skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an inevitability to the tone of this article that I find really depressing (probably because I tend to feel the same way). That The ability of students to think deeply and learn well has been severely diminished over the last decade. That AI use is not even a cause so much as a possible means of escape from the problem. On the one hand this feels true to me given my own experience, but on the other hand I know I still manage to learn and undertake complex tasks, so why should "kids these days" be doomed?

How are you all feeling your attention span change? Are you able to sit and think or read long passages without distracting yourself? Were you ever able to do this? If you find yourself struggling, how do you manage?

I find myself reaching for audiobooks much more frequently these days. Longer tasks are still possible if I find sufficient motivation. Curiosity is not always enough. I have to craft specific goals for myself in order to maintain motivation, but this takes me quite far in my self-study.
Orion in a few years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
What does that mean? That they makeup spurious causal chains and believe that is reality?
Considering all the endless meetings, conferences and discussions scientists have to attend and find room to do research in between, I doubt that the issue is a lack of means for them to discuss...

I also highly disagree that publishing does very little to advance science, it puts a relatively self-contained result into the record. Replacing publishing with forums would be the euivalent of replacing documentation with a chat.
> They are also using it to word the questions they ask in class

This seems like a straightforward upgrade of the school experience. There truly are dumb questions; many of them get asked in class because speaking to a rubber duck first would be "disruptive." If you're going to take the whole class's attention down a tangent, why is it bad to get a smart generalist's opinion on the optimal shape for that tangent, first?
It's quite remarkable how much the goal posts have shifted when it comes to what is impressive with AI/ML. Things like this are a good reminder.

10 years ago the GAN paper came out and everyone was excited how amazing the generated image quality was (https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661)

The amount of progress we've made is mind boggling.
> The whole branch will be squashed anyway before it's merged in

That looks like a very wrong process to me. Why would you even want to do that?
Yes, i expect every latex document section i read to form a tree of links of thesistext and evidence that auto checks online for citations,counter thesis+ citations and retractions and dependency hell + citation cycles among ideas. If its undone , i want it to become red and then fade. Making all things i can read without red, true forever ..
Your engineers are usually your most expensive resource. Developing software in Typescript or even Ruby is a way to get to the revenue faster, having spent less money on development. Development cost and time (that is, the opportunity cost) are usually the most important limitations for a project where the defect rate does not need to be extremely low (like in aircraft control firmware). Rust saves you development time because less of it is spent fixing bugs, but often would pick it not because it saves you RAM and CPU cycles; Haskell or, well, Ada/Spark may be comparably efficient if you can wield them.
For SICP, the best option is probably Racket with the sicp language package.

I can't recommend MIT Scheme for anything these days; it's just missing too many things that I feel are required for real work in Scheme, and has too many idiosyncrasies and quirks. Even using it to run a standalone program written in Scheme is a pain.
>VR gaming failed.

It may be niche, but it's not a failure to me and I appreciate the market. Most of my gaming is in VR and has been for years. I treat it like my steering wheel and pedals or anything else. I have a dedicated room for VR/my simrig.

For the market that want's it, it works incredibly well. Could be better, but I get being a niche developments are going to come slowly. I'm in the lucky minority I suppose in that I have no issue using it. None, not so much as a hint of nausea even far back as the original devkits. I slip the headset on in under 5 seconds, I play for anywhere from 15 minutes into the hours and I slip it off again in the same amount of time. I understand not everyone is willing to entertain that, but it's no skin off my nose. It's still one of the LESS involved hobbies I have in terms of effort honestly.

I'm probably more willing to entertain wearing technology on my face because i'm a motorcyclist and my headsets are sure as all get out lighter than my helmet is. And then after the helmet I gotta get into my personal oven aka leathers etc etc. So im probably just used to engaging in less passive activities requiring more than the bare minium I suppose. Different strokes for all us different folks I suppose.
That's still an interesting result. If you thought it would have a significant impact, and it doesn't, that means something is wrong with your mental model that lead you to think it would be faster. And if you can figure out why, that can help you find a solution that is faster.

Of course, that is still very frustrating if you are on a tight deadline and all you have is one thing you know doesn't work.
In my mind this a convenient approach for developers to map the code into a two dimensional space in a spread-out way. It is similar to method of loci[1] that the develpoper spacially elaborately encode the code snippets and their connections to strengthen the memory thus strengthen the comprehension. I boldly suggest considering ading an option for a background pattern which is not distracting but a little bit informative. I don't have a specific one in mind but consider if the background is a world map, users will remember the location they want to find faster and also locate themselves faster.

