skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think students should be taught in "professional" languages, but crossover is not my main reason. Rather, it's that professional languages have an enormous corpus of examples that students can look up.

PHP fits this description, and lots of self-learners get it as their first language.
I am not sure we want to go that direction
Making WebAssembly and Wasmtime More Portable
What's interesting is that some of the Asterix were even translated in local dialects. It's the only comic I've ever read in Plattdeutsch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_German). We also read it in a Latin class because some of the albums were translated in Latin (nice break between trying to translate texts from Cicero)
> Those "spatial reasoning" questions look a lot like the IQ test I took as a kid

When we took my boy for a WISC (children's IQ test) when he was ten, as part of a larger neuropsych test, he had enormous trouble with the spatial reasoning parts. The funny thing was that the test wouldn't score, as he was getting less than 5% on some of sections and more than 95% on others. This is a pattern that is apparently unlikely enough that the test assumes you aren't taking it seriously and gives up. So his IQ result was effectively "NaN". Based on that and other parts of the neuropsych, he was informally diagnosed with Non-Verbal Learning Disability (informally because NVLD isn't currently in the DSM).

While the IQ test was useless for him, thankfully the diagnosis was enough to get him into a school who understood his learning style and he went from completely failing out of school in sixth grade to now just getting accepted to a highly competitive college in NYC.
I was reading that and thought "Wait, don't we already have a term for this?".
I wrote a rant about GenAI, and then fed it to ChatGPT, and this was the output
So I was bored and irritated by incessant buzzing of news about “GenerativeAI” being this, that, and the other, and I wrote a rant, and then decided to feed it to ChatGPT-4o, and this is what I got.
If it works well, it wa sa huge need. I have written a script in opencv to convert images into json for invoices but it only works for certain standards. Congrats!
just need an standard for that
Agree on this. That's a big problem I have with using Python. There are so many ways of doing things (this is also mentioned in the paper) it is almost impossible for the students to do it properly.

I think the problem with teaching languages is also of neurological nature, basically "student motivation is what drives learning success". Our brain constantly filters out non relevant information. A teaching language, having no use outside of the course, scores very low on relevance in our brain making it very hard to learn and find motivation.
Agreed. I needed a few clicks to get to here:

https://mbe.modelica.university/behavior/equations/first_ord...
The west tried building nuclear power 20 years ago. If it had delivered we would be building more now.

It did not deliver. It is time to leave nuclear power to the past just like we have done with the steam engine.

It had its heyday but better cheaper technology replaced it.
Why do you feel like allowing deliberate misinformation of people is a better standard for the jurisdiction in which you want to live?
You do — and you know you do, when the opinion is sufficiently controversial. I understand you present that open-minded veneer, but you happily violate it by calling opinions a flamewar or similar slight, then censoring for ideological non-conformity.

You’re also being insincere by saying “we only do for violating the guidelines!” when “Eschew flamebait” is a guideline — and my accusation is that amounts to you censoring based on your (and the community’s) political biases. You’re dishonestly pretending I’m not discussing the biased way in which you apply that particular guideline — and intentionally ignoring my reference to “flame bait”/“flame war” in doing so.

We’ve had this discussion before and I’m not interested in hunting down comments from over four years ago.
I joke with my friends (I'm old) about how great the internet is for looking up information. When I was growing up, someone told you the wrong thing and you just knew the wrong thing for years.

Misinformation and disinformation were terms created by censors as an excuse to censor ideas they didn't like, mostly criticism. What we call misinformation and disinformation has been a property of communication since grunting. People are wrong about stuff, even people who we currently think are right. To censor is going back to just knowing the wrong thing for years because someone with censor powers thought they were right.
Same in the US. It was not a good time. The FBI recorded five bombings a day in 1971-72. Airliners were being hijacked once a week at the peak around then.
You can email hn@ycombinator.com with your moderation questions and a human replies to them.
Wtf is a dumpster slut? Are the product owners in this metaphor pimps?
UK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AI
That is what I meant by "more qualifiers".

You may need even more qualifiers. Violent radical environmental groups currently carry out sabotage rather than targeting those directly responsible for the faults with the system, perhaps due to personal ethics, but perhaps because because they think a lot of people would not support those more violent actions.

A pro-lifer killed the doctor George Tiller, who was one of the few to carry out late-term abortions. Here too we see someone who considers the system so broken that it allows late-term abortions, and with others grateful for the murder, but we don't talk about that as a key moment.

I think the best parallel is Charles J. Guiteau's assassination of James A. Garfield in 1881 is a moment, which was a "moment" which helped the decades-long transition from the spoils system to the civil service system. Sadly, it looks like the next administration prefers going back to patronage.

