skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But there’s also no harm in combining them

Disagree. I’ve seen people write things like the following:

if x != nil { x!.foo() }

and then later the x != nil condition is changed to no longer check for nil, or the x!.foo() is moved out of that lexical scope elsewhere, or copypastad, and then the force unwrap crashed. I’ve seen similar yet more subtle bugs with soft unwraps instead of forced: x?.foo()

Not possible if you use if let y = x . If you copypasta the inner scope with the different variable name then it won’t compile.

(ofc these are trivial representative examples, in reality these were lexical scopes with many lines and more complicated code)

It’s not just about how the code looks when you write it, it’s the paths that can be taken by future maintenance programmers.

I‘ve complained about the large surface area of swift syntax, stdlib etc in the past, but I don’t personally find this specific thing confusing.
Haven't seen that xkcd before, that's really funny. Good advice on calibrating the jargon level. Thanks!
It's only as semantically coherent as its training database. An LLM is, in effect, just a lossy compression of its training database. The compression is based on statistical maximum likelihood estimation, there are no mental (or any other kind) of models involved in compressing the training database.

You can claim that mental models don't actually exist and everything in the universe is just maximum likelihood, but that would be a religious/spiritual statement, outside the realm of science.
Including boilerplate code? ASP and JS is far more verbose in those areas.
Show HN: I made an AI tool that auto-publish SEO blog posts to WordPress
At the time, all AI models were hidden inside big corporations. We saw research papers but couldn't use any. OpenAI allowed anyone to access modern LLMs. They were open in the sense that they give everyone access to the model.
Diamond explicitly calls out the fact that Western Europe was a backwater for most of history until a few hundred years ago in the first dozen pages of the book.
Also take a look at WSV: Whitespace Separated Values

- https://youtu.be/mGUlW6YgHjE?t=436

- https://dev.stenway.com/WSV/

And related formats like OML:

- https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/39139115
Unless they develop an agent that can recursively self-improve to the point of an intelligence explosion!
I think I speak for everybody when I say that if a language isn't immediately intelligible to me within two seconds of barely glancing at it then it isn't worth anyone's time. Programmers are lazy. That's not a criticism. It's something to aspire to. [end sarcasm]
Hypertext !
Where did you get that it was sent by Ilya? The to: field is redacted.
Think js+html+css, that's a lot
And from Android 14 - adding a system CA certificate is a nightmare:
https://httptoolkit.com/blog/android-14-install-system-ca-ce...
Would not do them any good, without the skilled manpower to operate and maintain it
The feature to block sites is very very helpful. It is so much easier now to find small suppliers, get rid of all the blogspam. I can even block legit merchant sites that just aren't good and that I don't want to see clogging up my results.
So might this be a precursor to cracking ECC?

Assume they go on to find a formula which defines the relationship between a_p and rank, what does that actually achieve?
Just bought the 845 g10 for that price, so nope.
Mathematica is still unparalleled in computer algebra. Yes, you can do computer algebra with Matlab or sympy, but I know a few theoreticians who use Mathematica to derive complicated equations.
compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout (1997) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#Last_stand_and_captu... (1880)
So by memes you’re referring to words and grammatical constructions less than ideas? My comment, which I don’t think you ever responded to (nothing wrong with that just saying), was calling out the fact that you didn’t directly refute the ideas present in the article and are instead fixated on their presentation. If you attacked the ideas directly, I feel you’d only find a few ways to attack them, and that the primary idea you’d be attacking would be sympathy for the poor and such. I think it’s a cop out to avoid directly criticizing popular (on this site) ideas by attacking their presentation.
Thanks. I appreciate the reply.

In my experience, incompetence has been the underlying cause for a lot that seems like malice or something more deliberate. Especially when combined with social aspects like not wanting to lose face, or having an ego.

I suppose that the transition between incompetence and malice isn't exactly black and white either, or mutually exclusive for that matter.

I've seen complacency too. People who know better, but instead of arguing that point, they go along the path of least resistance. "I get my paycheck either way"-kind of mindset.

I have yet to experience someone deliberately turning 70 lines of code into 3k lines. But, I've certainly seen that exact same thing happen. Almost surprising how similar it sounds. I should check how many lines it is, but if I would guess, it was 1k lines of code that could be done in 10. Which is what you get when you manually write a API client and objects, and you've split out the 10 lines of code into 4 separate micro-services (this isn't an exaggeration). I'm 99% sure that this was a case of not understanding why it was a terrible approach, and it being driven by consultants who are happy to explore some unsuited approach just for the CV-padding of it, if nothing else.

