skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But it raises a question. Do words evolve by mistake, or do they evolve because we need to say something and we don't have the right word for it?

Mostly the former, from what I can tell. People hear a “fancy” word, misunderstand it based on limited context, begin to use it where a less-fancy word would do (for whatever reason), and before long one cannot use the word in the original sense without being misunderstood by most audiences.

This typically results in reduced space for expression, as a distinct word with its own shades of meaning is turned into just “fancy [other word or phrase]”.
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> and it would have been faster to just do it.

False. Obviously this depends on the work, but an LLM is going to get you 80-90% of the way there. It can get you 100% of the way there, but I wouldn't trust it, and you still need to proof read.

In the best of times, it is about as good as a junior engineer. If you approach it like you're pair programming with a junior dev that costs <$20/mo then you're approaching it correctly.
Here it is https://github.com/sass/sass-site/issues/1030
Democracy didn't fail. We are just holding it wrong.
It's part of a larger prompt trying to get it to generate a couple paragraphs that include interesting facts. I want the facts in the context of the paragraphs.
Many thanks for that link! Agree with all your points. D3.js is indeed an excellent library and worth learning.
People also forgets that coding is formal logic that describe algorithms to computer which is just a machine. And because it’s formal, it’s rigid and not prone to manipulation. Instead of using LLMs you’d better off studying a book and add some snippets to your editor. What I like about Laravel is their extensive use of generators. They know that part of the code will be boilerplate. The nice thing about Common Lisp is that you can make the language itself generate boilerplate.
There's a Black Mirror-esque movie plot idea in there! Everyone starts using bionic implants to filter out offensive parts of reality like people they don't like and stuff, until one day all the filters start falling out of sync with reality...

...and then aliens invade.
One could come up with dozens of plausible explanations in seconds of thinking:

1) build networks of accounts that amass many followers to facilitate data collection (scraping public or friend-only profile data, photo, and text) without hitting rate limits, for the purposes of building surveillance-ready profiles of a nation's or the world's citzenry and to build face identification datasets on foreign populations for later use, in other words building a web scraping network in a foreign controlled data ecosystem with mixed privacy settings for non-logged in accounts

2) maintain swaths of accounts with many followers for a "rainy day" when you want to be able to communicate en masse to a nation or language-sphere's populace with subtle propaganda or straight up messaging

3) distract a populace from any matter of subjects or manipulate them to pay attention to the things you want them thinking about / looking at

4) provide cover for #3 by creating such a mass of content that the stuff you really care about is more easily hidden amongst the noise

5) dumb down a foreign population to weaken them economically - everyone knows the Douyin (domestic TikTok) has legal limits in place on allowed content especially for minors that is intended to promote intellectual growth and productivity, there's no such limits on Tiktok, and it wouldn't be hard to imagine they could facilitate the opposite for the PRC's subtle benefit

... I'm just freestyling here and I'm sure I could reach 20 in a matter of 10-20 minutes
This one? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/15/hawaii-mi...
This is interestingly similar to a little tool I wrote called sops-run [0], which manages encrypted secrets for cli tools using Mozilla’s sops [1]. Biggest upshot is that you can use it more confidently for secrets with encryption at rest. Built it when I was trying out CLI tools that wanted API keys, but I didn’t want to shove them into my profile and accidentally upload them into my dotfiles repository. Do need to finally get back to making this a package, being able to install it with pip(x) would be really nice.

[0] https://github.com/belthesar/sops-run

[1] https://github.com/getsops/sops
Do you know if Stallman would platform Oracle by allowing them to be a sponsor?
99.x% the speed of light, but the image would be blueshifted and highly distorted.
Haha, interesting. You win some, you lose some.
You really see no difference between following the robots exclusion standard, doing nothing to conceal your origins and intents, and respecting blocks when they appear; vs concealing your origins and intents, willfully ignoring the robots exclusion standard, and going to great lengths to circumvent IP blocks and other bot mitigation measures?

Both of these are the same?
If you want to run your applet today, try CherpJ: https://cheerpj.com/

This should be able to run absolutely any Java in the browser.
Jony Ive's bold plans to reshape a small slice of San Francisco
California Senate bill to crush OpenAI competitors fast tracked for a vote
can't wait until they're good enough to screw up complex tasks in subtle ways after undercutting the pay of junior developers such that no one is studying how to program computers anymore
Obviously, no idea why your doc was using Wikipedia so much, but in general the fair baseline to compare isn't Wikipedia, it's mature, professionally reviewed material like Uptodate, Dynamed, AMBOSS, etc that do have clinical decision support tools and purpose built calculators and references. Of course they're all working on GenAI stuff. (Not to mention professional wikis like LIFTL, emcrit, IBCC).

