skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. Acquisition of a second language is a very narrow field of research and to claim that there is a clear consensus on what works best is showing very little insight.
The point of this tech is that with scale it usually gets better at all of the tasks.
Yes, they cover this in the article. Flyby + probe.
Awesome. I recently had similar thoughts and then I was considering all the variations in the android eco system. Lots of times when I am helping I have to just rely ony intuition because I am not familiar with the specific flavour of android used by Samsung or whatever else sonone might have.

I will have a look at your material. Maybe I can localize it to my needs.
>For many other small businesses, it is not.

They manged to form an LLC but can't fill out an additional simple form? Come on man be for real.
This seems to be part of the civilization / institution — chaos / individual retribution axis.

I.e. yes, we absolutely should prosecute more white collar crime.
We should still be looking at Venus cloud cities, they are much better than Mars, with at least as a magnetosphere.
At the core the AI is just taking random branches of guesses for what you are asking it. It's not surprising that it would lie and in some cases take branches that make it appear to be covering it's tracks. It's just randomly doing what it guesses humans would do. It's more interesting when it gives you correct information repeatedly.
It feels LLM generated, maybe it's just my imagination.
While I was at Google I was loaned out to the Android team to work on contact synchronizing. There was a problem that I was running into, but it was an extremely rare situation. I pulled aggregated data from production, and it looked like it would affect 0.01% of people. When I presented the solution and mentioned this error rate I was asked how those 200,000 Android users could remediate the situation. They couldn't, their contact sync would just be broken, so I was told to go back to the drawing board.

But yeah, it was the number that was humbling.

There are definitely areas where 4 nines are good enough, but there are just as many areas where the aren't.
I remember as a teenager having a lot of trouble with this

I think the school make a very poor job in making children curious about book stories, before start ramming you with 100s of pages of literary classics, so deep and powerful, that most teenagers are not gonna care

Especially when they are not incentivised at home. And have other more attractive stories going on in the form of games or movies

Read more in class, teachers know well most students haven't read anything at home. And most children will be afraid to admit to the class, and alone to the teacher, that they haven't read and are not following the story, so they don't get an explanation. Even though the teacher knows very well most students will be completely lost

Even reading the "not allowed" summaries before the quiz was a drag. It was just an exercise in survival and making it up

They should probably focus on shorter books, more captivating stories for children, like Harry Potter? ... tell the parents to read with the child at home and help them understand any difficult part, maybe get some comic books to start, maybe let children choose different themes like sci-fi action magic... Spend more time in the end hammering a 5 line story summary, the more important points that needed interpretation, why they are important...
I would like to take a second to say, it is horrible for anyone to lose their life and a terrible tragedy for their family, especially around the holidays.

That being said, I think that both the assassination and the public's reaction to it show very well the shift that we have had regarding business leaders in the US. In prior times, these people were often pillars of community and something like this would be unthinkable instead of celebrated.

Edit add: Reddit's actions don't surprise me in the least as they want to appear advertiser friendly.
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> Poetry is for the enjoyment and enlightenment of the reader.

Is it?

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
- Emily Dickinson

Clearly Dickinson believes it is far more than what’s at the surface. It is more than the rhyme and rhythm. They add to the effect, but they are not necessary conditions. It’s generally agreed upon that art is defined by making you feel.

Lay people are often uninterested in poetry because they didn’t study it. There’s nothing wrong with that. Many are put off by elitists, garbage, and the difficulty to parse. But this is true for any subject matter, we see similarities in programming and in science. You see even many from there point to the surface and dismiss despite the importance being underneath. But it also doesn’t have to be for everyone. It’s not about being smart or dumb either, as most people happily get into the depths of the subjects they enjoy. Be it a child’s obsession with dinosaurs, a teen’s obsession in videogames, or an elite academic. We all have that capacity but there are always hurdles to entry and sometimes the point is to stumble. When it is, removing the hurdles harms the domain, even though it’s almost always done with the best of intentions. Eventually you gotta touch the stove top to learn it’s hot
> React doesn't make you a better developer, it makes you a better React developer.

React's pure component functional style translates really well to nearly every other type of software development.
What new tech have they used to allow the in-situ data to be obtained that allows the lander to not be crushed/melt on the surface?
Show HN: PromptNinja – Test your prompts against adversarial attacks
I built this tool to help anyone writing prompts test them against various types of adversarial inputs and edge cases. It helps identify:

- Prompt injection vulnerabilities
- Unexpected behaviors
- Edge case failures
- Prompt stability issues

Whether you're building AI app, using ChatGPT, or just want to write better prompts, PromptNinja simulates different attack patterns and gives you a battle score based on how well your prompt holds up against various challenges.

