skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the thing - I remember playing it as a kid and so many things, arguably most of it, went way over my head: the whole travel agent thing and getting ahead in the office, dia de los muertos, the references to noir, the weird but gorgeous mexican art deco combo, I knew nothing about any of it. But I still loved every second of it. It made the world feel very rich and real even if I didn't fully get it, in a way that other games around the time just were not.

Also this is not too dissimilar to how adult life that surrounds every child is to a child. You're sort of used to living in a world that has workings beyond your comprehension and just going along with it. I didn't get what exactly was going on but I did understand /something/ was.

I'm listening to a review of The Great Mouse Detective (1986) which has a similar ethos, as did other content targeting young people from that era. Also I recall picking up books as a kid that were certainly not meant for children and adults back then didn't even blink, and I think it stoked my curiosity and interests and pushed the boundaries of my understanding, as well as prepared me for growing up. I don't think I ended up being a worse person or being traumatized in any way. Part of me wonders if kids' content being much more sanitized these days is a mistake.
the company i work for and actually most Swiss IT contractors have harsh rules, and more than half of our projects, we aren't allowed to use Github Copilot or pasting stuff to any LLM API.

For that matter I built a vLLM based local GPU machine for our dev squads as a trial. Currently using a 4070Ti Super with 16GB Vram and upgrading to 4x 4070Ti Super to support 70b models.

The difficulties we face IMHO:

- Cursor doesn't support WSL Devcontainers

- Small Tab-Complete models are more important, and there's less going on for those

- There's a huge gap between 7-14b and 120b models, not a lot of 70b models available

In reality, on 7-14b nothing beats Qwen2.5 for interactive coding and something around 2b for tab-completion
Nice work spamming your own thread. I wish you no success.
PRCs aggregate births from 2000-22 is like ~350m, around a US worth with 60% and rising tertiary enrollment, disproportionate going STEM + technical. They're going to be drowning in talent (hence youth unemployment problem), multiple times than US can match with domestic+immigration. This is more than enough talent (and cheap due to supply/demand) to compete/dominate in strategic industries until 2060s+, especially with emphasis on driving brains into hard sciences vs finance or excess software. Yeah there's going to be challenges dealing with the pyramid but not with domains driven by skilled talent. All the catchup PRC has done in past 20 years was fueled by fraction of skilled workforce relative to what they'll generate in next 20-30.
I've started calling this stance "free market fundamentalism".

No, "the market" isn't all knowing and infallible. It's wrong very often. And the way it allocates capital is often not optimal in any way.

People like you argue that scamming old people is an important activity because it allows capital to be better employed. I mean, "the market" wouldn't reward the scammer with a living otherwise!
This doesn't cover every use case (e.g, reviewing a PR and just trying to - you know - read the PR).
Although the answer isn't sent, so it would have to be a very deliberate effort to fish those out of the API chatter and find the right domain expert with 4-10 hours to spend on cracking it

Just letting the AI train on its own wrong output wouldn't help. The benchmark already gives them lots of time for trial and error.
SimpleBench: A text benchmark on which nonexpert humans outperform SOTA LLMs
They specifically mentioned the new Fulton street station. That is effectively a multi level mall and the junction of many train lines to boot.

Navigating it for the first time is daunting.

Very different from most single-line stations.
Is it intentionally ironic that there's a grammar mistake in the second sentence of the article?
My parents couldn't understand enough English to really get why I shouldn't be playing Larry (almost all the screens are just fine) and I was too young to understand the actual theme. Perfect combination...

Kind of like Police Quest 1 too. Although it did teach me to type "use handcuffs" fast enough. Also the spelling of "briefcase" and other longer words.
My Minnesota-born brother in law: "You're from Africa, right?"

"No, Guyana, not Ghana."

"Pardon my ignorance, but where is that exactly?" :-)
While it doesn't capture every syscall, you can get pretty far with the (seemingly little known) Endpoint Security Framework: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/endpointsecurity

I cobbled together a little tool at my previous job that would capture a full trace of all process fork+exec and file opens, which would then present all of these events in the usual tracing UI (like you'd get when view a trace of a single program with Tracy[1] or Perfetto[2]).

We had a massive monorepo built with bazel and a heap of shell, and it wasn't clear which part of our code base was responsible for generating some mis-generated file. This tool gave me the whole inter-process call stack, complete with arguments and environment variables, letting me quickly find where and how to fix the problem.

It's such a nice tool to have that it kinda blows my mind that no one has openly published anything like it. By leveraging eBPF on Linux, the same UI could be used on both macOS and Linux. If I had more time and energy, I'd do it myself.

[1]: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy

[2]: https://perfetto.dev/
Ask HN: Is it burnout or something else, and how can I recover?
Lately, I've been struggling with work, enough that it's caused relatively minor medical issues, and I can't figure out if it's a burnout spiral or eroded trust in the company after a few rounds of layoffs and stress from poor execution an AI marathon.

