skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author is simultaneously reinventing the wheel and overthinking the writing process. Their essay overloads all the work of deep thinking onto the task of writing, which indeed scientists say writing a piece of text is one of the hardest cognitive tasks.

The top-down elaboration of bullet points is what middle-school students should've been taught, outlining.

The conjecturing and counterexamples are reasoning critically about your own ideas.

All of this is easy said but it's all well known and high school education should've taught the basics of this, the rest is just lots of practice.
The language evolution is commonly divided into four stages.

isn’t the same as

Four distinct languages had an influence on the development of this fifth language.
Even better, as we are writing a wish list:

4. Reinforce control of the chemical polluters

Push to assure that as much people as possible are supplied with food and water that are clean of cancer triggering chemicals. Educate people about sunburns is useful also, but people will rarely get leukemia or pancreatic cancer by sun exposure alone.

The sad truth is that most people will not be grateful for --not having-- cancer or --not going-- into a fat accumulation spiral by chemicals breaking the body fat system. People just take this for granted, or expect somebody volunteering to do this work for free.

Is not a lack of will, is a lack of resources. Banners are still one of the most powerful tools against cancer and the most underrated one.
Digital nomads don't have to live in Lisbon. Besides, housing supply issues will be solved in 10 years - baby boomers dying.
"Ordeal" was exactly the same process in Europe for centuries. In France at least, this "divine judgment" was mostly by fire and water.

I remember reading about these "river ordeals" in Dominique Charpin's books about Mesopotamia. It was also used in "trials" for infidelity, to the woman, sometimes with her supposed lover. But we don't know the exact process: maybe the suspects were tied up if the authorities thought the accusation was well backed up!
I think what's interesting here is that you must have had access to the raw financials (eg. sales numbers, P&L by department). These are very tightly controlled at all companies I've worked at, making it hard to know if a particular product is important to the bottom line or not.
I know it feels like 4o has been out forever but go back to the 3.5 model without internet access for a while, which is all that a lot of students can afford.

It’s kind of terrible.

But yeah ever since I could start adding “and include an explanation with citations” to my prompts I’ve not had an issue with hallucinations more than once or twice.
You go study Computer Engineering and then to get hired for some CRUD work on a legacy system you have to solve a LeetCode Medium and a Hard.
The UK government prefers to capitalize the money that could have been spent on public services into ever higher house prices.
Interpretations of quantum mechanics are testable, they have to produce quantum mechanics, which puts a very narrow constraint on possible theories.

The equivalent of p-zombie hypothesis with quantum mechanics would be if one said that particles in addition to coordinates have to be described by one more variable, which does not affect any of other equations of motion. These type of theories do not have to obey any constraint, and you can trivially produce an infinite amount of them.

You can say that this kind of variable has different value for particles in human brain, therefore study of this additional variable is more important than the study of the rest of physics. But this won't improve your understanding of either the brain or physics, just like p-zombie hypothesis does not.
Interesting. Copilot on the other hand is more like a conceited, passive aggressive brat who uses some polite phrases but aborts conversations if you contradict it too much.

The only smooth conversations with Copilot are the ones where you allow it to regurgitate "facts" and act in a submissive manner.
Is there a reason the API doesn't return the locations of the access points so the clients can calculate their positions by themselves?
Video Games Are China's Next Soft Power Grab
https://youtu.be/WYYOlIvs3fU

Non Greek viewers might mistake that for teutonic infantry but its probably actually just Ἱερὸς Λόχος reenactment outfits
Well honestly I can't really bring myself to care about it. After all, it's not like we're going into the SerenityOS Discord and seeing Nazis. It's a very slight rebellion, and seems to serve well to defuse tension and actually create a space with less hate than a lot of the spaces which do enforce more modern ethical views.
Transforming Titans: A Novel Journey of Agile Leadership in Outsourcing
Some time back, I was tasked with sharing my thoughts on sustaining an out-staffed venture with outsourced cartage services and onboarding 200 to 400 developers within 3 years. What started as a blog post has now evolved into a novel-like narrative, adding a new layer of depth and intrigue to the topic.

It was enjoyable and challenging to intertwine tech tips and life experiences into a novel-esque format. I successfully expressed complex and technical concepts, making the writing exciting and witty.

Please give me at least 100 words of your opinion. Did you find the article interesting and clear enough?

