skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a factual description. Is your gender on the same side as your biological sex? That's all cisgender means today.

That may seem reasonable, and I certainly wouldn't want to argue against it, but I've seen enough discussions around these questions to know that what's written there is not entirely uncontroversial.

Firstly, even an indisputable fact can be offensive if you mention it in a context in which other people consider it to be entirely irrelevant.

Secondly, some activists vehemently deny the existence of "biological sex". They insist on talking about "gender assigned at birth" instead. I can tell you from experience that arguing with those people is not always productive.

Thirdly, although standard English uses two different pronouns for people, "he" and "she", so gender is an undeniable social fact in any community that speaks standard English, some languages (probably most languages) don't have gender so "gender" isn't such a simple factual thing in those communities. You may be able to infer gender from roles in society, behaviour or clothing styles but it's less clear.
I sort of see what you're trying to get at, but I think you're making some fairly strong ontological commitments regarding physical properties. If we take a step back and try not to assume any ontologies, a "property" of a system can be functionally defined as a measure that can be reliably observed and recorded in a well-defined experiment. For example, someone's Memory Span [0] is a property of their brain at a given point in time. There are replicable studies measuring the relationship between memory span and other properties like age or speech rate.

Sometimes it's possible to encode the relationships between these properties using mathematical equations that are falsifiable via experiment. But this isn't what makes something physics. Physics is simply the process of applying this approach to matter, energy and force. I mean, I admit that experimental psychology isn't physics. And we don't yet know the mechanisms well enough to have a model that reduces to fundamental interactions. But it's not far off the way that mathematics is (successfully) used to measure and predict phenomena in other scientific fields such as biology.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_span
> > because mastering the use of these tools is an important skill like

> Personal opinion.

If those tools improve your productivity (it's highly dependent on what kind of job you're doing tbh) then it's not a matter of personal opinion: all things equal your employer will always value a more productive employee over a least productive one. Refusing for personal reasons to use a particular kind of tools that would increase your productivity is fine, but then don't be shocked if employers favor other candidates!

> What is important during interviews is verifying that someone is at least able to deliver, troubleshoot

Yes, and if his use of such a tool improves his ability to do so, then it is actually an asset!

> and will not be a nuisance to the rest of the team (loosely speaking)

Indeed, and I discussed that [0].

> Can they use AI tools effectively to speed up development fixing undesirable artifacts? Good, but not something that matter to evaluate if someone should be hired or not.

It's not the use of AI itself that's worth being hired, but the overall productivity: if he is more productive with the AI tool than you without it, I'll hire him every time (assuming his non-tech skills are at least equivalent to yours, indeed).

> Also, if you want to evaluate how they solve problems, using AI during interview will introduce a huge amount of noise.

In your job you either have problems that are out of reach of current LLM tech (very likely today, as they aren't that smart) in which case exhibiting such a problem to ask in interview should not be hard[1], or you don't and then you don't need to have employees capable of solving such problems.

Keep in mind that for most part your company and the job you're offering are very likely boring anyway, and you don't need to have a team of genius onboard. You just need decent human being that are able to cooperate, with just good enough technical abilities to solve the problem they are facing. And it's actually good if an IA can lower the technical skill cap, so that you can focus on the human part (we're clearly not there yet, as IMHO the current tech mostly improve the productivity of people solid enough to catch all the bullshit they spit out every other answer, hidden among helpful stuff).

[0] here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40364095

[1] My interview was built around a fairly basic concurrent program problem, which is something we were using all the time and at the same time something ChatGPT 4 really struggles at without being heavily nudged, and when you make it correct its mistake it introduces bugs that where there before.
> 2008

A lot has changed. Foreigners no longer have this "superiority".

> telling a class in even the safest parts of the United States

It is just histeria, look at recent trend of "men vs bear in forest" . Many parts of US are totally safe, the worst part are dogs, car accidents and voluntary drug ingestion!
> Suburbs are not providing value to their nearby cities

They're providing people:

https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol21/31/21-31....

It appears that all around the world, whatever we do, we just can't coax people to have children in dense city centres.

In extreme cases like in South Korea, where Seoul is basically cannibalizing the rest of the country, it leads to a demographic collapse. I think this is a point that is not mentioned often enough.
Ask HN: Running LLMs Locally
What's the best way to build an app around local LLMs. How can I educate m myself on this?
We humans model a ton of reality with language
*Maintainers don't owe users anything unless the user actually pays for it and the maintainer accepts the money for the task.*

I have a nitpick on that take. If maintainer was actively building community and advocating use of his project (for whatever reasons but usually to gain audience - money is not the only value exchange that there is) they still do owe users bug fixes or reviewing bug fixes made by community. Especially if there were other community contributions, cash on hand is too specific.

