skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, "basically putting Wifi APs in the station and on the trains" isn't really what you want for a billion-dollar organization that handles 140 million rides a year.

You need redundancy, upgraded communications paths, you need it to handle interference, you need it to work above and below ground, you need it to be secured.

The 20-year service plan needs to include replacing hardware that fails (instead of just saying "sorry we don't make that anymore"); it needs to include security updates, expansions, it needs to include monitoring, it needs to include people knowing how the system works and what it does for 20 years (and not just having people retire and taking knowledge with them).

It includes training, it includes escalation and SLAs, it includes the software (which will likely need to be customized for SF MUNI's specific needs), bug fixes, hardware support. It needs to support whatever OS they're running 18 years from now instead of just saying "Run Windows 10 on your clients until 2034 when it's 20 years old and you have to pay Microsoft for extended support".

It boggles the mind that people on HN of all places look at short-form newspaper articles summarizing complex systems they don't understand and then post the most uninformed, reductionist armchair takes imaginable.
> Which ones are you looking at? Since the benchmark comparison in the blogpost itself doesn't include Opus at all.

I manually compared it with the values from the benchmarks they published when they originally announced the Claude 3 model family[0].

Not all rows have a 1:1 row in the current benchmarks, but I think it paints a good enough picture.

[0]: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-family
Show HN: Steiner – An open-source reasoning model inspired by OpenAI o1
Steiner is a series of reasoning models trained on synthetic data using reinforcement learning. These models can explore multiple reasoning paths in an autoregressive manner during inference and autonomously verify or backtrack when necessary, enabling a linear traversal of the implicit search tree.

Blog: https://medium.com/@peakji/a-small-step-towards-reproducing-...

Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/collections/peakji/steiner-preview-67...
Based! Django/Rails in a god tier language!

my suggestions:

- async-trait should be stabilized now, so you shouldn't need the macro anymore

- Add opentelemetry integration so we get metrics and tracing out of the box

- use jemalloc for linux targets

Good work! Keep it up!
Hi again...you just can't help yourself, can you?
The rule covers this

> Buying Positive or Negative Reviews: The final rule prohibits businesses from providing compensation or other incentives conditioned on the writing of consumer reviews expressing a particular sentiment, either positive or negative. It clarifies that the conditional nature of the offer of compensation or incentive may be expressly or implicitly conveyed.

> Fake or False Consumer Reviews, Consumer Testimonials, and Celebrity Testimonials: The final rule addresses reviews and testimonials that misrepresent that they are by someone who does not exist, such as AI-generated fake reviews, or who did not have actual experience with the business or its products or services, or that misrepresent the experience of the person giving it. It prohibits businesses from creating or selling such reviews or testimonials. It also prohibits them from buying such reviews, procuring them from company insiders, or disseminating such testimonials, when the business knew or should have known that the reviews or testimonials were fake or false.
Google login only? Not interested. I’m trying to reduce my dependence on Google properties.
That's funny. I was recently scraping tens of thousands of YouTube videos with yt-dlp. I would encounter throttling of some kind where yt-dlp stopped working, but I'd just spin a new VPS up and the throttled VPS down when that happened. The throttling effort cost me ~1 hour of writing the logic to handle it.

I say that's funny because my guess would be they want to block larger scale scraping efforts like mine, but completely failed, while they attempt at throttling puts captchas in front of legitimate users.
Morocco? If Europeans can stop for 10 minutes whining about democracy and human rights and take a page from China's playbook we can take Africa back.
Claude is absurdly better at coding tasks than OpenAI. Like it's not even close. Particularly when it comes to hallucinations. Prompt for prompt, I see Claude being rock solid and returning fully executable code, with all the correct imports, while OpenAI struggles to even complete the task and will make up nonexistent libraries/APIs out of whole cloth.
> power plants in the Australian Outback are being bombed

More likely for the cable to be cut. It's easier and has plausible deniability.
Case in point: candle scents.
It's not common anymore (like, in the past three decades), but "taking the lowest bid from some rando" is definitely still a thing.
no it uses very different technologies. Europe was gonna get an update in Q1 but they chose to over regulate it again so idk now.
> Does the rule apply to private citizens? I wonder if the First Amendment agrees with penalizing private citizens "who don’t have experience with the business or product/services, or misrepresent their experience".

