skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is quite an absurd, racist and naive take.

"Commercial grade applications" doesn't mean much in an industry where ~50% of projects fail. It's been said before that the average organisation cannot solve a solved problem. On top of this there's a lot of bizarre claims about what software _should_ be. All the dependency injection and TDD and scrum and all the kings horses don't mean anything when we are nothing more than a prompt away from a working reference implementation.

Anyone designing a project to be "deployed in every cloud provider" has wasted a huge amount of time and money, and has likely never run ops for such an application. Even then, knowing the trivia and platform specific quirks required for each platform are exactly where LLMs shine.

Your comments about "business people" trying to replace you with multiple Indian people shows your level of personal and professional development, and you're exactly the kind of personality that should be replaced by an LLM subscription.
>Notice that a charged label on a Wikipedia page is enough for you, a skeptical person, to make an absolute conclusion.

Notice what charged label on the page [1]? By common sense logic of conversation, if you considered that I was using a "charged label" (whatever the heck that means) in my argument, the onus was on you to, at a minimum, mention that label, which you clearly did not do, although I think I can guess which one you mean.

>If it’s so obviously false, can you share the landmark study or experiment that disproved it?

How about you first sharing "the landmark study or experiment" that proves it?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology

And I wonder if you read the whole article, seeing that the word "discredited" (referring to phrenology) appears at least 5 or 6 times in the article, in many cases with citations.
Passkeys are already standard, enabled by default in all the popular web browsers, and thus already widely used by non-technical people (path of least resistance).
It's not OK for human drivers, either.

But we see bad driving whenever we are out ambulating in the streets, anyway, even in a world with vehicles that are almost always operated by humans.

In this world we have today, illegal things happen on the road all of the time.

(And we've always seen it, at least in quasi-modern times. It isn't something recent. I'm absolutely certain that we saw it in the horse-driven era, too; we just didn't have much in the way of pocket supercomputers back then to record it with.)
I am running HA with Conbee II using zigbee2mqtt in docker, and it is very stable and easy to use. However the Conbee II stick needs to left at an older version of firmware. The most recent updates of Conbee II firmware are unstable.

"Warning: Conbee 2 firmware versions newer than 0x26580700 will result in an unstable network with devices dropping randomly, see Issue 9554"
https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/adapters/deconz.html
>not just a measly T42, that's for the proles

What do you think the 'p' in T42p really stands for? T42p did not exist when I bought my T42 back in 01 or 02. X13 keyboard is almost as enjoyable to use as the T42's was for the first decade of its existence, X13's wins hands down over a T42 keyboard with a decade of use and tired springs. I am pretty happy with their current keyboards.
I would not call that "awesome", that's just another minor update about trivial stuff rather than truly addressing the major issues and complaints about the language and ecosystem.
I don't get why it is a failure.
This I agree with. It is awesome when you don't know something. I have being doing some TypeScript recently and it's not something I have used professionally in anger before.

But, as I learn it, GPT 4o becomes less and less useful for anything but short questions to fill in gaps. I am already way better than it at anything more than a few pages long. Getting it to do something substantial is pretty much an exercise in frustration.
The difference is volatility. S&P and BTC hit their bottoms around Nov 2022. Since then the former is almost 2x up, the latter almost 7x. Similarly once they hit their tops, S&P will go down 15-20% but BTC more like 50-70% down.
I concur, but it's even worse: I have a son who's doing a master in engineering (not CS). He had several programming courses in python and R. When looking at the example solutions, I noticed that whoever wrote them can't code, doesn't understand programming and certainly should not be allowed to teach it.
> Constellation closed the adjacent but unconnected Unit 1 reactor in 2019 for economic reasons, but will bring it back to life after signing a 20-year power purchase agreement to supply Microsoft’s energy-hungry data centers, the company announced on Friday.

The reactor they’re restarting was operational just five years ago. It’s not a fully decommissioned or melted down reactor and it’s likely all their licensing is still valid so the red tape, especially environmental studies, is mostly irrelevant. Getting that reactor back up and running will be a lot simpler than building a new one.
They can't. LLMs are the wrong tool for the job, since they can only predict code that might do what you want, not follow actual style or design guidelines. We don't have a technology for that. It's still human work.
The idea that it might become a burden seems unrealistic to me.

And banning pictures is a bad way to keep people out of traffic.

As to your flip... it really doesn't make sense to me. This art project gives people control of their own images! The city is trying to stop them from controlling their own images.

