skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just clicked on the first one in the list and it doesn't make much sense.

https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/page/cosmic-keystrokes

I tried this output in an HTML file locally and of course, it's barely functional, but even the prompt itself seems so strange.

> Write me a fully complete web app as a single HTML file. The app should contain a simple side-scrolling game where I use WASD to move around. When moving around the world, occasionally the character/sprite will encounter words. When a word is encountered, the player must correctly type the word as fast as possible.The faster the word is successfully typed, the more point the player gets. We should have a counter in the top-right to keep track of points. Words should be random and highly variable to keep the game interesting.

> You should make the website very aesthetic and use Tailwind.

If I'm using WASD to move around, does that overlap with the act of typing any word that includes w, a, s, or d?

It's also got multiple typos? "the more point the player gets" "possible.The"

And while not a typo, "You should make the website very aesthetic" is funny.
I can't speak to this case, but dev kits and SDK/documentation are often two separate SKUs and the latter has a higher price. If I remember the Crash Bandicoot guys found a hardware bug with memory card saving because they rolled their own code rather than using the SDK they didn't have.
values of β will give rise to dom!
Getting Started with Mistral
It is, in reality, just paying for a separate line, nothing else. It is not a more convenient or even different security process, as precheck tries to be, it is just a more consistently short line to get to that process. The entire identity verification aspect is nonsense, and everyone knows it is nonsense. It is arguably slower than just showing an agent my passport.

I agree that it makes little sense, and doesn't seem like it should be allowed, but for some reason, the airports in the US have decided that paid priority security lines should be outsourced to a for-profit private intermediary offering a nonsense security service.
On the podcast with Dwarkesh Patel, he was quite explicit that he believes that open-sourcing has worked out for them in the past and they're interested in it in the future but they'll only do it so long as it helps them. If they make something awesome that it would be worse for them to release he won't release it. And the license is anti-competitor (if you have 700 million users or more, you can't use Llama) so he's quite clear that this is a business decision.
>I think had there been solid cheap or free Smalltalk and Common Lisp implementations around 1992, Java wouldn’t have gained a foothold, though C++ would have still been very appealing to C developers, though perhaps if Objective-C were more broadly available to non-NeXT developers, it would’ve been a formidable competitor to C++ in terms of providing a “C with objects” environment.

100% agree. i think it is also interesting that in comparison to before lisp community of today is so supportive of free software, standing more on the left wing of the open source community.
Not much to explain, that's just how Fair Use doctrine is currently interpreted. It's not really morally right in this context ("greater good" rationalists will argue with me on that) but so far the courts haven't spanked anyone too hard for using that loophole.
State Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates
Financial market applications of "transformers", not LLMs
I haven't used/installed antivirus (or firewall) software since 2010.
No, that's basically correct. Mods are primarily for downloading community-made tracks/maps for songs not included with the game. There are also officially licensed DLC song packs, but they're quite pricy and still only provide access to a limited selection of tracks.
It's comparable to fuel tank fires in the first half of the twentieth century - regulations on manufacturing standards, puncture-resistance etc. need to be implemented in such a way they can't be gamed by industry leaders to prevent competition. Standardization and interoperability requirements should have been set out already.
It seems to suggest they're limited to Qualcomm chipsets, and Qualcomm don't make a higher end VR chipset so it's hard to see where a high end headset would come from.
I love Brett as a human, but IMHO, putting effort into acquiring a private beta key isn't worth the time. I have one.

It would be wrong to think of nvUltra as the new version of nvALT, for the most part. And, like you said, other products have eaten it's lunch.
HMC allows you to jump quite a large distance by obeying the 'equations of motion' of the 'Hamiltonian'. This helps give more diverse samples, making them less correlated thereby increasing number the effective number of samples.