I'm sure someone will try to argue that, but the way I interpreted it is that this is not banning people from sharing fake reviews, it's banning businesses from publishing and misrepresenting those reviews as genuine. i.e. It's regulating the business's practices, not the (purported) consumers'.
Since this project is just starting to implement canvas, there might not be any noticeable visual performance improvements yet.
I imagine I’ll probably start using WebGL as more animals are added.
potentially! I myself as an experienced programmer finds directly chatting with GPT-4o much easier, since I have full control. But Data Formulator only transforms data in the back and GPT-4o don't do anything with charts (sometimes we want it!)

We are wondering how to really achieve flexible chat experience with UI at the same time, right now it's quite a research challenge!
I have to agree. I've been chatting with Claude for the first time in a couple days and while it's very on-par with ChatGPT 4o in terms of capability, it has this difficult-to-quantify feeling of being warmer and friendlier to interact with. I think the human name, serif font, system prompt, and tendency to create visuals contributes to this feeling.
> If it was this, there would be quotes around those 6 words, just like in your comment.

If there were quotes around those 6 words, it would make the question unambiguous, sure. But without the quotes, my interpretation and judgement is still valid.

> The quotes are needed to change this sentence from its clear meaning to these other ones.

Actually, they are optional for that purpose, not required. Without them, the meaning is ambiguous. Just as you claim your interpretation is the "clear meaning", others have exactly as valid a claim to their interpretation being the "clear meaning".
I don't think EVs make sense yet for saving money unless you drive a lot; e.g. are doing Uber, and even then a Prius might make more sense. I bought mine for fun driving, they just simply drive better than ICEs, but it wasn't a financially beneficial decision.
I always take out headphones when interacting with service workers, but I'd say at this point a solid 80% of them have their own airpods in even when taking orders or in a directly customer facing role. I think the social stigma has just changed over time.
Of course. The chair of the FTC is a political position so changes with each administration. Very broadly, US Democrats are more in favor of regulation to stop abuses and US Republicans are more ‘hands off, the market will sort it out’ in their approach.
> show me any physical system where an action times an action does not equal a reaction

Not quite sure what an action times an action is, but how about rotating a 2d shape 180 degrees? Do that twice and it's the same as not rotating it at all.
its funny that cursor.sh with < 30 developers has a better autocomplete model than microsoft
Agentic workflows built ontop of Electron apps running JavaScript. It's software evolution in action!
I'm also a materialist, and the lack of p-zombies here cannot preclude their existence elsewhere.
I think that was the last version number for KDE 3.

Stands out for me as I once replaced a 2.3 Turbo in a TurboCoupe with a 351 Windsor ))
Relatedly, it took me a while to appreciate that seeking out and organizing the best knowledge on a topic is, for me, just a form a procrastination. Its ok if I'm doing it for fun. But if I want to learn, the key seems to be that every single day I start the day learning or reinforcing something, and do no other activity until that one is completed. A somewhat related thing I learned in medical school, is that many people have an internal cue for when you've really learned something. When you have re-visited something for the nth time, and the feeling you have is a deep level of annoyance that you are rehashing the same thing again, that is usually the signal that it will stick. May not work for all but worked well for me and the folks I shared it with.
Perhaps, but I don't think that's actually true.

Cheating in school is just an easier or more assured way to get a better result. When you find a way to do things better in non-academic settings, you get rewarded.

Things that are truly unfair are regulated and tested for with steep penalties.

