skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very well-written and easy to follow, wish I had read this a couple years ago :)

I would love a follow-up that fills the gap about the relatio ship between generator functions and promises though.

This part seems very transparent in practise, but I think they're also the reason why the article gets slightly fuzzy at the end.

It claims that 99% of developers need not to care about promise "unwrapping".

But isn't that what powers every async function with more than one "await" in it?

Would also love to read a thorough breakdown of immediately resolved promises and their duality with setTimeout(resolve, 0).
in this day age, getting past the captcha, false positive bot detection, proving a us based mobile number, etc etc... is harder to get kids started than the actual coding.
I'm seeing this recent onslaught of mobile and desktop apps for all the popular LLMs, but do they offer any functionality beyond a simple web wrapper? I have already had claude.ai pinned to my home screen for a while now.
Waiting for the hallucinate formula:

=HAL(9000)
https://dub.co/privacy

"Each customer is responsible for posting its own terms, conditions, and privacy policies, and ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and regulations."

then

"We collect information directly from you when you provide it to us explicitly on our Site"

I read that as "We collect everything we possibly can, and when we give that to you, pinky swear you'll be good".

I have nothing polite to otherwise say. Thanks though - I've added the appropriate blocks.
I haven't tried Claude on mobile, but my first instinct would've been to try the mobile web version. Do they have a good mobile web app? Has anyone compared the mobile web app with the native app? Based on the screenshots, it looks like this could've just been a mobile web app, especially since all of the features rely on remote computing to do anything.
Counterpoint: no semantics is better than wrong semantics. If a screenreader thinks your layout is a (data)table, it makes your visually impaired users sad.
> the non-Chinese owned competitors to Webnovel all appear to be DOA (but you might want to ask yourself why that is, and why Webnovel works, and consider that Webnovel is wildly writer-hostile, using exclusive contracts and encouraging brutal publication schedules)

I feel like the brutal publishing schedules are part of why they work, unfortunately. I'm not a regular consumer of Webnovel, so I'm curious what your take on what makes them successful is?
The explanation could also be as simple as fear of patent trolls.
Yeah I once worked at a cloud gaming company that used Wine on Linux on NVIDIA to stream cloud games. They were the only real option for multi-game performance, and very rock solid in terms of uptime. I truly have no idea what people are talking about. Yes I use X11.
The Telegraph article predates the shooting incident at the border by 14 days.

You are referencing "men" getting shot when the incident involves 1 person getting shot, and this is the only such incident that has been reported 2+ years into the full-scale invasion.
That's possible. It didn't strike me that that was the case at the time, but the next time it happens (we're about due), I'll read the post more closely.
I can easily believe that they are sold as business vehicles, what I doubt is that they are mostly being used as such.

For example if the owner of a construction company and his son have a Super Duty truck each that is mostly used to commute I would not consider them to be used as business vehicles.

For example in my country the stereotipycal vehicle for construction workers and farmers looks like [0] and exists in dozens of variations with all kinds of specialized attachments like

https://photo.static-viamobilis.com/32/1/7945049-photo-camio...

https://www.ricciato.com/resources/product/10519/gallery/05_...

https://photo.via-mobilis.com/32/2/2312573-camion-benne.jpg

https://www.grupposcotti.it/media/8d879ce9c03e93b/gamma-ivec...

https://www.ricciato.com/resources/product/10519/gallery/IMG...

https://autoline24.it/img/s/veicolo-commerciale-furgone-auto...

[0] https://www.emacchinari.com/img/19/09/231031P_20190730_09522...
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40987224
Sure that would work. The higher the ratio of controlled/ambient light, and the slower you can do the sweep, the better for SNR of the hyperspectral image.
I'm out of the loop. What is this?
Haven't tried any yet, but it sounds like parent may be interested in an LLM router. https://github.com/lm-sys/RouteLLM
At least for Chat GPT, the key thing is I can leave the app and let it work in the background.

