skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this is how you end up with rewriting the world and spending more time rewriting dozens of existing libraries to avoid adding them as dependencies and less time working on the problem you're actually trying to solve because you're fixing the same dozen bugs that the first person already went through the trouble of fixing for you had you simply used their library instead of eschewing it and having to learn everything that they had already learned for you. Often times because the problem space is deeper than you could have known before getting into the weeds and hopefully you don't get bit by sunk cost and decide to do yourself a favor and just use a library instead of continuing to work on solving problems that aren't related to what you set out to do.

There's a balance to be struck between LeftPad scenarios and "Now there are 37 competing libraries".
Was that kind of control well-received by your teams? Out of context, it sounds like it would be pretty rough to be an engineer on a team where your manager had sole control over what tools you could use - I suppose it might make sense for junior devs or a very small codebase, but I would caution against taking that stance in a team where you want to facilitate mutual trust
Nick! Congrats on the launch. Super solid. I tried getting ado.tips.io but looks like domain needs to be at least 4 characters long :(
NVIDIA BioNeMo Framework is now open source
NASA May Have Inadvertently Killed Life on Mars, Scientist Says
The tragedy of running an̶ ̶o̶l̶d̶ Node project.
Yeah. Fastmail masked addresses are random. The best you can do is guess that an address might be masked, due to it not being johnsmith@fastmail.com, but it provides no information about your real email address.
Sounds like you are way too used to the javascript ecosystem if you think getting an old project to build should take hours...
> ChatGPT has literally been trained on so much more data than a human would ever see

This is a common fallacy. The average human ingests a few dozen GB of data a day [1] [2].

ChatGPT 4 was trained on 13 trillion tokens. Say a token is 4 bytes (it's more like 3, but we're being conservative). That's 52 trillion bytes or 52 terabytes.

Say the average human only consumes the lower estimate of 30 GB a day. That means it would take a human 1625 days to consume the number of tokens ChatGPT was trained on, or 4.5 years. Assuming humans and the LLM start from the same spot [3], the proper question is... is ChatGPT smarter than a 4.5 year old. If we use the higher estimate, then we have to ask if ChatGPT is smarter than a 2 year old. Does ChatGPT hallucinate more or less than the average toddler?

The cognitive bias I've seen everywhere is the idea that humans are trained on a small amount of data. Nothing is further from the truth. Humans require training on an insanely large amount of data. A 40 year old human has been trained on orders of magnitudes more data than I think we even have available as data sets. If you prevent a human from being trained on this amount of data through sensory deprivation they go crazy (and hallucinate very vividly too!).

No argument about energy, but this is a technology problem.

[1] https://www.tech21century.com/the-human-brain-is-loaded-dail...

[2] https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2017.0002...

[3] this is a bad assumption since LLMs are randomly initialized whereas humans seem to be born with some biases that significantly aid in the acquisition of language and social skills
Agreed. But ultimately many issues arise when user agents customize these elements in very dubious ways. It's ok for the most part, but there's a reason behind reset.css files, and I wager a more nuclear approach was used here to circumvent these issues completely.

I'm just trying to reason on their decision here.
Oh yeah, continuation pointers also have their own array like every other field kind, which should have similar benefits as list traversal but for continuation copying... It's a really interesting design area, I think. Zig makes it easy!
It's double-speak. Neither company cares; they're just relying on plausible deniability while burying their heads in the sand. They will change only if there's sufficient pressure (financial, regulatory, social or some combination thereof).
Yeah, starting to believe the hacking scene in the Matrix where the machine city was still running on IPv4 wasn't a blunder but foresight.

There will also be someone playing Tetris, Doom and Final Fantasy VI on their neural interface, long after all modern games have been lost to time (and DRM).
> And maybe greatness could have occurred.

I’m going to steal this line. I can only imagine this being read in a soft NPR voice. This kind of subtle jab, so polite you don’t even notice it unless you’re paying attention, is so perfectly characteristic.
Supposedly, first-gen Leafs were known to have pretty nasty degradation due to lack of sufficient cooling. Combined with an already short-range battery, and the belief that you'd need to replace the battery frequently was justified.

Key word: WAS

Of course, modern EVs, and basically all Teslas, have bigger batteries with better cooling, so it's no longer an issue. But the belief won't die, just like how people still make memes about Java being slow as if it's still 1998.
The long context model has not been open sourced.
AI-Powered Regex
Use this module if you're tired to relearn regex syntax every couple of months :)

https://github.com/kallyaleksiev/aire

It's a minimalistic library that exposes a `compile` primitive which is similar to `re.compile` but let's you define the pattern with natural language
Libya is an impoverished backwater with a population of 7m, a GDP per capita of 9K. To whom were they a threat outside of their region?
The model or the year?
Well, one example is Gérard Chaliand, who is very flat on (his conclusions on) the matter soon after the question at 14:16 :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr5PRtnqaWI
I am not your target audience but I have been thinking of building a very minified version of this using [0] Pooch and [1] S3FS.

