skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Best practices" means something sensible in most subfields of capital-E Engineering. (In fact, I think that's where the term originates from, with all other usages being a corruption of the original concept.)

In Engineering, "best practices" are the set of "just do X" answers that will let you skip deriving every answer about what material or design to use from first principles for cases where there's a known dominant solution. For example, "for a load-bearing pillar, use steel-reinforced concrete, in a cylindrical shape, with a cross-sectional diameter following formula XYZ given the number of storeys of the building." You can (and eventually must!) still do a load simulation for the building, to see that the pillar can hold things up without cracking — but you don't have to model the building when selecting what material to use; and you don't have to randomly fiddle with the shape or diameter of the pillar until the load holds. You can slap a pillar into the design and be able to predict that it'll hold the load (while not being overly costly in material use!), because "best practices."
Also it would give feedback to the seller that the reserve may not be feasible.
Thank you for the answer! Wouldn't it make sense to compare the potential answers to the questions to the parts of the documents?
> As a Nix user I feel like those people who started this whole drama are actually negative to this project.

The people who signed Anduril as a sponsor, apologized to the community, and signed Anduril as a sponsor again anyway started this drama and are a negative.
Physical fitness and risk of mental disorders in children and adolescents
Indeed. Is that not a valid complaint?
w one word forward and land at the beginning, while e is one word forward but land at the end.
Why is it always the U.S.’s responsibility for this kind of stuff? I’m supportive of an independent Taiwan, but it’d be great if Europe and other parts of the world that benefit from their independence could step up and help out.
They give you the option to use your own OpenAI/Anthropic/Azure API keys, but in all honesty, I don't know if they still gather information about your code even using your own API keys.

You could use something like Little Snitch (on Mac) to check if it makes any calls to their servers.

They also allow you to override the URL for the OpenAI models, so although I haven't tried, perhaps you can use local models on your own machine.
This is a bad take. The concept of bringing one framework to every screen is a great idea. Whether or not the current Flutter framework is perfect is another story.
Thank you for the pointer! What makes LlamaIndex different than other similar tools in your opinion?
If your pay is less than your cover, do you have to give it back?

How does health insurance work for spy stuff? If the GRU agent gets exposed to novachuck, do they get to see a Russian specialist or do they just have access to the providers in their cover plan?
It's exactly in this "now vs later" that resellers and other brokers sit. If they know that X will sell for $Y "eventually" and how long that eventually is, they can work out how much they can pay for it now and still come out ahead.

Cars are very liquid and move quickly, so the now vs later price is close; weird things that nobody has heard of (but when they need it, they need it NOW) will have a much wider variance.
By that rational:

Do you eat food, drink coffee, chocolate. Do you avail yourself of modern pharmacology. Everything you do upholds a status quo of human suffering. You posting on HN is a political statement, from a place of privilege, by that rational.

It's a software project, dont make it political and it will be successful.
For anyone wondering how to access

Go to - https://chat.lmsys.org/
Select Direct Chat
Select gpt2-chatbot

Other twitter mentions - https://twitter.com/kosenjuu/status/1784952955294421215
I didn't know notebooklm had that feature embedded. Thanks for sharing!
A manufacturable platform for photonic quantum computing
Fine-Tuning OpenAI Models
If responding to this would mean nuclear armageddon, then what is Russia doing by attacking NATO in this way?

Rolling over beacuse somebody is a nuclear power only seems to come up when Russia is in the chat. If China or Israel attacks someone, nobody says "we can't respond to it because it would start a nuclear war."

What is it about Russia that makes Russia so irresponsible? And if it is, isn't it time to completely eliminate all economic ties with Russia, and pressure every other country in the world to do the same, until Russia decides to be a responsible country with their nuclear weapons.
>But our understanding of physics will never be “complete”

That's not the issue. It's not even consistent.

