skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can definitely see people becoming overly trusting of LLM output, but I have a feeling it might be a self-correcting problem over time.

Initially when working with an LLM if you start with a problem it knows well, it's likely to give good results and if some minor hallucination creeps it you may well not notice and accept it based on earlier results being right.

However it's quite likely you'll hit a wildly wrong statement at some point, and that tends to break the illusion, and hopefully people who have that experience will start being more skeptical of what they're being told by LLMs.
No, that's not true (CA driver here too). The "whatever conditions deem safe" bit is something that can reduce the legal speed below the posted speed limit. It can never raise it above the posted limit.

Even with no posted speed limit, there is an implicit limit in CA (differs based on the type of road and surrounding locale), and "conditions" can again only reduce that.
> they don't seem interested in addressing this (https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/30874).

Actually it seems they are: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/22492#comment:11
Is the US also a dictatorship since nine (or rather, five) unelected people were able to abolish the right to abortion, the Chevron deference and what else at their whim?
Brazil already has laws allowing it to censor websites, what is new here? It seems the judge is targeting accounts related to gangs of misinformation run by supporters of Bolsanaro and may have been involved in their Jan 6 (Jan 23).
What context is missing?

If anything it seems like Musk seems to be attacking the sovereignty of a nation because he agrees with anything far right these days.
I was wondering these days if something like this could exist. Can one follow along somewhere?
The protocol has been designed by taking the commonalities between all different casting protocols like AirPlay and Chromecast as a base. This is what has been used to make version 1.0. I tried making it as simple as possible and low effort to implement.

https://gitlab.com/futo-org/fcast/-/wikis/Protocol-version-1

As you can see the 1.0 protocol is very lean and fits on an A4.

If you want to have an audio-only ESP32 speaker I don't see why it wouldn't be possible with the FCast protocol.
At the start of the circuit the government prints and spends money, at the end it collects the money as taxes.
This creates a current of economic activity.
The duty to pay tax is the primary incentive that stimulates the citizens to put in effort and gets this into motion.
The proper action is not to try to pay less taxes, but to put in more effort and make the money to pay the taxes.
Niching down is definitely working really well. I had an experience developing a website for a fancy gallery in London, and they were already "sold" to use Artlogic (https://artlogic.net) because every other gallery uses it. The builder itself was quite horrible and confusing tbh.
Oof, conditioning people to tattle on their neighbors. That's never gone horribly wrong... /s
I can just imagine the bug trying to tell his buddies that he was abducted and examined by a massive alien creature, but no one believes him. ;0)
LLMs are not at a point where we should be treating them as a solution to any software engineering issue, period.
I've often thought that public schools need to have a course in basic financial accounting. It isn't very hard, and is just adding and subtracting.

After all, we live in a market society, shouldn't students be at least able to read a simple P&L statement and balance sheet?

I always wanted to start a business, so on summer break I took a course in basic accounting from the local community college, and it has served me very well ever since.

Will Smith is another cautionary tale. As a teen, he made it big with his Fresh Prince rap songs. He blew all the money on partying. Then the IRS came knocking. It had never occurred to him he had to pay income tax on his millions, which no longer existed. He made a deal with the IRS. On his show "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", all his earnings other than an allowance went to the IRS.
They're literally plotting policies of "wealth redistribution" in the EU at least. The idiot bureaucrats can call it what they want, but forcibly redistributing your assets more and more to other people makes it thievery.
I'm sure I'm making JBlow very unhappy with my choices of technologies and my disregard for performance (for now)
Strange Attractors (2018)
How Vietnamese Australians came to dominate the nail salon industry
It’s not an easily solvable problem. They can’t make an AI which won’t lie or make stuff up, which is sort of the root of the problem. Imagine an AI which is granted access to control systems. We can’t trust such an AI to run control systems any more than we can trust it not to lie or make stuff up. There isn’t the sort of rigor behind AI development to permit creating a provably correct AI. There needs to be more study in order to understand the limits of AI fallibility and failure modes.
It may be unreasonable, but I have a default negativity toward anything that uses the word "coding" instead of programming or development.
> We've got all these people in a state of delusion that somehow the job of a developer isn't glorified autocomplete of what someone else prompts them with.

You could make the same oversimplification about any other knowledge or managerial job, up to and including C-suite executives.

If this technology is coming and taking everyone's jobs, we're going to need incredibly strong social support structures like Universal basic income and radical redistribution of wealth from AI-owners to fund it. Do you have any ideas for tackling that?
Paywall. We need a flair for pay walled articles
Learn to play Bach: start with making your own piano.
A Vax?! Wow! Now that's worth a look!
It matters what you think of democracy. "The people" don't want transformative AI. The polls bear it out.
A tech firm stole our voices – then cloned and sold them
Most likely this one.

https://www.manning.com/books/build-a-large-language-model-f...

