skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am building a community where i will enable anyone teach anything and he/she will be able to earn from his knowledge, but am still broke and i have not built a team so i am starting with simple courses online covering html, css and javascript for free, help me get users, if your already familiar with those languages, recommend to anyone else who is still a beginner or you can post it for me, i promise everyone will love the transformation i will build, just wait and i get a team, all people will be proud of the service, it will be an online school where you can learn anything in an easy way helping both the creators and the one learning
The patient must have been on death's door in order to resort to taking a pig kidney. It's going to be an uphill battle to prove this kind of technology because healthier patients won't be choosing this option, leaving only seriously sick patients left to prove its value.
I would like everything to have Lisp (no) syntax. It makes things nicer for me; luckily it’s easy to do that in CL.
> By this logic, we all want AI.

With AI, specifically, it's way too early to say that products with AI in it were shaped by market forces.

It takes years for the forces of the market to have an effect on what the product looks like:

1. Purchasers have to make poor purchases, which isn't known until years later.

2. Sellers have to get feedback from rejections to determine what to refine, and how, which also takes years for most products.

3. Sellers have to run out of money when ignoring the signals, which also takes years.

So, sure, maybe extra AI in $PRODUCT isn't wanted by the majority of people, but we won't actually know what forces the market for $PRODUCT is exerting until much later than 2024.

EDIT: web3 was so obviously unwanted, and yet it took about 4 years for that to reflect. It is not so clear about AI, so we can expect that to take longer to establish.
> and refuse to disclose their home country, in which case imprisoning them until they agree to play ball doesn't seem unreasonable.

How would this work in practice? Person comes from country A, claims he is from country B. You send him to country B, they can't find records of him and simply don't take him back. Now what?
> but I would not build a business off of $180k engineers. I would rather pay double that (while being selective about talent) and get something (better) built with fewer people.

Where are these 360k jobs posted? I never see anything close to that.
Numbeo already includes (among other factors) CoL in their QoL index calculation, see: qhttps://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/indices_explained.jsp

You can of course use alternative calculations / weights, but without a principled way to do so, you can choose weights to come up with pretty much any outcome that you like.
I was trying to fetch key-value pairs out of a database using PHP+PDO the other day and I knew there was a nice easy to do it but I couldn't remember how. Something about fetchAll, maybe PDO::FETCH_GROUP|PDO::FETCH_COLUMN.... what was it?

So I asked a couple LLMs. They wrote out loops for me to format the data how I wanted. I could have copy-and-pasted that in and it would probably have worked. But I felt there was something better yet, so back to Google I go.

It's `PDO::FETCH_KEY_PAIR`. It's built-in. But oddly kind of hard to find unless you know the right thing to search for, and "key pair" was not springing to my mind.

Point is, if you just let the LLMs do your work you won't even find these better ways of doing things. And I'm quite afraid of what the LLMs are going to do to Google, Stackoverflow and documentation in general. In a couple users it'll be ungoogleable too.
Haha, I didn't get it when I read "perceptions". Thought ... of what? :-D
It takes literally 10 minutes to try it out. I'd suggest trying it instead of recycling other people's opinions.
always the former noun is describing the latter. Butter fly is not a flying butter (as my children's teacher told them to make a joke about butterfly) but a fly made of butter instead.
Heh, my program that just copies the current instruction to +1 wasn't allowed on the board, fair enough I guess :D
Show HN: My Spin on a Maze Generator – Looking for Feedback
Hey everyone,

I've been following along, inspired by all the cool projects I've seen on HN. I decided to roll up my sleeves and code something myself – a maze generator! It's a fun little tool that lets you create, navigate, and download mazes of all shapes and sizes.

I've thrown in some options for customizing the maze, like wall thickness and color schemes. Plus, there's an A* search algorithm for finding the quickest way out of the maze.

Now that I've got it up and running, I'm looking for some honest feedback. What do you think? What would you change? How can I make it even better?