You (and all others) conflated my argument with the tired old trope that all knowledge 'might' be wrong. Yes I agree: yawn.

However in this case we actually have positive knowledge that our current physics must be incorrect. This is a far far stronger epistemic claim, of course.

Funny how for something so uncontroversial, it can be so controversial to remind people of it!

>fancy language and big words

Sorry for using big words.

>the original claim clearly has some factual inconsistencies, such as...

Finally meat and potatoes. Anyone have a handy source for this debunking content?
Indeed, all my test prompts are giving much better results than gpt4-turbo and Claude Opus. And yet, the OpenAI style is clearly recognizable.
It’s an impressive model, but why would OpenAI need to do that?
Not really, as to your final point; the race driver’s skill is not in avoiding the slide, but — with the mechanic’s help — finding it, and using it. Recall: loose is fast, and on the edge of out of control.
>they've gone from barely stringing together a TODO app to structuring and executing large-scale changes in entire repositories in 3 years

First they are definitely not currently as capable as you say. Second there is a misconception that the rise of LLMs has been exponential but the curve is really logistic and we've hit the flat tail hard imo. Where is ChatGPT5? All the Coding AI tools I've tried like Copilot either havent gotten better since release or seemingly gotten worse as they try to fine tune them. Third there is ton more to being a software engineer than writing ReactTodoAppMVCDemo which many responses have been talking about.
No, it's a webapp, like github.com.
> Anduril started by building tech to hunt poor people crossing the southern border
Seems pretty inaccurate to describe the usage of surveillance drones as "hunting poor people". I believe drones were a mostly bipartisan approach to monitoring the border vs building a border wall / expanding the border barrier or whatever we are calling it now.

> Their CEO is a right wing extremist
He's not an extremist? He's just a regular Republican. I'm legitimately curious why you think he's an extremist.

> How you can say this is the same as supporting Ukraine against Russia aggression
Anduril has been directly supporting Ukraine with its technology since the very start of the war. You do realize that, right?
While many dream of striking it rich in casinos, practical strategies are necessary for those rare winnings. Insightful sites like https://tp-play.in/ advise on the importance of playing within your means and choosing games with better odds. Casinos can be fun, but they're not a reliable income source.
Unfortunately, it looks like code still goes via their servers:

https://cursor.sh/privacy

> Even if you use your API key, your requests will still go through our backend!

> That's where we do our final prompt building.
Total tax wedge (including employer/social fees) for a single person with no children earning 167% of the average worker in Germany was 49.2% in 2023 according to OECD Taxing Wages. Most of the other categories they measure (a matrix of single vs married, no vs 2 children, and 67%, 100% and 167% of average wage for one of the partners w/ the other person at 100%) end up closer to the 40% mark (as low as 28.4%)...

But most people do not count employer contributions, because they are not part of the negotiated salary, and most people don't even know what they are. Yes, they of course affect how high salaries businesses will offer.

In terms of income tax and employee contributions, in the OECD scenarios Germany maxes out at 41.2% (the OECD average is 30%; the US is at 29.1%). As a comparison, Belgium is "always" worst in class on this in Europe, w/47.8%.

Overall Germany is still one of the highest tax countries in Europe, but it also has a higher difference than most countries the highest taxed (high income single earners) and families with children in total effective tax rate - for the later, Germany is much closer to the pack, to the point of being near or below the OECD average for a couple of categories.

VAT in most countries add very little, because most of your gross income does not go towards VAT rates products - for starters you're first paying tax, and then covering housing and most places exclude a number of others things from VAT as well. Depending on country and income level and spending patterns, it does add a few percentage points, but it's rarely significantly skewing the overall taxation level all that much (last time I did the numbers, at a far above average income, VAT increased my total taxation by about 4%)
Ok, let's pretend you're on the committee and you have dismissed my accusation that the policy is bigoted.

