skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure that’s correct, at least if you mean the determination that the official accident investigation reached [0]. Pilot error and insufficient training on the new approach (being flown for the first time into the new airport), but I don’t see anything in the report that suggested they maliciously wanted to die and kill their passengers. That seems like a pretty big accusation to bring to bear.

Although if I remember correctly, didn’t the pilot become a pilot herself after she lost her husband, a pilot, in a crash 10 years prior?

(Edit: it was 16 years rather than 10 [1]. I’d forgotten how tragic the whole situation was, and how sympathetic everybody involved.)

[0] [PDF] https://www.tourism.gov.np/files/1/9N-ANC%20FINAL%20Report.p...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64299882
There is nothing insane about running the national power grid at 40hz for a week in order to slow the microwave clocks down!
> Right now the USCO says if you use a large model that used copyrighted material to train it, you cannot copyright the generated art.

Unless the Copyright Office has come out with a newer rule, it says if you use a model that does the usual creative parts of making the output you can’t copyright the output, because it is not a work of human authorship. (And that if a work is mixed AI/human, the AI use must be disclosed in copyright registration to avoid copyright protection being applied to elements that are not human work.) “Large model” and “copyrighted material used to train it” are not the issues.
This is indeed a N=1
any plans to make it into a userscript as well?
Not the OP, but I program professionally in Python for the past 5 years and i have never set a breakpoint. Assuming they don't work in lambdas (sounds like a tooling issue), is this really such a big problem?
so how would you go about improving that?
Why using llm to chose a proxy if you can just rotate starting from the cheapest based on not getting 403?
They're different. El Zonte (aka Bitcoin Beach) is a town that exists in the west of El Salvador, and Bitcoin City is a new development project being proposed in the east.
> Why should I even want a Ph.d if...

I dunno dude, why do you do literally anything in life? Surely your life doesn't revolve around finding a wife.
Honestly asking: What do you mean by enemy of humanity?

(Humanity has been around for 300,000+ years and there has probably not been one year without violent conflict)
IIRC MOV*A and MOV*U differ pretty significantly in how the secret stuff in the cache prefetching system treats them. The assertion is kind of nice, but there is a difference.
The frequency of the power grid thing applied to old alarm clocks, but I don't think electronics have generally used this approach for a few decades; RTC's and microprocessors that embed them are cheap.
Most of the application right now is for purposes for which quality isn't a high priority. (Also, plagiarism laundering.)

Don't put it in charge of paying bills.

Do put it in charge of making SEO content sites, conducting mass scam automated interactions, generating bulk code where company tolerates incompetence, making stock art for blog posts that don't need to look professional, handling customer service for accounts you don't care about, etc.
If someone does a steampunk version of Star Wars, that'd be the Falcon design.
Ask HN: SaaS for Offline Courses
Hi,
I'd like to understand if there is a need for high quality offline course management.
Ie. administrator, coach, teacher, pastor would use the Saas to develop their in-person, offline, synchronous course.
Complete with well formatted printouts etc.

Anyone see the same gap?
Or is there a tool I haven't seen yet?

(you could 100% do this using word, excel and outlook) but I think a dedicated tool would help the person managing the course to follow the guide to getting done better.
If you can have a something for nothing investment market it will always get in the way of actually doing something useful.
Considering MTOB(Machine Translation from One Book) result, where LLM in-context learns a new language from a grammar book, I wonder how LLMs fare given, say, GnuCOBOL Programmer's Guide PDF, which is easily available. It would be an interesting addition to the benchmark.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16575

https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/guides.html
Very nice job! I’m had fun exploring it
The problem is once you change the license and start charging, someone forks it and just offers a less funded, but free version of essentially the same, and the ecosystem fractures. See Redis, Terraform for recent examples. Not exactly the same, but in this context it’s funny how much ire they have drawn when really the root of it is “how do we ensure continuing to develop this software is financially supported by users”.
His Computer Recreations column was a huge influence on me as a kid and I imagine lots of other nerds in a similar (and maybe not so similar) age cohort.