Following this line of thought, I think allowing user to define tab border color or even to add different noise for each tab worth considering (noise fades with zoom level and distance to the view port center).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
[1] Ruler is in the folded laptop, laptop gets stolen, laptop is sold, ruler inside, buyer is told he can keep the cool ruler.

[2] Murderer specifically tries to pin the murder on someone else. Someone else being prosecuted is a good way to live free after, gifts his laptop and a ruler to the suspect or leaves them somewhere where they are discovered and taken.

Is that unlikely? Is it more unlikely than a murderer keeping the laptop and ruler from a victim, tying him to the murder?

For me this alone would be absolutely insufficient evidence, to sentence someone to death. The ease with which some here would do this shocks me.
The llm command is a general-purpose tool for writing shell scripts that use an llm somehow. For example, generating some llm output and sending it though a Unix pipeline. You can also use it interactively if you like working on the command line.

It’s not specifically about chatting or helping you write code, though you could use it for that if you like.
I feel entirely the same. I actively miss Rust when I need to choose another language.
Drosophila research hints at new physics
If your photos are stored locally, and you're using Windows - you can just plug it in via USB and Windows will recognize it as a camera storage. Your phone will probably prompt you to allow access. Be careful, though, if your photos are stored in iCloud Photo Library - they will be stored locally as smaller versions of themselves, so you won't be getting the originals. If that's the case, use iCloud for Windows and opt in the Photos bit. You can then copy the originals from there. It's slow but it works.
Legally they aren't, morally you could argue they are.
I was doing some reading based on your comment, and I'm kind of astonished to learn that public support for the death penalty only went up after the Gregg decision, peaking at 80% for in 1990. Wow.
Nit: Or @~2 (@ is HEAD, so @^^ is HEAD^^).
The exact words of the person you're replying to were

> The prosecutor's office and the victim's family both pushed to stop the execution due to reasonable doubt.

Nobody claimed the prosecutor argued he's not guilty.

> Why should we care what he believes, over opinion of hundreds of prosecutors in this country who are happy that the justice has finally been served?

Because he's correct. The State doesn't have enough evidence to justify execution. Justice isn't being served by executing this man.
I interpreted his "intrigue" (he's left it at that for now) with Palantir as an AI player to be based on two things. First is what you mention around data integration. I don't know enough about this and your point makes sense, but he was suggesting they're already doing a lot of it. Their execs say most of their actual work is this. This work is something others might need to make up ground in. Still, I think your point might argue fairly this is something others can do.

The second, and I thought bigger conceptual point, was that unlike the past decade and a half, this wave of AI might be based more on selling to enterprises and the executives of companies. The Slacks or Dropboxes or others (including perhaps consumer apps) involve making your case at the user/employee level and that trickling up into enterprise contracts. The products you create are also different when you're trying to sell in that direction. And Palantir works that way already.
At what confidence level are we talking about? With these over simplified questions (as in the xkcd) my guess would be the asker assumes 100%.
For a person to set up but definitely not how many cpu cycles are burned
I love that Jabref supports working with multiple libraries (having multiple open the same time, moving entries between). Best Zotero could do was restart with difference preference files (has that changed? haven't used it in some time).

And really like that Jabref syncing requires just syncing the library folder. Zotero syncing really nudges you to the paid plan. setting up webdav just isn't as simple and the list of supported providers isn't that long.

It really helped me that the backend is a plain bibtex file. I could resolve issues with it myself. I can also version libraries with git.
Indeed, that's the idea, such as protecting the users of an MTA/POP3 host. That's not what I was running, and ClamAV cannot replace Windows Defender, McAfee or Norton, no matter how freakin' free its source is. Honestly.
It's kinda cool as a conspiracy theory. It's just reasonable enough if you don't know any of the specifics. And the incentives mostly make sense, if you don't look too closely.
Love the cookie settings section that provides a lot of detail about what cookies are used under what category, and what they specifically do. Never seen that before but it immediately raises trust with the website/organization. I hope this catches on more.

(Off-topic to the post, but since the discussion seems to be dying down anyway, this seemed worth commenting before the post disappears to the back rooms of HN.)
Cost benefit analysis wouldn't shake out in favor o execution on serious crimes due to add on effects.

Cost benefit analysis and evidence based policy making would lead to a restorative justice system.
time to get back to playing Warframe
Not just for privacy, but broken processes and duplicitous technological claims. It doesn't solve the problems that people assume it does. It does solve other problems, which is why there's so much enthusiasm for enforcing it.

But it's hard getting mainstream attention for how these are different sets of problems.
That is kinda like saying "I pay for FB ads and WhatsApp business, and these things doesn’t advertise at me".

