skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am staggered that ACM published this piece under that title - the essay is weak and does not offer a reason why LLMs hallucinate and this is just bizarre as a claim of hallucination - "In response to the prompt concerning climate change, during one iteration the application introduced the term “solvable,” which may not reflect scientific consensus."
My first language and IDE :_) By chance I had this thick beige manual in my household. Once, when I was a kid, I caught chickenpox. I spent a week or two in bed with GW-BASIC manual and an English dictionary. That's how I learned two most useful tools of my trade: English and programming.
Interesting. I remember the German licensed version by Schneider (a computer manufacturer) that came with DOS 3.3 and the 286 my parents bought back then. I remember it as very inaccessible somehow, I couldn't make any sense of it at the time (I was 12 years old though and there was no Web at home yet). I learned Turbo Pascal then from a much better commercial book 1-2 years later. Will be fun to go back to this and have a look at it with all I know today.
> Isn't this shortsighted in the sense that it removes all incentive for the creators to create?

Before ~2006, we all had blogs, and posted regularly with no financial incentive; imagine a web where people posted to share their expertise, and that's what the early internet was. Money ruined this.

Also, early youtube (and google videos) had plenty of stuff to watch. Would youtube be full of "professional" "content" with no ads? Probably not, but there is a world in which youtube subscriptions actually gated videos that required a budget to make.
"cut the crap", "AI bullshit", "promise, but never give", "full of clickbait", "scary claims", "pointless filler", "frustrating", "waste of time", "all that noise", "all the nonsense", "removes the crap"...

I like your energy.
Interesting how there’s no mention of Blue Origin, you know, the company run by the same guy writing these reporters’ checks
Maybe relevant: https://youtu.be/TvlpIojusBE
> I haven't seen any convincing explanations on what the plant's advantage would be.

It doesn't have to be an advantage in emitting clicking sounds, just more advantageous to the plant overall lifelong wellbeing to be that way.

(This is not my field, but I wonder) is it more expensive to be silent than noisy?

This study (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5543975/) hints that repairing cavitation damage is expensive.
So, like Linux? https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/reporting-issues.html
I don’t disagree that we shouldn’t be condoning murder but consider that the rule of law and ballot box are not effectively preventing healthcare costs from being a leading cause of bankruptcy, drug addiction / homelessness (read through the fentanyl stories and note how many started with a car crash or workplace injury with medication and physical therapy cut off before the patient was fully recovered), and people dying or having life-altering conditions because they couldn’t get the care they needed earlier. We can’t just say murder is wrong while refusing to do anything about a system which reliably produces large numbers of deaths annually because the alternative would be lower profits.

Put another way, how many Americans have cheered seeing Batman tackle an industrialist who killed a fraction of the number of Americans who die because they can’t get adequate healthcare? I strongly agree that gunning people down for perceived injustice isn’t anywhere we want to be but that means we have to actually fix the problems. Here’s a survey which found 34M Americans know someone who died because they couldn’t get healthcare, and 58M couldn’t get medication they needed – those numbers are very high if you want a peaceful society:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/268094/millions-lost-someone-co...
No. I for one am probably heading down the divorce path that the article speaks of (14mo child)
Arli AI: Unlimited Generations and Zero-Log LLM Inference API Platform
"Paycheck-to-paycheck" and five other popular myths
It's certainly not.

To speak plainly, I wasn't terribly interested in my son until he turned 3 years old. Then he started talking, started developing a personality with interests of his own, and fatherhood then became much more interesting. But I was intentionally quite uninvolved in those very early years. I don't regret this, don't see how else it could have been, and indeed I feel that some degree of fatherly aloofness towards infants is natural.
>you're focusing too much on individual donors and individual election winners

But this directly contradicts your previous comment of

>The highest bidder was Elon Musk at $242.6 billion, and he won.
Ask HN: Does retro computing make you feel younger or older?
Does it matter whether you are doing retro gaming or retro programming?
Scripts/tab won’t show you the documentation of each script explaining what it’s for.

