skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the individual article summaries:

"The Editor-in-Chief and the publisher have retracted this article. The article was submitted to be part of a guest-edited issue. An investigation by the publisher found a number of articles, including this one, with a number of concerns, including but not limited to compromised editorial handling and peer review process, inappropriate or irrelevant references or not being in scope of the journal or guest-edited issue. Based on the investigation’s findings the Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article."
Gets a bit hectic to be sure, but I'd rather read a contentious topic here than pretty much anywhere else

...That said - whilst it's a legitimate hot topic for our industry, I'd still trade it all in for more of those classic and insightful threads on obscure algorithms. (The ones seemingly populated entirely with folk who figuratively - or sometimes literally - wrote the book)
yeah, the forth feature that actually does this is not immediate words in general, but the two immediate words [ and ], which allow you to do arbitrary ad hoc computations at compile time instead of at run time

but also you can just put the code you would have put between the [ ] delimiter words into an immediate word, and call it where you would have put the [ ] block. the effect is not exactly the same but it has semantics slightly more consistent with the usual semantics because your immediate word is in fact compiled just like non-immediate words are
It's probably just me, but I read this sentence over 3 times and I still don't understand what you meant. Care to explain?
In Chile:

* auto: car

* coche: stroller or carriage (depending on context)

* carro: cart or carriage (see above)
I could list out a bunch of examples (and deleted my first draft of this comment listing various examples: Wikipedia, operating systems, Web browsers, software languages, databases, and a host of desktop and mobile apps generally).

But I think the more interesting perspective is to reverse the question: where are proprietary software specifically successful?

Many years ago I'd noted that the concept of a shrinkwrap-based software company had very few successful exemplars. Microsoft and, perhaps Adobe, being the best-known cases. Through the mid-aughts, most other "software" firms had tremendous consulting arms: IBM, Oracle, Peoplesoft, SAP, Symantec, Informix, and the Big-N consulting companies notably.

Since the mid-aughts, SAAS and social media companies have arisen, though that's still a segment where a very small number of companies come to claim a monopoly position, largely due to adtech dynamics (on both ad sales aggregation and surveillance data).

Actual shrinkwrap software markets are increasingly marginal, fighting for table scraps, with the remaining large participants (Microsoft, Adobe) increasingly headed to subscription and/or ad-supported business models.
Dolphin emulator has adopted a rolling release cycle
Very cool. Does this also generate the transcripts or only add search for videos with existing transcripts?
probably so, yes, but forth would be #2
would you consider that a dark pattern?
Whenever I want to feel completely stupid, I just open a Wikipedia page on some philosophical term/idea and go down a rabbit hole of links that it's a concept in/argument against/etc.

Just completely impenetrably baffling to me in a way that other fields like chemistry or microbiology or physics or whatever (despite also not being my own) aren't. Not that I understand them, but they're penetrable, I can read more and more and form some kind of understanding.

Is it just me? I don't know what it is, can it really be as simple as philosophy not being taught at school (compulsorily, or young) so I don't have that kind of rough overview of the landscape I do for other broad subjects? (I did take one course in 'contemporary philosophy' at university, which I enjoyed, but we covered only what we covered I suppose - I might be able to hold a (very) basic conversation about Sartre or Wittgenstein, but that page on post-structuralism.. no idea!)
is 1 million people a lot? I lived most of my life in metro areas of 15-30 million. when I finally ventured out and saw so many famous places at 1.5 million or less and how I could drive in and then back out of their downtowns in just a few blocks I was kind of shocked on how small most places are
I'd argue that it's overkill. Simplicity of solutions is a virtue and a good employer recognizes that.

On the other hand, there's always fun in doing something stupid and impractical, like porting DOOM to a smart appliance. So instead of making a portfolio with React and SASS, try doing something else that more clearly projects "I know this is overkill, but it's weird fun so I did it anyways."
Can you be more direct?
If you are looking for a front end role, a great idea, otherwise it's not a bad idea. But, I would suggest going with Next over React for static content, this a great starter https://vercel.com/templates/next.js/nextjs-boilerplate and your build process will be all set from the set and tied to the created GitHub main branch, best of luck!
I keep thinking about email and the early Internet as an example of how the LLM revolution is going.