Saying the provider's wishes don't matter (which is a pretty strong exaggeration of what I said) does not even resemble saying the subject's wishes don't matter.
HyperEnlightenment, or Injections in the Rain at the Haus Der Kunst
When doing X becomes cheaper with the invention of new tools, X is now more profitable and humanity tends to do much more of it.

Nearly all code was machine-generated after the invention of compilers. Did the compiler destroy programming? Absolutely not. Compilers and other tools like higher-level programming languages really kickstarted the software industry.
IMO the potential transition from writing programming languages -> writing natural language and have LLM generate the program is still a smaller change than machine code/assembly -> modern programming languages.

If the invention of programming languages expanded the population of programmers from thousands to the 10s of millions, I think LLMs could expand this number again to a billion.
Nature has built a lot of bacteria over the millennia. It probably has experimented with just building the whole thing backwards.

That sounds simpler to do than, say, evolving a cogwheel (which does happen occasionally) or actually developing some of these molecules in the first place. It'd be weird for evolution to struggle so much on trying such a simple concept somewhere. This is a process that naturally figured out solar power, a bunch of mechanical engineering properties, various chemical techniques, all sort of fluid dynamics and statics, radiation resistance, sensing and control systems, etc, etc. If it doesn't build things backwards, more likely than not it is because it doesn't work well. The process knows how to do quite complex engineering tasks.
I agree with your broader point - but this article is about the UK and I can assure you, 50 years ago the UK did not have "very little terrorism"
> I thought, well, if an LLM is good at something, it's probably at finding information in a very narrow field like this.

I feel like of all the things in this thread, this one is on them. It absolutely is something that LLMs are good at. They have the sample size, examples and docs, all the things. LLMs are particularly good at speaking "their" language, the most surprising thing is that they can do so much more beyond that next token reckoning.

So, yeah, I'm a bit surprised that a shop like Shopify is so sloppy, but absolutely I think they should be able to provide you an LLM to answer your questions. Particularly given some of the Shopify alumni I've interviewed.

That said, some marketing person might have just oversold the capabilities of an LLM that answers most of their core customer questions, rather than one that knows much at all about their API integrations.
I have looked up multiple British laws over a wide range of areas (from landlord and tenant to education to corporate) for practical purposes and it is mostly reasonably simply written given the need for precision and to cover edge cases.

The article says "researchers plan to analyze British laws to see if they feature the same kind of grammatical construction." Not in the last half century or so. I cannot recall having read any older legislation recently.
I attribute that not only to good documentation, but that the overall design is relatively simple and logical.
Yes, the term is a bit clumsy. The way I think of it, people have desires (to drive on the highway), but are dissuaded from doing so by disincentives (it’s too busy). Adding a lane reduces the disincentive, so that latent desire is satisfied, until it reaches a new equilibrium.
Now that's an interesting thought, I wonder if you could use a modified subset of TypeScript to create a IDL/DDL for JSON-RPC. Then compile that schema into implementations for various target languages.
It still boggles the mind that everyone had 3 chances (cycles) so far to 5-10x their capital with btc but they still think it’s funny. Hfsp ;)
Also I think this will play out for AI as a productivity multiplier. Instead of people having less work there will be more to do since more things are worth doing now. For the following few years at least.
>Notice that a charged label on a Wikipedia page is enough for you, a skeptical person, to make an absolute conclusion.

Don't try to mislead, by using words like "charged label". The conclusion is clearly made by the Wikipedia page, not by me. I merely quoted it. Anyone who doubts that can go read it first, before making "absolute conclusions".
Most people don't remember absolutely everything, just the important stuff.
"That decade"? Can't say I've seen any actual signs of change in that.
It was awesome 20 years before that, and the 10s in the middle. It's great now too.
Here is my version of pelican at bicycle made with hailuoai:

https://hailuoai.video/share/N9dlRd1L1o0p
And places with these systems are those that achieved the best quality of life and peace.
Also json parsers are crazy fast nowadays, most people don't realize how fast they are.
Instead of an error-prone SD card, use an SSD (internal, external doesn't matter).

OR create frequent backups that are pushed to a better medium.
Losing relationships to death feels strangely not bad to me.

Losing relationships for other reasons that shouldn't happen, like fights, feels bad.

