skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to be saying that because we don't only deal with "statistical systems" we don't ever or otherwise aren't institutionally or professionally familiar with them.

This is simply not the case.

Your career path may have only ever used deterministic components that you could fully and easily model in your head as such, like assigning to and reading from some particular abstract construct like the variable in your example. I don't really believe this is true for you, but it's what you seem to be letting yourself believe.

But for many of the rest of us, and for the trade as a whole, we already use many tools and interface with many components that are inherently non-determinstic.

Sometimes this non-determinism is itself a program effect, as with generative AI models or chaotic or noisy signal generators. In fact, such components are used in developing generative AI models. They didn't come out of nowhere!

Other times, this non-determinism is from non-software components that we interface with, like sensors or controllers.

Sometimes we combine both into things like random number generators with specific distribution characteristics, which we use to engineer specific solutions like cryptography products.

Regardless, the trade has been collectively been doing it every day for decades longer than anybody on this forum has been alive.

Software engineering is not all token CRUD apps and research notebooks or whatever. We also build cryptography products, firmware for embedded systems, training systems for machine learning, etc -- all of which bring experience with leveraging non-deterministic components as some of the pieces, exactly like we quiet, diligent engineers are already doing with generative AI.
If it happens regularly we'll see private armies to protect the corpos. Deus Ex: HR's 2027 "prediction" of that dystopia could still come true.
Cache from GitHub Actions breaking change
This feels like a very sudden abrupt change and breaking the build for all old branches/tags feels so odd for such a critical component of the build process for GitHub Actions
yeah, as someone who is far from programming, the amount of time and money it saved me helping me make sql queries and making php code for wordpress is insane. It even helped me fix some wordpress plugins that had errors and you just copy paste or even screenshot those errors until they get fixed! If used correctly and efficiently the value is insane, I would say $20, $200 is still cheap for such an amazing tool.
> Did correcting the others make them more fun?

I don't generally find correcting others fun, unless they don't take it well and make a scene about it in which case that can certainly be some delicious schadenfreude. That doesn't happen with the game group, they're generally receptive.

I think the games probably got more fun though. Presumably those rules are there for a reason, and it's not like I'm staring at the rulebook the whole time. I either had a question come up as a part of gameplay the group couldn't answer confidently or something didn't feel right about how the game was playing so I checked and found what I found. On more than one occasion this has led to someone else in the group pointing out some other related element they had found weird until then.
Yes. Something HTMX evangelists always forget to mention is that HTMX is not a replacement for React -- HTMX + a backend is. This introduces a whole new layer of complexity; it's a total tradeoff. That is to say there are probably React apps that would be better as HTMX apps.
Province of Ontario literally just passed a bill (212) to rip up already-installed bike lanes in City of Toronto at an estimated taxpayer cost of ~$50MCAD, despite opposition from city residents AND city officials, which is unheard of because municipal infrastructure is outside the scope of the province.
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Got it running on my pi
>Whether LLM's help you at your work is extremely domain-dependent.

I really doubt that, actually. The only thing that LLMs are truly good for is to create plausible-sounding text. Everything else, like generating facts, is outside of its main use case and known to frequently fail.
i think its rolling out slowly. i didnt see it at first but now i do.
I use carrot weather with the critical alerts feature on the iPhone. It works great.
It is probably hard to come up with good benchmarks for VLMs like this, but I feel like the "Non entailment sentences" benchmark seems ill-suited. The examples for sentences that were non entailment included[1]: "There is a pile of horse manure in front of the horse." Which is true if you mean "in front of the [photosubject] from the perspective of the camera," but I think they marked it as non entailment because the pile is not in front of the horse's face(?)

[1] page 20 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.03555
Doesn't that completely depend on those chances and the magnitude of +whatever?

It just seems to me that you really need to know the answer before you ask it to be over 90% confident in the answer. And the more convincing sounding these things get the more difficult it is to know whether you have a plausible but wrong answer (aka "hallucination") vs a correct one.