If you've got a minute, check it out and let me know your thoughts: AI Maze Generator

Thanks for taking a look, and I'm all ears for your suggestions!
Thank you! I need to look into this.
In your statement, I'm not sure by which definition physically grounded things are a sufficient condition for being computable, but I think Penrose depends on the Turing notion of computability and the hardness of the halting problem.

We can of course move goal posts, redefine computability however we like, to get whatever conclusion we care for, but I think that Penrose effort is intellectually honest.
There are plenty of spaces that have the type of people the thread is describing and yet almost none of them have the type of behavior that the audience of this website loves to exhibit.
>People demand data and statistics in order to verify claims.

I don't like the "educate yourself" dismissal for answers like these, but the divides in income and gender isn't exactly a niche topic. If you can believe that women often won't date men who make less and that women more often become stay at home parents than men, you can derive why woman may be more likely to pursue passions that pay a pittance compared to men in a relationship.

If any of those 2 points feel contentious, all I'll say is Google it. I'm not interested in digging up such common facts for someone else.
That's a great point. I'm definitely procrastinating less.
If the entropy is 0, you didn't need an LLM. If it's the same every time you can just copy and paste those 100 lines from GitHub or StackOverflow.
You can read it like that, but they surely didn't prove it works like that and the burden of proof is squarely on them.

Realistically, the training set is most likely MRIs of similar tissues and would be naturally biased towards healthy structures. Even the remotest possibility of a hallucination should be addressed and disproved for such an application but they make no mention of it, just "OMG magic ENHANCE button!".
It seems to be a culture things in the JS world. Packaging just 1 or 2 functions as its own separate package and using large chains of dependancies is just the way they do things. In most other languages, if this function existed, it would either be in the standard library or be a tiny part of a single number manipulating library with 100s of functions.
I miss that style of design a bit. A bit mad, futuristic in that old fashioned way, but most importantly--optimistic about the future.
>Who cares if it’s more often than not the man?

women, to put it crudely.

>in which case you should elaborate.

what's to elaborate on? Women are much less likely to "date down" econmically than men. Hence, women are less often the "breadwinners" and as such may be more likely to either spend their time as a full time parent or chasing jobs for passions over compensation. These aren't novel phenomenon.
You engage less. Do you have any reason to believe that you are special?

Twenty years ago, Clay Shirky wrote that turning two percent of your audience into subscribers is the easy part, turning away the other 98% the hard.
adding an off the shelf ORM layer creates so much more opacity and tech debt than writing queries I don't understand why anyone would willingly put one into their stack. Sure, they're neat although I don't even know if they save time. There's something very satisfying about well-crafted queries. And is it ever really well crafted if you can't tweak them to improve their their execution plan? I've never had a client or boss who asked to use an ORM framework. I suspect it's something people think looks cool - treating SQL as OOP - until they run into a problem it can't solve.

[edit] for instance, I have a case where I use a few dozen custom queries on timers to trawl through massive live data and reduce it into a separate analytics DB. Using everything from window functions to cron timers to janky PHP code that just slams results from separate DBs together to provide relatively accurate real-time results. At the end from that drastically reduced set in the analytics DB... sure, I'm happy to let the client summarize whatever they want with Metabase. But those things just couldn't be done with an ORM, and why would I want to?
I think Free Will basically means that nobody else can force us to will, to desire, to like what we like.

A non-free-will would be something where somebody else controls my mind. Like you could imagine hearing thoughts in your head which you think are thought by someone else, like in schizophrenia I guess.

You can force me to do something but you cannot force me to will/want/like anything.
That Science let this through peer review and editor filtering is pretty damning. This wouldn't pass 5 minutes of review here on Hacker News.
Thank you, I requested the data. Let's see what it will give me.
Linux 6.9 Released with Faster Intel Core Ultra Performance, Larger Console Font
First person to receive genetically modified pig kidney transplant dies
Living in France, i'm pretty surprised they manage to find a "cost of living index" being _lower_ now than in 2018.