My genuine advice is to download it and play with it for an hour. If you don’t like it, you’ve learned a little about a tool you’re bound to come across sometime. If you do like it, now you’ve added another tool to your palette. Either way you learn something useful.
The irony is that the side accusing keyboard users of elitism is asking them to respect everyone's preferences! Sure, but the keyboard users didn't start this discussion either.
The Need to Grind Concrete Examples Before Jumping Up a Level of Abstraction
*was. The body's now been moved to somewhere less conspicuous, according to that Wikipedia link.
Why are we the only creatures who can choose that?

Does a crow have no agency to be the first to food and challenge the leader or the scout who keeps watch for the others while they feast?

Can a dolphin not choose to align more closely with play than rape?

It seems to me that animals have much more agency than we choose to believe / allow.
O1 at Home
Coming in Go 1.24: testing/synctest experiment for time and concurrency testing
'Historic Decision' to Imprison Pirate IPTV User Smells of Propaganda
Nvidia Outplayed Intel for Mellanox in 2019 and Added $100B Market Cap in 2024
Drill, deport and deplatform dei.
Iceotope Immersion Cooling and Valvoline Fluid at SC24
The manual has a nice benchmark: "5200 additions per second" B)

Probably 0.0001 Far-crys. My best guess!

Ben Eater? What're they eating? :D

Chuck Moore's GA144 requires a fabrication factory to create. My4th doesn't! How's that for a comparison?
HTS is not "literally" Al-Qaeda and ISIS because they've literally been at war against Al-Queda and ISIS. The dynamics here are incredibly complex.

That doesn't mean they're "good" guys necessarily. But they have not governed Idlib as extremists for the past several years. The future is open to the possiblity of improvement.
If you can hold out for another 18 months, it'll get much better.

In the meantime, if your means allow it, nannies and au pairs can be a huge help. I'd even advise you to hire a full-timer. (You might even want to consider moving to a country where this is cheaper and more easily possible.) There ought to be no shame in it.
Is AI progress slowing down?
Daydreams Decide Your Destiny
People would rather get paid $80k a year and be a non-conformist than get paid $200k a year to conform to the requirements of a job. Simple as that. Problem is those non-conformists keep applying to the $200k jobs expecting the $80k treatment.
At some point in time, you could probably point to anyone of these places to answer your question and been correct:

- Moore Hall at Harvard

- Los Alamos

- Bell Labs

- Apple/Microsoft/Google/IBM/etc…

These days, the answer isn’t so cut and dry, and that’s definitely a good thing. More of us can benefit by having access to the “best and brightest“, and not having them be sequestered away where none of us can learn from them.

That said, some characteristics I look for in a bright engineer to look up to:

- endless enthusiasm over their subject matter expertise

- a broad understanding of how their expertise fits into the broader field

- a humble attitude - the more you “know”, the less you realize you actually know

- constant learning attitude, always reading some new book or improving their education

- a willingness to teach others
I don't have a dedicated place for announcements and such, but I post on my Bluesky whenever there's a major improvement (@jacobo.tarrio.org).

And you can always star it on GitHub: https://github.com/jtarrio/radioreceiver
Say what you will, this “AI” hype has top-notch entertainment value. I mean, getting people sold on the idea that they need “AI” to lessen the impact of “AI” on their lives is a level of absurdity that other marketing scams can only look at with envy. Interesting times.
Funny, never made sense to me why we had that book. We had exactly that Schneider 286, that must be the source. My dad could give me a basic introduction, from there the book was a treasure trove.
This changes with Starlink-style constellations, and US spy industry is already doing that with SpaceX.

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/...
Memories of Schneider Euro PC being sold on Singer shops in Portugal... :)
Why bitcoin is booming
Or Sokol: https://github.com/floooh/sokol
> American Internet companies are doing exactly the same thing.

