skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of / some of this is rooted in the fact that state legislatures pass acts, but we want to deal with codes.

An act might change the law in several different “places.” Maybe there’s a criminal statute, a modification to a sentencing law, and a new addition to a statute of limitations. If you look at the -“act, you see all these changes in one block of text, in sort of a different-like format.

But when you look at the code you realize the statute of limitations is hundreds of pages away from the criminal statute, which are in different titles or articles or what-have-you. What happened?

Well, someone painstakingly started with the first act passed by the legislature and applied every additional and change set forth in each act, keeping a numbering system intact, until they got to the law today. Their work is copyrighted, even if the acts themselves weren’t.

I would not take every word of this comment as gospel in every state, but nevertheless I hope it promotes either understanding or further discussion.

(To be clear I believe parent understands all my thoughts already and am not trying to convince that author).
It's interesting the way things turned out so far with LLMs, especially from the perspective of a software engineer.
We are trained to keep a certain skepticism when we see software which appears to be working because, ultimately, the only question we care about is "Does it meet user requirements?" and this is usually framed in terms of users achieving certain goals.

So it's interesting that when AI came along, we threw caution to the wind and started treating it like a silver bullet... Without asking the question of whether it was applicable to this goal or that goal...

I don't think anyone could have anticipated that we could have an AI which could produce perfect sentences, faster than a human, better than a human but which could not reason.
It appears to reason very well, better than most people, yet it doesn't actually reason. You only notice this once you ask it to accomplish a task.
After a while, you can feel how it lacks willpower. It puts into perspective the importance of willpower when it comes to getting things done.

In any case, LLMs bring us closer to understanding some big philosophical questions surrounding intelligence and consciousness.
Not defending Doge just saying it's not new. Defence Business Board is a similar analogy. Plenty of people working at companies with gov contracts on the board during its history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Business_Board

https://dbb.defense.gov/Board-Members/
No mention of DNA with a quick skim.
Novel as in requiring novel reasoning to sort out. One of the classic ways to expose the issue is to take a common puzzle and introduce irrelevant details and perhaps trivialize the solution. LLMs pattern match on the general form of the puzzle and then wander down the garden path to an incorrect solution that no human would fall for.

The sort of generalization these things can do seems to mostly be the trivial sort: substitution.
> Not to mention the cost of initiation is much higher

This is the thing we screwed up for email and phone (after per call fees dropped to zero).

It's not rocket science to create systems that net to zero for common usage (balanced in-bound vs out-bound), but charge an arm and a leg for bulk senders.
Maybe, if you want to relearn the bitter lesson.

http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
I make a lot of shitposts, how much of that is valuable information? Arguably not much. I doubt information value is a good way to estimate inteligence because most people's daily ramblings would grade them useless.
The most useful tool is a full tracing system (basically a stream of run instructions you can use to trace the execution of the code without interrupting it), but unfortunately they're quite expensive and proprietery, and require extra connections to the systems that do support them, so they're not particularly commonly used. Most people just use some kind of home-grown logging/tracing system that tracks the particular state they're interested in, possibly logged into a ringbuffer which can be dumped when triggered by some event.
Cloudflare R2 seems designed for migrating off of someone else
Well, clearly the apple already has a bite taken out of it, so that's user error
It's the UI, especially for Netflix or other streaming apps. I want something that is totally foolproof. Just click and it starts.
> I think you're underestimating just how hungry people feel

Possible. Or people have no clue what hunger really is.

But still the advice didn’t say “eat every time you are hungry”. It said “A good way to start is to eat only when feeling hungry.” That is actually a prohibition. The advice is equivalent with: do not eat when you are not hungry.

It also in the very sentence admits that this is not the only rule to be followed. That’s the “A good way to start”. Meaning that there are other things to be aware of. One of them being what you eat as you mention.
If you make your software freely available to everyone, it seems to follow you do not expect compensation for the software you offered freely to everyone.

I do a little - a couple Docker images (mostly someone else's software), a couple utilities, a font, small contributions to projects for solving problems I experienced. I don't expect compensation for any of that - it's a hobby. I have a day job and I use some of that software in it, and, at least until we arrive at a post-scarcity economy, that's what will pay my bills.
> Those Apple engineers

Which Apple engineers? Yours is the only reference to the company in this comment section or in the article.
Majority of Jazz Playlists on YouTube are now AI generated
Funny you mention that, I am creating a test bucket with R2 at this very moment.
This is likely. From example games, it not only knows the rules (which would be impressive by itself, just making the legal moves is not trivial). It also has some planning capabilities (plays combinations of several moves).
This post is from February, any interesting changes/improvements since then? Progress on “wild”?
Imagine putting the power button where you can actually reach it. Ridiculous!
Community notes isn’t scalable.

So when you have people like Musk constantly posting by the time a note is added the value of it has long since diminished.