Sure, things have recessed from the highs of 2022 / 2023, but the idea of a "groceries index" that does not reflect how is has changed to, ahem, shop for groceries is weird.
Ah, one really needs to read the referred article directly to know this. Nice to know that it's actually already accounted.

Still, I don't actually get how he counts the socioeconomic factor and get the "without-degree income"?
Not a big deal at all. You can make an "MRI" with literally zero magnetic field strength like this. Just make an AI hallucinate the entire super crisp image!

This is what this paper is basically doing it seems. "Look how clear the image is!" yea, because it's not real, it's AI generated garbage.
>Underrated comment and great advice.

useless swipe and naive advice, especially in this day and age. I can barely make friends who share my hobbies, what hope do I have in breaking the ice with someone completely different? I'm not going to specifically crash other meetups just to "expand my horizons".

>Speak less, learn more.

yes, that's why inroverts dont make as many friends, and are instead arguing with each other on Hacker News.
Ah no of course we can talk about it, it's interesting research.

I just wouldn't invest a penny into "fixing" it, that's all.
FreeBSD 14.1 Reproducibly Built Kernels, OpenZFS 2.2.4
I am also hopeful for Pijul. But yes, the "if you work alone" backfires for it too. If I work alone, I can adopt Pijul in my work easily, but I don't really want it. If I work within a group then I do want a better VCS, but I should convince the majority of people I work with to switch to the new thing, so essentially I can't switch to Pijul unless there is an undoubtfully good reason to do so. And incremental gains are not a good reason. A "saner" and "better" isn't enough.

On the other hand, we all work alone in between commits (in a broad sense of the term), so having a second tier of a version control, a personal tier, may be a gamechanger.
Safe to use, but it's not going to be able to see anything, as it's AI hallucination.
What's new in Sculpt OS 24.04
It's just the physical reality of nuclear magnetic resonance. SNR scales with B^(3/2), since the signal scales with B^2 and the noise scales with root B.

This means going from 0.05T to 1.5T boosts your sensitivity ~150x. Measurement time scales with sensitivity^2, so you'd have to measure 20k x longer.
ChatGPT to write code: What it can and can't do for you
Yes... this exactly.
A large bulk of those downloads are coming from downstream packages (handlebars-helpers), I don’t think developers are pulling this in directly.
So if an AI fantasized your face into the extrapolated pixels of the evidence for a documented murder case you would be happy with the conviction, because on average it might be somewhat correct?

I don't wanna hurt anybodies feelings by stating that AI isn't a magical wand that makes everything better — but every technology has use cases at which it excels (e.g. pattern recognition) and use cases for which it is fundamentally unsuitable. If you try to screw on a nut using a hammer, that doesn't mean hammers suck, it means the user has a wrong idea what a hammer is capable of.

The point is: Don't be that person if you can avoid it.
But even with true randomness, it would not suddenly turn will into free will. It would turn it into chaotic/unpredictable will maybe, governed by random events, not free.
I have 85,000 PDF documents, collected over a few decades.

What I really want is a semantic interface to those PDF documents. Find me "all PDF files which mention <subject>", or "show me any PDF with python example code", or "all PDF's before 2011 on the subject of coding standards for SIL-4".

I keep thinking this is out there somewhere, but whenever something new comes along I get bogged down in the details of setting it up. Surely someone has come up with an AI that you can just 'give the folder to' and it figures things out automagically?
yep, and the main engineers have founded groq.com with an architecture that among others precisely solved the memory management issues
what I don't get is why is there such a big rush? It seems like most of the risk stems from "hey we have to sell this NOW".

