skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_Decision_Theory#Dea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appointment_in_Samarra
+1, Podman is great. I have been running it for a while on NixOS.

But Compose doesn’t mesh well with the overall NixOS configuration system. So I ended up building a custom tool that can convert your existing Compose project into a NixOS config.
Which ultimately is the best course of action, but whoever would try doesn't have much of a compelling alternative to suggest, and probably it doesn't matter that much. As a citizen you can vote, and beyond that you're probably wasting your (expensive) time and energy. To me it's akin to the people who stay in their hometown haplessly hoping it'll eventually align with what they want it to be like (while secretly hoping it doesn't change that much in the other direction); the only answer really is to just respond sensibly and gtfo for sometimes literally greener grass. Gosh I wish my hometown would build a proper transit system, but it's completely economically destitute and fiscally conservative, and now that I live in an objectively better city that has one, the scope in which I need to care is limited to when I visit.
Well then, the mystery surrounding how old Ric Ocasek of The Cars will make you even more baffled:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/reader-center/ric-ocasek-...
"Tesla has over the years been the biggest beneficiary of EV tax credits like the one in Biden’s IRA legislation, along with similar credits that preceded it. And yet it now may stand to gain from killing the subsidy because that could hurt rising EV competitors more than Tesla."

That's quite some wishful thinking here. EV competition is loosing money anyway on their EV cars, but it's funded by their much bigger traditional ICE vehicles business anyway. So yes, it may hurt them more on that part of the business, but this part is rather small for them.

In other countries that killed subsides for EVs, sales plummeted. And the incentives where much lower than in the US.

EDIT: Forgot to add - Tesla is not making a lot of money on their cars btw. If they are forced to cut prices even a tiny bit to keep the sales, it will wipe out most of the margin they have. Put another way, if all subsides for EVs on federal and state level go away (which is not currently planned of course), Tesla is out of business within 2 years.
You have reiterated your position after I disputed it, a behavior which may be described as "doubling down". This term carries a negative connotation, and therefore proves the other person (myself) correct.
EU Draft Guidance for General Purpose AI Shows First Steps for Big AI to Comply
> What about this, in your estimation, undermines the open-source nature of PyPI?

Absence of support for self-hosting, in the spirit of freedom 0 = OSD 5&6? Or, for that matter, for any provider whose code is fully open source?
OpenTofu Day at KubeCon NA Salt Lake City: The Recap
I have no data, but I whole-heartedly agree. Well, perhaps not “scam”, but definitely oversold. One of my best undergrad professors taught me the adage “don’t expect a model to do what a human expert cannot”, and I think it’s still a good rule of thumb. Giving someone an entire book to read before answering your question might help, but it would help way, way more to give them a few paragraphs that you know are actually relevant.
You might just be convincing me to switch, I generally love docker and compose but the firewall thing still blows my mind and that there still just is not a solution.

My workaround has been to bind all docker port forwards to localhost and only ever expose them externally via reverse proxy. Which is annoying because that means I can't run the reverse proxy itself in docker.
MY STATEMENT: "CNN has called all conservatives Nazis for years, and they are liars."

MY PROOF: There's countless, easy to find, Youtube montages of CNN/MSM news anchors spouting the Nazi/Fascism accusation at the MAGA movement.

If you try to expand my words to mean something else, just so you can disprove that something else, that's called straw-manning.
Let's be clear here, Codeium kinda sucks. Yeah, it's free and it works, somewhat. But I wouldn't trust it much.
HN does not usually make me cry!
A veterinarian should also be able to inspect their tools, to some extent. I expect a homebuilder to at least kind of understand how a hammer works.

A computer is a tool. I don't expect them to know everything, but I do expect them to know a little.
I am gobsmacked by the unintentional irony in this post. The claim is that LessWrong is full of smarty-pants researchers who can outperform entire fields because they value statistics and scientific rigor. Yet the post itself is ludicrously unscientific!

- The author acknowledges that they don't provide good evidence for their claim, relying instead on intuition. I mean... come on, man. I don't think the claim is actually true!

- The idea that median researchers are not intelligent enough to understand p-hacking is just absurd: it is not a sophisticated topic. I imagine the median researcher in fact has a robust and cynical understanding of p-hacking because they can do it to their own data. Such a researcher may be cowardly and dishonest, but their intelligence is not the problem. This is the crux of my disagreement with the post: the replication crisis is a social problem, not a cognitive problem.

- They badly misstated the results of that IQ study, ignoring outliers like philosophy and economics which have poor reproducibility. The correlation between IQ and major is much better understood as indicating which undergrads will go on to academia, versus fields like biology and psychology where most students plan to enter the workforce after college. Replicability is incidental. (They also ignored that the study itself is probably not replicable! I believe the root cause of the replication crisis is motivated reasoning and laziness, both of which are certainly on display here.)

