skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only they know the patterns that spammers have used in their case. Perhaps if you did use random usernames on your domain then it would be blocklisted too.
Added myself to the map. At first it said it couldn't find my city but the issue seems to have resolved itself after a while, maybe after I zoomed in.

Can your website handle accents? Trying to look up my neighbors in São Paulo and Goiânia redirects me back to the root page.

https://meet.hn/city/br-São-Paulo

https://meet.hn/city/br-Goiânia

My guess is your website is choking on the accented characters.

â U+00E2 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
ã U+00E3 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE
Doctors overestimate terminally ill patients' survival days by a factor of 5.3
Chinese EVs still cheaper than Teslas in US after tariff hike
I've been using Arch+hyperland on a framework 13, and it's been pretty good. Screen sharing seems to be the only thing that acts up now and then.
The three I suggested above are absolutely as open as OpenSCAD.

(With the addition of developer openness: directly meshing with Python or JS libraries)
> This is the nature of language evolution.

Only if it sticks. Hallucination is such an unnatural term for the phenomenon I would be surprised to see it stick.

> Everyone knows what hallucination means with respect to AI

This is false. It took me months to realize this just meant "output incoherent with reality" rather than an issue with training—the natural place for perceptual errors to occur.
I can't resist pointing out that, ironically, these devices are compromised before they even have the chance to benefit from NPUs. Imagine the incentive to damage if they were equipped with that kind of processing power, botnets with ML capabilities would be an even bigger target now.
> ultimately Congress

Who is successfully lobbied by organizations of doctors

Congress doesn't make decisions in a vacuum
> the dumbest smart guy they know

When you’re smart enough to understand the consequences the of your “dumb decisions” and have the EQ to navigate the aftermath.
Haven't used a Framework, but I'll throw arch-based CachyOS. Super simple setup and optimized binaries for modern machines are a plus.
We're wondering if you were perhaps mislead somewhat, because in our experience its quite rare for a department not to have any funded PhDs with stipends.
> I think there may be a set of people that have figured out, 1) how to interact with LLMs....

1) is all about experimenting, which is what Tao is doing.

Having a playful and open minded attitude is like 80% of the game
One of the issues with removing traces of yourself online, when identity in the postmodern digital era is almost totally determined by those artifacts or representations of ourselves we publish, is that you are effectively performing an act of digital suicide. With no representations of yourself on the net, you may as well not exist, and people are free to project anything whatsoever unto the tabula rasa of your nonexistent persona.

While this is an excellent Rorshach for exposing the internal biases of others and demonstrating that even the staunchest progressives are also readily capable of misidentifying others or failing to recognize their "self-identification", the issue of not being seen for who one is and constantly "misidentified" also presents its own challenges.
The decentralization works against discovery. For the longest time I couldn't find many DOS gaming podcasts. Then I happened to search Spotify. Lo and behold there are more there, and their recommendations helped find adjacent podcasts. Of course Spotify is a walled garden, so I have mixed feelings.

Full disclosure, I work for a company that provides a paywall to podcasters. (Among other things.)
80x-240x
The duality of linux distributions

The worse the installer the better the documentation.

It's a joke, but perhaps there may be a core of truth in there. An underlying psychological process at play.
Structural Functionalism
Both of those terms have precise meanings. They're not the same thing. Summarized --

Cognition: acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and the senses.

Hallucination: An experience involving the perception of something not present.

With those definitions in mind, hallucination can be defined as false-cognition that is not based in reality. It's not cognition because cognition grants knowledge based on truth and hallucination leads the subject to believe lies.

In other words, "humans are just really good at hallucination" rejects the notion that we're able to perceive actual reality with our senses.
> These employees have a lot of reputation to lose for coming forward.

