skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was skeptical too, but Supreme Court cases give AI a significant advantage that your example is missing: dozens of pages of briefs describing the case and most relevant facts in great detail for the AI to reference.

In your dispute, the role of a mediator is primarily to find the relevant facts and/or judge the truth of the parties' statements. There's not really any complex legal question to be answered once you determine whose story to believe. This seems like it'd be the case for the vast majority of payment disputes.

The Supreme Court, on the other hand, is trying to decide complex or arguably ambiguous legal questions based on a large corpus of past law, all of which is almost certainly included in an AI's training data. I don't think of the Court as weighing evidence in the way your example requires; all the evidence is already there in the briefs.

So, I'm not sure payment dispute are really strictly simpler than Supreme Court cases, they require a whole different type of reasoning, going beyond the information in the prompt or training data in a way the Supreme Court doesn't have to and the AI cannot.
I understand that ChatGPT isn't an industrial grade offering. It was meant as a research demo and I still believe it best functions as that. What it does however show is a slice of how far a generally capable agent can perform at a wide range of tasks, not simply ones in the narrow range it was specifically trained for.

I couldn't use ChatGPT 3.5 for anything useful. Now I can describe the mechanics of an entirely new game with abstract rules I invented offhand and it can code a workable demo. I can give it specific feedback and it will fix it reasonably well. Of course once things get really really subtle and complex it starts hallucinating, but the fact that it did so well on the first try is astounding given how crappy these things were 4 years ago.

> I've basically worked in robotics and industrial automation since I was a high schooler. Nobody is talking about this stuff

Then why is China planning a massive initiative to mass-produce humanoid robots in the next year? (https://www.therobotreport.com/china-plans-to-mass-produce-h...). Why are billions being funneled into these efforts? Of course you can believe that all investors and the entire country of China is delusional but at some point there is reason to assume that things might just be starting to change in a way that isn't directly proportional to past changes.
Interesting.

My contacts are stored in my sim chip or google(server), also they are shared with many apps (server), whatsapp msgs are backed up to google drive (server), and itself stored on server side whatsapp servers.

Broswer data is sqlite yes, but it is also flushed every couple of months, and is by design ephemeral.
> They were under a lot of pressure

At that depth, I imagine they would be.
It's not an assumption, it's an expected value computation. You have to choose a distribution of expected outcomes in terms of future capabilities. Nearly all outcomes that are plausible to me come out with Nvidia worth at least 50% of what's it's worth today.
I don't think they've thought it through that far.
Let me give you some thoughts from a shifted point of view:

Techy people here on HN can easily circumvent Google Search result issues, the real harm is for the average user.

Ways to deal with terrible Google Search results:

1. For complex computer problems, Google search is still has the biggest index, and less affected by SEO spam.

2. When using Google as substitute for a websites builting engine, google dorks get the job done.

3. Modern browsers allow you to switch enginees on the fly from the address bar (eg. Brave Browser has :w which instantly switches to Wikipedia) and there are similar keywords for opening bookmark.

4. If I know where I want to go, I go there directly using those shortcuts.

5. When looking for inspiration or quality stuff to read I search hn.algolia.com, use Brave Search Goggles or any other "custom" browser enginees that give results for specific topic.

6. Ask ChatGPT or some other Chatbot. (Results differ, but it works sometimes)

7. I have collected by own sites and bookmarks over time.

The only thing I don't know how to search are Product Reviews.

I think "general" search enginees are in decline, and (techy people) are gking back to pretty much manual indexing.
> For 70% of the students this will be enough to ensure they don’t use one

Lots of schools ban cellphone use, but students find lots of ways to abuse this rule.

Indeed, when you start to collect phones at the start of class, you find a pretty big share now have burner phones to turn in, so they can still sneak peaks at their phone or take it to the restroom.
Freightliner has their eCascadia in regular production and has sold more of them than Tesla had made of their semi.
It's hard to discern if you're serious or joking. Is that an actual thing? I couldn't find anything by googling
USB testers are cheaper now, I'd advise anyone to buy one preemptively.