This is only really an issue on mobile devices though...
From the linked NIH page about the study (via the Wayback Machine):

> “The exposures used in the studies cannot be compared directly to the exposure that humans experience when using a cell phone,” said John Bucher, Ph.D., NTP senior scientist. “In our studies, rats and mice received radio frequency radiation across their whole bodies. By contrast, people are mostly exposed in specific local tissues close to where they hold the phone. In addition, the exposure levels and durations in our studies were greater than what people experience.”

'Beware the man of one study.'
There are a lot of models coming out, but in my view, most don't really matter or move the needle. There are the frontier models which aren't open (like GPT-4o) and then there are the small "elite" local LLMs like Llama3 8B. The rest seem like they are mostly about manipulating benchmarks. Whenever I try them, they are worse in actual practice than the Llama3 models.
Same here, seems to have crashed.
I read it as "we can't do it now because complex reasons, but we know it's still a problem and want to do it" and that feels pretty good. Like who's supposed to set the timeline for rectifying long-lived errors in judgement? Unwinding long-lived errors generally takes time.
nope, never worked on it personally. but it something I use daily cause the official client is just so heavy and slow for me, plus I personally like the TUIs
Well from the very start you knew it wouldn't.
When you write a procedure that has to maintain an internal state between calls, stopping what you're doing and switching to functional programming makes sense.
I've run NixOS for almost a decade now and I honestly would not recommend anything else. I've had many issues with booting on almost every distro. They're about as reliable as Windows in that regard. NixOS has been absolutely rock solid; beyond anything I could possibly have hoped for. In the extremely rare case my system would not boot, I've either found a hardware problem that would affect anyone, or I could just revert to a previous system revision and boot up. Never had any problem. No longer use anything else because it's just too risky
> why ask them for a comment at all

Journalist integrity, but the author has expressed in several comments that he doesn't care about that. Which is fine I suppose, but it's weird to pretend to be a journalist or security researcher and not adopt any of their ethical standards.
I still use posix write [1] if there is an incident and i want to talk to the other admins that all try to fix sth. Quite fünf AS the younger ones are always Quote puzzled and feel caught...

[1] https://manpages.org/write
This is actually cool!

But unless I'm missing something, what's the difference between this and IRC?
Claude seems promising, but after giving it a try two things stood out to me (I have previously used ChatGPT and Gemini):

1. I miss voice I/O more than I thought I would, in particular on mobile. Maybe because of how great of a job Whisper has been doing in the case of ChatGPT in particular.

2. Claude seemed hyper-conservative in ways that I would personally classify as annoying. Example: it refused to detail the plot of a ~60 year old book, claiming that doing so would infringe copyright (!). It relented only after I pointed out you can find the same information on Wikipedia.
This is definitely a problem; if the control circuitry is up for it you could PWM the pixel color, basically dithering in time instead of space to achieve white or arbitrary non-spectral colors.
US government is not large compared to most other countries. A lot of the infrastructure that are controlled by government in other countries, are under private control, or under state control in the US at best. If the government is shrunk, the already large corporations will grow even larger.
direct link to the map: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
I don't know man. The US government spends in a couple of months what the biggest companies are worth in total.

According to this [0] Uncle Sam is obligated to spend 6.3T this year. That's 500B per month. Compare to the market cap of mammoth companies [1]. ExxonMobil, UnitedHealth, and Mastercard are all in the top 20 US companies and worth around one month of government spending.

How can a whale be beholden to a flea?

[0]: https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function
[1]: https://companiesmarketcap.com/
Thank you so much for the feedback here! Our privacy policy hasn't been updated in a while and we'll definitely improve it with your feedback – sorry about the wording here!
People want apps. Even if it's just a web wrapper. Even if a PWA would serve the same function. They just want an app icon that behaves the same as their other app icons, is delivered by searching in their app store, and multitasks like its own app.
They're building a beautiful garden with rich soil and generous watering. In fact it is so wonderful that you'd love to grow your product there. A product with deep roots and symbiotic neighbors.