Google has "build an ad profile about every human being" in their DNA just like Facebook, employing similar creepy tactics with Gmail and Chrome.
Your alias seems like a completely unecessary complexity. If you want to meld new changes into your branch head you can just alias “git commit --amend”, you don’t need that mess.

Absorb will find the commits to fix up for each change in the working copy, it doesn’t just merge everything into the head.
Is it? I assume that you are thinking of using a 3rd-party API endpoint to which you upload the image so that the service decides for you if it is a bird and which kind of bird it is. Or you use something like Firebase.

Because if that is the way you'd solve this problem, then just sending lat/lon to a service to determine if it is in a national park is even easier, as it's just a GET request.

I'm still unsure about what would be harder to set up locally.
Or you are disgusted and leave. Are there things more important than money? You'd certainly be certain the OpenAI founders sold themselves as, not'in'it'for'the money.
Damn! That's a throwback. I remember reading about you guys in an airplane magazine once and getting hooked on the concept. I always wondered where y'all went...
> Switching phones, browsers, social media platforms come with real costs that we don't see with LLM vendors

Unfortunately, these LLMs are marketed to enterprise(B2B) and not regular consumers(only beta test at exorbitant costs).

In world of enterprise, switching out to save costs takes many years or even decades as the user of the product is far removed from the decision maker who buys it.
https://github.com/KillianLucas/open-interpreter/
I have to say that running this model locally I was pleasantly suprised how well it ran, it doesn't use as much resources and produce decent output, comparable to ChatGPT, it is not quite as OpenAI but for a lot of tasks, since it doesn't burden the computer, it can be used with local model.

Next I want to try to use Aider with it and see how this would work.
Apifox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staple_(textiles)

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-a-long-...

You probably won't find it unless you do a lot of work to reach out to industry contacts and are willing to cough up a lot of money.

The market just doesn't exist, most people are satisfied with Costco/Uniqlo/H&M/Old Navy clothing for 95% of their needs, and maybe Lulu/Nordstroms for something a little more fancy.
Have you asked them what is causing this?
He's 130, with three eyes and two girlfriends: meet New Zealand' tuatara Henry
This is in no small-part due to how broken the system is in providing value to the students.

Why do the teachers care? Let the students not learn and suffer from it.

The only reason they pull stunts like this is because it actually doesn't have as much of an impact.

Why do employers stop asking about grades, and instead focus on actual experience? Because all things equal, that's what matters more. So can we blame students for trying speedrun these barriers to get to what's actually important? And not what they're told is important by educators who have an obvious bias, but what they can see in the reality of the job market.
And apparently the astronaut !touchscreen! GUI is written in Javascript (not a joke).
>> The ability of students to think deeply and learn well has been severely diminished

I think it just reflects that most students are just taking classes in order to fulfill whatever requirements they need to progress to the next stage.

If it was my class I would have just passed out index cards and given the students five minutes to write their responses before handing them back in.

The upside to all of this is that teachers will more highly value actual responses over the cliche responses that students currently think they are supposed to provide (and which they get from ChatGPT)
My experience with Redis is similar, where it often becomes a trap because people misunderstand it's strengths and weaknesses.

I think it's best to consider Redis a cache with richer primitives. It excels at this and used appropriately will be both fast and solid.

But then people start wanting to use it for things that don't fit into the primary rdbms. Soon you have a job queue, locks of various sorts, etc. And then it just becomes a matter of time until performance crosses a cliff, or the thing falls down for some other reason, and you're left with a pretty ugly mess to restore things, usually resulting in just accepting some data loss.

It takes some discipline to avoid this, because it happens easily by increments.

As for SQLite's performance, besides avoiding network overhead, a lot of people underestimate serialization and deserialization costs. Even though Redis uses a pretty minimalist protocol it adds up. With SQLite a lot of things boil down to an in process memcopy.
A cash out
Yeah, if she wasn't deniably fired, then burnout is what Ockham's Razor leaves.
Just stand in front of a mirror lol
I’d like my kids to learn how to research for and write essays so that they are able to discern well researched texts from hallucinations.
When I started doing it, I had built all the servers myself. By the end, I still don’t have DRAC running, but it would have been nice to.
Oh, Numerical Recipes is nice but their algorithm implementations are not really state-of-the-art. I highly recommend using FFTW (https://fftw.org/) as it will likely give you a substantial performance improvement.
I wonder if there is a formal term for this phenomenon: when the regulating system is only noticed because it regulates something correctly, but is criticized because this is the only time anyone hears about it. “Properly functioning systems don’t get any press,” or something like that.
I really liked https://webglfundamentals.org/ for learning the webgl api coming from a web background as well. The state diagram was also useful to understand the complicated api. There is also https://webgpufundamentals.org/ for the newer api.
The article doesn't make an argument around biometrics. Biometrics are needed even for getting a passport or registering a property purchase, but notice how those are never brought up in any argument around Aadhaar's use of biometrics, whether arguing for or against.