My next move is to publicly accuse the committee harboring fascist sympathies. Your voting record is undeniable, and I am just appalled this stuff can go on in the 2020s and demand the committee is replaced with people who does not hold these bigoted beliefs.
+1. I use it in https://tagely.com and it works great.
Health insurance (not life, auto, home, commercial) often requires pre-authorization. At least in the USA. Some health plans like “hmos” are very stingy with many rules that prevent payment. It’s a fucking mess.

It might be different for Canada though, so this continuity step could be omitted.
Not in an absolute sense, but the speed limitations of USB 2.0 do become immediately apparent when you try to run an operating system off of it. Even a super lightweight Linux is usually going to load binaries from disk when executed, and logs are going to be written to disk, etc.

Also page faults are going to be slooooow.
The thing that surprises me the most is the page is in English. I know nearly everyone in Iceland is very fluent in English, but they all speak and read Icelandic too.
How to beat proprietary embedding models with open-source
I just remembered. Adding a -f <file> option to the GNU Coreutils env utility has previously been discussed:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2021-10/msg0000...

It came up in the mailing also this March. I saw the posting in my inbox and proposed that a null-terminated format be handled, which is exactly like /proc/<pid>/env:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2024-03/msg0014...

If that feature were available, this becomes

env -f .env command arg ...
Doesn't stop nation state troll armies though
The good old days of dropping a c99/r57 on a website and enjoying being a god over the entire server.
Seems buried on HN. It was at least rank 10 with some comments, but then I couldn't find the post in the first 20 pages of HN (up to rank 600).

Marc Andreessen Is a Maniac (gizmodo.com)
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Surprising and elegant. That's an amazingly long way to get by guesswork, a bit of trial and error, beeping out circuits, and surprisingly casual substitution of the load switch IC.
Jane Street is big. Like, really, really big.
Fortunately, all input handling techniques can be reduced to relatively few concepts.
The snarky response would be that TypeScript and Go are not industrial strength languages :)

C++, C, even Fortran run just fine after decades.
NLP-enabled trajectory map-matching using transformer sequence-to-sequence model
What's IC
> Bleak as hell though.

It's called Realism.
Isn't the simple solution to this to encourage everyone to use the USPS app (and apps for banking, etc.)? Most young people probably do this already.
Probably extrapolating from the fact that life here on Earth being found in harsh conditions, and those conditions being likely to be found all over the universe.
The fact that site doesn't work on Safari but does on other browsers doesn't have to mean it's Safari that's bugging out here, it could just be junk code they developed while only testing on all those browsers -except Safari- until it worked on those.
Not a Safari issue in that case.
In the UK, the average cycling trip seems to be between 3 and 6 miles:
https://www.cyclinguk.org/statistics

It's fine if biking is not for everyone, but it is a great option for some people. If we can encourage more people to sometimes bike instead bof drive a car, that is positive.

Even if we say that 1 mile is gold standard biking distance, surely there are people that live within 1 mile of a grocery or a restaurant. That is a very comfortable distance, as far as physical exertion goes, for many people. But, again, whenever cars and bikes are negotiating a shared space, it's dangerous, and a lot of people simply won't do it for safety concerns.

Next, I agree that increasing density is a very good goal. I want that. But surely you must acknowledge how painfully difficult that has been to achieve politically in most places in the United States? I think we should keep pushing for denser towns and cities, but even when progress is made, it is gradual. The vicious cycle is that cars encourage more sprawl, and sprawl demands cars. Maybe the city council isn't going to budge on bringing housing and businesses to be dense enough for most things to be 1 mile of each other. But maybe bringing some stuff within 4 or 5 miles is more possible sooner, and if it is, we should take it. Increasing density a little bit now makes it easier to increase density a little bit more tomorrow, and a little bit more the next day.

