skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, my brain goes that the machine constantly suggesting "jump off now!" in between the occasional legal chess move probably isn't quite right in the head. And that the people suggesting this is all perfectly fine because we can post-hoc decide what legal moves are and are not even willing to entertain the notion that this invalidates their little experiment, well, maybe that's not the ones we want deploying this kind of thing.
When writing programs that take other programs as inputs, and/or produce other programs as outputs, it's tempting to treat the program as only slightly more structured than its textual representation.

The problem is that unless your use case is very limited and is guaranteed to stay that way, supporting more and more language constructs will quickly turn your code into a mess.

Compiler design as we learn it (lex/parse, syntax tree, semantic checks, transforms, lowering to codegen) is _the_ solution to the problem of dealing with computer programs as inputs and outputs. Trying to do something less is like solving a dynamic programming problem without knowing dynamic programming: it will only work for a restricted set of inputs.
Ask HN: What gives Elon Musk's companies their edge?
Something I learned over time is to judge people by the results they bring, not my personal feelings and whether I like them. As a consequence I've had to concede the fact that Elon Musk possesses a "key" to managing tech companies that routinely puts him far above the norm despite his many detractors.

His track record in terms of reliability, range and magnitude of success is unprecedented and signals that despite all his apparent personal faults he possesses a skill, sensitivity or decision making capability that puts him ahead of thousands of other very smart, hardworking people.

Does anyone have any insight, based on what they've read, seen or know about working at his companies that provides an explanation for this?
At my first job, I largely used Notepad++ and grep, and the result tended away from object-oriented code and code paths tended to be not much more than `require_once("common.php");`

The second job introduced PHPStorm, and a single page load can bounce through dozens of files and classes; it would probably be untenable without modern tooling.
Sorry. If I figure out what's causing it, I'll upstream the fix.
Only the OP would know for sure, but it might be the case that this never would've come into existence were it not for the project to land the messages about the company.
More evidence that people should use wrappers like OpenRouter and litellm by default? (Makes it easy to change your choice of LLMs, if one is experiencing problems)
OpenWRT MACsec (802.1AE) with 802.1X (EAPOL) key management with wpa_supplicant
The Apache foundation can take it
So all of medicine isn’t science? What a weird take
Agree, concise mode is much better for code. I don’t need you to restate the request or summarize what you did. Just give me the damn code.
This is an interesting point, but how do you this psychology as a field has or usefully could push against such forces? Is that its role even accidentally?
The name makes me think of Holomaxx Technologies (styled as holoMaXx technologies), the vanity DBA of one Ilarion Bilynsky, also known as SsZERO. SsZERO was a squirrely guy with an interesting USENET presence in the late nineties. At first he was a bit like the later Imari Stevenson: a spoiled, videogame-obsessed teenager whose confidence far exceeded his competence. He promised the Holomaxx Ultimate Video Game Project or UVGP, a kickass game console that would beat all others and even feature AGI, to everyone on rec.games.programmer and several other newsgroups, and became quite truculent, to the point of rudeness, when actual game devs replied with constructive criticism. He accused them all of "thinking linearly", as opposed to his own "dimensional thinking". This was a TimeCube-like epistemology of Ilarion's creation, under which a circle can be a straight line at the same time, if you rotate it by 90 degrees, given by 90(n) so 90(45) would be a line at a 45-degree angle, that still had the properties of the original circle. It was also critical to how the UVGP worked, as it would possess "dimensional logic" and a "dimensional information crossover" or DFX. If you note that "information" begins with I and not with F, well, you're just not thinking dimensionally my friend.

Needless to say the UVGP never came to fruition, or else it exists in a higher dimension us linear thinkers just can't comprehend. Ilarion would then pivot Holomaxx into a reseller of computer and audiophile parts (thousand-dollar speaker wires and the like), as well as a bespoke web development company (I think they claimed Kazaa as a client). They are most famous, however, for unsuccessfully suing Microsoft and Yahoo! because the spam filters at those two providers filtered out correspondence originating from Holomaxx as spam. The case of Holomaxx Techs. v. Microsoft is cited in case law concerning the reach of the CAN-SPAM Act and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, in terms of how much discretion a provider has in filtering communications going over their network that are, in the provider's determination, harmful.

