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A New Compiler for the Arnold Schwarzenegger Language
Very annoying marketing and pretending to be anything other than just wrapper around llama.cpp.
dont you search normally too? When you do this, you notice the main difference. I will create a bug report later, but i think the api isnt allowing this operators on google site? So they arent included
Coding Adventure: Rendering Fluids [Sebastian Lague] [video]
I mean, let's get rid of hourly wage. Make things fair for everyone. Value-based pricing.
Does this means it is a good idea? It is a whole other subject though.
That's true, but still almost no one wants to pay for that pleasure. People rather suffer day after day to save 50 bucks. Not saying purebasic is solid as I have never used it, but there are definitely times when I long back to the times when I could pay a few 100$ and get something that was batteries included and vetted without the breaking churn of people just dumping libraries online and hoping for the best.
Article title: Google CEO: A.I. is more important than fire or electricity

Quote from article: AI is one of the most important things humanity is working on. It is more profound than, I dunno, electricity or fire," says Pichai

——

That’s not the argument he made. I have said for a long time that you can find always someone saying anything you want on the Internet, with that you can paint your side/any-side all with the same brush even if it’s an opinion held by only 1 person.

There might some someone on Twitter who actually thinks AI is more _important_ than fire or electricity but that’s not a commonly held belief and it’s not even the case in the article you linked.
Travelling accommodation was usually some form of $5/night beach bungalow in some remote corner of the world. Thus the big savings compared to living in the states.

While working, I’d pick up a cheap room in a shared house for a few months.

These days I’d just stay remote. Maybe upgrade by a few dollars a night for A/C, reliable power and good internet.
Judging by your front page demo, your component stack is built on simple string concatenation (via untagged template strings), with nothing about escaping of any form, for any format. That's a very bad sign, you're just begging for injection attacks. There's absolutely no chance of me using a framework with a demo like that, even if it actually had decent tools for handling the situation.
The same "internet sleuths" who have had a 0% success rate in this kind of thing? He is probably more likely to get caught now that they're not involved and adding confusion by accusing innocent people.
I’m sure that zinger felt good to write.

But it doesn’t address the actual question, or point.

And I’m not your opponent.

If it’s important to earn the personal point to you, I’m happy to leave it here.

If it doesn’t show up in the polls, either it’s an impressive polling failure - which is a high bar that has to be passed.

Or it’s something else.

Manipulation also poses a very high bar that must be passed.
Show HN: DIY 80€ 3D Printer Basement Ventilation
> The critical step people seem to ignore is that after the LLM generates a response, you need a filter to determine whether it's correct or not.

And therein lies the problem. A vast swath of human users tend to turn off their brain when interacting with LLMs. They expect correctness from computers and thus do not understand they produce plausible looking text, not the truth.

I agree with your thesis, your comment is correct in all its technical details, but making everyone understand those very important points and act accordingly is a continuous uphill struggle.
Why exactly is the current system set up the way it is by politicians? I can think of at least one former politician who now sits on the board of a healthcare provider, it's a little dirty. Corporations lobby politicians all the time, maybe they should lobby for more regulation and consumer protection. You might say it's in everyone's best interest.
Too many people in the US are living paycheck to paycheck on hourly wages, many with two people in the household working full-time. This is becoming normal. A 4-day workweek will hurt them.
What I love about the idea of planetary systems around dwarf stars is that if the planets were close it would make interplanetary flight quite a bit faster and easier.

Now imagine multiple ones with life. Someone out there in the vastness of the cosmos might be LARPing Buck Rogers or Commando Cody.

Simple rockets could take you everywhere. It’d be like The Expanse but without the physicists nightmare fusion torches. Such things can maybe be built but it’s many orders of magnitude harder. These folks could be living the dream with 1950s level tech.

