skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems you've lost the train of your own argument.

> has no context in which it shows such a level of cognitive capacity

You claim LLMs have no context at all in which it shows a similar level of cognitive capacity.

Yet clearly this claim is in contention with the fact that an LLM will indeed be able to evince this, much like a human brain would: by attesting to its own confusion. That is ostensibly empirical and evidential to a nonzero degree.

Thus your claim is too strong and therefore quite simply wrong. Claim mimicry? Then prove human brain consciousness does not derive from the process of mimicry in any form. You can't. In fact, the free energy principle, neuroscience's leading theory of human consciousness, argues the opposite: that prediction and mimicry encompass the entirety of what brains actually do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding

> There is no empirical evidence of any awareness whatsoever in any LLM, at all.

And no such claim was made--"awareness" was quoted for a reason.

> It's literally designed to mimic in such a way. And you speak of discussions of consciousness being about the philosophical and unanswerable?

Yes, as this was parent's claim: "They are not cognizant let alone conscious'.

And talking about sloppy argument--it may well turn out that something can be "designed to mimic" yet still be conscious. I'll leave that for you to puzzle out how on earth that might be possible. The exercise might help you form less sloppy arguments in the future.

> You're applying the same notion to something that shows no evidence of awareness while then criticizing assumptions of consciousness in a human brain?

No. But I suppose you've lost the plot a few inferential steps prior this so your confusion is not surprising.

Protip, instead of claiming everything that goes against your sensibilities as nonsense, perhaps entertain the possibility that you might just not be as well informed as you thought.
User interfaces are hard. Why?
> Maybe you think it's not a _good_ lubricant? But a lot of its use is to extract stuck things which requires a thin lubricant

The word you are looking for is “penetrating oil”. The problem with a too broad definition of “lubricant” is that I wouldn’t use Coca Cola to lube my engine or KY Jelly to lube my bike chain. WD-40 is a shitty lubricant for metal-on-metal moving parts, so it’s helpful in that context to say that it isn’t a lubricant.
Perhaps. But that doesn't mean there should be no concern. Bad can result in 10x or 100x worse when you don't see it coming.

We don't know what we don't know. The technology is unprecedented and at time still unpredictable.

Siding with caution and skepticism is the wise thing to do.
Sounds like Steve Jobs eating carrots to beat cancer
That's a lot of rhetoric to dodge a question. Peace doesn't fall out of a coconut tree.
What forms of 'de-escalation, negotiation and understanding' do you think could have deterred Putin - whose demands included control of Ukraine's national direction and foreign policy, the removal of the democratically elected government and a crippled army?
Thanks for sharing that Doctorow post, I had not seen that before. While the specific examples are of course dated (hello altavista and Napster), it still rings mostly true.
in 2013
If you want to defend against prompt injection why would you defend with a tool vulnerable to prompt injection?

I don't know what I would use, but this seems like a bad idea.
Neither did I, just an observation that it doesn't matter a huge deal for people reading in 2024.
But isn't that the literal job of legislators?
Nuclear, per TwH, is basically tied with solar and wind if you use decade old data.

Why do you think it's "by far the safest"?

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
I think you are basically right, in many organisations you get a lot of influence based on your title and not on your skill.
I don't find it off-putting. I may or may not agree that the software is beautiful because, as you point out, people often have different opinions on what constitutes beauty.

All the same, I find it useful to know that the authors of the software consider "beauty" one of their goals. And beauty does not preclude utility.
Open-Source Global Database: Countries, States, Cities – JSON, SQL, XML and More
I have to keep reminding myself to use the 5 finger wave instead of 1.

But they didn’t signal, they came from nowhere, blah blah. There’s only one hand sign drivers recognize.
I read it the opposite way:

- I feel more passion from the author.

- I value the pride they show in their work.

- I know many people actually care about beauty. In fact, with the same amount of bugs, the users of the most beautiful software will actually report it's less buggy.

The problem is when someone makes appearances more important than being useful.

But I want to give this project the benefit of the doubt.

We need more browser diversity.
This was already done in Sweden [1] and is something the Swedish defence forces have suggested for the coming nuclear expansion in the country.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85gesta_Nuclear_Plant
I mean, considering its origins are with a military uniform ...
Last time I did the gauntlet at Google I was able to solve all the problems.

However I wasn't as fast as others as I didn't recognize any of the questions and had to work through them. Interviewers expect you to be fast, or at least compare you to people who seem faster. Doesn't matter who studied or not, or who will actually perform better on non-leetcode tasks.

