skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not only their core strength — it’s what transformers were designed to do and, arguably, it’s all they can do. Any other supposed ability to reason or even retain knowledge (rather than simply regurgitate text without ‘understanding’ its intended meaning) is just a side effect of this superhuman ability.
Views past a certain age are very different. Turf wars for many in theirs 20/30's can be fun and challenging. At 65 you get tired - especially if you have a research background.
Erich Ludendorff was a rather significant factor in the rise to power of the Nazis and he coined the term “total war”.

So he certainly had an impact, I’m not sure if I would use the term accomplishment though.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet can natively speak double base64 encoded English. And I do mean it - you can double b64 encode something, send to it, and it'll respond as if it was normal English. Obviously base64 is a simpler transformation than rot13, but no GPT models can deal with double b64.
One potential benefit should be that with the right tooling around it it should be able to translate your code base to a different language and/or framework more or less at the push of a button. So if a team is wondering if it would be worth it to switch a big chunk of the code base from python to elixir they don't have to wonder anymore.

I tried translating a python script to javascript the other day and it was flawless. I would expect it to scale with a bit of hand-railing.
Just buy his books man. They'd be a bargain at 10x the price.
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How do I specify that a package is installed from conda?

It says "A dependency source can be a Git repository, a URL, a local path, or an alternative registry."

Conda is a registry, but I couldn't find information about how that works. I'm assuming it specifically means a PyPI-like registry?

(Even worse would be if I have a package which used ctypes to use a shared library installed by a C package available through a distro package index.)

Reading your [2], I see uv will have problems with a package of mine. I have an old version on PyPI, but years ago I switched to hosting newer releases on my own server. (I believe PyPI's intermediation makes my sales pipeline worse.)

This works with pip, because it sees my version is newer than the one on PyPI, but for uv it will require 'unsafe-best-match', or 'unsafe-first-match' with my server before PyPI.

And since that value is set through an environment variable, it means people will need to unset it for other uses.

Meh. I've documented that my server is not meant for high availability, and anyone who wants that should purchase a source license and host it themselves locally. That's what I would have to do if I were to switch away from my current persistent venv.

BTW, pip's constant check for updates means that this year 88 people have trusted me to not update their pip installs. For that matter, I see some dependabot checks for certifi, aiohttp, and more - what an excellent way to raise some false alarms.
It would have been a better title, yes.
For those interested in some quantum stuff and interested in watching a kindred spirit do approachable practical experiments I highly advise watching this guys stuff [1]. Consider it a psa

[1] https://youtube.com/@HuygensOptics
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* takes out soap box and stands on it *

We should go back to uncompiled JavaScript code, our democracy depends on it.
> while not having an official mandate to speak in public

Gareth Dennis has been a public figure for a while, appearing on BBC News a few times. So there was apparently a provision for this in his contract with Systra: https://x.com/GarethDennis/status/1829053692508623154
Not always - if it's used as a bus, it's 2 wire.
How is the experience developing with Flux and does the Flux api has free credits to try it?
I use Docusaurus for my software development wiki (knowledge base): https://albert.wiki

It works very well for this purpose. I didn't bother to change the default UI though. And I haven't added any search mechanism (I keep the content organized, thus I don't need it much). It has a blog feature, but I don't use it.

It's hosted in Netlify, deploying automatically on each push.

Here's the source code if you are curious: https://github.com/AlbertVilaCalvo/Wiki
I agree, this would make the title more accurate.
Awesome project OP! Especially the power comparison. Who would have thought that you can achieve 1kW of energy from 1m2.

On a side note and in a similar direction. Would it be feasible to make a solar concentrator that heats a molten-salt reactor that powers a turbine engine? On a small-ish scale though, such that it'd be achievable as a back-yard reactor?

So the description I used above was my memory-driven understanding of it. But here is what I actually meant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_tower

Edit. I went down a little rabbit-hole, HN. This is what I eventually found about small-scale energy generation using solar-concentration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar-powered_Stirling_engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dish-stirling-at-odeillo....

Could be a semi-viable alternative to solar, perhaps? Though cost-wise, it's probably quite high now that solar-panels and their auxillary hardware have been commoditized so much.
True. The remote features are somewhat focused on multi building commercial users, so I am not real worried that they will aggressively ruin it.
This is very close to how I often use LLMs [0]. A first step in deciphering code where I otherwise would need to, to use the authors words, power through reading the code myself.

It has been incredibly liberating to just feed it a spaghetti mess, ask to detangle it in a more readable way and go from there.

As the author also discovered, LLMs will sometimes miss some details, but that is alright as I will be catching those myself.

Another use case is when I understand what the code does, but can't quite wrap my head around why it is done in that specific way. Specifically, where the author of the code is no longer with the company. I will then simply put the method in the LLM chat, explain what it does, and just ask it why some things might be done in a specific way.

