skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what's your alternative to market forces?

Ggovernment regulation - "good" centralisation?
But can it know love?
Sell short.
> a new problem

Yes, the problem exists in multiple "places" and all schemes are
different balances.

There are many different kinds of "security". Each suits different
needs, or addresses different threats. Not all are based upon
"identity" as a central concept. Not all are based on secrets. For
those that are, changing your secret from something you know to
something you own merely shifts a locus of trust and mode of use.

Passkeys (and ssh keys with passphrase) are a good solution in some
cases, where you use multiple end points which may be compromised. But
they are no better (and less flexible) than challenge response and one
time passwords and other elaborate password schemes that are a
superior access control secret in other situations [0].

The problem is that most people don't understand the quite subtle
interplay of factors. This is one area of cybersecurity education I'm
spending more time on because regulations are going to place more
emphasis on making good security choices (and not just accepting
vendor defaults).

Microsoft unilaterally deciding it thinks it knows what is "best " for
you accords with its clumsy patrician over-reach, and cover for a
pitiful security record in its products.

Perhaps one of the most important meta-security factors is that you be
able to select products that allow you to choose your security
parameters and how they interact as your situation and access habits
change. But that responsibility requires understanding.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/secrets
From Bug Bounty Hunter to over $100M+ Exit [video]
Scaling Test Time Compute
No, OP presented a right wing talking point that I am tired of seeing repeated ad nauseam and that is never justified. I feel justified in calling out the obvious lack of evidence to their narrativisation of the issue.
nah it's nonsense
I might have a go at installing one, what is a good source or install at the moment?
Erk. I’d actually kind of assumed that the likes of ChatGPT would offload OCR to, well, conventional OCR, which is, basically, a solved problem (possibly the only ‘AI’ thing which can be considered so).
It is manipulative to constantly harass users with 'prompts' until they break down and give up.
It sounds like most of the answer suggested by the paper is asynchronous IO, so maybe I am misunderstanding something.

There is a lot, I mean A LOT as in huge and tremendous amount, of overhead in managing data via any form of SQL versus just writing to files. The overhead pays for itself if the size of the data is large enough and the cost of read and write operations is high enough.

Given those factors couldn't similar performance improvements be achieved at far lower cost by piping data via streams to opened files using an asynchronous interface like an event loop or child processes? That would eliminate the blocking of synchronous operations and so much of the CPU overhead associated with query interpretation during writes. There would still be a cost to precise data extraction at read time though.

If just using file system operations all operational overhead only occurs at execution time. For example managing and reading data still incurs CPU cost, but there is virtually no management cost to replicating a database if that replication is just a matter of copying files as opposed to the more complex operations concerned with replicating a SQL database.
I'll admit I was aware that the motivation for this project was not likely to be timekeeping.

I guess there's something about fancy watches which makes me want to poke fun at them. I'm not sure I'd have made fun of a clock. I certainly wouldn't make similar comments about Ben Eaters 8 bit breadboard computers for example - even though the same thing applies there to a possibly even greater extent. It's an anti-elitism thing I suppose.

Anyway, the watch is actually very impressive and cool.
> To me the obsession that some people (not you, but some definitely do and use the same arguments) have with bringing her down is entirely ideologically motivated

There really aren't more of those than there are people trying to give more credit to those women than there is evidence for. In the end there are foul play from both sides, but currently one side is dominating academia so there is much more need to argue against that side than the other.
Lobbying exists in many countries and in many forms does not constitute bribery. Lobbying is already regulated in countless ways. Without lobbying, elected officials would have a much harder time understanding the real impacts of policy. While, yes, Big Tobacco has lobbyists, so does the Cancer Society. Complicating the morality of the equation, a good lobbyist specializing in that industry might work (at different times) for both sides, just like many types of attorneys or other professionals.
A conversational AI powered by TEN
> It is just stupidly cheaper; for the price of one junior you can do so many api requests to claude it's not even funny

Idk if the cheap price is really cheap price or promotion price, where after that the enshittification and price increase happen, which is a trend for most tech companies.

And agree, llm will weed bad programmers further, though in the future, bad alternatives (like analyst or bad llm users) may emerge
Japan drops mantra of reducing nuclear dependency in new draft plan
Every time you go to a funeral you sit a bit closer to the front.
Ask HN: Why data activation will define the next generation of AI Applications?
Yes companies do this kind of thing to try and shield themselves from risk all of the time.

However it probably wouldn't work for a profit seeking company in this case. Big Corp owns Web Corp, and Web Corp owns the site. Which company is operating the site? If it is Web Corp. So when Web Corp gets fined, you lose your site. This is a problem for a profit seeking company, because it lost its value. If Big Corp owned the site, and Web corp operated the site, you may be OK. Your accountancy costs just went through the roof though. Not sure about this law, but some compliance laws treat the group as one whole entity to stop this sort of thing.