It is indeed quite cool how it works.
Come on man I'm not going to go through countless blogposts from a year ago and then argue with you about them if they were overhyping AI or not. But if you recall the discussion a year ago was apocalyptic, both for the human race and software engineering jobs.
for 2D you can also plain old android apps, they work here.
the point though is that there's not that much room for 3D stuff without going through either unity or unreal or writing everything yourself from scratch.

if your goal is to make some sort of `spatial computing` tool, well there nothing here you can use. each app is it's own little silo that has little room for interaction.
I'd love to be able to write my own custom apps that can exist in the home screen/environment and that can interact with each other in non trivial ways.
it would make it feel more like a personal space rather than a 3D slideshow that I can use to launch games.
'Copy paste' errors led to insect flight, octopus camouflage and human cognition
> Public doesn't mean it's available for someone else to use however they see fit.

You're implying the embed is being used unethically or in an illegal way that violates copyright - it's not.

> That's why we have licenses and YouTube's default license ensures creators retain ownership of what they upload

Not true: YouTube manages copyright themselves and can even control which countries the video can be viewed in etc. And the rights are given up by the creator when they agree to YouTube's terms which grants YouTube a:

“worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Service”

which of course includes their site embed.

> I have no problem with that. YouTube even allows creators to enable or disable that on a per video basis. I keep it enabled because it's useful and promotes sharing of the original content as it was delivered

If your problem is the fact that the video is summarized in a blog post, tutorial, article, etc. then I still disagree, and maintain that it doesn't violate any copyright - the purpose of the YouTube embed is to display the content on another website.
I accidentially hit the reply button on a reply of the post I was actually referring to. Parent was about Strigeus. Besides: Since every mid-sized LLM appears to pass the test I’m not even trying anymore.
> They want this to be the next Android OS (with Play Store equivalent of course).

Or the next Apple with the next iOS ?
Not sure if you're the author, but the linked cheat sheets all 403/AccessDenied
Language standards like POSIX shell, JavaScript, and C++.

...These are narrow waists because they solve the interoperability problem of {user programs ...} × {language implementations ...}

Calling those languages "narrow waist" due to interoperability might be true but it says a lot more about how stuck we are as a field than how great those languages are at interoperability. Both languages are, in each their own, complicated at best.
Intel Meteor Lake's NPU
Hey, I'd love to reproduce the ~2x slowdown you commented from running the workload in Native CPython compared to Wasm CPython (in any runtime, browser or outside).

Any tip would be helpful so we can debug it. If your claims are accurate, we can easily get py2wasm even running faster than native CPython!

Note: we benchmarked in a M3 Max laptop, so maybe there's some difference there?
Ah that's why Windows and OSX dont exist anymore.
More likely because they want to use songs that aren't offered except by modding.
huge BSD fan, but this is a debate I've come back to a few times. really like FreeBSD on my server but linux just has so much more happening, esp. on the desktop, there isn't really a comparison.

like maybe if I just needed a simple browsing-word-coding box, but there are Mac offerings there if I want to go fancy, or linux on a commodity Dell/Acer, if I don't, and most of the linux offerings are usable desktops right out of the metaphorical box
Thanks for pointing that out. I honestly don’t know anything about surveys. Someone vouched for the company that did it for them, but I am still skeptical that their claim is true or that it deserves such a sensational title.

If the survey process was published also then I would have zero issue with it.
And I'm still forced to have some form or variant of a Facebook-touched account, even if they want to change the front company behind it.

I don't want to sign in to use a headset, period.
> iPhone came out in 2007. By 2015, smartphones ruled the world.

Advanced phones with proper os, apps, camera had been around for years, and personal digital assistants before that. Tablets, too. iPhone got the form factor and ui exactly right and triggered an explosion, but it was far from the first. We might still be in the "smartphone, pre-iPhone" years.
In a sense I think this prompt is a good example of the assumable issues that exist with the doom scenario that company CEOs will be able to simply tell an LLM what they want and the whole program will be generated flawlessly for them. What the "CEO" wants in this scenario likely makes sense in their head but can't actually be built as described.