Your feedback is invaluable to me. I want you to know that your critical assessment is welcome.
> a massive arch or gateway of huge stone blocks which appeared to fit together perfectly, right angled joins, carvings and what appeared to be stairways, paved streets and crossroads

Where are the photos of this marvelous arch, the carvings and paved streets? All we've ever seen are photos and scale models of the "stairways" rock formation. If the idea that these are manmade is as popular as the article suggests, why leave out the best evidence?
Of course it doesn’t benefit the Portuguese. That’s not how Portugal is governed. It’s cynical, but that’s really how it is; learned helplessness on a national scale.
In true Vulkan fashion, this feature which was announced for DirectX a year ago and is now shipping hasn't even been publicly acknowledged by Khronos yet :(

I'm sure they're working on it, but the slower pace imposed by the much bigger committee including the mobile GPU vendors is a drag for those who only care about high performance hardware, and in the end their version usually ends up mirroring the design of the DirectX version anyway.
Not really, if she understood well what the photograph was being used for at the time, you can't retrospectively wish against it. That's like saying Oh I don't want to be a pornstar anymore, take down all my content thanks.
Keep in mind this law code was likely designed to combat intergenerational grudges between clans, which are extremely brutal (look up the "Hatfield-McCoy feud")

Without extremely harsh punishments, the clans likely would not have been willing to adopt any new code.
> “If you ask it about something it doesn't know, right then and there, it will concoct a fiction for you. It won't say "I don't know,"”

It doesn’t know that it doesn’t know. Texts it was trained on rarely go “On the History of the Greek Language, by Andros Dimos; ahem what is the history of the Greek language? I don’t know. The end.”
Economic stagnation and population decline is bad too. Highly skilled immigrants are especially good for the economy and for the tax base, which pays for social services. Rising housing costs are indeed a problem. Is there a part of town that can accommodate sky-scrapers?
I bet they did not give even a minute thought about the people who live and die in tiny boxes on desolate icefields. There was weird customs and rules to make this life possible, as for example Peter Freuchen documented.

This should be the starting point, imho. Those cultures were honed in 10000 years just for Mars survival perfection.
If the "oversupply" does occur, it would likely be temporary due to limits on the quantity that can be deployed per year. Grids in the US at least have very long interconnection queues. The technical and regulatory challenges that are limiting the deployments are being worked on.
This isn’t Gunnar’s fault. The problem was whomever stored ordered data in a hash file.

I have been in this business for decades and I have run into the situation where changing the shape of memory uncovers bugs. Every time it causes many hours and days of debugging.

If programming weren’t hard, they wouldn’t need us to do it. (I’m not sure how much longer that phrase will hold up under large language models.)
This isn't novel content - this is her reporting on papers she's read. If you only want to consume content from climate scientists, you can also read the papers directly.
I'm not sold on the lack of privacy affecting free speech.
If you care strongly enough about a topic or an issue that you want to speak your mind and share your opinion, you accept that your position and words will become public knowledge.

The real issue, I would argue, is that of governments becoming repressive and using force or threats against those who assert their right to free speech and civil disobedience. The first issue does not imply the second and I found that they were often confounded in comments, making it sound like they both go hand in hand.

I don't believe that to be the case. I'd like to think we can have a healthy democracy while living with increasing surveillance.

Let's keep pushing back on governments when they actually infringe on free speech. Like when they start firing people or limiting their rights based on political affiliation or beliefs.

Do we still have curfews or vaccine passports? No, people pushed back. Does the government know who got the shot and who didn't and what their stance is around it? I imagine they do.
Yes, and you go study mechanical engineering and you can end up working on an oil tanker, a Ferrari, a Mars rover or a garage door motor
Until you can quantifiably prove Wikipedia is more accurate than ChatGPT, I’m not sure how you can say GP’s comparison doesn’t make sense.
I just find it sad, more than anything. SerenityOS and Ladybird are interesting projects which I wish I could respect. But instead they seem insistent on regressing back to a dark age in tech where casual sexism was (even more?) commonplace. I can't respect that.
SCUMS! (StarCraft Use Map Settings). These maps provided a wide array of games and I believe popularized or gave birth to a few. I remember tower defense, level up games where you and the other players explore the map and gain upgrades, a predator game where one player is chosen randomly to be the killer in a horror style hunt. Imagine, each map, possibly an entire new game, sometimes being discovered for the first time together with strangers. Such a fun and amazing time!
I would tend to agree. Cilantro does not smell like bugs to me. It does however taste like soap. So I always tell restaurants no cilantro and often end up having to pick it out of dishes that I didn't expect to contain it.
What German did you meet, that didnt know couscous? Granted, im a fair bit younger, but all of my friends and family know couscous and eat it fairly regularly (im german too). Which is to say: couscous is very well known in germany in general
Whoever says it tastes "kinda soapy" is likely do not have that gene variant in the first place. Because if you have it, it tastes like soap, full stop. Like you bite into a soap bar. Even a tiny bit of cilantro.
Yeah, Hammurabi was probably tired of having to constantly adjudicate disputes between clans, so his top priority was probably to shut down most complaints from the get go.
It doesn't look like it is for digital nomads to me.. More like competing for Polish doctors to have doctors in these cities.
There are two views of writing: one, as the production of a literary artifact that has value in its own right and stands alone as the embodiment of a complex idea itself; on the other hand, as a process and tool for thought, where the literary artifact is merely meant to represent the cognitive work that went into its production. From the latter perspective, the bulk of the value is not derived from the output of the process of writing, but rather from the understanding and insight that was gained during its production - "it's the journey, not the destination".

