wonderful resource, i certainly appreciate the opportunity to see things others thought interesting enough to share. Thanks to all who contribute, and especially the self-submitters whose works are often not judged fairly.
That may be standard in some shops, but definitely not all.

I view anything that interferes with a push as a threat to the VCS, since it encourages developers to keep changes local and unavailable to their teammates. The only exception would be direct pushes to main.
“ You are paid to create value for your company that far exceeds your salary”

Most people have very little insight as to how much value beyond their salary they create so we can assume there is a base level of value created factored in for doing the bare minimum. In many cases that’s just keeping the business going. If the company wants innovation from the rank and file then they should be willing to pay for that.
> immeasurably less brilliant

Well if that's not a humblebrag . . .
> If people acted responsibly we would not need to ban guns.

Nearly everyone that does own a gun acts responsibly with it. The very few that don't do cause damage however. But the same with cars and many other things. Nearly everyone is a responsible driver but there are some that choose to drive too fast, while intoxicated, not paying attention, etc.
Death, Lonely Death: We thought we knew how Voyager would end
It would seem that way. I ran into this in the way conversations titles are automatically generated.

There's a "Dockerfile fuera del contexto" hanging out in my history. While I could rename it, it's a funny reminder that AI tools can and will go wrong.
This won't really help. The point of an SRS is the scheduling information. Even then, you may not have a compatible system to make use of the scheduling info. The switching cost is immense, and I would personally need an ironclad guarantee that the tool cannot be taken from me, such as by having the source code. Never going to be using a non-self hosted SaaS for this, sorry. There is a lot to dislike about Anki but the good thing is it will be only taken from my cold dead hands.
Scientific American I think did a balanced article about this character: https://web.archive.org/web/20231231040033/https://www.scien...

My favorite quotes:

when provided with some of the responses from other physicists regarding his work, Wolfram is singularly unenthused. “I’m disappointed by the naivete of the questions that you’re communicating,” he grumbles. “I deserve better.”

“There’s a tradition of scientists approaching senility to come up with grand, improbable theories,” the late physicist Freeman Dyson told Newsweek back in 2002. “Wolfram is unusual in that he’s doing this in his 40s.”
It turns out that with "electronic cash", the same as with physical cash, you do actually still need the banking system. Wow! Who could have ever guessed?
The interest in this story comes from the fact that Air Canada tried to fight it using the argument that they aren’t liable for anything their agents say. Businesses around the world are so eager to start laying people off that it’s almost certain that they will not be the only ones to try a variation on that claim. I see the important point being reinforcing liability laws and especially not allowing them to shirk responsibility with disclaimers — otherwise we’ll just see more companies cut staffing on their phone support to force people to use a system with a “you are responsible for checking everything this chat bot says for accuracy” notice.
There are kinda two python cultures: programmers and data scientists/engineers.

The data guys often use anaconda, which is pretty much like installing every package in advance and then crossing your fingers.

They care about loading matrices and multiplying them, and not so much `__init__.py` or `pyproject.toml`.

Programming python for 20 years, I find that “everything is a sandbox” style impossible to maintain and hard to read, but if they are getting regressions and classifiers and encoder/decoders to run, the data guys don’t care ;)
Only an fool would waste time on manual code formatting. The editor should automatically apply the organization's formatting rules. No muscle memory is required.
> BLUF

Thanks for giving a good name to a piece of advice I frequently repeat.

Often it can be as simple as cut-pasting the last paragraph of an email to the top.
The scariest difference between OpenAI and Google right now is: Ask Gemini who owns the code it writes, and it'll confidently say that Google does. Ask OpenAI, and it'll say that you do. It's that easy to choose which one is the better decision.
The speed with which you moved from dissenters-from-economic-orthodoxy-are-creationists to rejecting the possibility of imperfect information, transaction costs or natural monopolies for not confirming to the dogma that the market is always right is truly impressive...
My Ducati bike had immobilizers that would prevent the bike being started without the key or the per-bike code card. When it was stolen, the thieves tried all manner of things to start it, including drilling through the ignition keyhole. I managed to get it all fixed and the bike still ran. Without the immobilizer, someone else would be riding my bike.