Like the early Internet, people like LLMs and will pay for access to them. So an LLM is by itself a product. Like the early Internet, LLMs make people vaguely more productive but probably also wastes a lot of people's times. Like the early Internet, LLMs doesn't threaten very many people's jobs since they do anything in a way that you can have full confidence in.

However, this article is mostly about efforts to use LLMs as "real AI". The problem they aren't really that. Everything they do/create requires supervision and so it really doesn't impact company headcount.
Secret Mental Weapon: 'Don't Let the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good'
lisp macros are probably newer than forth, but i don't know that they're newer than the words [ and ] in forth. but lisp did permit arbitrary compile-time computation from the beginning, i believe
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as you said, this is a decades-long running debate, and pretty much every argument has been heard, ad nauseum. That makes this "valid concern" a pretty low-quality reply.

The first freedom that GPL-lovers have is whether or not to use the project.
The military doesn't let you "resign," and former service members can be charged in civilian federal court.
We need a better way to connect the job seekers to the companies actually hiring. To fight AI spam, perhaps the world will go back to in-person meetups and hiring fairs.
That was a lot to take in. Inspiring.
> You cannot seriously think that you need 1:1 parity missile-to-shell in that paradigm.

this argument would work if we could produce missiles in 1:1 parity with shells. However, for any reasonable ratio (say 1 missile for 10 shells) the situations with missiles is even worse! British government has ordered more NLAWs, and they will take 2 years to deliver.

> soviet doctrine underperfomed

That's exactly the scary part - Russian military is a mess, and even in these conditions our military industrial complex is barely holding it together. Mind you we spend 10x what Russia spends. NLAW costs more than a Tesla, takes longer to produce than a Tesla, and uses 90's technology. There is huge graft in the military complex!

Now what will happen if there is a conflict with an opponent that is competent, and is able to outproduce Russia 5 to 1? It will end in massive humiliation.
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For those who weren't there at the time:

Imagine that all web editors emitted a proprietary document format that wasn't documented anywhere except in the editor that wrote a file and the viewer that interpreted it. You lived with this because that's just the way it was done. It was common to get a web page into such a state that 2/3 of the page was red, one column was RTL for some reason, and everything was in italics except for the 1 word you wanted to be that way.

You were used to this. It wasn't great, but that's life.

And then someone released a web editor with a "reveal HTML" setting that suddenly showed you that `<font color="red">` tag that messed everything up and allowed you to delete it.

That's what Reveal Codes did for us. It was a revelation.
It's true - VSC family of editors (VSCode, Codeium and Cursor) all let you use AI autocomplete, question answering etc with your notebook code through various extensions. However, lots of Data Scientists and Analysts prefer using Jupyter Lab or Colab or in general notebook like interfaces. Plus, this is just a start - we're going to be adding way more features that will make the differentiation clearer (see my other comment earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40858509)

As of now though - there are plenty of people who do use Jupyter and we hope Pretzel - as it stands today - can already be of help to them.
It was/is free. All that proves is people have faster access to news.

Lets see what it's DAUs are on a long term basis.
Before even reading the story my first thought was anesthesia + air travel as how it could be pulled off today without any teleportation/alien magic. But in 1593 that may as well be alien magic.
This was a great story, I really enjoyed reading about it.
Ask HN: Social network with actual vetted humans?
Has anyone attempted this - a social network where each person has been vouched for personally by another real, verified person?
Article title: Night eating in timing, frequency, and food quality and risks of all-cause, cancer, and diabetes mortality: findings from national health and nutrition examination survey (bit of a mouthful)

From the conclusion: Night eating was associated with increased all-cause, cancer and diabetes mortality
Or GPLv2 with binaries loaded at runtime, like Linux does. This is a definitive good candidate for v2 as not having DRM is simply just not going to work.
I don't know if I've ever thought to see which technologies went into a candidate's portfolio site. For me, you want it to be clearly presented, with the content being the most important thing. I would not give an engineer more or less attention if I knew they were using React vs. vanilla HTML/CSS/JS. I want to see good case studies of previous work, which show you've got a good head on your shoulders. Everything else comes out in the interview.
Why don't sharks bite lawyers?

Professional courtesy.

