skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Punk's not dead, it's just that songs like Dead Kennedy's "Lynch the Landlord" and "Holiday in Cambodia" or MDC's "John Wayne was a Nazi" and "Ronald McDonald, Corporate Deathburger" and so on are now deemed to be violently inflammatory and would be subjected to shadowbanning and suppression on every social media and streaming platform, and no consolidated MusicBorg contracts would be likely either. Musical performers today all know that engaging in political activism that's not aligned with elite interests will lead to career destruction. The same thing happened with rap - you won't see Public Enemy-style groups being promoted today.

Punk was not noted for musical talent, but that didn't distract too much because of the energy of the performers. There's a Foo Fighter's cover of "Holiday in Cambodia" from about a decade ago that's worth listening to, it does sound better when the musicians can keep time.
It TOTALLY does. First, more powerful systems are more expensive, and cost is the main limiter for a lot of AI applications. Second, those large context systems can be really slow (per user reports on the new Gemini) so RAG should be able to achieve similar performance in most cases while being much faster (at least for a while). Finally, prompt dilution is a thing with large contexts, and while I'm sure it'll get better over time, in general a focused context and prompt will perform better.
Can an Employer Legally Withdraw a Job Offer After It's Been Made?
But this is wrong. The odds become 2/3 in the original problem, not 50:50. Your "intuition" isn't helping you.
All the moaning and groaning over something trivial to avoid with even a modicum of common sense is neither fair nor rational. Even more so since it's an intentional design decision and it's already well known to be an intentional design decision.
The President 'pardoning' a Turkey for Christmas doesn't mean we suddenly live in a vegan society, in fact, rather the reverse.
Nothing more counter-cultural than a caricature of traditional culture?
Perhaps you're right that he should have reported on a story where the actual facts are established, but he did put in the appropriate disclaimers.

>Oh right. It's not a journalist at all. This isn't reporting, it's an activist pushing an agenda with dodgy misleading facts.

The "journalists" in the media do worse than this all the time. An activist going after a common issue that everyone knows is a problem gets a bit hysterical or dramatic to reel people in, perish the thought!
Counter culture is one thing, but the important bit is DIY, maybe more specifically DIT, do it together. This isn't about being offline, private, modest, etc., it's about seeing the rat race coming and stepping aside. They understand that ticketmaster & live nation probably own most of the venues in town, so if you don't want to play by their rules, you'll have to spend your entertainment dollars elsewhere, or if you're really into it, start your own venue for you and your friends and fly under the radar.

This goes for other industries too. While someone is bellyaching that amazon owns publishing, a "punk" is self publishing, and using their lessons learned to help their friends. In that way, it's like the hacker community...

I'm reminded by posts here complaining about ubereats, even in dense cities like LA, SF or NY. Why does it never occur to these people to call the restaurants directly to cut uber eats out of the equation? Yeah, it's like 5% less convenient, but it allays a ton of concerns on both ends of the transaction. It's things like this, regular people helping regular people, not rent seekers...
> it could be that the host always shows a goat

That’s what the sentence says: “and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door […] which has a goat”.

> or the host shows something at random and we just look at the cases where he shows a goat

Nothing says that the host opens a door at random. Quite the contrary, we know that the host has a perfect knowledge of the situation.
I postulate this has been the true cause of the cloud revolution: accurate usage billing.

Everyone can rent out a server. Not everyone can rent out 16.83% of a server and bill it by the second and by the byte.
> and doing that would just result in a shock in a few decades when there is a lack of Senior developers since on the job training is important for that role

By which time senior management will have retired to the golf course / yacht / beach house. Reward systems etc.
Ask HN: Possible to build an AI version of Wordfeud?
Hello HN,

I used to play Scrabble with my mother (Dutch version) and I would lay words that in my imaginitive mind exist, but that would never be in a dictionary.

Imagine a scenario where I want to extend the word "katten" (cats):

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kattenpoep (cat poo) would be approved

kattenpis (cat pee) would be approved as well

kattenspeeltje (cat toy) would probably be approved too.

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These words are common enough for Wordfeud and my mother to approve them.

However, if I extend the word "katten" like this:

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kattengrappen (jokes about cats)

kattentransport (cat transport)

kattenpolitie (cat police)

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These words will not be accepted by Wordfeud or my mom. These words are rare and quirky but valid in my opinion.

Is there an AI/API available that would test an input like "kattengrappen" to check if it "could be a valid word"? Not by using a word dictionary, but by using API.

Are the AIs/APIs available for this purpose and could they be used to create a free-to-play game?

I'd love to hear your ideas!