BTW, I quoted how Kaczynski did not target random people (excepting, I think, Flight 444, which his Wikipedia article says he later regarded as a mistake because it was too indiscriminate.)
Time flies (2010):

https://www.wired.com/story/building-a-parallel-universe/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1997472
A neighbor of mine here in the US cut down a nearly 300 year old white oak that was in his yard to make room for a kitchen addition. I saved a small piece of a branch that I turned into a bowl, but the rest of it was cut up for firewood.
Sadly is too big to mount inside a standard 70x70 mm EU wall frame
The electricity cost jumps to almost 1000 EUR / MWh in Germany
No we are not, but you are SCRWD!

https://jarirajari.wordpress.com/2024/07/01/you-are-scrwd-no...
leave it to ft.com to paint this as a feel good, happy story. meanwhile, argentinians are facing record poverty levels, inflation at extraordinary levels, and extreme wealth inequality. but hey, recession exited! austerity 1 working proles 0.
This will translate to the cost of host serves in Germany.
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One of the best parts of Europe for solar energy.

I understand the French have been blocking expansion of grid connections from Spain to the rest of Europe, which would enable this energy to be better exported.
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You could try Zile: <https://www.gnu.org/software/zile/>
I’m not sure if it’s similar in the UK, but here they don’t even seem to care. We have public consultation periods for most bills here in Australia, and it’s basically only ever a box-ticking exercise. You can have literally hundreds of experts carefully articulate all the obvious problems with a bill in a detailed submission, then some will be invited to give testimony and answer questions of Senators with concerned looks on their faces, and then those senators (of both parties) will happily vote the flawed legislation through with no amendments. The only changes that do happen are arrived at through secretly negotiated political horse-trading between the parties, with literally none of the expert, industry and public consultation taken into account.

The only way to win is to lobby hard (with a lot of political donations) so your views get put forward in the secret negotiations. Literally none of the feedback from experts or voters matters. Because it’s always going to be one or the other major party (although there is some encouraging movement towards possible minority government, which in our current political landscape is the only way I can see any positive change possibly happening - but it depends massively on the quality of those who end up with the balance of power).
Don't forget the very real and horrifying links with eugenics and the use of IQ testing to justify sterilisation and worse! It's the gift that keeps on giving.
People do have time.

Over the last year I've roughly doubled my pushup strength, with very visible resulting muscular hypertrophy in my triceps, back, and shoulders (even though I was optimizing for strength rather than hypertrophy). The total time taken over that year has been about 6 hours: three 40-second sets of pushups every two days, with 2⅓ minute breaks between sets, which I'm not counting because I can post to HN and drink yerba mate during that time. This works out to one minute per day.

There is literally nobody in the world who has less than 6 hours of free time per year. This is not a matter of economics; no economic system is so all-pervading as to sell every single minute of your day.

I started out doing three sets of knee pushups to failure, and once I reached ten reps I switched to real pushups; once I reach failure on the real pushups (3–5 reps in the first set, sometimes as little as 2 in the last) I continue with knee pushups until failure. This takes about 40 seconds and seems to be a good balance of intensity and safety. The only equipment it requires is a reasonably clean floor or patch of grass, so you don't have to buy equipment, pay a gym membership, or even walk to a different part of the house. You can do it on the train while commuting to work, at the bus stop while awaiting the bus, in the break room at the office, outside your car in the parking lot, in the park when you walk the dog, or in your bedroom after getting up, unless your hoarding problem is even worse than mine.

I'm slightly obese (109kg) like most of the population in rich countries, and I think my state of muscular development was about average in that context. Calisthenics permits increasing resistance to almost arbitrarily high levels, so you can keep the intensity high and the workouts short even as you get stronger. Stronger people would presumably need to invest more time than one minute per day to make further progress, perhaps as much as ten minutes or even more, but those aren't the people we're talking about.

So what's missing? It might be inspiration, discipline, executive function, hope, knowledge, wisdom, or some combination of these. But it's not time or money.
What’s your point here? Using sudo is using root.
Sorry Human, You're Wrong
>the western world does have an obesity problem though, not an anorexia one

It has both, and they are linked. It is a false ontology to place them in opposition, just because one is "too fat" and the other "too thin".

It's also very arguable that obesity is the "worse" problem. Yes it causes negative health outcomes, and is more widespread, but anorexia is more immediately and dramatically harmful, even fatal, and disproportionately affects teenagers during a critical growth phase, often causing irreversible disfigurement.
Well, if you don't see someone for over a span of a year then probably you're not too close anymore?

