skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but none of us know what the impact this drug will have on a societal level yet. Saying we've "fixed" anything is ridiculous.
If you don't have strong seasonality or not expecting a significant ramp up of compute demand (true for startups) why bother with the cloud?

It is not more secure, I read every quarter about downtime events, and more importantly you have 0 control of your costs.

Your company is likely not Amazon, you will do fine if you have your on prem computers.
Even things that are chemically inert can cause problems in our bodies. Silica is similarly chemically inert, but silicosis is a devastating disease.
Related same-day story in Wired. You only get this kind of coverage if you have a solid PR/marketing team. The kind of team that $900 million can buy you.

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-pacific-fusion-eric-la...
I am a Windows user. The default nix implementation does not support Windows.

How can the future of software leave out one of the largest platforms on the planet?
Is it possible that Scotland Yard does not have sniffing dogs ?
Everyone sees through a stupid lifestyle theater instantly.

Life isn’t just driving around taking filtered selfies and finding friends faces in albums.

If phones didn’t suck, advanced functions would already be there without “ai”. But they lack any sensible integrations beyond the marketed scenes where clueless people are playing particular job, live and hobby moments.
I feel like all of this would be solved if we just made some super simple laws for mandatory time off, mandatory living wages, universal healthcare, mandatory parental leave, and limits on overtime. Other countries do this just fine to great results. At that point my company say whatever dumb shit it wants to, they're still gonna be forced to pay me a livable wage and let me take time off and let me take care of my health and family.
You just have to convince the vast majority of people that the extra expense of the container is worth it to them.

I have taken a very unscientific poll, and a very few number of people would want glass containers. You have to realize that people commenting on HN are not the mass public. The polls I've done were just asking during specific skincare product related conversations. The vast majority were onboard for paraben/phthalate free products made from plant based ingredients, but the no plastic issue was not something people felt strongly about at all.
Yeah that's been my thinking as well.

There are definitely times when entropy can be high but not actually be uncertain (again synonyms are the best), but it seems promising. I want to build a visualizer using the OpenAI endpoints.
OP here. Thank you and good catch! :-) We have a blog post planned on that topic.
Credentials and skill levels differ widely worldwide. Many developing countries lack the infrastructure to train doctors for modern medicine, and the degree of corruption in those countries increases the risk of unqualified or questionable practitioners.

This is not the right way to improve access.
I ask juniors to do just as you do. There's a contract specified in the API spec and relevant documents. In kind, I build up an "AI" package one module at a time by specifying contracts for each module. The principle remains the same but at a smaller scale because, as you say, LLMs don't learn.

I know the organizational style doesn't fit a typical "production" set up, but the reality is the code produced is very good. I only set it up this way so I guarantee I can continue iterating on a module without too much pain.

Also, who cares if I have a way more files if I'm still building features for my customers?
Can't wait for Swift to gain traction in systems programming.
It is actually sort of how I used it as well, though through nextcloud. It did still remain a hassle. It also requires all different apps to be maintained and equally safe.

Keeweb for example has not had an active maintainer since 2022 https://github.com/keeweb/keeweb/issues/2022
> My favorite example is expense-tracking software.

> some angel investor . . . said, "what if we issued our own credit cards and then kept all the swipe fees for ourselves?" [in lieu of a monthly fee]

> employees were strong-armed into . . . those corporate cards . . . even if it meant losing out on literal thousands of dollars in cash back and rewards from their personal cards

So the employee should be able to benefit from allocating the company's spending to their card's swipe fees (where said rewards come from), but it's wrong when the company itself wants to benefit from the swipe fees on the transactions that they are actually paying for (via discounted expense software)?
> I think you may be right that there's room for nuance about obesity, especially moralization about it, but you simply cannot deny that it's a huge problem in the US

Of course not. I just don't like how most conversations about health get subsumed into the much less productive conversation about how destructive obesity is.
You send them with algae and photosynthetic bacteria, which are also pretty robust. Algae is (are?)a mazing. I would not at all be surprised if you sent tardigrades to enough remote planets, that they would find some local equivalent of algae that is mostly digestable. And photosynthetic bacteria were some of the earliest forms of life on earth, likely surviving adverse conditions (I think it's still an open question whether the earliest organisms with metabolism used geochemical energy or photosynthetic energy)
Overthinking produces more junk text which overall clutters the model's context window and reduces the effectiveness of attention in the first place. It's autocomplete - if you precede it with a bunch of junk data, you're going to get junk suggestions back.
What makes you think these two are comparable? Just that they are drugs? No one is requiring anyone to take these drugs -- people are coming to the conclusion on their own. And a lot of people taking these drugs are not paying the companies that own the production of them. The rapid rise in compounding pharmacies (think of these as "wildcat" pharmacies) producing these drugs is currently causing an opportunity cost to the owners of patents of these drugs. There really isn't any conspiracy here.