Again, it isn't always perfect, but more often than not it comes with explanations that actually make sense, hold up under scrutiny and give me new insights. It actually has prevented me once or twice from refactoring something in a way that would have caught me headaches down the line.

[0] chatGPT and more recently openwebUI as a front end to various other models (Claude variants mostly) to see the differences. Also allows for some fun concepts of having different models review each others answers.
The problem is the use case is where you don't care about the risk of hallucinations or you can validate the output without already having the data in a useful format. Plus you need to lack the knowledge/skill to do it more quickly using awk/python/perl/whatever.
Bears that go into winter slim aren’t bears at all come spring.
Or learn to read minified JS code, which is actually not that difficult! (But you do have to take notes to track identifiers.)
This looks like something I would really enjoy, thank you!
I went to the website, clicked on the search bar, and was immediately stopped from proceeding unless I provided a Google login.

Why is that necessary? No idea, they don’t say.

Doesn’t seem like a “web” I’d want to partake in, with Google as a gatekeeper even if they’re not the authors of the content.
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see projects like https://github.com/joshpxyne/gpt-migrate

think there's also a YC company recently focusing on the nasty, big migrations with LLM help
Window maker is a glimpse into the past. A modern-ish look into the NeXTSTEP UI, which would become OS X’s Aqua. personally it’s my preferred Linux UI. Simply because I find it cozy.
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You should be. I am facepalming at the topic and every single comment in here. It's so full of holes, the Swiss dairy industry went out of business.
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Is there any reason why it’s ‘OpenAI’ in the title rather than ‘ChatGPT’?
Regretfully a major Rust for Linux maintainer just stepped down yesterday, saying he doesn't have the energy to keep dealing with the constant nontechnical nonsense: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240828211117.9422-1-wedsonaf@...
Another disadvantage being that your distance between the mirror system and the target must be fixed the same each time you setup.

This isn’t an inherently bad thing. As a marketable product this would imply a one-time manual alignment for all 48 mirrors but cheaper lifetime maintenance costs.
One approach we use is to put complicated stuff in views, then use the orm to perform simple queries against those. That's especially useful for complex relationships between tables.
A mere decompilation or general reverse engineering should be fine in many if not most jurisdictions [1]. But it is a whole different matter to make use of any results from doing so.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/reverse_engineering
The problem with this perspective is that iOS is where the money is. Almost ALL the money.

So if western B2C companies have to pick just one platform to start with, it will almost always be iOS. This lets them then port that initial app to Android once they are established with western audiences, so they can also serve the (much larger, much less profitable) rest of the world.
I'm also using newsboat, mostly in android where I run it via nix-on-droid (https://github.com/nix-community/nix-on-droid). I generate the config and url files via a nix script that has a bunch of functions, for example for taking a twitter username and getting the RSS feed from a nitter instance. It's also using for ensuring that programs used in filter/exec feeds are used - I'm using sed for replacing the nitter instance with x.com like so: "filter:/nix/store/82v9hz5nav5swvdmz4cq53f2m671njcc-gnused-4.9/bin/sed 's#nitter.poast.org#x.com#g':https://nitter.poast.org/<user>/rss"
Thought experiment: think of a potential usecase (perhaps offline) where some smart-aleck product manager thinks this might be useful.
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> People used to say this about the energy infrastructure of Russia and Germany too, now see how that went.

Those people were completely clueless. I don't have a better way to phrase it. Nordstream 2 was an insane idea the second it was announced.
It's definitely a cat and mouse game and no single method, including statistical analysis, is a silver bullet.

I'm definitely not advocating for doing less to counter cheaters. I'm just talking about how more could be done. As in, continue with existing methods and add new ones.

Also, yeah many cheaters would start being more conservative and manage to evade detection. However that is also a win. It's the aggressive obvious cheaters that are the worst, because it makes it obvious that the fight was unfair. If the cheater made it look plausibly legit, then the victim won't feel as bad.
Assuming true how is this actually related to Telegram … ohh it isn’t its just a way to better handle pushbacks, he’s a bad guy anyway
I lack context. What is the “constant nontechnical nonsense”?
Is it possible to disable CORS? Ive often wanted to make mashups for personal use and bots where that would be handy.
They're just using Google for an easy user onboarding, nothing to get all up in arms about. Websim is trying to sell plans for more than 30 generations a day.
The irony of the comments in this thread decrying this as a classic example of too much abstraction is that the reason you rarely see three-star variables in C is that, while it's common to have long chains of pointers (and in languages where ~everything is a pointer~ most things are pointers by default, like Python, Java, or JavaScript, you definitely have pointer chains that are much longer than 4!), what is uncommon (but not nonexistent) is the need to manipulate more than two levels at once — you'll have one, maybe two, levels of pointers, but anything deeper is probably going to be hidden in a struct whose internals you don't have to care about (i.e. abstracted away). The same argument applies to channels, which are roughly to concurrent code what pointers are to sequential code: the fatal flaw here, if there is one, is not too much abstraction, but perhaps too little abstraction.