I don't know where I'm going with this except to say that until I dived in and checked out the authorship, I wondered if Ilarion were involved with this desktop project. It sounds like the sort of thing he might get involved with, especially since SGI was synonymous with "kickass computing power" among gamers in the 90s. Thanks for the trip down 90s USENET memory lane, MaXX Desktop!
“Valuable” only makes any sense when qualified with to whom, and your claim is clearly not true with any human or set of humans in that role.
More like the general population doesn't understand how technological dark patterns are used against them. Blissful ignorance, while the rest of us, who know whats going on, suffer.
Thank you! I start now
Startup Founder Who Sold A.I. Chatbot to Schools Is Charged with Fraud
Paxton isn't suing an administration, he's suing another organization.
It's really easy to promise things you have no intent of doing, raising capital, and then liquidating the shares you own at inflated value to sponsor even more insane moonshot ideas. If you're smart you can even shoehorn in a few government subsidies predicated on a product category you abandoned behind closed doors.

Between FSD, the $25,000 EV and uh... X, I'm getting pretty convinced that publicly recognized success isn't the goal anymore.
I recommend this TED talk by a well known primatologist about primate alpha males, including humans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPsSKKL8N0s
Ah, cool, that’s essentially what I’m doing too. Rust binary does the system interactions. I’m just using a pretty simple json RPC over stdio though.
The relative performance in err/watts/time compared to deep learning for feature selection instead of principal component analysis and standard xgboost or tabular xt TODO for optimization given the indicating features.

XAI: Explainable AI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explainable_artificial_intelli...

/? XAI , #XAI , Explain, EXPLAIN PLAN , error/energy/time
Just in case you haven't seen it, there's a new free plan with no overages for small projects that you don't want to worry about overages for: https://www.netlify.com/blog/introducing-netlify-free-plan/
> I always recommend to use only US English in your code. If you mix both British and American spellings, it will introduce some sort of confusion for later and might lead to interrogations for new developers joining the development of your software.

No it won't.

> Finally, I’ve noticed that it's easier to mispell words with the British spelling like typing “colur” instead of “colour”.

You misspelt "misspell". That significantly undermines your claim.
they could adopt mold as a linker
I dont think I'm pulling from generalizations, just the stated impacts form the people that live there. The article talks about farmers "storming" meetings and their water from the Klamath being cut off in the past.

Im not even trying to argue these people are correct, Im just perplexed that you seem to deny that the people the article talks about even exist
Security threats to undersea cables and infrastructure (2022)
Based on a cursory glance at google results, 10% is at the lower bound of weight increase, and in sudden stop scenarios I would assume tyre grip is the main factor in speed reduction potential, not engine/regenerative braking. I'm not aware of any convincing studies showing a clear advantage for EVs in these scenarios.
Hi, thanks for this, you know what would be great? Being able to see the actual algorithm used in code somewhere in the UI, maybe when you select one algorithm display its related code in a panel below, and if you could also show in what step of the code is when animating,that would be mind-blowing.
Actually, it may just as likely be that the interviewer is looking to see if you over complicate things. So _ask_.
There's more to knowledge than just reproducible outcomes.