Also having kids is a real issue, it absolutely crushes the amount of time you have to anything besides working.
> fwiw

What do you think this sort of observation is worth?
Courts are influenced by academic scholarship.
If we want a system that produces safe and effective motor transportation with increasing automation, we should probably look at air travel, which is both remarkably safe and uses a large degree of automation.

How would the air travel regulators evaluate this proposal? How does this compare to similar methods in air travel?
I include microformats on blog sites, but at scale the challenge with microformats is that most existing tooling doesn't consider class names at all for semantics.

Browsers, for example, completely ignore classes when building the accessibility tree for a web page. Only the HTML structure and a handful of CSS properties have an impact on accessibility.

Class names were always meant as an ease of use feature for styling, overloading them with semantic meaning could break a number of sites built over the last few decades.
Do group buys for IDA Pro even still exist?
Reading the follow up comments on the Reddit tread, it seems more like people misinterpreted what he said than him having been wrong.
Thanks for the run down !

Though I was under the impression that C# was closely related to Microsoft services and thus Windows OS ?

Not that I mind as I also run Windows on my personal machines but could be an issue for specific projects if it was the case.
Yeah, I hesitated to mention that as the post was already getting a bit long. I’ve always wondered what would happen if you took a random high performing junior engineer and just immediately gave them control over a large part of the company. Or vice versa—a level 8 engineer pretends to be a junior engineer and joins another company at level 3.

I suspect the degree of comfort and familiarity that people have in these situations has a lot to do with their potential to influence company outcomes. The junior engineer would still have very little impact when immediately given a VP role and likely proxy their decision-making through others at that level, but they would learn to adapt much quicker than someone going slowly from level 3 to 4 to 5, etc. (assuming the pressure didn’t cause them to quit). There’s a reason people say joining a startup accelerates career growth at the next company.

On the other hand, the level 8 engineer would immediately get themselves invited to discussions at a higher level, because they already have the social skills required to interact in those meetings. It’s not that most junior engineers can’t set up these meetings on others’ calendars—it’s that they don’t want to because they know they’ll stand out like a sore thumb in the discussions.

There’s definitely an element of luck involved with being in the right situations so you have the opportunity to make a larger impact, and once you do, you’re more comfortable with putting yourself in situations where you can do that again. So it is self-fulfilling in a sense. But there’s also a personality component, as more ambitious people (at least within the context of a corporate environment) are willing to take on more risk of embarrassing themselves by potentially failing at a higher level.
Cursor is better.
Firefox defaults lately are awful and out of touch...

gestures for reload/back/forward? really?

several decades and still not incorporating uBlockOrigin as a native feature? really?

a convoluted only-4-containers shenanigans that not even the author understand instead of simply isolating private tabs per window like everyone asked over the years?

using on android? too bad now you don't have half the settings available, AND you will not access many extension for no technical reason other than mozilla implemented a blacklist! ...oh and no access to about:config either!

i don't recall many examples because i gave up caring and have a list of settings (most not even available in the settings screen) and extension i must install on Firefox every new install which is larger than my OS customizations.... and on android i did what anybself respecting person would do and never touch Mozilla's default. install F-DROID's instead.

so, no, Firefox defaults are not very good.
> so many transfems

Sounds interesting. How many? What proportion against the general population? Do you know?
Reminds me of when Mark Twain was asked if life was worth living, he responded "It depends on the liver."
> I was under the impression from "I'm of the opinion that the lack of arm-like -mcpu=<core>+<optional stuff>+no<disabled stuff> equivalent for RISC-V is a good thing" in the linked discussion that a new processor type was necessary to enable even basic extensions

I think lenary's complaint there is more about the defaults being poor for the Arm -mcpu stuff (everything is on and you have to disable everything explicitly and individually) and the way it conflates CPU vs arch variant. They used to be an Arm compiler engineer so there is a lot of past trauma there.
The Atlantic is cooling at record speed and nobody knows why
They are definitely working on that, but it needs to be the right kind of knee-jerk legislation, something that gives them regulatory capture. They can’t afford to lose control of the narrative and end up regulated to death.
I add a folder to my bookmark bar. All project related tabs get bookmarked there. When I'm done, I either delete the whole folder or file it somewhere.

I can also open all in tabs, if I really want to.
Looking at the article I was expecting some dude popping out of nowhere on a skateboard.
> we typically expect lubricants to last longer than a month or so, and WD-40 does not

Neither does KY and yet here we are.

While WD40 wasn't designed as a lubricant it does function as one.

People using heavy equipment often grease their machines daily but no one claims grease isn't a lubricant.

I have to put bar oil in my chain saw every time I use it, and often have to refill it during the day. Is that not a lubricant?
So? Jupyter is deeply embedded in the Python ecosystem which is a repressive hierarchy run by representatives of some companies as well as some rich people in the scientific ecosystem.

