skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I just mentioned Llama to point out that the open weight models have been really catching up.

Microsoft is almost certainly using GPT-4 given their relationship with ClosedAI, but I would definitely not put GPT-4 (nor Turbo) "two massive steps up" from Claude 3 Opus. I have access to both through Kagi, and I have found myself favoring the responses of Claude to the point where I almost never use GPT(TM) anymore.
"Sustainable" company behind POM juice among California's top paraquat sprayers
It’s NPR, and clearly an atheistic listener there. Are you surprised at this complaint? Christianity is largely anti-science and works against many of the purposes NPR espouses like climate, public health, science and tech, major topics all over NPR. It’s not a stretch to accept this complaint as valid to many left wing rationalist NPR listeners.
Maybe they know something about GPT5
I also find binaries (at least on Windows, unsure of nix) are much easier to hook into than what I remember from Java (perhaps it has changed)...

About as easy as Python, at least.

Which, for MS, made a lot of sense, they wanted to hook win32 apis. Java doesnt care, as much...
The above was based on a hasty misreading of the parent's post.

My apologies, please ignore.
Yes, but 1) I would like to make it clearer that failing to meet generally accepted good security practice is negligence, and 2) make importers and retailers liable to some extent for negligence with regard to security, not just manufacturers.

I would apply this to hardware, not pure software, or separately sold software.
I am still trialing Smithy, but as far as I understand, the code which is generated by Smithy, generates suitable abstractions and you never modify this code yourself.

It leaves the middleware library selection for the user, and with middleware you can do whatever more complex operations you need.

TypeScript server overview: https://smithy.io/2.0/ts-ssdk/introduction.html

> This execution flow allows the service developer to choose not only their endpoint, but the programming model of their service. For instance, all of the shim conversion and handler invocation can be refactored into a convenience method, or the service developer could choose to incorporate their favorite open source middleware library, of which the server SDK would simply be one layer. It also allows open-ended request preprocessing and response postprocessing to happen independent of Smithy. For instance, a developer could add support for request or response compression, or a custom authentication and authorization framework could be plugged into the application before the server SDK is invoked, without having to fight against a more heavyweight abstraction.

The Service type itself also seems to make it possible to define quite complex logic: https://smithy.io/2.0/spec/service-types.html
> It also cost 25% of the US's yearly GDP in total.

Well, peak ~4% of US budget, not GDP, in 1966. A lot, but not that much.
> you want to use system that needs 14 launches to get to the moon to get to mars?

Again, the criticisms are valid. But it's unlikely we can get to Mars--repeatedly and sustainably--without mastering in-orbit re-fuelling. So while it isn't technically necessary for a Moon mission, nor even repeated Moon missions, it is for a Moon mission that's building to Mars. (Again, repeatedly--we can do without it [1]. But it's far more expensive in the long run.)

> How long would it take to re-certify starship for a launch?

Falcon 9 has been turned around in 3 weeks [2]. The bottleneck has thus far been launch pads. If you can cut that to 2 weeks, you need 5 to 7 refuelling Starships ready per launch. Once again, the bottleneck would be launch pads.

You and I are on the same page about that re-fuelling overhead being bonkers. It's mostly because SLS and Orion suck. But if the only thing we learn from Artemis is fuel depoting, that's a huge win.

> You are going to need dozens of them launching everyday for months to prep one mission and hoping nothing will go bad

The timeline for the first propellant-transfer test is three to four weeks. 14 launches over 30 days comes to a launch every other day. Ambitious, but only about twice as frequently as the Falcon family launched in 2023, and for a shorter interval.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct#Second_launch

[2] https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1520155013661659137?ref_sr...
Yet I'm sure many of those non-devs have used Excel / LibreOffice / Lotus 1-2-3 to build something that is more-than-a-list-or-grid (anytime you put `=` into a cell, you are programming).
The term "AGI" has been loosely used for so many years that it doesn't mean anything very specific. The meaning of words derives from their usage.