Just be careful when they start building the walls. And they will build those walls.
Surprised at the amount of backlash for introducing a license option.

Always reminds me that corporate SAAS software is held to a lower standard (>$5/m) than most indie software ($25, 1 time purchase)
At Databricks summit there was a nice presentation [0] by the CEO of V7 labs who showed a demo of their LLM + Spreadsheet product.

The kneejerk reaction of “ugh, LLM and spreadsheet?!” is understandable, but I encourage you to watch that demo. It makes clear some obvious potentials of LLMs in spreadsheets. They can basically be an advanced autofill. If you’ve used CoPilot in VSCode, you understand the satisfaction of feeling like an LLM is thinking one step ahead of you. This should be achievable in spreadsheets as well.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=0SVilfbn-HY&t=1251 (queued to demo at 20:51)
But only if it could do it with reasonable accuracy.
The problem is that AI is one of the few technologies that doesn't just fail to do it's job but it fails and you might never notice until the error is already very costly if it hallucinated something crazy.
That would be on the companies (or their auditors), not Microsoft, in general. Clearly, no-one should ever _use_ this, should it ever make it out of research-land, but there's not that much obvious risk to _making_ it as long as they're honest about the risks.
working on bringing it back, hold on
Apple breaks silence on claims it used 'swiped YouTube videos' to train AI
That's not what NVIDIA claimed, that's what I have personally verified.

> there's a reason why h800 were included last minute

No. Oct 22 restrictions are by itself significantly easier than Oct 23 one. NVIDIA just need to kill 4 NVLink lanes off A100 and you get A800. For H100 you kill some more NVLink until on paper NVLink bandwidth is roughly at A800 level again and then voila.

BIS is certainly pissed off by NVIDIA's attempt at being creative to sell the best possible product to China. So they actually lowered allowed compute number AGAIN in Oct 23. That's what killed H800.
Unlike ChatGPT's Android app, this doesn't actually seem to use Google Play Services for anything but OAuth, which is nice. Got it running on my deGoogled phone. It feels quite snappy, hopefully isn't just a webview.
What does it do in the background though?
Goodness, I've been making a joke that AI companies are going to spend 500 billion dollars to make spreadsheet generators since 2023, and now it's becoming real. Gemini has a limited form of this too.
>Since when is an individual's personal blog "journalism", and therefore expected to live up to that standard?

If the author is going to pretend to be a journalist of a security researcher, I see no problem holding their work to the ethical standards expected from those sorts of people.
Assuming the drug adds another 20 years of quality life, the impact on social program financing would be very good. As is, the average person spends, roughly ~56% of human life being net-productive (20 learning, 45 working, 15 retired). Add 20 healthy years, and most folks will keep working, which would raise the share of productive years to ~65%. If the treatment is expensive, then only net-productive individuals would be able to afford it, meaning we would gain the benefit of contributors contributing for longer, without net-recipients receiving for longer.

This would also allow folks another 20 years of planning/saving for retirement, which could greatly improve the quality of those years for the average retiree, but probably won't.

The biggest social impact of this drug, I think, would be its affect of the wealth gap. Another 20 years of compounding market returns would buoy the net worth of the 30% who make up the "upper class". An ever-increasing number of people would be able to achieve financial "escape velocity" by building nest-eggs which can sustain them indefinitely via 3% withdrawals, allowing them to retire "early" (i.e. before the new "standard" retirement age of 80). Folks who speed-run their careers and retire in their 40s-50s could enjoy 50 or 60 years of retirement! Inheritances would rise dramatically, but come later in life. This would also result in a backlash, of course. Envy is the oldest and most powerful organizing "principle", and politicians will happily use this new prosperity to generate enmity for their own purposes, just as they always have.