Why is the sale forced without any time to perform due diligence?
Best of luck. I'm planning on doing the same in the near-ish future, without anywhere near as much buzz and no staff. I accept that I'll probably need to step back into industry if I don't make a huge splash. It's a rough industry.
I think the interesting question here is whether Penrose is claiming that the things of which the brain is capable (most notably the production of consciousness) are inherently non-computable by _any_ kind of artificial device, which is effectively a form of vitalism, or whether he is claiming that they _might_ be computable, but only with a quantum computer.
Real estate is exempt from KYC/AML.
That's not completely true. The architecture must behave well for scaling, which is not trivial. Basic multi-layer perceptrons do not scale well for example, the gradient will vanish or explode deeper in the network.
I'm a junior.

First I worked at a small company that was oriented towards remote work. At the beginning I would show up in the office, but the company had a policy "instead of talking to me, can you write a message on public Slack channel, or even better, make a github issue I'll get back to later?", which made me furious because I'm a naturally talkative person. So I spent two years working remotely. Not gonna lie, that was amazing, I had work on one screen and porn on the other at all times.

Then I moved to a much bigger company that's remote-friendly. I make a point coming to the office every day, although never for full 8 hours, more like 3, and I'm slowly making some friends. There's people I can talk to beyond "howareyou howareyou", which is a huge thing, because we're social animals and as an immigrant, I just don't have the out-of-office social network most people do.

What I have noticed is that I'm always on much better terms with people I actually talk to, and in the office it's much easier to have these random chats about everything and nothing. These chats are incredibly important because they allow us to see coworkers as human beings rather than API calls.

A friend of mine lives with her boyfriend who's working fully remotely, the company doesn't even have an office in his area. She complained to me about the guy just not doing well in general. His entire social life is her, and that's not a healthy dynamic.
Combining that with https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-string, you can have a JavaScript valid x for which

isNumber(x) && isString(x)

⇒ isNumber is better named “can-be-used-as-a-number”.

Also, I don’t know JavaScript well enough, but https://www.npmjs.com/package/isnumber is different code from https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-number, but does it have different semantics?

(https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash.isnumber is different, I think. It (rightfully, IMHO) thinks ∞ and NaN are numbers)
Yep I slipped up there.

There is a defense against the trusting trust attack. It basically involves using two different compilers and checking their output matches. You can find the article about it if you search.
Guide to Haskell strings
> low-T MRI is potentially a big deal IMO because a 0.05T magnetic coil can be air or water-cooled

Even better, they just use a big permanent magnet.
Maybe. But I feel that the stuff our ancient ancestors did on walls is a different class of activity to that which we now call art. I suspect that their paintings were done as a votive: maybe as part of a prayer or a ceremony.

There are too many things that are grouped under the same word: 'art'. Objects which serve different functions should not share the same name.
Can you give me a little more specific detail on your use cases that fail with 3.5 and succeed with 4? I've tried to get some projects going using the API to generate some certain types of geometric data and both fail miserably for me. Keep hearing that 4 is so much better but I have yet to see it myself.
Nowt is a Northern English idiom for nothing.

“Nowt taken out” was an old advertising slogan for Allinson’s Bread[1][2].

1. https://www.allinsonsbread.co.uk

2. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=raJRe7J5m6g
From Earth. They can connect to either satellite from Earth.

> they’ve successfully reached their orbits and managed to receive signals [from Earth] from a simple 3.5mm Bluetooth chip over an astonishing distance of 600 km.
Sure but Grace addresses both writing problems and git problems. That's what makes it interesting.
The Promise and Peril of JSON Logging
Clever Hans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
Good writing is clear and unambiguous. With speech there is an opportunity to interrupt and ask for clarification. Writing has one chance to get the message across. A reader shouldn't have to consult knowyourmeme.com to figure out what the heck the authors are trying to say. I don't even know what the title means here. That's how far they've missed the mark.
For me the biggest reason is automated database initialization and migration. After defining or updating the ORM model, I don't have to worry about manually CREATing and ALTERing tables as the model evolves.

This is compatible with the OC suggestion of using ORMs as a "fancy query builder" and nothing more, which I strongly support.
I've only heard people in my entire lifetime call them Canadian Geese.