Normally I'd leave for greener pastures, but the job market isn't great, and I'm sitting on a lot of unvested RSUs I can't easily replace. I don't want to leave without trying alternatives.

Fortunately, I have enough cash and few enough obligations that I can take a very long break on a budget. I also have enough PTO saved for a 1 month break, but it would impact the perception of my work for the half.

Is my best move to check out and put effort into interviewing? Is there a way to change my perspective so I don't feel drained most of the week?
You are correct! It was.

Thanks for the correction
Yep, and that scheduled ride costs $100
That would be nice. Problem is rather more simple: the author can't proof-read.
>Your ability to get promoted is basically dependent upon how well your manager knows how to work the system

not great

>and then whether you listen to your manager.

I mean that's part of the job, no?

I'm sure the system isn't perfect, but I was a wee programmer back in the day when it was way more common for MBA types to be managing programmers, the idea that solid technical skills might get you promoted to the compensation of what a director might make was almost unheared of.

G's sytem of promo isn't perfect, it emphasizes the wrong things, but it's forward progress in the long run.
Glad to see important updates, and while I hoped for new info on moderating, at least it was mentioned that it's in the top to-dos list..

We had moderation for a busy multi-room system 20 years ago in RealChat anyone dubbed an admin in the system could ban a person and their ip address (and or a cidr range encompassing it) in any room with a simple right click.

I'd like the same ability

and I'd add a couple of check-boxes

1 to make it so all of their posted media is removed from server or removed being seen by non-admin users pending further checking.

2 hide all their messages in the room and checkbox to hide them from all rooms from any previous minutes / hours / days (and another option to delete from DB not just hide after X minutes / hours / days)

Would be great to get the server to pull the owner ip's cidr block and hostname and force all users from that parent ip block to a 'this isp has been blocked for an unknown amount of time page', you can put an email into this form which will send the super admin your ip addy and a brief message you can add

As it stands right now you have to ban on a per room basis and it, or is it still via some command line thing that you have to add separately via ssh and then config and all that?
What do you mean? It is literally the opposite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
To be super clear: it does not.
For fast failover to the backup server. The lack of DNS caching is immaterial, lookups are cheap, network and CPU is cheap (wrt serving DNS).

It’s not a questionable technical choice (imho) based on the use case. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
> You learn more from 10 mins of JRE

FYI, here are some better sources of information about public policy issues:

https://www.aeaweb.org/journals

https://www.ashecon.org/american-journal-of-health-economics...

https://www.apha.org/publications/american-journal-of-public...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/annals-of-epidemiology

https://asc41.org/publications/criminology-an-interdisciplin...

https://apsanet.org/publications/journals/

https://www.agu.org/publications/catalog/journals
Yet to find any non-crypto related jobs in it. And in my country, Estonia, zero local jobs (as per local job boards that people use). I would say it's definitely not popular in any sense that actually matters.
I believe Apple Maps has that these days
A guy did this for the DC Metro: https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/15mbos4/i_map...

It’s a PDF, so not automated, but still gave me some good ideas.
Market size matters. There's a whopping total of 71 bidders on that.
Was a tongue-in-check turn-of-phrase. This place is wound tight apparently.
I disagree.

They report that their method produces a model that is 6.5 GB from flux (22.7GB). Why wouldn't you want to know how their 6.5GB model compares to other 6.5GB models?

Regarding aesthetic prefs: it's an open problem what an appropriate metric is for GenAI... LLM arena is widely regarded as a good way to measure LLMs and that's user preferences.

In any case, the authors report LPIPs etc. They could do the same for other small models.
It's interesting that the Iron prefix means rust now. It used to mean .NET
The other confusing thing is the benefit to risk ratio. Looking at the WHO rates of cervical cancer for Canada with almost complete vaccination rate vs Japan with almost zero vaccination rate, you can argue the vaccine cuts cervical cancer by 2/3. But when you look at the numbers at a per annual basis, the probability of getting cervical cancer is 0.5 percent to 1.5 percent.

https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/cervical-cancer-jpn-...

https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/cervical-cancer-can-...
Zig treats unused variables as a syntax error.
Nice work!

Do you have any plans for data cleaning?

I am working on a somewhat similar open source project. I intend to add heuristic data cleaning. With the UI I want to be able to toggle between different strategies quickly - strip characters from a column to treat it as numeric, if less than 2% or 5% of values have a character, fill na with mean, interpret dates in different formats - drop if the date doesn't parse. The idea bing that if it's really quick to change between different strategies, you can create more opinionated strategies to get to the right answer faster.

Happy to collaborate and talk tables with anyone who's interested.
Congratulations, this is awesome. One of those "why hasn't someone done this already?" projects.

