skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean, "legitimate companies"?

You seem to have misunderstood the difference between an advertising agency and a SEO company. What you're describing is what advertising agencies do, SEO companies are spammers that sell access to their spamming tools. It's similar to the difference between an agency practicing law and having them send a cease-and-desist, and buying a DDoS.

Not that I'm particularly fond of any of that, though I have lawyers practicing in another area as customers.
Asking chatgpt for low-level systems programming in the first place is problematic. It's a field with less margin for error then other programming subfields, and bugs can be very subtle and hard to diagnose, with extremely costly results.

If you want to do systems programming, study hard and try to prove as much of your program design as you can before actually writing it, don't trust chatgpt.
That entire paragraph is a joke. That’s why there is a little wink at the end.
Ah, redblobgames! I remember their hexagonal coordinate system post from many years ago:

https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/

An excellent example of their more interactive posts and great for those interested in hex-grid rendering and navigating.

edit: wow, over 10 years ago and the content has been updated but the look and feel is much as I remember it. This was before reactive systems took over the web, too, so the 'toggle selection here, see updates everywhere' was quite notable for the time.

On the actual topic of the post.. I think flow fields easily get overshadowed by waypoints and other hierarchical approaches. Or, folded into the heuristic function for A*.
As I was reading, this voice got louder and louder:

Would LLMs cross this threshold if we were able to train them only on works that are “objectively good”? if someone has better language than this, please enlighten me)

That is to say: coherent, empathetic, transparent, free from bias, substantiated, free from “fluff”.

For example: For science one cannot simply train from all works published in scientific journals because of the papers that have been written irrespective of facts, or had the data changed, or have been written with specific agendas. In most cases even the experts have a hard time weeding out all the papers that are not “objectively good”. How could an LLM hope to make the determination during training?
MIDI? We used this to build a circular LAN and play computer games against each other on the Atari ST
no idea if that was a factor
The thing which kills me is that I am still mystified (and outraged) by how in my lifetime we went from:

- I am selling my family farm because I don't want there to be a perception of influence.

to:

- I am keeping all of my companies and property and will be charging the Secret Service which has the duty to protect me room and board.

That said, the whole UFO thing is pretty ridiculous --- it's _hard_ to bring an object which is under power and moving at speeds which allow interstellar travel into our solar system at a relative velocity which allows interaction --- witness ʻOumuamua which despite being "just" a dead chunk of rock was detected and photographed.
This is one of the best technical computer books I have ever read. Thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a whole lot from it.

And besides the great technical content, it is also well-written, funny, and well-illustrated. A monumental achievement!
Relicencing Monitor
Never thought I'd see a pro-advertising industry "hacker" on this site.
Google routinely uses agencies for this kind of work (I have been on both sides). A marketing website like this would be a ~$100,000 spend (depends how many pages and how many creative assets).
Google contributes KVM patches upstream. See https://www.phoronix.com/news/KVM-CPUFreq-RFC-Patches , https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-New-ASI-KVM-2022, https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/hardware/processors-me...

Regarding AWS, I would also add Firecracker for AWS Lambda, which uses KVM.
And yet ChatGPT 3.5 can tell me the nth letter of an arbitrary word…
Correct.

If you're offering me money to link you, then presumably you believe your content is not of high enough quality for me to link you otherwise.
For those wondering, the 6502 and various derivatives are still being manufactured, by one of its original creators [0] - so I'd guess an equivalent development in the world of the Z80's nemesis is unlikely anytime soon.

[0] https://www.westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/chips.php
https://youtu.be/JCKb2r_E1PQ
I'm far from being an expert on AI models, but it seems you lack the basic understanding of how these models work. They transform data EXACTLY like spreadsheets do. You can implement those models in Excel, assuming there's no row or column limit (or that it's high enough) - of course it will be much slower than the real implementations, but OP is right - LLMs are basically spreadsheets.

Question is, wouldn't a brain qualify as a spreadsheet, do we know it can't be implemented as one? Well, maybe not, I'm not an expert on spreadsheets either, but I think spreadsheets don't allow you circular references, and brain does, you can have feedback loops in the brain. So even if the brain doesn't have something still not understood by us, that OP suggests, it still is more powerful than AI.

