skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "off by one" predilection of LLMs is going to lead to this massive erosion of trust in whatever "Truth" is supposed to be, and it's terrifying and going to make for a bumpy couple of years. (Or the complete collapse of objective knowledge, on a long enough time horizon.)

It's one thing to ask an LLM when George Washington was born, and have it return "May 20, 2020." It's another thing to ask it, and have it matter-of-factly hallucinate "February 20, 1733." At first glance, that... sounds right, right? President's Day is in February, and has something to do with his birthday? And that year seems to check out? Good enough!

But it's not right. And it's the confidence and bravado with which LLMs report these "facts" that's terrifying. It just misstates information, calculations, and detail work, because the stochastic model compelled it to, and there wasn't sufficient checks in place to confirm or validate the information.

Trust but verify is one of those things that's so paradoxical and cyclical: if I have to confirm every fact ChatGPT gives me with... what I hope is a higher source of truth like Wikipedia, before it's overrun with LLM outputs... then why don't I just start there? If I have to build a validator in Python to verify the output then... why not just start there?

We're going to see some major issues crop up from this sort of insidious error, but the hard part about off-by-ones is that they're remarkably difficult to detect, and so what will happen is data will slowly corrupt and take us further and further off course, and we won't notice until it's too late. We should be so lucky that all of LLMs' garbage outputs look like glue on pizza recommendations, but the reality is, it'll be a slow, seeping poisoning of the well, and when this inaccurate output starts sneaking into parts of our lives that really matter... we're probably well and truly fucked.
It also looks like the contract requires the user to deposit 0.4 ETH for it to work.
Their niche is trust. You cannot replicate overbearing paternalism as a USP without trust.

If Microsoft only allowed installs from their App Store people would switch to Apple en mass.
Working on distribution of that mf https://apps.apple.com/app/id6529520663
No, I haven't figured it out yet with D3 :D

Green line: minimal price, red line, highest price (for the selected criteria). Middle one is the mean.
More important was the lack of refactoring support, I think. The ordering and circulatory constraints on source choice also didn't help.
I'm just wondering the motivation as you can pop the old CD into an external reader and game works perfectly fine
In the process of making the best AI short video generator.

Trying to get some reps with Llms and image gen models.

https://getclipify.com
How to build a network state starting with a dinner party
I like the new code blocks more! The syntax highlighting is more standard. I found the red comments on a grey background difficult to read in the old theme. However, I would still want to see higher contrast in the text.

It looks like the mobile view is getting fixed [1].

[1] https://github.com/ruby/rdoc/pull/1162
I did this last year with my kids various activities using ChatGPT and the results were just OK. I'm looking forward to trying this out with Claude this year!
This looks great! It seems to solve the issue I always had with civilisation where the game becomes progressively easier as you advance ahead of the AI, leading to a late game which involves lots of management but little risk.
Couple of quick thoughts here.

1. Cool project, this space always felt rather empty after the mysterious ending of TrueCrypt.

2. This was made as part of a Swiss Government tech lab’s program and requires you to install kernel drivers that were written in C. So think carefully about what you are actually doing here and if that makes sense for you or not.

3. I’m still much less clear on how it prevents this famous XKCD security problem https://xkcd.com/538/ but it seems that any system that was captured with this would be immediately obvious what was going on right down to the userland CLI tool and isn’t going to save you from getting wrenched if that’s a part of your security model, if anything you’re almost certainly going to get wrenched a LOT more unless you’re able to provide them with 15 different working passwords which is the max limit of how many “layers” this thing provides.

In fact, that’s kind of at the crux of the problem here. While it seems like a great idea initially to have a system where “you can’t prove that there are any hidden files there” is actually a huge liability not the ace up your sleeve you might assume it is at first.