They probably look like crabs though.
That’s different, the austrian example was about actual mistakes in the way votes were counted, cast, who were allowed to vote etc. Not the same as «we blame foreign bots» and someone may have broken campaign finance laws.
You are viewing democracy in action. The silent majority took a vote.
Side topic but I’ve thought it would be cool for EV owners to offer their chargers up just for people in emergencies. Battery about to die. You could even charge a big mark up.

I’d be willing to help a poor traveler once a week or so.

Someone should make a website like that where ev owners can list themselves for emergency charging.
My friend used to shoot his silenced pistol in his garage, in a suburban neighborhood. Now it was just a .22lr, but he was never noticed.
Archived version: http://web.archive.org/web/20241207130925/https://www.middle...

Full study: https://witnessing-the-gaza-war.com/
Starting with I don't condone violence. But it is kinda pathetic that police forces, especially the NYPD which has billions of dollars in budget and countless years of experience, need to reach out to tiktokers who do this as a hobby for help training.
Some things are plain unimplementable in a nonleaky way without weak pointers (or even something stronger like ephemerons[1,2] or weak maps or the like), so at some point you have to face the music. Event / observer / dependency-graph / reactivity systems are one cluster of those.

[1] https://wingolog.org/archives/2022/10/31/ephemerons-and-fina...

[2] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2022-...
If I'd like to learn more about DPO and RLHF, I've been looking for toy problems/datasets to use but coming up a bit empty handed. Is there a convenient way to experiment with these methods through toy problems and simulation that can be done on a single GPU? The need for massive data and parameter counts to do anything interesting makes learning about these methods a little daunting.
Could you please add a function to check if a uuid exists?
I mean, these seem like good passwords at least.
Social media front end with a focus on custom branding and ease of use
Here is some analysis of the court documents:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42348942

"They document a social media campaign supporting Călin Georgescu that involved around 25,000 TikTok accounts coordinated through a Telegram channel, paid influencers, and coordinated messaging. "
True, they are for likes. Images with the most likes are kind of kitschy to me, sunset, mountains, or stuff like that. As a mediocre, or even bad photographer i can photograph whatever pleases me, and as amateur I am out of that race.
They are simply not counting the CC since it's not available money
thank you! although I wasn't able to win the hackathon it was still a fun experience :)
How do you use audio/video consistently across browsers? It looks quite different across the browser/platform combination matrix.
These come up every few weeks on HN. Something something Playwright, something GPT something.

I fully agree that you should try to sell the thing first, because a good chunk of the people who might want such a tool could already have the savvy required to bolt together the relevant open source and off the shelf building blocks.
I've been seriously considering learning some Perl 5-fu ever since I realized it's installed by default on so many Linux and BSD systems. I think even OpenBSD comes with perl installed.

That may not seem like a big advantage until you're working in an environment where you don't actually have the advantage of just installing things from the open Internet (or reaching the Internet at all).
I think it’s cool how you can essentially gain range when the number of charger locations increases. You can go to lower and lower charge levels if you know there’s a charger every few miles.

On the flip side. When there are few chargers you could be forced to charge at 60% battery!
Pleroma is a federated microblogging server software
Not even that is free of footguns, especially around argument parsing and calling native commands.
Question: is it depressing, or is it a wake up call for just how much the average American hates health insurance executives?

There seem to be a few people online who mirror your sentiments about being shocked, what defenders of the crime would call pearl clutching. I'm fascinated.

From my perspective, the idea of a vigilante being so burned by health insurance companies he tracks down and kills the CEO is not a shocking premise _at all_. Yet some (particularly health insurance industry workers / professionals on LinkedIn) are so shocked by this that it makes me wonder if there's an insulated echo chamber effect going on here.
the gradio ui looks ugly imo, that's why I used shadcn and next.js to make the website look good.

I'll try to make it as user-friendly as possible. Most of the websites are ugly + too technical.
There are only two audio transcription models. Is this generally true, are there no open source ones like llama but for transcribing? Or just small dataset on that site
You can have a look at Langroid -- it's an agent-oriented LLM programming framework from CMU/UW-Madison researchers. We started building it in Apr 2023 out of frustration with the bloat of then-existing libs.