It's like eating a cake. You eat and at some point there will be no more cake, and you can rest content. But if the cake falls to the floor while you are eating, it's sad.
> Interesting blog post

No, no it's not. There is nothing redeeming to be found here, it's nonsense. It's historially ignorant trad-pilled vibes about the past combined with bizarre techbro mumbo jumbo about the future. Neither have any meaningful grounding in reality, nor anything interesting to say about the world.
The incident that lead to this occurred 8 years ago, and the incidents you cite happened much more recently. I have no idea if any enforcement action is ongoing in those cases, but perhaps you should consider checking before posting an angry comment, or you could instead direct your ire towards why the process is so slow.
Whatever you call it based on exact details, my point is that using your car for power is not "gimmicky" like they said. Based on budget you can get a transfer switch or you can get an extension cord. Either way you're making effective use out of the car you already own, and the idea that you're wasting time and should really just get a generator or fixed battery is incorrect.
> It is manipulative to constantly harass users with 'prompts' until they break down and give up.

"If it works for Google, it shall also work for us". Regards, Microsoft /s
Or get an ODROID! Much more powerful for (nearly) the same price.
The Freakonomics coverage was based on the book The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt by Michael G. Vann.

He was recently interviewed about that book on the New Books Network:

<https://newbooksnetwork.com/michael-g-vann-the-great-hanoi-r...>

Audio: <https://traffic.megaphone.fm/LIT1560680456.mp3> (mp3)

(Episode begins at 1:30.)

Among the interesting revelations: the rat problem was concentrated in the French Quarter of Hanoi, as that's where the sewerage system was developed. What drained away filth also provided an express subway for rats. Which had been brought to Vietnam by steamship-powered trade, for what it's worth.

(That's only a few minutes into the interview. The whole episode is great listening, and includes a few details on the Freakonomics experience.)
Does sqlite cache pages in memory?

If not, how can it be faster?

Is it the IPC overhead of Postgres?
don't kinkshame the lovely people of the Isles, they apparently have a penchant for many things, like separate cold and hot water faucet and a bit of autoerotic asphyxiation.
Same here, been talking with them for 4 weeks now, all we get is to "Use more services, build more" - our entire app is based on Azure, EVERYTHING. We cant possible add anything new. Please let me know if you find a solution around this
The US is, like in several other public welfare stats, a bad outlier in traffic deaths among industrial nations. Thank your corpo overlords. Create the problem, sell the solution.
The unknown protocol that runs finance
> It doesn't overwhelm you with thousands of packages and dozens of boot services right in a fresh install. On the contrary, it does only what you tell it to do. It puts you in charge and makes you feel like you can understand it top to bottom.

Just like Arch Linux and Gentoo, of course.
I was about to post this after seeing it on lobste.rs. Really underrated on hackernews for some reason
Framework 13 AMD Review on Linux: Almost Perfect
> nobody died from anything he said

This is a little difficult to prove. From the Parkland libels, sure. From the rest of the culture he promotes? Are you so sure?

Whenever Americans lecture us on our culture of preferring safety we tend to just count back the number of days to your last school shooting. Be aware you're on ZERO right now. A teenage girl! At a Christian school. And consider that there are other perspectives on how bad that is. Because you collectively don't seem that bothered.
Solidarity with the living is the whole point of the funeral.
That is exactly what I mean when I said "we'll be the ones using it".

I didn't want to expand it, for fear of sounding like an elitist, and you said it better anyway. The same things that make a programmer excellent will be in a much better position to use an even better LLM.

Concise thinking and expression. At the moment LLMs will just kinda 'shotgun' scattered ideas based on your input. I expect the better ones will be massively better when fed better input.
Interesting to even concede that Labour and Conservatives are basically the same, but no desire for third parties being able to enter. I'm definitely not a fan of Reform in particular, it's just highlighted the issue with new parties having no chance in the UK unless they are strongly local like the DUP or SNP. Geographic distribution seems to be the biggest factor in whether a person's vote is counted or not.
Amazon reportedly doesn't have room for everyone it ordered to RTO
I was actually thinking of the engineering-minded people who experiment with permanent magnet electric motors out of intuition. The bit about free energy was hyperbole of mine.

From 2021:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05820 This is the numerical discovery.

I'm trying to decide if we are intentionally 'translating' these ideas from pure imagination down into technological applications through intermediate 'realms' of quasi-reality, or if building stuff with just intuition can still be accepted in the 21st century. The BS is just piled too high for me and my trust in technology is not great. Sometimes I wonder if we are just having a mass psychosis in a field of mud.
> It's insane that they never carved out any provisions for "non big-tech".

There's only 13 provisions that apply to sites with less than 7 million users (10% of the UK population).

7 of those are basically having an inbox where people can make a complaint and there is a process to deal with complaints.

1 is having a 'report' button for users.

2 say you will provide a 'terms of service'

1 says you will remove accounts if you think they're run by terrorists.

The OP is blowing this out of proportion.
How would a call to the parents help in such a situation and how would a dumb phone not work the same?