Because let’s say you make a public, secret and top secret layer on a device with this thing. You don’t seem to be able to prove that there was ever not an ultra top secret layer so it’s going to just be you trying to convince someone when that someone might be very violent. So if a physical interrogation is a part of your threat model I’d probably say to avoid this approach entirely as it will possibly do more harm than good.
If I wanted an open system I could have bought an android. This is a terrible change, can’t wait to see what my less technologically competent friends have been talked into installing.
Guess what, the EU never mandated websites to add cookies banners.

The reason cookie banners are annoying is because they show you in plain sight how much the site you are visiting doesn’t respect you as a visitor. Worse is that it’s always written in an hypocritical language.

Those websites had a disrespectful and dangerous business model that needed to be regulated. The GDPR have been announced 8 years ago and is implemented since 6 years. It’s nearly a decade old and those websites decided to change nothing except to ad banners.

Otherwise, there are a hella lot websites that don’t show banners because in the first place they decided to have a business model which was respectful of their customers /users.
It's absolutely amazing that europe is a thing. A world with just the US as the main western power is so lame, everyone cares just about money, no other values, sounds so boring.

Now the average american can look up to something and demand it from the policy makers. God bless Europe.
Related to this, it is why when writing documentation for something, it can be extremely useful to also list the prerequisites someone needs to pick up the information in the document before them. Possibly with also linking to resources about them, depending on your audience.

Not only that, writing out the list of prerequisites also helps the author write a better document. Because thinking about what knowledge is required serves the same function as thinking about a good unit test does. It makes you stop to consider "the obvious" and sometimes realize you have overlooked something.

Because when you are thinking about these prerequisites, you are likely also thinking about why they are needed and what challenges come with them. This in turn might lead you to revise aspects of the documentation to make them clear as well.
Navigation using photos.
Did not like existing apps, so made an app that lets you match a photo to an (OpenStreetMap.org) background map, and shows your position on that photo during your trip.

Works great with physical maps, screenshots of maps or downloaded pictures of maps.
NavigateAnyMap.eu (Android only, sorry!)

Free as in beer, will tell you is uses ads, but have not added them yet (and will make a paid, non-ads version first).
I am also thinking and planning about similar system for interactive and intuitive prompt based queries ala ChatGPT but it is for comprehension rather than generating new documents or data. The main aim is to have easy access to knowledge and information on various government documents on laws, regulations, procedures, etc, and since it utilizes some confidential documents the contents should not leave local HPC.
Most use cases don't care about relativity
This is neither safe (you can still get raw pointers/references to its contents) nor garbage collection in the usual sense (you can't even share it!)
> Enhancements for Julius include:

> Support for widescreen resolutions

> Windowed mode support for 32-bit desktops

> A lot of small in-game quality of life improvements

> Support for the high-quality MP3 files once provided on the Sierra website

Also: “a fork of Julius named Augustus is implementing many long-wanted gameplay changes, such as roadblocks.”
There was also "Do not track" earlier, but if it's not regulated, businesses will not give a crap.
Is that supposed to mean that no banner and thus no consent is somehow better?
> and parsing it out of the man pages is not something I’d like to imagine doing reliably. So I must satisfy myself by manually writing these facts down. And this turns out to be the bottleneck of the entire operation.

You can probably use an LLM for this.
There’s also Consent-O-Matic (https://consentomatic.au.dk/).
That scenario has me less worried, just because by 2035 all popular politicians in America and China will be AI deepfakes run off the same cloud servers.

[edit]
I herewith introduce a new shitcoin called NukeCoin. Everyone in China and America gets a NukeCoin that will go up in value every day you hold it that no one nukes anyone.
Interesting idea.

Tip for those looking for some more details on the mechanics of the self-care aspects of the game: Some details are present in the google doc linked in the repo README.
It is time to honor Emmy Noether with a momentum unit
This is a half truth. Part of the reason some people take a lot longer to grok the prerequisites and get left behind in class is because of cognitive ability.