In langroid you set up a ChatAgent class which encapsulates an LLM-interface plus any state you'd like. There's a Task class that wraps an Agent and allows inter-agent communication and tool-handling. We have devs who've found our framework easy to understand and extend for their purposes, and some companies are using it in production (some have endorsed us publicly). A quick tour gives a flavor of Langroid: https://langroid.github.io/langroid/tutorials/langroid-tour/

Feel free to drop into our discord for help.
Show HN: Browse HN's Favorite Reads of 2024 (Like NPR's Books We Love)
Hi all,

I love what NPR does with its end-of-year "Books We Love" page (https://apps.npr.org/best-books), and I wanted to build that for the HN community (as I get amazing book recs here).

Step 1 = Vote for your 3 favorite reads of 2024

Vote here -> https://shepherd.com/bboy/my-3-fav-reads/join?referrer_id=32...

(the referral ID is how I track that your vote goes toward HN, as I also do this for subreddits)

Step 2 = Browse everyone's picks!

Then, see what books the HN community loved the most this year:
https://shepherd.com/bboy/2024/hacker-news-community?referre...

You can break it down by published-in-2024 or by all-time.

And you can see all the picks by readers and break it down by genre here:
https://shepherd.com/bboy/2024?referrer_id=329d2f

This was fun to build :).

The biggest challenge is the genre data publishers provide, they often mark fantasy books as science fiction.

If you have any problems, let me know (ben@shepherd.com).

Thanks, Ben
As someone with a job I'm not giving up my job security to take a job that might go away after 1 month. Doesn't matter how much more it pays - I need income every month to pay rent!
> It’s a religious drive if you believe that a CEO should be the sacrificial lamb for the systems politicians have set up.

Are you implying the CEO is a victim of the system? If so he decided to further victimise dozens of thousands further, just like a murderer-robber is also a victim of the system, nonetheless their lack of morality made them perpetuate the system's violence.
Could some junk be similar to commented out code? Features ready to be turned on if ever needed.

It seems like that would be a smart strategy for evolution instead of permantely deleting something.
> I have said for a long time that you can find always someone saying anything you want on the Internet

Agreed. But who says it matters too. Some people scream into the void, others share opinions that sway elections and affect the lives of millions.

I’m not only considering Pichai, he was merely the first proxy I remembered. The point is that the importance and abilities of LLMs are regularly overstated.
Nice work shipping this! I enjoy and prefer f# to c# but never gave scripts much care because I could never do this, fsi and the repl was not enough. Now? Hmmm I have options !
If you ever happen to talk to normal people you realize people already feel very much "against the wall" when it comes to healthcare. People die everyday because their claims are denied. I am curious what you think the more rational way to be is in this world. The play of life and death is already our theater, but we are just supposed to take it I guess, never give it out.
It does work sometimes: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/he-will-not-divide-us
while we're at it*, RLF82: "Flattening spacetime near the Earth": https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.26.73...

* (and I am admiring the specificity of that HN acct)
Go (a.k.a. Golang), with its network-first import system (i.e. import "example.org/foo/bar"), has solved the problem in a surprisingly simple way. You just add a "replace" directive in a go.mod file and you can point your import (and all child imports) to any directory on the filesystem.
Hugs of Death: How should we think about resilience in the IndieWeb?
>if it’s an opinion held by only 1 person.

an opinion held by Sundar Pichai about technically important issues is much more than an opinion held by 1 person
Welcome to Kali Yuga. World wars, dictatorships, plagues and political repressions and assassinations are fashionable again.