He helped start the fractal craze - there was hardly an article you could read about it that didn't mention his Mandlebrot piece. Core War has made the rounds here but there was so much more - my first encounter with public key cryptography, all sorts of computer generative art, genetic algorithms, simulations ecological and celestial and on and on.

The pieces always had a practical bent - something you could typically implement on your own (or school's) dinky computer. Many were also a side door to entire branches of mathematics - diff. eq. class can feel like torture but simulating your way to the Volerra-Lotka predator-prey model is fun. Plus it sounds like something invented in a Weyland Yutani research lab.

For the flavour, a recent HN post right in the Spirit of Dewdney category, the kind of adventure a Computer Recreations column might take you on:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39745923

Another one is the popular twitter account of gravitationally interacting bodies animations.

A.K. Dewdney made Steve Jobs's 'bicycle for the mind' quip real. His works were a blessing, may his memory be one too.
50Hz can be reasonably handled by 'worldwide' power transformers (thanks EU!)
It is 2024 now. Why should we live by the standards of some poem in 1883?

If we want society to continue updating its morals, why not update the morals about immigration as well?
Glad to hear he's finishing it, not just stopping. I've definitely enjoyed this series, it's very wholesome.
Interesting :). However, I think that EET is the only time zone that works. (This is mostly because is seems that the area follows DST, which most non western countries in the worlf do not).
You might like https://codereview.stackexchange.com

Note. I doubt I would complete a take home assignment that is not clearly generic and given to every candidate.

I would likely refuse to complete one that was extensive or complex enough that feedback was expected or required.

I would certainly never complete one I thought was directly related to the business and what they were looking for was free consulting.
Why the hell did they build it then?
Yeah, I've never forgotten it.

He hasn't stopped blogging either.

https://zedshaw.com/blog/2022-02-05-the-beggar-barons/

https://zedshaw.com/blog/2018-03-25-the-billionaires-vs-bran...

That last link is about this place and covers some abuse he got here on HN over that GPL article. All the way back from 2009.
Not sure if this would qualify has an "agent", but I developed my own AI personal assistant that runs as a telegram bot. I can use it from everywhere easily, handles my events, reminders, sends me a daily agenda and memorizes useful things for me. I even integrated it with whisper so that I can send a telegram voice message and don't need to write.
From a product/selling perspective, no value at all since I haven't even considered that (I'm building it for myself and my needs). But daily usefulness value? heck yeah!
Man released songs to match nearly anything you could search for
Everyone's take on a game is going to be subjective, but just to counter some of this feedback...
For me, these aren't gameplay weaknesses - they're a summary of what makes eking out a win satisfying.

> it feels like you have to win (or lose) quickly, else the middle board gets cramped and it bogs down to a long slog.

Why is that a bad thing? If games always resulted in a quick win for whoever gets the lucky start/letter draw, where would be the fun? Restricted territory in the middle of the board is what the players have to overcome.

> Sometimes I dropped junk in protected areas of the game just to wait for my opponent to be forced to touch my “front line”.

That sounds like a sound strategy. It forces you to spend a resource (protected space; potentially useful tiles) in order to take advantage of the defensive advantage, with the potential payoff that it can turn the tide of the game. It also helps build up a reservoir of usable swappable tiles... but using swaps well is also tricky, so it's not pure advantage.

Playing these waiting game phases effectively, for me, added to the sense of satisfaction in pulling off a win.

> I also desperately wanted to be able to exchange tiles. Getting a rack full of vowels is frustrating, you just have to waste turns playing them out knowing they will weaken your board and get destroyed.

You're not wasting turns, you're getting rid of vowels in order to get to draw new letters. Finding ways to make the sacrifices without weakening your position requires smart play. Again, getting past these obstacles makes for a fun challenge.
The iota trick is not an actual enumeration as traditionally defined.