For example, history is frustrating because you are going to end up in unique circumstances and you're not going to be able to see into the future, only the present. Yet, we must at least have an understanding of the world around us and critical thinking skills that can only come from with doing history.
From "Interpretable graph neural networks for tabular data" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37269881 :

> TabPFN: https://github.com/automl/TabPFN .. https://x.com/FrankRHutter/status/1583410845307977733 [2022]

"TabPFN: A Transformer That Solves Small Tabular Classification Problems in a Second" (2022) https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08945

> FWIU TabPFN is Bayesian-calibrated/trained with better performance than xgboost for non-categorical data
1 month per year is mandatory in Brazil.
Nobody has found a contradiction in (first or second order) ZFC in over a hundred years. You're out of your depth.
Swift: Improving the approachability of data-race safety
Didn't the same thing happen with TV?
I'm not sure if this is the main point of the article (but it does at least mention it), a good intuitive visualization of how the sphere can be thought of as asymmetric is the Hairy Ball Theorem[0], which basically states: "you can't comb a hairy ball flat without creating a cowlick"

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem
It just so happens that I am reading Andrei Sakharov's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Sakharov) memoirs, he was heavily heavily involved in USSR's thermonuclear weapons design and development, and then became a peace activist, dissident and eventually a Nobel Peace prize winner. His memoirs are a mix of highly technical details and lovely descriptions of people. He mentions "demon core" in passing in an early part of the book, and I am paraphrasing/translating here, their "object" (barbed-wire walled off city, similar to Los Alamos, except USSR had way more of them) had technician who was measuring things just like the guy doing it with demon core - neutron flux, neutron absorption, etc; the measurements were using gaskets of standard width, with multiple layers in between the half-spheres; the technician was a) very capable, b) getting there in age and crucially c) prone to hitting the bottle at work. He eventually got caught and was immediately sacked and replaced with someone a) less capable and b) younger but c) not drinking, who eventually did something similar and I quote "although no lives were lost like in american incident, lots of equipment was ruined". He proceeds to add that they added lots of procedures and fail checks and safety equipment, and it slowed things a lot. He also quips then that after he learned about USA mishaps, he wasn't surprised that stuff like that went on "over there" too.
He can deregulate all he want, I don't know how this correlates with fixing inflation or getting jobs back. Quite the contrary; you need regulations to respect unions or control rent prices.

What do we have to show for all that deregulation? Bunch of environmental progress reverted, underfunding the organization for pandemic prep when a global pandemic hits, less bite behind anti trust investigations. Regardless of my stance on these, how do any of these bring down the price of groceries or not price out people on rent?
Show HN: AI bot that automatically processes unstructured documents
Hi HN!

We’re excited to share what we’ve been working on—a bot that automates the tedious task of processing unstructured documents from emails and entering them into ERPs. After many iterations, we’ve achieved 99.8% accuracy in extracting and mapping data from invoices, POs, and other documents.

One surprising takeaway from this journey: building the AI was only 10% of the challenge! The real work came from handling edge cases, integrating seamlessly with various ERPs, and creating a reliable pipeline for real-world documents with messy formats.

We’d love your feedback, thoughts, or questions about how we built this, the challenges we faced, or anything else. Let us know what you think!

Thanks for checking it out!
Reminder that ssh'ing to some random server is not without some privacy concern.
It's not my opinion. The ITU permitting system described in my link is the (negotiated) international system that exists today. If you're suggesting it might be re-negotiated to allow latecomers to build constellations below 500 km, then we agree.

However your idea of "annulling" permits already given out isn't necessary, or politically feasible, or even desirable.

"Annulling" is just one HN user's jealous destruction fantasy.
Do you mean hostapd? I'm not aware of any builtin kernel/modules doing AP stuff.
Tjq: Giving Types to Jq
talking to people from countries where chinese cars are sold one can easily conclude that most of chinese cars are not alike their other products - mostly
garbage. bricked all the time, no parts, no repair shops, no infrastracture… while they may gain short-term traction it won’t last
Looks like the video in the readme doesn't work in all browsers (in my case, firefox).
If it were so easy then why doesn't every billionaire/CEO do it? Elon's companies are vastly outcompeting in their specific domains (Tesla for electric cars, SpaceX for space, satellite internet), despite the many failures on the way.
A Critique of Unfounded Skepticism Around AI for Chip Design
This deserves its own post!
We need to stop allowing toddlers into this country unchecked
https://archive.ph/MERwe

I clicked on that link expecting the founder to be on the Forbes 30 under 30. And, she’s on that list. That list’s brand has gone down.
You could support mobile platforms as well. IIRC, even if Android allows creating only one window per activity, this behavior can be easily mapped on the abstraction that you provide.
Paraffin wax (chocolate), polyethylene glycol (toothpaste), vanillin (vanilla flavoring), benzaldehyde (almond flavoring), and the plastic coating on medicine pills are all derived from petroleum.