Deliberate feigned incompetence to make a problem worse, or job safety. I've yet to actually experience and confirm this for myself.

What you describe as "He knows! We've been found out!" might be entirely true, but it could also reflect being found out as in the impostor syndrome.. or "... that we have no clue", etc.
My point is that they don't operate like an investment fund and I am not aware of any technology company that survived the collapse of it's primary revenue stream by changing into an investment fund.
Well waddya know... Looks like sometimes regulations do work better than the invisible hand of the free market.

Reality: the invisible hand is simply a fist made up of all members of a cartel.
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I hope this is just the start of egress fee changes in response to the European Data Act. Taking a look at other parts of the law's text [1], I think this change related to Article 25, but Article 34 section 2 is what really stands out to me:

> Where a data processing service is being used in parallel with another data processing service, the providers of data processing services may impose data egress charges, but only for the purpose of passing on egress costs incurred, without exceeding such costs.

Hopefully this article doesn't end up with exploitable loopholes. Bringing down AWS, GCP, and Azure egress costs to market rates could majorly help reduce cloud lock-in gradually without having to close your entire account.

[1]: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:...
Do you really think it is a coincidence that they started closing down around the time they went for-profit?
Then compare that statement with their FAQ,https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#Data_transfer_fees_when_mov...

> After your move away from AWS services, within the 60-day period, you must delete all remaining data and workloads from your AWS account, or you can close your AWS account.
Oh boy, been there. This is Conway’s law in action - they are about to go and create the same code soup again - because the org won’t have changed. Having been in the same boat my lesson is positive engineering initiatives can only come top down - through some very senior champion. You can’t change an organisation from the bottom up - and it’s the organisation that produces the code base.
how it work?
Nowadays rural folk have cars, which means they can very much visit those libraries without need to actually live in a town.
Is downdetector known for accuracy in these types of situations? Seems like a large amount of services out.
Wait but who codifies the ethics in that setup? Wouldn’t it still be, at best, an agreement among the big players?
Neat, thats a pretty good use of a web app.

How is it handled when I want to view logs that are too large to fit in memory?
It was the only feature I considered a net positive added with Win11. Though since Microsoft apparently prefers to not do business with poor peasants like me, using 6 year old CPU's, I decided not to upgrade.
we also cannot build most birds
Hm. Solution could be expressed semantically like this (python):

max((w for w in words if len(set('aioue').intersection(w)) <= 2), key=len)

But author's solution clearly contains more semantic elements.
What do you mean "bad faith"? Can you elaborate?
See 'Entropy bagels' and other complex structures emerge from simple rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39529374 for a related post.
The idea isn't that it has impact on "overall competence" of the civilization so much so that it has effect on their economy. Which matters when it comes to fielding armies, and thus to who conquers whom in the end.

FWIW I don't know if I buy this particular argument from Diamond myself in a sense that all those animals aren't possible to domesticate in principle. What is undeniable, though, is that horses and oxen are very efficient as beasts of burden. Which means that a single farmer can produce more surplus food to feed people doing other things (like say going to foreign lands to conquer them). And militarily, horses give you cavalry, of course, but perhaps even more importantly, they make military logistics that much more effective - and for pre-modern armies the logistics is often what defines their limits.
A few science YouTubers have made the terrible smelling thioacetone and isonitrile/isocyanide now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_wboFJZBTU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M7V7JRVWno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=031vrZAMEHU - bonus selenoacetone

NileRed, who's better known, made thioacetone as well, but ironically he's done enough chemistry that his nose doesn't work anymore so it didn't have an impact.
And what would happen? 2 minutes after being dissolved, ClosedAI is founded and hires all the employees.
Perhaps the finalized AGI will be more efficient than a human brain. But training the AGI is not like running a human, it's like speed running evolution from cells to humans. The natural world stumbled on NGI in a few billion years. We are trying to do it in decades - it would not be surprising that it's going to take huge power.
Yeah you're not the first to request this, it makes a lot of sense as a next step. So I can better understand the constraints, how much memory are we talking if you were to import all those files?
What kind of damage can you do with a current day llm? I’m guessing targeted scams or something? They aren’t even good hackers yet.
> This tool has been generated entirely with ChatGPT and hence it is also a demonstration of how useful products can be developed with collaborative reiteration with GPTs.