Working memory (WAIS) digit span, and broader performance IQ (as opposed to verbal IQ), generally indicates how many conceptual 'items' you can have in your head at once. With more advanced math, this becomes _critical_ to forming the coherent plumbing between concepts in your head, leading to understanding.

Incidently, ADHD is largely an expression of specific personality traits and low working memory.
I was working on reading the comments on this post, and got tired of scrolling with the mousepad. I had not used any of the LLMs in a few weeks now and wanted to see how they fared for writing a web extension to let me browse hacker news via arrow keys and the "prev" and "next" comment buttons. My goal was to write 0 lines of code myself and rely solely on copy-pasting(successful in my eyes). ChatGPT 4o disappointed me on getting a final product, but Claude Sonnet blew me away enough to push me to pull out my credit card to subscribe to a pro plan.

All that to say I "worked" on a chrome extension to let you browse a hacker news post via arrow keys: https://github.com/humishum/hacker_news_keys.

(While typing this I found that the arrow key actions are still active while in the textbox, time for claude to provide me a fix!)
Math is not about the universe, it would be true even if the universe didn’t exist at all.
High impact project with a promise for enterprise clients, good luck!
> are required to give law enforcement enough access in order to track down people who do crimes over the telephone.

They are not; however, required to prevent certain people on a prescribed government list or criteria from owning or using a telephone or from dialing certain numbers.

> won't help law enforcement

So it's not because a "channel is against the law."
> 50 years ago, somebody might say “programming is only a way to automate simple repetitive tasks” and that would be obviously wrong.

That is actually extremely correct. The only purpose for software is automation, which is the elimination of labor. Getting that wrong directly influences your quality of product more than any other downstream factor.
It really depends on what you're interested in, its like saying I really want to learn computers.
Sadly, the typography looks too neglected for the time when there is such an abundance of templates and fonts.
Substrata - an open source metaverse project. https://substrata.info/
https://github.com/glaretechnologies/substrata

Custom 3d engine, opengl / webgl,
Lua scripting, voice chat.
Mostly in C++.
For example, it took Google years before they properly implemented search in Russian. That allowed Russian Yandex to win Russian market.
I think time zones not existing really meant there were infinite time zones, because you use the sun to tell the time.
Given how technical documentation is typically used, when would you view it on a mobile device?
i'm silly its of course to make it open source so people can then mode it https://github.com/Keriew/augustus
Aha, I hadn't understood you meant arbitrary words were fine, just not arbitrary icons.

Maybe sometime when I get sufficiently nerdsniped I'll figure out how to re-silk all the physical labels in my car into the lang belta from The Expanse?

P seteshang
R ruserux
N naterash
D do

(Surely someone, somewhere, has a car with its buttons labelled in tengwar/quenya?)
Let’s normalize recursive CTEs.
I wondered this myself and found some. I've played: When Rivers Were Trails, Thunderbird Strike, Dialect, Zulu Dawn, This Land Is My Land. There are a lot of options in boardgames (maybe more than with video games?), such as Burn the Fort.
when you are starting on day 1, isn't it obvious you don't know any written words and you have no skills to put the letters together, because you are just starting out?? Then saying "just start recognizing word as a sequence of letters like the skillful readers do" is about as helpful as "just start reading" if you've never done this before.
Oh that's such a shame, it was so fun! I wonder what this person's end game was. The site is down now. Why didn't they just release a game? I'd love to keep playing it!
> I think the margins on a manufactured phone are only ~50%.

On Android phones, the margins for OEMs are a few % at most, sometimes even in the negative.
Want extra keys? Use your earbuds
I would say it is working as intended if the regulators are able to mildly inconvenience you to achieve a greater goal.

Bottle caps are under the top 10 single-use plastic products most often found on European beaches [1], IMHO that’s good enough reason to mandate they be attached to the bottle.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_19_...
Working on Kviklet:
http://github.com/kviklet/kviklet

My first job was in a FinTech and the way production access was managed scared me. This is my approach at streamlining the process.
Basically a PR review flow for SQL queries, enforcing the 4-eyes principle so you never accidentally can do a Delete * form users, forgetting the where clause.
I felt that during college. Suddenly I couldn't hold enough abstract terms or variables at once to be able to reflect.