Since this applies to laws in general, are you arguing that corporations are a farce? I may be inclined to agree.

Edit: answering your other point, the company could not have no assets, if it owns the site then it has the site as an asset. If it runs the site then it will have cash etc. Etc.
TL;DR: The biggest threat to your career is not LLMs but it's younger engineers that will adapt to the new tools.

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My personal take is that LLMs and near future evolutions thereof won't quite replace the need for a qualified human engineer understanding the problem and overseeing the design and implementation of software.

However it may dramatically change the way we produce code.

Tools always begat more tools. We cannot build most of the stuff that's around us if we didn't first build other stuff that was built with other stuff. Consider the simple example of a screw or a bolt or gears.

Tools for software development are quite refined and advanced. IDEs, code analysis and refactoring tools etc.

Even the simple text editor has been refined through generations of developers mutually fine tuned their fingers together with the editor technology itself.

Beyond the mechanics of code input we also have tons of little things we collectively refined and learned to use effectively: how to document and consult documentation for libraries, how to properly craft and organize complex code repositories so that code can be evolved and worked on by many people over time.

"AI" tools offer an opportunity to change the way we do those things.

On one hand there is a practical pressure to teach AI tools to just keep using our own existing UX. They will write code in existing programming languages and will be integrated in IDEs that are still designed for humans. The same for other parts of the workflow.

It's possible that over time these systems will evolve other UXs and that the new generation of developers will be more productive using that new UX and greybeards will still cling to their keyboards (I myself probably will).

The biggest threat to your career is not LLMs but it's younger engineers that will adapt to the new tools.
> the loser pays the winners costs

Winning against the government is difficult - an asymmetric unfair fight. You can't afford to pay the costs to try: financial, risk, opportunity cost, and most importantly YOUR time.
This seems like a kind of arbriatry dichotomy to setup to support some arbratary argument.

Let me put it like this: when LLMs write system scale software that is formally verifiable or completely testable, I promise you that you don't trust your doctor more than you trust the ai.

Already now we see indications that diagnosing is better without human (doctors) intervention.

Fast forward ten years with that development and nobody dares to go to the doctor.
If no one hears about something, no one will use or buy it. It doesn't matter how well it does by any metric. Marketing will always matter.
I don’t understand the benefit of using passkeys in a password manager.

If the password manager is unlocked, I get logged in automatically anyways.
Tesla aircraft – is this a fake story [video]
1. Fuelling Adaptive AI Models

Real-time data allows AI systems to respond instantly to dynamic changes, improving accuracy in areas like fraud detection, predictive maintenance, and personalised recommendations.

2. Breaking Data Silos

Data activation integrates fragmented data across platforms enabling AI to access rich, unified inputs for better insights and cross functional decision making.

3. Turning Insights into Action

Reverse ETL moves AI-generated insights from data warehouses back into operational tools (like CRMs) ensuring predictions drive real-world actions.

What other ways does data activation empowers AI Models?
I'm not sure why your use of them is relevant to how I can use them; resolving that question is why I asked you for chat logs! I genuinely want to make these things work! I try again every few months in case anything has changed, and I keep asking people how they're getting value so that I can also get value, and nobody ever tells me!

> many models actually have excellent F# abilities

Name three? As I said, I badly want this stuff to work!
Wirth's law: software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster.

I think there's the energy parallel: Software is becoming more energy-hungry faster than algorithms are becoming efficient.

So we'll still need the energy.
> Though for law, I think some ambiguity is beneficial.

Ambiguity means that there are two or more possible interpretations and it's not clear which of them is intended. That's hardly useful. What's beneficial, and what you perhaps had in mind, is some amount of under-specification where the meaning is clear but leaves gaps to be filled in by judges.
Unless someone with authority in your workplace makes a rule against doing that…
Until they are successfully explaining how to use these in a way that 70 year olds on eBay can understand, this should not be forced on users.
Nah its fine you and me are both right in our own ways. Powerlifters go for absolute maximum, but just below them are bodybuilders. You won't get huge muscles by doing tons of relatively mild repetitions, it just doesn't work that way (say 15 reps of medium effort vs 3-5 of max you can do, former gets you endurance and tonality, latter volume).

Ie Arnold was doing 550 pound (250kg) squats at some point, thats not something you will ever see in normal gym. Similar for other exercises.
Ask HN: How do you use AI/LLMs to accelerate your own learning?
I think you HN folks must have a lot of great tips to share about ways you found out to use the new slew of AI tools to accelerate your own learning?
An outrageous success? Really? Everywhere where i've seen reviews, the reviewers are not very happy with Apple intelligence.
There is a youtube video I ran into showing electricity generation by coal for various countries over the last 40 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwLwdQnlA9U

The US was ahead at 1.5 TWh. Rose to 2.1 before dropping down to 0.7. The US is now 3rd behind India and way behind China.