If you have a need for a lot of difficult to come up with but easy to verify answers it could be worth it. But the difficult to come up with answers (eg novel research) are also where LLMs do the worst.
Yeah, but you personally don't pay $200/month out of your pocket for the intern. Heck in Canada, govt. actually rebates for hiring interns and co-ops.
When I worked full-time, the biggest demotivator was when my manager wanted to plan every aspect of a project. It took all the fun out of exploring. And now I work for myself, and I am much more productive than ever because I just let most projects go where the wind blows...
It's so strange to me that in a forum full of programmers, people don't seem to understand that you set up systems to detect errors before they cause problems. That's why I find ChatGPT so useful for helping me with programming - I can tell if it makes a mistake because... the code doesn't do what I want it to do. I already have testing and linting set up to catch my own mistakes, and those things also catch AI's mistakes.
If I have to do the work to double-check all the answers, why am I paying $200?
This mentality is so weird to me. The desire to throw a black box at a problem just strikes me as laziness.

What you're saying is basically wow if we had a perfect magic programmer in a box as a service that would be so revolutionary; we could reduce the need for static checkers.

It is a large language model, trained on arbitrary input data. And you're saying let's take this statistical approach and have it replace purpose made algorithms.

Let's get rid of motion tracking and rotoscoping capabilities in Adobe After Effects. Generative AI seems to handle it fine. Who needs to create 3D models when you can just describe what you want and then AI just imagines it?

Hey AI, look at this code, now generate it without my memory leaks and deadlocks and use-after-free? People who thought about these problems mindfully and devised systematic approaches to solving them must be spinning in their graves.
I think that's the point, isn't it? Get the fleet deployed and learn how to drive in very tough cities (LA, Miami, etc.)
I think you might be comparing your memories of Ampere's CPU power draw to either a full Epyc server's wall power draw or stated TDP. The 128 core EPYC 9754 in the chart linked above has a min of 10 W and a max draw of 397 W even though it outperforms the new 192 core variant AmpereOne A192-32X which had a min of 102 W and a max of 401 W.

The min on the A192 does seem anonymously high though. That said, even the M128-30 has a min of 21 W or about twice that of the AmpereOne.
I learn stuff when using these tools just like I learn stuff when reading manuals and StackOverflow. It’s basically a more convenient manual.
It's not relevant for the same reason that it isn't relevant in the driver's license example.

If you don't have a license, then get a friend to drive you. Or get an Uber. But you can't drive yourself. If you do, no matter how reasonable you feel your case was, you'll be in trouble.

In this case, they had an inoperable device, and they had a judge. Absolutely nothing stopped them from filing for yet another warrant and then proceeding only when they actually had it. But no. They wanted to skip their paperwork. They shouldn't get to.

The paperwork exists for a reason. That reason is why we shouldn't retroactively hand out warrants. And that's why we shouldn't do it here. The fruit of the tree and all that. The government knows how to do it right, and absolutely shouldn't. They don't get to beg a friendly judge for forgiveness later. They had no excuse for not simply doing it completely right.
the disconnect here is you have a status quo biased thinking

the current state of things is, roads get all the money and transit and bike infra get scraps and are poorly run (so are FDOT road projects too btw)

no one disputes that?

what is being advocated is increasing trirail frequency, implementing an actual network of segregated greenways and expanding metrorail

you're saying "oh we can't do that"

but like, yes, we can? I promise you, if you send out construction crews to apply green paint and put down curbs for greenways, there's no natural law of the universe that would make the paint not come out

and once it's in place, there's nothing preventing millions of Miami residents from using them the same way they're being used in NYC, Montreal, Barcelona etc etc instead of having to get in the car for literally every single trip and errand

likewise if you procure trains there's no magic wall that prevents them from crossing into the state of Florida etc etc

these things are trivially achievable, but misinformed policymakers and voters alike think adding more roads is somehow not costing any money (it costs way more) and will fix traffic (it won't)
When I wanted to make a SPA for a project, I also wanted to avoid analysis paralysis. So I looked at Vue and React.

