skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cahn's article is really dumb.

The entire story: His insurance broker said his policy was cancelled because of AI. His policy was never actually cancelled.

Everything else is complete speculation.

The irony is that the most likely culprit in all of this was simple human error with his insurance broker.
Just a note, most mineral waters are not entirely natural, and contain added minerals and electrolytes. The water coming out of your tap, for instance, does not contain anywhere near the levels of minerals and electrolytes as a bottled mineral water product.

The GGP mentioned "regular mineral water" - but most of us (at least in the US) do not purchase bottled mineral water to drink on a day-to-day basis. Most of our water consumption, in one way or another, comes out of the tap.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vOE7EAlPUwE
Set up whatever apparatus you like, you can always set up its mirror image, and then the electrons are going in the opposite direction. So which is right and which is left?

Remember you haven't yet established with the alien what you mean by right and left, so you won't be able to instruct it to set up your apparatus rather than its mirror image, and of course you can't appeal to the right-hand rule.

This problem has no solution because electromagnetism is right-left symmetric. You would need to use the weak decay (and assume that your alien is made of matter rather than antimatter)
CML – Continuous Machine Learning, CI/CD for ML
That's what I meant. It tries to access a global variable 'y' and fails because there is none.

See also:

https://x.com/marekgibney/status/1817495719520940236

and

https://x.com/marekgibney/status/1817495721974583569
I dont know if it always works this way.
A software-first company has more experience at hiring/firing software devs and is better at "screwing you over", extracting maximum work for the least money. Its their bread and butter.
Not all companies but some are like this.
I - ignorantly - wonder what the whole point of that might be? - they cannot possibly sell that many in the intervening time ...
I did that. I gave him a simple console from the 90s and a TI-86 programmable calculator when he was 6. Thankfully he mastered them before he was 9 and got exposed to python/minecraft.

Now he can learn anything due to having been exposed to the basics.
Since you are trying to implement it inhouse. How about choosing a better stack?
Hire a high profile consultant like Saša Jurić and get the best stack implementation (i.e. Elixir). Here's talk by him on how he solves customer's problems.

Simplifying Systems with Elixir • Sasa Juric • YOW! 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDfm2fVS4Bo
I recall another report that most traffic jams could be made much better if people slowed down when approaching and were accelerated their way out on the other side. Makes sense from a basic flow rate / bottleneck perspective, but people will still race around others to late merge 10 cars up and cause everyone to got to a full stop...
> Once they've chewed up everyone who's easier than you, they're not going to spare you because you licked the boot up to that point.

First they came for the cheeseburger eaters and the cardboard box lifters...
The third state there is indeterminate and a read during that period is equally likely to produce a 0 or a 1.

Logic /levels/ are what matters, not bus state.

You can even see this in how it's implemented. You typically have an OUT line, and an OUT_ENABLE line. This is really just 2 bits.
I don't understand how LangChain is in enough of an echo chamber that I'm reading RTs this AM from the titular lead cheering on someone open-sourcing "AGI" via the umpteenth implementation on LangChain of "monkeys on typewriters via N LLM responses"

I don't complain actively about LangChain because this seems widely understood at this point, and apologize for being abrupt, but at some point, when this behavior is repeated, the assumption shifts from "lack of perspective on our own work", which we all suffer from, into "feigned naivete designed to mislead"
I'm one of the authors so my opinion would be biased ha
She's kept her stuff off the Internet and any form of digital distribution since long before streaming services existed
Orion on iOS blocks ads. It's made by Kagi. Not sure how they got away with it, and it's not firefox, but it's as close as you can get right now.
If I remember correctly, the earliest popular thing that they permanently blocked was LinkedIn for some reason.
I played through that game twice recently with my kids (this was my first time, it's my wife's Genesis). I didn't get stuck there and don't know what you're talking about. I must have accidentally done the right thing? In general I found Sonic 3 to be among the easiest 16-bit platformers I've played, and much easier than the NES games I grew up on.
I want to note for the HN crowd that the book is in the "just technical enough to inform yet not scare off the layman, but not technical enough for the practitioner" nonfiction subgenre. Critically, there are a number of finer details that DFW gets wrong; if you're mathematically inclined and intend to read this, I suggest pairing it with a printed copy of Prabhakar Ragde's errata document hosted by the DFW fansite The Howling Fantods ([1]).

[1] https://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw/images/enmerrata.pdf
Crash: Voepass AT72 at Sao Paulo on Aug 9th, spun out of ctrl and lost height
Venezuela bans X as Maduro expands crackdown
LLM Product Anti-Patterns
It does indeed sound incredibly dangerous, it isn't though. Russians (and some other European nations chiefly Germany) are into fasting, though I only know about Russians organizing dry fasting retreats, like Dr. Filinov https://www.wildestvitality.com/portfolio/items/winter-2023-...