Though, really, there is no real WASD conflict here. When you hit a word, you'd simply disable WASD controls until the word is typed successfully.
My hunch is Zoho is using Razorpay (YC W15) internally for payments.

A company like GOOG can't justify using a product like Razorpay that is directly competing with internal platforms.

> That does seem like something that can be easily fixed

It's a very hard problem due to KYC, AML, and a multitude of other compliance and legal headaches. That's why Stripe and Razorpay can justify multi-billion dollar valuations.
This looks like an excuse, frankly. Grapes stand perfectly drought and sunny conditions. The plant is famous for growing where no other crops would.

I wouldn't discard other raisins for that layoff.
No one has mentioned this yet, but their pricing is twice of what I pay for github copilot. What does it offer that's substantially better than copilot?
Less specific interfaces let you do less interesting things, but are more resilient. It's an engineering tradeoff. Purpose-built interfaces that fully expose and understand domain-level semantics are great in certain circumstances, but other times you want a certain minimum abstraction (IP packets and 'bags-of-bytes' POSIX file semantics are good examples) that can be used to build better ones.

If the rollout of HTTP had required that all the IP routers on the internet be updated to account for it, we likely would not have it. Likewise, if we required that all the classic Unix text utilities like wc, sort, paste, etc. did meaningful things to JSON before we could standardize JSON, adoption would likely have suffered.
Sure, but with AP all the comments could be in one thread instead of being dozens of threads on different sites
The Economist has published several critiques of ESG investing:

- ESG is overbroad and contradictory, and funds that select investments solely based on emissions criteria would serve investors better [0]

- ESG is ineffective because it is rife with greenwashing [1]

- ESG is fundamentally unable to accomplish meaningful progress on social goals because profit-seeking will always take precedence in corporations [2]

I don’t think every ESG-related piece they publish needs to include a lengthy disclaimer that the publication itself doesn’t love ESG, just as their critiques of ESG don’t need to include disclaimers about the downsides of boycotting firms that offer ESG products, as mentioned in the article:

> Taking a stand can be expensive. Researchers at the Federal Reserve and the University of Pennsylvania have found that anti-ESG boycotts raised the cost of borrowing for Texan municipalities by $300m-500m as banks with ESG policies withdrew from underwriting bond sales.

[0] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/07/21/esg-should-be-b...

[1] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/05/22/sustainable-fin...

[2] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/09/29/the-fundamental...
The only meaningful hardware competition, meaning lower prices, will come from Chinese designed, Chinese manufactured parts. This is still a long ways out.

Is it inevitable? I think so. Before 2019 there wasn't an opportunity, now there is.

For software, Chinese universities, Alibaba, Tencent and Bytedace are already releasing models, training code and in rare cases datasets that are competitive with private offerings. CogVLM/CogAgent is one that I use. It's very promising.
Celestial Eye
Again, a really good example that the framing of the concept begs a specific response. Keep 'em coming.

Association and allegiance aren't synonyms.
Before the iPhone we had palm pilots, blackberries, etc. I prefer to think of it as consumer VR simply hasn't had its iPhone moment yet
This is the first time I have seen anyone popen’ing a pipeline like that, and writing to its stdin.

Bravo.
> The restoration is part of a "bold bid to steal container traffic" away from the waterway, said the Financial Times.

I doubt that. Isn't the Canal already operating at maximum capacity? The railroad would simply enable more traffic. It's not zero sum.
Ask HN: How to keep a team of 4 pentesters together?
We’re a team of four experienced penetration testers in Germany, who have weathered the storms of two layoff rounds at two different companies within a year. Despite the setbacks, we’ve stuck together, relying on each other’s expertise and camaraderie. Now, we’re facing a new challenge: finding ways to keep our team intact and thriving. We've been mainly looking for full time jobs as a team. We've been through several rounds of interviews with multiple companies, but so far no one has made the decision to commit to our offer and hire us.