Right now we spend a lot of time downloading various stuff from HTTP or S3 links and then figuring out folder structures to keep them in our S3 buckets. Pooch really simplifies the caching for this by having a deterministic path on your local storage for downloaded files, but has no S3 backend.

So a combination of 2 would be to just have 1 call to a link that would embed the caching both locally and on our S3 buckets deterministically.

[0] https://www.fatiando.org/pooch/latest/
[1] https://s3fs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Genocide of Native American peoples, enslavement of Africans, political subjugation of LatAm, largest modern gulag system (#1 prisoners per capita, prison slavery still practiced).
I don't even know what node-gyp is, but I know it appears regularly in error messages to know it causes problems.

I don't even develop against Node, it has just crept into our front-end build toolchain.
I really enjoy the lift - it has helped my wrist. Only complaint I have is that you for some reason can't turn on smooth scroll on mac, only windows?
IA currently shows 3 snapshots, the most current has intact images while the first two did not.
US Immigration Research Tool
I’ve been had.
The constant Russian interference, combined with the regular escalation from the jets patrolling, and the radar jamming, really needs to be dealt with.

We're stuck between having to do timid actions and full NATO escalation. This feels like constant creep.
First, let me say, I like Bluesky. A lot.

However, I also have grown to absolutely love Mastodon and its so many different communities. Whats become clear to me is, I want both, Bluesky and Mastodon.

As I've said many many times before, when it comes to free time, We like different vibes at different times. Sometimes we want a discord night, or maybe an indie movie theater, sometimes we want a drunken dance night, sometimes we want a goth club, sometimes we want a quiet night around a camp fire.

I'm super skeptical when this same set of VC people keep trying to jam all of us into the same place and they keep desperately trying to convince us "This is the only place you want to be! All of you. All at once!" its super weird. and a staggering lack of understanding of humans.

I fell in love with big cities for these exact reasons--there is always something different to do no matter what my mood is. And this is why i fell in love with the wider internet. Always something to do depending on the vibe im hunting. No i dont want to go to the same place with every single other person night after night and no i definitely dont want to hang out with people i dont like at all--thats a weird suggestion.

I want so many options depending on my mood.

At the end of the day both Bluesky and Mastodon are incredible and I dont see one "erasing" the other.

As the article suggests, ideally Bluesky will protect against the inevitable VC vampire suckification and finally actually truly decentralize.
I can tell you that personally, if Bluesky wasn't so miss-reported as being federated and decentralized I wouldn't be caring as much as I did.

I'm happy that bluesky is successful. what I'm not happy about is that it's claiming to be something it isn't and in doing so, undermining all the work people have put into an ecosystem that is TRULY federated and decentralized.
I use it for testing and local development.

We list it in our docs under 'other services'[0], where it is called out for local development.

Because it has an API[1] you can use it for integration testing as well.

Because it runs in docker, you can use it with any stack, not just ruby.

I would not run it in a prod setting.

0: https://fusionauth.io/docs/get-started/download-and-install/...

1: https://mailcatcher.me/#api
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> Europeans spend 575 million hours clicking on cookie banners a year.
According to a new piece of analysis at least.
The research piece also claims that clicking on cookie banners costs around 14.375 billion Euros in lost productivity.
Is privacy worth the price?

is privacy worth the price? really? that’s your big takeaway from this? what a shitty substack tweet
Who drove that standardization in chemical engineering?

I ask, because the intra-organizational dynamics of software have been ugly for standardization. Vendor lock-in, submarine patents, embrace-and-extend, etc. have meant naive adoption of "best practices" meant a one-way ticket to an expensive, obsolete system, with an eventually insolvent vendor.
I spend a lot of time scrolling past the same stories, HN is like Groundhog Day
The most fun fact is that it still exists!
hCaptcha is worse, than reCaptcha.

I pass the captcha (I am not blind and not using accessibility account) and get response like

Your response to the CAPTCHA appears to be invalid. Please re-verify that you're not a robot below.
(Reference ID: 4035128747213959)

And you are given captcha again (passing which will have the same result).

reCaptcha had similar issue, but choosing 'accessibility' would transform the captcha from visual to auditory one and passing it had no such problems.

In the end I just gave up.
Most likely an H1B, or nepotism. he's been probably been tasked with doing the dirty work of a superior. If he goes on for an hour, because he is most likely tracked for the hrs he puts in.