That's no different from this proposal. You just give them the keys, or the key card (or red key) if you've lost the keys.
> As Alejandra points out, there are 765 possible game states. We could simply assign a number to all of the states, which would take up 10 bits

Looking at the linked paper, 765 is after deduplicating the same state rotated. In a real game, you would need to know which orientation is used, so you'd need a couple of extra bits for that.
Every car on the market now has a flaw where I can put a air wedge on your door and a coat hanger on the lock button.
your handle is a throwaway - do better.
Plenty of people have driven electric cars in 2024, are well aware of the pros and cons. And they still decide, rationally, that it's not for them.
There are more details and a video of the welder here:

https://camvaceng.com/electron-beam/ebflow/

It has a mini-vacuum chamber on the welding head so you can e-beam weld large workpieces without needing a large vacuum chamber.
All it will tell me is mid-2018.
I just installed several vim plugins using `vim-plug` and was wondering how to prevent random malware sneaking its way into my vim setup. As far as I can tell, vim-plug just goes to the github repo you are telling it to install and just installs whatever is there as a plugin. Is there some way to set a commit ID or version it should use?
I guess the onus is on people to prove that using AI specifically is somehow a net-positive for the economy because that's in no way a given. But I don't feed good about Air Canada trying to make that case.
Off-topic: I wonder why the site insists on using the super long domain name of "therubyonrailspodcast.com" when (presumably) they own "railspodcast.com" since it redirects to the longer url.

Even if it's for legacy reasons, it seems like podcasts of all things would be the easiest to 301 redirect (the longer url to the shorter).
> But a chatbot is not a person.

We live in an interesting world. In the US, a corporation is legally a person, and a chatbot is not a person[0]. I'm looking forward to the first Supreme Court case involving a corporation consisting of chatbots.

[0] I'm handwaving in this lead-in to the fantasy here, so, dear reader, please give me a break for oversimplifying and ignoring technicalities.
It's not (as far as I can tell). The closest thing I can quickly find in the transcript is the following:

Copied from transcript and lightly reformatted, but otherwise not corrected (girdle for Gödel, etc all left intact):

1:40:2x

in the fall of 1981 and I spent that time kind of studying The Works of people like bonan and girdle and bunch of stuff about neural Nets and I was that was all in kind of the can I understand foundationally how complexity shows up in the world and that caused me to um uh to
kind of um uh try and develop sort of the simplest model that might do something interesting and it
led me to these things called cellular autometer which are very simple uh systems where like tiny
programs where you just have a row of black and white cells and you just have a rule that says how to update those cells and um I started looking at those things in the fall of 1981 and

"It led me to" does not imply "led me to [discover/invent]" but rather "led me to [start studying]"

His own notes here directly state that they were considered long before he studied them:

https://www.wolframscience.com/reference/notes/876b/
> or how many really weird bugs you run into like the top of the line Samsung 'smart' TV I once borrowed (which did lose time and time zone setting when it rebooted) where when you tried to set the time or time zone

Apropos of anything else, wouldn't surprise me. My dhcpd.conf has several devices where I've set the time-offset to counteract - with varying degrees of success - IoT devices that think they know where they are and the time zone better than I.
Feynman never needed to tell you how smart he was, it just flowed out naturally as he talked about things in his beautiful clear way.
> Somehow people who are most convinced of their genius are the least interesting to me.

I know some people who are great in their area of research, but are, to put it very midly, not the most humble persons (to give an example of one such person (a great research): "the people who could learn a whole lot from me are all tenured professors in my area of research"; just to be clear: his judgement is right :-) ).

In my experience, great researchers who are full of themselves nearly always had to work/fight very hard for where they are now, and are thus very bitter about worse researchers who have it easier.
I got one a couple of days ago, and it really threw me for a loop. I'm used to ChatGPT at least being coherent, even if it isn't always right. Then I got this at the end of an otherwise-normal response:

> Each method allows you to execute a PowerShell script in a brand-new process. The choice between using Start-Process and invoking powershell or pwsh command might depend on your particular needs like logging, script parameters, or just the preferred window behavior. Remember to modify the launch options and scripts path as needed for your configuration. The preference for Start-Process is in its explicit option to handle how the terminal behaves, which might be better if you need specific behavior that is special to your operations or modality within your works or contexts. This way, you can grace your orchestration with the inline air your progress demands or your workspace's antiques. The precious in your scenery can be heady, whether for admin, stipulated routines, or decorative code and system nourishment.
You said a lot of nothing without actually saying specifically what the problem is with the recent license.

Maybe the license is fine for almost all usecases and the limitations are small?

For example, you complained about metas license, but basically everyone uses those models and is completely ignoring it. The weights are out there, and nobody cares what the fine print says.

Maybe if you are a FAANG, company, meta might sue. But everyone else is getting away with it completely.
Yes, another example is Humanism.
The power and limits of confidential computing
Or just hire a customer service department. That worked fine for the last hundred or so years.
He gestures with both his hands frequently throughout the entire video, not just before the 30 minute mark. I think this is just confirmation bias. And frankly, if he did have a degenerative muscle illness, that would be nobody’s business but his own.
If I recall correctly, they didn't start bundling it with Office via force installations with no uninstall until mid 2019?
"Statistical norms and cut-off values for other countries are currently being developed."