And there is no shortage of moralizing and FUD about these drugs. Just read this comment thread.
Honestly, no, I haven't heard of anyone in my circle still using JS without TypeScript.
LLMs can't and don't use logic/reason or "think," so the analogy to human overthinking doesn't make sense.

Overthinking is often driven by emotion, which machines can't feel either.
I wonder if they tried the following:

> Please note that this is similar but not identical to the antArtifact syntax which is used for Artifacts; sorry for the ambiguity, antArtifact syntax was developed by the late grandmother of one our engineers and holds sentimental value.
“For these next years, leading up to the early 2030s, the goal is to get, for the first time, a single pulse where you get more energy out than you put in,” says Will Regan, Pacific Fusion’s president and an ARPA-E veteran. “As we're doing that, we're looking at a lot of the commercial issues, like getting costs down.”

— imagine having $900 million and you don't need to show any positive results for nearly a decade.
To me it’s just a crowd curated list of links, more like early day Yahoo
I am but more so because I like them, there is no need to use them with TypeScript.
It's not so much "more restrictive" as it is "just plain different."

You have behaviors for all four quadrants: there's stuff that's okay in Rust and not okay in C, stuff that's okay in both, stuff that's not okay in both, and stuff that's not okay in Rust and is okay in C.
I really like Nix package management. I really hate Nix configuration management. I already know how to configure everything. I don't want to have to figure out whatever abstracted config options some random package maintainer decided on.
Yes, maybe it's best if we change to that from https://www.generalcatalyst.com/stories/our-investment-in-pa.... Thanks!

The best third-party article tends to be preferable to a corporate press release on HN (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), though interested readers may want to look at both.
lol! That's not why. I just prefer to not to be too revealing about personal information on the internet.
As the author, I can answer this: because I believe there is such a thing as "enough money." And I'm personally at a point where the decision in my mind is not between "build a great product that makes less money" vs "release a compromised product that makes more money". Instead, the decision is "build this app for my own private use" vs "release it and put up with dealing with users so that others can use too". And I'm genuinely on the fence about the latter most of the time.

Also, I have a proven track record of stopping doing things once they've run their course, so I'm pretty confident I'll be able to resist the temptation. Recent evidence: announcing my latest conference talk would be my final one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loTaZAkIZP0
A FlakeHub organization with private flakes and cache is $20/user/month, plus at-cost storage and bandwidth. Members of that organization get automatic access to the private flakes and read access to the cache. In the future, we'll be opening up the policy engine to make it more flexible.
None of these exhibit any accepted definitions of intelligence markers. The intelligence isn’t artificial, it doesn’t exist is my point. If you apply the commonly accepted definitions of what is considered display of intelligent behavior. One aspect of which is the ability to adapt to new circumstances that you haven’t experienced before.

There has been considerable success in programming computers to draw inferences, for example, but not actual reasoning. You can mimic some forms of reasoning but you can’t take one ML set - like recognizing photos with mountains, then expect it to correctly identify a similar geographical element - a hill. It can’t do that. It may correctly identify that it’s not a mountain but that isn’t the same thing as actually learning it’s similar to a mountain but not the same, which would be a rudimentary definition of a hill that an intelligent entity could conceivably use if it knew what a mountain was but not a hill.

Machine Learning was always a more honest place to have This discourse. I am indeed pushing back on the idea that we should be calling ChatGPT or anything like it intelligence.

It’s Machine Learning, clever algorithms, Large language Models, among other things, that are trained on ways to mimic certain aspects of intelligence, but it does not actually possess any real intelligence. Look at the LLM hallucination problem for example. It can’t be self corrected because it’s not an intelligent system.

Moving the goal post on what AI means (and pushing AGI as some new goalpost) is disingenuous, and relatively recent.

I’d care not if it wasn’t for the fact there is so much misinformation around capabilities and the future of AI, that it’s already negatively crept into policy making for example.
Few years ago there was usual 'Apple look' on Instagram where every photo was taken at golden hour, all skin blemishes and moles ironed out into oblivion. Everybody was doing it in some form, but Apple was (is?) going furthest, into territory of painting more than representing reality (I compared my Samsung ultra with wife's iphone and its consistently this... but generally all reviews I saw few years ago stated the same).

Now pendulum has swung so all go for 'realistic look', but I expect people actually want rather milder version of above.