(I've taken it from the footnotes on the article)
An Idea on Distraction
I saw God's Debris by Scott Adams and now seriously doubt the quality of this list.

Not helped by seeing the review of Der Kreativitäts-Code as being "Here’s a book I plan on reading".

Disappointed by this list
According to DannyBee, it was Google, not Apple, that helped design the USB-C connector: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30033799
I’m sure you’re right but how does Google afford to do it then? Do they have methods to drastically lower those costs? $2500 per month for each creator seems like it wouldn’t be a business worth running.
Musk’s Twitter actively censors and promotes content based on the personal whims of the billionaire owner. Is that really better for democracy?

The Twitter/X experiment seems to have primarily succeeded in demonstrating that nobody has good solutions for this problem, and just repeating words like “misinformation” and “free speech” doesn’t get us any closer to a solution.

Props to Bluesky for trying something else, at least.
I think they simply shone a light on human nature. Those aspects were there and still affected people, but we had the illusion that we were rational humanist actors - and even then that was only in the west. the internet simply shattered the illusion.
I got my 5200 right around the time of the video game crash, so ended up with a decent library sourced out of remainder boxes.

Those controllers though—terrible durability.
Static lint wouldn't be a bad way
the people want to have their cake and eat it.
Looking at the responses, I can see that people are still viewing this through the limited lens of left vs right.

This is of course a thing in that nobody can hide their colors anymore, but I'm specifically talking about the rich now feeling empowered enough that they even have the hubris to challenge governments of the world for their own benefit, and in some cases even build their own empires to escape the limitations of governments by forming their own rich-people-only worlds.

For example: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/magazine/prospera-hondura...

So long as you continue fighting left vs right, you're fighting the wrong enemy.
> Especially bad ideas would elicit a response from the user, trying to iterate on them until solved.

This is the assumption that’s been repeated a few times now in response to my comment, but this is the assumption that seems wrong to me. If I get a good output from an LLM, I probably also want more output on the same topic, or to try refine it somehow. If I get a bad output I will probably try to iterate on it a bit. From the perspective of the LLM, these two interactions look the same.
…by showing you more ads.
This isn’t a good analogy. The internet provably works. AI doesn’t provably work. It works some of the time, and there’s no indication we are anywhere close to a version of AI which provably works all of the time, or even up to human standard.
> everybody expects distros to fix security issues

IMO this is a huge mistake in the Linux distro world. It doesn't scale. It's similar to the weird idea that Debian should contain every program in the world and if the authors want their programs to be installable on Debian they must make a Debian package for it. And Fedora and Arch and Gentoo and...

Clearly bonkers.
Those would not explain why only Github is impacted, except maybe the antivirus one. All machines on my network are impacted as well. I'm using BitDefender as an antivirus on all of them, I might try to disable it for Github and see if it fixes the issue.
They could just collectively stop working on the problem until they feel that the issue is resolved (moratorium). That's what I meant by "they could very easily solve the problem".
The Avalon Hill game company [video]
A series of videos on the history of the (sadly, now defunct) board game company. A trip down memory lane for people who love hex based war games. This is the first video in the series, covering 1971-1977.

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-l83XaTLgw&t=0s

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ4Gd_jKIcc&t=0s

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHDR8tqhxGg

Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCiQcbxlDs8&t=0s
Thanks for the details !

I wonder about:

> Hybrid on-prem & cloud.

I wonder about the factors/considerations that led to hosting a given data/services on-prem or outside. Were there purely technical considerations or were there also about "self host what can't get leaked" (think GDPR, privacy concerns, things like that) ?
The hidden story of how ancient India shaped the West
This post should probably be labelled Show HN to not look like SPAM.
Yes they did. You could vote in the referendum from abroad (I did). There's no such thing as EU citizenship anyway, so nobodies citizenship changed as a result.
I think it's fair to say that these models may have some grasp of reality insofar as the data we collect ballparks reality, and also insofar as the mechanism to learn from the data effectively extracts the truth value of the data.

We might say the same thing about people.

Ultimately, just how problematic is it to label something as a hallucination? Are investors about to be massively duped? If I create a mechanism to reduce hallucinations and I call it therapy, is that really problematic?
ooh.directory is fantastic, I particularly liked the stance that only add a few sites a week are added, which allows to "digest" these sites. Sadly, no new sites have been added since nearly three month. I assume this is just an instance of "Life happens" - it is a single person venture after all - but if there were a dozen similar attempts at handpicking and cataloguing the "good web", it would not hurt.
A couple of years ago there were news articles that the pentagon has a "lasers that can identify people in a crowd from 200m away based on their heart rate signatures".

