skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have thought about this a fair bit. A few thoughts, for what they are worth.

- It may be that, as in the example, you have an associate who is mindlessly merging others' changes into the master document. But the hope is that the associate is also thinking critically about the changes as they are merging them, picking up on things like "this probably won't work, I should flag it for discussion", "if we change this clause we'll also need to make consequent changes to that other clause", or even just typos and syntax errors.

- In addition, the hope is that the associate is learning while merging the changes. They are gaining familiarity with this type of contract and the kind of points that tend to be discussed/negotiated.

- If you don't have many specialist teams that you need to work with, you can just ask them to put their changes in a new version (ie, do it synchronously).

- That said, there are definitely arguments for replacing this internal workflow with a fancy new collaboration-focused platform. I can't see it replacing the legacy workflow when actually negotiating deal documents. When I trialled similar software in the past, the way it was presented to me was that we would need to get our clients, counterparties and their lawyers, etc to access the document through our instance of the platform. Which just seems like a non-runner to me.

- It is well known that lawyers are very slow to adopt new technologies. However, I can say from experience that a lot of the software that is peddled to lawyers is awful. Like, stuff seems designed to work well and look great in a demo, but as soon as you start using it in the real world you run into all sorts of edge cases where things don't work properly, you get obscure error messages (that are often just stacktraces), etc. Of course I'm not saying the software in the article is like that but a lot of lawyers have been bitten by botched software transitions and are reluctant to move from what they know as a result.
Clickbait.

The shadow is cast by the crystal not the laser light.
I've subscribed to Perplexity for the past 2 years. ChatGPT search is on par if not better in some respect but I use Perplexity enough to justify the $240 a year still (and inertia). However, if they start pushing ads on Pros subscribers I'm out.

The service has really taken a worse in the past couple of months. Bugs are creeping up more and more, suggestions from the community are getting ignored, removing popular models (e.g. Claude Opus), the interface has stagnated etc.
Spectators alone contributed to $209 million in economic activity in connection with April’s race

I like the Boston Marathon and have been a spectator on and off for years, but these self-serving research points are a bit much. Most local spectators don't spend anything - it's a free public event and remarkably non-commercial with the exception of the pavillions around the start and end points.

And: What about the loss of productivity on Marathon Monday, when roads and businesses are closed down and around a million people have a day off work?
This cuts both ways, choosing to not implement flawed portions of the spec could be seen as a good thing. I've always been a bit suspicious of the value of "bug for bug compatibility". You don't actually need transactions in Kafka in normal operation IME. I've never tried to use "streams" before and have never encountered a case where I thought they were a good trade. Better to implement that kind of stuff in a way I can control.
Chips Giant TSMC Sued over 'Anti-American' Discrimination
I think you have just described LinkedIn's business model, minus the fact that you don't get the money but the filter provider does.
They're not banning themselves. There's no market for them. A market will arise based on the market size, product characteristics, etc. Without anyone willing to make markets and trade strawberries, there's no futures market for them. All that to say, there's no need for a law banning something if there's no willing market for it. There was an onions futures market and that's why the law is specific to onions.
> I don't print from Windows nor MacOS much either. Less than once a year.

Many Linux users and developers don't run anything else. If they're to print at all it'll be from Linux.
If they ever get clever enough to automate the menu selection, it would be funny to have an infinitely deep IVR sort of like the tar pits people build on websites to trap web crawlers.
If by agents you mean systems comprised of individual (perhaps LLM-powered) agents interacting with each other, probably not. I get the vague impression that so far researchers haven’t found any advantage to such systems — anything you can do with a group of AI agents can be emulated with a single one. It’s like chaining up perceptrons hoping to get more expressive power for free.
They have a next-gen model that is an LLM. But it's only available for a few languages and only for paying users: https://support.deepl.com/hc/en-us/articles/14241705319580-N...
Is gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct function calling a chess-playing model instead of generating through the base LLM?

This is not "cheating" in my opinion... in general better for LLMs to know when to call certain functions, etc.
All I can think of when I hear Agents is the Matrix lol.

Goodbye, Mr. Anderson...
This type of analysis is a mirror of the early days of chess "AI". All kinds of commentary explaining the weaknesses of the engines, and extolling the impossible-to-reproduce capabilities of human players. But while they may have been correct in the moment, they didn't really appreciate the march toward utter dominance and supremacy of the machines over human players.

While there is no guarantee that the same trajectory is true for programming, we need to heed how emotionally attached we can be to denying the possibility.
Pointing out a highly misleading article title and how it could be easily improved is not bike-shedding in the least.

As to the contents, I am not sure I have anything interesting to say about it, but I find the idea of layering one dynamic language on top of another dynamic language in this fashion unconvincing.