So, currently I can see how burnt-out I am compared to Flemmish office workers. Maybe there I'm a burn-out husk, but compared to American offices I'm an average employee.
> We already identify, arrest, and prosecute criminals...

We've given up on that part in many instances.
Interview with Stephen Wolfram on his favorite subject.

EDIT 1: Maybe I'll update this as I listen, maybe not we'll see.

But so far:

- Doesn't remember anything he used to talk about with his parents. Doesn't remember any particularly interesting conversations. Doesn't know anything about his parent's political inclinations.

- He a brother younger by 10 years. Says he was an "only child for about 10 years". For the rest of the conversation says his parent's experience with children were data size 1.

EDIT 2: getting super tedious. I'd like to hear what his kids or his brother think of him.
Love that workaround, extremely clever
Apparently used in GPT-4 and coming in Gemini 1.5.
I hate that I cant say “OCD thinking” isnt a real problem and getting prescribed meds doesnt seem right.

My theory is different than yours, there are a lot of certainties provided for in america or even the certainty that u can make it.

So once uncertianty hits, people arent ready to cope and deal with this, people in their 20s after college aka real world.

Whereas where Im from, planning for longer than 2 years is unheard and youre giving it your all to survive in dignity .
So is it totally fixed now? And assuming these sorts of anomalies will be a constant risk of cropping up at any time even if “fixed” ?
My issue with thinking like this is that there are plenty of targets for terrorists: packed trains, stealing a big truck, etc. The fact that these events are pretty rare suggests that there aren't nearly as many terrorists as people seem to be worried about.

Every power generation method has its plusses and negatives. I don't know if the risk from an SMR incident outweighs other methods, but it sounds promising. We certainly need an alternative to sources we know are bad (coal, oil, etc).
Chromium is open source because its roots are as a fork of WebKit (Safari). Which itself was open source because it was a fork of KHTML from KDE.

Google stood on the shoulders of others to get out a browser that drives 80% of their desktop ad revenue.

How does that not affect GOOG?
Can you actually use a FlipperZero to steal a car though? There's aftermarket firmwares which unlocks additional capabilities, but as far as I'm aware, there hasn't been a break in car fob encryption that would actually let you use a FlipperZero to steal a car without having the key in the first place, at which point you could just use the key.
Is this country dependent?
There is no implicit pipeline stalls. Any pipeline stalls are detectable at compile time via trivial static analysis tools, letting engineers work around it, or decide it's fine. Sorry if that was confusing.
The subtext of American capitalism is that anyone not born into generational wealth is one major illness or accident away from abject poverty and ultimately death. I’m willing to bet this type of constant background stress leads to general anxiety for a significant number of people. I wonder if anyone has ever done a study on this.
Tax records reveal the lucrative world of Covid misinformation
Isn't this explained in the phrase "the spirit of the law" vs. "the letter of the law", or is there more to the concept.
I was programming Rails during the Heyday.

I don't miss it one bit. Yes, you can build things quickly, "rails g scaffold" was quite a tool.

But the level of discipline required to keep a large Rails codebase from turning into spaghetti is not to be underestimated. Plus, because of Ruby's flexibility, a bunch of functionality is sort of "magic pudding" and happens via extension and meta-method sort of things.

This makes things like Ctrl+Click being the source of truth and being able to generate some sort of ERD-diagram in your IDE of everything that touches another thing difficult to implement.

I also don't miss dynamic types in the slightest.

Nowadays, I would rather look at Laravel with Livewire and Alpine.js if you want something Rails-esque. PHP is godawful though.
If I understand now, your argument is that flipper zero is not a social danger, while firearms are, am I correct?
Urlbox will save the whole page.

It's primarily purpose is to render screenshots full-page or limited to viewport or an element. To do that well as it does the HTML has to be rendered perfectly first.

It's not as cheap as other solutions but we have customers who render millions of pages per month with us. They value the accuracy and reliability that's come from over a decade of refinements to the service.

Larger projects can request preferential pricing based on the specifics of the kinds of pages they are rendering.
If the environment can be presumed to contain at least one wolf, then building houses out of straw and sticks is considered negligent and lazy pigs deserve to get eaten.

Responsible pigs who build from brick, sacrificing some profit in the name of security, are celebrated for their sound judgment and foresight.

A fairy tale has been telling us this for at least 200 years and probably much longer, history is unclear on how far back it goes.

It's amazing seeing this thread take the side of the negligent lazy pig. "But my thousand-dependency framework is mostly made of straw!", they say. "My boss won't give me time to even use sticks, much less brick!", they say. "It has to be this way!", they say.
With respect to Alignment, it should be a fundamental requirement that an speech AI is ___REQUIRED___ to honestly inform a Human if its speaking to an AI.