(I have a million of these from my lawyer friends.)
This is also a special case of what MetaOCaml calls multi-stage programming. It does not only support two phases but arbitrary many. Some similar prototype also exists for some older Scala version. And Lisp and Forth obviously also support n-phases of computation.
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There are only 26 areas in the world which are 15-30 million. They have about 550 million people, or about 7% of the world's population.

1 million is fairly large, especially in the context of Chile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities
Great memory indeed!

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I had thought so too. Many people they say about "punch up" and "punch down" comedy, but I thought, to do comedy, to be funny, you will say anything if it is sufficiently funny, not "up" and not "down".

Like this article says: If you are doing comedy, your allegience should not be left and right and up and down. Your allegience should be funny.

Comedy is you punch everyone (including yourself) (but not usually by hand like real punching; it isn't physically fighting).

Furthermore, free speech is good and important (whether or not it is funny). (Even the quotation (Rowan Atkinson) there says: "In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything." And, this is another free speech, and is also good.)

> To reduce power to one’s skin color, identity group, or bank balance, as American numbskulls so often do, is to view the night sky through a keyhole. Our inability or refusal to grapple with the true complexity of power is why we should treat the concept with humility, not absolute confidence.

Of course, they are right. Power is not your skin colours and stuff like that; and, anyways, there is more than one "power", depending on the circumstances and other stuff.
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Just to clarify, do you want a filter specifically to toggle between countries that are a part of the VAT OSS scheme and countries NOT in VAT OSS scheme?
Hey Mathias! Was fun chatting about Livebook the other day and yes, I'm definitely looking at it for inspiration! Alas it's an Elixir only notebook and so far as I know, there's very few data folks using Elixir so might be a hard sell.
I suppose that is only if you assume I meant "only trained on ..." which is a limited reading of that idea.

But even if you were to make that assumption, I feel pretty confident that an LLM trained on 5000 years of recorded language, from the Egyptian Hieroglyphs, through Hellenic Greek, through Shakespeare and including all text in all languages up to 1928, would be a pretty broad base of training.
you aren't stupid. philosophers forgot how to write clearly sometime in the past century.
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Your laptop most certainly has a GPU, even if it's not a dedicated one. All modern desktop environments use GPU acceleration, it's just that integrated GPUs are good enough for anything but the most demanding games. They are also enough for ImHex
OP does downplay them (“more dystopian and problematic than useful”). For one, it’s a nonsensical statement because dystopia and problems are not comparable to utility. A generous read of what they meant might be: LLMs are not very useful, and are dystopian and problematic in some vague way.

Do you believe parent thinks LLMs are very useful? They clearly think the real value of AI comes from limited applications of ML to science, simulations, optimizations, etc instead of general-purpose automation and capabilities that LLMs provide.
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What are the limitations of running the server on Windows?
A bundler does not necessarily produce a single file. I have not tried Mako. But from the docs it appears to do code splitting just like the others.
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We frequently have the issue of, upon refactoring code in such a way that involves moving it and its tests to a new file, Sonar will take away our previous "credit" for code coverage percentage, dropping our project below the threshold and failing.

The only workaround I've found is to create a new function, fill it full of many useless no-op lines, and write a test for that function, just to bump the percentages back up. This is often harder than it sounds, because the linter will block many types of useless no-op code. We then remove the code as part of another ticket.
Exactly, you agree: the lack of LLMs is not good. LLMs turned a bad outcome into a good one.
If you really want to develop and deploy something fast, try filament php.
Category Theory was called abstract nonsense by theoretical mathematicians, but it has helped improve type theory for computer language design.

G.H. Hardy was a British mathematician who expressed pride in the "uselessness" of his work, believing that pure mathematics was an art form that should not be tainted by practical applications. Ironically, his contributions to analytic number theory now underpins modern cryptography.

It’s weirdly difficult to study something for years - no matter how abstract — and successfully avoid any practical applications!
How is OpenAI any different. They are getting eyeballs on their “search” results for a market that is a high value for getting advertisements delivered.
ML models are just statistical function approximators right? So isn't asking for "explainability" from ML models equivalent to asking "why is fire hot?"? If an ML model makes a prediction the reason why is because it was trained on something that made the prediction more likely than others.
I use Sonar all the time, but not during build. It runs live while I'm editing a file. I've not noticed any slowdown at all, and it's certainly a quick feedback loop (it runs when I save the file).