An issue with these products is access and expense (wealthy institutions easily have access, poorer ones do not), but that seems like a problem that is no better with the new fangled tech.

GIGO is a bigger problem. The current state of tech cannot overcome a shitty history and physical, or outright missing data/tests due to factors unrelated to clinical decision making. I surmise that is a bigger factor than the incremental conveniences of RAG, but I could very well be full of crap.
Can you use freely information from a website is a simple statement, yet....We have LLM.
I am not suggesting anything of the sort. The family should absolutely sue the driver for everything he's got, an avenue available beyond the paltry criminal penalties applied here.

Of course, that will not make the family whole. Additional punishment for the driver will also not make the family whole.

The question is: what are our priorities as a society? This article is arguing that our priorities are terrible: as a society we create the conditions that allow and perpetuate this kind of tragedy on a daily basis, and then point fingers at the individuals when the tragedies inevitably happen.

We can't do anything to make this family whole. Advocating for greater punishment will do approximately nothing to make the next family whole.

This article is arguing: all we can do to make the next family whole is to stop treating traffic fatalities as unavoidable, and prevent the next tragedy by treating cars as the dangerous objects they really are, by supporting alternative modes of transportation.
Can you expand on this comment in the context of ice/water? It implies ice changes behavior at about 140K, but that isnt close to a phase change boundary, so what would you expect to be seeing here?
twitter limits you from listing all tweets from a user profile don't believe me?
try listing all 20k tweets

in this file we gathered 20200+ tweets each one having tweet id, tweet text, date, quote count, like count, bookmark count, retweet count
Now he wants revenge.
>> Same with lawyers, although the stakes are lower with lawyers.

Doctors and lawyer appear to be using LLMs in fundamentally different ways. Doctors appear to use them as consultants. The LLM spits out an opinion and the Doctor decides whether to go with it or not. Doctors are still writing the drug prescriptions. Lawyers seem to be submitting LLM-generated text to courts without even editing it, which is like the Doctor handing the prescription pad to the robot.
eelco here is not accused of behaving in a facist or bigoted manner though. The accusation is two steps away already, specifically not being sufficiently supportive of the means of a process which has prevention of facist or bigoted behaviour as one of its goals.
Automation bias plus the LLM failure mode (compitant, confident, and inevitable wrong) will absolutely cost lives.

I am a fan of ML, but simplicity bias and the fact that hallucinations are an intrinsic feature of LLMs is problematic.

ML is absolutely appropriate and will be useful for finding new models in medicine, but it is dangerous and negligent to blindly use, even quantification is often not analytically sufficient in this area.
I guess the unprocessed "photos" look like multidimensional arrays of floating point numbers. Nothing a human could appreciate. The interesting question is how they are processed.
Yeah, Kagi is more for academics and people wanting to search the real internet, not the pop one.
And how much labor costs to earn that $250K? Once that is factored in, I’m guessing fair price is zero or negative.

Plus knowing a bit about warehouse costs … your $10K is a bit on the low side don’t you think?
Our parents grew up watching a shoebox sized screen you could hear turn on from the yard outside. They can tolerate a lot of things that would send newer generations up a wall.
Every human endeavor is underpinned by something social.

I think it's appropriate to separate concerns and use categorizations to help us separate ideological goals from practical reality. Paper is also used to fight wars, as are a myriad of other goods and services that exist in a more or less neutral space.

There's an important and very large conversation to be had about what we do and don't think is acceptable use of technology and general goods/services, but issues like the Nix meltdown seem like misapplied frustration at how resources are allocated (to buying things used for war) and an attempt to solve that allocation problem by cutting off supply instead of addressing the allocation of funds at the root.

Clearly some people think this is a good tactic, but I question both the effectiveness and the net good of such a tactic when the slope required to implement said tactic is indeed a slippery one.

I would prefer that code I write is never used for purposes I believe to be harmful. But this is fundamentally incompatible with the OSS model.
> In both cases, she used sophisticated tradecraft that sought to leave no trace in databases accessible to European authorities. For instance, she booked her trips and bought her plane tickets using her Czech passport, registering only that nationality with the Greek airline. But upon crossing the Russian border, Šapošnikova used her secret Russian passport, thus bypassing the need to obtain a Russian visa issued to her as a Czech citizen and eliding the digital footprint associated with the relevant application.

Wouldn't the Greek airline (and Greek exit immigration control) check for a valid Russian visa for a Czech passport? They had to put the exit stamp on _something_?

Or did she use the Russian passport, but then wouldn't that get scanned into the system?
Yes: Endless amounts of investments and inflated stock prices enabled by the zero-interest economy caused the cash-awash tech organizations to become more like research institutions, churning out interesting, promising, but esoteric and complicated concepts and software that has scarce applications in the real world and business. They became a cross between actual companies that do business and extensions of grad schools. Like a continuation of the college that you went to. And some companies openly pursued that mix and advertised themselves as such to attract talent even.