Employees don't typically have much reputation to ruin. I am perfectly content putting this on their shoulders.
But on the other hand it would encourage other universities to build better programs. Who cares if it’s difficult to get into a good university. That’s already true without free tuition. Post-high school education already has marginal gains. Networking is a completely different story but one that isn’t affected by the cost of tuition.
I assume that since they write for Ars, they want to support the site via ads.
You forgot to mention teachers in the US are also overworked.
This viewpoint resonates for me. OpenSCAD is a useful tool for hacking together 3D parts quickly, but an excellent tool for exercising the shape rotating parts of your brain.
Use bash for simple stuff, and Perl or TCL for applications.
> Maybe the legal wrangling would be more involved in western countries, but I can't see why enforcement would be any harder.

For the USA, computer source code is considered speech protected by the First Amendment, there's not much "legal wrangling" you can do around this when it has been confirmed by the Supreme Court. Short of drastically restricting this right/freedom... don't think the US population would welcome this "wrangling" with open arms.

You're also missing the point I've made, China's ban and various blocklists have not killed Bitcoin, it is still used a lot in China these days, it's simply illegal to mine it... for now, they've gone anti to pro Bitcoin many times over the years.
> I've found that I haven't written a line of code in weeks

Please post a video of your workflow.

It’s incredibly valuable for people to see this in action, otherwise they, quite legitimately, will simply think this is not true.
This is a really interesting perspective but I wish they finished writing the equations out. My attempt at verification didn't match.

Per [1], “[wells] with a regular production casing diameter of 200-250 mm have an average capacity of 5.5 MWe”. Quaise has deep bores that could potentially have higher temperatures, but let's stick with 5 MWe.

At the article's 12 MWh/m³ for drilling, and 250mm bores of depth 10km, WolframAlpha tells me that is 6 GWh.

Divide through, you get 1000 hours or about a month. This doesn't match their “significantly over 10 years” they gave before mentioning waveguide losses.

The main difference I suppose is the thermal conductivity comment, where I didn't follow why Quaise wouldn't be able to use enhanced geothermal approaches. More specifically I think that if a Quaise well has ~1% the energy output of a normal geothermal well, it's pretty weird to frame the problem as about the energy cost of drilling, and not the whole factor-100 reduction in energy output.

To be clear, this seemed like an interesting article and I'm not claiming my napkin math is definitive, I really am neither an expert nor someone who has spent a lot of time investigating this. I do think some more clarity on how the math looks would help their case.

[1] https://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/report-success-of-high-temper...
How can a jigsaw have two distinct solutions? [video]
Fun with diffusion illusions... =3
Sure makes it hard to plan for retirement
I would better believe that if any superior software was being primarily designed by AI.
> 11. This is all low-level pedantry. I can think of TCP like a two-way Unix pipe that goes over the network, and completely ignore how it is implemented.

I mean, that's true, insofar as pipes have incredibly weak guarantees too — after all, the other end of a pipe might be a program reading from/writing to a network socket, or other unreliable transport. Whenever you let your program be plugged into an arbitrary pipe, you have to expect all that same flakiness and then some.
I dunno though, surely the lowest common denominator would be a car ad? Or an advert for pizza? This seems -worse- than that.
This seems like it's just feeding the output back into the model and using more compute to try and get better answers. If that's all, I don't see how it fundamentally solves any of the issues currently present in LLMs. Maybe a marginal improvement in accuracy at the cost of making the computation more expensive. And you don't even get to see the so called reasoning tokens.
Be careful of Android boxes for the TV that are only running plain Android or AOSP. Get one with AndroidTV or GoogleTV, blessed by Google. I personaly use an Onn Box 4K from Walmart.
News about crime -> advertise a home security system

Opinion piece about politics -> advertise a book of the same political leaning

I guarantee, no matter the topic, there's always a more relevant option than someone's ass.
Who needs more Internet content?
It's also good if your aim is to visualise maths.
Every time I use a computer where they don't have adblock, I feel like the days when we installed chrome for those IE users.