With generative AI we are now shortcutting directly to the destination while eliding all the knowledge and understanding we are supposed to be gaining on the way. It's deemed sufficient to merely produce and exchange the symbols of understanding without needing to possess any real underlying wisdom (the first view above), because it's through the exchange of these abstract symbols, irrespective of whether or not there is anything behind them, that we can play and win certain social games.

This is merely the natural continuation of trends that began during the dawn of the Internet era, when we started to consider pixels on a screen an accurate map of reality.
Ola replaces Google Maps with in-house 'Ola Maps', announces API for developers
Germany set to overhaul subsidy regime for renewable energy
“The country’s Prime Minister Joaquim Miranda Sarmento” he is not the prime minister. That’s Luis Montenegro. Sarmento is the economy/finance minister.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/How-a-Nude-Playboy-Photo...

This is what’s cited on Wikipedia about the cessation of use.
I hope you've brushed up on year 3 curriculum before going to fix that garage door motor so you can answer some random medium / hard questions from Finite Element Analysis in Solid Mechanics or Vehicle Powertrain, Noise and Vibration.
There are far more tourists than DN and expats.
She later said she wanted people to stop using the picture. https://finchcompany.com/projects/losing-lena-trailer/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/31/tech-publ...

> Forsén herself has also suggested that the photo should be retired. In 2019, she said she was “really proud” of the picture and she re-created the shot for Wired magazine, which called her “the patron saint of JPEGs”. But later that year, the documentary Losing Lena spearheaded the latest effort to encourage computer science to move on. “I retired from modelling a long time ago,” Forsén said on its release. “It’s time I retired from tech, too. We can make a simple change today that creates a lasting change for tomorrow. Let’s commit to losing me.”
This is not just a rough outline for the course, in 12 weeks the course itself will never amount to more than a rough outline of its topics
Preceding pages: Seydlitz familiar recurrence

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_von_Seydlitz-Kurzbac...

>A few days later, Seydlitz fled the German lines under fire from his own side with a group of other officers

Another virtuoso in disobedience!
I'm playing around a bit with 1 now. I've actually done a bit of 2 and I can tell you that the idea of growing enough calories to feed yourself is fairly daunting, which makes 3 a bit difficult (although I've had problems with that anyway I suppose).
Salary requirements negate that, plus the Portuguese health system pays rock-bottom salaries itself, and is already on its knees.
> they only trust ChatGPT

And somehow this is an improvement over the previous status quo. ChatGPT is pretty well read and on important issues rarely says stupid things. Better than believing some influencer.
That's a funny way to write, "Oh thanks for pointing that out! I should've double-checked my facts before stating them so confidently."

Regardless, I forgive you.
For transit I would want to know the path I'm taking up to the point the supplier has redundancy

From there the worst that can happen generally is that the packets spiral the wrong way around the continent
It does not end!

That's the point. If you want a reliable separate path, you must test it, and you must be prepared to spend time and money on fixing it. The tests include calling up the engineering manager for the separate path and verifying that it has not been "re-groomed" into sharing a path with your primary -- monthly or quarterly, depending on your risk tolerance.

Operations work does not end because the world keeps changing.
And the LLMs are still improving at a brisk rate. If they were outperforming teachers by the end of the decade that'd be well within expectations. Anyone pretending that human authority figures routinely get things right is defining correctness using circular logic.
> Library users with smartcards will be monitored by CCTV to ensure people do not “tailgate” into the buildings.

Seriously? How do they think a camera can prevent tailgating?
Well even before Wikipedia… remember calculators being banned? I think you’re right, we will adjust. Curriculum development will start to include new checkpoints and controls.
Of course there are things in between. There are even video games outside of it with no graphics like A Blind Legend. So what’s your point? I’d appreciate if you argued in good faith instead of reflexively fighting a straw man. You haven’t answered what makes you feel the need to (in your words) click on the comments to complain about artists picking pixel art as their choice.
It was of course co-discovered by another woman, Lise Meitner, who understood the theory while taking a walk with Otto Frisch and discussing the experimental findings by Otto Hahn. Meitner and Frisch were friends with Hahn and learned about the experiment earlier than most, so it’s likely one of those contingencies of history. There’s a good discussion of exactly how it unfolded in _The Making of the Atomic Bomb_ which is generally a great book and a comprehensive intro to the history of nuclear physics.
All you need to do is ask it to perform a web search. Or you can sample a few answers at high temperature.