Now that the zero-interest economy is over, the entire tech sector is readjusting.
That was probably the only "cheap stunt" of the entire series. They still had to consider the average viewer, I suppose. But I know a few people I recommended it to were turned off by that exact early scene and never got past it. Really unfortunate.
I think more thoughtful limits would be a good idea. I also think the reduction of aid money has been part of the problem. I just don't know where the money comes from to shore up that problem.

I have seen other pilot programs. I think it was Purdue who was considering "buying stock" in students, where the student would pay a portion of their income for a certain number of years in exchange for a scholarship.
This is what I've been predicting for over a year: AI-assisted programming will increase demand for programmers.

It may well change how they do their work though, just like spreadsheets did for accountants and compilers did for the earliest generation of hand-code-in-ASM developers. I can imagine a future where we do most of our coding at an even higher level than today and only dive down into the minutia when the AI isn't good enough or we need to fix/optimize something. The same is true for ASM today-- people rarely touch it unless they need to debug a compiler or (more often) to write something extremely optimized or using some CPU-specific feature.

Programming may become more about higher level reasoning than coding lower level algorithms, unless you're doing something really hard or demanding.
Challenge to spread anarchism during the first week of May
I think that line was meant to help you understand how the algorithm works internally, not what information was revealed the player.
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That is a beautiful website. I got lost in it and it created a sense of wonder. Nice.
Looking at your real-time cloud rendering, have you considered trying to interpolate between the images provided every 3 hours by EUMETSAT? I have tried this using images from DISCOVR but I'm not totally happy with the result. I wonder if you or anyone else might have some ideas to get more realistic movement between the clouds inbetween each 3 hour interval?

https://github.com/alexspurling/earthflow
They Live... kinda?
Yes, there is so much we can’t possibly know or experience in our lifetimes, perhaps in the span of time our species will exist, to the extent that it becomes easy to imagine ourselves more like bacteria on a speck of dust floating in the air rather than on any scale towards the inverse. We’re incredibly small in size and mental capacity.

In ways the bacteria on the dust are oblivious to the scale and nature of the world around them, we seem similarly lost and hopeless in the pursuit of comprehending the universe. We just weren’t built to grasp this kind of scale. We can enjoy images of the tiniest little slices of it, though. I’m actually very grateful for that. I think it’ll be a source of endless wonder for my entire life.
Smart people don’t like sex scenes?
These new systems would do well to have a compelling “wow, this solves a hard problem that can’t be solved in another straightforward way”.

The current YouTube video has a query about the Dallas Mavericks and it’s not clear how it’s using any of its memory or special machinery to answer the query: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnUU3_xK6bg
Your claim is false, and your evidence is nowhere to be found
Regarding China:
China accounted for 95% of the world's new coal power construction activity in 2023, according to the latest annual report from Global Energy Monitor (GEM). Construction began on 70 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity in China, up four-fold since 2019, says GEM's annual report on the global coal power industry
China started construction on 70.2 GW of new coal-power capacity last year, almost 20 times the rest of the world's 3.7 GW.
That's fair, but why would they see (what they think is) "log in to endorse someone" as the part of the process which requires deliberative thought?

Yes they should consider who and whether to endorse, they should probably check to make sure they're doing the endorsement correctly, but if you're looking for the Log In button to do the endorsement and you see what looks like a normal EULA above a prominent Log In button of course some percentage of people are going to skim over that.
True, I think since Java 17 they have been removing really obsolete stuff.. I think that's when they removed CORBA from the JDK as well (though you can still get it as a library I believe). Same with Nashorn (the JS runtime).
I see. Do you personally believe the quality of life in the US is good and will remain good in the foreseeable future ( just your opinion ) ?
The whole idea behind Open Source is that one does not discriminate.

As a Nix user I feel like those people who started this whole drama are actually negative to this project. They are trying to use Nix as a tool for their political goals.

I think the best for Nix would be to just move forward and ignore them.
wait wuuut? I don't get it, I do this with asdf using the `.tool-versions` file. What's the difference/improvement?
> Agile does replace requirement gathering and planning, though.

No, it shifts it, it does not replace it. Agile promotes the integration of what were, under classical Waterfall (courtesy of the DOD, in particular, codifying it) separate stages. Not separate in appearance, but actually separate. In classical Waterfall, following the DOD defined process which somehow escaped into the world, requirements, specification, development, and testing are separate stages possibly done by separate groups and executed in series. This is foolishness if it's a non-trivial project (on trivial projects you can use almost any process and succeed).