The only one who has given up are the parents and teachers on setting proper boundaries to children because most likely they themselves are addicted.
> Passkeys are unique, so no more password stuffing attacks.

Just like passwords. What is the difference ?

> Passkeys can't be to short, in contrast to passwords

So a "long password" is a "passkey" ?
How Scala is made and how you can help? By Krzysztof Romanowski
Correction to my sibling comment: we do have to keep winding it back by a few hundred billion tonnes. I had the wrong order of magnitude, and defrost had the right one. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42439752 for details.
You mean exploiting FOSS for personal profit would be a business model?

Yes, yes most definitely it would be.

We see that all the time in the world.
Extract money with the easy tasks and leave the hard stuff (actually building things, long-term support, you name it) to "someone else".
And it's perfectly legal too; Just a shameful thing to do.

privatize profits, socialize costs
To be very honest, this is one of my first posts/writings which I did not use any writing tool whatsoever (even a spellcheck), since I was typing directly into the HN textbox and don't typically use extensions.
Maybe people should have some of those psychological effects.

Maybe operation Timber Sycamore, that bears fruit in Syria right now wouldn't happen, if the population was less trusting of the shit they see on tv.
SpiceNice – An open source spice database
A good option is to use an LLM to produce Mermaid diagrams. For example Excalidraw has a pretty great integration for that.
It definitely is doomed. But somehow we might survive.
Pure fruit juice is insanely unhealthy. This is because it circumvents the normal mechanisms that regulate fruit intake, while containing even more sugar.

If you press orange juice yourself, and see the mountain of fruits that are needed for just a liter of the stuff, it becomes quite obvious why drinking fruit juice regularly is not a good idea.
It is by far most companies. But yes, I agree.
Sometimes you come to believe that FAANG hires only the best and brightest, but then you're reminded that they have senior leaders who don't even know how to count.
Past discussions on multilspy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40326391
What are the alternatives? SDR? How's that with energy usage? Regional regulations?

Not cynical, just actually interested in practical answers and trade-offs.
Great alternative to timemap.org! Thanks for the discovery
I don't know why discussions on constitutional issues in France always get stuck on the same flawed or outright false claims, but it's annoying.

> It's the same in parliamentary systems.

Coalitions happen all the time in parliamentary systems. Even in countries with a strong presidential executive, having legislative elections on a separate schedule that help incumbents getting re-elected independently from the head of state helps a lot in getting bipartisan deals. Even in France, the Senate, notwithstanding its issues, is frequently a welcome source of balance of powers for this very reason.

> There is no majority so it's very hard to form a government and that government is very unstable.

Many countries have parliamentary systems and manage to be stable and working democracies. Many more have mixed systems which are much less forceful than France and also work fine.
World's oldest mammalian ancestor discovered in Mallorca
As shown in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42439752 my numbers above for the total atmospheric carbon dioxide load and the amount to remove are wrong by orders of magnitude. The total is 3.3 teratonnes, of which we will need to remove 1.1 teratonnes to get back to preindustrial levels, not just 2.3 gigatonnes. I believe this reduces the 2.5km number above (for the range over which diffusion alone would transport the necessary CO2 flux) to some 400m. Assuming I got the rest of the calculation right, which I'm uncertain of.

This also means that the world cement industry is not currently large enough to carry out the necessary direct air capture over a timespan of decades. You need a carbon dioxide capture industry 10 or 20 times larger; at current energy and material prices, this would cost on the order of 6 trillion dollars per year, about 6% of the world GDP of US$105 trillion per year, nominal, World Bank estimate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi.... World GDP has been growing about 3.9% per year, so rather than setting us back to the Stone Age, or even to the 18th century, this staggering expense would set us back to about the time Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, Hamas invaded Israel, OpenAI released GPT-4, and Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard.

This clearly demonstrates that it is technically feasible already, just not economically/politically. Rapidly falling energy prices thanks to the transition to super-cheap renewable energy will ease the economic difficulties, though the project may still require international diplomacy.

Also, https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/994/how-lon... says, "The time scale of interhemispheric tropospheric transport is in the order of one year," not a few weeks. I assume that the difference from the Mount Pinatubo number is because the troposphere mixes more slowly than the stratosphere because in general the winds in the troposphere are slower. (However, the jet stream in particular is at the tropopause, where the two meet.)
Because it helped influence elections
It's the same dynamic with people gradually adopting cutlery on burgers and pizza.
No, because rich people own businesses.
God, I'm terrified of giving off exactly these vibes when trying to write a formal email in a language that I'm not very fluent in.
Microsoft rejects documentation PR because AI chatbots can't display tables