skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Patterns are something totally overrepresented in developer knowledge.

They would be way be best described with: "similar solutions that people came up under extraordinary, rare circumstances and pressure". Usefull - if and only if you get into a project/warstorie similar to the one that pattern re-emerged. Not usefull if added on top of some pattern bloatfloater that can barely move anymore.
Advice I Wish I Had Known When I Built My First Payment Application
FWIW, you're not telling it precisely what to do, you're giving it an input that leads to a statistical output. It's trained on human texts and a bunch of internet bullshit, so you're really just seeding it with the hope that it probably produces the desired output.

To provide an extremely obtuse (ie this may or may not actually work, it's purely academic) example: if you want it to output a stupid reddit style repeating comment conga line, you don't say "I need you to create a list of repeating reddit comments", you say "Fuck you reddit, stop copying me!"
If it is internet-connected without the Apple TV, it's likely taking screen captures an identifying what you're watching.
Not exactly that but looks relevant unless you trust Amazon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39414322
I just hate it when you go to the pricing page and theres NO PRICING. None.
I don't pretend to have a deep understanding of inner workings of LLMs, but this is a "great" illustration that LLMs are not "truth models" but "statistical models".
If we're anthropomorphizing, it's more like a post-stroke Wernicke's aphasia.
The fastest Rust back end web framework in 2024
So, the same as a corporate logo change.

Since corporations seek to maximise profit over anything typically considered solely for the benefit of aesthetics: I guess a precedent exists that the cost can be worthy.

1 logo change on average 3 times every 100 years isn't that much, especially if you compare to basically any corporation outside of Mitsubishi in that time.
Somewhat ironically, Activity Monitor is not particularly efficient about drawing itself. You can use top to get similar information from the command line if you'd like.
At the first glance from what I see, the advantages of new HexWalk:

* free software / open source

* cross-platform

* theming (e.g. dark)

* more analysis capabilities through 3rd-party binwalk (but python and thus not suited for very large files).
Trident missile test fails for a second time in a row
I get the same impression: There are many head-in-the-cloud architects who see themselves as artists. The equivalent totally exists in the software world; it's people who want to be pure "software architects", designing what others should implement. In my experience, this dictating mindset never works - designers (technical or not) should evolve their ideas with the implementors/builders, otherwise such disconnects happen.
> And, no, personally I don’t think Tesla or SpaceX count as giving back.

Yeah, well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man. Say what you will about the tenets of Muskianism but at least it’s an ethos.

> Why can’t our billionaires at least just slink off to the lovely beaches of some island somewhere. Oh wait, egos…

One person’s egotism is another’s genuine belief. I’m personally not surprised someone who had the ambition and luck to be a billionaire would continue doing things they believe in. I’m not even convinced it would be beneficial for them to disappear. What happens to the immense amount of capital they control?

> But Mars? Mars? How does that sound enjoyable? I actually hope he makes it there.

Does he actually want to go to Mars personally? I thought the idea was that he wants humanity to be multi-planetary.
Not sure what your point is. It is called reconstruction.

Also architects often need to adjust design while building is under construction.

Deploying code is not comparable to what you have described.
This idea that everyone is at the top of a different status ladders appears to be the same basic thesis as the essay "Melancholy of Subculture Society" written by Gwern [1], which fleshes out the idea further and presents this as an ever-powerful force in the world driven by the Internet. I'm not sure I agree with it fully, but it's an interesting idea. I especially like the way the author wrote this paragraph:

"... Harvard had, in at least one interesting way, the perfect social system: Everyone at the top of his own ladder. The small minority of students passionately interested in drama knew perfectly well that they were the most important people at the university; everyone else was there to provide them with an audience. The small minority passionately interested in politics knew that they were the most important ones; their friends were there to be herded into meetings of the Young Republicans and Young Democrats in order to get them elected to positions in those organizations that were the stepping stones to further political success."

[1] https://gwern.net/subculture
I'd say 50/50 on the launch (but not landing on Mars let alone returning to Earth) of a manned Mars mission this decade; Musk is famously over-optimistic, but his companies do tend to actually arrive at the destination.
Run Node.js applications on the edge with RHEL and Fedora
The criticality score looks like it involves not just dependents but a bunch of different kinds of activity metrics, and Nixpkgs is an extremely active repo. It's niche but there's a lot of contributors and a lot of automation, so there's a lot of frequent activity.
Once "Agile" methodology effectively won in this industry, any hope of actually bringing software development into an "engineering" discipline was dead.

I'm not saying there aren't positives to doing things that way, but it's got a lot to do with why the satire of this article rings true.
> The personal desktop computer won’t be invented for another 12 years.

