skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why reasonable, intelligent, well read people who have a strong understanding of complex systems have a healthy respect for how difficult it is to predict the future with accuracy measurably better than throwing darts.

So when Patrick is so confident in his own skills at interpreting and predicting complex systems that he stakes his reputation on getting the prediction right, that reputation should be diminished for his audience and for himself when it turns out he got it all exactly backward.

Instead, he now runs a popular podcast to tutor the rest of us who already know better than to make confident predictions about complex systems that we don't understand.
Are you using regular or pro? As pro has no issues with this task.
"why the lucky stiff" disappeared 15 years ago today. Here's the last talk [video]
For those who don't know, the author is Edsger W. Dijkstra
I didn't know that! Pretty sure the enterprise license didn't exist when I bought it.

I like these honour system enterprise licenses better than never-ending subscriptions, but they are becoming too common in the game industry.
Dark patterns like trying to make money? Most people seem to agree that hotlinking is bad, but that's pretty much was imgur has exclusively been used for since its inception.
Thats exactly what we do but taking a lock takes 1 RTT to the database which means about 100ms. it limits the number of events receivers can handle. IF you have too many events, receivers will be just trying to take a lock most of the time.
If you read my post I literally criticized zoning and never criticized cars.
We're building sprawling deserts of joy. Rising energy costs and changing mores could turn those metaphorical deserts literal as people would rather live close to city centres; there might not be someone to buy the house you thought was a surefire investment.
Yeah, I don't have anything of substance to say other than it's really cool to see someone doing something innovative in a niche I'd never really thought of.
immutable had a different meaning in common parlance than it does in datatypes. And even in datatypes usually you end up creating a new "copy" of the thing but with more info appended. The original remains as it was, unchanged (until garbage collection of course)
You will never see it, blinded by a sound experience in UNIX.
Watch the last part of this video where he describes his very last project, a card game to help teach coding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ihzA8v89U&t=1560s

Does anyone remember him? He had a huge impact on my life back in 2006 when I was trying to learn Ruby to use Ruby on Rails.

The

Thanks Jonathan for all the foxes, and thanks to whoever is maintaining his legacy: https://whytheluckystiff.net/
It really depends on what games are being pirated. If it's a solo dev or small team, then yeah, definitely pay for the official release if you can. But since these are kids, they'll definitely be pirating games here and there since they don't have money. At least the person above is helping them by giving them, presumably, safe copies.

Now, if we're talking AAA titles from companies who will post record profits at the same time as record layoffs, while also giving the C suite a bonus bigger than the GDP of a small nation... Then yeah, sail the high seas. Those same companies thoroughly don't believe buying is owning, so I'm fine to call piracy polite borrowing.
I mean, the Internet really seemed to take off when people realized they could get free porn, to be honest.

I'm betting the adoption curve for AI hits when the first company sells photorealistic porn of anyone you have a picture of. Hell, half ass Photoshop porn is lucrative already.
Yeah, that was mostly my thinking. I like lisp!
Honestly, that might be my favorite part
Because you need to make money to get there
If it gets me off the never ending Finnish rap cycle, I will take it.
Thanks- edited/added.

Multiple search engines still pointed to the stale link.

When there's as much secrecy by obscurity as I've seen re: the topic, my tinfoil hat always assumes the worst.
Do you have to write your code presuming that sometimes 'a + b' will be wrong? I don't.

Software pretty much always "works" when you consider the definition of work to be "does what the programmer told it too". AI? Not so much.
Could deck builders work for this (Magic, Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh, etc.) if anyone still plays them...?
I couldn't agree more! At the company I currently work for I have seen this phenomenon time and again.
Wait, hold up, lemme check... Nope, still poor! Lol
A Voice-Activated AI Assistant
I'd say Google them but that product has also become terrible.
> It is a method to test assumptions and that’s something very different.