Far as I can tell China's economic rise has been fueled by buring most of their total coal deposits. Which is why they are so big on solar and wind because they have no other choice.
Instead of calling for regulations, the big tech companies should run big campaigns educating the public, especially boomers, that they no longer can trust images, videos, and audio on the Internet. Put paid articles and ads about this in local newspapers around the world so even the least online people gets educated about this.
It's not the same logic at all. One is foreign and the other is domestic and can be regulated and controlled to an extent. Don't you see that?
But these are people who have used/are using the feature.
I genuinely cannot tell if this video is an AI creation or real.

That 'the internet was amazed' or whatever when this was announced, ie taking about it as a historical announcement, is a strange, confusing approach.
I recently installed NetBSD on a Thinkpad T430s, it is surprisingly snappy and usable, except when firefox is running.

With i3wm, tmux and helix with clangd it is a capable development machine with a surprisingly modern feel, only the compile times give away that the machine is from the early 2010s. Even WiFi is working, and pkgsrc is fast and well-stocked with the newest software.
Any CEO without an AI strategy would get punished by their investors. Public or private.

AI market is in a feedback loop which is why it is so powerful.
IIRC you'll need to register an account, use their official unlocker, then wait 2 weeks before your device is allowed to be unlocked. It's supposed to be done to hinder 3rd party sellers that flash custom rom with ads on phones they sell.
What people expect: this will replace programmers

What really happened: this is used by programmers to improve their workflow
It was but when the wrong fool gets a say, they will mess a perfectly good thing up for everyone.

Organizations often promote fools who don’t second guess their beliefs and think they have it all figured out.
Any more details? What information did the employee request that cost money to fulfil? Interesting that it was in dollars?
Commenting on the useful-not-useful split here.

Rather than discuss the current “quality of code produced” it seems more useful to talk about what level of abstraction it’s competent at (line, function, feature), and whether there are any ceilings there. Of course the effective level of abstraction depends on the domain but you get the idea, it can generate good code at some level if promoted sufficiently well.
I don't think you need to spin to load multiple bullets into a revolver. You can put all the bullets in the cylinder once you've opened it with any need readjusting/spinning.
Spoken like someone with absolutely no experience of living in China. Peak HN.
The volunteers probably do want to live to see it done. The inhabitants of Woodbridge do not skew young, and the few pictures I was immediately able to find of the project suggest that the volunteers in fact skew old.
Awesome, we really appreciate the suggestions! We'll look into getting these up and running shortly!
>Recently though, a friend of mine highlighted many of its racist elements stemming from its colonial context

That's part of what makes art good: it reflects its time, warts and all, it's not just something pandering to the current sensibilities.
Hardships build strong men etc.

Yes for sure, but thats not enough. Otherwise we would see a lot of similar moral leaders ie in Africa or South America and reality is very different, isn't it.
Not so much an out-of-the-box tool, but I am using OpenAI's API to generate complete knowledge graphs for my own tool: Contextualise (a topic maps-based PKM tool). Although not perfect, this approach is working suprisingly well.
Ollama was the easiest way to set up local LLMs for me.

https://ollama.com/
However we are not in a stable society like that.

Things change - e.g. 50 years ago no online chats, no drones, very little terrorism, travel was more costly and slower, medical drugs were less efficient, live span was shorter.
You can model it as a state machine, where the LLM decides to what state it wants to advance. In terms of developer ergonomics, strongly typed outputs help. You can for example force a function call at each step, where one of the call arguments is an enum specifying the state to advance to.

Shoot me an email if you want to discuss specifics!
Shame, it's one of the funniest ways to blow up a rhino!
To be fair, most of the politicians of his time were inept too. Look at the story of the fourth republic. Full of private interest lobbyists and party machinist.
The "Winkel" Bunker – Arcanum Urbex
They just repeated like parrots the stereotypes of today, instead of those of Herge's time.
Indeed. One recent success in my experience was Streets of Rage 4. They captured exactly what made the game fun and did it better.
For some reason - maybe it's a nostalgia hit - a deep pan from pizza hut with pineapple, pepperoni, jalapeno, and chicken just hits that right spot for me.
I agree- I'm not sure how many readers realise how old old oak trees are. Britain is home to ancient oak trees that are seceral hundreds of years old, and connected in amazing ways to the ecosystem. Obviously nobody is suggested using ancient oak trees, but it gives some idea of the life span of an oak tree.