I think most people would admit the academy is a bizarre place with rules that don't really apply in other contexts. In school it matters that _you_ came up with a solution. In most other contexts, it just matters that you have a solution.
A Defense of Peer Review
Steelmanning a flawed process.
You are not familiar with this market. The goal of a UI Path is to replicate what a human does and being able to get it to production without the help of any IT/Engineering teams.

Most GUIs are in fact not web pages, that's a relatively newer development in the Enterprise side. So while some of them may be a web page, the goal is to be able to touch everything a user is doing in the workflow which very likely includes local apps.

This iteration from Anthropic is still engineering focused but you can see the future of this kind of tooling bypassing engineering/it teams entirely.
> he said the suppliers of the readers won’t upgrade them. Not sure what the deal is.

It's not worth the money to the suppliers to go through the trouble of managing the upgrade of that one system alone; likely there's an opportunity cost where they have limited resources and they want to focus on the bigger projects making bigger impacts and bigger sales.

The last building I lived in, the sliding balcony doors were all starting to wear out. Building management called the company that made the doors to ask them about repairs or replacement and were told that the cost of replacing the doors for people isn't worth their time; basically, why would they come fix our old balcony doors for $x when they could spend their time on building and installing new balcony doors on a new build for $xx?
> The older/bigger GPT4 runs at $30/$60 and peforms about on par with GPT4o-mini which costs only $0.15/$0.60.

I don't think GPT-4o Mini has comparable performance to GPT-4 at all, where are you finding the benchmarks claiming this?

Everywhere I look says GPT-4 is more powerful, but GPT-4o Mini is most cost-effective, if you're OK with worse performance.

Even OpenAI themselves about GPT-4o Mini:

> Our affordable and intelligent small model for fast, lightweight tasks. GPT-4o mini is cheaper and more capable than GPT-3.5 Turbo.

If it was "on par" with GPT-4 they would surely say this.

> should definitely keep up with model capability/pricing development

Yeah, I mean that's why we're both here and why we're discussing this very topic, right? :D
https://archive.is/uJLa4
> Android/iOS do a lot better.

They would if they were designed with the user's security in mind, instead of Google's/Apple's control.

But I disagree, they don't do better at all. Any software that wants to get access to everything just needs to insist.
Especially now that literally anything the FTC does could be struck down by a federal judge at any time, unless it is explicitly written out or delegated legislation.
I'm not sure what a better term is. It's kind of understated to me. An AI that can "use a computer" is a simple straightforward sentence but with wild implications.
I find myself wanting to say please and thank you to Claude when I didn't have the reflex to do that with chatgpt. Very successful branding.
> Climate change, even in the worst case, won't come remotely close to eradicating all life. It won't even eradicate humans (though it'll suck for people living on the coasts or in Florida). Even the very worst imaginable catastrophe wouldn't eliminate the various single-celled organisms and extremophiles.

I have heard intelligent people claim a good few times now, and feel like it's obviously unscientific. It seems faith-based. Sure, life on Earth has proven to be resilient and adaptable, but we've no way to be sure how the planet will develop in the coming thousands and millions of years.

Climates and ecosystems and geology change. Life on Earth has persisted through some wild misadventures and atmospheric changes, but it's a very complex system. Surely it's theoretically feasible that some surprising thing could set us off on a course towards ending up with an atmosphere similar to Venus or Mars one day? How can we know with certainty this won't happen?

To me it seems like "life-ism" rather than species-ism at that point. The idea that "life will go on, no matter what" seems so obviously intuitive to a member of the Life class. I fear it is a misguided - though romantic, and somewhat touching - sentiment.
I mean, I would just leave.

Because I'm not going to leave a review, don't really leave many reviews. But I'm especially not going to leave a review before I've received service. But if I don't leave a review, I'd be concerned I would be getting deliberately poor service.

And if I'm going to get bad service, why should I subject myself to that?