Getting started with Vue was so much easier, I never looked back to React.
I've heard so much about Claude and decided to give it a try and it has been rather a major disappointment. I ended up using chatgpt as an assistant for claude's code writing because it just couldn't get things right. Had to cancel my subscription, no idea why people still promote it everywhere like it is 100x times better than chatgpt.
Not if you make coffee at home.
This was part of the premise of o1 though, no? By encouraging the model to output shorter/longer chains of thought, you can scale model performance (and costs) down/up at inference time.
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Yeah, planning can feel like a trap sometimes. But take the example of the discovery of penicillin. It was a fluke... If the scientist had followed rigid steps, he might’ve missed that moment. Flexibility and being open to surprises is key.
That'd be unironically simpler than the current state of things.
I maintain Redux, and I don't think Redux inspired this particular term usage (which came from the "Flux Architecture" pattern.)

As far as I know this usage ultimately derives from HTML `<form action={}>`.
I see people complaining a lot about React, why is it? What are the alternatives?

PS: I'm not a frontend engineer but I find this topic interesting.

Thanks!
> A con like that wouldn't last very long.

That's not a problem. OpenAI need to get some cash from its product because the competition is intense from free models. Moreover, since they supposedly used most of the web content and pirated whatever else they could, improvements in training will likely be only incremental.

All the while, after the wow effect passed, more people start to realize the flaw in generative AI. So current hype, like all hype, as a limited shelf life and companies need to cash out now because it could be never.
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The forensics report suggests the device was reflashed with its normal firmware, and a different set of forensics tools were used to access the device once it was repaired.

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iPhone XS to unlock the device and obtained a Full File System extraction from the iPhone 6.
While unemployment rate is relatively low this measure masks deeper problems felt by those working to try and make a living.

Specifically, labor participation is near an all-time low so discouraged workers, who aren’t counted in unemployment numbers, are excluded.

Also, there has been a marked and ongoing shift from full-time jobs with benefits to part-time, casual, and gig work.

Finally, the widely cited consumer price index is a very politicized and skewed measure of the true inflation facing consumers. It ignores the real cost of home ownership via owner equivalent rent measures. It uses a process called substitution to replace suddenly expensive goods with cheaper goods. It includes arbitrary adjustments for improved quality of goods that aren’t always perceived by purchasers who only see the higher prices and these adjustments only work in one direction to skew CPI lower. That’s why consumers often perceive inflation to be higher than the CPI measure.
First off the historical record in clothing is dominated by the wealthy, and in particular the notable clothing of wealthy. You would need to compare this to haute couture of the present.

Now examples are dominated by average people, wearing inexpensive fashion that is mass produced.
Ah yes, there it is.
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Memory is all we have
It is illegal to intentionally destroy something that you suspect could be evidence in a future criminal case against you. Say you operate an illegal drug network from a specific phone that you've intentionally setup to self-destruct at reboot. Both you and the cops know there is likely evidence on there that would implicate you. Then, if you either intentionally reboot the phone or maybe the battery dies while in police custody before they can access it and the phone is wiped, you could be liable for destruction of evidence. However, if it's just a standard smartphone and you accidentally drop it in the toilet, unintentionally destroying all evidence, you may not be liable.

Basically, if you intentionally destroy evidence, either actively passively, you're liable.

It is kind of a broad law and is difficult to prosecute in many cases. The cops have to know that you did the crime and prove that the evidence existed. If you murdered someone and made it look like a suicide, the cops would have to not only suspect you but also know that you left fingerprints and DNA behind that are no longer present.
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I would hesitate to hire an intern that makes incorrect statements with maximum confidence and with no ability to learn from their mistakes.
I guess I see what you mean, but the way they handle difficulty scaling, and the existence of quest chains, by being more fake, is closer to how stories are told, than the more 'realistic' simulation of Dwarf Fortress.
I love website design for personal projects, but it is the least attractive of all development fields due to this complexity. I'm sure some people like it, but I found website dev a lot more fun 20 years ago...
>Bugs are simply not comparable to losing 2 aircrafts and killing hundreds of people

Software bugs caused 900 miscarriages of justice and "at least four suicides"[1]. The Crowdstirke bug caused millions of machines to go down and bililons in damage[2]. Sure, that might not compare to crashing 2 planes, but it feels entirely arbitrary to exclude those two cases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

[2] https://www.cio.com/article/3478068/counting-the-cost-of-cro...