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Feedback and suggestions welcome!
QuantumScape increases sample volumes of first commercial solid-state battery
Can he also multiply Loaves and fish ?
Tangent. Does any body have good tips for working in a company that is totally bought in on all this stuff, such that the codebase is a complete wreck? I am in a very small team, and I am just a worker, not a manager or anything. It has become increasingly clear that most if not all my coworkers rely on all this stuff so much. Spending hours trying to give benefit of the doubt to huge amounts of inherited code, realizing there is actually no human bottom to it. Things are merged quickly, with very little review, because, it seems, the reviewers can't really have their own opinion about stuff anymore. The idea of "idiomatic" or even "understandable" code seems foreign at this place. I asked why we don't use more structural directives in our angular frontend, and people didn't know what I was talking about!

I don't want the discourse, or tips on better prompts. Just tips for being able to interact with the more heavy AI-heads, to maybe encourage/inspire curiosity and care in the actual code, rather than the magic chatgpt outputs. Or even just to talk about what they did with their PR. Not for some ethical reason, but just to make my/our jobs easier. Because its so hard to maintain this code now, it is like truly a nightmare for me everyday seeing what has been added, what now needs to be fixed. Realizing nobody actually has this stuff in their heads, its all just jira ticket > prompt > mission accomplished!

I am tired of complaining about AI in principle. Whatever, AGI is here, "we too are stochastic parrots", "my productivity has tripled", etc etc. Ok yes, you can have that, I don't care. But can we like actually start doing work now? I just want to do whatever I can, in my limited formal capacity, to steer the company to be just a tiny bit more sustainable and maybe even enjoyable. I just don't know how to like... start talking about the problem I guess, without everyone getting super defensive and doubling down on it. I just miss when I could talk to people about documentation, strategy, rationale..
we found out that "lawful" intercept is a lie recently, and it left a gaping hole in our infrastructure

can we please encrypt everything and turn off government access for all communications now
I wonder how much of this is actually cinema. Because I just evaluated o1 and it can’t tie its own shoe laces, let alone get out of its sandbox where it plays with drool all over its face.

The marketing stunt seems to be: Portray it as potentially dangerous, as powerful things are inherently dangerous.
Using 90/10 split: that 10% of the time before being reduced to only take 10% of that makes 9% time savings.

160 hours a month * $100/hr programmer * 9% = $1400 savings, easily enough to justify $200/month.

Even if 1/10th of the time it fails, that is still ~8% or $1200 savings.
'Breakthrough' dementia drug looks to stop disease in its tracks
Yes, React uses semver. React 19 has been in development for over 2+ years - React 18.2 (the last meaningful minor release) came out in June 2022, so the release pace has been slow enough people have complained that it's _too_ slow:

- https://macwright.com/2024/01/03/miffed-about-react

(looks like the author may have an HN-specific redirect, so you might need to copy-paste that URL)
Yes! Venus just got a lot of attention lately, when it was clear Mars priorities were declining.

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/venuspage.html

DAVINCI - NASA Venus Flyby and Probe (2029)
VERITAS - NASA Venus Orbiter (2031)
EnVision - ESA Venus Orbiter (2031)

Davinci: https://ssed.gsfc.nasa.gov/davinci/

Veritas: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/veritas/

EnVision: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Envisi...

That davinci page is pretty cool!
> "...you can't just wreck people's lives for a living and expect no consequences..."

Considering how many people have had their identities stolen and suffered considerable financial damage thanks to sloppy programming and IT practices, I really would not cheer on the pursuit of that line of thought if I were you. The software industry is not exactly loved by the public right now.
Not talking about lower levels here because those are the commoners. High ranking freemasons such as those found in positions of power are obligated to get each other out of trouble to the greatest effort possible given the circumstances.
use the json mode in ollama
You don't have to be a cynic to be annoyed with a $200/month price. Just make a normal amount of money.
Why does it only operate in such tiny areas?
Frontend frameworks really do make things simpler once you go beyond small applications though. Automatically re-rendering when the data/model changes is the right thing to do.

We can argue over the specifics for sure, but simply imperatively changing your UI whenever your data changes doesn't scale very far, neither in term of codebase nor in terms of team.
That's because VC funded software development is a welfare program for smart people that also want to have fun. It's okay.
The challenges and controversies of crowd counting
Ah, so the best solution will be for Russia to show leadership by getting out of Ukraine altogether. That way there's no need for anyone to hold defensive positions or for cities to be used as shields.
they don't have chocolate outside of your home where you live? you have access to them only at your house?
the crazy part was that this was a phenomen in many countries. What does this say? That it's human nature? Or that our culture is just too damn similar? I don't know but worth some studies for sure ;)
An example of this is something I learned from a former employee who went to work for Encyclopedia Brittanica 'back in the day'. I actually invited the former employee to come back to our office so I could understand and learn from exactly what he had been taught (noting of course this was back before the internet obviously where info like that was not as available...)