My last bit I want to share is ebikes really open up what is possible. Trips can be longer, the terrain can be hillier, and the exertion lower. The physical barriers to biking drop a lot. Costs are coming down, and are quite a bargain if one is able to replace a car with an ebike. The missing piece is infrastructure to support safe biking.
Product Management at Meta vs. Google or My Take on How to Evaluate Your Offer
I guess they want to know how good it is as a chatbot and no one has found a better benchmark than lmsys arena.
There are many layers to "being familiar with anglo culture"... being able to understand technical documentation to a degree won't cut it in many cases.

I went through several stages of learning retroactively (i.e. not appropriate to my age) through dating or having otherwise good relationships with someone from the US. So, for example, I've learned about TV shows like Daria or Dr. Who many years after they came out. (And yes, I've learned about Dr. Who from an American friend, and before that I didn't know there's a thing for more educated Americans where they think that Brits are more... refined, not sure if that's the right word).

I'm married to someone born in the US, so, through her and the need of dealing with the kid who grows up primarily speaking English I've learned nursery rhymes, lullabies and a bunch of kids folklore that I would've never come in touch with in my line of work.

More than that, you can perfectly well live in another country and never really know the side of life of the locals if you are never invited to visit, or don't develop very good relationships with the locals. You might never know what home-cooked food looks like because you'd only have access to store-bought or restaurant meals. (Eg. I didn't know that mac-and-cheese was such a common food in the US until I was invited to visit someone in an informal setting). And there's plenty more of it. It'd take a book to try to enumerate all of these.

This both affects the less formal communication one may have with their peers as well as contributes to cultural mixups especially when it comes to customer-facing interfaces.
> it's hard not to get all philisophical and wonder about the size of space & time on cosmic scale

Indeed!

Never a bad time to re-watch Cosmos and (in my opinion) the awesome sequel(s) by Neil de Grasse Tyson. Is it weird to admit I even choke up during some of the episodes?

(As an aside, why is it so hard to find the sequels to Cosmos in any streaming service. In my country it's not on Netflix, Disney+, Apple, HBO/Max, Star+, Prime Video. What the hell...? I just want to re-watch the damned thing and I don't own a Blu-ray player. Do I have to pirate the stuff?)
Simply put, that's not how English works.

Say that an English speaker speaks a sentence, and an English listener understands it. If they both agree that it was an English sentence -- including no jargon -- and they both agree on the meaning of the sentence, then that's correct English. If the two individuals have also never met before, then it's certainly correct English.

That's what "defined by usage" means. English does not have a language regulator or language academy.
Honestly, I'm happy to be alive to see these kinds of images! I wish my dad was still around he'd be fascinated.
One would hope so, but in a variety of popular environments that is not the case. Apple is particularly challenging in this regard - keep in mind, PowerPC macs were still actively supported in 2011. Since then we've sunset PowerPC support, sunset 32-bit support, and I imagine we're only a couple of years short of sunsetting Intel support as well

I recently spent upwards of 4 hours trying to get a 2009 python project to run, and the graphical portion is still subtly broken on MacOS...
That would make a lot of sense, thanks. I hope that's what the author meant.
As someone who has studied both computer science and molecular biology at postgraduate level I can tell you that the chance of LLMs leading to higher probability of a “bio-attack” compared with a quick Google search is zero.

Do you know how much skill, practice, resourcing and time it takes to develop bio-anything?
The results of this LLM are consistently far better than any other that I choose. I asked ‘what is the most efficient approach to building a led grow light with off-the-shelf parts?’ and its response was incredible. Very much in line with how I’ve done it in the past after weeks of research, trial and error, and feedback from people. The other LLMs gave mostly reasonable yet sparse and incomplete answers.

It also opted to include an outline of how to include an integrated timer. That’s a great idea and very practical, but wasn’t prompted at all. Some might consider that a bad thing, though.

Whatever it is, it’s substantially better than what I’ve been using. Exciting.
> It seems like with GitHub is aiming for is a future where "what the business wants" can just be expressed in natural language the same way you might explain to a human developer what you want to build.