People who want to move away from that welcome any alternatives, be it Mathematica or true open source replacements in TypeScript. Please port numpy to TypeScript, too!
I'm sorry to say this, but I don't think it's fair that you (a moderator) should be allowed to pin comments to the top. There may be dozens of helpful links sharing or clarifying context in the discussion. The community can use the upvote feature to sort comments.

Exceptions might be made in cases of misinformation or abuse.
Hormesis is a pretty interesting thing (thanks, as TIL). Just a thought, the tiny amount of ethanol in fermented dairy products like cultured buttermilk, yogurt, and kefir, could maybe play a tiny factor in some of its health benefits? The logic here is that for a micronutrient such as Vitamin A that all it takes is 1/1000th of a gram on a daily basis for health benefits (the same goes for many other vitamins' RDA for humans).

As an aside, there is an interesting part of the ethanol section in the Wikipedia entry [0] on hormesis:

> In 2012, researchers at UCLA found that tiny amounts (1 mM, or 0.005%) of ethanol doubled the lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans, a roundworm frequently used in biological studies, that were starved of other nutrients. Higher doses of 0.4% provided no longevity benefit.[22] However, worms exposed to 0.005% did not develop normally (their development was arrested). The authors argue that the worms were using ethanol as an alternative energy source in the absence of other nutrition, or had initiated a stress response. They did not test the effect of ethanol on worms fed a normal diet.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis
Debating this point is a bit like bike shedding and besides the point.
The point is they can't think nearly as closely like humans, but a network of them can seemingly do intelligent things. Intelligence is only about shared goals and beliefs with an agent(the other ants in this example) and achieving them.
I've been wanting split view in FF for a long time, so I'm going to try this right now

And I know somebody, somewhere, is going to argue that it should be the job of the desktop.

I disagree.

I don't want to have to create each context I want things to exist in, and manipulate that carefully.

I like automatic context. That's why I like tabs in my browser and not a thousand windows. And that's why I enjoy my split views to be inside the tabs I just created.
This has been my hang up as well. Providing metadata seems extremely useful and powerful, but coming into web development in the mid 10s rather than mid 00s made it more clear that the metadata would largely just help a handful of massive corporations.

I will still include JSON-LD when it make financial sense for a site. In practice that usually just means business metadata for search results and product data for any ecommerce pages.
Sieve (YC W22) Is hiring engineers to build AI [video] developer tools
wonder if we should just accept it as "voting" and monitor their telemetry experiment and spam the option we would like
Europe is already engaged in a hybrid war. The next escalation isn't necessarily nuclear. It would most likely look like mutual sabotage to infrastructure, including energy and water supplies. Nuclear weapons are weapons of last resort, neither side will be eager to launch, and especially not before intense conventional warfare.

>Making your plans around existential crises happening to your nation is foolish

Foolish is not being prepared for the worst.
Show HN is more for things people can try, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

'Curated list' is not a great fit for Show HN (or HN in general)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

You should post your 'main product' as a Show HN, that sounds like something more in its wheelhouse.
I made a tool to help find the right AI agent for any task
I've created a directory of AI agents to help people find and compare automation tools from across the internet. It's completely free and not affiliated with any of the listed products.

What it does:

- Catalogs various AI agents
- Provides categorization and filtering (e.g., open/closed source, free/paid)
- Offers text search functionality
- Helps users discover tools for workflow optimization

Tech stack: Next.js/Supabase

The project arose from my own need to navigate the growing landscape of AI tools. I found it challenging to discover and compare different agents, so I built this directory as a solution.

I'm particularly interested in feedback on:
- User experience
- Additional features that would be valuable
- Any AI agents you think should be included

You can check it out here: https://aiagentslist.com
I'm happy to answer any questions about the project, discuss the current state of AI agents, or explore ideas for future development.
does this return gps coordinates of matches? is there an autosuggest api? where I can type a partial city name and get results?
1) Get a relevant education (software engineering, electrical/electronics engineering, control engineering, math and physics, etc.)

2) Apply for a job either with contractors (Raytheon, Lockheed, Boeing, etc.) or go directly to the state/military.

That's about it. You'll have to get a security clearance, but other than that it's very much a standard A4 type of job. Possibly lots of travel, though.

Source: I worked two years in the industry.
Spiders manipulate and exploit bioluminescent signals of fireflies
Same! I switched back from Brave to Firefox last year after discovering that Sidebery has tab panels (which I think Arc calls workspaces) that can be set to use the same Firefox container. I want to be logged into different accounts of the same service, in Brave I had different "profiles" for this, but I like that now in Firefox I can have everything in a single window and I can easily switch between containers by switching to a different panel. (Which I have a hotkey for)
They might require existing preferred stock owners to buy in. But common stock holders may be getting crammed down somehow.
Oaths of Strasbourg
> If nothing else, you can add a processing instruction to the document they use to convert it to HTML.

