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Ask HN: How are you using LLMs to write academic papers?
I imagine that many academics and scientists struggle with the writing part of producing papers more than the research/science, at least I do. I see LLMs as a great tool for this to draft the prose.

What tools do you use for this?

I'm particularly interested in the document formats, i.e. Latex vs Markdown vs Typst ...
TL;DR

You shouldn't need to assemble a plane when your startups journey can be expected to only last a few kilometers and you really only need to carry a few boxes.
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> This thread gives me the vibes of arguing for the sake of arguing.

You must be new around here
The question makes perfect sense. Here it is written in logical language. I'm curious at which point does it stop making sense for you?

numbers divided together
↓----------↓
((a / b / c) = a + b + c) ← numbers added together
| ((a / c / b) = a + b + c)
| ((b / a / c) = a + b + c)
| ((b / c / a) = a + b + c)
| ((c / a / b) = a + b + c)
| ((c / b / a) = a + b + c)
| ((a / (b / c)) = a + b + c)
| ((a / (c / b)) = a + b + c)
| ((b / (a / c)) = a + b + c)
| ((b / (c / a)) = a + b + c)
| ((c / (a / b)) = a + b + c)
| ((c / (b / a)) = a + b + c) = true
I’m not familiar with civil court in the US, but wouldn’t the plaintiff have to cover the legal expenses of the defendant, if the defendant is cleared? Or similar rulings.
Espresso machines are made from copper, brass, and chrome. The chrome plating typically comes off quickly from the filter handles, exposing the bare brass to the coffee. All that stuff ends up in your coffee (where else should it go?). This means that espresso is pretty much guaranteed to contain copper, zinc, lead, chrome, nickel.

I'm not sure that is safer than the microplastics or aluminium from coffee capsules.

Fully stainless steel machines are probably the best option, but there are very few of those around (and they would probably still leak nickel).
Ah I had indeed felt the rubbery layer inside the rim before. I was wondering what that was about.

I don't have any issues with it though. But if my machine breaks I'll buy an aftermarket machine. Good point!

I wonder if the older machines also have this issue by the way.
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>A large amount of those people are very young, at an age where you don't really pick your options solely on their super long term consequences.

And they will continue to be if there are never any consequences.

Stop bailing people out of problems they make for themselves and people will start learning to not make those problems.

Human beings are not stupid machines who see others put their hand in the fire, getting burned, then they put their own hands in the fire get burned, and then keep doing it over and over again.

Most will stop when they see others get burned, others still will stop when they get burned, and a small minority will stop once there is no hand left to burn.
I'll correct myself:

s/host OS independence/a certain level of host OS independence

And getting containers to run depends on the OS - if you don't control the host, leads to major ping-pongs.

Even within Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, etc) when you are distributing multiple related containers there are details to care about, not about the container itself but about the base OS configuration. It's not magic.
> What is "publishing a stack of commits"?

Yes publishing for review.

> Is the expectation that the developer either never commits stuff in a broken state

That's exactly right. In a stack, every commit is built by ci, reviewed by the team. There will be no broken commits
The issue with (software) raid is you have no idea if what you're copying isn't actually corrupted. If the filesystem isn't checksumed there's no guarantee.
> Results are "strong" but can't be felt by the user? What does that even mean?

This means it often doesn't provide the answer the user is looking for. In my opinion, it's an alignment problem, people are very presumptuous and leave out a lot of detail in their request. Like the "which is bigger - 9.8 or 9.11? question, if you ask "numerically which is bigger - 9.8 or 9.11?" It gets the correct answer, basically it prioritizes a different meaning for bigger.

> But the last sentence is the worst: "we all need to find harder prompts". If I understand it correctly, it means we should go looking for new problems / craft specific questions that would let these new models shine.
But why? Why would we do that? Wouldn't our time be better spent trying to solve our actual, current problems, using any tool available?

Without better questions we can't test and prove that it is getting more intelligent or is just wrong. If it is more intelligent than us it it might provide answers that don't make sense to us but are actually clever, 4d chess as they say. Again an alignment problem, better questions aid with solving that.
I would certainly not like to live in a future where selling your body to make ends meet is considered normal. To me it is already concerning that normalization of prostitution is happening to some extent in mass media.

Sex is in all (?) human cultures viewed as most intimate and private expression of civilized love. It is also how we teach our kids about sex. Pornography and prostitution serve only our primal desires which goes against all this. Does it really surprise you that society will shun people that partake in these things? To me it is obvious as day.
I wish more high(er) profile examples would come from the industry. Cloud bills of any mid-large company are already sky high - that money could go to hiring staff for selfhosting, a win-win in this economy. Success stories would help a lot.
> You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle.
This honestly sounds like early 90s NLP (neuro-linguistic programming, a pseudoscience, not the modern-day NLP which means something else) self-help books. Repackaged stuff for cartomancers and cold readers.