You've likely been eating or using food grade petroleum products your whole life.
That's something I plan on looking into at some point. I'm unsure if I want that in the main version or a separate branch for embedded devices.

It's low priority though because my main focus is desktop applications.
You raise an interesting point. If the filtered out illegal moves were disadvantageous, it could be that if the model had been allowed to make any moves it wanted it would have played to a much worse level than it did.
I'm aware of the errors for the micro UI (on the web), it's something I plan on looking into soon!
I enjoyed the article, but the unintentional Easter egg at the end left me in stitches: the link to “If Architects had to work like Programmers” just 404s, which feels spot on.
Yes and it’s also interesting that they mention using Trainium to do the training. I don’t know how much spend that is, but it seems really interesting. Like, if you’re AWS, and you imagine competing in the long run with NVIDIA for AI chips, you need to fund all that silicon development.
RAG-Native Document DB
I tried out Claude once, I found it was alright but not much better than ChatGPT for what I was doing at that point

Then I thought I'd try it again recently, I went onto the site and apparently I'm banned. I don't even remember what I did...
By a somewhat generous interpretation classical computer memory depends on implicit duplication/majority vote in the form of increased cell size of each bit instead of discrete duplication. Same way as repetition of signal sent over the wire can mean using lower baudrate and holding the signal level for longer time. A bit isn't stored in single atom or electron. A cell storing single bit can be considered a group of smaller cells connected in parallel storing duplicate value. And the majority vote happens automatically in analog form as you read total sum of the charge within memory cell.

Depending on how abstractly you talk about computers (which can be the case when contrasting quantum computing with classical computing), memory can refer not just to RAM but anything holding state and classical computer refer to any computing device including simple logic circuits not your desktop computer. Fundamentally desktop computers are one giant logic circuits.

Also RAID-1 is a thing.

At higher level backups are a thing.

So I would say there enough examples of practically used duplication for the purpose of error resistance in classical computers.
Came here to say that, this is the first time that i had to put full attention so i can barely read that page
Broadcast Key Rotation in WPA2-Enterprise WLANs (2017)
One of the example memes in the article is Osaka, which may have added to the confusion.
You don't need to precisely know about the future to know that inheritance isn't for sharing behavior. Unfortunate it's not really taught properly.
The `await` keyword means "turn the rest of this function into a callback for the when the Task I'm waiting on finishes, and return the resulting Task". Returning a Task only works if your function is declared to return a Task.

The `async` keyword flags functions that are allowed to be transformed like that. I assume it could have been made implicit.

You can do a blocking wait on a Task or collection of Tasks. But you don't want to do that from a place that might be called from the event loop's thread pool (such as anything called from a Task's completion callback), since it can lock up.
Aren't new comments blocked after N days?
Nope they have supported AWS deployments for a long time, and now even more of the spend will be on AWS.

> Anthropic has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon, and has agreed to train its flagship generative AI models primarily on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division.
When I was an infant taking my first couple years of EE I joined right in with everyone else ridiculing the "basket weavers".

Now I say that stem is just a tool that does no good by itself. It's just as harmful as beneficial. An engineer doesn't like to think of themself as a tool, but tough shit. Without the humanities an engineer is exactly that, merely a tool that others wield, and others decide how to wield and to what ends.