It's nice to one-off check a new cable to know what it can be used for, with the additional benefit of seeing the power curves for the higher models (e.g. see a charger's power output drastically drop down as it overheats)
I remember learning that germanium can be highly purified, so I looked up its itsotopes. What a mess, 5 isotopes with three prominent ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_germanium
The Pi cannot negotiate PPS. It needs the profile to be a default offering, which is extremely rare.
Yes, everything funds the military now, directly or indirectly. Your taxes fund warfare.
> But humans really do appreciate and value the presence and interactions with other humans, and at the end of the day those interactions will serve as guardrails against the complete en- and bull-shittification that AI promises to accelerate.

What I'm worried about is that people may value the interests of a super-persuasive AI more than other humans'. How many humans have fallen victim to cult leaders? How many humans believe in Q-Anon? Q-Anon and stuff like that prove that purely through memetic engineering millions of people can be subverted with respect to their natural interests. How far could a 100T parameter model get with that specific goal?
There's a law that as any discussion on hn grows, the odds that someone chimes in about some new thing being just a rehash of an old thing approaches 1.
Human missions to Mars in doubt after astronaut kidney shrinkage revealed
It's also wild to me that it appears to understand driving mostly in the context of other vehicles/people. FSD on city streets is as good as if not better than EAP was on highways in 2019.

Doing all this at +/-200wh/mile is pretty good too. I remember when (2000-2008?) people claimed it wouldn't be viable to get an EV below 500wh/mile.
I think you've just confirmed the post's point about overanalysis. This type of thinking is exactly why adults get it right less often than children.

Kids immediately recognize the view must be from the driver's side of the bus because they're not examining the situation. They're taking the first piece of relevant information and rolling with it. No door means passengers get on the other side, so it's going whatever way you assume traffic across the street should go based on where you live.
I think that’s it - they know they don’t know the ‘right’ way to draw sound, so instead of just doing whataver occurs to them, they wait, for fear of doing it ‘wrong.’

The concept that the only ‘wrong’ thing to do is to do nothing is a real important thing to internalize as an adult - not always where professional work is concerned, but nearly always where artistic pursuits are concerned. You’re doing it ‘right’ if you’re doing it.
"Know How, Can Do", by Michael Blumlein

www.michaelblumlein.com/miscellany/knowhowcando_blumlein.pdf
IMO the top 3 issues right now: 1. student mental health, 2. academic integrity, and 3. direct distraction from cellphones and game devices.

And #1 or #2 are directly tied to cellphones, too: not to say that reducing cellphone use will eliminate them, but it will certainly help.

And I expect other dividends from reducing cellphone use: the students who are addicted to short-form content have shockingly small attention spans.
I’m not really sure this is an entirely fair argument.

If you rely on third party packages of any type, you have dependencies that can rapidly and unexpectedly break with an update. Semantic versioning is supposed to help with this, but it doesn’t always help.
> Somebody spoke up on the Fediverse, saying “I wonder if reporters know that Wikipedia hallucinates too?"

This recent xAI chat on SpaceX is way better and more revealing than anything I've read on Wikipedia: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1dgyujd/comment/l8...

The fact that AI is allowed to connect the dots (banned as WP:OR in wiki) can be an advantage over Wikipedia...
That’s still pretty different from openly having it out during class.
Same with architecture. Hundred-year-old buildings have aesthetic touches. Modern buildings tend to be efficient concrete or glass cubes.
>Japanese e would only ever be [ɛ]

What's your source for this?
Wikipedia says "/e, o/ are mid [e̞, o̞]" [1]

>The mid front unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound that is used in some spoken languages. There is no dedicated symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the exact mid front unrounded vowel between close-mid [e] and open-mid [ɛ], but it is normally written ⟨e⟩.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_phonology?wprov=sfla1
>That's enough to make Nvidia a multi trillion dollar company.