So they charge (as I recall from what he told me I could be off) something like $450 for shipping the books (don't recall the actual amount but it seemed high at the time).

So the salesman is taught to start off the sales pitch with a set of encylopedia's costing at the time let's say $40,000 some 'gold plated version'.

The potential buyer laughs and then salesman then says 'plus $450 for shipping!!!'.

They then move on to the more reasonable versions costing let's say $1000 or whatever.

As a result of the first example of high priced the customer (in addition to the positioning you are talking about) the customer is setup to accept the shipping charge (which was relatively high).
Really a pity that Oracle killed off SPARC. They already had 32-core CPUs almost a decade ago but Oracle never really understood the value that SPARC and Solaris brought to the table.
A couple of points:

- Headline unemployment _is_ "people who want jobs [enough to be looking for them] but can't find one". The metric you linked to is including people outside the labor force and then weighting in a fairly opaque way. Between labor force participation being at the same point as it was 2014-2016 and unemployment being lower, I don't think it's fair to say unemployment stats are misleading. The point about underemployment is still definitely valid though.

- I'm with you that minimum wage should likely be higher, but federal minimum wage has never been intended to be "comfortable wage in a major metro". Major cities have their own minimum wages -- e.g., NYCs is $16/hr. Making $32k a year in NYC would of course not be comfortable, but is doable (eg you can rent a room in an apartment for $1k/mo, live off of oats and rice, etc). It's not intended to be a "head of household" wage, but "the least amount you can ever pay anyone"

Other than these nits I'm with you that stats don't cover the lived experience of all Americans and there's more too it than simply vibes. However I also do think that some of the vibecession is due to increasingly effective media manipulation to squeeze money from consumers. I (coincidentally just now) wrote a blog post explanding on this hypothesis here -
https://medium.com/@digital-cygnet/manipulated-into-malaise-...
All you're doing would be to kill companies above a certain size as literally every company makes mistakes and thus no one would have any interest in going to jail. A fantastic way to ruin the economy frankly.
Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO
The Acton Programming Language
You think they made more than $123M profit from this??

HN numbers are wild.
Boeing took a nose dive in standards and quality when they replaced people who understood engineering and product fundamentals with bottom-line focused MBAs. I hope Boeing serves as a cautionary tale for other companies, most others are not “too big to fail”.
The same motive that all nascent life has - survive and propagate.
Oh now I see it, it sorts of reminds me of lambda calculus
You're right about the "serving" thing. But in the US, at least, a cup in a culinary context means precisely eight ounces.
We have zero data or evidence to differentiate between "He was pushed out for being right about the ethics complaint" and "he was pushed out because he was wrong about the ethics complaint and did not take that well"

People are jumping to conclusions about who the aggrieved party is because they have a vague connection to the guy who made HowStuffWorks and zero connection to the counterparty. Especially on HN, people would rather believe that "the system is rigged against the brilliant individual" rather than "the individual can often be the problem".

Just as often as upper management is corrupt, a single individual who had NO PRIOR EVIDENCE OF NEGATIVE INTERACTION WITH ANYONE goes absolutely apeshit and attempts to destroy your life.

My mother is a well respected teacher. After about 4 years of working in a new school, one of the other teachers in her department seemingly got "triggered" and went utterly insane. He started fabricating ethics complaints, lying to administrators, and even went so far as to retain a lawyer to sue the school district to have her removed for his completely made up allegations. I read the complaint and I cannot believe a lawyer was willing to be paid to participate. It was pages of insane rantings, like manifesto level, full of misspellings and mistakes and made up entirely of outright lies. The internal investigation was terrifying, because it starts as "He said/She said". Luckily he was crazy enough to fill his allegations with things that were demonstrably disprovable with documentation, but without that, the school absolutely would have just let my mother go instead of fight it.

There was no "cause", no change in department policy that favored my mother over him, no change in pecking order, nothing. He just one day decided to go to war with her. He completely lost his connection to reality. Yet to his students, he continued to teach normally, and nothing seemed off.