Stem tells you how to build a bridge or a bomb. The humanities tells you whether/when/why to build a bridge or a bomb.
`await` is only logically blocking. Internally the code in an async function is split up between each `await` so that each fragment can be called separately. They are cooperatively scheduled so `await` is sugar for 1) ending a fragment, 2) registering a new fragment to run when X completes, and 3) yielding control back to the scheduler. None of this internal behavior is present for non-async functions - in C# they run directly on bare threads like C++.

Go's goroutines are comparable to async/await but everything is transparent. In that case it's managed by the runtime instead of a bit of syntactic sugar + libraries.
At least in JavaScript, you could mark all of your functions as `async`.

This would mean that function would have to return a Promise and go back to the event loop which would add overhead. I imagine it'd kill performance since you'd essentially be context switching on every function call.

The obvious workaround for this is to say "I want some of my code to run serially without promises", which is essentially is asking for a `sync` keyword (or, `async` which would be the inverse).
Very nice. Made me think of Paul Simon, made me relisten to Graceland, the song. Always a great listen, great sound. Thought it was just about him paying tribute to musical roots, 'Mississippi delta' and all that. But wait what? 'after the failure of his marriage.'... 'Actress and author Carrie Fisher'. Well internet, Today I Learned.

Huge aside aside, aren't these songs a little similar?
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34619013 :

> /? awesome "explainable ai" https://www.google.com/search?q=awesome+%22explainable+ai%22

- (Many other great resources)

- https://github.com/neomatrix369/awesome-ai-ml-dl/blob/master... :

> Post model-creation analysis, ML interpretation/explainability

> /? awesome "explainable ai" "XAI"
GNU C++ once had a system called Signatures, could support mixing in. It was removed. Many years ago now I think.

A signature resembles a class declaration in that it specifies member functions. A signature is never instantiated. Rather any class which has those member functions conforms to the signature, and a signature-typed pointer can point to instances of that class. Thus signatures bring about quack-like-a-duck polymorphism not requiring inheritance.
IMO, emacs isn't a real option when you're talking about a group of developers. The people for whom emacs is a real option likely already use emacs (same with (n)vim), but that choice is made at the individual level, rather than at the team level.

It's unlikely that a given team/workplace is going to roll out dev tooling that is just a pile of elisp. With VS Code, you can drop a couple of JSON files into your project, commit and push them, and then everyone has a preconfigured set of tools that match the needs of that project.
I was able to tell because the distant houses are placed in a nonsensical formation in the AI image, but in the human image they make sense (they're more of a 'swoosh').
visit a gun show anywhere nearby where you live and observe for an hour or two, your doubts will melt away…
AI summary tools are probably more accurate than the average HN comment!

It’s useful not because it lets you skip the podcast and get all the info. But because it gives a glimpse and lets you decide whether to listen for 60 minutes or not.
Mobile control smooth as well
Another comment says that some salmons (a small fraction) swim up the randomly "wrong" rivers, instead of back to where they were born.

So, a bunch of salmons have been trying each year in the river with that dam? But:

"hundreds of salmons failed to swim past a dam"

didn't break the news
it is also not easy to become POTUS but someone like Donald pulled it off twice :)
Guide to 3D Print Motorized Rotation Mounts for Optical Applications (2021)
"Amazon Web Services will also become Anthropic’s “primary cloud and training partner,” according to a blog post."

So yes, if we consider Amazon datacenters to be the equivalent of an office for an AI.
My first question any time I see another quantum computing breakthrough: is my cryptography still safe? Answer seems like yes for now.
Mega Launch Week is like Black Friday for developers
The defender holds the line until it collapses because they've exhausted manpower and weapons.

Or the aggressor gives up because the cost is simply too high, and the whole thing was completely optional for them to begin with, anyway.

As all colonial powers do eventually.
https://blogs.igalia.com/scerveau/introducing-gstpipelinestu...

I am trying to make efficient gst pipelines for security cameras. I only took a quick look at GPS so far. The UX for making connections is a little weird, but so far the whole tool seems to work as advertised.