My main concern would be the dysgenic impact of such a thing. If it becomes generally available, it will no doubt encourage thinking folks delay having children even more, while also granting another decade of fertility to the "oops another baby" cohort. It seems clear that this would significantly accelerate our decline toward idiocracy.
I remember a war between Users and IT - the shitty CMS everybody used had a crazy-small limit for links, so people wanted to use URL shorteners, which then got blocked for security reasons ...
Worlds PART I: INTRODUCING UPDATE 5.0
Please look at Qatar or the UAE, as I feel that will pretty much clear up that feeling about it being unrealistic.

I don't mean look at some specific mansion, I almost even mean the entire countries, particularly Qatar. If you've ever been there, it's mind-boggling how much extravagant waste is displayed everywhere. I mean true extremes of marble and gold foil everywhere, along with the relevant aspect of HUGE air conditioned structures.

I mean so truly excessively huge where vast amounts of empty space are being cooled for nearly nobody within large malls, indoor plazas, mansions, etc.

Also, while I can see a valid point being that maybe they're more corrupt and wasteful than most, I'd just wish to then say I've seen some pretty tremendous waste in western countries, there's just usually more of an attempt to disguise it. And related to your point about hoarding, I'd ask you to consider what the benefit of extra private yachts or the Nth additional mansion or apartment is for a very rich individual are. Why hoard away ships, or trinkets, or homes that won't be occupied? It's a difference of mindset and desires/goals.
Interesting that the benchmarks they show have it outperforming Gemma 2 9B and Llama 3 8B, but it does a lot worse on my NYT Connections benchmark (5.1 vs 16.3 and 12.3). The new GPT-4o mini also does better at 14.3. It's just one benchmark though, so looking forward to additional scores.
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Recruiters and hiring managers using their dashboards keep track of all the shortlisted candidates, send email and schedule interviews from a single interface. It integrates with any ATS to let the customers feel comfortable with using their own ATS, schedule MS Teams call and reflect it on Hiring Manager's Outlook calendar. Thus making it a super convenient tool for the recruitment process. I look forward to your feedback to bring in improvements. Thank you.
To point 1, I totally agree. ChatGPT's VUI is really good, especially when "learning" things with my kids. A huge step up from trying to "talk" to Alexa.
This is awesome. I ran a query against a knowledge base that used to cost around $0.13 with 4o, now the cost doesn't even round to 1 cent, and the response is nearly as good.

I expect to make heavy use of this in my research-oriented agents, such as extracting relevant information from webpages to present to larger models.
There's io-ts, a library built specifically for this, and it's based on the basis of famous fp-ts
How much of that is defense? How much is security & policing?

A bulk of that spending is to keep the market going, and to protect business interests.
Shakespeare only really works for me in original pronunciation. The rhyme scheme makes sense, the alliteration comes back... even some nonsensical lyrics become obvious jokes.
No, in this case someone (it's unclear who precisely since the linked blog doesn't have an About page) didn't like it. Why? Because using names that don't belong to you is stealing (according to their view). I'm not entirely sure I follow that line of reasoning, but looking at the blog that the ASF linked to which includes lines like:

> But I've got thousands of years of (re)learning to do and will never have the power of the matriarchs, so I follow the lead of the women in my life and do as I'm told.

https://blog.nativesintech.org/jeff-doctor/

I suspect there's a lot of context that is missing.
His speech in forums and emails sounds Aussie to me. And his slight distance from American culture rules out USA. Japan because of a handful of references to Japanese culture, and others have deduced the Pacific region from his correspondence timestamps. And no longer with us due to not moving original coins, and his extremely abrupt disappearance mid conversation, almost mid sentence.

I, personally, don't care though and respect their anonymity.
In Germany, within the first 6 months, you can fire without giving a reason.
You weren't kidding, that one mine has polluted a significant percentage of the entire earths surface [1]:

> "The idea that Amundsen and Scott were traveling over snow that clearly was contaminated by lead from smelting and mining in Australia, and that lead pollution at that time was nearly as high as any time ever since, is surprising to say the least."