In general this post is the combination of undeserved arrogance and jaw-dropping ignorance that I expect from LessWrong. It is a community for narcissistic blowhards.
It is already happening outside of LLMs. It is just so sophisticated that we don't notice it.

Actually, you can already notice it in many news sites. The either provide different titles for different userbases/ or change it globally few times for everyone and then they settle for the title which got the most clicks. I am confident that the title content is not managed by the human anymore. Just reviewed.
The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed
Sorry, should have been more clear. Firebase is (or was) a PITA when I started the app I'm working on a few years ago. I have a lot of records in my db that I need to validate after normalizing the data. I used to have an admin page that spit out a bunch of json data with some basic filtering and self-rolled testing that I could verify at a glance.

After a few years off from this project, I refactored it all, and part of that refactoring was building a test suite that I can run. When ran, it will rebuild, normalize, and verify all the data in my app (scraped data).

When I deploy, it will also run these tests and then email if something breaks, but skip the seeding portion.

I had plans to do this before but the firebase emulator still had a lot of issues a few years ago, and refactoring this project gave me the freedom to finally build a proper testing environment and make my entire app make full use of my local firebase emulator without issue.

I like giving it my test cases in plain english. It still gets them wrong sometimes but 90% of the time they are good to go.
I'd argue that it is a lot easier than doing it with threads!

Promises are a primitive, and async and await keywords in JavaScript is just syntactic sugar around promises (it is sugar around similar constructs in other languages). A promise being just a long running task that will return a result eventually. Being able to grab a promise as an object and pass it around is super useful at times, and it is something I end up using a lot in my JS/TS code.

Because it is a language primitive that is also expressed in the type system, more complex systems can safely be built up around it, in the same way that it is easier to build safe(r) complex systems up around threads in languages that have threads as a primitive. (Rust being a great example here of bringing threads into the language, Java being another early example, though their early attempts were not perfect since we've learned a lot since 1995!)

Async/await and promises are a great example of a technology that makes doing easy stuff easy, and makes hard stuff possible.

tl;dr people need to stop complaining that other multitasking/threading paradigm looks different than their preferred one, each has plusses and minuses and one isn't "better" than others, they just serve different purposes.
> I'm trying to work on getting llama to output according to a user defined tagging vocabulary/taxonomy and ideally learn from manual classifications. Kind of a work in progress there.

Good luck with that. The only thing that I found that works is using gbnf to force it, which slows inference down considerably.
Your existing logs will tell you roughly where and you just insert some more log lines to check the state of the data.

Depends how fast your build/run cycle is and how many different prcocesses/threads whether a debugger will be faster/easier but a lot of it just comes down to preference. Most time spent debugging for me at least is spent thinking about the probable cause then choosing what state to look at.
This thesis seems like it could apply to any generation that has achieved a level of sufficient material development to focus on issues higher up on Maslow’s Hierarchy. The postwar boomers. The post-Cold War millennials. Mass media and consumer affluence fuels it, but I don’t think either alone is sufficient.
Hey everyone a MAGA person is complaining about people saying mean things!
Trace debugging can be inefficient, but it's also highly effective, portable between all languages, and requires no additional tooling. Hard to beat that combo.
Clearly the performance of the "instruct" LLM is due to some odd bug or other issue. I do not believe that it is fundamentally better at chess than the others, even if it was specifically trained on far more chess data, which is unlikely. Lack of correlation is also not causation.
> LLMs do search and copy/paste with idiom translation and some transliteration.

In general, this is not a good description about what is happening inside an LLM. There is extensive literature on interpretability. It is complicated and still being worked out.

The commenter above might characterize the results they get in this way, but I would question the validity of that characterization, not to mention its generality.
Not only that but also hurting all others kinds of flex time and smarter commuting, even if you're awake.

At one office job, we regularly worked from home around 9-10am and would only commute after the morning rush hour faded away.
Try using Cursor with the latest claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022.
Simple response. Never have I experienced a "thing" (web site, app, entertainment media, etc..) that did not have ads and thought, "You know what, this would be better with ads". Additionally, never have I experienced a "thing" that has ads and thought, "These ads are really making the experience better."