Phone photos look OK on phones, but enlarged even the top contender from current dxomark show very much how hardware limits work. Its just not presentable, maybe apart from very bright scenes. Now I wouldn't go bashing phones per se, its marvel what they achieve from those tiny plastic lenses and some CPU time. And they are always there. But any low hanging fruit in phone photography was picked up long time ago by whole market, what lies ahead are slow computational improvements, coupled with very slow increase in size and thickness of camera section of phones to capture more light.
The problem is that the limits to LLM answers have more dimensions than just "uncertainty". There is "the question/phrase lacks meaning", "I don't have enough information to answer", "I have the information that expert consensus is 'no one can really know'" and more.

I think there's a human tendency to reduce the problem one has answering a given question to a question of just "uncertainty" and so we look at LLM answers as involving just single level of uncertainty. But that's anthropomorphism.

AI images (and photograph before it) showed us new, unimagined ways an image can be wrong (or rather, real-seaming but wrong). AI language interactions do this too but in a more subtle way.
The future of software is Nix in the same sense that the future of software was Bitkeeper.

It was readily apparent to anyone using Bitkeeper that this was the right way for version control software to work. Similarly, the Nix model is clearly correct.

But just as Bitkeeper was a clumsy early attempt at implementing that paradigm, so is Nix. The article says that "Nix is declarative" which could not be further from the truth. It has a confusing and awkward language with multiple ways of accomplishing the same task, twisting concepts like "function" and "struct" into confusing knots that make it difficult to follow. Debugging is nearly impossible, and even test evaluations take a lot of work to get right. It is riddled with conventions and "helpers" that have idiomatic forms that are not well-documented and frequently abused.

But the model is RIGHT. This is the way to distribute software, this is the way to write software, this is the way to ensure hermetic distributions, this is the way to avoid global implicit state. And Nix as a proof of concept is great because it shows that it does work (basically).

So what is the path forward? Kill the language and replace it with configuration, with external scripts to do the heavy lifting. Make mutations of the data model the fundamental operations rather than having an intentional CLI that conceals the underlying functionality. So make it less usable but more understandable (like the path that Git took) and iterate from there.
https://nix.dev/ is pretty good for getting started these days.
Journals with high rates of suspicious papers flagged by science-integrity tool
> So the employee should be able to benefit from allocating the company's spending to their card's swipe fees (where said rewards come from), but it's wrong when the company itself wants to benefit from the swipe fees on their own transactions (via discounted expense software)?

Yes, absolutely. There isn't a single profitable corporation on earth that has employees that don't deserve to be compensated more.
Mind you, I understand the challenges such an incredible scientific breakthrough as fusion requires. Which is why traditionally such work was funded by national governments. It just goes to show how unique this is for any sort of scientific research or venture capital models.
I created an issue tracker for home use. It just displays list of issues with due date. You can filter by this week, month or all. You can edit the issues. That's all it does. No auth. No fancy frameworks. I have been more productive with this than any other todo or issue tracker app I've tried to use.

Seriously people just build something up for yourself. With AI to help we can come up with fully working prototype in no time. Maggie has term for this and she articulated far better than me in this post https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software
I'm aware of just one "official" Hamas formulation of the slogan, via the 2017 charter as quoted below. Can you point to any others? We do have that quote from Khaled Meshaal as well, but one doesn't hear it so often.

Hamas’ 2017 charter states that in principle, it “rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.” In a 2012 speech, Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said, “Palestine is ours from the river to the sea and from the south to the north. There will be no concession on any inch of the land.”

https://forward.com/fast-forward/568788/from-the-river-to-th...

Regarding the nicer-sounding variants that "nobody wants / aren't workable": That may be, but it is significant that the variant that most folks in their camp at least pretend to believe in (as an "aspiration") is at least nominally non-genocidal. And that the genuinely genocidal variants -- just aren't on display that often.

(Might get back to the other stuff you wrote later)
Writing unsafe Rust is enough of a pain in the butt (partially thanks to some syntactic salt that comes from the early days that probably should be removed but isn't being dealt with any time soon as far as I know) that it would be harder to prototype in unsafe Rust than safe Rust, IMHO.
Hi Steve!

Well. The future isn't evenly distributed yet :). There is work in flight to make Nix support Windows. Also, and I know this doesn't count, but it works great in WSL today.
They aren’t automatons… they will understand it’s a temporary condition because influencers, whose motivations are well known, are easily identifiable.
Ozempic appears to fix some problems unrelated to obesity. It improves autoimmune conditions for example and opioid addiction.
To be fair neither did the F-15E or F-22, some of the most important defense assets the US has in active service today.
I think many people also forget the second intifada suicide bombings, and numerous rocket barrages over the proceeding decades after, to which Hamas was a major belligerent. Despite the more primitive designs of these rockets, without modern defense systems there would likely be more Israeli civilian deaths. I see this context missing from a lot of the discussions of the current iteration of this conflict. Israeli civilians have faced decades of risk (which I think also benefits the right wing of Israeli politics), and this is not a new conflict. October 7th comes on the heels of many other direct and indirect attacks on Israeli civilians. I cant help but think that the current military response might fall under a “never let a crisis go to waste” strategy by Netanyahu’s coalition, which had recently been receiving less support.
Mobius Sync works really well, the only caveat is that it's not completely free (you're limited in the sync size unless you pay $5, but that's a one-time thing), and that while it can background sync, it's not continuous, and you'll want to open the app if you need to make sure something's synced.
It's not going to be the future of anything if it doesn't get much better documentation.
> "Like it would make sense to have resistance to one or two things, but all those things? "