If anything, I would leave then give a 1 star review saying they give discounts to people who give good reviews beforehand and the explanation I gave above.
> Emotions, despair, anger, ... these are a lot of emotional arguments in the media out there. People should be more cool and only care about the physic and mathematics... And actually read some papers - not this emotional science fluff from the media.
I love rust!! This is so cool and I'm a beginner and I'm not sure if I can utilize this framework or not.
We are going to add transcriptions soon for podcasts that include it in their feeds. No plans to add autog-enerated transcripts anytime soon, I'd rather show the feed that creators intend listeners to see.
It will be impossible to enforce. The people who don't leave good reviews simply will get dropped from the mailing list. However, it forces the whole thing to kind of move underground, which should help at least reduce the scale of the problem, and creates a deterrent against getting too aggressive with it.
Cool! Since I learned Rust I've wanted a Django replacement that has the functionality of a batteries included Web Framework + the speed/footprint of Rust. I'll check it out!
I'm surprised to see symmetric algorithms in this list. It's been a while since I worked adjacent to the field (I'm not a cryptographer but spent a lot of time working with them in a past life), but my understanding is that PQ refers to replacing those algorithms that are vulnerable to advances in quantum computing, e.g., public key algorithms, such as RSA, that use relative primes and are therefore subject to attack by efficient implementations of Shor's algorithm.

AIUI, symmetric algorithms such as 3DES are not subject to these attacks, but my understanding could be wrong.

Care to enlighten?
Show HN: Gradation AI – AI driven aggregate blend optimizer
Trying to blend materials with a goal of achieving a desired gradation deletes my brain cells.

Built this, and now gradation.ai does it for me. Lol...

But seriously, construction is too behind in this race :(
Good intentions by FTC. Unfortunately nearly impossible to enforce. It's almost like FTC banning junk/spam emails. Maybe I'm misunderstanding how this will be enforced and some big players will end up paying large fines. I think Amazon has to get their poop together and fix the comingling product reviews and other ways through their sieve that make this behavior rampant.
Well I guess you could tell Linux to not use some memory addresses using the BadRAM feature, then setup an `mtd` device to those memory addresses and create a RAM-based block device, then use `cryptsetup` to encrypt it. If your Linux box is headless and you have a GPU with RAM there mostly sitting unused then you could use the VRAM.
The latter points are valid, but for the first - software engineers are usually best advised not to spend time looking at the patent database. For a long time (is it still true?) there were triple damages for knowingly infringing a parent, and in any case the function of the patent database as a publication of ideas is extremely small in software. I have literally not heard of anyone locating something they need to implement by looking at it.
The Pollyanna view of ranked-choice voting presented on TV doesn't really work out in the real world.

Veritasium video on voting systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf7ws2DF-zk

https://electionscience.org/research-hub/the-limits-of-ranke...
I'm not very confident either -- some of users in our user study also reports the same. :)

We are recently thinking about how to have AI provide more information in ways we can interpret. For example, might adding some feature to hint if AI's computation use a specific formula that users didn't mention. I feel working with AI is like the first week working with a someone we never met before.
Why computer models missed on Oscar forecast
I would say that the benefits are definitely worth it. I make a point to only never use `unwrap` or even `expect` because the panic handler can be a bit spotty on uncommon hardware. I throw an `anyhow` error (a common crate) to a top level handler, log the error there and then crash. Saves extensive logging and I never get the seemingly random crashes I got with C hardware. I almost never use the debugger anymore. The only system crash I get are when I accidentally flood the stack space.