Agile is, in part, a counter to that foolishness: Those are not really separable things. You have to mix them for any non-trivial project. This means, if you're in a competent org, you do a mix of each of those activities (and others) throughout the development process, you don't remove them. At the start it's more requirements and specification heavy, with a bit of development and testing (prototypes, spikes in XP terms, and other things). As time goes on the process becomes more development and testing heavy as requirements and specification settle down, unless a real-world event makes the system obsolete before release. Then you figure out how to adapt to the changing circumstances which means revisiting requirements, specification, code, and test and figuring out what will surive, what won't, and how to make it work.

> A core Agile tenant is responding to change rather than following a plan.

That doesn't mean don't have a plan. It means don't be stupidly rigid, when the plan is overcome by events, respond to the events rather than stay committed to a now-wrong plan.
Check out Hobart's Funnies [0] and the great Panjandrum [1] for some other awesome WW2 British out-of-the-box thinking.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart%27s_Funnies

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjandrum
the bill/now law at-hand makes only reference to earlier (and legislatively amendable) codification, that's correct.
Yeah but "the dogs" in Slow Horses is laughably out of control ridiculous at points...reaches out of your immersion in the interesting story to grab you, shake you, and declare what you're watching is absurd hyperbole. Very disappointed by that aspect and I hope they're done with that excess.
Very untrue. Evolution didnt evolve depression, just as evolution didnt evolve every other disease or defect. These are byproducts of convulated systems.
Perhaps the point is the text? The European version of that sticker has a picture of an extinguisher, sometimes with text in the local language underneath.
I found that upgrading mine with a full keypad -- including the ABCD column on the right -- did wonders for my rep. And of course a switch to toggle oscillators, so I could send red box tones.
Since the images in the article are from infrared cameras, blue-shifting the light might just land the view from those IR images into the visible spectrum for the observer! Just need to tune the speed correctly.
It means they're available to the "public", whose meaning changes depending on what country you're/the channel is in. As an example, the Swedish broadcasts from SVT (government TV) is "public" but only for people in Sweden, so if you're on a IP "located" outside of Sweden, you won't be able to watch those streams.
It is a very practical way to show someone is being quoted though.
> Are there any arguments that could seriously motivate me to continue with this career outside of just blind hope that it will be okay?

FWIW, as an oldish, so far everything that has been significantly impacted by deep learning has undergone a lot of change, but hasn't been destroyed. Chess and Go are a couple of easy examples; the introduction of powerful machine learning there has certainly changed the play, but younger players that have embraced it are doing some really amazing things.

I would guess that a lot of the same will happen in software. A lot of the scut work will evaporate, sure, but younger devs will be able to work on much more interesting stuff at a much faster pace.

That said, I would only recommend computing as a career to youth that are already super passionate about it. There are some pretty significant cultural, institutional, and systemic problems in tech right now that are making it a miserable experience for a lot of people. Getting ahead in the industry (where that means "getting more money and more impressive job titles") requires constantly jumping on to the latest trends, networking constantly for new opportunities, and jumping to new companies (and new processes / tech stacks) every 18 months or so. Companies are still aggressively culling staff, only to hire cheaper replacements, and expectations for productivity are driving some developers into really unhealthy habits.

The happiest people seem to be those that are bringing practical development skills into other industries.
How's that invaluable? Even if someone's a quack or a little crazy, he may still be mostly right.

Don't get me wrong, there were days when the paranoid fever dreams of borderline schizophrenics clearly belonged to the realms of unreality. But those days are gone. I miss them, but pretending they are still with us won't help.

Take the pizza-parlor related conspiracy theories from a few years back. Thanks to the revelations concerning the late great J. Epstein, we know they were for the most part wrong. Except, for the part where a significant portion of the ruling class regularly engages in sex with underage girls.

The quacks were wrong about everything except the most essential part of the story.

I can give you other examples, if you wish, but few are as prominent and as unarguable as this one.
This data seems wrong. I'm looking at Nevada and they state that the majority of the power being generated is by gas. Doesn't the Nevada area get power from a wide array of nuclear + the Hoover Dam? To be fair it does say that at the time of access the data is an estimate but still...
> Imagine this; you have the choice between 2 insurance companies. One has a reputation of denying all claims and the other doesn't. Which do you pick for your insurance?

Whichever insurance is provided by my employer.
With Java 11 they only hid it, you just need to pass some parameters to get it working.
When it truly broke, I believe, was only on Java 21, which finally removed some clutches people had been using to work around the new limitations.
php artisan make:controller

There are code generators. Even with dealing with other languages library, I mostly copy-paste previous implementations and editing with Vim motions makes it faster.
MIT Introduction to Deep Learning [video]
Ask HN: Avast injected their signature into my email. How did they do it?
ast-grep is a fabulous tool imo. I'm generally happier doing a large change at the commandline anyhow.