RobbieJS
This is how a lot of folks get stuck at the "Senior" level. They try to write code harder instead of leveling up the abstraction layer of the problems they're solving. Anecdotally, many people don't know how to make that pivot.
How does this relate to "mistral-next" and "miqu"?
Parallels with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incognito_(1997_film)
Prompt: what albums has taylor swift released

Response: Taylor Swift is a popular singer-songwriter who has released several albums throughout her career. Here is a list of her studio albums, in order of their release:

1. "Taylor Swift" (2006)
2. "Fearless" (2008)
3. "Speak Now" (2010)
4. "Red" (2012)
5. "1989" (2014)
6. "reputation" (2017)
7. "Lover" (2019)

In addition to these studio albums, Taylor Swift has also released a number of live albums, compilation albums, and EPs. She is known for her catchy pop and country music, and has won numerous awards for her songwriting and performances.

The data is rather out of date? Swift has released 4 additional albums not listed in the response.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift#Discography
People have been saying that for years and it's just as absurd now as it's ever been.
There are quite a few of these in Amsterdam and other Dutch cities. I don't know if I've ever seen one with more than 2 seats however (but they probably exist). Limited to 45kmph and enough trunk space for some groceries. Keeps the rain off you and they are easy to maneuver in the tight canal lined city streets.
Punk is dead. Once I witnessed old punk rockers backing government lockdowns, backing the authorities, and shilling for politicians and political parties, I realized rebellion is now a commodity.
Grady Booch had something to say about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35220654
GPT-3.5: https://github.com/lindylearn/aboutideasnow/blob/main/apps/a...

But in this case the date seems very close to the unix timestamp 0 which we use when there's no date found. Maybe it's a local timezone issue...

Edit: this should be fixed now!
I didn't find any. and after some thought, I decided I didn't want to be reliant on a 3rd party server again. For me, Google is an important enough account that I have multiple MFA methods like a TOPT, YubiKey, and my Android phone (not SMS).
> I think the HN algo is pretty easily manipulated. I worked at a startup that had an effective process to get things to the front page

That sounds (potentially) sleazy. If you think it's a technique that HN could potentially defend against, I encourage you to explain it to hn@ycombinator.com.
It's not at all a clean separation, but in early computers, paper tape is more common for loading programs than punched cards. The paper tape readers were faster, and the flexible length made more sense for software before compilers were involved. Punched cards were mostly used for application input/output (a very early example would be ENIAC which was not stored-program at all but had punched card I/O) where fixed record sizes made sense, and then later for software due to FORTRAN and contemporaries introducing well-defined statements.

Of course there are plenty of exceptions. I mostly left out punched cards because they have a completely different pre-computer history that could take its own article. One of the reasons people perceive punched cards as far more common than paper tape is because IBM used them heavily (although early IBM machines still tended to use paper tape for loading software). IBM used them heavily because IBM had already been manufacturing punched card equipment for pre-computer data processing. But that's also why early IBM computers supported punched card I/O: for interoperation with their data processing systems. For example, early IBM computers from the '50s even to relatively modern machines in the '70s were often used alongside older punched card data processing equipment. You might categorize records using a punched-card sorter and then feed the sorter bins into a computer for computing statistics, then take the cards output by the computer and put them into a punched card sorter again to order by the computed statistics. This is how might you produce a report of counties with the highest sales, for example. A hybrid of computer and pre-computer methods of processing data. But this emphasizes the difference between paper tape and punched cards: paper tape was continuous, good for variable-length material. Punched cards were discrete, good for fixed-size records that would be binned and sorted during processing.

Later the adoption of IBM punched cards for compiler input radically changed this situation, but that still came out of the sense that input to the compiler consisted of well-defined, discrete records identified by serial number.

You can imagine the practicalities. Machine-language software would not fit neatly onto punched card boundaries, the length of punched cards being historic and not well-correlated with the word size on machines. So there's a weird alignment problem you get that paper tape avoids. Plus you can't accidentally reorder paper tape, an advantage that paper tape equipment manufacturers actively advertised!

A major example relevant to the article is Digital - DEC PDP machines used paper tape for program loading and were rarely equipped for punched cards. This reflects their different heritage and market from IBM machines; Digital machines were less common (and not really designed for) batch record processing applications. Punched cards, on the other hand, are almost intrinsically a batched record format.
I mean sticking with the assumption it takes the same amount of energy you still need to show that a jet engine is as or more efficient as a train engine.

Which it seems to not be [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport...
I recently had this realization too. Punk never really went away, I am a 90s kid and there was a lot of punk culture in my place. However for me personally punk seems more alive now than the last 15 years and it's great

Especially UK and Germany seems to have a growing punk scene right now in popular music and the 'streets'.
Neat!