> I guess learning to call C from Rust is gonna be part of it too right

Depends on the platform, but for ESP32, all native C SDK functions have thin Rust wrappers.
I use it regularly. Mostly for visualization and prototyping ideas. I’ve tried over the years to replace it with Python/Sage, but the giant library of builtin functions always pulls me back. Plus, the lisp-ish language I prefer over Python. The visualization capabilities are quite nice too - not just data or function plots, but the ability to construct relatively complex graphics programmatically is quite useful. On a recent project where I needed to build some data structures for spatial processing in 3d, I was able to build a nice 3d visualization to help me debug my code by visualizing the calculations I was doing. I also really like the backwards compatibility of notebooks: I have mathematica notebooks dating back to the 90s, many of which still work fine (modulo some visual ugliness due to changes they made to layout and presentation over the decades). Few other tools have that longevity.
Thank you!

I tried to use standard async traits, but they don't support dynamic dispatch [1] which Rwf uses extensively.

I'll be adding opentelemetry tags to functions (from the `tracing` crate). jemalloc can be added to the binary apps that use Rwf, we don't need to add it as a dep to the lib.

Cheers!

[1] https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/12/21/async-fn-rpit-in-trait...
Hi, I'm the author of these articles.

I'm a physicist, and it always bugged me that we use Hamiltonians/energy/interactions to define spin glasses. I wondered if it'd be possible to just use raw probabilities on a grid and get the same/similar behaviour (eg. phase transitions, long-range correlations, etc).

So I played around with this idea for quite a while by running MC simulations, and ended up writing these articles (on my blog) about it.

But beware (i) none of this is peer-reviewed and (ii) I'm not a practicing academic physicist [so I may have missed things that would be obvious to a practicing academic physicist].

If anybody is interested in this, hit me up, happy to speak and/or play with the topic again.
That's only very limited support of the most basic forms of formatting. It's the year 2024, and Hacker News can't do better? Even the blog post above, from 2006, uses a LaTeX plugin.
They demand more commands
Lessons Learned from 2 years of AI-assisted coding
Good, but HOW?
Lol they do not use liquid sodium. They are PWRs. Rickover would spin in his grave.
It's probably a case where their warranty/support contract doesn't support MUNI replacing the existing hardware, and they don't want to certify new hardware for a 26 year old system.

I do wonder if they just have a stack of hermetically-sealed floppy disks that they have to swap to when one of them dies, or if they're just raw-dogging their redundancy.
Now with the Error trait in core, I'm hoping for `no-std` versions of `thiserror` and `anyhow`.
If you read through the link, the estimation for.probability of finding life elsewhere ranges from practically none to very high. When the former is also a.part of that range, could it not be that we actually do not have life anywhere else? I think it's not a question of when or a 'no doubt' case. We simply do not know enough.

If the calculations were to say there's very high chances of the universe teeming with life at many places, but life is not 'found' yet, then I would say it like 'no proof but no doubt'.
this is constant challenge! code is the ultimate verification tool, but not everyone gets it.

sometimes reading charts help, sometimes looking at data helps, other times only code can serve the verification purpose...
Hah! I'm happy to help :) Moments like this are part of why I read HN religiously. BTW, 3/4 of these are available on Libgen. Did a quick search and thought I'd let you know.
Don’t worry, a judge in Texas in the pocket of some big company will shoot this down, just like the attempt to abolish non-competes
Have it print a summary of you and stick it in your prompt
How to Run Science Projects
It's a review of the process or the seller, not the product. That having been said, Amazon and most similar online retail "marketplaces" make the seller much less visible than the product, encouraging the reviews to go in the wrong place.
Still super cheap
Really hope this goes somewhere, o1 without openai's costs and restrictions would be sweet.
claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022-final-final-2
BYD – Leading in Electric Vehicles More Than You Think
I wonder if the model has difficulties for the same reason some people do - UI affordability has gone down with the flattening, hover-to-see scrollbar, hamburger-menu-ization of UIs.

I'd like to see a model trained on a Windows 95/NT style UI - would it have an easier time with each UI element having clearly defined edges, clearly defined click and dragability, unified design language, etc.?
It's roughly tied in benchmarks
I've always thought of it more as the logical consequence of having nothing, the need for there to be a something to oppose it.