I would guess the real CIA loves these guys. This kind of talk would be the perfect misdirection for the real thing.
Never, you can't use quantum entanglement to communicate faster than light, ever.
> Have there been real any cases of that?

I don't think there has. There's definitely been people locked up for tweeting[1] but that was less "mean" and more "overt racism".

(Before the Public Order Act 1986[2], Section 5 was amended in 2013, people were able to be charged for "insults" which was clearly ludicrous.)

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/mar/27/student-jailed-fa...

[2] Yet another thing to thank Thatcher for. Who, ironically, is probably a hero of the kind of people who go around saying things like "the left will lock you up for saying mean things."
Paris is kind of partially swimmable in the Summer: a little portion of the Canal Saint-Martin is open to bathing under supervision during the months of July and August, only during weekends. This is because otherwise the canal is a dangerous place to bath because of the locks. The city plans to open the Seine to bathing by 2025, as well a small lake in the Bois de Vincennes. Things move slowly, but in a good direction.
I read it as they have a powerful enough machine to generate weekend material that doesn’t seem to degrade in user experience or satisfaction (i.e get boring over time) which you may experience when enjoying ‘normal’ weekend activities.
I bought my Taiwanese Econelo e-roller from Netto for 1.400 €. I can take out the 5kg battery and carry it upstairs to charge, but I also put down a charging cable from my kitchen to the parking lot. When driving around I have the charger with me, and I usually charge at work also for 2hrs. Because the range is only 40km now.
But Spain is a country where people regularly drink espresso. It's the standard coffee type here :)

Yet Nespresso (well mostly the aftermarket capsules) is very popular here.
> LLMs do none of that, they will take whatever you ask and give a reasonable-sounding output that might be anything between brilliant and nonsense.

This is exactly why I’ve been objecting so much to the use of the term “hallucination” and maintain that “confabulation” is accurate. People who have spent enough time with acutelypsychotic people, and people experiencing the effects of long term alcohol related brain damage, and trying to tell computers what to do will understand why.
Oops, my bad, he was just a GE sociopath.

That being said, McDonnell Douglas' history was visible to everyone - what they were doing hadn't been working for decades (first as Douglas, then as McDonnell Douglas).
> jaywalking

This should be abolished as something illegal; some countries function perfectly well with much more reasonable laws on that topic.
I guarantee you can't break (for example) the CHSH inequality [1] with such a set-up (assuming I've understood your description of what you're proposing), and encourage you to try (with similar python script).

An easy formulation of the inequality is in the CHSH game section of the same article [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHSH_inequality

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHSH_inequality#CHSH_game
What is “advanced reasoning” and why isn’t this doing it? If you made a chinese room to output coherent chains of reasoning, it would functionally be equally useful to an actual reasoner, with or without the capacity for sentience or whatever.
This is very cool and pretty looking. I would love to see support for XR apps like Meta Quest/Vision Pro.
> Oftentimes, the reason for that is that 20 years ago stuff like Doctrine, Liquibase or whatever just didn't exist.

Sadly I am talking about something written in Perl (blessed with ORMs since at least 2001) around the early-mid 2010s. Not a single reason it should have been written. The only thing it gave us over well established Perl ORMs were code that no-one understood, no support for that code, and a panoply of infuriating bugs that constantly broke production.
Living in Copenhagen as well. Came in the comments to find exactly something like this :) We are privileged more than most in this regard.
It would be cheaper to get a BYD imported from China, without the import taxes. That would be a really good car, compared to a converted.
I think it’s a proactive way to achieve buy-in for all stakeholders. Admittedly, it’s low hanging fruit, so I’ll circle back when I understand more about how to leverage the learnings by utilizing more of our core competencies.
> You must be new around here

The commenter you respond to joined HN 4 years before you, with 10 times more karma points.
Dora and Threat and Vulnerability Management(TVM): What you need to know
Posting this to help anyone who is pulling their hair out reading the impending DORA regulation, trying to figure out what they need to do from a Threat and Vulnerability Management perspective.

Part one focuses on the key regulation areas that impact TVM, and what it means for your vulnerability management programme, policies etc.

Part two will be out early next week and will offer some (hopefully) helpful tips to help you close any gaps before January 16th.

Hope it helps and appreciate any feedback.
> The problem with leaded gas in cars is that there were just so many cars out there burning the stuff. Duration of exposure and amount of exposure both matter.