At the same time, telling someone who doesn't use adblock to use them feels like telling them to use limewire to download free music. Yes, it's the way to go. But every time it breaks one of their websites I have inadvertently volunteered to become their lifetime tech support.
Twelve sentenced for violent home invasion robberies to steal cryptocurrency
Would be great if the tags field allowed freeform input instead of choosing from a set of existing tags. My preferred tags would have been Design, Fashion, Digital fabrication, Computational Creativity etc. but none were available.
My problem with excel is that I love it too much, even though I know that I maybe shouldn’t. It hits some perfect point between structured and unstructured data that is conducive to just filling in cells and seeing what happens.

I say “I shouldn’t” because the off-ramp from a working solution to a proper productized code-based approach can be very painful.
They are definitely using a more narrow definition of time series database than I expected - they don't mention rrd for example, which is GPL and been around for decades.
> We also had enough metrics going on that we could detect DC/server outages about as quickly as whoever actually was monitoring the failing subsystem.

Yeah, my Erlang clustering experience was that we (the customer) were the monitoring system for the DC/managed hosting provider. Although, by the time we left there, they would have outage notifications before we put in tickets.
Talcott Parsons Theory of Power
It depends afaict. OLED screens have a per-pixel light, and they turn off pixels to make black. LCDs have a single large backlight and pixels that the light shines through and they can change color (but not turn off) so in that case they turn as opaque as possible, but don't completely block the light.
This one feels like the list-maker is struggling to communicate with me rather than telling me a surprising truth. I can't tell whether it's meant to mean "a TCP segment won't always fit 1:1 into an IP packet (but in the real world they mostly do)", "TCP has segments instead of packets (but everyone knows what you mean when you say TCP packet)", or something else entirely.
Aha always surprised by the effort (or sheer enjoyment?)

Regret i that i cant match the verve..

A couple of points while i absorb these tubes:

1) lyrics to wellermans apple would be a mashup of

a)

https://lyricstranslate.com/en/new-zealand-folk-wellerman-russian

&

b) (you may choose between red, black, or white (the last one is trickiest)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yablochko
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Яблочко

… thus creating a bluesky composition? (Defer to wikipedia-aproved vexillology by Nathan Evans)

2) a self-policing of tone (more accurately, tint? Also note the singular red) would achieve ontopicality here

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4oB89nvdrdA
Fixed, thanks for reporting!

It was correct on the main Factor website, but my blog was using the old links before we fixed the macos rename.
Awesome project, thanks for sharing!
> Software engineer, or IFSAC Apparatus Operator engineer?

Yes, correct, engineer.
Its only the new cars that are almost all EV.
Exactly, we think of reasoning as knowing the answer but the real key to the enlightenment and age of reason was admitting that we don't know instead of making things up. All those myths are just human hallucinations.

Humans taught themselves not to hallucinate by changing their reward function. Experimentation and observation was valued over the experts of the time and pure philosophy, even over human-generated ideas.

I don't see any reason that wouldn't also work with LLMs. We rewarded them for next-token prediction without regard for truth, but now many variants are being trained or fine-tuned with rewards focused on truth and correct answers. Perplexity and xAI for example.
How do you know you're not propagating bitrot over time? Feels like a binary here and there may accumulate mismatching checksums over the years from bad hardware or some filesystem error... Not to speak of malware. All it takes is once...

Feels a lot safer to do the system- and package installation from scratch and then rsync/dd only /home and /etc.
No! Stop! Why won’t this one die!
MITMing is a two way street. I could intercept sensitive data, or I could shove something in that tricks the user (phishing, etc), exploits the user agent, and more!.

“You only need encryption for the sensitive stuff” is what we did, poorly, in the late ‘00s / early ‘10s, and it was rightfully proven to be a bad idea. There’s a reason why browsers treat HTTP the way they currently do, and it isn’t because they’ve been co-opted by Big Certificate Authority.