I think young people growing with LLMs will know all the ins and outs of their limitations. But it's a rapidly evolving field, maybe in 5 years we won't doubt LLMs very often.
I don't think it's about blizzard but gaming culture in general that caused the gradual change. Gradually lowering the bar on skills required to play in some way.

Starcraft 2's F2 to select the whole army on the map is the other extreme and where it eventually landed right (I think that was introduced in a SC2 expansion, it was not a launch feature?)
DOS is basically a wrapper around the BIOS.
Is this only offered as an API? E.g. you can't dump it and analyze locally?
I did one (bunch of 35 yo guys) a few weeks ago, and it’s still just as awesome as before. It’s just a shame you cannot play any game released in the past 15 or so years, so you go back to Warcraft III :/
Time existed before the Big Bang
> data dumps are currently not available as I'm still researching the measures I need to take to protect the privacy of both contributors and AP owners.

Ah
Hmmm... well... Let me give you an example. The other day I asked for a summary of the short story "The Palace at Midnight" by Robert Silverberg.

GPT-4o responded: "The Palace at Midnight" by Robert Silverberg is a science fiction short story that was first published in 1980. It is part of Silverberg’s "Majipoor" series, but stands alone in terms of its setting and characters, distinct from the expansive world-building typical of the series. The story is set in a dystopian future in India and revolves around themes of memory, loss, and the haunting allure of the past.

The narrative follows the protagonist, Edward, and his group of friends who are survivors of a nuclear war that has devastated much of the world. . .

All of which was complete nonsense. "The Palace at Midnight" is a short story of a few pages that has nothing to do with Majipoor, was published in 1981, and was set in San Francisco.

It doesn't know -- it knows that it doesn't know -- so it just makes something up that seems superficially credible. Because it aims to please and be helpful; altogether too helpful.
The article is in error. The staff behind the counter are normally library assistants and very rarely librarians.
This is planned to help clients cache data locally, which would improve the privacy of the client and reduce server load. I would like to implement this over the next few days.

I have not yet found any clients that have implemented making use of such data, please let me know if you have found one or are developing one.
Does “self-evident” just mean that anyone who knows the sentence’s meaning can determine that it is true without any need to gather empirical data?

eg, All bachelors are unmarried.

eg, If X is a triangle, then X has three sides.

eg, the world is round or it is not the case that the world is round.

And does “universally recognized” just mean that most people believe the proposition is true?
Espressif's QEMU branch has support for the esp32-c3: https://github.com/espressif/qemu
Bah ? OP just added a thin-wrapper, to easy many people's lifes. Why write your own shell alias when it can be setup by default, for free ?
One of the best "how this mechanical thing works" for me is about differential/steering by Chevrolet (1937.). It's almost 100 years old by now but still one of the best "how" videos ever.

https://youtu.be/yYAw79386WI
> If I need permission from your server to play, then it's not really mine.

If you already need permission to even boot your PC, what more is it to need permission to start a game?

It’s a sad age we’re living in.
The goal of teaching is to help students learn. By showing the student Perplexity the student would learn the value of sources and how he can get to those sources using a "search". It is unrealistic to think that there is any value in teaching students the Dewey Decimal system for finding sources.
Thank you, this means a lot!
I know there is at least one ffmpeg fork with Rockchip mpp and rga support, although I haven’t tested it myself yet: https://github.com/nyanmisaka/ffmpeg-rockchip

I have tested the mpp SDK a bit and the code is easy to work with, with examples for encode and decode, both sync and async.
Show HN: glideprompt: – Writes your system prompt and tests it on popular LMs
Good morning hackers, here's my story.

How this problem bothered me...
About half a year ago, I was hired as a prompt engineer and didn't have a service to run prompt tests at my company. We were a startup not looking for a huge, expensive solution.

I needed this testing tool to allow me to:
SHOW MY RECEIPTS. Evidence of why I choose to use a certain LLM provider (price, results) over another for a task.
MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS. For personal projects, an easy way to see which language model would be the best choice for a given task.

How I built glideprompt?
I started building this solo (using just node and react) and realized there was even more opportunity to simplify the prompt-engineering process:
1. Stop writing system prompts from scratch, it writes me a boilerplate one -for the task- to start with. Oftentimes, staring at a blank slate wastes so much time in any area of life, including coding or prompt engineering.
2. Saving the prompt tests for later on firestore, so I can use it again when new open source models come out, etc.

I figured other people would have the same problem so I tried to make the interface as simple as simply freaking possible. Moving forward, I'm looking to see if anyone wants to use this as an API connection, or would be more interested in running larger tests, etc.

I really want to make this a collaborative customer/founder thing. Comment or email and I guarantee I will respond, and take your advice/feedback seriously.

Please let me know what you think.