If someone doesn't want to owe users anything, don't make project open source or make it clear "don't use this or fork for yourself, please" in read-me or something.

But also one should not pull dependencies willy-nilly especially if one is building business on top of that.
> Diamonds used to be finite. Now, we can make as many as we want.

Same with crypto. There was only bitcoin, now there's as many as you want, and some people pretend that worthless thing A is different from worthless thing B.
Show HN: Autopilot for my little HTML game called Andromeda Invaders
The entire game is implemented as a single HTML page, so it is easy to read the source code of this game and that of the autopilot by viewing the source of the page.

For convenience, here is a direct link to the autopilot source code: https://github.com/susam/invaders/blob/0.9.0/invaders.html#L...
The mantis shrimp episode of Octonauts is still one of my favorite all-time episodes of kids TV.
Those were exactly my thoughts, too.
"for example, when riding the train, everyone either looks at their phone, manga or sleeps...."

except for manga, it's the same in public transportation in many countries.
During a shovel-rush, you should mine gold

(brb adding "thought leader" to my resume)
Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu
The hamburger menu doesn’t work, so I have no way to figure out what this site is about.
In this hypothetical situation, would the US would be extraditing American Boeing executives to Europe?

I think you're overestimating Europe here.
80 Days (2014 video game)
And are generally included with every MicroSD card in fact.
That's such a frustrating thing. There are so many opportunities in SF alone. But I really don't want to live there.
What you describe as friction was largely caused by misaligned incentives between readers and content creators who felt the need to kneecap their RSS feeds.

The difficulties of monetization and the (at least perceived) lack of control over repurposing, etc. are significant (and persistent) problems with RSS.
I used to carry a desktop replacement laptop but now my “go” kit is an ordinary iPad, when I want to do heavy computing I use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and log into a desktop Windows machine with RDP.

Maybe 10 years ago I would go to hackathons with a similar kit but based on a cheap Fire tablet and a cheap plastic clip to hold it. It is a hassle if you want to do keyboard stuff with it on your lap but if you have a desk available it is sleek compared to any laptop and gets more attention than a macbook or gaming laptop.

I have some sense of what an unleashed iPad would look like, maybe we’ll get it.

Two big developments in the last 20 years that have gone into different directions. One is video game emulation which proves the universality of computing, the other is the phone/computer split which obscures it. (So often if you know your Turing you’ll encounter some youngster that says something like “Silly Boomer, don’t you a phone is one thing and a computer is another thing?”)
AI? Yes.

LLMs pretending to be AI? No.
Modem standby 0.3W?? I don't think CPU change alone will make these devices super-efficient.

And why is web browsing such a battery sink? Are they using an old version of edge? Is it full of random extensions??

By the way, 15 minutes into a thread about CPUs and discussion has not yet been hijacked by the fans of "that other company". Maybe HN is improving?
Not super surprising, sugar has a strong smell (and really disgusting too - try sticking your nose in the bag sometime). I can usually tell how sweet something is by smelling it.
I'm a fan of Apollo Automation's AIR and MSR sensors that do a bunch of things, including CO2. They're ESP32 based, very easy to integrate with Home assistant with good UX.
Doesn't the whole Altman sacking thing show that they had no power to do any steering, and in fact Altman steers?
Virtually all evidence presented in courts is circumstantial (including DNA, fingerprints, etc.), eyewitness testimony of the actual crime is pretty much the only thing that isn’t.
That's it, we've got holograms now. So cool!!!! :) Hahaha! :)
The RSS link on the submitted webpage is broken.
Ctrl-F ozone - nothing. Hello cancer my old friend.
Well, Volvo had a presence in the US long before it became a Chinese subsidiary.

Of course some Chinese companies might try to penetrate the US market by manufacturing in North America, and that's already what a lot of foreign (but not Chinese) car companies do. Mazda, Toyota, BMW, etc all have factories in North America.
OpenAI has less than 800 employees
I don't think this is actually true, they are not happy about it, they just can't care because they have no real choice to do it differntly
Aversion to TDD
I used Muse a bit early on around their soft launch. I think the “tool for thought” concept transcends just note-taking and sketching. The goal is to be able to collect, record, organize, and relate ideas in ways that let you explore their connections, drill deeper into specific areas, and zoom out to see a big picture. Lots of tools have been trying this in wildly divergent ways over the years: mind maps, outliners, diagramming tools, etc.

In other words, the goal is always far bigger than the basic functions the app is built upon. The problem is that we don’t have a good word for what such an app is trying to do. Calling it a “note taker” would prevent a lot of folks who might actually love it from even trying it. But, maybe that comes back to the lesson of failing to focus on a specific user base.
Given Amazon's no show in the AI space? Azure. By a mile.
"...evidence that we may have reached a phase of diminishing returns"

With the current crop of LLMs, yes. With such AI models in general, no. We need to extend their capabilities in different directions. Just as an example: one analysis I read, pointed out that the current LLMs live in a one-dimensional world. Everything is just a sequential string of tokens.