It slowed me down near zero, but weirdly, if you keep trying, your brain may evolve some new abilities and maybe as important.. keep feeling joy about learning even if slowly.

I wonder how one can raise this aspect of thinking.
Agreed, and btw I'm suspecting GFW could be a funny one: have you seen a Chinese neckbeard on the Internet? I mean, don't you find suspiciously large fractions of them PLL locked solid on Western values above everything?
The major state owned Kazakhstan telecom company did peering with Telegram, they say now it is 10ms is better, but the real reason might be to have means to cutoff Telegram if anything wrong happens
Seconded! I think competition like this between governments is a good thing. Let the best laws win.
You talk as if this is a problem that is easily solved. Of course government wish this could he solved.

A tip is that whenever you reach a ludicrous conclusion "they do nothing to stop underage violence", it's probably your analysis that is ludicrous and not the object being analyzed.
Hi!

In the best case, the developers of e-commerce website create unit-, integration-, and functional tests to make sure, they do not break existing functionality.

But a website is not only code. Its also data and configuration.

Since these types of configuration (e.g. prices, legal texts, bonusses) can change quite often and can get quite complex from the business perspective, it does not make sense to have developers create automatically executable tests to make sure, the website is configured as it should be.

And its often not the developers who change the configuration. Maybe its a product manager, a marketeer or the ceo.

These people often do not know if they configured something correctly. In additiom, they often don't get any notification, if an process, that is important for them, breaks due to a misconfiguration or some bug in the code (not every code base has a test coverage of 100%).

So, I am creating a No-Code Black Box E2E Monitoring Tool, that the process owners/configurators can use to regularly check, if everything is working fine.
I've been working on a Hacker News TUI reader written in Rust [0].

I'm very proud of the way the architecture turned out - with most notably a components-driven architecture [1].

There's just a major performance roadblock in posts with many comments that I should be able to clear with some more multithreading. Then I just need to make it available in brew and other distribution solutions.

[0]: https://github.com/pierreyoda/hncli
[1]: https://www.newstackwhodis.com/blog/hncli-2-architecture
But tsvector supports all sorts of different languages, at least western.
The obvious thing to do is have the instruction manual with an index in it and look up SRH quickly using the alpha sort. Even better would be putting the entire manual in the car's computer and using the touch screen to search for SRH.

Can't do search with an icon.
I would click on any banner you want as long as I can use my one cable for everything and use Vivaldi browser on my iPhone with uBlock origin built in so I can browse the internet on my phone without the need to worry about catching AIDS or cancer.

Like, apple not allowing to use a browser with an adblocker is like not letting people use condoms. It's spreading diseases.

Good thing Europe is yet again taking the responsible adult role for the sake of the rest of the world.
Interesting idea, getting Stripe to work perfectly in production for a global product is not as easy as it was, it really takes a while to fix all edge cases.
None exist yet AFAIK, but at least Chrome is on its way. See e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/PWA/comments/11is5ew/first_look_at_...
Super cool, go biocomputers! I'm now reading a book called 'Networkologies', the author comes up with a theory that life and, later, consciousness emerge when network self-organise themselves in more and more complex structures under certain circumstances. Who knows, maybe this gel has these properties and evolves into some genius goo in the future.
From Notebookcheck's benchmarks it looks like the Radeon 890M is punching at about a GeForce 1650 Mobile's performance: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graph...

Based on https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-1650-mobil... this is about 40% faster than a GTX 1050, but also almost half the speed of a GTX 1080.
Same, I never could remember formulas at school. What I did during exams was to "reconstruct" them visually: I'd sketch a few graphs at various random points and try to derive a formula from there. I also remember successfully solving problems by sketching geometrical shapes (triangles, lines etc.) and just trying to reason with basic logic + trial and error.