We've been there before with 4GL in many forms, they all failed on the same principle: it requires reasoning to understand the business needs and translate that into a model made in code.

LLMs might be closer to that than other iterations of technology attempting the same but they still fail in reasoning, they still fail to understand imprecise prompts, correcting it is spotty when the complexity grows.

There's a gap that LLMs can fill but that won't be a silver bullet. To me LLMs have been extremely useful to retrieve knowledge I already had (syntax from programming languages I stopped using a while ago; techniques, patterns, algorithms, etc. that I forgot details about) but every single time I attempted to use one to translate thoughts into code it failed miserably.

It does provide a lot in terms of railroading knowledge into topics I know little about, I can prompt one to give me a roadmap of what I might need to learn on a given topic (like DSP) but have to double-check the information against sources of truth (books, the internet). Same for code examples for a given technique, it can be a good starting point to flesh out the map of knowledge I'm missing.

Any other case I tried to use it professionally it breaks down spectacularly at some point. A friend who is a PM and quite interested in all GenAI-related stuff has been trying to hone in prompts that could generate him some barebones application to explore how it could be used to enhance his skills, it's been 6 months and the furthest he got is two views of the app and saving some data through Core Data on iOS, something that could've been done in an afternoon by a mid-level developer.
What's interesting it seems to also edit text in between for me, not just add text at the end.
I confirm that the the link doesn't open from Russia.
Thanks for this. Maybe I'll give it another go.
> I agree but I hate it when at the end of an article I realize it was just an ad.

If you wanted to be reductive: if the domain ends in .com, you can assume the submission is an ad. Some ads are better quality and worth discussing and some aren't.
That’s just the highly publicized failures of lawyers. There’s likely lawyers also using them discerningly and doctors using them unscrupulously, but just not as publicized.

If a doctor wrote the exact prescription an LLM outputs, how would anyone other than the LLM provider know?
Sandbaggers is still up there as one of the best, I rewatched it last week.
So this may be because Americans think of China as China's political system. When they think "Chinese" they think Xi Jingping.

How many Chinese people think of America and go "Joe Biden"?
I'd bet more of them think "Brad Pitt" or something along those lines.

My point is, Americans may see Chinese people as their political system. While the Chinese see Americans as their culture: movies, tv, music etc.
I agree. It responds a lot like GPT-4 in style, but with much better answers.
Nothing you wrote makes any sense to me.

> If your pay is less than your cover, do you have to give it back?

How can your pay be less than your cover? Your cover job is paying you. Your host agency is not.

> How does health insurance work for spy stuff?

At this point, I'm curious if this is an attempt at humor?
So I’ve turned into an old man screaming at the sky. 2011 is not that long ago! Lot’s of production code from that time can be still considered fairly ”fresh”.
I don't mind many things being written in higher level languages and being less efficient, makes turnaround time cheaper.

But what are companies doing with this fast turnaround time? Features suck and are largely incomplete in modern software. For example: Sonos speakers, if the WiFi goes down they don't reconnect. Why? Why is basically every device and every bit of software chock full of obvious stuff like that? Do we really need AI or something to tell us how to build something properly?
I don't know if I'd call it a "web shell", or what that would really mean. It's a dsl for content generation that got not enough up front thought followed by an unreasonable time and human suffering investment.

It's in a better situation now than it was. I hope.
People don't want Anduril to benefit from the NixOS they work on via publicity or association.

Most wouldn't have a problem with Anduril donating and asking for no sponsorship or other benefits in return.
Still gives incorrect code to the following prompt - the description is correct but not the code. I have yet to find one LLM that gives the correct code. This is the prompt:

“Write C code to calculate the sum of matrix elements below the secondary diagonal.“
Great game BTW!
I was referring to her analysis of historical stock returns, where she spends 6 paragraphs out of 7 making the point that the majority of stocks historically have performed poorly (according to her analysis).