>FAANG engineers have little impact on the org individually

Sounds like the "Responsibility will turn out to be so diffuse that no individuals will be found to be liable" excuse a few comments up. FAANG engineers are 100% responsible for memory corruption bugs that they introduce.
Then the lesson you have learned is “don’t blindly trust the machine”

Which is a very valuable lesson, worth more than $200
Yes, the data exists, but it’s so nuanced and complex that you can interpret it to fit almost any narrative.

Take California, for example: asking rents have increased by 26% over the last two years. But this figure reflects only asking rents, not what people actually pay—especially in areas with rent control.

If you’re looking to upgrade to a bigger place (e.g., moving in with a partner or preparing for a baby), it might feel like the economy is in shambles. On the other hand, if you’re staying put in a rent-controlled apartment, things might seem manageable.

The data is there—it’s the context and perspective that shape the story.
My machine learning model says that there is a 0.0047% chance of a 6.7 earthquake tomorrow.
Except Africa has in fact received billions in aid. Building factories & infrastructure like the BRI was all tried in the 60s, it never worked out due to failures of ISI development and weak governments and instuitions.

We've had 40 years of learning hard mistakes, if you believe the Western System is exploitative then the logical conclusion would be that isolation from that system would provide better outcomes, when in reality those that did stagnated. Domestic consumption markets are far too weak initially to drive growth, it's only through the focus on export surplus capacity to sell to open foreign markets that one can provide the impetus for growth.

But that's only possible so in as far the West or really the USA willingly chooses to open it's markets and let it's industries and blue-collar workers decline. From a global perspective, with the assumption that these developing markets would open their markets eventually would have been optimal in providing a path for everyone to develop. Except in reality, many of these countries especially now in the 2020s never intended to open their markets, they're perpetuating the massive trade imbalance with their neomercantalism. Which Varoufakis himself btw points out in The Global Minotaur as unsustainable.

Can you really say the USA is the oppressor in this instance or the victim in maintaining that massive trade deficit? If America decides to go protectionist (which is happening with Trump), the entire damn system collapses and the pathways for development will be closed for future nations.

It's not a question of whether China is building infrastructure or cheap cars for developing nations, it's whether they will be willing to let their industries be gouged by future upstarts. And with economic nationalism, the answer will always be no. And that goes for most of the "global south" for that matter. A zero-sum world for a zero-sum worldview. Compared to that, I would argue that America's attempt at positive-sum world was alot more charitable.
> anything about quality control in critical systems knows why its pursued at all costs

Nothing is pursued at all costs. Someone in a safety-critical function thinking they’re pursuing safety at all costs is incredibly dangerous because it suggests they don’t know the boundaries of their envelope.
> Imagine you decided to start developing websites today, how do you even start?

You learn vanilla HTML/CSS/JS (I think Mozilla has good courses on those). After making a few websites that way, you learn Svelte and you live happily ever after.

Avoid React, NextJS at all cost especially since many of these new frameworks actively try to screw over new developers with PaaS.
Sure, but is it so implausible that it could some day have the knowledge to perhaps exploit some security hole to run some code that does do things like disable things or exfiltrate data etc?
I wonder how much this relates to the placement of a washing machine and/or dryer.

It's typically in the kitchen in a British household, unless you have a house with a utility room or an old outdoor toilet (growing up, my house had an external downstairs toilet but it was just used for storage and the washing machine).

When I moved abroad though it wasn't unusual to see the washer/dryer in the bathroom.

> But the reason people wore those layers was not always necessarily to stay warm. In fact, the layers were worn in the summer in hot climates as well as during winter in cold climates.

This still holds up today. Can't speak for anywhere else but in the UK people will go out in 30ºC weather in an anorak or puffer jacket with a hoodie and tee underneath. The exact opposite of us northern British types who go out in winter wearing just one light layer at 5ºC (tee + jeans, top + skirt).