I realized back then that a lot of math (at least school-level math) can be grokked if you visualize it geometrically/spatially, as manipulatable objects in space. I don't know why our teachers rarely explained it like that. For most students, it was like strange symbol manipulation rules that you must remember by heart and can't derive from scratch.

Currently I'm fascinated with the way neural networks can be understood as a problem of trying to untangle tangled manifolds (to make them linearly separable) by "folding"/distorting space, using basic matrix manipulations... That way it's not magic anymore, it's something which appears so straightforward.
you're right. Only they have probably have the fullest data on how much crime is moderated or unmoderated on what messenger, the rest is speculation. He probably just got cocky and overconfident, thinking he can beef with the EU on the same level like Musk or Gates.
This is of course a blatant lie. Anyone familiar with Sweden (or rational thought) will know this. But underlying for our international friends.

It's a bizarre lie, not the least because it so obviously does not hold up to even the most basic scrutiny.
This is Hacker News; I assume we're here to have thoughtful, curious discussions concerning topics of business (YCombinator, after all) and most things computers ("Hacker" News).

Dropping the McD one liner meme is neither thoughtful nor curious and it certainly doesn't explain anything.

It's like saying a McDonald's Big Mac is made of bread, beef, lettuce, and some mayonnaise like that's some conclusive end-all be-all. That's cool, but are we actually going to speak about something worth the time of day?
Love this point. Willingness to spend less energy = need to find predictable patterns
You can use custom ranking functions (shown in the article) add weights to columns, etc.

What techniques are you talking about that cannot be implemented in Postgres?
I remember there being this satire forum where people were trying to prove that earth is flat as an intellectual exercise. I think it was 15 or more years ago or something like that. At that point there was no serious, popular and well known flat earth movement. This came later.

It may have been theflatearthsociety dot org.

But maybe I remember wrong. It was that they were pretending to believe and trolling, but now as it is more serious they stopped trolling in such a way.
They can't let Apple decide what web browser iPhones should default to, what apps are safe to install or a whole bunch of defaults. Article, 3rd sentence.
You can start with studying research work about Chinese firewall to get the idea how DPI usually works [1]. Then you can start up a Wireshark and try sending different packets and see which are blocked and which pass through, or experiment with modifying VPN packets to make them pass through.

To experiment with this you need to buy a VPS abroad.

If you don't want to do that then you can search for existing utilities like: GoodbyeDPI, XRay/reality, AmneziaVPN etc.

[1] https://gfw.report/publications/usenixsecurity23/en/
SWAR UTF-8 Validation with the hidden RISC-V gem xperm4
It's a very nice concept and I think it's much better than the held-together-with-duct-tape concepts usually seen in diy bike conversions.

That being said, I am a bit skeptical about your claims to be fireproof. Did you try to start a battery fire inside your enclosure? Aluminum melts at about 600C, while lithium burns much hotter than that.
Maybe because of this: https://siliconangle.com/2024/08/21/infrastructure-monitorin...
I am currently working on a htmx plugin for JetBrains IDEs [0].

[0]: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/24844-htmx-pro
Football AI Tutorial: From Basics to Advanced Stats with Python
> Why would I want to do that?

Differences in policy. There are wildly different ideas about what is and isn't acceptable.

> Sure, you can pick a random one like fediverser.network apparently does. Looking at one line from the list, I see that r/manga points to ani.social/c/manga which has 561 subscribers, when lemmy.ml/c/manga has 3,480. What?

That's not random. There was drama. The lemmy.ml admins are hostile to a lot of anime-related content and drove off most of the community that was accumulating there last year. ani.social is where the active, non-tankie communities are now. It's run with what seem like fairly reasonable policies and actually welcomes the subject matter. If you were relatively happy with the handling of anime-related content on reddit a few years ago then the communities on ani.social are probably what you're looking for; it's a good recommendation.