There's a very big difference, of course: you have to jump down to #14 in the list[0] before you can even find one.

0: https://backlinko.com/most-popular-websites
Click to read more
it's the way to get a job, i didn't think there was another way. the way a sales funnel works is you start with a pile of company names as "leads" you have or want to work for. they are in a spreadsheet that has the columns "company"," applied", "contacted", "responded" "interview1" "interviewN" "offer" "closed" "declined" sort the companies in order of preference and approach them in that order giving the ones you really want to work for a small head start over the others.

you figure out how to contact each one of them and spend your days moving each one through the stages in the spreadsheet and adding to the companies column until your situation changes. that's how people who get multiple offers get them. they use this to make them happen. if you have 10-20+ companies, there's always something you can be doing to get one of them over the line. I used the streak crm as a gmail plugin, but you can just use a spreadsheet.
> The irony of AI removing AI content

We love novel ways of wasting fossil fuels!!

Nothing directed at OP here, I actually love this idea and I’ll totally use this for recipes
Even if you can write directly to a framebuffer you are still using other people's VHDL code.
Not enough OS's built from scratch nowadays. Fair play.
That is no excuse.
There is an art to check writing, I’ll remind you.
That's really interesting to read. I'm a man who has absolutely zero interest in interacting with babies and infants, but kids who can talk and ask questions can be pretty funny and cute even. My wife doesn't understand this at all.
I'm not sure why you think that means they aren't terrorists. Al-qaeda and ISIS have also been at war for a decade. Does that make one of them any less terrible than they have always been?

It's not about trust. We have enormous amounts of evidence from all human rights organizations monitoring the situation. You may not understand this but the entire war was filmed. You can just go look up who they are, what they believe and what they have done to people. They advertised it themselves for the majority of their career.
What's the benefit in using a browser for this?
Took me about 2-3 years to find my groove as a father.

Later I found out that post-partum depression is a real thing that fathers can go through. I went through all the stages of grief for my old life that I’d grown too attached to. Only when I’d gone through that could I actually open up to accept a newer, bigger life.

My son is 7 now. I love him dearly and am so grateful that I can be a father to him.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite beats iPhone's A18 performance
I think an important difference between how I use vim and how I use a web browser is that in vim I need to type frequently. Though I may spend most time in normal mode in vim, I still need to switch to insert mode to make edits very frequently. With my normal web browsing it's not the case, so I'm more comfortable with a mouse for that. But I realise that this depends largely on the specific use case for web browsing. Reading blog posts is quite different from reading some documentation where one needs to search and backtrack frequently, for example, although both are done on a web browser. The latter involves the keyboard more frequently so would benefit from a keyboard-centric interface more.
I wonder if adding stickers, tattoos, or makeup that look like eyes above or below your real eyes would do it.
> But this directly contradicts your previous comment

That was a simple correction of a factual error by someone who replied to me: "The higher bidder lost, in this case."

And I think that person was also focusing too much on individual donors and individual election winners.
401ks were markets answer to how to make money off of corporations first externalizing and then eliminating their pension obligations.
There’s an interesting hypothetical situation here:

Let’s say that use of AI generated SEO to game search and recommendation algorithms become very widespread. This drives adoption of summarizers because reading these articles is a chore.

The result is that there a whole big chunk of “shadow-text” going unread by users BUT is still being used to drive ranking and discoverability.