BTW, this is one explanation on why AI fails at some tasks: ask AI if two words rhyme and it will be quite reliable on that. But ask it to give you word pairs that rhyme, and it will fail, because it won't run an internal loop trying some words and checking if they succeed to rhyme or not. If some AI actually succeeds at rhyming, it would do so either because it's trained to contain such word pairs from the get-go or because it's implemented to have multiple passes or something...
Is there any evidence that these probabilities are based on any real calculated heuristic?
More like 42:

MIDI was revealed to the world, on the Sequential Circuits stand at the NAMM show in January 1983 (precisely one year since Smith’s proposal got the brush off)
Agreed, mainstream 'scientific' establishment scientific inquiry is a sham. It's a modern form of religion.
That is exactly correct. Now please read what I wrote again..
“Those who are staying in there are not staying in there for noble causes. They’re criminals,” University President Tom J told the local newspaper.
Rest assured the existing tech monopolies who are flooding the internet with hallucinated AI garbage will be there to sell us our own "Verified Human-Written Content" back to us.
Eric S. Raymond has a new project to eliminate the need for autotools: https://gitlab.com/esr/autodafe

It appears to give the benefits of autotools with the simplicity of make.
Most of the Zynq line include hard ARM A and/or R processors. Either way, just because something isn't in consumer electronics doesn't man vulnerabilities aren't important. Imagine a vulnerability in the control systems for your car or the planes you use.
Great project! I used MNIST because it is easy to work with as a dataset. Audio classification would be quite interesting as a follow up, but I assume one would need some kind of transform to deal with the data in an easier way.
There’s a middle ground: don’t use your registrar as your DNS provider. You can use Google Cloud’s DNS while using Squarespace as the registrar, avoiding any problems with Squarespace’s DNS service being subpar.
To clarify, power reserve works when your phone has run out of power to the point where it has shut itself off.
I took a look at the press releases and I can't see a lot of information about payloads, but if they're operations were anything like Nova-C (which I worked on), then they generated lots more data on landing than they could downlink at the time.
Love the slanted design, works great given the context
Perhaps for you. Do you believe this as an American statistic, or global one?

What evidence ca you provide?

I feel like all of the articles I read about comparing work across time say people worked less before industrialization; although I think it’s a silly thing to compare and more of a thought experiment.

Either way what relief does your position provide, even if correct, to the many underpaid and overworked people living in your city?

How does your opinion fit into the current uptick in people having to work multiple jobs, and people saying they will be unable to ever retire.
What about selfhosting Bitwarden?
We are packaging everything that is good with technology support into one app, allowing users to get trusted IT support on demand.

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We have already released a early beta version and tested our Ai powered smart fix tool. Resulting in 1000's of smart fixes for a range of software and hardware.
Nowadays an attack can come from terrorists, so it doesn't even have to be some rogue state. As drones are becoming cheaper and more accurate it doesn't take state like resources to do real nasty damage anymore.
But it can also be rogue/failed states (no shortage of those), and it can also be Russia.
Britain was already a target of major terror attacks.
I believe the Arduino project used only a single hidden layer, whereas the authors quantization scheme allowed them to use multiple.
Those who are saying india are wrong, this time they are training them at munich office.

Rule is simple cheap labour and more people can do better job.
what's your puzzle? mines the river crossing puzzle
Ask HN: What is the most incontrovertible proof of ET that you ever came across?
One of my friends who was watching the qualifying and race mentioned they had an hour or two of testing or something along those lines, so...

I wonder how well micromouse teams would do in this :P
I'm guessing "Meta, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google" but with a "_" for some reason
I see some potential for an LLM to unfuck the dom - ultimately there’s going to be patterns
RISC OS 5.30 now available
I'll stick to paper tickets for the time being.

In my case:

A paper ticket is simpler and quicker to buy, and I can wait until I am reasonably convinced trains are running before buying.

Scanners for e-tickets don't work. Every day I see people fighting with them with their smartphones while I just wizz past.

Sometimes "old tech" just works.

(I use TfL trains but not tube so infrastructure is shared with other operators in standard train stations. It may work better in the tube)
Google laid off it's entire python foundation team
Okay, if we take your comment as the “full truth” then you have successfully identified the cause of your loneliness so the solution for you, specifically you, would be to give your money away.

Then “interacting” would be a requirement again.
What does Jquery UI and how is it different than regular Jquery?
This product appears to be promising. I'm intrigued to test it out. I appreciate that it focuses solely on addressing the RAG requirement and doesn't attempt to be a one-size-fits-all solution for LLMs.
Haha, I thought your handle was "amazon", and I'm wondering: why aren't you pimping Route53?
119k on MacOS.
> How is this going to work for other cases such as MySQL?

You could do a query like SHOW DATABASES as a healthcheck for mysql.
The fact that the Atari STs had MIDI built in was the main reason that they were so successful as computers in recording studios (and that they were much cheaper than Macs certainly helped a bit as well)
Kurt Gödel's forgotten part in the atom-bomb story
Unfortunately no! We did want to add secret stuff like hidden doors or fake walls back then, but we had to keep scope under control since that was only a promotional demo for our studio.