Think of a Turing machine, writing on a tape. Sure, theoretically it can perform any computation. Practically? Not so useful.

We need new ways of introducing context and knowledge into AI models. Their conversations may be one-dimensional (as, indeed, ours are), but they need another dimension to provide reasoning and depth.
Boeing Emails Handed over to Congress in January 2020
Old New Thing rarely disappoints, that article is worthily entertaining of a HN post by itself.
I'm happy with a TFA Dostmann 31.5009.02 Monitor CO2 AIRCO2NTROL Coach. Does what it says and you can get the measurements over USB if you want too.
I would imagine and hope for interfaces to exist where the natural language prompt is the initial seed and then you'd still be able to manipulate visual elements through other ways.
Well, no. I mean kind of. These grain-farming Cucuteni were squeezed out by the Kurgan culture, tall pastoralists coming from the East (that culture became the indo-europeans, us), the process possibly assisted by a few hundred years of drought. Ordinarily, the farmers had food surpluses, though having all the bread you can eat is not the same as having all the meat, admittedly.

Your nomadic herding warriors leave graves behind - Kurgan - as well as distinctive pottery, as clues to the general area they were being nomadic in, which was initially elsewhere while the Cucuteni were thriving. I don't think maintaining slaves at a distance works as a concept.
“In fact, Win32 did exactly this opcode and data packet protocol for its message loop to great long term success”

Win32 is not exactly easy to work with though.
Still better than the 3c501 :-D
AI in the past (adjusted for 1980s) was pretty well funded. It's just that fundamental scientific discovery bears little relationship to the pallets of cash.
Quickdraw
Are you suggesting that the OAI investment was not a good investment for MS?
Could you not just yoink it from 'view source' or 'inspect element'?
it's always wild to me hearing what pressure people use.

on my road bike with 28c and inner tubes, 60 psi is what i use on _good_ road surface. maybe the roads are just shit here, but even 55 psi feel rough. i usually run on around 50 psi, 40 in winter.

there was a time i lost my track pump and i just pump the tyres using a mini pump without a guage. later i discovered i was running on something as low as 30 psi.

i have never had a pinch flat. i don't think i'm particularly light. full load when doing groceries is probably 85 kg. is it just that my pressure juage is woefully inaccurate?
So, have faith in the Model and you shall be blessed.
So submarines are controlled with logitech controllers, gliders use e-ink readers as displays. Wonder what other tech is being reused inside of niche transportation methods :)
Gary Marcus is turning into the Jim Cramer of AI (consistently on the wrong side of history)
Can you think of a single example how AI generated blogspam can be useful? I cannot. It's all just noise and bullshit.

> as long as search engines do their job

lolololololol, funniest thing i've read all day.
Yes, I know, I mentioned the extraction.

My question was whether it can help detecting translation errors from the first step.
Smaller laser facility uses new method to exceed record for proton acceleration
Dwight can, but not without consequence.

If the thing he uses for all his economic transactions becomes worthless, that's a problem.

---

Look no further than the steeply rising cost of living in the US in recent years.
It used web search (RAG over the entire web) and analysis (math tool) and still came up with the wrong answer.

It has done more complex things for me than this and, sometimes, gotten it right.

Yes, it’s supposed to be able to do this.
Here's a company that make such chairs: https://fullgrown.co.uk/
Rosatom owned blueskymine?
Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels? (2016)
This is such a transparently bad-faith take that the rest of what he said is hardly worth discussing.

> Most importantly, each day in which there is no GPT-5 level model–from OpenAI or any of their well-financed, well-motivated competitors—is evidence that we may have reached a phase of diminishing returns.
Sun shoots out biggest solar flare in 2 decades, Earth should be out of the way
Discussion at the time (121 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12245458
I'd categorize that as the simplistic 20th Century definition. It needs to be updated at this point. Financial risk is not enough of a metric.
Show HN: 3-2-1 backups using Rustic and RClone
A backup manager I created to:

- backup every Rustic profile at once
- have both local and remote backups
- take advantage of `rustic backup` and `rustic restore` speed to create local backups
- take advantage of `rclone sync` speed to create a remote backups

It also features 1-command restore from local or remote backups
The kind of quirky errors and hallucinations are possible on any LLM. That's because they are inherent to these types of generative models.

It's important to understand that these LLM's don't "think" or "reason" or have actual intelligence.
All that is dwarfed next to the amount of people watching the latest reaction to a repost of a video in TikTok.
> If OpenAI had GPT-5, they have would shown it.

Not convinced. They had GPT-4 for ages before showing it.