Then I'd assume that if 1 person had a really good reason not to be physically around for the first few months, you wouldn't think less of them if they make it up afterwards.
Show HN: I made an IDE to build AI apps
Hi HN, I've been working on building AI agents and ended up building a tool to easily chain together prompts, vector db, function call, ReAct agentic flows etc. I am doing a soft launch today, mainly because I want to get feedback.

How acris.ai works:

1. Each step is an LLM prompt that you can chain together and execute. You can choose the type of a step: Text, JSON, Function Call, ReAct Agent, Vector DB etc.

2. Deploy it as a web application or JSON API

3. All free for now. Will implement usage based charging later

Feedback is welcome.

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How to use
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That line of thinking breaks down in the real world though.

Its like when some scientist reports they killed 70% of cancer cells in the lab and a news report comes out with scientists develop treatment for 70% of cancer.

You cannot just take "scientist reports they killed 70% of cancer cells in the lab" and then follow-up with a question of "what percent of cancer did the scientist cure?" and then use the only percentage you saw ("70%") as the answer. The information given wasn't not sufficient to answer the question asked; in a test scenario, sure make an assumption but in the real world just get clarification ...
> Crazy how much Walt Disney's lobbying so many years ago had such an impact and irreparable damage to digital content access, as well as, all the TPM nonsense that came after.

This isn't true, but it won't stop people claiming otherwise on HN.

(The main reason the US extended copyright protection is because it had committed to not be out of line with the EU terms in international treaties, and the EU reached their number by harmonising to the longest amongst the member states which was Germany, and the main reason German copyright is so long is due to their domestic publishing and newspaper industries).
Peaks like this (or up to 5x higher) occur in Texas. It's part of a competitive grid, and is an incentive for providers to have capacity to deal with rare peaks of demand/supply imbalance. What matters to consumers is what they end up paying integrated over time. A grid with lower peaks, but higher average costs, would be worse for consumers.

Such bursty price structures provide incentive for demand dispatch. This is a real use case for IoT and smart home technologies, allowing demand to respond to changes in price.
Anyone who's into this kind of thing would probably dig watching Clickspring: https://www.youtube.com/@Clickspring
An open LLM router avoiding rate limits
Encrypting offline storage for local-first apps
You ask what the LLM is going to do. It’s going to swallow the entire code base in context and allow any developer to join those 4 people in generating production grade code.
Looks great, but I'd prefer to see the source code for an app that send on the internet a screenshot of my desktop every 0.5s
Actually, the non-battery-powered devices are the important part of Zigbee network. In Zigbee network, only coordinator and router can * route* the tracfic, others device can only send or receive. So if there is no other router or only few router, the Zigbed network will degrade from mesh topology to star topology. Because of power limit, the battery-powered devices are not suitable for router role so they almost is an end device. The AC-powered devices normally do router role.
Current generation LLMs have been in development for approximately as long as it takes for a college to ingest a high schooler and pump out a non-horrible junior software developer. The pace of progress slowed down, but if we get further 50% improvement in 200% time it’s still you who is being the romantic, not the op.
Yes. And the Americans can't export it to the EU.
Another in the same vein is vim-fugitive by tpope [1].
I have never used magit, only a Neovim plugin claiming to resemble it, but I would assume fugitive is much the same (and quite wonderful from my experience).

[1]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive
I'd actually prefer a Dune2000 derived chess set.
Why Gemini 2.0 Flash? Any specific reason?
They usually don’t? If they did, they would have just crashed. If they are still running, then they allowed themselves headroom. The real question is who gets to use that headroom and how? What happens when the administrative processes use “too many” resources?

There are tons of tools built into modern OSes to manage prioritization of processes, etc. Whether it’s worth the tradeoff for you to deal with the operational overhead of harnessing those features is up to you.
How much money does that total (the taxes specifically earmarked for funding regulatory bodies)?

If a company suddenly starts doing something that costs society more in externalities, does it suddenly start paying more taxes to deal with the enforcement required to get them to stop?

After all, the whole point of regulation is to get the regulated to stop hurting society and costing it money.
Being careful is very costly, if you’re not careful you’re just approximating or being wrong. At this point we have to weigh if the tradeoff of writing it as fractions was really worth it
Or consider Józef Beck’s famous speech responding to Hitler’s threats, with the famous lines:

“Peace is a precious and a desirable thing. Our generation, bloodied in wars, certainly deserves peace. But peace, like almost all things of this world, has its price, a high but a measurable one. We in Poland do not know the concept of peace at any price. There is only one thing in the lives of men, nations and countries that is without price. That thing is honor.”