I know it's both a cliché and something that westerners often have forgotten how to do, but you can actually listen to your body and know minute by minute if you're in danger or not. For dry fasting, you are told that if you start getting persistent high heart rate you should stop.

Now what you should find intriguing is why would anyone put themselves through this? Well, it has immense and unique health benefits, that's why. It's been studied, although less than water fasting for obvious reasons. Even water fasters think we're crazy, so I understand.
It's so excellent weive in a society with some commitment to transparency. Democracy must be able to assess what it creates to iterate forward.

And Jason Leopold in particular is such an amazing force of civic good. Going out there & making these FOIA requests, & releasing that data back to the public: an incredible public service for us all.

Very fun to hear this.

It's amazing to think of what we might find in 2026.
The work he did with clinical trials and navigating the system was very impressive. We need more people that are willing to push the envelope on cancer trials. I have my own challenges and his work is greatly appreciated.

We still need to beat cancer, all types. Let's keep going where Jake left off.
"sensitivity" or density?
The light source wavelengths don't need to align with the density peaks of the film, they just need to be far enough apart to isolate the individual dye layers and avoid the overlap between the camera sensor channels. Using 700nm for red would be challenging as most digital camera sensors aren't all that sensitive to 700nm.
The only questionable choices I see are

1. Chicken nuggets. Processed mystery meat.

2. BBQ sauce. Basically seasoned high fructose corn syrup.

3. Coke Zero. Artificial sweeteners can cause/aggravate insulin resistance.

Still a level down from fried chicken and chips, every step in the right direction counts.
My favourite book. Feersum Enjinn is, I think, a tribute.

Also see The Book Of Dave, although it's no match for Riddley.
Moss and mold is extremely damaging to roofs - even in dry climates. And roofs are expensive.

If the insurance company convinced you to go up and "remediate" the moss problem it sounds like the system worked and they spared you (and them) from an expensive roof replacement.
Why is a milking machine responsible for informing the farmer of medical emergencies? If the machine is indeed responsible for the health of the animal, why was it still in-use without the computer?!
Because some browser processes actually live outside of the sandbox. You need elevated privileges for a JIT.

Their requirements are fairly reasonable, too. Use a memory safe language or have processes in place to catch memory bugs. What that means exactly we'll have to wait to see. But I think given the nature of a web browser, that is an application that automatically executes code supplied over the internet, it not unreasonable.
Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models
Pop music lyrics being dumb is not a good reason to assume that they're made by AI.
This is some impressive mental gymnastics in support of not holding powerful people to account. Are you a Stanford ethics professor?
Sadly that "use prompts to detect attacks against prompts" approach isn't reliable, because a suitably devious attacker can come up with text that subverts the filtering LLM as well. I wrote a bit about that here: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/17/prompt-injection-more-...
In my experience, this works well but doesn't scale to all kinds of documents.
For scientific papers; it can't render formulas. meta's nougat is the best model to do that.
For invoices and records; donut works better.
Both these models will fail in some cases so you end up running LLM to fix the issues.
Even with that LLM won't be able to do tables and charts justice, as the details were lost during OCR process (bold/italic/other nuances). I feel these might also be "classical" methods.
I have found vision models to be much better as they have the original document/image. Having prompts which are clear helps but still you won't get 100% results as they tend to venture off on their paths.
I believe that can be fixed using fine tuning but no good vision model provides fine tuning for images.
Google Gemini seems to have the feature but I haven't tried it.
Few shots prompting helps keep the LLM from hallucinating, prompt injection and helps adhering to the format requested.
Sadly whatsapp got completely blocked, cause they’d never agree to that
Absolutely. But I don't believe that's the 'bricking' they referred to.
Auto company profit margins provide further evidence supporting your hypothesis (modern car requirements are just inherently more expensive).

The auto companies whose profit margins I checked are in the single-digits, sometimes negative. If it was just greedy price gouging, we'd expect them to see much healthier profit margins.

I don't understand why people don't check these figures more often for these publicly traded companies when offering the 'companies are being greedy' narratives.
Grilled nuggets there are not "processed mystery meat."
Blender can run on Linux…
Love the idea! We're doing something similar to parse rubrics and student submissions at https://automark.io - great to see an open source library exploring the space more! Like you said, I think iteratively adding explicit layers of LLM understanding to the raw extraction will allow a lot more control over what information gets extracted. Also interested to see an integration with GPT-4V as an additional aid. I'd love to chat sometime if you have time - my email is in my bio.
Damn it, autocomplete. Alk_a_nes, not alkenes.
> The tooltips that detailed the password requirements were shown off the edge of the screen, unable to read them. White text on white background.