No idea if that's true or overblown, but it doesnt seem unlikely that such technology becomes possible in the future.
Bach (Johann Sebastian .. there were many musical Bach's in the family) owned and wrote for harpsichords, lute-harpsichords, violin, viola, cellos, a viola da gamba, lute and spinet.

Never had a piano, not even a fortepiano .. though reportedly he played one once.
His point might be that the carbon in the plastic will some day be released to the atmosphere, either through decay, combustion, or even digestion. Might as well burn it now and recover some energy in the form of heat from it.
>Simpler take on embeddings (just bigrams stored in JSON format)

So Markov chains
Definitely not. I'm reverse-engineering Tenchu: Stealth Assassins and the original Japanese release's game code is written entirely in C as far as I can tell.

It does use the Psy-Q SDK which contains assembly, but it's not something that the game developers have written.
If a company has an AI tool, then you must treat everything that comes out of that tool as if it came from the company directly. If something harmful comes out, then the product is defective and they must compensate users like any other defective product.

If a hammer manufacturer sometimes produced a hammer that exploded like a hand grenade on impact, they would be held liable for that.
I wonder how much bad advice for startups is out there. I don't think it is just about scaling a startup.
Wrong. All space companies/orgs put safety first. Because you cannot fix it, and any error is dramatic.

Even worse than medical
I personally don’t think DB migrations are that difficult, and I’d say they can be done a lot safer without an ORM. I’ve also never found an ORM that was easier to learn and overall easier to use than SQL. I’ve never understood how ORMs became so popular, I don’t get how somebody can look at how opaque and complicated they are and conclude that learning an ORM is easier than just learning SQL.
Why is the `Python` Docker image slower than Python of my local machine?
Probably now an unpopular view (as is any opinion perceived as 'judgemental' or 'gatekeeping'), but I agree.
People suck at telling the truth. There are whole occupations out there whose primary job it is to make use of that fact and influence people. I'd say upwards of 50% of the population can't even tell when they are being manipulated by other humans with false info. Even when it is against their own interest. How are these people ever gonna stand up to LLMs who are much more suave than your average con artist? These models were literally trained on all the marketing material that is the modern internet.
PS2 compatibility on PS3 went through 3 phases. Launch models had EE+GS+RDRAM (full PS2 hardware), just after had only GS, and finally emulation was done entirely in software. Using a CFW can utilize the latest method to play most (ISO backed-up) PS2 games.
That's how it always works. "You see the problem with not dealing with XYZ is that the government/judicial/legislative doesn't have enough power to tackle XYZ."

You grant them power they asked. They don't deal with it, but ask for more power. At some point they stop asking and label you as the problem.
The whole article was full of supercilious snark. A lot of it was aimed, rightly, at Andersen, but it does take away from the fact that Y2K was a real issue that affected millions of computers worldwide.

I patched hundreds of vulnerable systems, rewrote code for mission-critical software and still ended up with a call-out to halted manufacturing plant on January 1st, 2000.

If there hadn’t been a global, coordinated response, things would have been a lot worse. And let’s not forget that there were life-changing effects of the bug beyond the snarky “garage door opener” issue mentioned in the article. [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/sep/14/martinwainwright
> That is, they have absolutely no genuine recollection of what they were thinking at the time they said something in the past.

I really like this point. Imagine if model observability got to the point where a model could self-observe after running a response. Not only would it read the context, it could observe it's own thoughts from the past.
I would argue that nowadays most dev workloads don’t break operating system.

Most of the time I would rather have devs spending time to learn their database engine for back end. For front end devs would rather that they spend time understanding how web browsers work.

While I like to spend time getting to know OS details and running windows or Linux servers - for instance I do get a grasp of CSS and can use dev tools in browser, but I see how a front end developer fixes CSS issues in 5 mins that take me 30mins.

We cannot expect everyone to know everything - but also I think we can expect some basic knowledge of different parts of stack.
In the 70s only thin foil or wires could be produced. The alloy in the video was invented in 1992.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphous_metal
imo linear algebra is the main thing to refresh yourself on, as most of NN is based on matrix multiplication. The calculus is mostly in the gradient descent which in practice is abstracted away, so having a few decades old understanding might be good enough. For practical implementation Andrej Karpathy has a good series of videos going over a lot of the concepts starting here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMj-3S1tku0
Yup - the hole turned me off so much I've switched my first EV buy to Hyundai ioniq 5 (N if my wife authorises it LOL) ... not saying they're any better but it's a branding thing ... I couldn't stand to be associated with anything to do with that hole.
I fully agree. We had a discussion about this one year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36924239
I spent a few weeks as a salary man in Japan (just working alongside them), and noticed how quite a few people would just stare at their monitors and pretend to do work, without ever actually doing anything. Then they’d run to the printer (to look busy and stressed), only to run back to their desks and stare at the same A1 excel cell they’ve been staring at for the last 3 hours.

