skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My go-to tool for this is CFEngine Enterprise + Ansible. CFEngine Enterprise includes a data warehouse component to support reporting/querying, and Ansible is handy for ad-hoc tasks on a smaller scale. With federated reporting[1] your infrastructure can scale to hundreds of thousands of hosts.

[1] https://docs.cfengine.com/latest/web-ui-federated-reporting....
Maybe because of an extremely aggressive marketing, and pushing "AI features" into literally everything, and there being a pushback against that?
Give it time. Misinformation and disinformation need to marinate to have a large impact.
So first of all its a very cool project even tho i don't code ruby.

But in case the author of the page is in here, please read the following:

Some years ago i had a similar idea, just instead of ruby-cons i went for defcon videos. I build a page that indexed all defcon talks and even tried to categorize them in terms of topics and difficulty. Added a nice search, and put it out as "defcon.video". It didn't take google long to message me and tell me i had to take it down because its actually forbidden to host an alternative search index if you are using the youtube API. You are not allowed to store the results of youtube API (longer than 24hours if i remember) and as stated before not allowed to offer an alternate search.

While you might argue: why didn't you just state that you don't use the api to grab the data and shutoff the token usage : well because google is not really known to be friendly and i expected them to just close down my whole developer account if i don't follow.

So - in case not all the videos are hand inserted (and even then they might come at you) google definatly will reach out to you and try to force you down. Back when it happend to me i didn't have the time and patience to fight them back so defcon.video was shutdown.

Best of luck tho
Nobody wants to lose money (savings) or go bankrupt because of hallucinations.
FAA Rule Requires Drug and Alcohol Testing for Foreign Repair Station Employees
For opposing quackery and a complete abandonment of science. Most people at the company know and agree. I'm aware that many plan to leave soon too.
I think regular microbiology would pretty quickly adapt to the mirrors. Evolution is crazy that way.

But multicellular organisms would be at a huge disadvantage. We don't have offspring every second, so adapting to the mirrors would be nearly impossible. They'd be able to cause havoc in plant and animal life that has mechanisms for dealing with regular bacteria.
There are a few nice automations here, but I think only Windows users could think this workflow makes sense. Renaming the .exe and then running it isn't really any easier than supplying the package name as an argument on the command line - which is the experience you'd already have with Pipx, except for the actual Python installation (which is easy on Windows). Further, Pipx would allow you to create the entry point in community standard ways. (For that matter, from what I can tell, almost everyone making CLI applications in Python is expecting POSIX-like command syntax, even when it runs on Windows - just like Python itself does. A hybrid command line like `python.exe -m your-package /polyinstall` looks very strange to me, and having it automatically wrapped up in a shortcut doesn't actually change that fact.)
Why did they arrest him in the first place?
Oh, no. People learn English by watching American TV shows and speak in similar patterns. What if people learn to write by reading LLM output, and write like LLMs? No bueno, to use a vernacular.
Thanks for your reply but like I said above it's based on a misunderstanding, that program verification and Program Synthesis are one and the same. As far as I can tell the article is not trying to make that claim, either.

What the article does that perhaps causes confusion is that it uses the term "Program Synthesis" to refer to one kind of Program Synthesis, specifically, Inductive Program Synthesis. That is Program Synthesis from an incomplete specification, such as a set of examples of inputs and outputs of a target program. Deductive synthesis assumes a complete specification (a complete description of the target program, usually in some formal language).

Inductive synthesisers have to [1] search a large, combinatorial space of programs in order to find a program that satisfies a specification. This search itself has typically exponential time complexity and if it is coupled with a formal verifier then you have an at least NP [2] search on top of PSPACE verification. For this reason many inductive synthesisers don't use formal methods to verify candidate programs but instead check the output of a program's execution against I/O examples. That's very much like the software development process you describe, with informal tests such as unit tests. It's still very expensive because of the combinatorial hardness of the program search space.

That is what LLMs can't do: they can't do inductive program synthesis on the cheap. Generating programs with an LLM is subject to the same explosive combinatorial search as any other search-based approach: you're generating a large number of programs, until you find one that does what you want. It doesn't matter how you check whether you have the right program: the bottleneck is the search of a huge program space. On their own, of course, LLMs can generate correct programs only by chance, so you do need some kind of verification procedure to check their output, whether it's formal verification or "just" testing. It depends on what guarantees you want. Formal methods can give stronger guarantees while "just testing" can only tell you that a program "covers" its training examples.

