skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not have all the facts of the situation at hand. However, I have no reason to believe that my friend would not have done all that. I do know for a fact that he is actively trying to teach the students those pre-requisite concepts himself.

The dean should have talked about digging into the problem as needed (my friend also could have been doing something wrong; knowing him, I know he would have readily accepted his mistakes if that were the case) and help solve, instead of forcing him to pass the students.

I do recognize that this story is not a good example of the Shirky principle. An educational institute is likely genuinely trying to solve the problem, which is to educate the students. That problem continues because fresh students keep coming in, not because the institute itself is preventing the solution. An educational institution cannot be expected to pursue inventing a solution that disrupts the education sector altogether.
So long as a settlement’s reason for its location has shifted drastically, never.
Ask HN: How do you arrange 3 or more windows?
I've upgraded to a 27" monitor but I still struggle switching between windows. Tmux helps but only when I am inside the terminal. When I work with 3 or more windows for a single task e.g. a terminal, a web page, and a database viewer, the juggling resumes. Is there a more organized way of doing it? Do I need a still larger monitor?
Prism Break: Opt out of global data surveillance programs
But the test whether a bit is set should be perfectly predictable in the 100% density case.
I find this human-supremacy point of view simply false.

Humans are just "aping" more (with large spread within its population by the way).

There is nothing special about humans, we're just "aping" slightly more than other animals - computers will arrive and immediately surpass us at our "aping" = what we call "intelligence".

This old, false argument with constant goalpost moving will run out of space sooner or later.
2, plus one former as indicated.

I could probably speak a little to the surrounding nordic countries to be honest, it is fair to assume they have similar systems because they are very similar in many areas.
That's the stupidest article ever. "Let's destroy our planets and kill all the animals because it might lead to better science maybe"
I don’t think the term is that bad here because I haven’t seen a lot of comparisons with human hallucinations.

Users see it as a machine artifact.
Doesn’t Canada have residence for those in such situations, and help to get them back on track?

The taxation should cover that in a social system.
I'm not sure where you read snark in my comment, but I can assure you it was unintentional.
Don’t forget somebody has to pay for all the reconstruction that follows.

For the US at least, over the last 110 years or so, every war we’ve been in was initially strongly opposed by the populace. Most (modern) wars are the result of relatively small groups of elites working to create the conditions in which a peaceful populace will be ok with war.

If Russia was gone, the US has a host of “enemies” to replace them with. Additionally, when you have such control over the world economy, it’s very easy to create conditions that create new enemies.
It's not a bad paper honestly, I just don't like it when people take a line from it and assume something untrue.

The pigeonhole principle proves that if you only have N slots to work with, and you need to fit N+1 items into them, you're going to get at least one slot with at least two items. That makes sense, and it logically follows that constrained functions can't perfectly mirror less-constrained ones: at some point a "wrong" and a "right" input have to produce the same output.
Seaborn bug responsible for finding of declining disruptiveness in science
Love Letter to Obsidian
I think I agree with you (I even upvoted), but this might be an anthropomorphism.

Back like 3-5 years ago, we already thought that about LLMs: They couldn't answer questions about what would fall when stuff are attached together in some non-obvious way, and the argument back then was that you had to /experience/ it to realize it. But LLMs have long fixed those kind of issues.

The way LLMs "resolve" questions is very different from us. At this point, I think that if we want to prove that LLMs need to be rooted in the real world to achieve intelligence, we need to find some real-world phenomenon that is so obvious that noone ever wrote about it... but then we'd have written about it?
Normally, I’d agree with you. But over the years I have been thinking that bad practices on internet connected devices ends up being everyone’s problem.
I don't get the part about the expiration date. Say, you got your free money from the town with an expiration date Dec 31. Awesome, you better spend it quickly, because it's already Dec 30 (say).

But then, who is going to accept your money? If you're the local baker, why would you take my money for the bread you made, knowing perfectly well that you're probably never going to get the chance to spend it?

Doing business on Dec 30 or even Dec 31 is the extreme case, but even before that it's an issue: the closer you get to the expiration date of the money, the higher the risk you're taking that you might not be able to spend it in time.
Putting your resume in the HTML example is a great move.

A non-great move: clicking on the textbox on the homepage then clicking out gives a blank code window that doesn't do anything.
Well, the quotes when saying:

> I, for one, would be very sad if they "just picked a side" that excluded one of these (very different) use cases.

...did not help.