There are tons of chip companies breathing down it's neck. AMD dropped the ball but Huawei Ascend chips are already making a dent and NVIDIA had to drop prices in China. Rest of the industry will start eating into NVIDIA as the market cap grows.
No sure about vans, but aren't lots of cars moving to 48V?
There are also a lot of Telcos building these sorts of buildings. Actually, having seen a video on this exact house[1], I'm pretty sure I've seen it before, too. "Built in the 90s by at+t" says the video.

[1] https://youtu.be/p1tjyleNCbs
No, because people who start in programming do not go to a syntax comfort clinic, where they are tested, and then assigned to a programming language.
Yeah, I have one, and the keyboard being non-functional is a real bummer. It's a neat mini console (especially once you add some additional games), but I wish they would make a version with a working keyboard, like they made TheC64. But the quality of the case is great, and the tank mouse definitely is the way to use workbench)
For this sort of change I think the best strategy is "two passes".

Auto-format those O(30k) files and get global approval. Then, separately, make your two-line semantic change and seek approval from local owners.
A fax machine where somebody has taped the input and output paper into a loop to fax infinite pages of gibberish to some defenseless sap
To save people a click, linked discussion is about how SpaceX starship is actually a front for a US orbital nuclear attack system. Mostly since SpaceX was actually created by the CIA.
Page not found - is that a private repo?
And realize that if you're distrustful of the cable, you should be even more distrustful of that gadget which has even more space to add malicious parts and you're still unable to check it.
The PDP10 was a 36-bit CPU with up to a few MIPS of compute power, however.
Not nuclear attack.. missile defense against ICBMs. I e., Brilliant Pebbles.
Is saying "our prices will increase in July; anyone who pays for a full year before then will be grandfathered onto the lower cost plan until 2027" a breach of trust? To me it feels like it makes me trust the company more.
Sure, the students I work with don't openly defy (though I hear a lot about this from public school colleagues). They turn in burner phones and then are super sneaky to try and use their real phone during class.
Plus bcl, ncl, OWNERS, piccolo, SDL, and probably dozens more
I haven't heard of cell modems in particular, but I've used O.MG cables (described and sold here: https://shop.hak5.org/products/omg-cable; I am unaffiliated with either Hak5 or the team behind O.MG cables) which can create an ad-hoc Wi-Fi network for management/C2 reasons.

It's actually really easy to use (and almost scary, coming from never having used one of these).

They are quite pricey, but way less so than older cables used by security and jailbreak researchers in years past, which would run into the five figures.
They’re not fooling those companies. Those companies are happy to push “we’re green”.

Not saying it’s a bad thing, but I don’t buy that any company is being fooled by this.
The Western Australian company that built and sold

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met...

to Standard&Poor used multiple sources: state government land titles from around the world, public information released to stock exchanges, and others.

The billions of dollars in market cap is what tends to make reputable stock market release information in minerals and energy especially reliable - where there's suspicion of fraud money flows to investigation, then litigation, etc.

Very little that cannot be backed by third party independant experts is posted, very few actual errors are posted, of those errors the majority are corrected in a timely manner.

Factually (in those capital intensive domains, by my experience) the information is easily more reliable than that published in general run of the mill newspapers.

Consolidating all that raw information into GIS database's that link layered companies, board members, physical plots of land etc. makes for a service that investors and industry members were and still are willing to pay well for.

Putting spin on facts and attempts at misdirection of course happens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One_controversy is an interesting example of where political and media spin in the US news cycle got entirely out of hand and at no point ever particularly addressed the essentially dull reasons for a POTUS to speak and endorse the transfer of Kazakhstan shares.

All of that dust in the air was far removed from facts about companies, shares, resources, etc released by the exchanges.
Unfortunately, some of use are not so lucky, at least I am not, haha.