I'll stop here because I don't want to write a huge comment but there's more things to say about how we ensure program correctness and what that even means in practice and in principle. I think I gave some hints above though.

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[1] Well, ish. There are alternatives, but not very well known.

[2] It depends on the approach.
Indeed, your blaming of me being arrogant is like a school yard indeed. You started it, you got called out, and are now acting superior. I owe you no grace if you started off the way you did in the other sub-thread.

Go away, I don't want you in my replies. Let me discuss with people who actually address the argument and not looking to paint me as... something.
A person should be murdered because you can’t use someone’s creative work for 100 years?
And this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42433044

It shows the dark side of this coin. It's killing a lot of genuine volunteer initiatives because complying with all the red tape.

I find that a huge loss because it drives us more and more in the arms of big tech who only have dollars as a goal, not helping people or establishing a community like these initiatives do.

This law is aimed at big tech but it actually hurts the smallest players which don't need this legislation because they're already ethical. The big players will just hire more lawyers to contest any fines and find as many loopholes as they can.

An 18 million pound fine is just a massive risk for a hobbyist. It would basically ruin their entire life.
>Kaczynski targeted "people he believed to be advancing modern technology and the destruction of the natural environment." (quoting Wikipedia). Did that change anything?

The problem with that argument is that Kaczynski targeted random innocent people who had nothing to do with the faults in the system, while Luigi targeted one of the heads(pun not intended) directly responsible for the faults with the system, which is why a lot of the people support his actions.
Open source only became confusing because Richard stallman made it his life mission to try to redefine the meaning of free in a way that would confuse people for decades to come.
I'd argue that this bit of mathematical logic carries over to many programming languages. For example using LINQ expressions in C#:

https://dotnetfiddle.net/3QGurc
they always use a good cause to push for more authoritarian polices
I didn't have anyone specific in mind - but it seemed like a reasonable default assumption. In fact I think I landed on the post originally by thinking "I wonder how hard it would be to assemble a watch from parts?" and some cursory searching around that.

I enjoy a channel called "wristwatch revival" that covers servicing and repair of watches of various types - that guy often sends off for parts so it was a natural thing to wonder I think.
Yeah, and it's always in the future, right? ;)

I don't disagree btw. Stuff that is very easy to automate will absolutely be swallowed by LLMs or any other tool that's the iteration #13718 of people trying to automate boring stuff, or stuff they don't want to pay full programmer wages for. That much I am very much convinced of as well.

But there are many other, rather nebulous shall we call them, claims, that I take issue with. Like "programming is soon going to be dead". I mean OK, they might believe it, but arguing it on HN is just funny.
Trump to block the government and military from buying EVs
It's certainly a large part of it. There was a recent Cantonese movie that featured this as one of the themes, it's well worth a watch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Dance_(2024_film)
Timeflux or some such are better alternative to store timeseries data.
Rootclaim announces $1M debate: Did Covid mRNA vaccines save more lives?
Thank you for pointing this out.

A librados based storage manager would be a game changer. The scalability and availability story of Postgres would be rewritten.
Assuming that your parents die separately, you being there will make it easier for the other parent still alive. The same goes for their relatives and friends attending the funeral. There's some comfort in seeing that the person was loved.
China's AI elite rethink their Silicon Valley dream jobs
I'm not saying to ban cars, just to de-prioritize them
The use case for bicycle-and-similars is way more than the use case for cars specially urban places (also outside urban places)
I think mental health is more stressful nowdays because people have fewer in-person hangout friends outside of jobs+school. So when they lose a job, there is less of a social network to process it with. Just my speculation tho.
> This limitation is not peculiar to AI—it reflects the inherent nature of constitutional interpretation itself. Many constitutional disputes involve competing values and interests that must be weighed and balanced by human decision-makers. Perhaps judges should avoid making these judgments themselves, deferring to the legislature or following original meaning. But those, too, are consequential choices that require justification. No technological advance, however sophisticated, can transform such questions into purely objective inquiries with demonstrably correct answers.