There’s essentially a divorce between “content used to rank” and “content delivered to the user”, which could result in a couple different outcomes:

- search is forced to adapt in a way that brings these into alignment, so ranking is driven by the content people want to see and isn’t easily gamed

- SEO is allowed to get really, really weird because you can throw whatever text you want in there knowing that users will never see it
I don’t know your situation but for me everything changed once my child could speak and started going to preschool (so I got a break). The fall-in-love-with-child phenomenon didn’t happen to me until my child was around 3-1/2
I’ll throw in another anecdata point (more than one as I have multiple children): I found them to be mostly logistical burden for the first few months he is writing about, but my love fully developed over the years. Don’t give up hope if you’re not feeling it instantly!
Counterpoint:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36057840/
I'd argue that:

- a large part of privacy issues only exist under legitimate use cases

- a comparatively smaller but still relevant part of security issues would involve attacking (e.g. code injection) a legitimate web application (which the user may already trust) as a first step, and progressing from there

- the fact that such few genuine use cases exist makes users much less likely to accept any illegitimate use, since it will be a permission request box that they have never seen before and haven't been desensitized to
I’ve used make for many things over the years. I’m competent with it. Make is such a breath of fresh air for the uses that don’t involve actually incrementally building software. It’s sooo less verbose. It’s hard to describe the feel of a thing, but imagine learning to program with Java and then finding Python. If you’re building a giant app developed by thousands of people, maybe Java’s complexity starts to show a benefit. If you just want to quickly script something up, Python gets the job done with a tenth the boilerplate.

There’s room for both. Neither replaces the other. But it turns out many of my projects need tools closer to Python/Just than Java/Make.
When I expressed concern that AI generated responses might make inaccurate claims about our products, I was told by the cloud rep to just put the answer through AI to make sure it was compliant…
UnitedHealth's Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient's Care (2023)
I said no such thing. I also wouldn't dispute that the PKK are also "terrorists".

I still think it's pretty clear that there can be some hierarchy within that category. HTS and the Kurds are less evil than the Taliban, which is less evil than Al-Qaeda, which is less evil than ISIS.

Like you said, there is plenty of history to look at here. HTS has run Idlib for years and they have done nothing that compares to the likes of ISIS. Maybe that will change if they consolidate total power, but neither of us have any evidence to state definitively what will happen. There are plenty of reasons to be either pessimistic or optimistic.
Of course it's not like this for everyone. Even for him it is not like this all the time :) but if you listen to the world around you there are these bits of beautiful life that appear here and there.

He says this at some point:

> That was the second thing Theo taught me. The first thing he taught me, at 430am in his first week, when he wouldn't stop crying, as a rage started bubbling up in me, was that no amount of urging, forcing, or frustration will get this tiny baby to do what I want him to do. All I can do is surrender and listen; find peace and meet him from a place of equanimity. Then maybe I'll have the presence of mind to change the wet diaper that was making him cry.

Ask yourself how many times per day do you take a moment to surrender and listen... If you do it (even without a kid) you will find beauty in every aspect of life. The thing about kids is that it can be so overwhelming that they give you no other choice. Of course you still have the choice of not doing it, and this can make you start building a lot of frustration against the kid, your partner, life itself...
Brittle Points: How to make companies robust
Those are benign compared to some of the stuff parasites get up to.
Let's say Company A buy a machine to engrave CPU 10 millions (no idea of the real cost), half of it with debt.

In normal/traditional accounting, you put the selling price of the machine (if you have to liquidate the company) on the side of the asset: let's say 8 millions the first year, and 5 million on the debt side (they bought it with 5 million of investment money, leveraged with debt). Company has 8 millions in assets, 5 million in debt: good ratio, healthy company.

Company B use future accounting: it buy the 10 million dollars machine. On the 'asset' side, you put 16 millions: the machine is worth 8, and is expected to earn the company a net profit of 8 during its lifetime. On the 'debt' side, you put 5. 16/5, the ratio is truly excellent. So good even that you can afford to take another 5 millions, and buy share/issue dividends. Now your asset/debt ratio is 16/10=8/5, same as Company A, except either your current shareholders have already reimbursed the initial investment, derisking themselves totally if the company ends up failing.

I think you have a Republican primary candidate who used that with his drug company, the company failed to produce anything of value, but only late investors lost anything.
Does Canada just have a lack of doctors? What’s up with that?
> Isn't this shortsighted in the sense that it removes all incentive for the creators to create?