EDIT: and as the other commenter says, there are download links.
I've never been comfortable drawing or drafting with GUIs. This is true for "drawing" graphics, laying out boards, or building 3D models for printing or CNC. OpenSCAD has been invaluable to me.

Usually, I'll hand draw what I need, then work out the equations, then build the models. No need to figure out what certain icons mean or to learn accelerator commands. I've built some fairly intricate designs with OpenSCAD. CSG is quite intuitive.
> You could provide a bespoke error type for every single function that returns an error, but that's a ton of boilerplate

If we had more typescript-like discriminated union semantics a lot of the boilerplate would go away. Throw in automatic implementation of From traits for enums composed of other enums / types and it could be pretty close to perfect.
Wow. Some of the savings are huge on your github page. Well done!
Ask HN: How do I earn more money a JavaScript developer?
I'm in Australia, and I work as a contractor on AU$1200/day (US$800, EU730, GBP610).

I'm a full-stack JS developer, I mainly build apps in React Native. Usually I'll come into an agency or a startup for 6 - 12 months and build an MVP, shaping the pre-launch product, system architecture, blueprint design, that sorta thing.

I've done this sort of contracting for ~10 years, and while it's fine it's starting to feel a bit stale for me.

I also have a family (and a mortgage) now, so I want to earn more money.

The problem: I earn ~AU$300k (US$200k, EU180k) as a contractor, yet the only full-time roles for a lead dev or tech lead here pay $160k - $180k.

So I can give up contracting for more career progression, but that means taking a massive pay cut.

I could also try to become one of those LevelsIo / MarcLou #buildinpublic "I earn $50k/mo!" guys, but at 37 with two toddlers I don't have the mental fortitude to post self-promotions on X and TikTok as often as this requires.

Has anyone been in this situation before? What did you do?
Really out-of-ignorance: Is 'proof' the right word here? A more substantial philosophical counter-argument may be needed, but proof sounds weird in these "metaphysical" (for now) discussions.
But I, as the attacker, would just modify the value right?

It's not that the device transmits signals into space and the satellite operator, a trusted third party, would relay to the server where the user was computed to be. Instead, it's the user self-reporting the computed value from GPS satellites' signals
The problem starts at the point where people think the purpose of universities is to qualify people for jobs. I wonder what happens to the Humboldtian ideal.
Once we have AI-based language servers, which will, at some point in the future, be able to track entire repositories, I think maintaining projects will actually be far easier than right now.
Free write traveller is nice.

Seems overpriced for what it is but I went thru two alphasmarts first and that wasn't worth the headache.

Dedicated devices are underrated.
I haven’t done a ton of training but everything I’ve heard and read indicates that PCIe 4.0 8x provides enough bandwidth for just about any application. You might see a negligible drop in performance, but no more than a few percent.
That feature already exists. It's technically not a "checkbox", but you can set a cell (or all of them) as string type in like 3 clicks.
It's not about avoiding hard work - the audience on HN skews wealthy due to heavy representation of skilled devs in their 30s+, but the average person does not earn anything close to FAANG salaries. Even most devs in general don't earn like that. The interview process being fairly well understood in general, any advantage that can possibly get a person from $60k/year to generationally-life-changing $300k/year will be used eventually.
And, importantly, we have chosen to make it expensive by mandating a level of safety that is orders of magnitude higher than for any other generation method.
The question you have to ask yourself is whether people are taking the piss out of the good languages.

PHP is just objectively crap in a way that Python or Rust aren't.

_Someone_ has to develop for Windows, though I'm ever so glad that that someone isn't me. Etc.
The only time recently that I noticed my ad blocker breaking a website was the UI for adding a DNS glue record on Namecheap. It looked like it was working, but the update didn't take. Their support immediately suggested ad blocker, and that was it.