Products shouldn't test assumptions, that's what the PoC is for. Proving (or disproving) a concept.
How do you decide who is listed first? And does the ampersand symbolize something that the word and doesn't, or is that just citation style?
How different is it than a standard 811 utility-locate call?

Actual change in procedure? Or just extra cheek-clinching?
Faith in Humanity Restored: Thoughtfulness During a Pandemic (2020)
Does anyone use CoreDNS? Outside of a Kubernetes cluster I mean.
This is sweet, but the demo video is a little tough to see in vertical orientation. I agree with the other poster -- an animation (with a normal horizontal view) or similar would be really helpful in getting the point across sooner. Great app though! Sorely missing from the OS.
Did said complainants seem to evince competence or willingness to investigate?
> that would be using the wrong tool for the job. an AI travel agent would be very useful for making suggestions

But that’s a recommendation engine and we have that already all over the place.
I grew up in Vancouver, WA, and while I had the same complaint that youre sharing here, it's possible that clark county is on the far end of the bell curve. I've lived in various cities and towns across king county for the last 15 years, and I've yet to come across a city with homes that are anywhere near as isolated as the ones in clark county.
That's not true. If software works correctly today then users can expect it to work correctly tomorrow. If it doesn't work any more that's a bug.
Very rough on mobile. Probably need a text entry sticky
My issue here is not so much with his brazen designs for world, rather it is the people sitting that actually clap, cheer, and laugh.
Randomness is difficult. I wouldn't expect any LLM to be able to reliably produce random anything, except in the cases where they have access to tools (ChatGPT Code Interpreter could use Python's random.random() for example).
Oh! Why didn’t I think of that? Thank you anonymous commenter for steering my existence towards a path of ambiguous and rooted utility!
If you move towards PWA, you can make it a share tsrget
Moreover, the classification was not done on 500,000 PDF files themselves, but rather on the metadata of those 500,000 PDFs.
> Something I should do more often is saving mhtml copies of webpages I find interesting.

They consume so much disc space. I wish that their was some intermediate format that would have a file size only two orders of magnitude larger than the webpage text, yet provide enough formatting to be useful.
I was unmoved until I hit "Natural Language™".
Massively Parallel Supercomputing: Introduction to the Connection Machine (1990)
I 95% agree, but "what people want" is probably not a strong indicator on the thresholds of paradigm shifts, since people don't know what's possible.
Music recommendations algorithms are a fools errand. If you look at Spotify, they do a good job initially but it gets really boring after a while. All algorithms or AI tries and usually fails to guess how you are feeling at that moment, maybe there was a trigger for me to hear a specific type of music, or maybe I suddenly feel nostalgic and want to hear 90s music instead of my favourite modern electronic which I skipped a whole tone if it comes up.
Actually, everything is immutable. All things exist as they are. You are just moving to a different time coordinate (or rather a spacetime point). You can create a changed thing, but the original thing remains there unchanged.
Standups slow your team down while providing a place to discover someone is off track. Foster an environment where people reach out before the standups making them unnecessary is a more agile approach.
Yup, makes perfect sense after thinking about it more.
this is how things evolve everything was .com company when internet started going mainstream then real product and service providers were left standing
A factor I haven't seen mentioned here is weather. It's become so hot now that people are hiding indoors during the hottest parts of the day. After a while gotta consider if it's even worth going outside.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41294489
This was on the TV show Movie Magic ages and ages ago, but they certainly never went into this much depth and backstory. This is a great writeup.
Actually, it is (I know it’s a Santa Cruz website, but it covers Californian government at all levels): https://sccoclerk.santacruzcountyca.gov/Portals/15/pdfs/oath...