Recently my Synology NAS failed to automatically renew its Let's Encrypt certificate for my domain name and the certificate expired on my blog. I caught it the next day when my GoAccess metrics cratered (took some time to figure out since I normally use the QuickConnect domain name myself, whose certificate was fine), but it could've stayed broken for a very long time otherwise without me noticing.

You got yourself a subscriber.
I was mostly trying to say, in my experience, people who use open models don't only use open models.

But I guess I'm hearing you say now, a key point was- the attractive part about Mistral was the open model aspect.

But it's difficult to pay expenses and wages if you can't charge money.

Re: fine tuning- hard for me to believe they won't add it eventually.
I'm pretty bearish on GPT 5 being better than 4. With how neutered 4 has gotten over time, I'd be surprised if GPT 5 is able to perform better with all the same restrictions that GPT 4 has. GPT 4 is less and less willing to actually accomplish a task for you than it is to tell you how you can do it. It looks more and more like Markov chains every day.
Thoughts on inclusion as a constraint and catalyst for design
Well, I'm not. But it's a good point, one that hopefully everyone there agrees on in mind and heart.
TIL: AWS Account IDs are considered secrets. IMO, if a given value cannot be cycled, it is sensitive but not secret.
Counterculture of today is the culture of yesterday,when no one called you a nazi bigot for doing things that were normal in the day.
Not a long read, but wanted to get this out of me. For every engineer that considers jumping to entrepreneurship, this could be a good read.
Spreadsheets aren't fundamentally different from programming, though. It's one thing to have a nice neat way to see all (or many of) the variables at once and do computations on them. It's quite another to have fuzzy AI programming where the system will silently make invisible assumptions in writing code for you. Understanding and evaluating assumptions is a skill currently learned by coding; learning how to tell AIs what you want is not a substitute for rigor.
The difference is that doctors and nurses are certified and policed.
I am on the side of the author for this one. Especially when it comes to series that are complete, you can often find them for extremely discounted prices. For example Amazon is selling the complete "The Office" DVD set for about $30, and I'm sure you could find it for cheaper at something like a thrift store. That's about the same as 2.5 months of Peacock "Premium Plus" at $11.99.

I know different people consume media at different speeds, but it would take us much longer than 2.5 months to watch all that content. Therefore we could pay for 3 months of Peacock or pay Amazon for the box set. In our case, the math checks out in favor of buying the physical media.

Obviously the math changes depending on the user. Monthly subscriptions will always win out for people who are able to devote a significant amount of time to using the product (e.g. a movie every night).
People who treat profit as a dirty word are responsible for enormous amounts of suffering.

The only valid reason to subsidize some piece of infrastructure is if the provisioned public good leads to more overall wealth. I consider the word "wealth" broad enough to cover things like reducing carbon emissions, these things can be (and should be) estimated in monetary terms, but that will always be an approximation.

My point is that subsidizing unprofitable transportation which doesn't itself provide value in excess of the subsidy is wrong. That's not public service, it's a boondoggle.

The US, like any country, does subsidize infrastructure extensively. This includes the public highway system as well as our remarkable freight rail infrastructure. The reason this works is because the public goods so provisioned pay off extensively in wealth. While this includes the profits of the freighting and trucking companies, who after all won't transport goods if they don't make a profit, it also includes the entire country's population, who benefit from available and cheap goods. There are libertarians who argue that this would work just as well if the roads themselves generate profit, and I think they're wrong about that.
Slightly related but a fun thing to learn about was the flashing lights on powerlines (i'm nerdy so love hearing about stuff like this from people in the know).

You know those balls they have on powerlines that flash? Easy right? It's just a flashing light. That's what i always thought at least. Until someone pointed out to me that they sit on one line at a time with no earth and no battery, just a capacitor to store charge between blinks. So how do they create a circuit? There's only one wire!

Well since there's current flowing through the wire there's induction and you can wrap that wire in what is essentially half an AC transformer and create a whole new circuit at much lower voltage. In fact the blinking lights on powerlines internally just have two metal plates either side of the slot that goes over the line and clips in. From induction they leach power from the power lines despite there only being one wire and no earth in the whole system.

Which i find really cool and simple. You can take any high voltage power line and a metal plate and power a blinking light just by getting close to it!
Does Let's Encrypt not provide alerting when a cert hasn't been refreshed successfully?

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/expiration-emails/
> ironically with totally non-transparent pricing

Oh man tell me about it. I also think the trend towards metered, pay-as-you-go pricing in general doesn't make sense for many businesses or their customers, but I digress.

Curious if you've thought much on how to distill feature-flag entitlements, service-limit entitlements, role-based entitlements, billing-based entitlements, and so on to a single interface like "Can I [action]?"

