skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn’t sound like an ai is necessary in that case
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1400km in Europe is significantly more taxing than in the USA. The density means more junctions, traffic, variations in speed etc -- I think it's twice the mental effort of the same distance in North America.
It advertises itself as having a "familiar and modern" syntax where Elixir has a more ruby-like one.
> You cannot simply load third party shit on your website, without asking for consent

That's not how the GDPR works at all. If it were, there would be no content distribution networks operating in the EU. Linking to a third party image in document markup does not involve you transmitting anything.
It's a different issue not related with alphabet only with American tradition regarding Surnames. Same issue exists for example with Polish and Lithuanian both using latin alphabet.
Ask HN: AWS Primer for Solution Architects
After spending the last couple of years working with Azure it sounds like I'll be going back to working with AWS. Azure has some great learning features on Microsoft Learn, where you can basically go through a course for any feature that they offer certifications in. This includes an online sandbox where you can create your own cloud components. From a quick look at AWS website I can't see anything quite as comprehensive. Would appreciate some suggestions on matching Azure components to AWS initially and also any sources e.g. Youtube channels that provide a good high level overview of services from a developer perspective.
I've been following Tantivy for a little while. It's impressive the grit that the founders have, and the performance that Tantivy has been able to achieve lately.

Mad props to all the team! I'm a firm believer they will succeed on their quest!
>At some point we run out of people in rural areas to migrate to urban

But you won't run out of external migrants due to wars, climate change and poverty who want to leave their countries and move to the western developed ones.
Wonderful!

How can I silence the Firefox security error messages?
> No, it's also recommended when using IPv6 to not use link-local addresses if any other address is available. (Both because those addresses are only link-local, and because one usually needs to put an outbound interface specifier on the address when you go to contact another host, which is pretty obnoxious.) It just happens that IPv6's address autoconfiguration has been upgraded to be useful for globally-routable addressing, too.

With what seems to be the recommended IPv6 setup at least for client machines, the Link-local address is the only stable identifier of that machine, as the actual reputable address changes all the time. So, the machine has both a link-local and a routable IPv6 at the same time, and both are going to be used. This is still different from IPv4, where link-local addresses are, again, an obscure feature that almost no one uses.
In the case of Britain, it was the following (and more):

- be colonised by the Romans 2000 years ago

- spend the next 1000 years rediscovering and (eventually) surpassing the Romans' achievements

- invest heavily in education (when the Incas were building their monuments, most of Oxford University had already been constructed) and subsequently have 1000 years of cumulative effect of those investments

- be highly connected to Western Europe, with all the continual advancements shared between countries all trying to outdo each other

- be an island nation, with a seafaring tradition that was accelerated by all of the above to the point of being the best in the world
From a getting answers perspective yes, from an understanding LLMs perspective no. If you read the avstract you can see how this goes beyond arithmetic and helps with longform reasoning
This is fascinating, but I'm not sure this is the reason (or a good excuse for?) why software estimation is a mess right now. If you look at standard industry practice, the concept of "probability" rarely enters the discussion at all when estimating.

I've personally had great success with three-point estimation. [1] As far as statistical methods go, its pretty simple - yet it tends to work surprisingly well. To my knowledge however, none of the popular software on the market has any of the tools needed to do even something as basic as this, at least out of the box.

There is a whole set of tools out there for probabilistic modeling, and if we're serious about estimation, we should start talking about them.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-point_estimation
"_ is dead" titles rarely represent reality. same case here.

more accurately, "big data" or its main paradigms are not for everyone. on the other hand, most teams are still unable to reasonably consolidate their data to leverage the benefits of these tools.

"AI" will have a similar fate in a few years time for similar reasons.
Oh. I’d like to point out that the localization algorithm itself that I use comes from the lovely opensoundscape project from Tessa Rhinehart and friends from the University of Pittsburg. A big thanks to them for their lovely project.

http://opensoundscape.org
That's great, 99% math is absolutely good enough for real world problems /s
That's in fact what ChatGPT does ... because 99% accurate math is not useful to anyone.
I genuinely believe that if we want kids to have some normalcy here we need to flat out ban smartphone for kids up to say 16-18 years old and instead dumb phones should be the norm instead.

Because it's not just social media, it's the entire 24/7 jumping around different apps all the time that is screwing them up.

Before kids would get bored playing video games and then instead wanting to go out and play.