The difference is not the amount of cars, but that the temperature and pressure in car engines makes lead vaporise, so it can be breathed in.

A soldering iron doesn't reach those temperatures (vaporising the lead is the opposite of what you want when soldering).
I am mostly only an LLM user with technical background. I don't have much in-depth knowledge. So I have questions about this take:

>the output token allowance has been increased dramatically—to 32,768 for o1-preview and 65,536 for the supposedly smaller o1-mini!

So the text says reasoning and output tokens are the same, as in you pay for both. But does the increase say that it can actually do more, or does it just mean it is able to output more text?

Because by now I am just bored of GPT4o output, because I don't have the time to read through a multi-paragraph text that explains to me stuff that I already know, when I only want to have a short, technical answer. But maybe that's just what it can't do, give exact answers. I am still not convinced by AI.
Do you have to pay taxes on dividend under American law ? If so I guess that makes stock buyback better from a point of view of shareholders
Even worse: Each new CPU generation will need a new machine model and a reevaluation. Because OOO, speculation and all the timing behaviour are non-functional properties that frequently change due to new optimizations, different internal structuring, etc.
TL;DRs are frowned upon on HN because HN encourages people to read the article (especially before commenting) rather than Don’t Read the article.[1] You’re further breaking guidelines by complaining about votes.

That said, your comment isn’t a summary of the article at all.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12667459
The Brittany code fixer needs a maintainer. The previous one had to step away. It has a unique approach to code formatting that the ormolu/fourmolu formatters doesn’t. There’s lots of the philosophy and such in the docs.

I like it better than the ormolu family because it respects your placement of comments and just formats the code itself. But it isn’t maintained as of a few years ago.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/brittany
Management defines the culture the workers operate in and define the policies that they adhere to. Good quality work requires the time and facilities to complete that work and remedy any issues. From what I've read of Boeing they moved to a culture of deadlines over quality. The workers stayed the same but were driven to complete work faster and when a quality issue was raised the policies set by management meant that they were largely ignored. That's management squeeze, not willful worker dereliction.
Aren’t they taxed differently, though? To my knowledge, dividends are taxed as ordinary income, whereas sales following a stock buyback may be taxed as capital gains (if they were held long enough before that point).
the death penalty is not about deterrence, but about adequate punishment for the crime. if you murder someone you have lost the right to your own life. but in my belief the death penalty should only be applied if the defendant voluntarily admits their guilt without coercion regardless how obvious the evidence is otherwise. this removes any deterrence effect because a defendant can always plead not guilty.
If you really want to open that can of worms, here it goes:

Pipy is an informal source of software that has low security levels and was infested with malware many times over the years. It does not provide security updates: it provides updates that might include security-related changes as well as functional changes. Whenever you update a package from there, there is a chain reaction of dependency updates that insert untested code in your product.

Due to this, I prefer to target an LTS platform (Ubuntu LTS, Debian, RHEL...) and adapt to whatever python environment exists there, enjoying the fact that I can blindly update a package due to security (ex: Django) without worrying that it will be a new version which could break my app. *

Furthermore, with Ubuntu I can get a formal contract with Canonical without changing anything on my setup, and with RHEL it comes built-in with the subscription. Last time I checked Canonical's security team was around 30pax (whereas Pipy recently hired their first security engineer). These things provide supply-chain peace of mind to whoever consumes the software, not only to who maintains it.

I really need to write an article about this.

* exceptions apply, context is king
>I'm increasingly convinced Boeing needs to go bankrupt.

I agree and hope they do go bankrupt, but I hope so because the country needs a fucking wake up call: American Exceptionalism(tm) is simply no longer true.

I sincerely think we need to see one (Boeing), maybe even a few (Intel? US Steel?) paragons of American Excellence(tm) go down in smoking ruins so we have to accept that we are not 1970s America taking mankind to the Moon and beyond anymore.

Once we realize that, we can actually get started on Making America Great Again in a real, meaningful way instead of a dumb political catchphrase.
Is there a paper available?
Option 1: python3 -m venv venv > source project/venv/bin/activate

Option 2: use Poetry

How is this different than a Dockerfile that is creating the venv? Just add it to beginning, just like you would on localhost. But that is why I love to code Python in PyCharm, they manage the venv in each project on init.
Practice what you preach, as they say.
Imagine having to negotiate with Larry Ellisons nepo daughter, how can you even keep a straight face. "It says here you are a film producer?"
Speaking as a 50-something year old man whose mother finished her career in medicine and the very pointy end of politics, when I first heard this joke in the 1980s it stumped me and made me feel really stupid. But my 1970s kindergarten class mates who told me “your mum can’t be a doctor, she has to be a nurse” were clearly seriously misinformed then. I believe that things are somewhat better now but not as good as they should be …
> you will want to learn Danish for social purposes
Are non-Danish speakers really going up to B2+ Danish, even if they live in Copenhagen for a decade? It seems like Danish people would still speak better English and non-Danish people would almost certainly speak better English.
I have a slight quarrel with the first part of your statement. Nation states have been around for thousands of years in both the east and the west.