Procedural speed-ups are not because of the technology of Aadhaar, but because of the regulatory regime favouring it. The same fast processes also work without Aadhaar wherever there's been regulatory pushback against mandatory Aadhaar. For instance, video KYC works just fine without Aadhaar, and CKYC with just PAN also does instant KYC.

These are procedural decisions, not technological improvement with Aadhaar. Dig into how it works and you'll find that the technology isn't even where they claim it is.
Good thing that in reality people are noticing that adds are too intrusive and removing them from public spaces. Or at least regulating them. Google about the cities that have banned outdoor advertisement.
Not everything in education is about getting a job. I took electives in college that weren't part of my degree, and they were interesting and enriching. They didn't help me get a job, and that's fine. There is the point of view that education should first be about produced well-rounded and informed citezenry, not just be a mill for producing endless young grist for corporations.
Google: A Behind the Scenes Look
I found this fascinating. Google, now with a market cap of about $2 trillion, had to "borrow" machines from other researchers to deploy and run code. Talk about resourcefulness!
SEO and spammers will gain big in GenAI, because now the SEO spam is encoded into the model and guess what the model will produce when lay person asks for best 5 of X, top 10 of Y questions? From my observation, lay person do not understand the SEO/spam games, they search for something, take the top result and treat it as holy gospel. With the new studies we see frequently(few posted here in HN last few months), people do not question “the internet”(soon to be the AI/LLM).

Just my 2c.
Rewriting Rust
Always happy to see a non-chrome browser. I love every point on the page. And having a p2p protocol for sharing files with friends is a great idea. And in a memory safe language. Starred!
I ended up building jank Python-based tooling around it to sorta automate it. You select your key and it decides the ranges for you.

Wonder if it'd be useful at all for live applications or just data processing. For the former, would need to somehow execute all reads at the same MVCC version even though they're separate connections.
I meant to convey similar sentiment as you with my comment.
Pilot project in universal algebra to explore new ways to collaborate and use AI
https://tech.amikelive.com/node-718/what-object-categories-l...

Bird is in the default COCO dataset. I haven't look for birds in images, but for people yolov10 is fewer lines of code to detect if there is someone in the frame than it is to setup a flask server for the API calls.
The use case is when you look at a branch as a series of patches.

Reviewing a clean set of commits is much easier than a branch full of mistakes and wrong paths taken.

Useful when we optimize for reviewing and good history for future maintenance. This has been important and useful when I’ve worked on big mission critical backend system, but I also understand it might not be the most important factor for a new project’s success.
> its trivial to write memory safe C++.

Very bold claim, and as such, it needs substantial evidence, as there is practically no meaningful evidence to support this. There are some real world non-trivial c++ code that are known to have very few defects, but almost all of them required extremely significant effort to get there.
This comment reflects my personal opinion and experience [please take it with open mind]

I really hate these type of questions. The open ended questions that is about myself is not something useful. Students will usually do it because they have and will come up with anything (even before LLM). I understand the point that part of that is for students to get to know each other and professor know more about their expectations.

I was once a grader for Astronomy class in the summer for the public (anyone could take it). Part of the assessment was that in each assignment students will ask one question and each student should answer at least one other question. I really questioned my relation with the world grading those questions. Astrology was the common topic. Random questions from all about anything you could come up related to Astronomy (or you think it is related). I no longer teach or grade and my experience were pre-ChatGPT era. ChatGPT will change education and educators have to adapt.

They were forced to do it and they just did it for the grade. The purpose was to encourage communication and collaboration but in my experience this rarely work. People will just put bare minimum to just do this. LLM makes this too easy and it will be too tempting to use it. Some people did good job both asking and answering. But many were just not interested and had to do it anyway.

Scientists collaborate out of necessity and because most of the them have genuine interest in this field. They get trained during their grad school and usually they still don't do well communicating and collaborating with each other. They are human after all.

For the case we have in hand I can see a student tempted to write poor version on answer to this question without having to worry about grammar, typos..etc and will ask LLM to write in an academic style. How would they practice writing academic writing and express their thoughts properly? Probably never but this is them tricking themselves.

Another problem which makes this case unique is that this course is about ethics. So lets set plagiarism and university rules aside. A discussion on using LLMs would be better start for a class about ethics and technology.
> no ChatGPT competitor

See www.meta.ai