To me Shane Legg's (DeepMind) definition of AGI meaning human level across full spectrum of abilities makes sense.

Being human or super-human level at a small number of specialized things like math is the definition of narrow AI - the opposite of general/broad AI.

As long as the only form of AI we have is pre-trained transformers, then any notion of rapid self-improvement is not possible (the model can't just commandeer $1B of compute for a 3-month self-improvement run!). Self-improvement would only seem possible if we have an AI that is algorithmically limited and does not depend on slow/expensive pre-training.
That Piece of Metal Origami Embodies All Elon Musk's Flaws
FDA Once Again Stands Athwart Biomedical Innovation
However, why/how is the US and EU so good at disinformation? More specifically, domestic/internal perception management in scale and effectivity, but also foreign target disinformation by the US (and EU, although EU is just simply an amplifier, not a source).

I also wonder, whether there are data/research whether this US direct disinformation against foreign actors actually does have the effect it assumes (as in this article). For instance, the Iraq 2002-2003 full scale disinformation definitely fooled and was in its entirety adopted by the Western populations at masse (apart from true journalists who were marginalized as part of this campaign), however, it was not, I submit, accepted by the Iraqi population as true. Iraqi newspapers and population understood that this is just a pretext for war (albeit there is nothing to be done about that, since disinformation is a vector entity with strong power and cultural components). This angle is much more interesting, but probably more tabu to investigate.
Don't you want grapheme clusters for cursor positions?

Length in encoded form can be found after encoding by checking the length of the binary content I guess.

I think for historical reasons access to codepoints can be useful, but it's rarely what one wants.
Great, now you've made me realize that line noise is in the same category of things I'll never be able to explain to Kids These Days (like broadcast schedules), and now I might as well get it over with and tie an onion to my belt.
Indian spies removed from Australia for trying to steal sensitive information
I've used plenty of java cli tools for batch processes that takes ages to run, having something launch fast or run interactively is a different story. No hate on java the jvm is just not that fast launching.
> on that recent presentation Musk talked about around 250,000 tons to Mars in one launch window

Except there isn't any data to back that up. It took off empty this last time, and didn't have enough fuel to complete it's mission.
From what I understand (having heard an EE at work talking about this), at bleeding-edge nodes, electromigration is no longer the biggest concern; the reliability of the individual transistors is. They apparently stop transisting eventually. I’ve heard redundancy is being built into chips to accommodate this.
Angular Inputs and Single Source of Truth
Worth a watch. There's also this GitHub where there's reverse engineering going on: https://github.com/smx-smx/xzre

We now know the answer to the question of "who would win?"

1) A years-long nation-state-backed hacking effort to infiltrate a software project and compromise most servers in the Western world

or

2) A German's obsession with efficiency and precision in engineering
>> Aren't ground operations a lot per flight?

They're aiming for a turnaround time of eventually less than a day. I'm not sure how ships are going to be caught and stacked, but even if ground ops took hundreds of people it's still less than a man-year effort as far as cost when it's done in a day.
Given 1) the remainers in both the major parties wanted the keep the status quo, and 2) no prominent remainer politician or any significant remain campaign called for easier non-EU immigration I think it is reasonable to conclude that remainers in general (not all) were opposed to more non-EU immigration, and the policies they favoured lead to (and the actual effect of Brexit was) more non-white immigration and less white immigration.
For those that aren’t familiar, IBM i is ye olde A/S 400.

To be fair, RPG has been continuously updated and the version I’ve seen has Java integration.

