skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it is a business’ right to “survive” to the detriment of citizens

No. It is a business's responsibility to survive. And responsibility to profit For the future and protection of its workers. And the rights that extend from that responsibility means that you try to keep threats to the business reduced. The rights do not extend to hurting others for the mere protection of your own.

Such was the case in competition between Uber and Lyft, where Uber founder tried to sabotage Lyft's funding. This is not helping Uber. Just hurting Lyft. If Lyft on the other hand were to fund Uber's competitor in certain markets, that would be ok. Because someone else is being helped.
there /was/ a 2DS, though, and it came after the 3DS.
I hit their rate limit one night with about 25 chat interactions in less than 60 minutes. This was during off hours too when competition for resources should have been low.
> Get over it

It seems more like you need to get over it. I have never cared about bit rates etc. I just care about how it sounds and I know that lossless sounds significantly better to me and to many others.

The amount of gaslighting when it comes to audio is always bizarre to me.
> I expect people to be concerned about privacy implications of sending screenshots of the desktop

That's why in https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt we've built in several state-of-the-art PII/PHI scrubbers.
how much weight did you loose during that time?

you either lost significant weight, or added significant muscle .. no other way .. the end result here is more significant than how you reached it

for pull up, loosing weight is usually far more important than adding muscle, so i am leaning toward you lost weight
I will take any day Germany self-blaming itself over Germany's Hegel and Nietzsche Kultur that killed tens of thousands of Belgian and French civilians in the first world war and millions of Jew, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, etc... civilians in the second world war.
15 minutes… the horror.
Show HN: Word Counts – A simple, online word counter tool
Yes, we live in a world where patents exist. It's still possible to be correct about certain things in that world, and the fact that one does not like that patents exist doesn't entitle people to be incorrect about how the patent system works.
See https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt for an open source alternative that includes a desktop app.
>I have found that some folks like to be "high priest gatekeepers." They want to be The Only One That Understands The System, so they are indispensable, and it also strokes their own ego.

I agree that that happens, but I suspect a lot of times it's not a conscious decision by the person who is doing the gatekeeping. The end result is more or less the same, but often those people feel like they are the only one that understands, not that they intentionally want to be the only one that understands.

It seems like a trivial difference, but having some empathy for these people and finding out which is which makes it possible to deal with at least a subset of these people.
Working engineers are not the only audience.
Not disagreeing with you, but a point to consider for reasoning is that we consider it a key cornerstone of sapience and sentience.

I think one could argue that a LLM could be considered sapient (able to solve problems) in a general sense, but probably not sentient (able to sustain undifferentiated consciousness, continue to absorb and apply information, etc).

Part of the difficulty of these conversations, though, is many of these definitions were made before our math was advanced enough to approximate any of these criteria. We humans have also been notorious for excluding other things that could be considered sapience (e.g. elephants, dolphins, corvids, etc).

In all cases, I think this is going to be a difficult topic to find consensus on until we better understand how our biology results in the emergent properties of our own sapience.
It feels awkward posting this on HN since I'm sure everyone here is quite capable of solving the problem of counting the number of words in text. It's only been a feature of most text editors & word processors for the past 30 years.

In any case, I thought it might still be convenient for some. Especially since most IDEs or web-based editors (eg. Wordpress) generally don't make getting a word count so easy.

I'm keen to extend this in the future to include a bunch of statistics about text put into it (eg. word frequencies and such), so I would love to hear any feedback or feature requests.
> You don't need to obfuscate it that much, just not start with // and then the rest can be still human readable/inspectable.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I'll never again trust Chrome to not "help" with custom URLs
If it is, so is most other knowledge work. In which case society is so screwed in the short-to-medium term that there’s no point in worrying about it since you can’t do anything to prevent or avoid it.

It’s like worrying about nuclear war - low probability of a negative outcome completely out of your control.
Integers have perfect precision, but finite storage. For example, pi is infinite information and digits in float, but finite when represented as a single symbol
Björk talking about her TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75WFTHpOw8Y

Queeblo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7ANZ8Osnz4

Oh my gah!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlLhw1mtCFA

Lost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc61ONXClhA

Destino: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_TlaxmOKqs
It's amusing to me how the economic and cultural incentives at so many companies is to lie as much as possible when it comes to breach disclosures while pretending that you're still technically telling the truth.

I think that in all of these cases it would have been no worse for the companies in question if they just sent out a dry, "just the facts, ma'am" report of what actually happened, without any of the BS "the security of our customer data is our primary priority!" statements to begin with that always accompany these kinds of breach disclosures. E.g. something like:

On <date>, due to a vulnerability in the third party vendor SolarWinds which provides network security services for us, we detected the following breaches of customer data:

1. xxx

2. yyy

The steps we are currently taking, and what you should do: zzz.