I'd believe that personal desk-sized computers were 12 years later, but personal desktop computers were much later.
> More than triple the CO2 emissions as they had in 2000 and the number continues to go up over time rather than down.

Yeah they shot up for a decade after 2000, while the US/Canada reduced theirs and yet they're still 2x higher per capita. The area under the graph is the real contribution to the problem. China is very far from the obvious target for any objective evalution:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...
It’s a lot harder to build a sufficiently complex robot than to send a human.
Some RSS clients just ignore the hints.
This is insane. The project includes the hardware (GHz-capable RF-generation and measurement), firmware (FPGA) and Software (a cpp GUI). Surely that can't be all from one person?
Starknet’s airdrop attracts over 1 million users amid market volatility.
Token distribution sparks controversy; early investor unlocks raise concerns.
Starknet, the Ethereum layer-2 network, has made headlines with its much-anticipated token airdrop, offering over one million crypto enthusiasts a chance to claim their stake in the network’s governance. The airdrop, which commenced on February 20, has already seen significant traction, with over 51,000 users claiming their tokens, representing nearly 5% of eligible participants.

However, the launch has been met with turbulence in the market, as the STRK token experienced a 15% decline in value within the first twenty-four hours of trading, currently hovering at $2. Despite the setback, the token’s market capitalization stands at a substantial $1 billion, securing its position as the 54th largest cryptocurrency, according to CMC.
Actually, from my personal experience, the biggest decline in durabilty for many types of appliances happened during the 1980s, and may have started in the late 70s.

Btw, half of the problem was that repairs really started to require more specialized knowledge and equipment around that time, due to a sharp rise in the use of electronic components to control anything from a hair dryer to a car. To some extent this was the cost of progress, but it's pretty clear that manufacturers saw the benefit in either preventing repairs to force customers to buy new or to profit from "authorized" repairs in various ways.

And as both salaries and income taxes went up quickly in the 80s where I lived, qualified technicians went up in price much more quickly than the machines they repaired.

There was perhaps one thing pulling in the opposite direction during that decade, though, and that was the high interest rates. If you had to borrow money to get something new, repairing the old one (whether it was a TV or a car) still made sense
That software sounds great!
Can individuals or small organizations get access to that software ? How ?
While this sounds nice in a vacuum, I don't think that the reality for many people over here.

Its usually: "our product needs X, get it done". You can listen to that manager for hours or days, use your psychiatrist hat to extract more useful info, renegotiate requrements etc, but that doesn't save you from probably weeks or months of just hard work.

I would understand if one is a contact person for some account. And then you listen to your client as best you can, write up a doc/ticket/whatever for someone else to deal with that.

A janitor who listens most of the time isn't really a good janitor so this is much less universal than it sounds.
I will declare my self successful in life if my website looks like the author's https://mitxela.com/projects page
Where's my opt out.
And be used as factotums if the investors ever notice they're good at getting things done. The amount of times my dad was asked to drive 5 hours somewhere to deliver a giant stack of paperwork to a local administration office to secure a building permit...
no it's mistral. mistral 7b and mixtral 8x7b MoE which is almost on par (or better than) chatgpt 3.5. Mistral 7b itself packs a punch as well.
"It is the intention that the new cypher and new rendering of the Crown will be introduced gradually, and generally only when equipment or uniforms which bear them needs to be replaced. This will be similar to what happened in the 1950s and 1960s as Queen Elizabeth II's cypher came to replace that of King George VI." (https://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/news-grants/news/item/205...)
> Leave the rack in better shape than when you found it. That's a metaphor for life.

And applicable to many areas. E.g. the famous book "refactoring" by Martin Fowler hinges on this idea. Where we refactor a little bit, every time we visit a class, function or file.
Generative modelling of compressed image file bits
i experiment with using a (mostly) unmodified llama model to generate images, by training on the bits from a lossy compression algorithm. It turns out the key is having a decoder which can give 'hints' as conditioning information for the autoregressive model, about what the decoder is going to do with the next token in the stream

Thanks!
I always try to research my appliance purchases, but longevity info is decidedly not at my fingertips. Had not considered appliance repairman forums, that's a nice idea (until it gets commonly known and then abused).
Corporate Responsibility in the Age of AI
For over three months now, I've been manually sending six separate emails every morning for my newsletters, Implementing and Quickview, as the platform doesn't support it. Occasionally, I've forgotten to send them. This issue of Implementing will detail how I've been implementing a SaaS solution that automates email sending. I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Well, over the last hundred years we've gone from "the divine right of the King to rule his subjects" to "the Monarchy brings in money by attracting tourists to the UK". Who knows where we'll be in another hundred years.
From Fill Prefix to TRAMP
My way around this in the past was to accept that curl was going to have to be called.