I can see this becoming transformative and superseding Excel, which is a bold claim to make. But this is compliant (with Excel), performant, extensible, free, and in-browser. This could easily become almost an emacs-level editor.

Think of the interfaces that could be built to this in this?

I'll be sharing this with every student I know.

And the name is a winner.
Promptly: Prompt Management Tool
IIRC even Germany thought unit 731 was bonkers
Yeah the principal here is mutual aid not charity
Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_epigenetic_i...

Methods of intergenerational transfer:
DNA, RNA, bacteria, fungi, verbal latencies, explicit training

From https://x.com/westurner/status/1213675095513878528 :

> Does the fundamental limit of the amount of classical information encodable in the human genome (even with epigenetics & simultaneous encoding) imply a vast capacity for learning survival-beneficial patterns in very little time, with very few biasing priors?

> [Fundamental 'gbit' requirement 1: “No Simultaneous Encoding”:] if a gbit is used to perfectly encode one classical bit, it cannot simultaneously encode any further information. Two close variants of this are Zeilinger’s Principle (10) and Information Causality (11).

> Is there a proved presumption that genes only code in sequential combinations? Still overestimating the size of the powerset of all [totally-ordered] nonlocal combinations?
Still trying to understand counterfactuals in re: constructor theory

Constructor theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructor_theory

(quantum) Counterfactuals reasoning: https://www.google.com/search?q=(quantum)+*Counterfactual*+r... :

> Counterfactual reasoning is the process of considering events that could have happened but didn't.

Counterfactual definiteness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfactual_definiteness

Quantum discord; there are multiple types of quantum entropy; entanglement and non-entanglement entropy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_discord

N-ary entanglement,

Collective unconscious > See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious

FWIU memories are stored in the cortex and also in the hippocampus; "Brain found to store three copies of every memory" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41352124
I think it is simple, but not easy to grasp. I might be quibbling over words, but these things are not quite the same in my eyes.

simple <-> complex
easy <-> difficult
Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4637764/checksum-for-a-s...
"externalId" in this context is less "this is an ID that comes from an external identity reference" and more "this is an ID the creator of the record provided during the creation request" - in contrast with an internal ID, which is what the server uses internally to refer to the record (usually a sequential or random integer - in SCIM's case, a UUID). This is pretty common for enterprise software; you'll have the software itself generating an internal ID, but the user will provide an external ID to relate that record to its equivalents in other systems.

Like with other enterprise software (that I've worked with), SCIM's externalId is optional - and you can see in the examples that it's usually duplicating some other field, like the username or an employee number. That optionality is a double-edged sword, though; if you're integrating software that expects an externalId to be set, then you gotta make sure it's indeed being set. Back when I was doing NetSuite administration/development full-time that bit me in the ass on many occasions; middleware would be opinionated about the externalId being set, and I'd have to make sure that was getting populated from whatever record-specific unique ID (e.g. tranId for transactions).
Yes, I can hear you, Grim Fandango.
Wayland Support for the Nvidia Linux 565 Release Series
Any sufficiently advanced ads technology is indistinguishable from the perfect recommendation system.
Gross.

> “The new company is building a service that leverages the enormous corpus of data in large AI systems and newly ubiquitous headphones. Then it’s adding the capabilities of a smartphone to surface relevant local information as and when a person walks by a location, such as a restaurant, a cocktail bar, or even a street corner.”

> “He talks about attempting to make sense of it all while staying true to his original mission: building things that help people better experience the world around them.”
Conversely, a good deal of real human knowledge isn't in studies yet.
Those point-and-click puzzles never felt like anything but time fillers to me. It's interesting to think about the "could have beens" of Western visual novels instead, or at least Telltale-style story games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Todd
Not OP, but I believe Clojure has a REPL that lets you run and edit code, persisting the changes from the REPL.

Off the top of my head you would want a Dockerfile with the version of Clojure you're working in, a mounted volume for sharing between host/container data. My guess is the two different things they mentioned are dependency sources.

LLMs require a -fu, similar to the Googlefu of old, to get what you want out of them.
How It Went
I'm much less worried about storage hardware failures than other parts of the process scribbling over memory that sqlite has mapped. Being able to detect incorrect software behavior, regardless of the source, is useful in its own right.
Marcus will distort anything to push his agenda and to get clout.

Just because openai might be over valued and there are a lot of ai grifters doesn't mean LLMs aren't delivering.

They're astronomically better than they were 2 years ago. And they continue to improve. At some point they might run into a wall, but for now, they're getting better all the time. And real multimodal models are coming down the pipeline.

It's so sad to see Marcus totally lose it. He was once a reasonable person. But his idea of how AI should work was didn't work out. And instead of accepting that and moving forward, or finding a way to adapt, he just decided to turn into a fringe nutjob.
No need to be exhausted by the post. If AI doesn't help you, move on.