>And the most important thing about the figure is that 4o is not a lot different from Turbo, which is not hugely different from 4.

It's twice as fast and half the cost.

>OpenAI has presumably pivoted to new features precisely because they don’t know how produce the kind of capability advance that the “exponential improvement” would have predicted.

Or they think that users would rather have a faster GPT-4 than a smarter but slower one.
> A lot has changed. Foreigners no longer have this "superiority".

It's still a long ago (2015 in my case) but it happened the exact same thing in Nara to my wife and me.
Simutrans Official Trailer [video]
Deleting official communications can be a violation of law in the US. Hilary should've gone to jail for it, but she didn't because she's a Clinton.
Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator
No, it just means that if you don't need parking you don't have to pay for it. And reducing parking requirements makes it easier to not need a car (and thereby parking) which is great if you're poor to middle class.
Why would animations, or JS, be inherently necessary for a game?
arthur whitney
"I never comment anything because I'm always trying to make it so the code itself is the comment."
less code less bug.
The ancient earthquake detector that puzzled modern historians
>I can’t imagine telling a class in even the safest parts of the United States “Go wander the streets and interview a stranger you suspect to be foreign”

In the US of course it isn't even just the overblown "stranger danger" hysteria of school children speaking to people they don't know but identifying "foreigners" due to the greater ethnic diversity in the US. And people get (justifiably) offended when asked "where are you from?" especially if they were born here and just happen to be of non-European descent.
I really just need to make some porn with this stuff already and I feel like we’re all tip toeing around this key feature.

Censored models are not going to work and we need someone to charge for an explicit model already that we can trust.
>from a practical standpoint life expectancy is roughly linear with size.

For the flash itself (the giant mass of NAND or NOR gates making up the cells), in terms of TBW it's straight up linear with size. 2 TB flash storage has twice as many cells as a 1 TB (of the same make) therefore can eat twice as many write cycles (unless the manufacturer does something on the sly like change overprovision ratio based on capacity, change from TLC to QLC on higher capacity units and "forget" to mention it, etc., but those are factors beyond the basic logic gate arrays).

However I don't think size effects MTBF as that looks at factors unrelated to write cycles; things like catastrophic failure of a chip or a short that catches fire and burns down the server farm.

Realistically speaking, MTBF has little bearing when considering flash storage lifetime. TBW is where it's at. If the specs only give MTBF, I tend to assume the TBW is bad enough it's worth hiding and I'll avoid those . If not that, then it's either straight incompetence, recycled flash scam, or the manufacturer just doesn't give a shit (all of which are way worse than choosing to omit a low TBW rating).

It may seem like i'm nitpicking the word 'roughly' but i don't disagree with the sentiment. Depending on how you want to measure lifetime (jfc don't use MTBF), it isn't exactly linear, but it's not the flash's fault.
I was able to punch in a route I frequently take. It seems to figure out what direction the bus is going to go and know if the sun is on the left or the right. I dunno if it is assuming the bus goes in a straight line or computes a more realistic route but I guess that doesn’t usually change which side the light comes from most of the time. I noticed afterwards that you can set the time, which makes a difference.

I’m not sure how much I care though. Last time I rode the bus was full and I sat (1) where I could and (2) on the inside. I was really going to be happy wherever I wound up.
It's also a terrible way to test for intelligence, because the only intelligent entities we know exist for sure make obviously stupid mistakes constantly.
It's important to contextualize Aristotle, farther of science, against Plato and Protagoras, fathers of philosophy. All of the worst impulses of a priori theorizing were in Plato and Protagoras -- from pure blind objectivity to pure blind subjectivity. Aristotle was working hard to defend a study of the world from both of them, delivering ingenuous arguments for realism which are no worse than any given since.

His philosophy is more-or-less a modern scientific realism: the world exists, it has essential properties, knowing the world is knowing these properties, these must be discovered, in general we do not know the accidental from the essential, etc.
While it's certainly possible to have a throttle most electric bikes require pedaling and therefore some degree of exercise. In many cases it gets people riding that would not be riding otherwise. For people that are actually interested in fitness it's a lot easier to maintain zone 2 on real roads with electric assist without the impulse to push it a bit up the hills. I did far more aggressive rides when I had access to my electric road bike than I do on other bikes because I knew I had a bail out if I pushed too far. Nobody's going to congratulate an e-bike rider on their feats of endurance or power but there are lots of points between a normal cycling effort and no effort at all.
IMO, I think in the grand scheme of things proofs are always tricky so it generally would be in a higher difficulty no matter the problem. However in the category of number theory, that would be say an easier proof than some others.
That's very neat. The projector idea is particularly cool.
It strikes me as strange that this is described as a ‘strategy or ‘tactic’ when it is really the authentic and least controlling thing you can do.
Where is this demo? I googled and can’t find anything.