But then, I don't know the codebase — maybe a `chan chan` was exactly the right abstraction for what they were trying to write :) Certainly in highly-concurrent languages like Erlang, it is very standard practice to send a PID to another PID, for example to identify the process that should receive the reply to the message.
If you want to experience pure monospaced web, try Carbonyl or Browsh in a Terminal.
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I admire your exasperation on this issue :)
Heh, you might be additionally bothered that for the C&L model, the strong coupling (to heat bath) limit can also be considered the (/a?) classical limit, e.g.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.07495
From what I know so far;

- First day is still alive on Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-19

- Last day as Startup news https://web.archive.org/web/20070713212949/http://news.ycomb...

- First day as Hacker News https://web.archive.org/web/20070830111558/http://news.ycomb...
I'm afraid that is a matter of perspective. This snapshot is from 2007 and the "dot com bubble" burst somewhere around the year 2000.

I still see a lot of cool ideas (healthcare, robots, thought organizers) and a lot of ideas that are definitely not going to make any money :)
Come to think of it, I'm kind of surprised that Google Chrome doesn't have a "this link is broken, would you like to see what we have cached for this url?" feature.
I think there's actually some potential here, considering LLMs are already very good at translating text between human languages. I don't think LLMs on their own would be very good, but a specially trained AI model perhaps, such as those trained for protein folding. I think what an LLM could do best is generate better decompiled code, giving better names to symbols, and generating code in a style a human is more likely to write.

I usually crap on things like chatgpt for being unreliable and hallucinating a lot. But in this particular case, decompilers already usually generate inaccurate code, and it takes a lot of work to fix the decompiled code to make it correct (I speak from experience). So introducing AI here may not be such a huge stretch. Just don't expect an AI/LLM to generate perfectly correct decompiled code and we're good (wishful thinking).
Applications based on LLMs are evolving & the next step in this progression of AI Agents are Agentic Applications. Agentic applications still have a Foundation Model as their backbone, but have more agency.

Agentic applications are AI-driven systems designed to autonomously perform tasks and make decisions based on user inputs and environmental context.

These applications leverage advanced models and tools to plan, execute, and adapt their actions dynamically.

By integrating capabilities like tool access, multi-step reasoning, and real-time adjustments, agentic applications can generate and complete complex workflows and provide intelligent solutions.

I must add that while many theories and future projections are based on speculation, I prioritise prototyping and creating working examples. This approach grounds commentary in practical experience, leading to more accurate future projections.
You can create your own proprietary OS and never even sell it or use in your machines... It's yours and unless you authorize, others can't distribute it.
You can run a CORS-stripping proxy.
looks like one … and works for the emotionally manipulative ones
Kneejerk pushback from old timers C-only kernel devs.
IANAL, but as far as I understand, the OSX license essentially allows running it in whatever way you want, as long as it happens on Apple-approved hardware. Running in a VM is fine, as long as it actually happens on a real Mac.

Depending on how you look at it, the license is either "free" or "not that free, but actually comes with a computer to use it with"
The problem is that you can't "fix" superposition. I [1] like to explain it with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern%E2%80%93Gerlach_experime... .

For some strange reasons [2] it's enough to consider atoms with spin |up> and |down>. But if you put the device sidewide, you would preffer to use |right> and |left> instead. But if you are forced to use |up> and |down> then

|right> = ( |up> + |down> ) / sqrt(2)

|left> = ( |up> - |down> ) / sqrt(2)

(Or with the oposite signs, I never remember.)

The same idea of expressing a state using superposition/sums of states in other base is very fundamental to Quantum Mechanics and appears everywhere.

[1] The idea of using Stern–Gerlach experiment is stolen from Feynman, not a brilliant idea of me.

[2] Too much algebra and the SU(2) group. Just bear with me.
I suspect the minister may be an ex-minister soon, alright; it’s not a good look, and he’s only been in the job a month or so, so replacing wouldn’t be a huge deal.
Okay, but if the unminified code doesn't match the minified code (as noted at the end "it looks like LLM response overlooked a few implementation details"), that massively diminishes its usefulness — especially since in a lot of cases you can't trivially run the code and look for differences like the article does.