When I was young and naive, I learned guitar so I could make tunes, not realizing I'd failed to search engine optimize narratives about my journey for ad placement to fund my spotify pay for play to get myself concert gigs to sell hats and t-shirts until I could land sponsors.

I'm sad to think in my naïveté I might have encouraged future children to create music for themselves and put it out there to see if it resonates with others, instead of enroll the kids into creator influencer classes teaching how to content mill for the idiocracy.

I'm ashamed I thought personal joy and fulfillment was a valid incentive, taking away their drive to generate and grow rich.
As someone who used to work with a children's hospital (on the EMR site but still) I wish we could find and kill the asshole who decided a myriad of childhood cancers was in their grand plan.
Warning: don’t buy an ESP32-C6 for this. It’s not compatible with WLED/ESPHome/etc and it isn’t clear whether/when this will be resolved.
Wow, I had no clue about how many ways it was possible to get burned with Actions - as an ME nerd, I've set up a few CI/CD workflows, and if I recall correctly, while I was reading through the documentation for GitHub Actions (circa 2022) there wasn't any mention of cybersecurity best practices in the general docs. Is that generally considered best practice, or at least acceptable?

I'm not a programmer by trade- I generally write one-off or two-off code, but that's changing as I get deeper into simulation land. For me, reading the entirety of the docs is something that generally happens only when I'm troubleshooting something or an LLM dragged me significantly further than my understanding and I have to go learn how a library or API works.
And to be clear, “misbehave” also means having a dissenting, unpopular opinion.
There are ways to throw money at the stress you are feeling, which will still be cheaper than divorce. Children can get much easier as they mature, which might give you space to work through your marriage even if it feels impossible now.

I was deeply burned out at the 14 mark with my first child. I did lots of things since then and am much better even after more children.
There is irony in “I don’t understand why people do X and ended up doing X but simpler”
And competing foreign state actors.
The EU is also working on a digital Euro [1] that is supposed to roll out to the whole EU and support digital payments without any fees. Let's see, if they succeed with that, but if they do it would be great.

[1] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.ht...
It’s difficult to relate even to parents. But some days honestly feel like Christmas did when I was a kid, with all the potentiality. And the bad days have a sense of endless responsibility that can feel overwhelming.

My life in my 20s had too little meaning. Now, in my 40s, sometimes it feels like too much. I much prefer it to how it used to be, though.
Nyxt is supposed to be as extensible as Emacs and way more extensible than mainstream browsers that use WebExtensions. The lack of extensions is likely due to its miniscule market share.
I've gotten some interesting jobs/contracts via recruiters that send cold outreach so I've definitely seen the beneficial aspect of it. Everyone is trying to make a buck; it's hardly any work to delete an email or unsubscribe.
> Any emotion you may have, animals also have

Ah yes, I can tell that my cat is also struggling with whether to lease a Mercedes or keep fixing this stupid Chevy, which I deeply love because of all the fun places I've driven it (like work, and the gas station). Perhaps that's why she keeps biting me. Good kitty!
> The obvious advantage of Nyxt is programmability and keyboard-driven workflows.

Example real-world workflows that highlight the advantage of Nyxt over other browsers?
> Russia will be desperate to hang on to its naval base at Tartus, but that seems to be wishful thinking, but maybe it can make a deal

Do they actually still need it?

A quick bit of Googling suggests that the main thing they use it for is supplying arms to Syria, which presumably they will no longer need to do.
Let’s also add the fact that most sites cannot afford AI.
Wow, this is a worrisome comment because it reveals a huge misconception of the Free & Fair election process.

Elections aren't about defrauding people - you're framing the electoral process as "people have agency to make an X on a voting card, and it doesn't matter what happens until then".

There are laws for elections for some reason. If you're defrauding people, it doesn't represent agency, it represents that people are misinformed.