Ads ruin everything they touch. They make every experience worse. Anything + ads is a worse experience for everyone than that thing without ads.
Is it possible that there are different kinds of software, so the Wirth’s law of software slowing down to negate the speed up of hardware due to Moore’s Law only works for some kinds of software ?
Anecdotally, I found the same in terms of art and text output in interview conversations with college students at a bar in my local area. The problem does not appear to be localized to chess output. Went something like:

"Wow, these Chatbots are amazing, look at this essay or image it made me!." (shows phone)

"Although, that next ChatGPT seems lobotomized. Don't know how to make it give me stuff as cool as what it made before."
Assessing property value impacts near utility-scale solar in the Midwestern US
This is ridiculous clap trap. Why did you submit this here?
I'm not going to take unsolicited homework from this site, especially one that is pushing an agenda in response to a statement that is clearly positive but cautious in response to your previous statement.
She'd probably be a better president than Trump, I imagine she's already a better businessperson than he is.
Link down. I’ve been using https://mywebtools.org
Show HN: Render SwiftUI Views on Video in Final Cut Pro
SwiftUIFX is an experimental plugin I made for Final Cut Pro that lets you create a SwiftUI view that is rendered on top of your video. You can access environment values for the current render time, letting you use SwiftUI's animation system to add complex effects to your timeline.

I mainly just made this to try out FCP's plugin API, but I think writing video effects in code is a pretty interesting idea, so feel free to give it a try!
Does anyone have success in archiving this article into the Wayback Machine?
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solcom.2024.100090

Abstract:

Utility-scale solar energy project proposals have been accelerating exponentially in the United States (U.S.) as the energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables continues to unfold. While the emissions and economic related benefits of deploying large-scale solar photovoltaics (PV) for electricity generation are well documented, relatively less is known about their impact on nearby property values. This paper investigates the location of utility-scale solar facilities in the U.S. Midwest, the average home value in each relevant zip code, and whether the presence of a utility-scale solar project affects nearby property values in any manner. Our study includes 70 utility-scale solar facilities built in the Midwest from 2009 to 2022 using data from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Alongside housing value data from Zillow (i.e., Zestimate), we incorporate additional data, including solar project size in installed capacity, rurality, and state. Using the difference-in-differences method, our results indicate that utility-scale solar projects increase nearby property values by roughly 0.5–2.0 %. Moreover, our results show that smaller projects have more of a positive impact on nearby property values than projects that are 20 megawatts or larger. Ultimately, having a better understanding of how these larger-scale solar projects impact property values is essential for a variety of stakeholders – especially local officials and property owners – as they are increasingly faced with making decisions about whether to permit the construction of these facilities in their communities.
My fridge isn't magnetic. A lot of modern fridges aren't.

Might be a neat idea to offer a magnetic mount for it, like a flexible flat magnetic board shaped to fit the TRMNL with a sticky backing so you can attach it somewhere and then use that to attach the TRMNL (your site doesn't seem to say anything about being magnetic so I'm guessing you have to attach magnets to the TRMNL too though?).

For that matter, the site doesn't offer any information about mounting it at all. Looking at the disassembly animation I see what looks like a hole to hang it on a nail, but it might be nice to put this info at least in the FAQ section if nowhere else (that does say it can be "hung on a wall" but no details).
Correct, my point and the point of the article I am citing is that there are outflows of vorers from the Democratic base (I hesitate to say party, because, clearly these people aren't Democrats as much as at-best-former-democrats) leaving the Democratic party to be more and more white, wealthy, and educated.

I believe we are seeing the beginning of the end of the Democratic party as we know it.
Meh. He could have made 10M or 0.

Google founders themselves could have got a nice job at IBM.

Op is free as in bird too.
>so this gives an average yearly salary of 230k. Very close to FAANG senior salary with much more risk

this is just bad analysis, and as part of that you don't understand risk.

Financial risk is the variance of the expected outcomes, it is not a component of the expected value. The risk that you will fall short is always balanced by the risk that you will strike it rich; otherwise, you have calculated your expected value wrong. Expected value does not include variance, it's the missing factor.

your faang salary is your upper bound on income, is the cost you bear eliminating the risk; the risk the entrepreneur takes is rewarded by the option on vast riches.

You are looking backward as if you could have guessed a priori what would happen. If you could guess looking-backward-in-advance that you'd wind up with a faang salary running your own gig, definitely worth "the risk".
does it mean people that can build languages and compilers are not humans? What is the point you're trying to make?
Yeah, I’m not much interested in “what’s consciousness?” but I do think the automatic-versus-thinking distinction matters for understanding what LLMs do, and what we might expect them to be able to do, and when and to what degree we need to second-guess them.

A human doesn’t just confidently spew paragraphs legit-looking but entirely wrong crap, unless they’re trying to deceive or be funny—an LLM isn’t trying to do anything, though, there’s no motivation, it doesn’t like you (it doesn’t like—it doesn’t it, one might even say), sometimes it definitely will just give you a beautiful and elaborate lie simply because its rulebook told it to, in a context and in a way that would be extremely weird if a person did it.
> The pussy footing around and talking out of both sides of your mouth just doesn't work anymore.