This might be a legit UI bug, have never encountered it though.

> No default windows (heh) management.

If you're referring to window snapping to halves or corners of the screen, this has indeed been a weak spot in terms of a built-in option compared to Windows, but seems to finally be coming. Not really a bug but definitely a missing feature.

> You have to enable right click in settings

Completely forgot about this, I must have enabled it a decade ago and haven't needed to mess with it since. Not sure what the rationale is, but is a relic from another time, like all of Windows ;). You can also use ctrl+left click which is what I learned in school. Thought it was just different.

> Their own silly mouse can not stay connected on bt to their own laptop.

Seems like a hardware defect, their mice are comically bad.
I'm working on Arabic OCR for a massive collection of books and pages (over 13 million pages so far). I've tried multiple open-source models and projects, including Tesseract, Surya, and a Nougat small model fine-tuned for Arabic. However, none of them matched the latency and accuracy of Google OCR.

As a result, I developed a Python package called tahweel (https://github.com/ieasybooks/tahweel), which leverages Google Cloud Platform's Service Accounts to run OCR and provides page-level output. With the default settings, it can process a page per second. Although it's not open-source, it outperforms the other solutions by a significant margin.

For example, OCRing a PDF file using Surya on a machine with a 3060 GPU takes about the same amount of time as using the tool I mentioned, but it consumes more power and hardware resources while delivering worse results. This has been my experience with Arabic OCR specifically; I'm not sure if English OCR faces the same challenges.
fagocitated?
The point of "taking it offline" is that they stop wasting everyone else's time with it - they only waste one other person's. Depending on how pathological they are, that may be enough to stop the bikeshedding, because 1) you've just told them they're going on more than the topic deserves, and 2) they can't hold everyone's attention, just yours.

It also effectively says "This isn't the most important thing for us to discuss right now".

But it's important that they have a chance to "be heard", both for their own psychology, and because even if they're a bikeshedder, they aren't always wrong. You just don't want to waste more of the group's time on giving them the chance to be heard.
It is very simple when you realize both these problems are very fixable with elites that care about their people and don’t seem them as things to extract resources from.
>"One" is a bad smell in marketing speak.

Thank goodness other people recognize this too. Whenever I see “One” in branding I sense a corporation bereft of creativity and afraid of risk. Alternatively, it might also indicate that were too many executives involved and no single person had the authority to make a decision, so they picked the most bland and uninspiring option they could all agree on.

It’s so lame and milquetoast. However, there is one exception I will make, the radio station 101.1 “The One”. Here it feels appropriate and even a little endearing.
Reminds me of a proposal I've seen floating around for a Metroidvania game where you lose abilities as you progress (never gaining them back.)

IIRC the idea is that it would still be a game with progressive exploration (if not necessarily Metroidvania-style exploration), as terrain-navigation-gated area design would be combined with more-mainstream keys-and-locks area design — so while you're losing your abilities that allow you to "sneak in through the back door" of areas, you're gaining key items/flipping switches/making friends that enable you to "come in through the front door" instead.

Also, as with a "shrinking game", you'd see things you're currently "too powerful" to enter and need to come back when you're "weaker." In this case, because some abilities you start with would be too powerful — trading that power off for having too little precision/finesse — and so would be preventing you from entering some areas because every time you try to do so, the ability kicks in and pushes you past the gap you were trying to fit into (or whatever.) It's only once you lose the ability that you gain the precision required to aim for the gap.
I've scrolled past the top 30 comments and somehow the absolute most basic question is only asked in a roundabout way in 1.

What are the financial rewards if you do?
You say speed of execution & lacking crucial insight.

The crucial insight is most likely wishful thinking. I've seen too many useless BI dashboards to take your word for it.
If this were true, you'd hire a contractor to make that very specific tool to give you that very specific insight that is going to pay for itself within a year tops.

The speed of execution might be important. But do an honest accounting on how much money you're expecting this to make. If its about missing customers, call the one you missed and ask them if a faster execution was the dealbreaker.

The relevant third aspect is supply risk. Are you renting some hosted service from a failing company that might drag your current business down tomorrow? Hopefully not. Most - decent - software can keep working fine for years if the updates stop coming.

Now plot the extremes.

1) Build in-house and it turns into chaos and wasted money (do not underestimate the potential for chaos)

2) Don't acquire the skills in-house, miss out on the speed/insight ROI, and the supplier fails

Decide which plans laid out in the other comments are the best for the situation.
Like putting sugar in everything, even things sugar has no business being in.
Not to worry, we have the technology

https://youtu.be/nHrh5E-zZ3U
Hacker News delivers again. What an incredible example of quality feedback from a would-be customer. As one of Mailgun founders, I can also confirm/agree with all of the suggestions above.