And for Congress and the POTUS (I know it’s a Senate website, but it covers POTUS and the House as well): https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/senate-and-...
> It can be used to replace "for example" when preceding a list if examples that illustrate a point

I think you've already understood it.
Canopies are made of fabric and degrade; they need maintenance and replacement, which isn't going to happen in America. Instead, they'll be put up once (at great expense, with some company profiting handsomely, and it just so happens that company is owned by the brother of someone important on the city council), and then just left there. After a few years, there will be holes in the canopy and it'll look like the movie "I Am Legend" (where the city degrades quickly because all the people are gone and no one's doing maintenance), and no one will want to play there. Parents will complain, but the city will push back because fixing it requires demolishing and rebuilding the entire playground, which is very expensive and not in the city's budget.
GPS doesn't work that way. It uses instantaneous time-of-flight computation.
Took 2 paragraphs for me to guess the author ;)
Which is it? Regulators shouldn’t worry, or we need regulations to ensure equal access to the market?
Yep. There’s certainly a balance to strike, especially on projects with a larger number of people working on them. But I generally find that you want to do at least MOST of your data processing outside of your template.
I use it as a caching proxy on my homeprod nodes. I want docker containers to be able to query Tailscale's MagicDNS without using host-mode networking everywhere. My config is really simple, just forward .ts.net to 100.100.100.100 and otherwise forward to NextDNS.
Deadmau5 at Defcon, talking about his coding [video]
A tree that produces effective shade takes on the order of 20 years to grow and often requires watering and protection to get established.
We are slowly getting there, SE is just a bit over 50 years old. For example, Dafny (by MSR) is relatively easy to use and scales nicely to build systems of 20-30 KLOC with some formal guarantees. It's a nice imperative language where specifications are encoded as contracts, so quite familiar to developers. Costs are still relatively high obviously, and it won't scale to bigger systems.

I think LLMs could help a lot to lower cost by providing some automation to turn specifications into code. DeepMind has already shown a proof of concept for mathematical theorems using Lean. I have a toy implementation for Isabelle oriented towards SE that works quite well.
I think a lot of people who want to give up Apple/Google Photos want a reliable replacement that's automated and protected against data loss
You're wrong, it's actually the exact URL posted on twitter:

https://x.com/Magnolia1234B/status/1823073077867287028
I've got the book on my desk right now :-) It's a bit of an unusual book because it is full of technical details but it also has a fair bit of sociological content like "the construction of technical facts", "technological determinism", and "sociology of technological knowledge". This is in contrast to, say, "Minuteman: A Technical History", which is strictly facts and details. They are both good books, but it is interesting how they have completely different styles and focuses.
I worked on this for a while, years ago at Corning. We wrote control software for the vertical furnace that consolidated the glass before it was pulled into fiber.

It was running on an rtVAX as I recall. Not Unix.
The Venn diagram of people who truly can't afford a New York times subscription, and even know what Docker is looks like two circles.
Is it possible to model reverb using a neural network (e.g. wavenet or LSTMs) for real-time use? Is this what something like Neural DSP is doing under the hood?
This is cool! I have not read up on evaluation techniques that use LLM-as-a-Judge, so I hadn't heard of the term "evaluator LLM" before.

Questions that came to mind:

- How are you deciding on the positive/negative concept pairs to generate your latent "evaluation direction?"

- What layer of activations on the evaluator model do you use—the output layer?

- What base model are you using for solving the HaluEval task?

- I notice that LSR on Lynx 8B actually does worse than naive completion, and is in fact worse than LSR on Llama-3-8B-Instruct. Why do you think that is?
>My expectation for hashmaps was set decades ago, and it was set as "Thou Shalt Not Depend On The Order Of Hashmaps!"

"when chasing a bug during development, it is nice to have a program demonstrate the bug every time you run it with the same inputs and not randomise things to make the bug intermittent" is what people mean when they say they want something to "be stable" or "the same". It's not a crazy thing to want control over, and for some reason this whole thread yammers on and on and doesn't address this point.

> :-)

:-(
clouds and rain do not behave the same as the sun.