This seems to acknowledge the obvious question that comes up reading this article - are flaws of AI judgment any worse than flaws of humans? In the end having a highly principled constitution is important, so it can be easily applied without much human intervention.
I would argue that our sensor package is losing its lead very quickly-- audio performance is already on par with current tech and image processing is closing the gap very quickly as well (it helps a lot that silicon-based technology is much less constrained on bandwidth). Tactile sensing is still lightyears ahead, and I don't see that situation improving anytime soon...
Time for a longitudinal study.
FIX is hardly unknown.
Or just get a mini PC. I have an Intel N100 based one that wasn't much more expensive than a higher-end Pi, housing, wallwart, SSD and adapter, is substantially more powerful, energy consumption is pretty close, and it's potentially more useful if it needs to be repurposed later.

And then set up backups.
Microsoft isn’t paying to restart. A PPA is a contract saying they will purchase electricity for a specified price for a fixed term. Three Mile Island needs to be able to produce the electricity for the specified price for Microsoft to pay buy it. If it’s above that price Microsoft is off the hook.
While the Americans have encountered first the "DO loops" of FORTRAN (1954), the "for loops" of ALGOL are derived from the earlier use in Europe of "for loops" in programming (actually "für loops", Heinz Rutishauser, 1951), which in turn had been preceded by the use in mathematics of the "for-all" quantifier (Gerhard Gentzen, 1935), which includes an implicit loop (and in many more recent programming languages, starting with Alphard in 1974, it is preferred for the most frequent loops to use a syntax essentially identical to the mathematical notation from 1935, i.e. like "forall X in A do ...").
Absolutely. I agree with your take. It's just that I prefer to work in places where products are iterated on and not made once, tweaked twice, and then thrown out. There LLMs are for the moment not very interesting because you have to correct like 50% of the code they generate, ultimately wasting more time and brain energy than writing the thing yourself in the first place.
They can be with provisioned concurrency.
What analytic strategies do you utilise ? I'm heavily on the mental rotation camp, I suppose.
ChatPerk
Phew, I was starting to Panic when I could only see one mention of AI on that page.
Big brother: the effects of surveillance on fundamental aspects of social vision
Actually, Kaczynski did attempt to target those responsible for failings of the system, including a geneticist, computer store owners, etc.

The reason why Kaczynski didn't have support is because he believed that all of advanced technology was a problem and of course he targeted "low-level" people compared to CEOs, and most people don't agree with his technology thesis anyway, whereas most people disagree that healthcare in the US is messed up.
> Evidently, he tried our product briefly, had an issue or thought he had an issue, investigated the issue briefly and came to the conclusion that he understood the technology better than people who have spent years working on it..

This doesn't match this:

> Syncing from Postrgres is the main offering (as in the offering with the most customers) from a leading data sync company, and we found that it would lose data, duplicate data, and corrupt data. After digging into it, it turns out that the product has a design that, among other issues, relies on the data source being able to seek backwards on its changelog. But Postgres throws changelogs away once they're consumed, so the Postgres data source can't support this operation. When their product attempts to do this and the operation fails, we end up with the sync getting "stuck", needing manual intervention from the vendor's operator and/or data loss. Since our data is still on Postgres, it's possible to recover from this by doing a full resync, but the data sync product tops out at 5MB/s for reasons that appear to be unknown to them, so a full resync can take days even on databases that aren't all that large. Resyncs will also silently drop and corrupt data, so multiple cycles of full resyncs followed by data integrity checks are sometimes necessary to recover from data corruption, which can take weeks. Despite being widely recommended and the leading product in the space, the product has a number of major design flaws that mean that it literally cannot work.

That description doesn't sound like _he_ briefly used your product, but that company he was working for used your product, found bugs and despite contacting support couldn't make it work. This doesn't read at all as a minor experiment that he didn't put in the time.
Show HN: Built something to tell my designer my thoughts clearly
I always used to have disagreements with my designer because he wasn’t clear about what I wanted him to build. Then, when he built something, I would ask him to redesign it. He would tell me that if I had been clearer from the start, he wouldn’t have had to scrap his previous version. Let me know if this helps you as well ?
Just use ActiveRecord's`find_by_sql` method
To answer some questions:

- When I said "embodied" I roughly mean the ground rules that someone needs to know to check the proof. In the case of symbolic logic I mean the symbols and the transformation/rewrite rules. But I'm not sure yet how I would formalize the analogous concepts for visual proofs.