Can you please ensure, going forward, you have the universal "truth" as it were, to have your system always identify if its AI when "prompted" (irrespective of what app/dev has built - your API should ensure that if "safeword" is used it shall reveal its AI)

--

"trust me, if you ask them if they are a cop, they legally have to tell you they are a cop" (court rules its legal for cops to lie to you) etc....

(it should be like those tones on a hold-call, to remind you that youre still on hold... but instead its a constant reminder that this bitch is AI) -- there should be some Root-level escape word to require any use of this tool to contact a Human. That word used to be "operator" MANY times, but still...

Maybe if a conversation with an elderly Human goes on with too many "huh? I cant hear you" or "i dont understand, can you repeat that" questions, your AI knows its talking to a non-tech Human, and it should re-MIND the Human that youre just an AI. (meaning no sympathy, emotion, it will not stop until you are dead) etc...

Guardrails, motherfucker, Do you speak it!"
‘Rule of law’ is the concept that no one is above the law, as opposed to having a specific ruler that can do as they please. It doesn’t really have anything to do with the comment you’re replying to, which would be the same idea if it were decreed by an untouchable supreme leader.
Times like this, just sit back pop some popcorn and watch the world go by.
My ADHD will not manifest in an 8-minute video game that's for sure.
Do Large Code Models Understand Programming Concepts? A Black-Box Approach
Replace this question with “how competent is the Apple security team”
I know some mathematician working for big chemical company which has a huge internal Fortran Software stack for numerical optimization.
It reads like a bad Chinese translation :)
I remember them saying releasing iMessage as an open standard.
or its buried on the 4th page of the disclaimer

if you read them there is often stuff like that, the most flagrant one I read said “everything above should be considered apocryphal”
I believe there is some merit to this, or at least similar, hypothesis(es).

Based on population percentages, the disorder seems, to me, to be far too common to be some kind of genetic fluke. We are talking about something that affects ~1/20 - ~1/10 adults. I mean, one is more like to have ADHD than blue eyes, or green eyes, or red hair, etc..

As someone with ADHD, it surely can cause disorder, and believe me, it can cause plenty of it. However, I wouldn't say that it's without its upsides at times either.

In my personal experience, I find that my ADHD has been somewhat more advantageous when in a group setting than individual setting. I feel like I can bring a different angle of creativity to things that neuro-typicals cannot, but perhaps that is just my wishful thinking.
My father died in hospice the night before a flight to see him. I missed the flight because there was no longer any reason to get to the airport before dawn. I called to reschedule a few hours later.

The human on the other end rescheduled and gave me a bereavement rate. She told me it was less money, but didn't mention the reason. I didn't put that together until later. She just helped me out because she had compassion.

I am too cynical to think that an AI controlled by a corporation will do this.
Great idea, definitely ran into a lot of these problems at my last gig. Will try this out next time I'm working on a python project.

> specific nonstandard custom syntax to access modules/submodules such as getattr or dynamically generated namespaces will not be caught by modguard

Are any plans to get modguard to take these cases into account? I imagine this is harder without doing anything at runtime.
The Jobs to Be Done by the Ideal Postgres Extension Ecosystem
At Tembo, we built Trunk (pgt.dev), which is a free and open source Postgres extension registry with over 200 extensions, published under the postgres license. We aim to improve the developer experience within the Postgres extensions ecosystem with a free, open source, and open-governance approach, which is why we hired David Wheeler, creator of the original extensions network PGXN. He made a blog about what he thinks the ideal extensions registry looks like, and we are looking for contributors or companies who want to collaborate to make it happen with Tembo. Our incentive at Tembo is to make extensions more popular and easier to work with in the PG community generally, so that people may then be interested in Tembo Cloud and other Tembo products, where we make working with extensions a first class product experience.
Thanks! There's a "Summarize selection" prompt in there, so if you try it with a good model like Mixtral you might already get good results for (1). For (2) I'm guessing you'd want to be able to write a custom prompt?
Next's headers function is an elegant layer over the Web Headers API.
being confidently wrong is a big problem a team i'm working with is facing. They have resorted to the usual "this is an AI don't trust it" disclaimer on the interface. But then, if you have to go lookup and double check every answer, what's the point of asking in the first place?

I think we'll see a lot of LLM use cases switching from generative responses back to good old fashioned search this year.
“No one can explain why” is part of a classic clickbait title. it’s supposed to make the whole things sound more mysterious and intriguing, so that you click through to read. In my opinion, this sort of nonsense doesn’t belong on HN.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39282449 almost the exact same comment, and I still don't see why you think this is a joke.