All you need to know.
In my professional experience most code never gets read by anyone other than the original author and when it is read it's often reluctantly. If you have any links to studies which show that code is read more often than it is written, I'd be interested to read them.
Why is that such an insane thing for them to say?
I hope you don't delete it! I enjoyed reading it. It pleased my confirmation bias, anyways.
Your comment might help someone notice patterns that they've been glancing over....
I liked it up until the T&S part. My eyes glazed over the rest since I didn't know what T&S means. But that's just me.
How do you suggest we do this in practice? Decent countries already make it illegal to buy cryptocurrency for real money, but it's difficult to enforce when it's a mutually profitable transaction for somewhat desperate people (just as in many cases paying a ransom to a kidnapper is illegal, but that doesn't completely stop it happening).
IANAM but I guess the name for mining OEIS or generating scads of data iteratively for analysis would be empirical mathematics.

It's empirical metamathematics if you attempt this with networks of axioms/theories

https://www.wolframscience.com/metamathematics/empirical-met...

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/09/the-empirical-me...
> Unfortunately, humanity's future is in the hands of XXXX.

Only wrong answers please.
My man! Can't wait for Devin's new projects.
There is very little in terms of rigorous mathematics on the theoretical side of this. All we have are empirics, but everything we have seen so far points to the fact that more compute equals more capabilities. That's what they are referring to in the blog post. This is particularly true for the current generation of models, but if you look at the whole history of modern computing, the law roughly holds up over the last century. Following this trend, we can extrapolate that we will reach computers with raw compute power similar to the human brain for under $1000 within the next two decades.
If anyone paying the right price to access a product, and no underlying technology, making it "open", isn't most of the world's technology open? Isn't Apple really OpenApple? Isn't Oracle really OpenOracle? Apple probably puts out more open-source tech than OpenAI.

Does the word mean much anymore, then? Is it nothing more than a sentiment then?

Perhaps OpenAI should have renamed itself to "AI for all" or something when they adopted the capped-profit model. Perhaps they should've returned donor funds and turned fully for-profit too. Perhaps that was a genuine resolution and pivot, which every org should be able to allowed to do.

Genuine question, I run a nonprofit whose name starts with "open". But we do explicitly bring closed source work to be more openly licensed, without necessarily making the technology open-source.
I don't see how being trapped within 7 kilometers of a city office is much better. Rural life has transformed anyway to such an extent that none of your points, except being bound to your farm, are really relevant anymore if we're talking about modern farm owners.
This seems pretty far fetched, there are way too many governments who would like some extra cash, and way too many normal people who would like some extra cash.
You don't need a permanent home to own a NAS. Rent co-location space, rent a closet from a friend, rent space in your parent's house. You don't exactly need a livable amount of space to store a NAS.

It's no different than paying to use the servers your shit is stored on in some cloud service.
> were C programmers "better"? In sum total, pretty much

No. Original programmers that just happened to use C were better, not the other way around.
it's also pretty useless... I like my local fonts.

I see it more as a tracking tool from spying companies like Google.
Sugar, and more generally the idea of using 2006-era Python to write an entire userland on a device with a pokey CPU and limited RAM, was a huge part of why OLPCs were unbearably slow to use. For all the hypothetical benefits it was a catastrophically poor decision that seriously undermined everything great about the hardware design of the XO-1.
LLMs hasn't been deeply integrated into google search for many years. The snippets you see predates LLMs, it is based on other techniques.
Unless you're being obstinately literal I don't see how this could possibly be true. Hippies are famously violent/antagonistic going back to things like kudzu eco terrorism.
Generally the limiting factor for approaching the asymptote you observe is power. There is a figure of merit with units of Joules per bit per second that gets worse - much worse - as you start to get fancier with your modulation.

Most of the fancier schemes take advantage of the fact that traditional binary signalling has excess noise margin, ie, they were throwing away energy to start with, and they are encoding extra bits in the energy budget. But to maintain noise margins as you cram more bits in, you have to up the amount of energy per bit.

The other half is that the physical layer implementation that does the encoding and decoding consumes more energy because it's doing more computation. This also figures into the energy per bit metric if you're being honest about your comparisons (and because it is not always clear if this is included in a metric you find papers where people cherry pick numbers to make their case). This number can become quite big because the baseline of a binary tx/rx is so low compared to doing effectively a DAC/ADC and phase recovery system.