Given that politicians cater rhetorically to the populace and are themselves products of the prevailing culture, we can look at how speeches have changed over time to assess the progression of our societies, and this progression tracks closely the decadence described in Plato’s Republic. Honor, in this case, aligns with the spirited part of the soul and therefore timocratic rule. We have since passed from the timocratic stage to oligarchy in which honor is replaced with love of money. Democracy follows in which the base appetites are put front and center and all desires, no matter how base or deranged, are treated equally. (Tyranny is the last stage, characterized by total depravity and brutality.)
One thing to consider is that your code will be hard to maintain by others if you can’t at least communicate your big picture. And ideally, everything should be subdivided into modules with clearly defined interfaces, so that each module can be independently reasoned about based on (only) its interface definition. This increases maintainability because things can be reasoned about locally. People also differ in how much detailed context they can hold in their head at any given time, so the smaller the required context can be made for reasoning about any given piece of code or part of the design, the better.
Work expands to fill the available time, after all.
Gorgeous, but I'd love to see some actual differentiation of form between the various pieces - going to the obvious source of inspiration, sand worms, stillsuits, the rocks of the seitch, and the insect-like forms of the ornithopter all could lend form to the pieces.
:rolleyes:

AI should be a tool to aid humans, not humans trying to aid AI. When you start valuing the tool over humans things start going awry rather quickly.

I'm not against AI, but I don't think we should be bending the world to make AI fit better.

In before there is a request to change the docs into pure tokens, as human language is far too inefficient for the AI to process.
Post Office inquiry witnesses driven by 'self-preservation' says Vennells lawyer
Result: more people getting where they want to go.
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It's a bug if it behaves contrary to the programmer's expectation. Full stop. There is too much diversity in users to go the other way on this.

If a product doesn't meet a user's expectations it may be a poor fit, improper usage, or even a braindead terrible design, but these are not bugs.
I thought the same in picture but in the article author says he used different texture (one smooth and one rippled) for both parties. I give I’m the benefit of the doubt because fine texture can appear very different in reality than photo.

Edit:

> For a game of chess to function effectively it’s crucial you clearly differentiate between both opposition pieces, and, the alternate spaces on which those pieces play. In a mono-material set such as this, a binary contrast between rippled and smooth surfaces (reflective of the contrasting states of sand) become the primary signifier of this difference.
Cynical viewpoint, downvote if you must: It is the dream of right wing populists everywhere to demolish government bloat, leaving just the bits that are actually useful.

But: https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/seoc2/1996_1997/ad...

Any bureaucracy evolves, ultimately, to serve and protect itself. So the populist boss snips at the easy, but actually useful parts: Social safety nets, environmental regulations, etc. Whereas the core bureaucracy, the one that should really be snipped, has gotten so good at protecting itself that it remains untouchable. So in the end the percentage of useless administratium is actually up, and the government, as a whole, still bloated but even less functional. Just another "unintended consequences" example.

We'll see if Argentina can do better than this.
It would be nice if S3 provided similar public guidance. For instance:

> Adding a random string after a common prefix still allows auto-scaling to work, but…

No way to know if that's true of S3's algorithm too without them revealing it.
Uber for Nursing: How an AI-Powered Gig Model Is Threatening Health Care
Nooo, don't be derogatory
Another post where I get to tell a skeptic that they’re failing at using these products.

There will be human programmers in the future as well, they just won’t be ones who can’t use LLMs.
I honestly don't follow your angle at all. Mind telling me your complete takeaway? You are kind of throwing just bits and pieces at me and I followed too many sub-threads to keep full context.

I don't see where I was romantic either.
It's a beautiful set, I like how each side was translated to smooth/rippled and the textures are very pleasing to look at - like a miniature playable cast of desert characters. I agree the pieces are a bit difficult to distinguish though, especially the queen and bishops which seem to mostly differ in height but not so much in form.
Use `includes` and it's solved, you make it sound like a huge deeply rooted issue, it's not.

Anyone can achieve n+1 issue with whatever tool they use, it's not ActiveRecord specific.
what does it mean that "the west tried" - was it a technical failure or was it that people didn't want it in their backyard? just because people hate something doesn't mean that they don't need it. children hate spinach.
That's not my read of his comment. De Gaulle was a noisy upstart colonel when the Germans started their invasion of France, and was only promoted to 1-star general when France was half-way to being conquered. And you certainly could blame the politicians for having General Incompetent ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Gamelin#Role_in_the_Se... ) in charge of the army until part-way through the German Conquest. And then replacing him with General Worthless ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxime_Weygand#Recall_to_servi... ).