Edit: not sure if you're talking about Equinox or Keep out. But my answer is true for both projects. ;)
>> Nobody has time to do this anymore

By every measure don't people have more time than ever before? I think it's more a dramatic shift in how people use & view the internet. The (unfortunate in a lot of ways) answer is probably create something new and exclusive, but universal enough for the target audience that's going to do all the work to align incentives, try to pull along the good and leave behind the bad. There has been and will continue to be a lot of false starts & failed attempts. If successful it will eventually be co-opted and ruined too. So it goes.
People of Cgc jhanjeri shares deep condolences with the python team.
Hope they get job somewhere else with more success
The “lights in the sky” stuff has always had better explanations. I watched a C-5 fly over low at night in the Adirondacks and it was very odd; very UFO-y until just before it passed over us.

It’s the “the spaceship landed next to me in my farm field and aliens came out” claims that have faded away.
Part of the reason why micromouse is fascinating is not necessarily the "play-by-play" action, but rather the technological and mechanical skill that goes into running them so successfully - sort of like F1 being more engineering-focused than other forms of racing
This is a fascinating approach, and I'm always keen to discover new applications for React, like simple 3D projects with react-three-fiber. I've also experimented with an Unreal Engine reconciler using a JavaScript plugin but didn't continue with it.
Couldn't agree more with all this.

I would love to rent a Tesla exactly as mentioned but waiting 30 minutes at the start or the end is just unacceptable to me.

I would need to be given a pretty good discount on the rental to even consider it.
Simulate the C. Elegans worm brain in the browser
there is an error in the thought of pretty print, there are 2 cases where the else branch gets numbers: 0 and 0.0
the logic of mypy and others is correct.
My Setup, April 2024
Computational Science and Engineering by Gilbert Strang
Indeed using a mouse sensor for data input would be quite interesting.
Mayber another option would just be a row of phototransistors.
Lactose intolerance is on a wide sliding scale.

Some people get violent diarrhea from ice cream, and some people can drink half a glass of milk before noticing any difference.

And some people might even choose a little bit of loose stool as the cost of eating dairy based. And some might not.
Thanks! Yes, we plan to release the soundtrack (which we produced in-house) in the future.
What Students Read Before They Protest
The fear is real. There is no space under the seat for both a bag and feet if you are tall. I carry a reasonable sized carry on but it contains a work laptop and a few mobile devices / tablets (I'm a mobile dev) plus prescription medication. I get so anxious waiting to see if there will be space.
Japanese yen is down 20%+ in 2 years. How are property prices in Tokyo in €£$?

Nigerian Naira is down 75% in two years. How are property prices in Lagos in €£$?

Turkish Lira is down 80% in 4 years. How are property prices in Istanbul in €£$

shall I continue?

USD can absolutely have a 50%+ depreciation in next 5-10 years. That is completely possible. Will it lose reserve currency status? No absolutely not. There is no viable replacement. But when we measure in purchasing power or gold or other stable pricing reference it can happen and property prices will not fall in those terms.

Printing currency doesn’t strictly cause economic collapse in simply causes a loss in value and faith in the currency.
Show HN: Fully Homomorphic Encryption from Scratch
If I spend some amount of the day bathing, some amount of it scratching, some amount of it thinking vaguely about racoons without any clear conclusions, and a lot of it drinking tea, I wonder how many seconds remain during which I qualified as generally intelligent.
You don't have to cover the long tail... Maybe just top 10% of topics would be a big improvement.
>his knowledge of physics had meant he had not believed himself to be witnessing an alien spacecraft

One of our known scientific facts is that we know our understanding physics is incomplete (namely, QCD and GR are incompatible), so obviously we can never put 100% confidence into Carter's negative claim.

This is just Epistemology 101, and totally uncontroversial.

For all people, our perceptions are influenced by what we expect to see. European explorers attributed "lost white tribes",[0] and native people saw dragons instead of sailing ships. No doubt many of their people said those who saw dragons were the "clear headed" ones!

Maybe (just maybe!) we should remember our history, and think twice before being hasty with confident-sounding "End Of History / End Of Knowledge" style pronouncements.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn4bvjMh4vc
Seems like a smart tool for enhancing coding skills. Tagging LeetCode problems by difficulty and having a tailored review plan based on spaced repetition is a strategic approach to learning.
It’s not the bargain you think it is. These people pay a steep price to make our cheap stuff. They’re surrounded by plastic trash. And just like in the article, because there’s no waste management in these developing parts of the world, they just burn the trash to get rid of it.

In any event, having all these clothes is just a part of life that we’ve gotten used to. I’ve never heard anyone complain about a lack of clothes or shoes unless they were suddenly deprived of them.
Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes
"Multiple civil cases -- and a federal investigation -- contend that Tesla’s technology invites ‘drivers to overly trust the automation.’"
Show HN: I built a new AI tool to automate Twitter posts using Claude 3
A few weeks ago I realized i was spending way too much time trying to write quality posts for Twitter.