I suspect I am missing either an in-joke or a revision to geopolitical terminology.
That's rather weird, it's one of the most popular summer activities in Stockholm. I personally swim almost everywhere around the city with friends during almost the whole summer, just need to check beforehand on Havs och Vattenmyndigheten daily updates if any bathing areas have been considered inappropriate that day [0].

Most areas are considered appropriate for most of the summer in the inner city, while lakes are everywhere outside the small centre, and quite many are private enough that you can find spots to go skinny dipping without a second thought.

[0] https://www.havochvatten.se/badplatser-och-badvatten/kommune...
To seem cool and get laid.
slinging DB records and displaying web pages is already disrupted. Wordpress, Shopify, SAP so people without tech background can click around and have stuff done.

If someone is building web shop from scratch because he wants to sell some products, he is doing something wrong.
If someone builds web shop to compete with Shopify he also is doing something wrong most likely.
The lawnmower joke is here: https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?feature=shared&t=2303 at the 38:23 mark.
The CPU would've been good enough for a lot of things (especially the later revisions) - but it has a lot of other flaws.

A big annoyance is the screwed in acrylic sheet on the bottom - it looks cool, but it makes access very annoying. For something designed to be tinkered with I'd have wanted some quick access solution.

Next is lack of internal USB ports - there are just enough for the peripherals. Now there's enough space in there to add an external USB hub, but it'd have been way nicer to have an additional USB hub on the board, and a bunch of ports you can plug stuff in.

The CPU cards all have a different set of outputs supported - which is annoying, but I was expecting that based on other experience with projects trying to do that kind of modular system. Reality ends up having incompatible interfaces on your SoCs, and then you and up having to do the best with what you got handed.

RAM is also a bit of an issue, but for the use case tolerable (at least for the later modules).

My biggest issue (and main reason I'm rarely using it) is the keyboard, though - I was hoping for a good keyboard after all their talk about mechanical, but it's by far the worst keyboard I've seen in a notebook over the last decade.
> If the system was dysfunctional enough to prioritise short term profit seeking to this extent, then all a competitor would have to do to monopolise any market is do enough “long term thinking” to outlast all their failing competitors.

isn't this exactly what's going on with Boeing?

> Airbus last year topped Boeing for the fifth straight year in the orders race, with 2,094 net orders and 735 delivered planes. Boeing had 1,314 net orders and delivered 528 aircraft.[0]

I 100% agree the majority of investors don't seem to take the long view, and that's been the case for a while.

[0] https://apnews.com/article/boeing-airbus-airline-safety-manu...
Exactly! This person gets it.

Oh, and not only build their app, they can take it a step further and setup the entire new vps and app building in one simple script!
Leasing, then?
As if Hawaii were real
This was quite alarming! I thought it meant that Authy is discontinuing their iOS app entirely. Would have been great to mention even more explicitly that this does not impact iOS devices.

As of now, I can still see Authy on my iPhone App Store (last update 3 days ago). Indeed, I am not able to install it from Mac App Store on my desktop/laptop.

In any case, this resulted in my offboarding all my 2FA to a different app. Sorry, Authy and Twillio...
Now that I'm looking more carefully at the answer, it is probably correct but just formatted badly with overlapping text -
https://imgur.com/a/F7awsTY
> That’s just to factorize the number 21.

Reading between the lines, we're many many many years away from being able to factor large primes.
That's scary, really. Having no money for this means you can't afford to fight these criminal crooks. Is this how this works in europe too?
> Are those sex workers doing something they shouldn't be doing?

You are asking a binary question for which there isn't a binary answer. Better to ask are those sex workers doing something they will get a pat on their backs for from other members of society? In a way a builder, chef, firefighter, and even a prison guard would.
Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09629
The problem is that it is easy to give one part of the communication, the visual, more fidelity than the rest, but that part is what people laugh into no matter what you communicate by other means (verbal, written).

So we, unfortunately, have to make effort to dumb down, or at least carefully manage, the fidelity of that part.
We're collectively at least few decades past that stage. The rest of the world is only learning we had.