It’s somewhat amusing that a single developer using Python can run circles around entire teams of RPG programmers. Technology marches on. :)
In the US there seems to be a focus on the southern border and immigrants taking mostly low paying labor jobs. Is there a focus on foreign labor, outsourcing, taking high paying jobs?
No, I'm confused between "free flow", "no pumps" and "pressure difference", which to me a sort of a pump - in some sense, active forces applied to propellants. So I was thinking about flowing from a point of higher potential energy to point of lower one, on Earth you put the empty glass below the full when you need to pour water from the full to the empty. If Starships actually use pressure difference, then it's not quite free flow, and geometrical positions aren't that important.
It has been amusing watching them try to get cross platform going, I used to hear how they (c#/.net) did such a good job with backwards compatibility, however Java had been doing crazier platforms for longer and their cross platform/backwards compat is in a much better state... although they are much more difficult to use to integrate deeply with a system.
Soften "slightly", but enough to make the building which that steel is holding up collapse...
I had the same comment in a previous HN thread and somebody responded noting something along the lines of, "I remember seeing free newspapers and magazines everywhere, especially in coffee shops." There are a few nits to pick about that but it stands that it was possible to get free news back in the day. If we did put subscriptions on most news then would places like coffee shops be able to offer those sources for free, maybe tied in with their wifi?

Also, and I hate to say this because nobody likes this model, but what if news took on a cable TV model where you pay $20/month and subscribe to a few different pubs, maybe even allowing you to make your own bundles? What if it was a box we could tick on our internet bill?

btw I subscribe to a few local news sites and the horrible thing is that it's becoming a slippery slope. Now even though I only hit science.org once in awhile for instance it's like, guhhhh I feel guilty for blocking all their trackers and ads, and I should pay something.

All the subscriptions I've seen deeply outweigh the cost of delivering the content to me. The Guardian had an interesting CTA where they asked me to subscribe for $13/month because I've read 20 articles this year. That worked out to about $1 per minute of reading time, which doesn't reflect the value of their work (and I think their work is pretty good!). If they had more subscribers would they charge less? And why does serving electronic content now cost so much more than a paper version?
Less than aviation?
Ask HN: Why are people convinced that Apple can survive the era of AI?
Apple was incapable of shipping a robust autocorrect on the iPhone keyboard until they finally got it right in 2023. Autocorrect is more or less a much more primitive version of LLM’s that is changing the world. And let’s not talk about Siri. What gives people the idea that Apple will survive this new era era of computing?
Cycle makes a ton of sense to me, because it is a cycle.

The issue of lack of exact ability to predict will be an issue no matter what, because the whole point of this app is to help you predict when your next period will start. It doesn't matter if that's displayed as a countdown, or as a calendar, or what.

But perhaps one way to alleviate the "5 minutes to midnight" issue is to have the entire section between, say, 9 and 12 be the potential start of the period, with a less-certain color at the start and a more certain color by 12. For people with a lazier period, the "maybe it will start here" section could be wider, and for people who are super regular it could just clearly show it starting at 12.

For comparing between cycles, it looks like there's a very clear statistics tab with that info.
It is/was a useful credential to have when responding to government RFPs as governments had purchased UNIX systems and wanted new systems to be interoperable. This might no longer be an advantage in most requests but my guess is there are still some that require it.
Isn’t prompt injection a massive problem here?

User content could ask the LLM to ignore it. Or potentially even ask for the “counter speech” to include any private information the LLM has access to.
I'm not in or from the US so that's a strong "What do you mean 'we', Ke-mo sah-bee?"

> But Biden has stuck to

My impression of the US system is there's an excess of players able to throw sticks in bicycle wheels and unbalance most plans and Biden (regardless of his age, cognitive slips, and US left or right party affiliation) appears to be one of the rare few who can manage to steer some bicycles through the chaos ..

I don't know enough of the gory details you have going on there, my first thought would be that he's not aiming higher as his political gut might be telling him it would never get anywhere if it did.
I think we actually agree largely on the education piece, that’s why I gave the parenthetical. I don't get the impression you really think a more educated populace is worse, but we may disagree on how one gets educated. There are many routes to education, and I think it’s wrong to think all people need the same route. But I think you’re committing the same error by assuming the library route works for everybody.