If err != nil after every fallible function call pales in comparison to being able to choose your own error handling such as automatic bubbling or wrapping that you can do in other languages. Go gives you two options: explicit handle or implicit ignore. There is no other option. The if statements clog up code unnecessarily. Rust does a great job of error handling, but I’d argue that almost every other language including Java does errors better than Go.
I'm not sure i understand the ethical argument. The subject of the photo consented to it. As far as i know she was not mislead or coerced.

Like if this was a normal modelling shot, that got sold to an advertizing company to sell some product the model didn't personally approve of, i doubt anyone would consider that unethical. Generally the assumption is that if you sell your likness (assuming no coercion or other factors that would invalidate a contract), you don't get to control the image after that. That is kind of the whole principle the modelling industry is built around.

The reason why i think this point is important, is that our entire industry is built on the notion that licenses are forever and there are no take backs. Like Linus can't go, oh i changed my mind, this GPL thing is overrated, i revoke the license so i can become filthy rich. I do not think we should normalize the notion that renegging on intellectual property licenses just because you changed your mind is ethical.
No, my argument is that they do not like India / Indians. Show me something positive they have covered about India. I wouldnt care about them otherwise.
pretty convinced at this point these announcements are more about building buzz for openai then any real concern for humanity
I get that part -- I don't get the bad website though. Like why have a http website? At least have a legit website and advertise your services no?

How did they get the contracts for outsourced work to begin with? (Is there some type of shell game that prompts a larger company to make these smaller companies?)
Any good music composition intro books?
Please recommend books, also would be appreciated to get some good quality biographical books about composers
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scrub%27&pag...
Related 10 years old story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7183159
Just as other sovereign nations can decide to accept [or not] the regulations as promulgated by the FAA.
> I did not find it, decompiled game worked in x64 mode on the first try.

IIRC Raymond Chen was talking about a basically unreleased version of 64bit Alpha AXP, not the x64 port which had way more resources to spend on making the port work well.
DDoS'ing a cloud front+s3-backed html file sounds so difficult as to be impossible.

But again, I am not sure that's correct. Now as for paying the cost for egress, I'm betting they could drain my account if they wanted.
Well, at least only, that both the son and the father are divine.
I usually would've commented something along the lines of how "open" their AI is, but to be fair, this is a pretty understandable move. Sadly, it's only a matter of time before someone else will offer this feature to the public. So "open"AI is only slowing down the process.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120210051507/http://mv2.czweb....

it can be found here, and a few other places as well, but unfortunately the source code was never shared. Though it was such an amazing, blazing fast and bloatfree app, such a shame the code was never shared, and now it seems lost, unless the author is around somewhere?
A convoluted means of making mouse cursors randomly jiggle all over the screen is still a means of making mouse cursors that jiggle randomly all over the screen.
I’m making no claims about Ukraine’s military position, I’m saying Mr “close to zero new cases by end of April” Musk makes predictions based wholly on his political feelings instead of any sort of rational analysis, and given that he follows David Sacks and posts memes like this[0], I’m not surprised he thinks Ukraine should stop trying to reclaim territory and negotiate a settlement with an enemy that started the war by making a beeline for the capital.

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1708629197617336398
Can Congress define new “privileges and immunities” under Section 5? I think you might have a federalism problem, insofar as both medical procedures and The definition of homicide are traditionally regulated by the states. But if you can get around that, sure.

My point is simply that state governments get to regulate both morality and medical procedures unless some higher law says they can’t. Notions of individual choice and personal autonomy don’t by themselves constrain state power in any way.
Research? Gain knowledge? Expand their understanding?
Yeah I think Facebook and Google are already doing that internally.
I tried to get ChatGPT to write LLVM IR last year. The results were interesting: the LLM wrote superficially correct-looking IR, but it ultimately failed to grasp the concept of SSA, as it kept trying to write to SSA registers. ChatGPT can generalize across language syntax reasonably well, but it doesn't understand deeper differences in language semantics.
OMG you're regarded.