Probably you're really smarter and faster than the average developer.

The post is about finding out what things can help to to make it work for others. :)
Good job moving the goalposts now that you have acknowledged the theft of Syrian oil. You have now excused it as there is a "murderous tyrant". Standard NATO talking point for getting rid of anyone "we don't like". That "murderous tyrant" has murdered FAR fewer people than nearly all U.S. Presidents and was the bulwark that stopped the genocide of Syrians by Obama-Hillary sponsored "moderate rebels" - the folks who kept women chained in the basements of Aleppo. And who were busy slaughtering Christians and forcing their children to convert to Islam.

The vast majority of the same "moderate rebels" who metastasized into ISIS and then decided Syria was too tough of a nut to crack and Iraq looked far sweeter for their caliphate. All equipped with shiny-new American wargear. The same playbook played earlier in Afghanistan with Bin Laden repeated with the same disastrous consequences. I strongly suggest speaking to native Syrians, especially one from a minority religion, instead of getting a horrendous education through cherry-picked American propaganda.

Of-course, there are very special and differing American standards applied to so-called "murderous tyrants" - the Sauds get a free pass even if their citizens have lesser freedoms with no diversity permitted in religion.
... How do dogs know what not to eat in the wild?
As far as I understand it, this is for aggregating RSS feeds for consumption, not generating them.
If I could get ECC ram for my consumer hardware, I would - but I'm not paying the xeon tax to store my photos, in addition to the necessary 20% premium for the ram sticks themselves, for my personal workloads.
I loathe disposable batteries.
I’m not going to argue with the possibility they may have hit a wall, but pointing to 2022 as when this wall happened is weird considering the enormous capability gap between models available then and the ones now.

There’s probably a wall, but what exists might just be good enough for it to not matter much.
You say that like it’s a bad thing?

Default git diff output is soooooooooo bad. This tool makes it closer to a good GUI tool. At which point why not just use one of the tools that is excellent and existed for decades?
The typical Hacker News reader probably spends $180 on restaurants and takeout per week.
Into the Phones of Teens
https://archive.ph/E7Bcl
A68 also allowed brackets interchangeably with the key words, you could say:

x := ( y < 1 | 1 | 2 );
Sudently I have the urge of adding this to my app report system
Your tangential remark is ok but anyone else's is wound up too tight. OK.
Running inside a terminal provides precisely zero value to me.

Perhaps the answer is “git-delta attempts to provide a GUI like experience. If you can use a GUI you should. But if for some reason you can’t consider this as a less good alternative”.
Doomerism... I'm happy to let the results speak for themselves.
Totally agree, at first it looked alien to me but I've grown used to and prefer this way of highlighting. Personally I use color-identifiers-mode[0] for Emacs.

[0] https://github.com/ankurdave/color-identifiers-mode
A skeleton made from the bones of at least eight people thousands of years apart
My advisor always used to say: "If the wisest people in your field say that something is possible, they are probably right. If they say that something is not possible, they may very well be wrong."
I'm sorry to say that I'm having trouble reading the TFA - there's a lot of "I have been wronged" and "I have now been vindicated" there, but very little substance to support the claim that there is indeed a point of diminishing returns , other than an image of the headline of this paywalled article[0]. Is there actual evidence to support this claim?

[0] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-shifts-strate...
The results are what's being reported in The Information article cited, unless you believe that story is false.

A summary of said article (from TechCrunch as the original is paywalled): https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/09/openai-reportedly-developi...

> Employees who tested the new model, code-named Orion, reportedly found that even though its performance exceeds OpenAI’s existing models, there was less improvement than they’d seen in the jump from GPT-3 to GPT-4.

> In other words, the rate of improvement seems to be slowing down. In fact, Orion might not be reliably better than previous models in some areas, such as coding.
And the pass rate is abysmal (~20% vs ~60% in VA) vs law school. It’s barely a viable path to practicing law.
> other side lied, and provided no evidence. The arbitration service simply decided in the other parties favor; we were allowed no rebuttal

What did your lawyer say about it?
What are the results? If there are any, let's point to them directly rather than TFA.
I would say “mild” rather than “astronomical” improvement as far as end-user applications are concerned, at least for the things I use every day. Copilot-style autocomplete in VS Code isn’t much better and the answers to my TypeScript questions on OpenAI (and now Claude) have only mildly improved.

Perhaps I’ve missed out. Is your experience different? What are you doing now that you weren’t doing before?
Mac Studio Lookalike Packs a Core I9-14900KF CPU and RTX 4090 Laptop GPU
A Chinese backed European economy with EV's not polluting the major cities would be a big slap in the face to Trump and his stance on being anti-EV.