It took me a while to parse this, are you saying that lying doesn't work anymore???
Ask HN: Looking for career direction for generalist SWE
I'm a generalist SWE with some years of experience, mostly high-level languages, k8s, AWS, docker, etc. Knowledge of machine learning with some published papers.

I feel like the writing is on the wall for being a generalist that operates at a high level due to LLMs, and I want to pivot towards a niche that has better long term prospects.

My gut feeling tells me that rust or CUDA could become interesting long term, but I'm wondering what the HN crowd has to say, especially when it comes to niches like distributed systems, databases, etc.

My dream job would be to work on something low level where performance matters, essentially a very technical profile, e.g. something like AWS S3 would be super fun.
> Absence of support for self-hosting, or for that matter for any non-proprietary service?

This has nothing to do with self-hosting, whatsoever. You can upload to PyPI with an API token; that will always work and will not do anything related to Trusted Publishing, which exists entirely because it makes sense for large services.

PyPI isn't required to federate with the server in my basement through OpenID Connect to be considered open source.
Not me. I learned that lesson after I tried to take a bite out of my Apple Macintosh.
I applied in September with no response. I add this feedback due to the rule that all applicants must be given responses.
"del" is the only way
It's containerized and I have a script that takes care of everything from the ground up :) I've tested this on multiple OS' and friends computers. I'm thankful to old me for writing a readme for current me lol.

>Please tell me this is satire.

No. I started doing TDD. It's fun to think about a piece of functionality, write out some tests, and then slowly make it pass. Removes a lot of cognitive load for me and serves as a micro todo. It's also nice that when you're working and think of something to add, you can just write out a quick test for it and add it to kanban later.

I can't tell you how many times I've worked on projects that are gigantic in complexity and don't do any testing, or use typescript, or both. You're always like 25% paranoid about everything you do and it's the worst.
I love these kinds of projects. Congratulations to the OP.

Unrelated, but does anyone know a good TV remote for elders? I'd like something like a Stream Deck with big buttons for things like :

* Turn it on/off

* Switch to TV channel 315

* Switch to TV channel 517

* Play Planet Earth on Netflix

* Play Young Sheldon on Netflix

My grandparents are 92 and 97 and even big remotes aren't cutting it. Not only that, but I'd like for them to be able to use ondemand video platforms, not only random TV channels.

To control the TV itself, it seems a RPi or ESP32 with an IR led is enough, but to put something to play on Netflix is surprisingly difficult. I'm able to control a Fire Stick using remote adb commands, but not sure how reliable it is. I'd love to find something like this off the shelf.

Technology is great, but it's not made for elders. It frustrates them (and me), and they end up feeling stupid, which angers me.

I am sure someone else must have done this, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
Noted, so something between a free plan and the $100 pro would fit your needs.

Like a $25ish developer tier I guess, right?
but that's what I'm saying, When you ask for exclamation marks after each word that must change the likelihoods of next token by quite a bit. You then remove the marks which hides the fact that you just changed every word without loss of meaning
Thanks for mentioning this! I watched the first part and just started on part 2. Very interesting!
Debugging in Rust is substantially less common for me (and probably not only for me) because it is less often needed and more difficult - many things that are accessible in interpreted world don't exist in native binary.

I do care about usable tracebacks in error reports though.
Well yes, but my current "write down the details of my calls and refer back to them every time" wouldn't require me to remember I had amnesia, right? For now, I do remember those past conversations, but if I stopped remembering them, having them up on my screen in the side panel of my note-taking app would still make them available to me if I didn't.

That's the kind of idea I'm looking for.
> Point 7 buried in the license document of the github repository is very much not https://www.keycloak.org/

Not a single word in this comment refers to "software like this (one of the most important components of your security architecture)". I guess you realized the absurdity of your position and moved the goalposts to something else.
Ask HN: Can you distinguish AI-generated face images from real ones?
Context: lately, while watching YouTube videos, I have seen some faces that seem to be AI-generated. I seem to be able to tell which are by AI vs. which are real. Is this a common experience, or am I hallucinating? Pun intended. :)
honeAI pot
Simple, fast Rust+SQLite app server now with V8 runtime (ES6/TS)
Same. If I see a symbol and can't "say" the symbol, I can't (easily) process it. I think over time that gets better and eventually it's possible to start to "pattern match" it just off the visual representation, but at least for me when something is new, I need the "name" of it as something I can say to myself or I hit a ParseException. :-(
The only time I use a debugger with Rust is when unsafe code in some library crate messes up. My own code has no "unsafe". I have debug symbols on and a panic catcher that displays a backtrace in a popup window. That covers most cases.

Rust development is mostly fixing compile errors, anyway. Once it compiles, it often works the first time. What matters is compile time for error compiles, which is pretty good.

Incremental compile time for my metaverse client is 1 minute 8 seconds in release mode. That's OK. Takes longer to test a new version.