Also your left/right wing argument is entirely something you’ve invented.
printf isn't faster if you want to single step through code to find math precision errors.

I've had to do that on a embedded system that didn't support debugging. It was hell.
I don't think he's trying to sideline anyone.

Regardless of how effective Musk & Ramaswamy are as an advisory committee, it will look like Trump's doing something to keep a campaign promise. The average person won't understand the committee is toothless -- Trump will simply say his opponents are stonewalling them and attacking his leadership. His supporters will love the narrative: "those corrupt bureaucrats in DC refuse to listen to these 2 brilliant CEO's who could fix everything."

During Trump's first term he repeatedly tried to operate outside the existing structures and systems of governance. I think he wants Musk & Ramaswamy to do the same. He wants them to be advisors and he wants people in other parts of the government to conform to their advice even if they don't have any formal authority. It removes them from being held accountable and bypasses existing checks and balances.

You can find examples of this from Trump's first term:
* Trump rebukes the DOJ in a tweet for not investigating Clinton, the DOJ responds by investigating Clinton despite the Uranium One conspiracy already being debunked.
* Trump tweets his disdain for Andrew McCabe, the FBI director who openly opposed him. In response McCabe is wrongfully fired and a criminal investigation is opened on flimsy pretenses, ultimating going nowhere.

The difference is that Trump makes moves like these to persecute his political enemies. Musk and Ramaswamy will likely make moves like these to dodge lawsuits and disarm regulations that are holding back their private endeavors. It's easy to imagine Musk and Trump openly tweeting about how inefficient various EPA regulations are. The question is which of Trump's ally's within the gov't will act on those unofficial orders.
for command lists i moved away from notes just create long and descriptive aliases on my shell rc file which i already move everywhere anyway.

with the extra advantage of recalling them with tabtab instead of never remembering to read said notes :)
I'm guessing Doge would be regulated under this act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Advisory_Committee_Act...
I can get into my bed at a certain time, I can put my head on my pillow, but I can't force sleep.
Well rarely do you see a symbol with zero context.

You're reading something. "Oh this has something to do with Weierstrass...."
Good point!

I'm wondering wether it would count, if one would extend it with an external program, that gives it feedback during inference (by another prompt) about the correctness of it's output.

I guess it wouldn't, because these RAG tools kind of do that and i heard no one calling those self aware.
You're right that it's not a hypervisor, but it's not an AWS emulator either. It's a collection of tightly coupled management layers for other open source projects that form a new, cohesive whole that can be competitive with AWS at a medium scale.
AlphaGo got better by playing against itself. I wonder if the pathway forward here is to essentially do the same with coding. Feed it some arbitrary SRS documents - have it attempt to develop them including full code coverage testing. Have it also take on roles of QA, stakeholders, red-team security researchers, and users who are all aggressively trying to find edge cases and point out everything wrong with the application. Have it keep iterating and learn from the findings. Keep feeding it new novel SRSs until the number off attempts/iterations necessary to get a quality product out the other side drops to some acceptable number.
Ask HN: Goated Programming Books?
What are the best books you read that made you improve as a programmer?
This is probably the biggest fail in the history of the European Union.
I make a new account any time my karma gets too high. I’d rather not be a sheep, thank you.
It's a lot faster to add a log point in a debugger than to add a print statement and recompile. Especially with cargo check, I really don't see the point of non-debuggable builds (outside of embedded, but the size of debuginfo already makes that a non-starter).
I mean...c'mon..they could have at least picked a "worst song of all time" that wasn't a Billboard Top 100 #1 hit. Ditto for "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"...
The prediction markets can be influenced by governments, companies etc who have no desire to make short term money.
Personally, I don’t care what the “media” was saying. I care what the polling data and the election models based on the polling data were saying. They were saying pretty consistently that this could go either way, but that at the same time the result may not turn out to be actually that close. Those two aren’t incompatible.
Important to note, this book is from early 2023 and supports Podman version 4.1. It's missing newer features like quadlets.

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/quadlet-podman
I work in front end and this is true. We have decades-old top feature requests, and we were told (by people far above my level) in January to only work on shipping a bunch of hairbrained AI features.
Hey yesbut

The possibility of "humans to spend their free time in true leisure" is actually cited and specifically not rejected in the piece. It's addressing a very specific, and very dangerous, failure mode of a post-AI society.

Read the piece and be enlightened.

Also, jeez, I pine for the day when silly randomly-applied ad-hominems like "tech bros" just get dogpiled. For your own sake, elevate your discourse, man (or woman).
yeah I'm not seeing the benefit over a SFF build. The overall size has to be bigger than the GPU anyway so why not just enclose it all?

I'd also rather stick with Thunderbolt so at least the dock could be used with a different brand of miniPC.