Looking back at this time we will just say "yeah, these were the different times" and shrug.
The famous "dysentery edit", i assume.
Google didn't steal many Firefox users initially. They absorbed more new users in a rapidly growing market. They used to pay sites and downloads to install Chrome alongside whatever the user actually wanted to install (sometimes done without the user consent)

Later the network effects started going against Firefox but most people go by percentage of market and assume they were losing users long before they actually did.
Really enjoyed reading the post and the comments. And it’s good to see a general consensus on this point. I had a short stint at a legaltech startup and began putting together a framework for resolving drafting edits/conflicts. In the legal context, it was more critical that the user actively signed off on a change to avoid random errors, so my thought was to implement a UI/UX solution to review each change similar to Microsoft Word’s spelling and grammar check. There were some other options I proposed, like showing multiple ways that the change could be implemented. The team decided to focus on solving easier problems and the startup folded not too long after that. But it was a really fun exercise. Glad to see folks are still thinking deeply about it.
The guy had a silencer, is that a normal thing for a regular guy in New York to have? That and how it was carried out does make me think that it could be someone who is already out of the law.
Nice. Thank you. I will try my best. However now I am now at the point of my life that I try to listen to and understand the Hitchhiker's guide to Galaxy series. I went through Harry Potter - this is quite nice but children's language, and now when going deeper - it's really hard sometimes to figure out what's there. Also Ursula Le Guin is hard to bear for me (listening too) - the older English is harder.
This reminds me of Ken McElroy [1], murdered in broad daylight with ~40 people present yet no witnesses.

Did this CEO deserve to be shot in the back? No, and vigilantism shouldn't be celebrated. Instead we should invest time in understanding why our laws and society structure allows (even promotes) the kind of corporate exploitation of the public that is enough to drive someone to murder.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy
It's a classic Robin Hood kind of hero, an established trope that everyone likes. I don't get how anybody can be surprised by this happening in a country which is obsessed with comic books and made hero movies it's main cultural export.
Seems like nobody condoned it, but nobody was interested in helping either. Not helping is not condoning.

Are you helping sleuth for his killer?
Truly one of the underrated perks of adulthood is deliberately misusing current slang to annoy young people! Put that in your gyatt and vape it!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/unitedhealthcare-brian-thomps...

Not sure about testify, but there is a probe and he is not the only implicated exec.
Is this a shot at zoning? This particular problem would be and has been solved by known better regulation. The macro housing market demonstrates that most people don’t want to live in an imaginary Randian empire.
>One known issue is that vacuum will become an issue if the load is persistent for longer periods leading to bloat.

Generally what you need to do there is have some column that can be sorted on that you can use as a high watermark. This is often an id (PK) that you either track in a central service or periodically recalculate. I've worked at places where this was a timestamp as well. Perhaps not as clean as an id but it allowed us to schedule when the item was executed. As a queue feature this is somewhat of an antipattern but did make it clean to implement exponential backoff within the framework itself.
I have no clue who this is for but the red flags are popping up all over the place for me.

First page is incredibly flowery about what it is, to the point I still have no freaking clue what this is. Is it JS? Is it BASIC? Not clear at all.

Then I clicked the menu to see the docs and was surprised to see a “Pricing” tab “Uh, what? A paid language/transpiler? Immediate no”.

I started looking for docs and couldn’t find them, finally found them linked at the bottom of the Support page… Obviously that’s where it’d be…

Lastly the docs are hot garbage. A page of links to single pages without navigation to the rest of the docs. What year is it? Oh and “Getting Started”? Yeah, it talks about their custom IDE, and that’s the final nail in the coffin (that was already pretty sealed up).
What visa did they use?
The guy probably knew he was a pencil pushing mass murderer of sorts; doesn't mean he should be shot by vigilantes, but in modern society it seems you get away with this (boeing ceo, this guy etc) if you trust on the system as 'he is just maximizing profits, great US company, we are the greatest country because of people like this blah blah' (until it's your mother or sister or whatever ofcourse).

You don't have to justify anything by not wanting to help catching the killer though; it's their choice.