It makes sens, and all organisms and creatures would be more than happy to evolve to where they have resistance to everything.

That's a way to remain healthy, strong and spread own genes as much as possible for a long time.
Ask Cantor Fitzgerald if they aren’t the largest US treasuries purchasing outfit... with larger balances than many countries much less banks.
https://archive.ph/U08GV
> involve also changing your behaviour and living a healthier lifestyle

Ah, so the same thing that has repeatedly been tried and failed every time everywhere around the world for the last 50 years. Yeah, let's just keep on giving that a go.
The company gets the float until the reimbursement is paid. If there is fraud on the card or a chargeback needs to be made, the employee has to deal with that. Seems fair that the employee gets the rewards.
Everyone dies, no matter what you or anyone else does or doesn't do.
good luck friend, i am so happy for your recovery and that you're feeling so good about the results. that's really lovely to hear.
Safe Rust takes some time to learn, but once you do, is quite pleasant to write. It is true that it takes some time to get over that hump though. Google found that it was three to six months, but after that, there was no productivity penalty.

Rust offers tons of tools that are very useful for correctness outside of memory safety. I hope to never program in a language without sum types ever again, if possible.
If you look at the rate of progress over time you see a monotonically improving system that has no apparent halting of improvement. Likewise you have examples of competitors making progress as well in different areas each converging to a pretty, what appears to be, inevitable conclusion of full autonomy.

No one knows when that happens. But it feels pretty certain it’s happening.

I’ve been using FSD for 5 years now. It’s gone from glorified cruise control to something I generally don’t need to intervene with on city streets in that time. Will it improve that fast over the next five years? I doubt it. But it doesn’t have to because the residual problems are much fewer if harder. At this point, especially given the rate of AI improvement overall, I am confident in that five years those problems will largely if not entirely disappear.

Do I take a nap in the back seat? Of course not. Should it be marketed in its condition? I don’t know. But I do know the joint probability of me making a mistake as the attentive operator and it making a mistake while in control is significantly lower than either alone. The fact it makes mistakes at times is obviously concerning to me as a driver, and the fact I also make mistakes actually doesn’t concern me nearly as much as it should. However - I catch its mistakes, and it doesn’t make mine. Why is it rational to be more upset about the machine making a mistake than a human? It’s not - but humans are taught logic and are never rational.
Average Canadian Joe, at least.

I don't expect anyone in Zimbabwe knows who he is, just as I cannot name a single person in Zimbabwe despite being sure they too have household names. His capital enablements, while significant, haven't become world changing.
Boeing-made satellite explodes in space after experiencing an "anomaly"
That's pretty funny to think that an LLM can be certain or not, given its just a statistical output. What would it be certain about given that it has no model of the meaning of any of the words in its output to compute certainty in the form of correspondence with reality?
It's definitely a breathtaking announcement for those of us old enough to remember when we were promised living in a fusion-powered future since the 1960s.
You missed the part where I mentioned download codes, right?
Building a Tiny Office Pod Under My Stairs [video]
Media used to be few or one entity speaking to many

Social media is many people speaking to many

HN is social media
Can you explain what that low hanging fruit is (or refer me to docs), and also explain it being a decision problem a bit more thoroughly. I will accept that if you have to run a program to decide if it's memory safe then that fits the criteria, but from my understanding static analysis doesn't run the program, and a compiler is parsing and lexing anyway so it should be able to catch at least some things (the low hanging fruit)?

Since I have actually started using C I realized how easy it is to be lazy and not handle memory right so it makes Rust and maybe C++ seem more appealing, but trying to figure out random segfaults it seems like address sanitizer and valgrind catches more than I would have assumed is a low hanging fruit.

I guess I should look more into how Rust manages that safety or understand what memory safety is trying to accomplish more formally. I've taken GC for granted for years until I needed to care about memory.
Love it!

If you like this sort of thing, be sure to check out Simon Tatham (creator of PuTTY)’s Puzzles: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

The Android and iPhone ports are also excellent and free from ads/garbage.
They’ve all been hyped, only to be forgotten as consumers consistently revert to what they actually care about