So I decided to look into scheduling tools which could help me automate my writing. I tried a few, but none of them satisfied me. Either the interface was way too complicated or the features i wanted were just not there.

Finally, after some time I gave up… and instead I decided to just do it!

I hacked up a quick prototype in a weekend. Tried it out - it worked!! Mostly.. I fixed some bugs, made a nice UI, and now (3 weeks later) I think I built one of the nicest scheduling tools out there.
Dart was a good language and it applied what we learned about mobile app dev into a language suited for it. I always thought Java was a clumsy option for mobile dev. It seemed like a good move IMO. There are going to be people resistant to learning new things anyway, and those people would stick with RN (coming from JS/React) or native (coming from Java/native).

Android later took a lot of the learnings from Dart and applied it there. I wouldn't say Flutter was a waste, it was just deprecated because there was little advantage over native Android.
Ask HN: What are good resources to learn more about WINE?
I have tried to find resources (videos or websites) to understand the details of WINE (http://winehq.org) and how to get new applications to run with it, but have had no luck.
Are there any hidden gems that can help me?
Should the stock market never close?
ExtractTransformer looks like it has a lot of potential. Going to try this out tomorrow at $DAYJOB.
You're not wrong, but this is also a great acid test. We need to work to help people understand google is most definitely not the internet, and where we fail or don't get through leave them behind. I don't know what comes next, but there's not room for everyone, and I include many here (and likely myself) in those who won't make the transition. We love to imagine people physically leaving Earth for Mars and beyond, but what follows the internet is going to happen far sooner.
> 3. But the internet is too big - so we have to distribute the workload.

> 4. Oh, a distributed trust-based system at scale... it's going to be game-able by people with a financial incentive.

These are solved by being transparent and surfacing the agent (maybe even the sub-agents) for ranking, and allowing us to choose.

This way, if someone/something is gaming the system, I can just say "this recommender is garbage", and consequently it and all its sub-choices are heavily downranked for me.

This'll make filter bubbles even worse, but that ship has sailed. And I'm sort of a progressive-libertarian-centrist (in the classical sense, not in the American sense). If I get put in a bubble with people who have similar balanced tastes: yes please!
> Second, I'm really fond of the full-disk backup I have running. I has saved my ass several times, allowing me to be back in action in less than an hour with minimal data loss, by simply swapping out the disk and restore.

Does ZFS approximate this?
I mean that you're not required to archive a transcript of every meeting if you weren't already planning on creating the transcript in the first place. Once it's created, agreed, I would expect it to become a business record akin to meeting minutes of board meetings.
No, mise is compatible with asdf plugins, but it is its own implementation. If the plugin uses pyenv (I believe the python plugin does) then it will use that. But otherwise it's not a wrapper. E.g. the asdf golang plugin downloads the files from https://go.dev/dl/. It entirely depends on the plugin itself.
Not at the moment, but thanks for your interest.
I'm working on a facility with redundant power and my impression is that it's not insanely expensive if you have expensive machinery to protect and that diesel generators are far and away the most common and inexpensive second feed.
pyenv + pip tools is all one needs. Supposedly uv is gunning to be a drop in for both. I think there’s a good chance uv pulls it off and becomes defacto for this use case.

I think it’s fair to see appeal in poetry, but ultimately the maintainers have created a culture that feels a bit too non-collaborative to outside ideas or use cases beyond what they more narrowly envisage. That said, my perspective may just be tainted by multiple poor experiences interacting with the maintainers.
I think the USS Omaha video is one of the most anomalous videos.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/13in2...

https://thedebrief.org/pentagon-confirms-leaked-video-showin...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/underwater-ufos-display-capabilit...

As an aside note look into Timothy Gallaudet mentioned in the last link.

Here is one of his most comprehensive interviews, watch the first 10 mins (and then the whole thing) quite mind-blowing.

https://www.youtube.com/live/wGHAs10vMso?si=1z-f85-I0fSrpjOZ
They're consistent to the model, particularly if you ask the model to rationalize its rating. You will get plenty of hallucinated answers that the model can recognize as hallucinations and give a low rating to in the same response.
Ehhh, I've barely managed to keep up with all the changes to Android. Things like permissions/security, Jetpack, Material 3. I'm happy to let them slow down for a bit.
A good reminder that the technologies that are most transformative in society often times start out appearing deeply complex with a poor UX for the average individual.
sure but it’s not a drug to treat viruses (covid in this case), these weren’t people looking for valid off label use

sometimes pointing out people are being dumb is completely valid - if you buy horse dewormer from a vet to treat yourself ineffectively you kind of have it coming
Is this the new cheat code to get infinite money from governments?

No seriously the amount of cash the our goverments (Canadian here) pumps into projects like this is always annoy me.
But are you professional in their eyes? :’D