I do like Beelink products in general though; great for homelab servers.
I am about as far from Europe as you can get, and I think my fellow kiwis also spent an inordinate about of time clicking EU mandated cookie banners.

Cookies should be enforced in the browser. I think all the major browsers block third party cookies now. Bad actors can use other fingerprints to do tracking.
> Today Jones tomorrow someone you follow in the media.

Christ. As a non-American, this comment says a lot about the hilariously broken state of your political landscape.

“It could happen to one of your guys, and that somehow makes it bad!”

Anyone that does what Alex did deserves his punishment, and I’d be against anyone that did what he did, even if I previously “followed” them.
(electric founder here) we are lowercase differential dataflow my friend. Fwiw our model does support cycles and iteration, we simply didn’t bother to formally reify cycles yet, because we have a functional effect system under the hood and using that to implement cycles by userland side effect does the right thing, is perfectly efficient, and has very little downside.
I see a large number of spam emails with the "fake invoice" scam, and I've often thought an AI powered voice bot could really waste the time of the scammers call center and save some senior citizens money and grief. Has anyone developed an open source equivalent?
Also, the ore may be affected by the heat. It's enough to incinerate many things falling from space.
What is that keyboard on the top image? Looks beautiful!
At least the most visible one!
Untangling the Complexities of Gene Synthesis for Longer, More Reliable DNA
Maybe I'm really stupid... but perhaps if we want really intelligent models we need to stop tokenizing at all? We're literally limiting what a model can see and how it percieves the world by limiting the structure of the information streams that come into the model from the very beginning.

I know working with raw bits or bytes is slower, but it should be relatively cheap and easy to at least falsify this hypothesis that many huge issues might be due to tokenization problems but... yeah.

Surprised I don't see more research into radicaly different tokenization.
Correct URL: https://legiscope.com/blog/hidden-productivity-drain-cookie-...

> This situation calls for an urgent revision of the ePrivacy Directive

Shame companies cannot live without tracking cookies, and shame that the blame somehow end up on the regulation, rather than the companies who are the ones who introduce this cookie banner and "massive productivity loss".

You know the best way of not having to put up cookie banners on your website? Don't store PII in cookies. You know the best way of not having to care about GDPR? Don't store PII.
Twitter (most likely) regrets adding Follow
Hop into your uBlock Origin settings and enable the Cookie Banner filters. Fixed. Enable the Annoyances filters too, while you're in there.

If you're on iOS, the Kill Sticky bookmarklet does a decent job of cleaning these up without breaking most sites: https://www.smokingonabike.com/2024/01/20/take-back-your-web...
So like 1hr per person per year?
This destroyed the world wide web, which was the major driver of the internet as a consumer application. I'm referring to the experience of intelligent & creative publishers sharing content openly on the web. This did far more to destroy the world wide web than ads or tracking
Sometimes "just thinking harder" works, but often not. A debugger helps you understand what your code is actually doing, while your brain is flawed and makes flawed assumptions. Regardless of who you are, it's unlikely you will be manually evaluating code in your head as accurately as gdb (or whatever debugger you use).

I think a lot of linux/mac folks tend to printf debug, while windows folks tend to use a debugger, and I suspect it is a culture based choice that is justified post hoc.

However, few things have been better for my code than stepping through anything complex at least once before I move on (I used to almost exclusively use printf debugging).
Is your second sentence sincere? Attacking someone's parenting to win rhetorical points on an unrelated topic is pretty low.
Someone fetch my bingo card, I swear I had "Sequel to Iran-Contra Affair" on there somewhere...
You know the best way to protect your PII from websites? Don’t use the internet.
Those Pixel features are underrated.

Another good one is for the phone to stay on hold for you. That one has been extremely valuable to me as Qantas would regularly keep me on hold for over 5 hours when I tried to get my money back for a cancelled flight.
The operator would sometimes be a bit confused when I pick up, but it usually worked well and certainly beats listening to hold music for hours.
For some reason it's not visible in DevTools' "Storage" tab (Firefox 131.0.2). I strongly suspect it's negligence rather than malice, though.
Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software
If that's true, I'd have to agree that the EU is doing very, very, very well if that is the biggest fail. Unlikely to be true though, for better or worse.
Hi epmoyer. First things first, thanks!!
Second, the project hit HN before I could actually release MVP version 0.5.
But heck you know what they say about being proud of your product at the time of release.

I will be working in coming weeks to make it easy to embed and use at the time being you would need a bit of plumbing and programming.

You can use IronCalc as an "embedded viewer" but that is not were it shines. If you are not using Excel formulas there are many other lighter and simpler alternatives out there.

There is currently a well defined API to set/read values from cells but you are right is not yet documented (on it's way). I is possible to have data from the start.

I will add a CHANGELOG as soon as possible. I am still recovering from the huge impact this thread had.

Thanks again for the kind words!
This is the EU in a nutshell. You also have quite a few people defending this.