Are others seeing frequent issues where ad blockers break sites?
The point of this subthread is directly and only in regards to AI. The original comment I replied to is thus

> The whole selling point of Apples AI stuff is that the processing for most things can be done on the phone and thus your private data won't have to leave you device

A desktop computer or server has substantially more power than an iphone even a nice one like the one which is the topic of the linked article because it has substantially more memory, power, cooling, and so forth.

I fully expect us to continue to rapidly expand what we can do with AI and such usages to require substantial resources to run wherein mobile devices will continue to be too grossly insufficient to run.
Most gains are from using Copilot, do you use that?
I think a bit in the first sentence in your first post is key.

They don't want devs to think as Macs and iDevices as separate targets, but rather as one big platform. They don't Mac ports, they want Apple platform ports.

It makes some amount of sense. App Store revenue split aside, iDevices massively outnumber Macs and the gap in graphics horsepower between Macs and iDevices shrinks every year.

Devs and to a lesser extent users don't really think that way though.
The experience economy is booming. So is regret
Silly take. If my product is worth $5 and I sell it for $6, that’s a sustainable business. If a competitor uses VC cash to subsidise their operation and charge $1 they can run me out of business, then they’ll charge $6. Or, hey, $7, why not.

But it has nothing to do with my products value proposition.
I think it's great. You clone a git repository which is amazing since you can just pull in new commits to get updates. Then you read and understand the PKGBUILD. When you are satisfied that it's not malware, you basically just run makepkg and it does everything. Then you vote on the package so that it's more likely to be included in the official repositories in the future.
I poked around with CadQuery and Build123D.

The learning curve required a paradigm shifted in abstraction. That was too much.

I just want OpenSCAD simplicity, but with modern programming language syntax.

I ended up settling with PythonScad. I was able to hit the ground running and leverage what I already know about python within a day.

It's new, but the author is extremely active and collaborative on github (https://github.com/gsohler/openscad) and reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/pythonscad/). The author actually pushed for merging this into OpenSCAD mainline, but got gatekeeped out since OpenSCAD maintainers believed Python went against OpenSCAD's mantra of being 'secure'.

I recommend PythonSCAD to anyone that liked OpenSCAD simplicity in abstraction but feel handicapped by the lack of expressiveness.
I met my Zapier co-founder bryanh through HN 15 years ago when someone made a similar service to OP called "hacker newsers". We were the only two people in Missouri at the time which led to a meetup. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1520916
LLMs hallucinate because probs -> tokens erase confidence values and it's difficult to assign confidences to strings of tokens, especially if you don't know where to start and stop counting (one word? one sentence?)

Is there a reason to believe this is not solvable as literally an API change? The necessary data are all there.
Median income rose to $80,610 in 2023
What sort of code do you write this way?
I’m kind of late to the conversation, but one requirement most home users overlook is using lead free parts.

The brass in most high end heads slowly leaches lead into the boiler water. Arguably, this doesn’t matter at a coffee shop, since the boiler turns over the water in a few hours. At home, it takes a month or so.

Anyway, I settled on a Flair Classic lever machine (one moving part, all stainless steel and silicone gasket on the water contact path), and previously, a PID kettle.

It turns out that water boils at espresso temperature at ~ 2000 ft, so when the PID kettle died, I replaced it with an antique enameled cast iron kettle (my induction range heats it up ridiculously fast).

I boil the stainless espresso machine head in the kettle with the espresso water, which achieves the same thing as continuously circulating hot boiler water through it in commercial espresso machines.

I put the money I saved on the machine into a small commercial-grade burr grinder (like for the decaf beans at a coffee shop).

I haven’t noticed any consistency issues vs. a $3500 machine at work. That thing can crank out four espressos in parallel all day long, but I don’t need that at home.
Thank you! The most surprising one for me was the size reduction for the google cloud SDK image - 1.1GB to 187MB.
Is most code being written the equivalent of high-art or Shutterstock?
I download it with yt-dlp like any sane person should.