I have never been in this situation (not allowed here), but as I said before, I find the restraint amazing; if a family member would have paid for 30 years in some insurance and then gets denied because some AI said no, I find it hard to imagine this type of vigilante stuff is so rare. And the ceo really knows this is happening so he should go to jail, at least. Not just a slap on the wrist.
Oh, yes, I think it was Digital Unix. IIRC, we toyed with OSF/1, but there wasn't much call for it.
Matt Yglesias Is Confidently Wrong About Everything
Definitely feels like there is some sort of unmentioned safety net at play. Or guy is just fearless.
There will just be a new CEO who will continue those same practices. How can this possibly be misconstrued as something impactful upon the broken system
My immediate thought was of oligarchs falling out windows in Russia but something more mundane like him being a risk to a criminal outfit is more likely.

Making it look like a populist vigilante to the point of staging a performative message would be a good way to confuse and throw the investigation.

We’ll see if they find the guy.
Looked like a custom weapon to me, which would be a smart move to avoid being traced, also explains the jamming. Custom silencers can cause a semi-auto to jam if the tolerances are crap, but a completely custom, say 3D printed gun, might jam from any number of issues...
Nobody is justifying the killing. They just don’t care to help find the killer.
Testify the next day on what? Can you provide more info please?
(not American here, but curious about the situation because healthcare is broken in so many countries).

Money is a weapon of vote too, if you don't subscribe to UnitedHealthcare, in the long run the corporate should eventually disappear as a whole no ?

If you dislike Uber, then don't buy Uber.

In Switzerland they have such capitalistic system where you can pick your private insurance provider. So the most expensive / worse ones, gets less revenue.

In France, they have a socialo-communist monopoly, no choice, only one choice, and you have to be happy with it, no matter what.

I guess that's the main promise of capitalism; voting with your money (money that is supposed to come proportional to your efforts, though it is warped by crime, cryptos, inheritance, etc).

For example, if you stop buying meat, and convince others to stop buying meat, then there will less people investing into meat.

EDIT: Users explained (thanks!) that it was not really a free choice.
Damn, there was a bat hiding out in my room for ages when I was a kid. Glad to say I never got rabies.
He isn't from New York.
He is just another drone responding to the market signals and the incentives are structured in a way to select for this kind of behavior. Yes, he can very well be morally corrupt, but it's not the point.
A lot of people give NASA crap for delayed multi-billion dollar initiatives, saying things like "why could we do it 50 years ago, but not today with our almost infinitely more powerful technological resources." However, these discussion are never balanced with the seemingly equal magnitude increase in human safety standards (hence lower risk tolerance) because we know much more about physiology, and have much finer-grained undertsanding of system design and reliability - and the statistical risks they reveal. Not to mention the impact of the collective national psychological horror that we remember of losing a human crew in a space mission.

A lot of the risks we know of today are things that simply weren't known previously because the technology to characterise the risks to humans traveling to/in space just didn't exist. Now they do. So, the characterized risk is higher, and the effort to mitigate those risks costs much more (in both funding and time). Oh, and the complexity of hardware and software compound the problem.

However, when funding is spent and teams are allowed to power through, the results are largely successful missions - like being able to fly a freaking UAV on Mars, or crew an international space station, or self assemble the massive Webb telescope using a maneuver with over 200 potential single points of failure.

Perhaps the unspoken sentiment here is that people think we, as a species, should be braver and more risk tolerant?

Personally, I'd like to see a report on the magnitude of investment versus the liklihood of mission success versus the resolution and breadth with which we can characterize risk.
Also due to tidal lock “weather” they can simply kite their satellites (and rockets/missiles) to the orbit, for the most part. You open the hatch and let it fly. Don’t forget to close the hatch though, or your entire dream will fly too.
There's no more info because it is made up.
In that second case the string is better represented as "bytea", which has most (but not all) of the features of the "text" type.