If you feel repeatedly in a situation like this, you should end the interview prematurely to save your time. I have had to do this a few times in the past.
Maximum compression should push ALL the 'work' to the compression alg, leaving essentially (no correlative bits) 'random' data to be decompressed.

Good compression, by definition, would leave small artifacts in the data, biasing it away from "true" randomness.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theore...
Doesn't that mean that even the end customer is subject to liability via law enforcement?

So they're actively incentivised not to bring attention to it.
It can only happen with a source exactly at N/2 and correlated with your sampling clock. That doesn't happen in the real world for audio.
> If I buy wood from someone saying everything is ethically sourced, and it’s not, that’s more than enough for a lawsuit.

I don't expect most contractors to have any wording around ethical sourcing, and I expect they'd balk at me trying to add an ethical sourcing guarantee to our contract.
This is not even JS specific. All of Python / Ruby / other changing runtimes will require some upkeep. Even C recently needs some attention because clang updated default errors.
I just traveled to Europe for the first time. I was already tired of the cookie banners being a U.S. citizen, but I didn't even think about how many I don't see due to localization. All of the sites where I don't usually experience the banner with were now showing them to me. In some cases, it's a full page of text that I have to dismiss before I can see anything.

I am not necessarily commenting on the philosophy behind the banner, but I now have a much fuller understanding of how disruptive they are.
It depends on what you're doing with EFS! For the most part, I would expect to be lower cost than EFS. If you're doing where individual files are primarily written or accessed from an individual instance, I would expect a significant improvement in performance. If you have some time, I'd love to chat more deeply about what you're doing. Feel free to grab some time on my calendar from the Demo link on the Regatta home page or shoot me an email at hleath [at] regattastorage.com.
> Fleee Bhutan while you can

Leaving Bhutan for Australia and the US (often on a Refugee visa) is extremely popular in Bhutan nowadays [0]. If you live in the Bay Area, there is a large Bhutanese (as well as Nepali, Indian Tibetan, and Himachali) diaspora in the East Bay.

> Their GDP numbers are 5% growth every year? That seems impossible

They are a large energy exporter who exports much of their energy to Northeast India and Bangladesh.

That said, most infrastructure is owned and operated by Indian conglomerates like Tata Group or Indian SoEs.

> Bhutan is about 20% debt/gdp from a venezuela level collapse. If by some magic they dont collapse there, they are about 40% from a greece like collapse

The Indian government will prop up Bhutan no matter what. Several of India's forward deployment bases are located in the country, and it is critical for defending much of Northeast India from China.

If Bhutan gets even the slightest bit wobbly or shifts direction, India would probably "absorb" Bhutan the same way it did Sikkim in 1973.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bhutans-jobs-woes...
I guess that using Consent-O-Matic [1] has saved me some hours of my life :)

[1] https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic
bitcoin is fiat digital money, its value is all based on how others think it is worth (due to scarcity or whatever); even worse it's price goes up and down rather quickly, making it not very useful as something to exchange goods and services with. AI can actually do productive things. Bhutan could start up a bunch of call centers staffed not by people, but AI agents powered by its green energy.
We simply run the trains backwards, emitting exhaust behind us!

(ofc the trouble is how to handle the next train coming in 15 minutes)

OTOH there are such a thing as 'fireless locomotives' which just load up on steam pressure from a stationary boiler and then operate for some miles without need for fuel or any exhaust more noxious than water vapor. But this scheme didn't come for some decades after 1861. I wonder if a cable car would have been feasible.
And still have to maintain windows 7 or earlier machines running IE 7 to run internal applications
> Most of us today could go back to the 70s and live not much different than now (compared to the any earlier decade). It's mostly a side effect of being the world's reserve currency.

There's been 50 years of technological innovation since then. The entire fabric of society has been changed by it and has affected how we communicate and do business.
Not only lifespan. From the link you quote:

> Capacity for welfare = welfare range × lifespan. An individual’s welfare range is the difference between the best and worst welfare states the individual can realize.

> we rely on indirect measures even in humans: behavior, physiological changes, and verbal reports. We can observe behavior and physiological changes in nonhumans, but most of them aren’t verbal. So, we have to rely on other indirect proxies, piecing together an understanding from animals’ cognitive and affective traits or capabilities.

First time I see this "warfare range" notion and it seems quite clever to me.

Also the original article says 3.1% is the median while the mean is 19%. I guess that may be caused by individuals havûg différents experiences each other’s.
“Web sites waste 575M hours of visitors’ time because the web site owners want to keep tracking its users.”
Yes. See:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic
>It's not Chrome's fault for third party developers being lazy and not supporting Firefox.