What point are you trying to make here?
I don't see what this contributes. Written laws are immutable in the common sense of the word. That's what "legal certainty" means as an ideal: citizens can know what they'll be punished for. If it's unclear talk to your lawyer.
It would be great if we could all share that sentiment. But ask the Ukrainians how unilateral disarmament worked out for them. Unfortunately, it seems that this particular waste of resources and intellect is still necessary.
Regular user. For useful tasks, how much of a difference does the Pro plan make?
It kind of is. If Google divested search and the new company provided utility style access to that data feed, I would agree with you. Webmasters allow a limited number of crawlers based on who had market share in a specific window of time, which serves to lock in the dominance of a small number of competitors.

It may not be the kind of explicit anticompetitive behavior we normally see, but it needs to be regulated on the same grounds.
But isn't it the case that there is typically no personnel at the silo (or Launch Facility LF) itself? Instead, the Missile wing Commanders at the Launch Control Centers (LCC) some distance away. The LCC commands some number of LFs remotely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_launch_control_center
X-Ray Dating of a Turin Shroud's Linen Sample
>Protecting children wasn't a serious motivation of many people who supported it?

Probably. People were seriously concerned about communist infiltrators in the 1950s. People were seriously concerned about Dungeons and Dragons and backwards masking and secret pedophile cults back and the "gay plague" of AIDS in the 1980s. People were seriously concerned about Muslims after 9/11. People are seriously concerned about transgender groomers and "the wokes" and Chinese mind control through TikTok today.

People are always sincerely concerned whenever the government gasses them up in a moral panic. The ruse comes from the government's response, because during moral panics Constitutional rights always seem to get in the way of Something Needing To Be Done.

Unfortunately one has to assume, by default, that any law passed under the aegis of "protecting children" nowadays has no actual intent behind it other than eroding Constitutional rights for the sake of ratcheting up fascism.
Maybe the Razer Kiyo Pro Ultra? https://www.razer.com/gb-en/streaming-cameras/Razer-Kiyo-Pro...

Or the El Gato Facecam Mk2: https://www.elgato.com/us/en/p/facecam-mk2

Basically look for anything with a big sensor (most important), then good low-light performance.
Parents are failing kids. Not the government. Not big tech companies.
I was not being sarcastic, but instead witnessing a valuable insight regarding what to expect from LLM's.

Ask most commercial LLM services to complete the following sentence:

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

And one will likely get the quote from "A Tale of Two Cities"[0].

Ask most commercial LLM services what the completed sentence means, and one will likely get voluminous text which is seemingly correct, perhaps often times is depending on the person reading the response and the service used.

But these are statistically derived text constructs entirely dependent upon the training set of the LLM. Train one strictly on Java source code available in Maven Central and the answer will be radically different.

> It's really easy to get lots and lots of originality. Just crank up the randomness.

And anyone can get "lots and lots of originality" be reading from /dev/urandom. Is that "originality" or simply random tokens inserted into a statistical text generator in order to vary the result?

> What's harder is to get something that's good and original.

Such is the difference between understanding and statistical text generation. People can do the former, LLM's do the latter.

0 - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities
Secure Deployments, Confident Teams
Just to make this feedback a little more constructive (I agree) - I suggest starting the demo video at 0:46/1:44 (the line beginning with "So, if I touch the bottom left corner of my trackpad...").

It's obvious to the viewer that these are windows being shown, in my opinion - you can start right off with the invoke interaction and go into the demo.
AI destroys jobs but helps individuals create value.

he ones at the forefront now should find their own path by turning productivity into money and only then after many people do this will this kind of experience be valued in hiring.
WebComponents Proposal: Add lit-HTML to the browser
We need a P2P swarm for content. Just like Bittorrent back in the day. Pop in your favorite news article (or paraphrase it yourself), and everyone gets it.