Make a pubic repo that is just a facade, generates an ssh key, and calls GitHub (or whatever) to push the ssh key.

curl -H "Authorization: token **********" --data '{"title":"test-key","key":"${key[...]}"}' https://api.github.com/user/keys

On success you can then call the private repo and execute the cli installer. If the bootstrap is piped then it doesn't ever have to be installed, and you don't have it junking up your system.

Extra points to pull down existing registed public keys and check if they are already there.

https://coderwall.com/p/tpngvw/curl-your-github-public-keys
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39414322
More recent versions of the plan contemplate electrolyzing water in the ground to obtain the required oxygen
The regional popup on that website blocked me from seeing the page. What an extremely hostile bit of UX!
Until you realise that WSL2 is nothing but a Linux VM with some shoddily added sugar that completely breaks down as soon as real work demands handling encodings properly, opening windows at the end of a pipe, and all those other things that I regularly want do with a Unix like system. All of this works seamlessly on Linux or macOS, but Windows is still a pathetic shitshow, WSL2 or not.
Sometimes the big picture is enough, and it doesn't matter if some details are wrong. For such tasks ChatGPT and LLM's generally are a major improvement over googling, and reading a lot of text you don't really care about that much.
We just got a new Mac as our fourteen year old iMac is not getting Chrome security updates any more. Otherwise runs fine. Kudos to Apple there.
The rules for Show HN ask not to use it on waiting list: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Verif.ai:Open-Source Generative QA System with Referenced and Verifiable Answers
> Is there a way to compare models?

This is what I like to use for comparing models:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...

It is an ELO system based on users voting LLM answers to real questions

> what is Llama-7b equivalent to in OpenAI land?

I don't think Llama 7b compares with OpenAI models, but if you look in the rank I linked above, there are some 7B models which rank higher than early versions of GPT 3.5. those models are Mistral 7b fine tunes.
or maybe telling people funny lies about aliens is just a strategy designed by government to help its employees deal with the stress of not being allowed to share "genuine" government secrets with their families and friends........
Like most contemporary free speech advocates, the current conservative government only advocates for free speech for those whose views align with their own.

They’ve been enacting laws to restrict protest and strikes, stripping funding from media organisations that dare to criticise it and making it harder for young people to vote.
I don’t think it would be an issue finding people for a one-way mars mission. Guys already sign themselves to fight in wars that they don’t expect to return from. Being memorialized and known is enough (especially for the case for men) for some people to go on one-way missions. Being part of something greater than themselves is enough for some people.
It's really easy to tell the difference between a democracy and a fake democracy. Democracies are messy, people never agree. Anywhere that get's consistent landslides for one person or party is not a democracy.

Take for example France vs Russia. In the 2022 election, Macron managed to get just ~30% of the voters that wanted him as President. In the second round where only two options remained, only 58%.

Without any serious opposition (with the murder of Boris Nemtsov and jailing/deregistration of Alexei Navalny), the 2018 was again a landslide for Putin with 76.69% of the vote.

There are of course other easy ways to tell, but this serves as a pretty easy heuristic.

This is, of course, a gross simplification, of everything that makes up a democracy. For example, the US is at best a flawed democracy because of all the lobbying, money and gerrymandering (and things like the Electoral College).

Disclaimer: Not American, I'm a Kiwi, so outsiders view of US politics.
Neuralink patient can move mouse with their mind
A not insubstantial part of China's economy involves private corporations that compete with each other. The image of China as a command economy hasn't been true since Deng's reforms of the early 1980's. At the higher levels, sure, a lot of executives will be beholden to the CCP, but there are few places China places a single bet on a single state venture. Even their fully government-owned ventures are often companies that compete with each other or have corporate subsidiaries that compete with each other, and so while you might be tempted to just deliver good news, you face the risk that your competitors will deliver better news backed with results.

This is not an attempt to suggest China's government is good, because it's not, but it's also not a carbon copy of the worst sides of the Soviet Union - for all of Deng's brutal authoritarianism, he did recognise and address a lot of the worst mistakes of Mao and the Soviets in terms of the economy.

It also still doesn't necessarily mean employees in a private company in China will be as open to reporting issues as they might have been elsewhere, but it does mean there are incentives in play that at least make many executives want to put effort into identifying and addressing issues.
Matrix is more private, depending on your threat model.
I know right, so many interesting projects. And many of them complete!
It's a straightforward outcome thanks to dropping prices of household electronics. If a new car was the price of a new dishwasher, that would signal the end of car repair shops too.
The opensource ones are already competitive to GPT3.5 in terms of "reasoning" and instruction following. They tend to be significantly worse in knowledge tasks though, due to their lack of parameters. GPT 3.5 is five times bigger than mixtral after all.
The parent is right: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39414322
It’s kinda disturbing how precient that was. At the time it felt like surely now forewarned by many popular stories we wouldn’t make the same mistakes.