The only time I've ever even seen or heard of Canada Goose/Geese are people on the internet telling others they are wrong.

I think it's time to just accept it as correct.
With VSCode at least you can say @workspace to Copilot and it'll take it into account.

No idea if it feeds all of the code to the LLM or just parts, but it's pretty good at interpreting what the code does
I figured it was the exact opposite. It was the very slow start of when life started to get really expensive. by the 00's there was no time to just go out and pursue your passions, you needed to pay rent the next month.

I imagine a part of this is (among many factors) impacted the US very strongly due to the "out of the nest" mentality. If you were 18 and still in your parent's house, you were doing something wrong. And that mentality has only very recently started changing as university costs skyrockted (and thus commuting has risen) and rent became untenable for someone making minimum wage.
I worked at a company whose business model was hiring students for internship. Not even juniors, just students. The place was bad, the product was bad, everything was bad, but they're still in business, which means that this model does work. I checked their website and they even started offering IT outsourcing services.

My prayers to whoever signs a contract with them.
Deno Just Got Faster [video]
I hang out with a lot of car guys. I have a friend who swears by the idea that whenever he wants to buy a used car, after a test drive he'll just leave it idling for an hour. If nothing goes wrong by that point he'll buy it.
ZenVer: A post-modern versioning scheme that does not suck
Let's also think about Quantum Mechanics. It says the world is non-deterministic. A photon basically has FREE WILL to decide which slit it goes through in the double-slit experiment.

The Laws of Physics cannot dictate whether Schrodinger's cat dies because an atomic reaction happens, only that there is a specific probability for that happening.

So if the world is not deterministic neither are human brains. Physics cannot dictate what the brains think, it can only dictate what the probabilities for some neuron pathways opening or closing are.
There's a fair number of apostrophes in fact. Here's an example: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZSVi4GfuAgcUspm2A (Note that Google's database seems to lack the apostrophe in that name). Rules such as the following (NSW GNB) are common:

> The following types of punctuation as used in Australian English shall not be included as part of a geographical name: period (.), comma (,), colon (:), semi-colon (;), quotation marks (“”), exclamation mark (!), question mark (?), ellipsis (…), hyphen (-), solidus (/) and parenthesis (()). For surnames or other names that include a hyphen, the hyphen shall be omitted when used for a geographical name.

> 5 An apostrophe mark shall not be included in geographical names written with a final ‘s’, and the possessive ‘s shall not be included e.g. Georges River not George’s River. Apostrophes forming part of an eponymous name shall be included (e.g. O’Connell Plains).

The explanation in the NSW GWB guide is that it allows for consistency and predictability. If you know that a river is pronounced "Georges River" and its official name followed customary rules, you wouldn't know how it was spelt unless you knew if it was named for George or for Georges. Honestly, I'm sceptical of all explanations. It's more that they find them annoying.

Until 2015 the standard font used in Australian road signs AS 1744-1975 didn't have a apostrophe or a hyphen defined, but at least hyphens and slashes were defined in the related AS 1743 or state-based augmentations of it because they were used in signs like O'Briens Rd or time ranges on parking signs. The current AS 1744:2015 standard does have punctuation - and the standard punctuation for citing standards has changed in the interim.

The attached article says that apostrophes have special meanings to computer databases, but this comment (which uses various bits of punctuation) will be stored in a computer database even with apostrophes. It's not like we programmers are incapable of handling them.

But I also find the counter arguments to be a bit ad hoc. Are Australians so much worse at literacy because of a lack of apostrophes on road signs? Does the correct use of apostrophes materially affect literacy in any way at all? They want the apostrophes because they're used to them.

I wish we could just state the actual reason for decisions and preferences, instead of trying to make our reasons seem more logical and neutral.
Yeah although the frustration of restarting after failed & failed attempts, or introducing bugs in parts of code you didn't want updated is also tiring.