----

Perhaps one good thing that can come out of this is that some sort of "standard" format for breach disclosures comes about (think the "Nutrition Facts" labels on food boxes in the US). All I do when I see companies trying to minimize breach disclosures is assume they're bullshitting anyway.
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This is the long and short of it. Education doesn’t replace happy, 2-parent homes.

Edit: or happy, one-parent homes. I just have an inkling it is good for children to see a contrast of parents, not just one parent.
No, they are cutting now to keep it propped up. After the election they will raise again, triggering the cascade.
Then that sounds like a management problem, not a fundamental problem with the concept of patent lawyers and clerks which this poster claimed was a “brain drain”.
Watching the Watchers: Practical Video Identification Attack in LTE Networks [pdf]
Claude is amazing. The project documents functionality makes it a clear leader ahead of ChatGPT and I have found it to be the clear leader in coding assistance over the past few months. Web automation is really exciting.

I look forward to the brave new future where I can code a webapp without ever touching the code, just testing, giving feedback, and explaining discovered bugs to it and it can push code and tweak infrastructure to accomplish complex software engineering tasks all on its own.

Its going to be really wild when Claude (or other AI) can make a list of possible bugs and UX changes and just ask the user for approval to greenlight the change.
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tbh FP is so heavily modularized that even the concept of "looping" is modularized away from the logical operation itself. In haskell it looks like this:

f = a . b . c . d
a1 = map a
b1 = map b
c1 = map c
d1 = map d
f2 = a1 . b1 . c1 . d1

Where f is the composition of operations on a single value and f2 operates on a list of values and returns the mapped list.
Not specific to this update, but I wanted to chime in with just how useful Claude has been, and relatively better than ChatGPT and GitHub copilot for daily use. I've been pro for maybe 6 months. I'm not a power user leveraging their API or anything. Just the chat interface, though with ever more use of Projects, lately. I use it every day, whether for mundane answers or curiosities, to "write me this code", to general consultation on a topic. It has replaced search in a superior way and I feel hugely productive with it.

I do still occasionally pop over to ChatGPT to test their their waters (or if Claude is just not getting it), but I've not felt any need to switch back or have both. Well done, Anthropic!
Are you sure? Google tells me a Cybertruck uses around 400 Wh of energy per mile. 20 miles worth of charging then would be 8000 Wh. To generate that much in an hour would take an 8000 W generator.

The first 8000 W generator I found [1] is 200 lbs.

Here's a 24000 W generator [2] that weighs 455 lbs. The weight of its fuel (propane) would be a little under 17 lbs for each hour's worth.

[1] https://www.generac.com/residential-products/portable-genera...

[2] https://www.generac.com/globalassets/products/residential/st...
One trick is to hold your desires relatively constant (remind yourself that just X years ago, you dreamed of doing Y, which you can do now for much less effort). We somehow let the cost involved in a task influence how much we can enjoy it.
Hi! I'm one of the authors of this feature. It's something quite novel, because it's not just a HNSW plug-in for MySQL (like e.g. pgvector is for Postgres). It's a fully transactional index, integrated into InnoDB.

We based the implementation on two very new papers from Microsoft Research, SPANN and SPFresh. SPANN is a hybrid graph/tree algorithm that does a fantastic job of scaling larger-than-RAM indexes (https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08566) and SPFresh expands upon it by defining a set of background operations that can be performed to maintain the index's performance and recall while it's continuously updated in-place (https://arxiv.org/html/2410.14452v1). The novel thing here is designing all the SPANN _and_ SPFresh operations to be transactional, and integrating them in MySQL's default storage engine.

This tight integration fundamentally means that inserting, updating and deleting vector data from MySQL is always reflected immediately in the index as part of committing your transaction. But it also means that the indexes are fully covered by the MySQL binlog; they recover from hard crashes just fine. They're also managed by MySQL's buffer pool, so they scale to terabytes of data, just like any other table. And also crucially, they're fully integrated with the query planner, so they can be used in any query, including JOINs and WHERE clauses (something that many other vector indexes really struggle with).