I got the idea to tinker with satellite dishes to make a simple radio telescope. I remember riding around and constantly seeing old DirectTV satellite dishes constantly on the side of the road for trash. Before this idea. So I figured, oh, I can easily get my hands on one. As soon as I committed to that project, I never saw a single satellite dish sitting by the street as I rode around.
I never said anything about Bazel, build systems, or build speed. I have no idea what you're trying to refute, perhaps you replied to the wrong comment.
I tried to use GCP for about 10 years and never found it to be robust enough for my business. I enjoyed it far more than AWS
It's funny to me that my gut reaction was, "Oh. Why do they want that? Bouba would be such a weird tattoo compared to kiki."

I don't have tattoos. I don't really want them (I appreciate the artistry of them, but I can't stand seeing things on my skin). I don't know why I should care, never mind care the opposite way of most people.
The F-35 can't reach anywhere near 2000mph. It isn't optimized for speed.
time to dust this off again, is it?

---

Car company CEO, after giving a visibly exasperated UAW boss a tour of his company's brand new 100% automated factory:

"So Bob, looks like you have quite the dilemma: how will you get your workers to outperform my new robots? They are cheaper, mistake-free, disposable, replaceable, and can never go on strike, let alone vacation."

UAW boss: "I don't know, Henry. But if you think about it, that problem is fundamentally yours, not mine."

"Oh, how so?"

"How will you get these robots to buy your cars?"
My personal favourite save is a Bosch dishwasher that was kerbside. The drain motor was stuck, had melted plastic around the impeller. I have it in my workshop but it’s better than the one in the house.
Show HN: I build a tool to speed up your APIs
Hey HN,

I built a tool to easily cache API responses.

It was originally built to fix my own problems as my database has always been the bottleneck, and I'm not a devops engineer, so I don't have the skills or time to go in and figure it out to fix it.

As my site continue to grow I just kept upgrading my RDS to the next instance up and the bill was just getting out of hand. I needed another solution and that's why I built this.

I've been using it internally for the past 6+ months. Just whipped up a home page and some docs to help others that are running into the same issue and need a quick solution.

Feel free to give it a go and would love any feedback.

Denny
More rolling balls means more wins and more promotions all around!
Anytime files, file systems, or binary files become involved I immediately assume everything is going to be harder and longer than estimated.

There are simply so many dumb things that can happen. A library might handle 99% of cases correctly, but that 1% case basically requires an entire rewrite.
That's oft cited but usually by people who know Feynman from the shuttle explosion. I've never heard a physicist cite it, and as a former physicist (high energy theorist) myself I have a few qualms with it.

I would say even the Feynman Lectures for undergrads aren't simple, but that's arguable, so let's talk about Feynman diagrams, a supposedly intuitive invention of Feynman. Pretty little line drawings of particle interactions are indeed useful for surface level explanation, but physics is quantitative (that's how we verify anything) and staring at line drawings gets you nowhere in that regard. So the layperson might ask, "how do physicists calculate anything with Feynman diagrams?" at which point Feynman himself would probably be speechless. The path integral calculations for the simplest case in QED is like a page long, which is complete gobbledygook for the mathematically unprepared (>99.5% of the general population), and even for the mathematically prepared, the calculations mean nothing without tons of theory buildup. I have on the shelf right next to me the classic tomes on quantum field theory: >800pp Peskin & Schroeder, >800pp Schwartz, three volumes of Weinberg, all filled with dense mathematics. You need to study at least about a quarter of those to properly understand the aforementioned topic, no to mention all the prereqs: various formulations of classical mechanics, some classical electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, special relativity. There's no shortcut, anyone claiming to have an intuitive understanding of Feynman diagrams (the real deal, not just the line drawings) by reading some "simple" explanations is lying, regardless of whether they have genuine interests. (Btw, the ones with genuine interests are sometimes the worst: the "my theories are correct, I'm just bad at math!" alt scientists who love to email their papers to our entire department.)