Why you aren't able to understand that AI has been blocked, and that currently it's still blocked since you can't use the API and the app, and there are still restrictions on many EU countries. You're just regarded

Sincere question. Are you disabled?
This guy makes money by selling "how to get rich using AI" courses and marketing himself on social media (which he is phenomenal at). I'm not really inclined to believe his sales numbers.
Can we not already basically do that? I swear I’ve seen pretty convincing AI text-to-speech that could be used for nefarious purposes.
That would remove some portion of the human coders, too.
but aren't current gen 0 shots gated and throttled? or has things changed for azure openai
My own speculation is it’s too crap / embarrassing to release.
I'm working on an agent-based tool for software development. I'm getting quite a lot of value out of it. The intention is to minimize copy-pasting and work on complex, multi-file features that are too large for ChatGPT, Copilot, and other AI development tools I've tried.

https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex

It's working quite well though I am still ironing out some kinks (PRs welcome btw).

I think the key to agents that really work is understanding the limitations of the models and working around them rather than trying to do everything with the LLM.

In the context of software development, imo we are currently at the stage of developer-AI symbiosis and probably will be for some time. We aren't yet at the stage where it makes sense to try to get an agent to code and debug complex tasks end-to-end. Trying to do this is a recipe for burning lots of tokens and spending more time and than it would take to build the thing yourself. But if you follow the 80/20 rule and get the AI to do the bulk of the work, intervening frequently to keep it on track and then polishing up the final product manually at the end, huge productivity gains are definitely in reach.
I was hype on them initially, but after a few months of using them, I find that they are only useful for simple questions, and for coding help with syntax for basic things I have forgotten.

Anything more complex just turns into an irritating back and forth game that when I finally arrive at the solution, I feel like I wasted my time not getting practical experience, but rather gaming a magic 8 ball into giving me what I wanted.

It just doesn't feel satisfying to me to use them anymore. I don't deny that they improve my productivity, but its at the cost of enjoying what i do. I was never able to enter that feeling of zen flow, while using LLMs regularly.
I'll also wager that consumers place "fatal accidents" in the high-order byte of overall safety comparisons across years.
I tried to get it to write 6502 assembler for the NES. As I recall it mistakenly thought that there was a BIOS containing a print function.
Depending on what you're doing this can be really annoying.
Severance was so boring I cancelled it after 3 episodes. That you enjoyed it tells me I should check silo out :)
I think the reason is they know they'll lose the market share if they don't force them. Most people know that they are addictive and "bad for you" so many people would not opt in to them. But if they're almost forced, they will succumb to the addiction.
I haven't seen Silo, but if you like quirky sci-fi like Seksmisja then:

Kin-dza-dza![1], Ivan Vasilevich menyaet professiyu[2], Akumulátor 1[3], Dark Star[4], Na srebrnym globie[5], Zítra vstanu a oparím se cajem[6], The American Astronaut[7]

Bonus round (quirky not sci-fi): Hausu[8], Sedmikrásky[9], Einstein's Brain[10], Gyakufunsha kazoku[11]

[1] https://letterboxd.com/film/kin-dza-dza/

[2] https://letterboxd.com/film/ivan-vasilyevich-changes-his-pro...

[3] https://letterboxd.com/film/accumulator-1/

[4] https://letterboxd.com/film/dark-star/

[5] https://letterboxd.com/film/on-the-silver-globe/

[6] https://letterboxd.com/film/tomorrow-ill-wake-up-and-scald-m...