Imagine spending your entire professional career doing that.
In the late 1990s there were still medical scientists who questioned the causal link between HIV and AIDS. This was at a time when effective drugs were already approved and saving lives.

Those scientists believed they were asking reasonable questions and pointing out potential inaccuracies. But imagine you were an HIV positive patient in 1995 and you latched on to this scientific debate to conclude that probably you should just eat a lot of vitamins and things will work out fine, since the scientists can’t seemingly even agree on whether you’ll get AIDS…

This is not a theoretical example. AIDS denialism cost hundreds of thousands of lives during roughly 1995-2005. There was a Nobel prize winner (Kary Mullis) who supported the movement with his authority despite never having done any HIV research. The government of South Africa was also involved for their own political reasons.

It was a lot like today’s climate change denialism and needs to be remembered. The major difference is that the personal consequences of HIV denialism were felt within a few years on an individual level, so the matter was resolved within decades. With climate change, it’s going to take a century and today’s denialists won’t be around to feel the effects.
This is more a European thing
Below is a table of elements used, ordered by boiling point. Beryllium has the lowest boiling point at 2742K. Zirconium has the highest melting point at 2125K. This means the furnace temperature was greater than 2125K.

TIG temperature can easily reach 3000C (close enough to 3000K) [1], more than the boiling point of beryllium. The temperature of the metal slug would rise until it reaches thermal equilibrium through heat loss, the energy loss likely being due to the vapourisation of the element with the lowest boiling point: beryllium.

That smoke was probably beryllium vapour.

I'm no expert, but I would assume the beryllium vapour would not have made it out of the apparatus. By luck, it would have condensed either before reaching the HEPA filter or on its way through the HEPA filter, even though the HEPA filter was not designed to stop a vapour. Nile Red also had the sense to use a fume cupboard. Despite this, the inside of the apparatus could well have been coated with friable condensed beryllium, which would probably not have been flushed by the argon. If doing this, I'd take additional precautions against condensing beryllium vapour containing the equipment (I don't know what they might be).

Maybe it's a case of controlling arc temperature to keep it below the boiling point of beryllium? Maybe a small amount of impurity with a lower boiling point can be added to the mix, so it boils off first and avoids the beryllium boiling? This might also prevent loss of beryllium from altering the composition of the glass?

How would the pros handle this risk?

I gather there are similar issues with the refining of silicon, in which silicon vapour can cause silicosis.

Element Melt Boil
Beryllium 1560K 2742K
Copper 1357K 2835K
Nickel 1728K 3003K
Titanium 1491K 3560K
Zirconium 2125K 4650K

[1] https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2007/AnthonyHo.shtml
No that’s not how these license changes works. The current version is licensed under a source available license until a certain point in the future when it’s converted to an open source license, so people can use the by then possibly very outdated version freely. Or they can upgrade to the newer but still source available version if there is one. It’s meant to be an assurance that in case the business is gone by then, you the user and/or customer can still patch it yourself or rely on a community fork to keep it working.

Except here thanks to the AGPL choice, it seems to be the exact opposite of an assurance: if you use this in a proprietary setting, you’re just fucked if the business is gone and the software needs patching.
“ I do think that there are elements of the “woke mind virus” that are okay with censorship”

Then let’s not focus on some made up boogeyman and ignore the fact that in 2020, the executive at the time was happily reaching out to Twitter and other platforms asking them to remove posts. The guy Musk is supporting was happily asking Twitter to remove posts.

But let’s be clear, they were asking Twitter to enforce its rules. And you can argue that the government asking like that is illegal, but I’ve yet to see a guilty verdict in court so, until that happens, Twitter enforcing its rules isn’t censorship. No one has been denied their first amendment rights.

More importantly, by Musks own yardstick, Twitter is no longer the bastion of Free Speech it was when he took control. So regardless of what you think, Twitter is worse off now.
> By taking sides in a partisan culture war, he has made his core mission essentially non-partisan.

There is a significant amount of people choosing to not purchase a Tesla because they don’t want to be associated with Mr. Musk.

SpaceX is more insulated because there is essentially no alternative. If Yspace existed, I’m sure a significant amount of people would choose to champion that instead.

I think you’re vastly underselling how much Mr Musk his communications and his association with the new hyperbigoted misinformation-hub Xitter has turned people to dislike him, powerful and influential one’s among them.
> I wonder if stand-alone music players might make a comeback among students?

How about headphones whose sole function is noise cancellation ? What's the minimum size & cost ?