And again, my comment was more generic and I even explained why: because I can't claim the level of competence of OP's author.
Automation in vulnerability scanning just doesn't work. We've tried many and the end result is too much noise. Code better, review in multiple steps. Simple efforts do work very well.
In my company we called it `COMPASS.md`

Compass cause it helped you navigate. It's short.
Every 'module' needed to have such a file. It was also enforced in the CI.
They generate text which looks like the kind of text that people who do have understanding generate.
I didn't need 12 months of record breaking world abnormal weather for that.

The previous, continuous trend upwards for decades was already bad enough, with extreme events becoming increasingly common and extremer. You have a complex system, you apply a continuous big enough pressure to it, and you get global average that is slowly rising up even if some days look normal, and, somewhere, somewhat, some days, weird things are happening. And the very concept of positive feedback loops causing that this problem is not worsening in a linear way. That is a very bad trend, that it would just take time to hit around me.

But the doomerism part doesn't come from just there. It comes from the human world. Not doing anything about it, big money making big disinformation campaings to avoid normal people to take action, big capital and top industrialized countries not doing anything about that, and adding even more disruptive activity (along with some token measures that are not in the same order than the others), official global climate organizations being taken over in front of everyone, smaller countries are being sued for taking measures to minimize impact. There is no will to fix this, to stop worsening the situation.

So you have a system that is being disrupted in big scale for decades, that is taken out of its inertia and balance by that continuous and increasing push, you start to see that it is slowly getting out of control. And there is no will to take out that push, at most you get some Newspeak way of ensuring people that something is being done. And when things really becomes desperate, we won't have decades to wait for a slow, orderly unwinding to have some effect. So some desperate extra push on a system that we still don't understand will be sold as idea of geoengineering, moving the system towards a new, even more unstable situation.

There is where my doomerism lies, not in the symptom of a string of broken records.
It's not artificial. It's always been a trait of this animal species to get weapons, go kill the men in the other tribe, ra*e the women.

Read about massacres by (some not all!) Russian soldiers, or about what Hamas did. Artificial? No, it's how things have always been.

Combined with Machiavellian dictators, always hungry for more power (including m2 land) and you should see that what Putin and his soldiers do is (unfortunately) pretty natural and common across the ages.

Seems to me you've bought a bunch of conspiracy theories and possibly Putin's manipulation when you apparently think the reasons lite elsewhere.

Companies make money from war, but don't confuse that for that being the underlying reasons for wars.
Looking forward to it once it is refined. It still creates some strange artifacts. Within the HN message, the demo image of the baby raccoon in priest robes, one can count five paws.
> Technology has been quite detrimental to humanity

I don't think we can make a blanket statement like that.

Technology does connect us, makes us smarter, give us vast access to knowledge, etc. And yes, it also enables the bad habits. There are 8 billion of us. Of course technology won't have the same effect on everyone. And would a world without technology be not detrimental to humanity, i.e., for the 8 billion of us as a whole?
This reminds me of a bit from a Hugh and Laurie sketch:

> Imagine a piano keyboard, eighty-eight keys, only eighty-eight and yet, and yet, new tunes, melodies, harmonies are being composed upon hundreds of keyboards every day in Dorset alone. Our language, Tiger, our language, hundreds of thousands of available words, frillions of possible legitimate new ideas, so that I can say this sentence and be confident it has never been uttered before in the history of human communication: "Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers." One sentence, common words, but never before placed in that order. And yet, oh and yet, all of us spend our days saying the same things to each other, time after weary time, living by clichaic, learned response: "I love you", "Don't go in there", "You have no right to say that", "shut up", "I'm hungry", "that hurt", "why should I?", "it's not my fault", "help", "Marjorie is dead". You see? That surely is a thought to take out for a cream tea on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

https://abitoffryandlaurie.co.uk/sketches/language_conversat...
My butterknife doesn’t have the ability to upgrade itself to a chainsaw over the internet. Software has this somewhat unique and autonomous ability; comparing it to static household objects when it comes to manufacturers’ legal obligations (or ethical oughts) doesn’t necessarily make sense.
That's awfully similar to the code I write.
I stayed in a quite poor village in rural mexico while on a surf trip.

The houses were shaded, the walls were vertical slats with gaps to allow air flow, and they kept their floors wet. It worked.

We prefer to make things excessively complicated.
Have you tried visual programming, e.g. Labview and the like?
At a certain point in the history of SSB the manlyverse team took over the maintenance of SSB and the apps locking until the end of a sync became the norm. Prior to this there were websocket-based web and Electron apps where you could at least see that progress was being made.

SSB always sank from the first post to the latest. IMO it's better to sync from the latest backwards.
I think you meant to respond to the sibling comment
This does sound positive. However, the typical funding journey for a VC involves:

- Getting to know you and your business
- Deciding whether you’re worth investing more time into
- Discussing with colleagues if you’d be a fit for their portfolio
- Discussing valuation and terms
- Them pitching your business to their investment committee
- Agreeing and signing a term sheet
- Legal, technical and financial DD
- Final contracts and negotiation

People often fail to realise how many steps there are in a VC investment. Typically angel investors are usually faster and less formal.