Now it's going from one app to another once they are bored.
The Bank of England is misusing its fiscal powers
OK, that is going straight to my "random statement of the day" collection:

"I don't like static builds"

~ rigid@HN

--

Some things really catch me off-guard.
The least a client can do is respect the HTTP caching headers that Rachel mentions multiple times in her post. RSS has an additional ttl property that can be used.
You bought your house in 2010, if today in 2024 you had no house and had to buy one, could you? Haven't the mortgages and house prices increased a lot more than most salaries even in the remote countryside? (Just like the article says)

Also, remote countryside is cheap in most countries, but unless you can do 100% remote, they are very few jobs there.
Why did you "hate the Java underneath it"?
Isn't the GDP of NYC alone 3x that of the entire country of Egypt? Yes.

The better question is what fraction of their GDP is this loan? Well, 1.6%. It's notable because while taking IMF loans has been a revolving door policy with Egypt this is the largest yet and the size was increased once already. It's being billed as an emergency loan because it is.

Egypts debt load has tripled over the past year or two and they're stuck at a 10% deficit that's slowly crippling the country.
A null polynomial outcome of mutual discretion.
"Construction site" projects in IT would be Wordpress sites/small business eCommerce etc. and there are millions of successful projects of this type out there.

Building them might be messy, but rarely fails from a technical point of view.
Madrid to Berlin is not comparable to the same distance across the USA. The population density means the roads are much busier and have many more junctions etc.
This is not a useful model; in fact, things are quite bad here. I just wanted to say that US homeownership is absolutely exceptional, has no analogues anywhere else, and exists only by means of extensive government support. In most other countries, buying a house in your thirties is absolutely unimaginable.
This paper feels way too abstract, to the point it makes it hard to understand what the team actually did.

For instance, the paper claims it beat GPT-4-Turbo and Gemini-Pro-1.5 on certain tasks... but it doesn't include any of the questions they asked GPT4 or Gemini, so it's hard to guess whether these results have any value at all.

It's also unclear what they even trained their custom transformer to do. It has a custom tokenizer, but they don't give a list of tokens (aside from a few examples in the diagrams like "Barrack", "Michelle", "Trump"). They talk about in-distribution and out-of-distribution tasks, but they don't give any examples of these tasks and what they look like.

This feels like accidental complexity. It wouldn't have been hard to add a few more appendices with eg a list of 20 or so in-distribution sentences they asked the model to complete and 10 out-of-distribution sentences. Instead all they include is diagrams comparing performance for different hyperparameters and stuff, but we don't even know what the models are being tested on.
Because of that deep integration with systemd-boot, of course. /s

(Yes, I know systemd at this point is just an umbrella brand; I'm no systemd hater.)
> "solve this problem as fast as possible, without adding additional costs and using as few developers as possible"

Agree with that but from my experience that's more like 20% of the time. The rest is the various kinds of bullshit development where people are padding resumes, having boss's pet hobby horse forced on them, latest shiny flimflam, etc.

(A decent chunk of that 30 years has been contracting and that tends to be at places with problems which might be biasing my sample set.)
Turkic languages do have constrastive palatalization system, going together with "soft" & "hard" vowels. (Example from German: a, e, o, u would be "hard", ä, ö and ü would be "soft" vowels for Kazakh speaker) In Kazakh, kerek (need) is palatized completely, while in kara (black) consonants are not. In "shanyrak" (yurt roof top window) consonants aren't palatized and "k" is fricative, in shelek (bucket) "k" is palatized and non-fricative. Since palatized consonants go together with "soft" vowels, one may omit this distinction in writing. But the difference is still there. N.B. Some Turkic languages have lost this feature.
Not sure you could in Sweden. Stats[1] show 21% tattoo prevalance in Sweden compared to 12% in the EU in general.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10163470/
Thank you, this is very great advice! We are adhering to most of these items today but I will double-check with our security team about closing any gaps.
What Would an IPO Mean for the Raspberry Pi Foundation?
I think the problem is not just software estimation, but project cost and time estimation is difficult across many domains (construction, transportation, IT, defense, and even the organization of events).

The word "mess" seems to indicate that the uncertainty is easily fixed, but if it has happened across domains for several millennia, it could indicate that there is something fundamentally challenging.

The situation worsens with factors such as project size, requirement changes, methodology (too much or too little of it), technology (specially new technologies), the nature of the delivering institution (public institutions performing worst than private ones), and organizational culture (e.g. waterfall being in many cases detrimental by making adaptations more difficult).

There are certainly bad ideas in the field of estimation, like assuming a Gaussian distribution, but the problem is far from trivial.

See for example:

* Defense: Bolten, Joseph G., et al. Sources of weapon system cost growth: Analysis of 35 major defense acquisition programs. Rand Corporation, 2008.

* Public works: Flyvbjerg, Bent, Mette Skamris Holm, and Soren Buhl. "Underestimating costs in public works projects: Error or lie?." Journal of the American planning association 68.3 (2002): 279-295.