> Telling you now, someone will sign up with stolen credit card, spam like hell and you will be left with clean up. Been there, done that.

Ignoring this advice killed some companies in this space.
The docker docking system failed to contain
I took over after such a situation at a company, them working for 5 years(!). Some of them were still around but over such a long span the team changed multiple times over.

In short, please no. No documentation, awkward separation of inhouse/external employees (regardless of team setup, you have different access to resources), there is just no creativity, everything is done loveless and cookie cutter.

If you plan long term, hire long term.
All that really matters is that the red and blue wavelengths are far out enough to not overlap with the magenta dye layer on the film or the green channel on the camera sensor.
ECS+Fargate does give you zero maintenance, both in theory and in practise. As someone, who runs k8s at home and manages two clusters at work, I still do recommend our teams to use ECS+Fargate+ALB if they satisfy their requirements for stateless apps and they all love it because it is literaly zero maintenance, unlike you just described what k8s requires.

Sure there are a lot of great feature with k8s which ECS cannot do, but when ECS does satisfy the requirements, it will require less maintenance, no matter what kind of k8s you compare it against to.
Maybe you could try extracting the text also using some pdf text extraction and use that also to compare. Might help fix numbers which tesseract gets wrong sometimes.
This should be read in parallel with the review by Michael Harris in the AMS Notices: "A Sometimes Funny Book Supposedly about Infinity" https://www.ams.org/notices/200406/rev-harris.pdf

As a DFW lover whose day job is as a mathematician... that book's a clunker.
United Nations unanimously approves global cybercrime treaty
SOLVED! It is https://tixy.land/ from https://justforfun.io/.
The queryable expression thing is something I struggle with all the time in Rust. It's especially bad in that language because (unlike in e.g. Java or C#) there is no way to view the Debug representation of your types in the debugger, you just get the raw memory layout which adds a huge barrier to 'what is going on with this code?' and requires you to dig around through countless nested layers to understand it.
You may want to hire someone to really dive into this question.

That allows you to set up a NDA that allows you to go into the nitty gritty details of your niche and why this product is out of headroom.

A fresh technical perspective may also provide insight into a path forward that doesnt include rip-and-replace.
Awesome, we'd love to chat! You can reach us at founders@thundercompute.com or join the discord https://discord.gg/nwuETS9jJK!
Everything I've read about (to take two examples) Rational Rose and PlantUML says that eventually the model fails to track the implementation. The cure lies somewhere in docs-as-code and CI hooks. Maybe?
Curious how you test accuracy across different models, and how much is cost per page?
Interesting. Do you know if your tool supports conversions resulting in multiple files, such as HLS and its myriad of timeslice files?
We think so too, big things coming :)
Here are some insights I've learned over my career:

1. Your first hire will be your most difficult. Most engineers know other engineers, and will bring them over if the work (and pay) is good.

2. You get what you pay for. Hiring very senior staff will pay for itself, even if you could get four or five junior devs for the price of one senior. Very rarely, if ever, will "more developers" mean more productivity.

3. Pick a portion of your system you need to improve and start there. Make sure your engineering team is empowered to make decisions, and that there is a "champion" with the authority to make decisions across departments. A lot of orgs can die waiting for non-engineering portions of the company to make decisions. Even worse is when they wax and wane on those decisions.

4. Following point three, if your organization is disorganized, or unable to move quickly so will your engineering team.

5. Hire remote workers. There are a LOT of folks who will never set foot in an office again. It gives you access to an immense talent pool you may not have otherwise.

6. Be flexible. Most engineers I've know have a schedule, but that schedule isn't generally a strict 9-5.

7. Whatever language and platforms you decide to build with-- make sure you can hire for them. Some are great, but difficult to find experienced engineers. I say this as an Elixir developer.

Finally, Logistics sounds pretty fun and for the right folks it will be. Don't undersell the problem space or think of it as boring. The engineering work may be the opposite of boring, or your organization may just be a good place to work.

Good luck, mate!
The straightfaced and unhinged nature of the chainsaw section reminds me of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and probably some Kurt Vonnegut stuff. I love this style of writing.
Whatsapp isn't blocked in Russia. At least, it wasn't a few weeks ago when I last used it to talk to people from there
i recently learned that superhuman uses langgraph fwiw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt3xdZ5vcxE
I thought that initial flight sequence was about his prior flight experience where he’d hit a turbulence and had to abandon, which later is referred to at that roundtable scene at the NASA meeting when they begin to mention the gravity clusters.
Researchers dig deeper into challenges of nuclear fusion – with mayonnaise