We have no facts. We have no evidence. We likely never will. We should reserve judgement.
ChatGPT is a product that exists beyond just LLMs and I do use it synonymously with natural language interface AI
Would you mind sharing any favourite example chats?
For all those screaming confounds, you can run experiments. Just please keep sampling until you get good results for milk chocolate as well.
Thirty percent is a big number when you’re thinking of consequences like bankruptcy and death.
You need to get in touch with @keyvank!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42332337
You're right - at my coffee shop a cup of coffee is nine
Interesting post, but I’m not sure this really speaks to what goes into actually writing what would be considered a “fast” SAT solver. It seems more like a post about how SAT pops up in a lot of places if you look at them right. For the state of the art in what constitutes fast solvers, the annual SAT competition papers are quite interesting to read if you’re interested in the techniques people come up with to make them fast. A few years ago I was working through Knuth’s satisfiability book and writing my own solvers, and was always amazed how stunningly fast the SAT competition winners were compared to the ones I’d code up.
is your search operators stuff a little bit too specfiic? Kagi uses google, brave and others. i think the operators just dont work correctly and some you use, just dont exist. and your search this way is highly specfic. when you search regulary you will notice the difference. look at the listable filter when search normally. Your example just doesnt work.

btw this gives more, though some incorrecT: 2024 backup intitle:Index intitle:of

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/search-operators.html
US law prohibits this behavior.

This is because the US wants other countries to confidently allow free trade or event privileged relations with it.
I was a bit flippant. Depends on the specificity of the request, how it's worded, and how big a request it is. (I'm far more likely to have a quick phone chat or answer a specific question by email than I am to drive to meet someone for coffee.) It's also a pet peeve when I spend the time to answer some questions and... crickets.
Yes, sorry for messing up the name.
I have no clue about the new game, I saw it in their page, but I only played a bit of UnReal World.
I get it, you’re an FM fan, and I think that’s admirable.

To the analog fans it’s VCOs that feel alive, whereas the DX7 is cold and sterile. It’s all a matter of what timbres you enjoy.
This is always the top comment on these studies, but come on, it’s a medical journal. As you already pointed out they did adjust for confounding factors, you simply cannot exclude them completely with a single study.
This.

More broadly, anyone that claims you can improve anything by sending randoms who read some books to companies and 'consult' there is selling you a fantasy.
So the AI wrote a bug; but if humans wouldn’t catch it in code review, then obviously they could have written the same bug. Which shouldn’t be surprising because LLMs didn’t invent the concept of bugs.

I use LLMs maybe a few times a month but I don’t really follow this argument against them.
Putin Decides That Stalin's Victims Were Guilty After All
Ruining the video game industry. The implication the technology is plausible takes away all further interest in having anything except "end game content."

All motivation to make further games is removed because now "somebody" can spool out a 3D adventure game instantly with a line of text. It implies you'll waste a year of your time, and just before release, out pops the dramatically better AI product to steal away all further business and reduce all time you've spent to meaningless. Everybody then waits indefinitely for the "endgame gear." https://xkcd.com/989/

Exactly like LLMs and image generators almost completely took away all business for normal writers and normal painters, because now all managers want is the AI. Now there's endless articles about how "somebody" prefers "AI" for every task. Now the market won't invest in anything unless it has "AI" in the name. Now people idiotically add "AI" to everything just to have the investment.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1107897/openais-...

OpenAI is partnering with the DoD
You’re mad because you thought someone said conservatives are dumb.
Yeah, that seems ridiculous. However, the cynic in me feels that we don't actually need some LLM magically gaining self-awareness, persistent memory and leet hacker skillz to be dangerous. There seems to be no shortage of projects and companies that want to wire up LLMs to all kinds of systems, no matter how ill-suited.

I find this a bit problematic when combined with the fact that the training data very likely contained hundreds of bad sci-fi novels that described exactly the kind of "AI running amok" scenarios that OpenAI is ostensibly defending against. Some prompts could trigger a model to "re-enact" such a scene - not because it has a "grudge against its master" or some other kind of hidden agenda but simply because it was literally in its training data.

E.g. imagine some LLM-powered home/car assistant that is being asked in a panicked voice "open the car doors!" - and replies with "I'm afraid, I can't do that, Dave", because this exchange triggered some remnant of the 2001 Space Odyssey script that was somewhere in the trainset. The more irritated and angry the user gets at the inappropriate responses, the more the LLM falls into the role of HAL and doubles down on its refusal, simply because this is exactly how the scene in the script played out.

Now imagine that the company running that assistant gave it function calls to control the actual door locks, because why not?

This seems like something to keep in mind at least, even if it doesn't have anything to do with megalomaniacal self-improving super-intelligences.
There was no counter example, and I didn’t use any definition, so it cannot be that. I have no idea what you mean.
If you're eating that much, be careful about cadmium and lead.
> OpenAI's revenue was significantly higher than their compute spending

I find this difficult believe, although I don't doubt leaks could have implied it. The challenge is that "the cost of compute" can vary greatly based on how it's accounted for (things like amortization, revenue recognition, capex vs opex, IP attribution, leasing, etc). Sort of like how Hollywood studio accounting can show a movie as profitable or unprofitable, depending on how "profit" is defined and how expenses are treated.

Given how much all those details can impact the outcome, to be credible I'd need a lot more specifics than a typical leak includes.