* Transportation: Cantarelli, Chantal C., et al. "Cost overruns in large-scale transportation infrastructure projects: Explanations and their theoretical embeddedness." arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.2176 (2013).

* Olympic Games: Flyvbjerg, Bent, Alexander Budzier, and Daniel Lunn. "Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 53.2 (2021): 233-260.
By the way, the issue was cunningly appropriate for this thread: Considering that in wordpress EVERYTHING is stored in the DB as an article in the WP_POST table (Yes, even stuff like attachments, images, and the menus) an hook from a slider plugin was messing up with the image descriptions, which are stored as...the main body text of an article. Which is actually an image.

In a classic wordpress install this would just cause some weird garbage in the output, but given that in a gutenberg+ACF setup the content data is passed to the React/Block rendering engine, it would absolutely go crazy.
And does it distinguish between heavy and light vehicles? Heavy vehicles cause much more wear and tear on the road. That's something I'd love to see taken into account.
It's probably on-par or better than humans get unaided. Hell, I'd bet due to transcription errors it's better than what humans get in a lot of settings, even when aided by a calculator.
Well, people do open their car windows from time to time.
does this fit in the greater 'enshittification' theme?

subpar replacements w/o real alternatives
The link of paragraph '10. Panorama of Fractals and Their Uses' points to nonexistent content.
There is a big difference between someone who studied computer science and then worked for one year in the field before quitting, and someone who devoted their life to it.

So too with DP/DR.
you fake it. hoping to make it.
this is not novel, regardless of whether this works, even in AI context. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36857909

it is a tough position to be in when even job recruitment agencies are teaching jobseekers about using LLM for writing motivation letters and "optimizing resume", etc.

ironically while working in this subject, i am actively writing everything myself, but seeing no benefit in return.
I was waiting for the sell. Didn't disappoint.
But that's not all that relevant to the question "can LLMs do math". People don't really need ChatGPT to replace a calculator. They are interested in whether the LLM has learned higher reasoning skills from it's training on language (especially since we know it has "read" more math books than any human could in a lifetime). Responding with a program that reuses the + primitive in JS proves no such thing. Even responding with a description of the addition algorithm doesn't prove that it has "understood" maths, if it can't actually run that algorithm itself - it's essentially looking up a memorized definition. The only real proof is actually having the LLM itself perform the addition (without any special-case logic).

This question is of course relevant only in a research sense, in seeking to understand to what extent and in what ways the LLM is acting as a stochastic parrot vs gaining a type of "understanding", for lack of a better word.
None of my examples (except China) were from over a century ago, nor were they from before the United Nations (or League of Nations existed).

Guess you need to look at the nations that took part in the various battles during the annexation of Hong Kong, Opium Wars etc. The US was not involved?

Didn’t say China has done nothing wrong, just if we are looking at nations that need to be reigned in. The US has done more to damage other countries sovereignty than basically the rest of the world combined. So it seems weird to focus on China…

So the US is just protecting Phillipines sovereignty… randomly? Interesting take on it. I wonder why they don’t care about Myanmar… same region… very clear cut destruction of a democracy (which was the reason they went to Vietnam…)

Or even Australia, that time they assisted in the sacking of a prime minister to protect their mining interests. Or the fact they passed laws to try to undermine nations (specifically its allies)to purchase drugs as a whole to prop up the pharmaceutical industry.

It’s not whataboutism. It’s the US is shit to everyone, and the fact that people even talk about China (unless you’re a Uighur, Tibetan, or Filipino) is just falling for US propaganda.
> assuming rent expenses = the cost of interest

But you cannot make even this simple assumption because rent is not tax deductible but mortgage interest usually is.
I see very little in the article that's actually targeted at people that hold it wrong. My interpretation is that the rant is targeted at RSS service developers who should know better, and for whom you are inventing excuses to justify laziness or incompetence.
> Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.

> Fred Brooks as usual stands the test of time.[...]I'd bring the argument against a Second-System

I'm confused. The GP appears to be saying that one should plan to build two systems - one as a proof-of-concept, and another (which is actually presented to most customers) in which one does things "the right way" based on learnings during that process - whereas you (and Fred[0]) seem to allude that the second system tends to be bloated and over-engineered. What am I missing?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
llms are also deterministic
Those people will rather pick a Apple or Google device instead.
> Ops here, bored is good. Bored means it's working properly and it's a solved problem.

It's not a solved problem because build systems keep breaking in random places.

Granted, these problems are in general easy to solve. But we're talking about death from a thousand papercuts here. In other words, boredom from a thousand compile errors.
Not to be rude, but it is not possible to know what all other people have experienced. This is but one of many things you can learn from a deep study of mysticism.

Is it impossible to don't afraid of anything?