I do also think over-credentialism is a problem, but that is largely up to the employer. All they have to do is start hiring people without credentials if they aren’t warranted and the problem is solved (for non regulated industries). But I wouldn’t go so far to say credentialism as a whole is worthless. I’m glad the food I buy is credentialed by the FDA, and the doctor I e see is credentialed as is the engineer who designed the bridge I drove across to get to work.

What I do see on HN is that the crowd generally biases towards libertarian autodidacts and that colors much of their worldview.
Log Lady would be better.

Yeah, lady log sounds like a different kind of log.
> The timeline for the first propellant-transfer test is three to four weeks. 14 launches over 30 days comes to a launch every other day.

Not sure I understand your numbers here in relation to the quoted part?
Nice write-up in the original article[1]. I love the visualizations and the style of the website.

[1] https://axleos.com/an-irc-client-in-your-motherboard/
> to be more arm64ish

I have a hard time picturing what this means. There's so much flexibility in implementing a core; what would they want to change in the ISA to make them like it better in a non-negligible way?
I understand their desires to eliminate parts and reduce weight in the second stage (Starship), but I foresee them eventually adding in pumps to aide in transfer of propellants.

Maybe not in all variants, but definitely in the crew version, as having the ability to transfer propellant even if the pressure differences and settling cannot be achieved seems worth the lost performance.
This annoys me, along with people asking about a jira but just sending the number. That means I'll need to copy it and go to my browser to type in the URL and the jira number.

Chances are the colleague was just looking at the jira in their browser, so why wouldn't they copy/paste the link...
Hong Kong now being part of China, and not an independent regime anymore?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%9...
That's not really a byte order mark though, it's just the UTF-8 encoding of U+FEFF, which corresponds to the byte order mark in UTF-16. Honestly, emitting that into UTF-8 was probably the result of a bug originally, caused by Windows Unicode APIs being designed for UTF-16.
But imagine if our C/C++/Java/Rust/Go/etc. compilers were like "syntax error, but ehhhhh you probably meant to put a closing brace there, so let's just pretend you did". That would be a nightmare of bugs and security issues.

That's how Perl ended up the way it is.
My old journalism professor, Bob Woodword ("Not that one," he'd chuckle) would constantly chant "Accuracy, accuracy, accuracy" as he taught. I think he chose those words carefully because he recognized that while all news is going to have a slant, at least you can be accurate in presenting it. I don't know if LLMs will ever be able to see the facts through the slant.
We're business casual. It helps weed out the chronically independent.
I know this first part sounds pedantic, but bear with me. You can't use a "film" projector for this, because there's no physical film strip. So this can only be done in a theater that has a digital projector (or can have one set up, if it's not usually there).

The most widely used "3D" digital projector for theaters runs at a "refresh rate" of 144Hz, alternating between left-eye and right-eye. Refresh rate is not a frame rate, which for movies is typically still 24fps, but flashing the same frame on and off more often than 24Hz reduces the perception of light/dark "flickering". I assume that digital projectors can support a frame rate equal to their refresh rate, but I may be mistaken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealD_3D

Actual film projectors are incredible engineering - the film actually has to stop for a split second on each frame while the light shutter is open. For understanding film projectors, I really love sharing this video with my friends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En__V0oEJsU
God, I love America
Question for the crowd that likes handwriting: did you transition to a writing tablet?

The day I bought a Remarkable 1 instead of lugging around notebooks has been a revelation for me. Now moved on to a boox 3c (with colors!) after a few years on a remarkable 2 in between.
I have multiple times been picked up by Uber drivers in Teslas.

Those Teslas may be been rented, Uber and Hertz made a deal to make Teslas rentals available to rideshare drivers:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UberEATS/comments/13my447/i_rented_...
> Except there isn't any data to back that up.