The main obstacle we’ve encountered is the language barrier. Two of our team members don’t speak German, which has proven to be a significant hurdle in securing full-time positions. Many companies in our field in Germany require proficiency in German, making it challenging for us to find suitable employment opportunities.

Freelance work has been another solution, which we are still considering and actively searching for projects to work on. However, finding the very first paying customers seems to be challenging.

Despite this, we’re determined to find a solution. We’re considering starting our own cybersecurity company or exploring other entrepreneurial ventures that would allow us to continue working together. However, we recognize that this path comes with its own set of challenges and uncertainties.

That’s why we’re reaching out to the Hacker News community for advice and support. If you have any insights or suggestions on how we can overcome our current predicament, we’d love to hear from you. Additionally, if you know of any companies or individuals who might be interested in collaborating with our experienced team, we’d greatly appreciate any connections or introductions.

If you wish to discuss with me, send me an email at daniel@neagaru.com.
Can I as the owner of the site moderate those comments if they're linked to the canonical reference to my site and appear next to my content when viewed outside my site?
And yet monkeys and apes managed to move past the Arabian desert to move as far east as Japan and across the Sahara into Morocco and elsewhere in North Africa.

(While looking to see what the range of old world primates was, I discovered that there are marsupials in Papua New Guinea including something called a Tree Kangaroo.)
A Big Panic over Tiny Plastics
If we're looking at America - maybe it would be useful to talk about the historic treatment of the Native Americans, or of the Chinese, or the Catholics, or the Irish, the Italians, women, ...

Or about very similar systems of "many humans are second/third/fourth/etc. class, and rights are mostly for the first-class ones" - which were perfectly normal in Europe, for centuries and millennia before the first African American was even born.

OTOH, that kinda talk could really upset the simplistic little worldviews of most of the folks trying to mine themselves a pile of performative virtue gold out of this mess. And what could those dear precious first-classers do, to keep scoring themselves more self-rightous street cred, if things actually started getting better? We can't risk that...
It's an enormous organization (one of the largest in the world) that is largely getting audited on physical objects that either spend 99% of their life sitting in stockpiles, or getting actively used and discarded.

Passing an audit isn't having its checkbook balanced. Passing an audit is like your employer delivering a full and accurate account of how many chairs it owns, as well as providing all the necessary paper trail for how all of them were acquired, moved, and discarded.

Doable in a 5-person company, or a 50-person company, next to impossible in a 5,000-person company, actually impossible in a 500,000 person company.

And the DoD has hundreds of thousands of different types of such items to keep track of, all of which were tracked by disparate physical-fingers-counting-stuff accounting systems, that were historically not up to the expected standards. Updating them and reconciling all of them is a long process, which the DoD is working through.

I hate war departments as much as the next liberal, but I also recognize that this is an incredibly difficult ask.

And that the failures are generally not caused by Lt. Billy Bob filching Stinger missiles to sell to some warlord in East Oblastan.

The grift in the DoD comes from contracts for buying more crap that it doesn't need, or for paying good money for contract work that doesn't get done (Iraq, Afghanistan), not from having stuff that was bought 'fall off the back of the truck'. The organization "has* an audit problem, but it's main issue is one of procurement.
I don't need an account to use my monitor or my TV. Why do I need one for a VR Headset?
It seemed to work well in Fast Five until there was a plot twist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Five
Moravac (in the linked paper): "In both cases, the evidence for an intelligent mind lies in the machine's performance, not its makeup."

Do you agree?

I'm much less keen to ascribe "intelligence" to large, pretrained language
models given that I know how primitive their training regime is compared to
a scenario where I might have been "blended" by their ability to "chat" (double
quote here since I know ChatGPT and the likes do not have a memory, so all
prior interactions have to be re-submitted with each turn of a conversation).