Or maybe even scarier / more powerful: is it impossible to simulate it, adequately?
Is the code for aaaSum available anywhere?
You mean OS/2 with Visual Age for Smalltalk and SOM?

It was great, SOM even supported meta-classes, but sadly we all know how it went down.
If it was a universally better financial decision to not buy a home, then who would you rent a home from? Someone who made a bad financial decision?

If this was the case, then there would be more and more renters, and less and less tenants, so rent would increase, and make homeowning a better financial decision. There's a stable equilibrium there, even taking into account the various taxes involved.
The new Angular 18 enhances the stability of the existing features introduced in Angular 17 and includes exciting new additions.

Let’s explore the latest updates in Angular 18 in detail.

Key highlights of Angular 18
Angular 18 has solidified the preview features from previous versions and introduced several new capabilities. Let’s take a closer look at these enhancements:

New zoneless change detection with signals.
Routes redirect as a function.
New Signal APIs in developer preview.
Material 3, signals, deferable views, and built-in control flow from version 17 are now stable in version 18.
Application robust hosting with Firebase.
Fallback content for ng-content.
Form’s new control state change events.
SSR improvements and event replay.
Typescript 5.4 features.
Let’s dive deeper into these top features and see how they can enhance your development workflow.
We’re excited to share what we believe to be the first multi-agent system capable of self-organizing based on user requests and coordinating agents to accomplish complex tasks.

The system creates a tailored team of agents for each user request, leveraging any tool we integrate to work together and achieve the desired outcome. This flexibility allows it to handle a variety of tasks.

So far, we've integrated LinkedIn and Notion, enabling our system to manage professional networking and document organization tasks. Our vision is to expand these capabilities significantly. Soon, we'll be adding support for:

- Daily apps like email and calendar

- Local tools that can run on various devices, such as TVs or even robots

We believe this system can revolutionize productivity by automating complex workflows and seamlessly integrating various tools. Imagine having a digital assistant that not only understands your needs but also coordinates multiple specialized agents to achieve your goals efficiently.

Check out our demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu7uwdD3iRI&t=6s

Which tools or APIs would you like to see integrated into systems like this? What do you need in your day-to-day that autonomous agents could help with?
Because it's slowing killing the the environment for kids to learn. Parents give kids an iPad, they don't give them a notebook. Kid has hands tied for really exploring programming.

I'd be willing to bet if the same restrictions were in place in the 80s and 90s that 30-50% of the people who are programmers today wouldn't be programmers because they'd never have gotten started.
So it is one thing that you might want to assess if the patterns that were described in the article actually fit your use case and then adopt the one that fits better.

But putting this sentiment to the extreme, you could also say: For very "small" use cases, that is systems where scalability might not be an issue (right now and in the future), you might want to dispense with any kind of distributed system altogether and just program a monolith. Because if you have tightly-coupled parts of a more complex system that cannot really function if at least one is down, you might as well put them in the same program.

Again, the main drawback will be horizontal scalability. But in a small enough company your "process engine" can probably be run a small VM anyway.
Why Ghana and Other African Nations Are Turning to Nuclear Power
> I am planning on opening other complaints with the FDIC and Utah Department of Financial Institutions (as Marcus is headquartered in Utah)

In which state were you last based? Do you urgently need these funds in the next month? Did you ever buy any investment products through Marcus?

Given what you've said: file an online complaint with New York's Department of Financial Services [1] and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency [2]. (You have no nexus with Utah. New York's DFS has teeth. I am assuming you lived in New York.)

Send a written letter (ideally with receipt confirmation) to Goldman Sachs [3]. Copy the DFS (yes, again), the FDIC [4], and Federal Reserve [5]. (No receipt confirmation needed for these.) Stick to the facts--the less emotion the better. Reference your last account statement, the withdrawal request (date and time, amount, confirmation number(s), et cetera), the dates and times you called and any other communications you made with Goldman, attempted or connected, and include a copy of your New York State ID. At the bottom of your letter, below the signature line, make note of everyone copied as you would in any formal letter.

Given Marcus's erratic behaviour and lack of communication unbecoming of a bank, there is a small chance there is cyber crime involved. Notify the FBI [6]. If you do, note it in your letter to Goldman.

[1] https://www.dfs.ny.gov/complaint

[2] https://www.helpwithmybank.gov/file-a-complaint/index-file-a...

[3] https://www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org/EntityDetails.aspx/COMPAN...

[4] https://www.fdic.gov/resources/consumers/consumer-assistance...

[5] https://www.federalreserveconsumerhelp.gov/about/after-i-sub...

[6] https://www.ic3.gov
Why do I have a slow COMMIT in PostgreSQL?
Or Java RMI, Jini, .NET Remoting, Tcl agents, or many others with similar approaches.