We plan to release a whitepaper on our transactionality extensions to SPFresh, which I think will be super interesting, but meanwhile please feel free to test the beta and ask me any questions (here, or by emailing PlanetScale support). Thanks!
I sure hope they see it and realize it is most likely in desperate need of refactor
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See https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt for an open source alternative that runs segmentation locally.
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I find it apropos that this topic (disagreement about if LLMs can "reason") boils down to being an issue of one of the hard problems in computer science: naming things.
Nice to have bit of client side auth code. A timer is set to update your auth status when the refresh token is scheduled to expired. I've left tabs open for 30+ days.
Correct. This is how tests work most of the time in real life (open-ended, subjective) and attempts to fully remove ambiguity are often harmful.

My problem with the whole discussion here is that I actually fail to come up with an ambiguous answer to this question that I subjectively find reasonable. Can you positivity contribute by providing an alternative interpretation that you personally would find more plausible? Otherwise complains about subjectively are hollow. Everything is subjective but it only matters in cases people actually disagree.
Disabled pasting, nice one. I think you could make it worse though, add captchas on each page with the most illegible images possible
This needs to be brought up. Was looking for the demo and ended up on the contact form
I get that /tmp as a shared world readable location is a security issue, but in a day of easy-to-provision VMs, serverless architectures, are there many true multiuser (not multi tenant) systems out there, in the sense of multiple users logging into the same logical system to complete compute tasks?
Did you get faster with time?
I also like mathematician's apology and would recommend it for understanding now a mathematician's brain works and in particular a mathematician's perspective and mindset on being a mathematician.

But I'm curious what prompted you to bring that up in this thread? I don't see how it's connected to the blog post.
Do not try to go back, even though developing software is enjoyable. Perhaps a horizontal move into management is possible; I have seen that. Found a startup if you have time and can afford it. It looks like you have all the growth opportunity you need right now.

I agree about litigation. Never trust other attorneys and especially never trust a client. It is not enough to do today's work, you need to market yourself for new projects in the future. Be prepared to work in an office in order to improve your income.
In English at least. In other languages there are.
But there's nothing fundamental about that distinction that warrants a separate set of societal rules. It's just scale: more people, farther distance, shorter time frames.
How about we get Congress to do their jobs?
It's your responsibility as a parent to teach your kid not to be obnoxious to others within reasonable limits and expectations for its age while also managing the situations it's in so that it's not so hungry/tired/whatever that it can't help itself.

Obviously exact expectations all subjective and what's reasonable is a sliding scale based on age of child and situation.
* Fixed bug where Claude would sign up for chatgpt.com to ask for help with compile errors
It's such a neat method because it is so inexpensive too. You take a bunch of mosquitos, irradiate them with just the right dose at the right time and then release them en-masse.

https://www.cdc.gov/mosquitoes/mosquito-control/irradiated-m....
Initial explorations of Anthropic's new Computer Use capability
Nymwars
It improves to 25.9 over the previous version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet (24.4) on NYT Connections: https://github.com/lechmazur/nyt-connections/.
I disagree. I've never had a vehicle that does 100% of whatever I'd want a vehicle to do. At some point we need to make tradeoffs and accept that we'll either have limitations or need to solve some problems in a different way.

Letting something that is 1% of operating hours for a device drive requirements strongly is often a mistake. With some obvious exceptions because e.g. I cannot choose when I am going to engage in maximum braking and defer it to a different vehicle.
I never said there was a problem with anything.
Yeah I mean, I can come up with 1000 lessons that would be utterly usless to 999 out of 1000 students in practise — but that wouldn't stop me from teaching those 1000 lessons in a way that really hooks those students to the topics discussed.

On the flipside you can take the most essential, practical and important topic and deliver it with such dullness that everybody falls asleep.

The first step in teaching (IMO) is to make people interested to hear what is being said. If your subject is useless and boring to most people you have to find a way to make it useful and interesting to them. This requires rethorical and social skills, good presentation skills and a deep understandingnand interest for the subjects to be thought.

In reality most subjects have interesting bits, but is the task of the teacher to make them relate to the world. If your prof thougth you about the OSI protocol stack so long everybody forgot its practical applications and how it binds together with higher level stuff, that is certainly knowledge, but it doesn't help you making it part of your understanding of the world.
It is an LLM fine-tuned using a new type of dataset and RL reward. It's good at reasoning, but I would not recommend to replace Llama for general tasks.
I just tried this out on a bunch of log files that were lying around. Excellent! I would love to connect this to a SQL database through ODBC/ JDBC and ask questions about the data. Does anyone have a tool that they use already for this usecase ?
Can someone please try this on a MAC/OS and just 100% verify if this puppy can scroll or not? thnks
It sounds more like a chore. Read, write, note things down. And then re-view your cards/notes over and over. There has to be a short term goal associated like an upcoming exam, interview, etc. for spaced repetition.
Although I'm lazy. :)
This myth of him just coming up with results without all the hard studying he did is often repeated. His results are made to be seen as impossibly hard and his impact is overstated. Galois solved a problem that was open for 350 years, he made significant contributions to new branches of math and he died at 20. I don’t like the whole ranking thing, but with all the myths surrounding Ramanujan I feel compelled to say Ramanujan is overrated and Galois is by far the more gifted and accomplished to just name one person.
Not that I'm scared of this update but I'd probably be alright with pausing llm development today, atleast in regard to producing code.