This sounds good - social media feels unusual (I spent 2 years at a VC fund).

VCs, due to the nature of their business, are incentivised to keep potential investments ‘on the line’. That means it’s very rare to get a full-on rejection from a VC right at the very beginning.

Most deals never go past that initial “coffee and hello” stage.

My advice would be if you have one VC’s ears perked up… Use that as evidence you’re onto something and talk to more.

It’s very much a FOMO game - investors will always be more interested if you’re talking to other firms.

Best of luck.
If you ask it to produce an example 100 times you would expect it to match the overall distribution, not produce the most common example 100 times.

Leaving race aside, if you asked it to produce a picture of a person, it would be _weird_ if every single person it produced was the _exact same height_.
> I don’t have an example of fully non-cooperative cancellation available off the top of my head.

That would be Erlang.
If hallucination is inevitable? What should developers do?

Design user experiences that align users with this behaviour!

Relatedly, I built a game to demonstrate how one might calibrate users to the responses of LLMs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39255583
Much agreed with this. There is no area of science nor social science that we don’t understand better today than we did 70 years ago.

For one thing, we understand statistical methods much better. We have a much better sense of what theories only sound good and what theories actually have support in data. Even in psychology, we understand the problems with non-replicating results much better.

The callback to the good old days when only the elite had the privilege of contributing to science rings very off to me.
Couldn't this functionality be automized somehow? Every time there's a link on HN to a paywalled article, I have to the same dance:

1. Click on the link

2. Find out it's behind a paywall

3. Go back in the browser

4. Click on the "comments" link.

5. Look for the post that has the archive.is version of it.

6. Click on that.

Surely that could somehow be collapsed into just a single click?
I do climate organizing, I’m on a climate commission with my city, and I work as an engineer.

I will say that everything engineers hate about “waterfall” development, local communities hate about technocratic top-down solutions raining down to “help them”.

I see a lot of comments here saying we need to fix the energy system, make distribution more reliable, add solar and DC air conditioning to houses. These solutions are valid and can do wonderful things for people in the right situations. We need to be conscious of the communities we’re serving when we make these proposals.

I worked with my city on a microgrid proposal last year for a low income part of the city. The project proposed solar, storage, rain water harvesting, and multimodal transportation, low cost reliable electricity. When I talked to members of the community where the project would go in they were totally against it. They told me that whenever the city plans projects like that, developers swarm in, buy up properties in the neighborhood, on the anticipation that the property values will go up, and raise rents, causing residents to need to leave.

The value of engaging communities and finding their solutions is that you build understanding of their needs. You also learn what they are already doing, which might be cheaper, more scalable, or more responsive than technical solutions by themselves.
People would go to great lengths to follow tutorials on the internet to disable things they were told were bad for them. The less qualified, the more likely that they fell for the "updates are bad, they ruin your computer" narrative. As long as there's an option that can be abused, people will be tricked into allowing it.

This is less relevant for the current discussion about the FireTV and this feature. It's for the more general discussion of being able to do whatever you want on a device you own.
The problem with those silly numbers represented by bad faith actors is they’re akin to counting your bugs at the end of the year, dividing those into your annual budget and claiming you spent $/bug.

Think about what they’re claiming and how it would change if they were more successful - e.g. if by some breakthrough at the same budget level, they cut the number of homeless people in half —- their cost/person would look much worse…
> One detail in particular is strikingly credible: Ripert described finding "metallic needles" in one area of the meteorite that he tried to break off by hitting it with the fragment. The needles proved too ductile. In 2003, scientists discovered that iron meteorites often do indeed contain nickel-rich spikes that are similarly ductile. There is no way Ripert (or any contemporary scientist) would have known about that in 1916.

There doesn't seem to be any other explanation, other than him having actually seen such odd 'needles'. It's not something one would just make up out of the blue.
My business is over 15 years old by now and our ledger use has grown to encompass 7 different currencies and multiple corporate entities (by calling ledger with different includes we can generate a combined ledger across entities, very nice, try doing that with one of those online tools).

So at some point you are going to have to deal with an accountant who will not typically know what ledger is. The solution is actually very simple: we wrote a small ruby script that generates an excel file that contains a balance and profit and loss statement in a format they are familiar with. That's the cool think about everything being text based, it's really easy to pipe the ledger output into a script and into a gem that generates an Excel file and add some styling.