In conclusion, there are fields where there's really no way to explain things beyond the extreme surface level in simple terms, and ironically Feynman's own is one of those.
MeshAnything
Maybe not for you, but there is bunch of expert beginners out there that would benefit from reading up intro CS stuff.
And here I thought Houston was the city with no zoning laws
Wow. Thats some elaborate solutioning. I think the documentaion and cost attribution is pretty sorted at your shop. Does this solution help you save some costs at any point or the primary goal is only documentation?
Pis eliminate variables, for sure. But, if you stick to name-brand business machines off lease, I doubt you'll have a problem like that.
Due to the way the standards for power have gone there is substantial need for owning such a cable! Maybe when everything is USB C PD compatible and tested and works then devices might just charge at the right wattage as they are specified to. Alas so far I have had a lot of devices that refused to charge at anything higher than 7 watts despite USB C on both ends and a modern GAN 100W charger. The power standards for USB are a complete mess.
A lot of the students are not thrilled about having to go to school in the first place, and having to do homework, and having to sit in math classes, and having to do tons of stuff.
I thought Japanese was unpitched
Ah OK, I wasn't aware of the Deep Archive option, it's not on the price list of the main Glacier page but it is linked to. Thanks for the details.
Raw improvements to computation aren't a guarantee that LLMs improve.
I think it's quite telling that almost all of the innovations in lisp (garbage collection, first class functions, repl etc) have been absorbed into more popular languages except for s-expression syntax, which remains a small niche despite many great implementations of s-expression based languages.
Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid
I am powerless to prevent even my local county from voting to steal my income to fund nonsense welfare, so I can only imagine how much less hope you have for political change and in your ability to meaningfully enact any.

Good luck, and I hope you stay out of harm's way.
Wait wait wait, how does a racket kill someone? I get that it snapped, but how did the handle get to somehow pierce a child's skull? Why was her head in the path of the swing? This story makes zero sense.
There's some explicit differences with Python[1]. My understanding is that Starlark was specifically created for Bazel so if I had to guess it's to enforce the immutability of values between contexts.

[1] https://bazel.build/rules/language#differences_with_python
Kuchi is stick in Tamil
Banthu is ball in Tamil

Kuchi <> Kiki
Banthu <> Bouba
> these fucking parenthesis are ridiculous

They're just different. And once you've come familiar with the language, you miss s-expressions everyday, because they're just that easy to work with, especially with something like paredit. Why? because the grammar is easy to parse and reason about. The whole code is a tree. And evaluation is mostly working from the leaves to the root.

> "car" and "cons", yeey, but "first" would have been so hard?

It comes from the nature of the language. "cons" is to construct a pair of values, and "car" to get the first one, while "cdr" returns the second one. But lists are composed of cons cells (check how it works), and in that case you could argue for "head" and "tail" for the function names. But "car" and "cdr" were first and you could alias them easily.

> no return, so sometimes something just takes the last one and returns

The computing paradigm is expression evaluations, not sequence of instructions (although sequencing is there). An s-expression is always equivalent to something, and that something is what you're computing. Something like (first '("name" "email")) is the same as "name". Or (if (> x 0) :pos :neg) with x = 5 is the same as (if t :pos :neg) and the same as :pos. [0]

No return is needed. It's tricky when doing iteration, but whenever you're doing sequencing (they mention that in the docs for CL), the last value is equivalent to the whole thing.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus#Reduction
Imaging privacy threats from an ambient light sensor [pdf]
This is like a C++ dev saying there’s no reason to use rust.

Swift offers a lot of ergonomic values over rust in ways that have made me switch over as my default choice.

Things like default argument values, lazy static initializers, computed properties, optional chaining. I’ve personally also come around to ref counting by default being a sensible choice for most programs.

Though the thing that won me over was the recent C++ interoperability. Rust doesn’t have a good story there yet that’s as comparable. Hours/days/months writing Rust bindings for a C++ library are often minutes in Swift.

Each language has its own place and own benefits, but to say there’s “no reason to use a language” feels short sighted and defensively dismissive