[ed.: looks like this was an encoding problem, cf. thread below. I'm still a little concerned about correctness though.]
I’d assuming paying and working with good artists
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I asked Claude 3.5 Sonnet a question in Italian in rot13 and it replied in Italian in rot13, there are a few typos but it's perfectly understandable.
Everett's idea was merely that the measurement device gets entangled with the thing being measured, so we now the wave-function of the (combined) device-thing system is the superposition of states <thing is in pure state Ai| ⊗ <device is in "measured Ai" state|; but for the measurement device it of course "looks" like it measured a pure state. That's it. That's basically what the decoherence suggests anyway. The "cosmos splitting" was proposed by Bryce DeWitt which IMHO turned a perfectly straight-forward and reasonable interpretation into a needlessly philosophical statement.
He talks of a new memory safe kernel disrupting Linux the way Linux disrupted others.

Well, maybe that's exactly what should happen. Maybe rust should have never been allowed in the kernel in the first place.

It's caused a lot of trouble so far and for what? The dev community is fractured and infighting is rampant.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design
Is it though? The developer tabs have an unminify button which yields similar results. JavaScript minification is not hard in any way and the guessing of variable names is not that hard given such a simple code example.
I wonder if this applies to the tech giants as well. Aws accounts? Amazon prime? Google cloud or google workspaces customers? Apple iCloud users? Microsoft office and teams users? Azure? Slack users?

Or as usual it’s just the small fish that have to remain compliant while the big fish need can lawyer away their issues (and keep billing) ?
> plans to build a too small terminus in London for HS1

You're talking about HS2 and Old Oak Common, right? Yeah that's a peculiar choice of terminus
Interestingly this is what he thought of the matter at the time:

> Our time, he added, "is Gothic in its spirit. Unlike the Renaissance, it is not dominated by a few outstanding personalities. The twentieth century has established the democracy of the intellect. In the republic of art and science there are many men who take an equally important part in the intellectual movements of our age. It is the epoch rather than the individual that is important. There is no one dominant personality like Galileo or Newton".

Now, there was probably a good deal of fake modesty in that statement - he was a fairly dominant personality in the first part of the 20th century. But I suspect a key reason Einstein continues to be a widely recognizable name is that current scientists (physicists etc., those who are most equipped to rank / perpetuate his status) continue being in awe of the singular nature of his contributions, more so than any of the other "greats" of that period.

Why so? He could not have predicted it himself back then, but more than a century later his work would not have been "normalized". There was no subsequent breakthrough in fundamental physics that would somehow link geometry/gravity with the rest of the physics "stuff" (or vice-versa). As he relates in the interview, during that time (1929) he was working on a unified theory of gravity and electromagnetism but his language suggests he was not at all confident. Till this day the mental models he introduced to help us grasp the workings of the universe remain a thing apart.
No prob. It is not like I can’t afford to lose a few points.
They are definitely not on the cloud.
Honestly I’d expect they just fire Hendy; only in the job a month, so low cost of replacement, and it’s a bad look.
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If you make a large (1+ meter diameter) curved lump out of wet sand, you can use that to lay a fiberglass parabola which could then be chrome plated, painted, or otherwise finished on the inside of the parabola after it’s cured.

This would allow you to further concentrate the solar power beyond the current 48x limitation.
The other point worth raising is that the employee has stated on Twitter that he had a media agreement with his employer that allowed him to speak independently (presumably because he runs a YouTube channel, as per the comments elsewhere on this thread).
I see your point, but I think there's more to it. It's kind of like saying "all humans can do is perceive and produce sound, any other ability is just a side-effect". We might be focusing too much on their mechanism for "perception" and overlooking other capabilities they've developed.
> So I wouldn’t be too dismissive of their impact on world history.

Not of their impact on world history, no, but we are discussing more how the idea of someone lives on after they are dead and for how long, so maybe in that context it maybe deserves to be dismissed, as in there's a reason those figures are not referenced or talked about as much as Einstein is.
These are all false claims. Messages are not stored in plaintext. Secret Chats are E2EE and use standard crypto primitives. All of this is well-documented. [1] [2]

[1] https://core.telegram.org/mtproto/AJiEAwIYFoAsBGJBjZwYoQIwFM...

[2] https://core.telegram.org/api/end-to-end
Reminds me of Knuth's literate programming: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html
To be honest this is a general problem with the UK. Try driving on any major street and you'll realize it's plastered with mostly useless signs. A dozen warnings assault your senses at any one time, which makes it very difficult to pick out what is actually important. This is compounded by sometimes completely braindead implementation of rules. E.g. most bus lanes in London can be used by motorcyclists, but some cannot. There's no rhyme or reason, the entire thing is decided by a small blue sign at the start of a particular stretch which may or may not have an even smaller motorbike icon on it - among an icon for a bus, taxi and pushbike. Whoever thought this is a good idea is either a moron or deliberately wanted to extract fines from motorcyclists who accidentally use the wrong bus lane.