What if it's Google themselves? From my original post:

> [...] and that often includes Google sites/apps
Has it been shown for o1 conclusively? I'd love to read the paper.
I recall that Apple paper about non reasoning due to fuzzed question data causing performance degradation that caught a lot of traction but IIRC o1 had pretty resilient performance compared to previous models. which to be clear I agree with your sentiment towards. I just have yet to see definitive data that shows o1 is not fundamentally more resilient to the types of test we use to discern "reasoning" from "pattern matching".

I watched a professor lecture on the likely candidates for what the open source llm community think is going on in o1[0] and I'm not convinced it's still simple pattern matching.
[0] https://youtu.be/6PEJ96k1kiw
My frame of mind is that residential solar has the potential to dramatically reduce transmission and grid costs, but there is no way to force the utilities to shift to that model, because they will make less money. And regulators are asleep at the wheel and beholden to the utilities they regulate.

Grids are sized for peak, and without solar that peak is midday in most places, meaning that distributed behind-the-meter solar makes the grid cheaper.

Utilities, when they argue that solar is worth less, are not arguing on the merits of the issue but only selectively advancing arguments that benefit them. They will never present the totality of the issue.

It is up to others to push back against utilities' narrow views with a more complete view of the picture and what's possible.
The variant inference in this release is a feature I wish more functional languages had. You know what variant something inside this pattern match branch is, compiler, I just prove it to you!
Kiriakou was sentenced to 30 months not 30 years.

As far as harm goes Manning's leaks exposed the identities of a lot of people who cooperated with the US or the Afghanistan government against the Taliban. When the Taliban found out about such people they would go after them.

We probably will never know how many, if any, people got killed from being exposed in the leaks because there is no way to know if the Taliban found them out through the leaks or through some other source. The odds are pretty good that it was more than one, probably a lot more.

The swatting teen on the other hand is known to have not actually gotten anyone killed.

A crucial difference is that when the teen sent someone to your house they were not there to kill you. They were there to do something that sometimes goes wrong and does kill, but most of the time that doesn't happen.

Someone coming to your house because the Manning leaks identified you as cooperating against the Taliban was there to kill you.
Thank you. People can be very bad about judging which scenarios are truly implausible.

Here’s a previous thread where someone thought it was absurd that there could exist native English speakers who don’t regularly go shopping, and treated that supposed impossibility as a huge “checkmate”!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32625340
Checking for position != 0 still does not fix it. On Windows and Linux, it is possible for a window to span multiple displays. Someone could set things up so that a valid click target for the button ends up in the (0, 0) position.
There's a movie about that, Strawberry mansion.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11398346/
I have no idea what this is. It's way over my head. Can you point me to a source that can explain what I'm looking at, and what it's used for?
Yeah, gas prices are having less and less influence in what cars people buy. The overlap between [people squeezed by gas prices] and [people who demand cars from automakers] is dwindling. Fun fact, only about 26% of cars sales are new cars. The vast majority of drivers have no say in what is made.

It is possible to make cheaper cars, but they aren't competitive against nicer used cars. Back when cars didn't last very long it was viable to sell a car with basic amenities, like keyed locks, roll up windows, a single exterior mirror, no stereo, no AC, etc. But now, few are going to pay the prices that would demand when a used car for around the same price has all of those features. This pressure extends to cars of any drivetrain type.
the problem was your research before using the packages then. So much bad engineering and architectural planning is blamed on the tools, not the human using it.
It's not clear that this shall pass.

The Republicans have an overwhelming advantage on the Supreme Court. A goodly chunk of Project 2025 is dedicated to ensuring that they can further marginalize Democratic voters.

Yes, it won't last forever. But it can last for longer than I will be alive.
So have I.
> Am I that bad with my prompting skills?

Or you're using skis on gravel. I'm a firm believer that the utility varies greatly depending on the tech stack and what you're trying to do, ranging from negative value to way more than 5x.

I also think "prompting" is a misrepresentation of where the actual skill and experiences matter. It's about being efficient with the tooling. Prompting, waiting for a response and then manually copypasting line by line into multiple places is something else entirely than having two LLMs work in tandem, with one figuring out the solution and the other applying the diff.

Good tooling also means that there's no overhead trying out multiple solutions. It should be so frictionless that you sometimes redo a working solution just because you want to see a different approach.

Finally, you must be really active and can't just passively wait for the LLM to finish before you start analyzing the output. Terminate early, reprompt and retry. The first 5 seconds after submitting is crucial and being able to take a decision just from seeing a few lines of code is a completely new skill for me.
Not at all - telematics schemes also penalise subjective measures such as "over-revving" and "cornering with too much lateral g".

Royal Mail drivers in the UK found themselves being disciplined for exceeding telematics thresholds when the company transitioned back to petrol-engined vans, from diesel, because they are driven in a very different manner.