The benchmarks cited in the paper bear out my skepticism: "... between one and two orders of magnitude slower than the Squeak Interpreter in C". On chrome it was between 2 and 3 orders of magnitude. So around a hundred times slower than the Squeak byte code interpreter, which is already not exactly a speed demon.

One thing the paper does demonstrate is the incredible performance of today's hardware, well even the hardware of 10 years ago, which is the only thing that makes such an approach even remotely viable.

When I attended ESUG '19 in Cologne, there were several of these Smalltalk → JavaScript projects present (I think at least 3). The others worked using transpilation, but the purpose of all these systems was to run existing legacy Smalltalk systems without existing legacy VMs. So a lot of legacy. Very little innovation. I rarely saw good reasons for Smalltalk apart from "well, we just have this huge legacy codebase that we don't want to touch" (and a bit of "I am used to the IDE"). Made me a bit sad.

Yes, running a Squeak image unmodified in the browser by simply porting the VM is neat, as a curiosity. Kinda like booting Linux in the browser.

https://bellard.org/jslinux/

But please don't do it.

We already have too many layers as it is, and this way of just plopping one layer on top of another layer in order not to have to change things is exactly how we got there. (unless you are very explicitly doing code archeology as described in the paper)

See: We are likely looking at over 50 million active lines of code to open a garage door…. https://spectrum.ieee.org/lean-software-development
That is true, but the Onion is also a shell of its former self. The Onion became a household name because of how widely consumed it used to be. It doesn't have anywhere near that reach or cultural influence today.
Are they still charging 5x per click compared to the real search engines?
GPT or BERT: why not both?
> Electronic media just feels weird to pay for for people.

Most people in the target audience of Perplexity probably pay for at least two streaming services (Spotify, Netflix etc.), so I don't think it's about "eletronic media" but more that search seems like a simple thing from the outside that always has been free and has a very strong player that offers a pretty good service for most people.
Very nice to see, my grandmother was recently scammed out of a large amount of money. Luckily the bank reimbursed her.

Scammers are a stain on the reputation of India. You could argue it's unfair to tar an entire country with the same brush, but quite clearly rule of law isn't properly functioning over there and there's complicity in letting them do this. Same goes for Nigeria.
And maybe like a temporary hold of the money, so you get it back if I’m convinced it’s not spam. Probably would resolve 99% of spam issues in the real world and create a chain of trust. Add some temporary disabling feature as well if you’re expecting a call from a random number too, so you’re set.
While this primarily focuses on the software development side of things, I’d like to chime in that this applies to the IT side of the equation as well.

LLMs can’t understand why your firewall rules have strange forwards for ancient enterprise systems, nor can they “automate” Operations on legacy systems or custom implementations. The only way to fix those issues is to throw money and political will behind addressing technical debt in a permanent sense, which no organization seemingly wants to do.

These things aren’t silver bullets, and throwing more technology at an inherently political problem (tech debt) won’t ever solve it.
I paid for Perplexity Pro for a while. It was somewhat useful for researching technical articles. But I found it got too much wrong in areas I knew about, so I couldn't trust it in areas I didn't. If I have to double check what it tells me, I might as well use a search engine, so I moved that spending to Kagi.
> It is not clear what the FBI was seeking when numerous agents entered Coplan's apartment at around 6am, or if Coplan and/or Polymarket are the targets of an investigation.

We have no information about why they are there, so you conclude it must be political retribution and they must be protected. THIS is why Trump won. So many people have zero critical thinking skills. When you see something that for which you have no information, you can say "I wonder what is going on." Then, you stop. Things that could be:

* Using collected data to facility spear phishing campaigns.
* Running a child pornography/sex trafficking ring.
* Participating in dogfighting.
* Been a back channel for selling trade secrets.
* Had some people killed.
* Routing all the information collected to foreign groups, like Russia.
* or.. has the other half of messages to someone under investigation whose phone locked.

But, given I have zero evidence to support any of this, let's stick with "let's see what they say."
This is a digital security company reporting their findings, along with the fix. They did everything that could be expected of them. The real problem is how long RH took to address vulnerabilities. OSS isn't an excuse. There are other OSS projects with much less resources, that take security much more seriously. To make it worse, it isn't easy switch IdP software - even for OSS ones.
We all want lies to not happen online. But the problem with censorship is that it must be done by humans, and any human will always impose their own sense of morality and politics onto others. So since no human can be trusted to be put in charge of someone elses speech that means NONE of us can be allowed to be "in charge".

No human has the omniscience to be able to flag anything as "true" or "false". Best example in recent history: Hunter Laptop. People will flag it as "false" even knowing it's "true". The FBI and 51 officials did exactly that and it was enough to swing 2020 election all by itself. Not to mention the 100s of other political lies, everything from drinking bleach hoax, to "good people on both sides" hoax.
> There's no way to implement a hard limit without ...