The raw journal files are also in a format accountants can easily comprehend, they didn't actually look at those in our case, but if they want to know where the Excel comes from they are welcome to audit them.
Humans need conflict to find meaning. No conflict, no story.
>underinvested

"The Justice Department said in its own newly unsealed filing that Microsoft has spent almost $100 billion on Bing over 20 years."
> If we had lowered our usage bar to allow the RSS button, the bar would've been low enough that a thousand other features-you-don't-want-but-other-people-do would've been in there too (omg the arguments about having a "print" button).

this is when businesses should make decisions based on vibes rather than data.
I run Sway WM, and have it so that virtual screens 1, 4, and 7 are on Left Monitor; 2, 5, and 8 on Center; and 3, 6, 9 are on Right Monitor (actually my laptop's screen).

From there I just hold the Windows key and press one of the numpad keys to flip that screen to that virtual desktop. It helps that Sway is tiling by default, and so everything begins maximized.
It serves to competing uses. One it is a medium of exchange. The other is as a store of value. I feel it has more use as a medium of exchange. The fact that the interest isn't created creates economic pressure towards exploitive activities.
Working with PostgreSQL (2021)
> What's the revenue model?

Long term. Infrastructure that makes deeper-space endeavours more accessible. Granted, any society that embarks on that is virtually assured of a solid return on R&D (remote, possibly autonomous construction and manufacturing, et cetera), but the timeframes will be generational.
The population of Mexico City grew from 1 to 20 million in the past century, but let's blame the Spanish in 1500s instead of the decades of populist administrations not investing enough in water reservoirs.

https://archive.ph/rWfix

Ironically, the same kind of left wing populist administrations in Spain are responsible for the same problem due to under-investment in water systems. And it's mostly out of spite because the existing system is one of the main Franco's legacy talking points. So no update in decades and now they blame climate change alone.
Depends on country. In the north, no way.
I think demurrage works when money loses value gradually, everyone who accepts it should spend it before it loses value and it increases money velocity.

It is also why people don’t understand why mild inflation can be good
So, on the larger context of the thread, we started by saying it's weird that we're required to say a pledge or sing a national hymn. I'm saying I haven't done that in 30 odd years and have not suffered any negative consequences, so perhaps the requirement was overstated.

The interpretation of my intended message has transformed a bit beyond the original scope to include never standing, not even feeling social pressure of any kind, and a comparison to Colin Capernick who attends sporting events in an entirely different capacity than I do. Those points just sound a lot like trying to win an argument on technicality vs have a discussion about experiences.

All I'm saying is you can feel all the pressure in the world to sing a hymn or say a pledge at events, compromise half way by standing, and not sing any national hymn or pledge and suffer no compromises. It is absolutely not required.
I don't know - there were several effective land armies in WW2 - Germany, US, UK (though small), Russia from 1942 or so. They didn't have it much easier then. There was technology then, which was simpler but also more raw. What they did have was good officers, NCOs and training. I don't see reason to believe that a side in the Ukraine war has these.
> how did LLMs get this far without any concept of understanding? how much further can they go until they become “close enough”?

I don't know that that is quite the right question to ask.

Understanding exists on a spectrum. Even humans don't necessarily understand everything they say or claim (incl. what they say of LLMs!), and then there are things a particular human would simply say "I don't understand".

But when you ask a human "can you understand things?" you will get an unequivocal Yes!

Ask that same question of an LLM and what does it say? I don't think any of them currently respond with a simple or even qualified "Yes". Now, some might claim that one day an LLM will cross that threshold and say "Yes!" but we can safely leave that off to the side for a future debate if it ever happens.

General note: it is worth separating out things like "understanding", "knowledge", "intelligence", "common sense", "wisdom", "critical thinking", etc. While they might all be related in some ways and even overlap, it does not follow that if you show high performance in one that you automatically excel in each of the other. I know many people who anyone would say are highly intelligent but lack common sense, etc.
This is great insider information. I followed blog posts at the time that made it pretty obvious this was a Ceasar Sengupta misadventure. The use of Flutter was also painfully obvious as the app did not behave in normal ways and had performance problems with simple interactions.
No, there's always been wars and fighting between men from different tribes.

See my sibling comment.
"value is not that high" is exactly the kind of behavior I'm talking about.

What's the benefit of user@host? Deployment simplicity, you don't need wildcard domains or wildcard certificates, or worse DNS API access, you can just self-host one app at one domain like everything else. As for who uses this format: email, matrix, XMPP, mastodon/ActivityPub, gnusocial/friendica...
I wish people would push back against using a generic adjective as a name. Naming something "Faster" is just trying to get someone to remember by being intentionally confusing.