A sutton hoo recreation would be amazing, but I'm not sure it justifies use of veteran stock over newer oak trees.
Who got jailed for a meme that wasn't inciting to riot?
I'll add In the Mouth of Madness to the list

Additionally, many of David Fincher's provide a similar experience
I have a 1 GiB file to rm in case of emergency on every filesystem I manage - both personal and professional. I've only had to delete it maybe three or four times that I remember, but it's been a system-saver each time. I've long considered writing a process that just consumes some CPU, memory, and bandwidth for the same emergency buffer. I've even considered that it should even examine `last` every second and free up those resources when I SSH in.
Computer-Optimized Floor Plans
I reckon I generally agree that it's very unlikely that mirror-bacteria would be viable in the wild!

This is covered in the article in 2 ways though: It says that some nutrients (like glycerol) are achiral - this might mean they could still find a food source in a regular-chirality world. It also mentions that the mirror-bacterial nonstandard-chirality might 'cloak' them from regular-chirality predators (or immune-systems).

I dunno, it does seem pretty far-fetched and I am not a professional scientist so I find it hard to evaluate the risk in any worthwhile way.. but I think it still seems worth considering?
Butts ARE distracting sometimes.
The difference is that you didn't need to scrape millions of videos from YouTube with residential proxy network scrapers to train yourself.
Example? Or is this hypothetical?
They say it’s going to be online in 2028.

Are you willing to bet that they won’t have 3 mile island operational by 2030?
lmstudio is very easy if you are running on local desktop.
Harder maths are often so inscrutable that single letter variables are also the least of your problems.
I know and agree: it's strange how many companies and people just step over and on their privacy. Or export private info to other countries. But what I mean here is that, good or bad, money always wins. Unfortunately also over fundamental rights. That sucks, but still happens and will happen.
I was actually seriously considering tossing my kitchenware. It was only me inertia that kept me from it. I wonder how long the afterlife of this one is going to be; reminds me of the autism causing vacines hoax
The US Navy has detailed specifications and tables on honors. Like the number of sideboys present for visiting dignitaries, ruffles and flourishes, guns on arrival/departure, and boat "gongs".

https://www.seaflags.us/customs/trads.html

https://www.seaflags.us/customs/honors.html
Please share! Super curious what the cursor looks like
Lol, i'm an idiot :D
My hot take on this topic is that one should introduce programming through spreadsheets, Google sheets or even MS excel.

Assuming it’s done at the high school level students can immediately find value in using it for household budgeting, school or business inventory management, small business accounting, event management and what not. Combine it with Google Forms and you have a near complete product.
Yeah, I also don't imagine using the raw output directly that much, but realize there must be many things one could do with the help of the new capabilities.

I've been thinking about things like automatically generating Anki flash cards for content I want to learn, and similar.
Ditching hourly and productizing my services
Can they be synced to my own server, or my local machine like laptop or PC?
I think it can, if you run your Docker containers in host network mode. I run my HA in docker using host mode, and it auto-detects all new devices that pop up on my network.
LLMs can help us engineers gain context quickly on how to write solutions. But, I don't see it replacing us anytime soon.

I'm currently working on a small team with a senior engineer. He's the type of guy who preach letting Cursor or whatever new AI IDE is relevant nowadays do most of the work. Most of his PRs are utter trash. Time to ship is slow and code quality is trash. It's so obvious that the code is AI generated. Bro doesn't even know how to rebase properly resulting to overwriting (important) changes instead of fixing conflicts. And guess who has to fix their mistakes (me and I'm not even a senior yet).
Microsoft also committed publicly to prioritise security. And Google says they prioritise privacy of their users above all else.

I pity the fool that believes anything these corporations put out publicly.

Actions matter, words are wind
English is my 3rd language but I still made a huge mistake :D
Sadly, no, it's a walled-off customer facing tool integrated into one of my client's B2B business intelligence portals.

Hope you can find a tool; the big data players are of course jumping on this (snowflake, databricks, they all talk about their text-to-sql tools).

If you have the budget and want something bespoke built that has some magic sauce tuned to your exact problem field, send me an email!
Well, I remember that case[0], the guy had written that there are no good cops and was calling for burning policemen alive on the city square in a crematorium "like in Auschwitz" and got one year of suspended sentence for that. I can't say that I disagree with the court, but that's the problem.

[0] https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Дело_Терентьева
Sotheby's to auction off ancient Ten Commandments tablet
They’re both exploring the same space of optimizing the memory needed by the KV cache which is essentially another name for the context window (no one elides the KV cache as otherwise you’re doing N^2 math to do attention). They’re exploring different approaches to achieve the same goal and they may be both possible to apply simultaneously to reduce the attention mechanism to almost 0 memory usage which would be really cool, but I’m curious how they compare against each other individually.
I'm quite disappointed by the article. It's not really about two Shanghais. Sure, it mentions an alleged divide, but it then doesn't actually explore the contrast but spends most of the time with skyscaper porn. I'm sure the average Shanghaian would be a little offended if their city is reduced to those.
Amiga 500: Completing a Simple Game