[7] https://letterboxd.com/film/the-american-astronaut/

[8] https://letterboxd.com/film/house/

[9] https://letterboxd.com/film/daisies/

[10] https://letterboxd.com/film/relics-einsteins-brain/

[11] https://letterboxd.com/film/the-crazy-family/
Should've been done decades ago, but the second best time to plant a tree is now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25706788
Discovered a tiny but alive Corewars contest online in the early 2000s and discovered the wonders of computer communities over distances that were insurmountable in real life. Thank you.
The Peripheral has been awesome. Too bad it's cancelled.
I'm also noting this but could be because its Sunday?

or was GP implying lot of people are gettin funded to build agents in a thread where the consensus is they dont work well enough for people to pay for
Fun website. How did you build it?
I'm sad to learn this projet is shutting down. The maintainer (xvello) contributed a lot to my uBlock dev filter [0]. We tried to reduce the time lost on deceptive and low-quality content for search engine users. Generative ML and aggressive SEO technics hit hard.

Bye letsblockit and I wish you well @xvello.

[0] https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter
For the high seas I had thought a design criterion was self-righting; is that only true for smaller vessels?
Since the LLM sometimes generates invalid COBOL a simple practical solution would be to use an API and allow it to test its code with GnuCOBOL, feed the output and have it try again a couple of times. I wonder what the updated benchmarks would be in that setting.
> the culprit for increased drag was skin friction

You raise the question of whether Teflon-coated rotors might have improved the efficiency... but isn't the skin friction also the source of propulsion? Would eliminating the tendency to "drag a great deal of water up" also eliminate the tendency to make headway?
Well, I just meant that Spinoza was a Jewish heretic, not a Christian heretic (at least, no more than say, Mohammad), since the discussion was about Christian heresies specifically. The encyclical only discusses pantheism rather than Spinoza---I don't know that pantheism is specifically Spinoza's invention. Of course, no doubt that Spinoza wouldn't be considered a conforming Christian by any Christian church, but not just because he wrote "Deus sive Natura" (the extent to which Spinoza's thought on the relationship between God and creation is incompatible with classical theism is up for debate, it seems to me. See the interesting comments by /u/wokeupabug here - https://old.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/nar433/how_d...).
Fire 8 out of 10 of your knowledge workers and have the other remaining 2 review and fix LLM output.

Basically the same what we have now, except the grunt workers will be replaced by the machine.
Thank you for this. It does clearly corroborate that figure of 9%.

Still, 230,000 dwellings of 2,125,000 in total is a lot to be be vacant during an accommodation crisis. As I said elsewhere, the number of vacant dwellings is higher than most would suspect.
This is a classic example of why overflow instead of being defined (as some people want) as wrapping (since that's what the CPU naturally does for basic arithmetic), it should be an error, and if you didn't handle it (and in many cases you hadn't even realised it could happen so why would you?) thus fatal.

If the report runs and says something like "Fatal: Overflow while multiplying customer_space * repl_factor. Consider floating point numbers or a larger integer type" - you'd go "Oops" fix the bug and run it again.
It seems to match her wishes. You don't need an ethical argument to make a kind gesture to an icon, just make a statement and let everyone move on. There's effectively zero cost.
Given everyone has a phone in the pocket and a huge chunk more have a watch on their wrist, what need is there for a "main clock" for the kitchen to be something so awful?
There's nothing of substance in this article. Robinhood, for instance, can easily cap the 3% limit. Companies also always adjust their uninvested balance APY. If the fed drops the rate, so will RH's.
sadly it did, the 3.1 version was the last one that I remember as still not bloated, 4.x was already bad. But up until that, 1.x, 2.x, ..., they were great.
"My models are too strong for you, general public. You better find an AI lab that produces weaker models"
you know these driveby comments writing a bit of contextually relevant bit that always ends with a me-too link are getting tiring. To the point where I see it here, I begin to suspect things aren't going well in your other sales/marketing funnels.
> You seem to not care and look at it only with an anti-India lens.

What anti-India lens ?

> Congress was in power for ~70 years, so imagine the power they wielded against opposition parties.

I know they did. But what is your argument here since Congress was authoritarian BJP has right to be slightly less authoritarian than Congress?
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