What you find is that QAM or more schemes are certainly possible, but they can consume more power than the CPU just to keep the link idle and trained. The real art is picking the implementation and developing new circuit tricks that we hadn't thought of before to wring a little more bandwidth without killing the power budget.
I can't imagine how. Please tell me.
>> This is Conway’s law in action

Not just one layer, look at the stack: Type script is MS's Conways law. API/microsevice everything is more of a google thing (vs FB monolith)... So you have two other major product of Conways Law that your trying to jam into your own org.

On top of that a 5 year plan is never going to digestible by (almost) any company. How many people stay in one place for that long? How much has the front end changed in 5 years? Is any choice you make in the JS world relevant in 5 years? Though sell there too!
As of right now, the only solution I see is forums walled off in some way, complex captchas, intense proof of work, subscription fees etc. Only alternative might be obscurity, which makes the forum less useful. Maybe we could do like a web3 type thing but instead of pointless cryptos, you have a cryptographic proof that certifies you did the captcha or whatever and lots of sites accept them. I don’t think its unsolvable, just that it will make the internet somewhat worse.
>I don't have the right to do is force Platform X, Y, and Z to publish my speech

Everyone wants their speech to be favored, and everyone wants the speech of their opponents to be disfavored. Wanting these things does not mean you follow the principal of freedom of speech. Following the principal of freedom of speech means you choose not to favor your own speech or disfavor the speech of your opponents when you have ability to do so, and instead relying on the merit of your arguments to win a debate. The US government is generally seen as not favoring or disfavoring anyone's speech because it follows the principle of freedom of speech. The fact that the leading citizens of these United States choose to favor speech they agree with and disfavor speech they oppose on the social media platforms they control means that they themselves in fact do not believe in freedom of speech at all. This should, on its own, call into question the assumption that the government beholden to these leading citizens is in fact such a follower of the principal of freedom of speech as it claims to be.
Hamkins has some great material, including his book "Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics". What's even better is that it is accompanied by a video lecture: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg5tKDNI_a86OO6J9HuIn...

I am watching them while doing the dishes :-)
What evidence do we have that a hard takeoff is likely?
> “The thing that array languages get wrong is that code is read more often than it is written”

It seems to me that array language designers understand this, but they make a different trade-off by prioritizing density.

A screenful of an APL-family language can contain a program that might take thousands of lines in a Java-style language. There’s power in being able to see the whole thing at once.

Would a passenger jet airplane be easier to use if the cockpit only had an iPad and the pilots would have to navigate through UI trees to find available actions? It would certainly be more discoverable to the ordinary person, but the pilots would probably be deeply unhappy with this design. In this analogy, an APL-style program can be like a “cockpit” full of instruments that you designed yourself for that exact job.
I just want memory that can dynamically change on the basis of workload so it can be great for graphics and great for system performance.
From time to time, this kind of post reminds me why I still love HN.

Thank you for great advice for this young man !
when i've raised the problem, described the impact and explained what it would take to solve it, there's really no amount of mental gymnastics which could end up with it being my fault, especially if there's a paper trail. if a manager started doing stuff like calling me names over it, i'd go to their boss and make a formal complaint.

at least that's what i hope i'd do. it's never gone that far for me and in practice i'm only ~80% sure that i wouldn't just tell them to choke on a dick and get myself fired at that point. to be honest if you have a boss like that you should be spending all of your time and effort on finding a new job rather than trying to solve problems at your current one anyway.
Is this the same as uniform SO(N) sampling? I had to do something similar like this for some deep learning training method I was working on. I gave up
Oxford Philosophy of Mathematics
Not all array languages fold right. K's reduce is a left fold and BQN has a mix of both. My understanding is that a right fold was chosen because it's more expressive. You get alternating sums when folding subtraction with a right fold and something less interesting if you use a left fold. FWIW, that(s my understanding of the history. I don't actually think the argument is very compelling.
Or Meta can simply stop parsing such links and not even show a hyperlink. If users want to visit the link, they have to copy it manually and paste it in address bar. Funny thing, many users don't even know they can paste links in address bar. They use Google as address bar. I have seen people type the whole domain name including the TLD in Google to get to websites. Now imagine Google also stops redirecting to such links that demand payment for sending them traffic.