Intuitively, I'd be more prone to ascribe intelligence based on convincing
ways of construction that go along with intellignece-like performance, especially if the model also makes human-like errors.
Mull probably has WebGL disabled as an anti-fingerprinting measure.
VideoGigaGAN: Detail-Rich Video Super-Resolution
The number of employees who can see failure coming does not matter when they are organized by hierarchy and coerced to work toward failure under threat of losing their wage.
Freight trains are almost never fast trains. It isn't worth the extra energy for saving hours for containers that have been in transit for days.

The rehabilitation increased the speed from 12mph to 43mph. They are planning passenger train that can reach 50mph. So that is probably limit to the railroad.
Two reasons:

1. Large class sizes are only effective if the instructional method is rote memorization. Otherwise, the teacher ends of having all the same kinds of issues corporate managers have.

2. Teachers literally go through years of formal education on pedagogy and effective leadership. Most corporate managers adhere to the Dilbert Principle, where they had been a competent IC whose role grew too big for one person, so they were allowed to hire a helper... before they know it, they're managing a team, until they become too incompetent at the managing part.
FishyMails – Stop polluting your email database
Home Assistant has a new foundation and a goal to become a consumer brand
+1 I do this, too, but with a function:

function cheat () {
curl https://cheat.sh/$1
}

Example:

% cheat jq
Why would they shut down the Metaverse? It’s clearly the future and Zuck brought it up again in the last podcast that people are linking to. Apple just release a bad headset that just confirmed the bet that Meta took
Building Pinecone's Global Control Plane API
In the EU, opting out must be as easy as opting in. Apparently "The Ocean Cleanup" is based in the Netherlands, which is in the EU. So they're breaking the law.

In fact, I found opting out to be as easy as it would have been to click "Accept"; but that prevented me reading the article.
Interestingly enough, the free software movement came about due to Richard Stallman’s frustrations with Symbolics, one of the Lisp machine companies that came from the same MIT AI lab he worked in. It’s just that RMS chose to reimplement Unix (GNU) instead of creating a free Lisp operating system, though one could argue half-jokingly and half-seriously that GNU Emacs is that free Lisp OS.
It's great isn't it! All ads should go there. In fact ads should be banned everywhere else!
The Vimes Theory of Socio-economic unfairness.

https://terrypratchett.com/explore-discworld/sam-vimes-boots....
Every time I hit 'W' Firefox highlights the letter, meaning the help menu comes up.
That's actually a problem. In c, variable declarations are not context-free.

mytype *foo;

Could be a variable declaration,
Or is it?

Suppose you had

int mytype = 42;
int foo = 1;

Before it. The C compiler will happily turn the statement into a multiplication with the result going to /dev/null

var foo: mytype;

Can never be parsed with any other meaning depending on how the chips fall after parsing (and possibly analysis, given that macros are a thing) the entirety of the file.
Its not as simple really. X Server being work on so much and being partially open was because DEC and co were in a panic that Sun would turn NeWS into a second NFS.

NeWS also could and did run on some other Unixes.

So really a lot of the history has to do with complex pissing context between different vendors that eventually escalated into full blown Unix wars.
Practical Vim command workflow (2023)
Copying the look of an innovative distruptor though
https://archive.is/gY3tw
Part of the switch to gas mopeds was due to the fact that most of them were being ridden around completely illegally; without license, insurance, or plates. The barrier to entry there was artificially low because the NYPD didn't prioritize taking them off the street. I think they're starting to crack down now so maybe we'll see fewer mopeds.
The economics of this is interesting to hear.

GNU Common Lisp (https://www.gnu.org/software/gcl/) seems to have existed in various forms from the mid 1980s, but it was probably outclassed by the contemporary big tech companies.
Because these aren’t dumb headsets that just plug into your PC. These are standalone headsets that handle the whole thing — they aren’t just a display and controllers, they take the role of the PC too.

So, needing an account for these is more comparable to needing an account to use Steam