I don't believe that for a minute.

You know why ?

Let's turn it on its head. What happens if the credit card on your AWS account expires or is frozen ?

You think AWS are going to continue letting you rack up money with no card to charge against ?

I betcha they'll freeze your AWS assets the nanosecond they can't get a charge against the card.

The mechanism for customer-defined hard limits is basically no different.
So finally somebody made the Opera face control from 15 years ago a reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkNxbyp6thM
I don't see how this won't eventually converge towards some kind of AI-optimized SEO; presumably there's some algorithm which surfaces sponsored follow-up questions for a given query?
That's a great point. That's why we built it to work and add value even if the other guy has not been onboarded onto the system. This made the engineering lift way bigger, because the system needs to be able to accept and process whatever the other guy sent you. This makes it an open-ended problem, and we needed to be able to handle any possible edge case that the other guy's docs could introduce.

Juro and others make the other guy onboard because that limits the scope of the engineering problem. You can only create what the platform lets you create, so you know in advance what the system needs to handle. This approach makes it easier to build. But the problem is that it is really hard to get the other guy to onboard. As a result, your MVP is not really an MVP.

Our approach required way, way more engineering work up front. But it put us in a position where getting the other guy to onboard is a "nice to have", not a requirement.
Even engineers outside of software doesn’t use Git.
These LLM companies have never been profitable, and most of them will die before they achieve profitability.
This is me.

I can easily eat nothing for a day or two, though my longest was 3 days. Working out has been helpful because now I have an intellectual need to ensure I get enough calories and my macros. I can also way overeat if I have things I like available because there’s never really a “stop” signal that’s not being physically full. The only times I experience a “yeah ok I’m good now” is with extremely rich cheesecake sickening me (having still overeaten it) or 70% dark chocolate boring me. The later along with green apples are the only snacks I dare to keep around, because I’m not all that interested in eating them lol.

If I tried to go to bed when I’m tired, I’d end up doing so 2-4 hours later than the previous day, end up being awake at night and sleeping (poorly) during the day until it cycles back around and the insanity repeats all over again. Even if I’m extremely tired for some reason, it still takes at least an hour to actually fall asleep, followed by waking up multiple times during the night to toss and turn. The phenomenon of my head hitting the pillow and the next day showing up happened once when I was traveling, and was wonderful.

I’ve historically been very poor at recognizing when I’m being emotionally affected by things or stressed, which I would describe as feeling more like an android that a human, though that’s improved these past few years.

Listening to my body is still important, but I can’t intuitively just understand what it’s “telling me”, rather I need to track the consequences and intervene.

Incidentally, I am both autistic and spent much of my childhood trying to manage that hazards of my parent’s unstable emotional states rather than my own.
Times have changed. Code now does acquire bugs just by sitting there. Assholes you depend on are changing language definitions, compiler behavior, and libraries in a massive effort concentrated on breaking your code. :)
Why Human Intelligence Thrives Where Machines Fail
Open source shouldn't be a complete free lunch for for-profit companies. It would be nice if there was some tithe that companies had to pay to open source that they used. Like, take N% of the revenue your project generated and distribute it equally among the open source projects your project depends on.
> striv[ing] to make life both scarier and longer

There are "weather", "climate" and "Climate"... And that above is "Climate". A concise definition of the Times.

Bless the Onion!
Are you serious? I know quite clearly that people do value things besides salary!
> Glassdoor is a credible source of information that has been cited
in previous empirical studies (Kim and Ra, 2022; Kyiu et al., 2023; Symitsi et al., 2018) and the ubiquity of the Internet in the job search process also lends statistical power to the Glassdoor data (Sockin and Sojourner, 2023).

Uh... just because it was cited previously (ie social proof) doesn't make it credible. And the "statistical power" study is orthogonal to this point at best. I understand that using LLMs is trendy right now, but they aren't magic, and I don't think there is any realistic way to get signal on "ghost" jobs without actual employment data.
Whether self awareness is a requirement for AGI definitely gets more into the Philosophy department than the Computer Science department. I'm not sure everyone even agrees on what AGI is, but a common test is "can it do what humans can".

For example, in this article it says it can't do coding exercises outside the training set. That would definitely be on the "AGI checklist". Basically doing anything that is outside of the training set would be on that list.
It can be good advice with additional conditions. For example I now eat whenever I feel hungry but only for the half of the time that I'm alive. For the other half I just don't eat at all. The only exception I make is for tea and occasional coffee with milk.

One day I'm eating only till 4PM and the next one after 4PM and so on.

Already lost 10 pounds in 2 months from being slightly overweight with no additional lifestyle changes and almost effortlessly because it's surprisingly easy to distract myself from eating for few hours.