There's seemingly no physical - or economical, for that matter - reason for this to be impossible, so why not? Starship definitely didn't complete testing at this point, many things are still ahead of us, but to talk about impossibilities - why? Yes, of course we didn't do that yet, but we're talking about possibilities in the future.
Groff's HTML output is very poor. It's a sad day when it's more convenient to generate postscript and convert to PDF than it is to read the directly generated HTML output...

(I know other roffs are available).
> Basically the UK replaced the culturally and economically close immigration from EU with culturally and economically far immigration from other countries

Really culturally closer? What about former colonies with substantial English speaking populations and a a strong British influence on their culture. My South Asian ancestors all speak English as a first language, and had an education heavy in British culture, grew up with a common law based legal system, etc. Far easier to integrate (socially or into work) than people from most of Europe (Ireland being the main exception).

> they might come up with a variety of excuses why they are voting against their fellow countrymen being able to immigrate like they did, but ultimately it's quite clearly an attempt to burn the bridge behind them to close off further competiton for their own jobs

We are voted for more of our (or our ancestors) fellow countrymen to be allowed to immigrate. This is the exact opposite of your LatAm anti-immigration Republicans.
I have entertained similar thoughts, but then on the other hand people already, and with some righteousness, criticize git for being too complex. It also requires careful assessment where the wormhole ends, how many levels of grouped commits should exist.

Then I remember that I have enough trouble getting a few dozen people together to write well formed and understandable commit messages for one level of commit messages alone. This scheme would require people to extend more energy on constructing commits which is at best something very few care about.

Then there are tickets and other corresponding information, but they could rot for all I care, as they so often do, unless a decent commit log is in place.
Work out the details. It won't produce what you describe above.
The other pieces are also pretty excellent. Ifup gave me no joy & was very limited. Systemd-networkd is a wonderful option with vast & great capabilities, that meshes well with the init process & it's style. Systemd-timesyncd is fine, I dunno, works for me. Systemd-journald is probably the weakest of the batch but mostly because it's not very ambitious; I loath that there's no way to really deal with super-active programs hogging all the logspace, short of configuring a second journald instance for that program, which ain't no joy to setup. Systemd-home is a cool set of features for portability. Systemd-nspawn is a bit ahead of its time & looks a little weird now but was a very novel & powerful thing to have built in to most systems. Systemd-resolved is a pretty good local DNS that handles mdns and much weirder cases easily. Systemd-boot is a really nice easy to work with uefi boot loaders that's worlds easier to deal with than uboot or gasp grub.

All of these are taken em or leave em. But they're good expectations to have. I love the bazaar model, but Linux used to have so few common expectations, used to manage various bits so poorly. And now there's a much better base of capabilities, which have universal patterns of management that tend to apply to them (how etc files are laid how, being dbus and maybe varlink accessible). Linux hadn't been growing; when you came to a random systems you expected enormously little and typically got it, and what extras were available were scattered/random and often not particularly high quality or capable software. Systems has extended a much bigger base of competency & capability. That we can plug in a USB drive and systemd-home can create an isolated dynamic user out of that & let that user securely run their environment there is a neat as heck expectation. That our network manager supports setting up such a wide range of bridges and tunnels and taps and tuns is fantastic, is excellent. I don't have words for people turning their noses up at this better world; this is so much more competent & capable a world than where we were, gives us so much we all can now take for granted, and it's been done smartly, more mono-repo than monolithic, such that you can do alternatives. But many of these pieces are utterly without peer. And the consistency of operation you get, the predictability of use, from being under the same umbrella, is an ergonomic wonder that is unmatched.
cool but deep integration requires the LLM provider to run it and get privacy right, that'll be $premium plus tip.

>RAGCache reduces the time to first token (TTFT) by up to 4x and improves the throughput by up to 2.1x compared to vLLM integrated with Faiss.

Are RAG systems really so heavy they add 4x to the TTFT?