I don't want an llm to write all my code, regardless of if it works, I like to write code. What these models are capable of at the moment is perfect for my needs and I'd be 100% okay if they didn't improve at all going forward.

Edit: also I don't see how an llm controlled system can ever replace a deterministic system for critical applications.
Do you think there will be any impact on sites like HN?
Making any kind of a rocket that works is already nontrivial (once one goes beyond Estes models), but in terms of complexity of the challenge, making some kind of a hopper that goes up and down is a task that ambitious amateur groups with a few members and under $1M in funding were demonstrating even before SpaceX was founded. There is no need for a highly efficient engine, there is no need for lightweight structures. Many other concerns, such as low frequency structure oscillations, aerodynamics, etc are practically nonexistent.

Making a space launch vehicle is a task for a group with at least x100 more resources and experience. Reaching orbital velocity is pretty hard. Most startups do not succeed.

Making a space launch vehicle which does not spend the fuel entirely, while carrying extra hardware to also land after the launch is another step up in how hard this is. Very serious institutions worked on this problem since 1970s but lots and lots of people were skeptical. Shuttle was impressive, but also very expensive. Then SpaceX has shown that it was not only possible, but even practical to make ordinary rockets reusable. That was amazing. Even now, almost a decade later, nobody has shown anything like that -- though a number of Chinese startups are working on it.
Honestly, this is the first time I've seen "hallucinate" used usefully and properly. I get that putting legal teeth on this idea is difficult and fraught with pitfalls, but I believe the benefit outweighs the risk.

Similar to, but more useful than, when food producers lobby for fake versions of their food to be labelled as such, and to perhaps not have that name.
I always thought the halting problem was an academic exercise, but here we see a potential practical use case. Actually this seems pretty dangerous letting the LLM write and automatically execute code. How good is the sandbox? Can I trick the LLM into writing a reverse shell and opening it up for me?
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The rise of exclusive communities in America
I had assumed they already were.
You would think it would run in browser. Why are the clients packaged electron applications?
Can confirm on the high-frequency hearing capabilities declining. Kiddo kept complaining that the new Kindle charging docks were squealing when they're plugged in but the Kindle is elsewhere. My wife and I can't hear it, but kiddo can.
We are talking specifically with regard to private communication between people, not speaker's corner online, that's a separate discussion, although I'd have similar views on that topic as well.

It's not the same. But it's not fundamentally different, it's just the technology makes it such that meeting up with someone to talk, no matter where they are, is trivial. It's like a pulley.
You're better off linking this in the front page thread where this discussion is ongoing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41914989
That is certainly what the media narrative is saying, though they're currently building and selling more of them than every other EV pickup in existence... so if that counts as "collapsed demand", I'm not sure what that means for the other brands.
Uh, it's more like they spent several years working on it and it happens to be an election year when its published.

> [1] The final rule announced today follows an advance notice of proposed rulemaking and a notice of proposed rulemaking announced in November 2022 and June 2023, respectively. The FTC also held an informal hearing on the proposed rule in February 2024.

[1]: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/08/...
I think we can understand syntactic sugar as an alternative (hopefully more convenient, elegant, or pleasing) syntax for expressing something that can already be expressed.

That is, something that works the same but looks better (hopefully).

A cross-CPU abstraction, a preprocessor, a standard library all have certain elements of syntax in them, but go well beyond alternative syntax.
Good for you for stating the assumptions properly that go into the CLT and for mentioning other stable distributions.

I disagree about the Gaussian being the "normal" case or the "one that usually matters". Finite variance is a big assumption and one that's routinely violated in practice.

For those that are interested, Levy-stable distributions are the general class of convergent sums of random variables [0], synonymously called "fat-tailed" or "heavy-tailed" distributions and include Pareto [1] and the Cauchy distributions [2].

Is there an intuitive explanation for why the Wigner semicircular law is basically the "logarithm" the Gaussian in some respect?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy_distribution

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution
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Well, it is extremely similar to that of Hacker News'.
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