I think we are tuned to eat when we want but also to the food not being available all the time.
21% could just be recruiting companies posting jobs for their "clients" who may or may not have a role open.
For me same experience but opposite conclusion. LLM saves me time by being excellent at yak shaving, letting me focus on the things that truly need my attention.

It would be great if they were good at the hard stuff too, but if I had to pick, the basics is where i want them the most. My brain just really dislikes that stuff, and i find it challenging to stay focused and motivated on those things.
Bitter experience.

Every time ads are allowed in, the quality degrades — products and services can be optimised for solving problems, or for ongoing revenue, but not both.

The latter comes at the expense of the former, it doesn't enable the former.

Lots of websites are basically unusable without an adblocker, being mostly advertising and hardly any content; it's not quite that bad with YouTube yet, but getting there.
> You can't even bring yourself to mention that the Defense nominee has actually served in the Army, and is a decorated veteran

The amount of copium with his pick is incredible. Hegseth is woefully underqualified to be the SecDef. He was in Army Natl Guard, not Army. He spent a year at Guantanamo in 2004, deployed to Iraq in 2005-2006 and Afghanistan in 2011-2012. That's it. The rest of the time was ARR and IRR. He has never held any public office at any level.

I'm not trying to dismiss his military service itself, it's fine, but to imply it remotely qualifies him to be the SecDef is beyond reason. He's a junior officer fit to lead a company (100-200 soliders) at best.
I truly don't know what the Google Translate team is doing day-to-day
https://virtualhere.com
Imagine a tech giant with the power to navigate the corridors of Washington, influence national security, and operate at the very heart of U.S. intelligence. Oracle’s story isn’t just about software; it’s about being woven into the fabric of power itself.

This isn’t just another Silicon Valley story; it’s a tale of alliances and government contracts that shaped how data moves behind closed doors.

From its early days pioneering relational databases to its deep-rooted partnerships with the CIA and other government agencies, Oracle carved its path in places few tech companies dare to tread.
Maybe it can go back to the domain of students and residents of humane societies that provide a safety net. Little of value will be lost.
Low multiples are pretty normal for a small business. There's a lot of risk for the buyer. IMO it makes selling an ongoing concern not worth it if you can significantly reduce the time required to just keep running the business.
If you look around, People still believe that a next word predictor trained on reddit posts would somehow lead to artificial general superintelligence
There is value in asking the question "when should an individual start studying anyway?" I don't have a link at hand for a discussion of studies comparing no pre-school to "play" pre-school" to "rigorous" pre-school -- and the studies find that the children who go through the rigorous pre-school -- usually 5.5 hours of instruction -- are ahead of their peers in the first grade, even out by third grade, and then fall behind. The study that followed kids into adulthood found that they had a higher rate of criminal activity.

I cannot help but think that we shouldn't be forcing kids to learn if they don't want to learn -- and rather than try to force every kid to be "grade level", we should go back to 1-room schoolhouses (for elementary levels, at least) and teach each student at their own pace.
Wow. There should be a way to opt out of this, at least. Isn't this a violation of common carrier laws?
Narrator: Jones was in it for the money.
I do think it is sad that people are so out of touch with their bodies and the idea of self ownership that they need an authority figure to instruct such simple tasks.

I think there is a huge component of trained helplessness resulting from consumerist culture and social subservience.
I'm not a C programmer but your comment reminds me of all the lame jokes people make about the German language.
Licenses are a solution to this. You can stipulate that if your code is being used for profit by a company with more than 1000 employees, then you need to pay a certain amount into it.
Improve your prompts in the developer console
That's good. IIRC the feature was launched with GitHub as the only option, which is the same state of affairs of https://jsr.io/ right now.

IMO the launch should have been delayed until there was more than one trusted publisher.
They're not running a charity
It is when they’re effectively lottery tickets.
Yeah I feel like the recent application experience is almost coercing me into racism - I don’t actually believe in racial superiority, I’m not into any kind of bigotry or mistreating other people… buuuuuut I’ve noticed that I have this visceral reaction to seeing a typical Indian name on an email from a potential employer, or a thick Indian accent on a phone or zoom call. It always just seems like an indication that I don’t actually have a chance and am just wasting my time.

It’s awful catching myself in a “I’m not racist but” situation. It really worries me.
Every type of defensive tech is nothing more than driving up the cost of attack.

Doubling the dwell time for a scammer will halve their profits. That could have interesting second-order effects. Perhaps it makes it not worth it for some subset?
More like Death Becrumbs Her
Floating flowers rule, land flowers drool
GP forgot this narrative where breaking laws enables technological progress and innovation.
Then suddenly, calls from consenting callers to consenting receivers are labeled as spam and blocked. What can you do about it? Nothing. Switch to email, I guess. Oh wait, same problem.