But alas…
Isn't the fact that the platform vendor very clearly promotes Swift and makes most new APIs swift only a "practical reason"?
NASA and DARPA have been funding studies for a new generation of fission-powered rockets.[1][2] They talk about launching a demo in 2027. BWXT (good old Babcock and Wilcox, makers of hundreds of submarine nuclear power plants) and Lockheed-Martin are the primary contractors.[3]

But the big bucks are still going into the Senate Launch System.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/tdm/space-nuclear-propulsion/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNnsnyIvzps

[3] https://www.bwxt.com/what-we-do/advanced-technologies/space-...
If that's true, parliament seemingly doesn't want to win.

The monarch is excluded from environmental law, inheritance tax, heck they can even racially discriminate in hiring. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/series/queens-consent
Right. I don't think "design patterns with a gamedev flavor" has any value for game developers, but I didn't want to just say the book was bad without suggesting an alternative. They're both aimed at game developers who want some deeper understanding of how to structure games and you can pick out chapters you like from the 1150 page book.
Well creativity can be used outside of acaedmia, so no checking required there aside from intellectual property?
Exactly that! Blink and you'll miss it though, hence my post with a link for anyone who is interested.
The thing is mission critical. The test is extremely expensive so test will not conducted regularly. The whole process is highly sensitive but opaque at best.

Why do I see a recipe for utter failure?
Are Taiwanese labour costs significantly lower than Japan these days?
That probably voids any kind of accident insurance. One house fire and you're homeless. One injury to another person and you're facing millions in bills.
Ask HN: What is your opinion about DMN?
Hi!

I work as a software engineer in a company where the Product team always asks for business rules to be included everywhere. I would like to start using an standardized way of doing this. I'm aware of DMN (Decision Model and Notation) the main driver of which seems to be Camunda and some other products like Drools. I have also read about https://github.com/dsntk, it seems a starting project.

What are your thoughts or experience on this? Are DMN the way to go? Any alternative?

Thanks!
I'd be interested to see an algorithm for the blinkenlights effect he demos.
Of course it didn't.

The actual fix needs to be at the system level prompt.

If you train an large language model to complete human generated text, don't instruct it to complete text as a large language model.

Especially after feeding it updated training data that's a ton of people complaining about how large language models suck and tons of examples of large language models refusing to do things.

Have a base generative model sandwiched between a prompt converter that takes an instruct prompt and converts it to a text completion prompt (and detecting prompt injections), have a more 'raw' model complete it, and then have a safety fine tuned postprocessing layer clean up the response correcting any errant outputs and rewriting to be in the tone of a large language model.

Yeah, fine, it's going to be a bit more expensive and take longer to respond.

But it will also be a lot less crappy and less prone to get worse progressively from here on out with each training update.
If they needed signal it be because someone like you told them to get it. Non issue for the billions that use WhatsApp and Facebook.

Your uncle in Vietnam has a smartphone, no internet, no number, and NEEDS the signal app? He might need solar, electricity and internet first.
Commits messages are the shit.
> First human Neuralink patient able to control mouse through thinking

With someone moving the mouse in the background. /s
Miele has that reputation. According to Wikipedia, it "has always been a family-owned and family-run company", which would explain why it hasn't suffered that fate.
The book is a well-written and charismatic collection of the author's ideas andunderstanding of programming in general mostly from an OOP angle, which was all the rage everywhere during 2000s. He also likes his compilers a lot and it shows.

And yes, Game Engine Architecture is definitely a much better reference to the core engine building business.

But games and gamedev these days is not about that as well. Most of the technical problems are solved by the big engine trio. So all devs do is game rules and logic scripting...
I find that 10mg of a Concerta derivative make me enjoy the positive aspects of my disorder -- ADHD inattentive type -- while preventing the negatives. I was already a working adult when I first tried medicating and it's been a life changing experience. I take one dose on a weekday morning when I have to concentrate on manual tasks and I skip the dose when I want to use more of my imagination for concept and idea gathering.
> I’m seriously considering asking the CTO if we can make the repository public solely so we can use curl as a distribution mechanism.

I think you should be able to use the new-style scoped GitHub access tokens to generate a token that'll allow access to the one resource.
If you're going to make a throwaway account to criticize a website, you shouldn't use that website name as your username. That makes you look like a troll even if you have legitimate complaints.