With recommender systems, attention graph modeling, etc. it'd probably be a perfect information ingestion and curation engine. And nobody else could modify the algorithm on my behalf.
6th-generation Waymo Driver
I’m not a “Tech Lead”, but as a Sr. who leads emerging GenAI tech at Corpo, here’s my personal approach:

1. Support the orgs journey
- This could be everything from accross requests or ad gov queries.

2. Experiment independentl
- This is critical. If you don’t have the elbow rooms to explore, you’re likely taking directions from some turd.

3. Experiment with business stakeholders
- This is how you learn about what biz (thinks they) wants.
- Also critical.

4.(Internally) Open-source our teams findings
- Try to generalize the technical components to a degree where others can utilize.

5. Consult with AppDev Teams
- Sharing best practices, methods and pointing them to the open-source components as needed.

6. Build community
- We host Bi-Weekly Task Force Meetups
- Focused on tech-minded business stakeholders
- On the off-weeks of these Task Force Meetups, we host:
- GenAI Developers Meetups.
- Focused on tech tech.
- GenAI Office Hours

Sprinkled in there are white-glove training and general consulting.
There were lots of PC databases, of which dBase was one of the more popular ones.
This is close to how my alma mater functioned, everything ended on the 50 or the 20 and started on 00 or 30. Just enough time to climb up out of a basement on one end, make the hike, and descend to the furthest classroom on the other. With lectures the content is rigidly planned and controlled by one person, so the end time is more respected than more open-ended and participatory work meetings I find.
It was organized primarily via wargame scenarios, such that one target group comprised targets for a given scenario.

Simplified launch orders via the football, etc.

One group scenario might have been silo coordinates for an offensive first-strike. One group city coordinates for launch on warning strategic counter-strike, etc.

Each missile got a target from each scenario list programmed into a 'memory slot' with some overlap.

The organization/ optimization is mind-boggling.

But few understand that this is WHY the wargames and strikes had to be pre-planned ahead of time. It wasn't political hubris, but a technical requirement due to memory allocation.
So they think that asking someone to to provide them with some measure of administrative information is ‘compelling’ speech?

How does that work with the tax form you have to fill out every year. Or a variety of other compulsory activities related to the government.
I haven't found a use for it. What do you use it for?
The handwriting was a split second giveaway.
The pharmacological potential and biological role of pseudoscorpion toxins
@YCombinator: let’s go with some simple markdown parsing, eh!?
I've always been a bit suspicious that mistakes like this are easier in GraphQL than older REST (or even SOAP) models because GraphQL is designed for more frontend-driven development. Obviously this is just one example, but it was interesting that it involved "hidden" GraphQL data.
Do you plan to sell to hobbyist consumers? As another thermal-rider I realize this would be amazing if it could do short term soundings at a launch site, or to have a fleet that can navigate back to a designated site for pickup and redeployment.

I'm picturing having a few dozen at launch site containers, launching them at the start of a day of flying, having them programmed to land in a rural area that a member can pick them up from and return to the launch sites.
REI has hemorrhaged money for two years in a row employees fear culture at risk
Thats what the ai would say
Frameworks aren't necessarily a bad thing if you can critical think - why reinvent the wheel from scratch everytime when you're trying to make a newer version of a car? But if you're only a framework monkey who cannot communicate design decisions, architecture, and/or design you're definetly screwed in the job market.

A lot of people (especially newer profiles I've seen on HN) think just being able to glue libraries together is enough to justify being a developer with a 6 fig salary, when in reality the actual value add is the architecture, design, and other critical thinking actions.

Hiring managers do try to hire the archetype developer who is both eloquent and a critical thinker, but it's hard and those who can do both know their value.
Are the overhead wires copper? If so what gauge? Anyone know how many lbs per linear foot of copper that would yield ?
Asking for a friend
Recent work from Meta uses AI to automatically increase test coverage with zero human checking of AI outputs. They do this with a strong oracle for AI outputs: whether the AI-generated test compiles, runs, and hits yet-unhit lines of code in the tested codebase.

We probably need a lot more work along this dimension of finding use cases where strong automatic verification of AI outputs is possible.