Edit: Ha, just saw your reply in a separate thread. Yes, you have thought about it. :) Would be curious to learn more.
> traditionally moral

Having traditional morals isn't the same as being moral.

Source: Hm... 6, maybe more, different friends who grew up in different versions of these communities, each of whom describes them as "dangerous cults".
No need to post botspam BS to HN
Keep in mind they're not leaving from or going to the same places - usually. Depending on where you live/travel relative to the aiport vs. train station the numbers can come out very differently.

E.g. I live in London - a train or plane* going from the "wrong" station/airport both adds about 1h15m in travel compared to a train or plane going from the nearest station or airport, and that difference could be substantially bigger if I lived a little bit further south. Do that both ends, and suddenly that plane starts looking more attractive to a lot of people.

I'd personally still tend to prefer the train in a lot of circumstances even when it's not the fastest option, because I do agree it's fine.
Rentals are a bit of a worst case there, too, because you don't have reason to adjust to the bulk and live with it.

Also, depending on car company some of the bulk is hiding last resort physical keys and/or just over-compensating and thinking their brand "needs" big heavy keys as a marketing choice. There's not always a lot of reason that they need to be that much bigger than a Tile or Airtag, the raw electronics are generally really similar.

Additionally, if it was a personal car, some of them even support using just about any major bluetooth-capable phone (or watch) as a remote and you might not even need the extra bulk of a key beyond your additional wearables. That's really tough for rental cars to support, but a great advantage of modern personal cars as the software improves. (Though with the number of hotel chains that have been moving to keys that work on personal phones, I wouldn't be surprised if rental car companies weren't at least investigating the idea of improving those key flows.)
I wouldn't have access too if it were not for the local pirate scene. Even owners of local software houses doing professional accounting systems didn't mind copying a few disks of software they paid for to a kid who knew how to ask. If you got something new, you'd immediately share with your colleagues.

And everybody kept in mind that if we ever started making money from our hobby, one of our first investments would be into buying properly licensed copies of the tools we used.
This is the long-form version of "eat ze bugs".
Fisher didn't land anywhere near here in his appraisal of the emergent (online/millennial) left and your inability to think past 2011's "anti-capitalism" means you're squarely, exclusively the target of whatever "critique" this is supposed to be. You guys are mortifying.
Again: what is the TAM for this, and if you are talking about North American exurbs/rural areas, why is this being marketed for international travelers?

What I am trying to say is that, while I am certain that you can fund this useful for a segment of the population, how big this segment needs to be in order to become valuable for (a) advertisers and (b) investors willing to sink money into it?
A way to reach exactness from current probabilistic models is to ask them to build a deterministic system. Then you won't directly employ the LLM services, but instead use the output of the system the LLM built. This system may be flawed, but it's easier to get it to behave deterministically and amenable to analysis and correction.
He's not entirely wrong, but here's my take: however sophisticated these AI-built software systems are, no one has shown that they can do what Agile methodology brought to the industry: ease of modification to serve changing business needs.

Once the AI sets up the initial data modeling and storage system cross-talk, and it's singing in production with paying customers, how well is it going to continually iterate on that system when non-engineers make asks of it? My guess is, not that well, and worse and worse as the business evolves. Who's going to be able to make sense of the possible hallucinations and spaghetti code nightmare under the hood when things are going too haywire to ignore? Are you going to let it just drop columns being used by active code, while it takes minutes if not hours to rebuild indexes on new ones? Let it design access patterns across 10+ table joins? Make UI decisions that load 100 nested divs for every element in an array because that's how it interpreted the best way to do styling?

Someone's going to blow a company to hell trying to get AI to build and continually run IT, I predict, and it will be a much-remembered case study.
Researchers use AI, Google Street View to predict household energy costs
Prompt: where does donald trump live

Donald Trump is a businessman and former President of the United States. He resides primarily at his private residence, which is located in Trump Tower in New York City.

Trump Tower is a 58-story skyscraper located on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. It serves as both the headquarters for the Trump Organization and the primary residence of Donald Trump. The building contains a number of luxury residences, as well as office space, retail stores, and other amenities.

In addition to his residence in Trump Tower, Donald Trump also owns a number of other properties around the world, including homes in Florida, New Jersey, and Scotland.

When he was President of the United States, Donald Trump resided in the White House, which is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States. It has been the residence of every U.S. President since John Adams in 1800. The White House contains a number of rooms and offices, including the Oval Office, which is the President's official office, and the private residence, which is where the President and his family live.

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This is wrong, Trump declared himself a resident of florida in 2019 and lives at Mar a Lago primarily. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/us/politics/trump-new-yor...
> how people on the internet love tricking others to feel “right.”

I guess it all depends on your perspective. I see a lot more people on the internet piling on with nitpicks to avoid feeling "wrong."