- Re: "You seem to be focusing on the representation of the proof in a particular notation, rather than the actual logic of the proof." ... yes, but maybe not necessarily. The "logic" of a visual proof is quite different than the "logic" of a symbolic proof.

We're on the same page, but if I were to take it one level deeper, I would add:

a. While I know what you mean by "irrefutable", I wouldn't use that word, because it sounds too much like "untestable". The whole idea of a proof is that each step can be verified. With a big enough lookup table, a proof can be checked in linear time (right?). If a step does not "obviously" follow then the step is not well-explained (in the "trivial to verify" sense).

b. Your choice of "demonstration" is key here. An essential aspect of a proof is that it is easier to check than generate. Simply "read off" each line of the proof and check against some known set of facts and transformation rules.

c. It is useful to distinguish between a verified proof (which is subject to correction!) and just a proof (which is a form, a way of communicating how something can be verified). See this Stack Overflow page: "Widely accepted mathematical results that were later shown to be wrong?" [1]

[1]: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/35468/widely-accepted-mat...
You may me familiar with Instagram

Fears over Instagram eating disorder posts https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47637377
It's a different company paying each time ;)

I'm actually super excited to see how https://www.sovereign.tech turns out long-term. Germany has a lot of issues with missing the boat on tech, but the sovereign tech fund is such a fantastic idea.
Mozilla interest in browser development is decreasing, the same way their market share has continued to decrease for years. In a few years, Firefox might become irrelevant. We can only hope that a new browser (Ladybird? something else?) replaces it.
Outside the Box: ChatGPT Gets Lost in Time in Syria
I’m curious about the specifics here— what were the PR snafus? And what was better about the Androids?
I feel much more productive with Ruby on Rails than any other solution
I think it’s related, but not in the way you’re implying:

He seems to view it as a personal failing that he didnt ignore the awkwardness to “solve the problem” of no one memorializing his friend and thinks about that inability to perform in the moment often, because he wants to be someone who can “rise to the occasion” in such moments.

You seem to have a different problem, eg a bad work-life balance or lack of meaningful duties to perform.
Honestly, this just looks like those in power in the EU, belonging to a coalition and ideology that likes lots of centralized control, cannot tolerate dissent. Romanian citizens choosing to vote for a right leaning person they came to learn about via social media suddenly spurs on vague notions of foreign interference and a hunt to shut down anything that gave the right a political advantage (in this case, TikTok). The DSA is fundamentally not compatible with free societies and it being applied here, as a knee jerk reaction to a recent election outcome, shows the need for reform in the EU

> Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, said: “We must protect our democracies from any kind of foreign interference. Whenever we suspect such interference, especially during elections, we have to act swiftly and firmly. Following serious indications that foreign actors interfered in the Romanian presidential elections by using TikTok, we are now thoroughly investigating whether TikTok has violated the Digital Services Act by failing to tackle such risks. It should be crystal clear that in the EU, all online platforms, including TikTok, must be held accountable.”
Ukraine says it killed senior Russian general who died in scooter blast
I think this is a relevant submission to hn because of the novel way in which he was assasinated. Together with the hezbolla pager explosions it indictes a new trend of common technology being used as weapons. The security establishment will need new methods to deal with these car bombs of the future.
> Kaczynski targeted "people he believed to be advancing modern technology and the destruction of the natural environment." (quoting Wikipedia). Did that change anything?

Well, maybe not much but I believe it did a little. At the very least, it contributed to a growing body of technological skepticism. And it probably did inspire Luigi Mangione, too. If Mangione's attack changes something, then indirectly Kaczynski's work changed something too.

Again, not arguing morals here, just analyzing historical facts and extrapolating.
The trend is to talk about deregulating things. I have doubts about any actual deregulation.
I would not mind having a junior type out the code, or so I thought for a while. But in the case of those of us who do deep work it simply turned out that proof-reading and correcting the generated code is more difficult than writing it out in the first place.

What in my comment did you find defensive, btw? I am curious on how does it look from the outside for people that are not exactly of my mind. Not making promises I'll change, but still curious.