> The similar timing and magnitude of changes in lead deposition across Antarctica, as well as the characteristic isotopic signature of Broken Hill lead found throughout the continent, suggest that this single emission source in southern Australia was responsible for the introduction of lead pollution into Antarctica at the end of the 19th century and remains a significant source today, the authors report.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140808070623/http://www.nasa.g...
I live close to one of the oldest canals in Europe, the Finow Canal. It connects the Oder with the Havel and was constructed in 1605. The water locks are still operational but commercial freight has moved to the much larger and newer Oder-Havel Canal.

The old canal now has a bike path along most of the way, a very nice bicycle trip through the countryside north of Berlin.

Also there are beavers and kingfishers :)

Edit: also this of course, on the Oder-Havel Canal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niederfinow_Boat_Lift
How much would it cost Google to just keep a few hundred webserver replicas running on some Borg cluster somewhere that do nothing but match and redirect incoming requests to their destinations for a few more years?

Am I underestimating the complexity of this at Google's scale?
Funny, another commenter posted both videos, Steve Jobs saying it and Steve Jobs the film. Steve Jobs says what you say. Hollywood says it the other way. I suppose it also wouldn't be surprising if Jobs rehearsed this Hollywood-style for his interview.
The government is designed for rich people from its foundation, it's a cozy revolving door for the elites and functions to repress popular movements. Officials identify with business and owners and can pick up do-nothing or interesting jobs after their government services.

US elections are some of the most expensive in the world and politicians rely on donations to win their campaigns. The connections between business and government are a spider web. Business also isn't a set of individual companies, they in fact cooperate on public policy through think tanks such as the chamber of commerce and the business round table.

Furthermore, since business controls the commodities and processes that sustain life, business holds a veto over economic policy with "capital strikes". Government could seize these properties, but our left wing is very weak.

Think about it another way, why do you assume that elected officials have any obligation to the public when there is essentially no recourse except through elections and elections generally require oodles of money to win?
I think there's a problem in American english in particular. We call the subject 'math', but I think the british 'maths' is more appropriate. There's multiple different kinds of mathematics. Not just one. The American misnomer makes a lot of people falsely believe that grade-school/high-school math is the 'path' into higher math. It's not.

That's not to dismiss the importance of arithmetic (and this is what I believe we should call grade school math operations): everyone should know how to add, subtract, multiply, divide, etc. But the core of mathematics is logical thinking and reason, not numbers
They were not minor. What are you talking about?
Cool. Hanging!
It's no longer okay to reference or use symbols of other cultures, no matter how innocent or praising of that culture it might be without their permission.
And given what other cheap Chinese Android brands cost, 200 is a premium for this.
For anyone who hasn't thought of it yet... this is a fine time to explore dual citizenship options.
The in-network effect.
Surely this is still a massive problem for any real world enterprise use case unless you throw a human in the loop (which kills the productivity benefit) or you stamp a massive disclaimer on the output
Good ol overloading of the + operator at work there
When I read https://marcan.st/2017/12/debugging-an-evil-go-runtime-bug/ and saw the hash bisection trick for the first time I was super impressed, it really does sound incredibly slick :) I imagine that's how first coming across normal git bisect must feel to new engineers.
I had similar discussions with people that wanted to encode published research into ontologies. I would ask researchers what they think - the answer was always great idea. I would then follow up with - How would you use it? No response. I finally concluded that it would never happen.

1. No one wanted it enough to pay for it to happen.

2. There is always a turn over of ideas coming and going which can never be sufficiently updated to keep it useful. Again no one would pay anyway.

Tools like LLMs seem to be fill the role now. I would like to see a Prolog integrated with LLMs is someway (lack of imagination fails me how that would happen).