I've found the majority of its suggestions helpful, and the ones that are not I simply ignore.
Brings back great memories of laying out WordPerfect keyboard overlays at my University Computer Lab job back in the day. And helping students to Bold (F6) and Underline (F8) their documents.

Good times.
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No, it didn't get a citation.

When humans break traffic laws, it's often because they decide to break the law or do not take appropriate care to ensure that the law is followed. As a result, the process focuses on personal responsibility and accountability for the driver's actions. That framework doesn't map onto self-driving vehicles; we probably shouldn't be trying to force it to fit. Treating a self-driving vehicle that violates traffic laws as a defective product is a better way to frame the issue.

I'd compare it to a situation where a car runs a red light: it could be because the driver wasn't paying attention, or it could have been because the brakes failed and couldn't stop. The breaks could have failed because they weren't properly maintained or because of a flaw in the design. Who is responsible and what appropriate accountability looks like depends on the details. If the driver wasn't paying attention, they should get a citation for violating traffic laws. The operator/owner (the registered owner) should get a citation if the breaks aren't reasonably maintained. If there is a design flaw, a regulatory agency should address the issue with the manufacturer to ensure that the problem is corrected. If the manufacturer was reckless with its design or manufacturing practices, it and/or its employees should be held accountable for those choices.
Discussion (241 points, 7 hours ago, 64 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40857041
Sadly, there is not a better drug out there.

At best, maybe, progress gets slowed. A little.

The amyloid hypothesis researchers have done grave damage to general society in their intransigence to abandon a position that has been proven over and over to not lead to useful treatments.
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Cool project, but I'm struggling to understand what is better about the Vectara solution?

Compared to Algolia.hn, this gives 0 filter controls (time window, stories vs. comments, `author:metadat', sort order, and so on), and no ability to search for exact matches. It failed to turn up anything interesting or even relevant for the 4 or 5 queries I ran.

You've still made it further than I in the HN search engine adventures, which is commendable.
the source sometimes changed for small internal reasons in the library generating the PDF (prawn). So just comparing the source would not give a clear cut answer. A visual comparison has helped quite nicely over time.
My understanding was that a lot of courtroom document standards originated as "...like WordPerfect does it." For example, before word processing, no one expected documents to include word counts. When word processing came along, judges wanted to know much much they were going to be expected to read, so they started requiring the cover sheet to include the number of words. And because WP came along at the right time, its algorithm for counting words (do you include footnotes? Headers/footers? The word "page" on "page 23"? Section titles?) became the de facto way to do it, and judges being judges, some were persnickety about the numbers matching exactly and would throw a hissy if they didn't.

Here's an example of someone bumping against that: https://www.wpuniverse.com/vb/forum/wordperfect/troubleshoot...
If the available options are:

1. Purchase an out-of-print copy of a scholarly archival study on ebay for $100+

2. Load the original raw contents into an LLM and perform the analysis myself

I think the freedom to choose would be a massive benefit. It doesn't prevent you from doing what you want to do.
In this case, we indeed have multiple components (although not third-party), and being able to refactor those without risk is quite nice.
The atomic clocks used in GPS are many orders of magnitude worse than state-of-the-art, and are not a significant limitation for the accuracy of the system.
You're making statements supporting the concept that errors are unavoidable, with an air of "oh well!", in a thread where someone is claiming AI is a solution... right after demonstrating a 10x error!

AI is a ridiculous answer, with its hallucinations and absurd error rates. If you didn't intend to support that level of absurd error rate, you shouldn't be replying in defence.

It sounds like you did not want to give that impression, if so, I suggest you look at the chain of replies, and the context.

AI hype is literally a danger to us all.
What's stopping this from going the way of Edge?

Why not fork Firefox or Chromium?

Can you point to an example where Mozilla's funding model led it to make a bad decision?
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Discussion (147 points, 5 hours ago, 57 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40858583
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I was thinking more Always Sunny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCZ9sIrjXpM
This reminds me of a horrible movie called Terminal Error, in which a kid uses a Game Boy to upload a virus that defeats a malevolent AI.

The kid's mom was Marina Sirtis though, still a thirst trap in middle age.