Like XSLT?
Ruby is the closest match from Python and PHP. Have you considered JavaScript too?
I think that’s what we’re doing today, and it’s a phenomenal mess.

The typical HTML page these days is horrifically bloated, and whilst it’s machine parsable, it’s often complicated to actually understand what’s what. It’s random nested divs and unified everything. All the way down.

But I do wonder if adding context to existing HTML might be better than a whole other JSON blob that’ll get out of sync fast.
The best of all, the bed of their truck is spotless with no scratches meaning at most those trucks just carry grocery bags.
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Give it a start and follow :)
I agree — this is very much the type of interview I like to give. However it took me a while to get good at steering the conversation and digging for details.

It’s really easy to let the interviewee talk through talk through all of the great things they built from a product and business perspective — and assume they understand the technical perspective. There are candidates who are really good at talking in an impressive way, but manage to talk around any true implementation details or deep technical understanding.

It’s also really easy to come away with a bad impression of someone who has a tendency to give short answers and not elaborate on things, even when it turns out that person is really skilled when you dig in.

I imagine a big part of the reason for the test-style interviews we have today is that it’s easier to train an interviewer on how to give them.
We know LLMs don't have those things prima facia because they fail at all of them constantly. We also know how they work, they are token predicters. That is all they are and all they can do. What can be accomplished with that is pretty cool, but humans love to imagine there is more going on when there isn't. Just like with Eliza.

If you don't understand how your attempt to apply my colored shape analogy to a human brain is nonsensical I am not going to waste my time explaining it to you. I had a point, I made it, and apparently it escaped you.
Also see:

Spiders force male fireflies to flash like females—luring more males to their death

https://www.science.org/content/article/spiders-force-male-f...

(https://archive.ph/CBUDb)
happens to me too. but i would bet money it's because of memory corruption in both of our cases.

i have the exact same setup on ECC ram and zero crashes. on non ECC (cheap, garbage, that everyone accepted as the default) ram, one crash every couple weeks.

so unless you can prove software on the same cpu is non deterministic, it is ram corruption.
Does dufs have the auto reload feature of this project?
Do you mean hallucinations? We know about them and thought about adding some post-checks to our pipeline. Can you share more?
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It is a head of a dog with the open mouth. With a bit of imagination still looks quite like that even on the iPhone :-) (edit: not sure how to convince HN to do the equivalent of <pre> - the picture is supposed to be in two lines. Edit2: ok, looks like I figured it out.)
We tried this approach. It did not work. Source: SendGrid while ramping up to become a public company. The interviewing experience involved was fairly extensive; I had probably given a couple hundred interviews in my career by then and I was not the most experienced by a long shot.

We tried to have a zero coding interview. All behavioral and experiences questions followed up by "how would you design a system to do blah." Got a candidate that did well. Hired. Turned out they could talk the talk but not walk the walk. It was wildly unexpected. They simply couldn't code well. Too long to deliver, too poorly written, usually didn't work right. We insisted on _some_ coding in interviews going forward
This is not true. I2PSnark BitTorrent client never makes a connection to a peer over any other network, as written in the official docs: https://geti2p.net/en/about/software.

In other words, I2P has its own torrent servers and network, which never reveals any ip addresses.
There's another element, trusting the data.

Often that may require some web scale data, like Pagerank but also any other authority/trust metric where you can say "this data is probably quality data".

A rather basic example, published/last modified dates. It's well known in SEO circles at least in the recent past that changing them is useful to rank in Google, because Google prefers fresh content. Unless you're Google or have a less than trivial way of measuring page changes, the data may be less than trustworthy.
I feel like currently the group feeling the most impact from Claude is frontend devs as tools like v0.dev, Claude etc. can almost create frontend from API schema (I've tested only page per page) which is great. It's probably because there's examples on the internet and that's why it works well.
> they got to the point where they were offering a share buyback program at a valuation of $300m

That was just earlier this year. It seems weird that the company that valued itself that low is now raising at a valuation 40x higher a few months later?
I agree, the service level on that train is pretty bad especially for peak. Hopefully they'll be convinced to run it more.

But change that wait, do the math, and compare it to the drive time again. Ok, we shaved a 15 minute average wait to 2 minutes or so. 13 minutes saved, awesome. We're still comparing a well over an hour public transit trip to a 30 minute drive on the tollways.

In the end you'll need to convince people the costs of the drive (all the many different types of costs there) are worth the trade for more than doubling the commute time.