GDPR is basically exactly what Bill Gurley talks about here ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9cO3-MLHOM

Regulatory capture.
(for reference: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229 )
> shame that the blame somehow end up on the regulation, rather than the companies who are the ones who introduce this cookie banner and "massive productivity loss"

You can wish upon a star that humans weren’t the way we are. In the real world, this was a predictable response to a stupid rule. (And in some cases a necessary one. For example, for websites requiring a login or reliant on ads.)

> know the best way of not having to care about GDPR? Don't store PII

This is a nothing to hide argument [1]. Proving compliance with GDPR is tedious and expensive even if you’re fully compliant. (Proving no jurisdiction is easier.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument
content-based adblocking requires tremendous resources, and no longer works in Chrome, which is the primary browser.
The physical mail spammers know to only use deceptive tricks, like "FINAL NOTICE" or pretending to be affiliated with you using some publicly available information. I have not yet seen one dare to full-on lie, because there would be real consequences.

If a scammer puts "FINAL NOTICE" on a solicitation they mailed with no prior relationship, I do still report it as fraud. But that's probably wishful thinking.
https://www.amazingcto.com/cookie-banners-are-not-needed/
Any email you trust an LLM to write is one you probably don't need to send.
I really enjoy the obsidian daily notes feature for this [1]. It's a dedicated button to create a new note with a title of your choosing. I typically do YYYY-MM-DD d, so 2024-12-1 mon.

I'm not sure about the time tracking though. Is this more for people working on contract for billing? I see the value in having the data but collecting the data seems difficult.

[1] https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Daily+notes
Whenever I go home to visit my elderly parents, I'm amazed at how many scam calls they get. Like at least 4 or 5 an hour. And they pick up each one because they're from a time when you simply pick up your phone when it rings, and they won't change their habits.

It's long past time that phone calls should stop being synchronous and immediate. They are only this way because historic landlines were synchronous and immediate, and nobody changed it. This functionality should be culturally unacceptable in 2024.

Imagine if the concept of a land line never existed. Then, a startup came out with an app that: 1. allowed random people to cause your handheld device to stop what it was doing and immediately ring and vibrate and pop up a dialog over whatever app was active, 2. when you pushed a button, an instant two way audio channel was initiated, and 3. they could do all this without any authentication whatsoever--just needing to know a non-secret 10 digit number. This kind of app would fail every App Store guideline, and it would be laughed out of the ecosystem as unacceptable to end users. But in reality, it's "The Phone App" that comes pre-installed on your damn phone!! Insane that this kind of application is acceptable.
Thanks, somehow the URL was truncated :(
Screen unknown callers to VM. Solved all my problems
One can care about the welfare of both. You're being presumptuous.
What about contemporary frontier models?
> the prediction markets

PredictIt was predicting the opposite outcome up to the day of the election.
> Hop into your uBlock Origin settings and enable the Cookie Banner filters (and enable the Annoyances filters too, while you're in there). Fixed.

Except for the pesky sites that somehow disable (or rather "not enable") certain things until you've "answered" the banner. Can't remember what site I hit that on most recently, but I had to disable uBlock, reload the page, click "Deny", and then the video/element worked.
So use Firefox.
Also, there's talk of putting one on the moon.
https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-ms-01
I really enjoy the Google Pixel exclusive call screener.

https://youtu.be/V2IyttWHJfs?si=mreFXk6h-yDAJ3D7&t=50

I've had a few friends get new numbers, and seeing "Hey it's your Aunt, I got a new phone" live transcribed on the screen has come in handy.
Unreal tournament - Mechanism eight is such a great track
If websites respected Do Not Track then things would be a lot easier. I think we need a right to be listened to. Right now it's enough online to insist on only accepting information in one particular way, like having a noreply email and making people login and submit since shitty web form to respond. Putting your hands over your ears and tape over your mail slot doesn't work in real life, it shouldn't work on the web either.
Nobody owes you a debate.
How would we train it? Don't we need it to understand the heaps and heaps of data we already have "tokenized" e.g. the internet? Written words for humans? Genuinely curious how we could approach it differently?
He was active on HN today answered questions at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42130881
But AGI is always right around the corner?

I don't get it...
> this was a predictable response to a stupid rule

It was predictable that ultimately people would blame the regulation instead of the companies? Not sure I understand what you mean, and even if you meant what I think you meant, not sure what the point is? People blame all sorts of things all the time...

Edit since you've added more to your comment

> Proving compliance with GDPR is tedious

That's my point. No need to prove compliance if GDPR doesn't apply.
On one hand I agree with this conceptually, but on the other hand I've also been able to use AI to rapidly clean up and better structure a bunch of my existing code.

The blind copy-paste has generally been a bad idea though. Still need to read the code spit out, ask for explanations, do some iterating.