skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interaction makes people feel closer to it. Come on, I know all of you can see the difference. You’re not living under a rock and I know you see how frequently people call LLMs alive and claim that they think.

If you believe they think: then it’s obvious. There’s a real connection.

If you don’t believe they think: you can recognize how others do and talking in a human way is often misunderstood as thinking.

Are we really surprised machines optimized for human preferential output are resulting in machines that people love, trust, or view as a friend?
Mark Sibly, creator of Blitz BASIC, has died
It's certainly worthy of study. The whole ecosystem of a "science" might be bad at one point in time, and all the practitioners might be wrong, but one day in the future the field could "get it right"!
Do we know if this difference is present at birth, or something that shows up as a result of doing more reading, like how the brains of London taxi drivers changed when they studied for the taxi-driving exam, which meant they had to memorize lots of routes.
Kudos. This is one less papercut for async rust. I first started using futures in Rust in the first release and it's been a slow road, but gradually improving with each fix like this.

In terms of what's really left before async rust is as pleasant as normal rust? Off the top of my head I'd say that improving ergonomics around cloning of Rc/Arc self types might be there. I'm creating a lot of inner types to work around the ergonomics of calling clone at each call site and this would remove one of the last annoyances here.

Oh, and generators being stabilized would be amazing too.
In terms of cooking utensils silicone or bamboo might be a better choice than stainless steel. I don't think I've ever seen brass cooking stuff. I've often seen brass bowls with stickers warning that they aren't food safe.
I'm glad to see this phrased this way, because that was something I felt but hadn't articulated consciously. It's literally private accountants making healthcare decisions.
It is impossible to definitively identify AI or eliminate generative ai use in any given piece of writing. There are detectors out there but they all have high levels of false positives. And unknown levels of false negatives.

Why? There are at least 5 common generative ai services (which display different behaviors depending on how they’re prompted and what has previously been in the context), there are hundreds of thousands of open models, millions of different ways you could set up retrieval augmented generation, infinite ways you can prompt.

That said
It is quite easy (for professors for example) to pick up on common linguistic and structural patterns. (Chat gpt uses certain words more commonly, structures arguments in a particular way, uses and misuses the same metaphorical structures)
Yep, I looked for a couple minutes and concluded “must be ugly since they clearly don’t want to show it to me”.
I signed up but I just get an alert that I will get 10 free requests when I signup. It quits the search when I press ok.
Running it on safari iOS.
I wonder, is it a given that asking multiple models will give a better output? Can you ask one model slightly different prompts, take the outputs, and ask it to summarize them? Or even argue amongst itselfs?
When they were surveying readers vs non-readers, does the reading have to occur via books? Does reading text on the internet not count as reading? I've always wondered why this apparent dichotomy exists. I read quite a lot of lengthy texts, but they're often technical documents that exist on the internet. I hardly ever sit down in a quiet place with a book. Am I not a reader?
Reading the manual, it seems like a hose is placed into a kettle, and the pump is in the machine.
I was thinking of the same example for this article. Nature vs nurture arguments often need much more evidence than many can provide.
Same. It was my first CS class after transferring to NCSU in 2000. I was pretty lost at times but he was super kind and patient whenever I went to office hours. He was an older professor at that time and it was always cool to see was still teaching well beyond when I graduated.
GCP defaults spiked a Datadog bill by 20x
If I understand your suggestion correctly, it would require people to already be following the account that's tweeting this.

Also, it would probably require cross posting on Bluesky/Mastodon as from my experience with meet.hn user base, a significant % is not on X anymore (?).
As far as I understand, he's not actually learning the languages he play in, he is "just" memorising words from the dictionary.

Probably would make it way easier if he decided he wanted to learn one of those languages, but just knowing words doesn't make you proficient in comprehension and be able to create sentences.
Acid Software Facebook Announcement:

https://archive.today/soQ7G

Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz_BASIC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz_Research

Github:

https://github.com/blitz-research
Can you say more about how pry goes beyond the REPL?
I tried to search, but it immediately prompted me to login with Google. I didn’t see an option for non-Google…

I degoogled a while ago…
> The total I had to pay was about $20k. I didn’t think a lot about it after that.

You must be living in an entirely different world to me that you don't think about an upcoming $20K pull. I would have been calling up Carta after ~10 business days, if not sooner, if they were making me sit on $20K in cash.

> and it had overdrafted my checking account by $1k (I don’t keep a ton of cash around).

If a $20K overdrafted by $1K, then you had $19K in cash. I can't imagine what your monthly spend is like to feel the need to keep that much. I only keep $5K. First paycheck of the month comes in on the 1st, mortgage payment comes out on the 2nd, and I pay off the credit card. Anything over $5K left goes into savings. Second paycheck comes in on the 15th, pay off the credit card again, pay utility bills, car insurance, make my monthly IRA contribution, and then again throw everything over $5K into savings.
> It seems strange to call now early on rust given how long it has been around.

The first stable release of Rust was almost ten years ago at this point so I agree that this isn't particularly "early" in technological timeframes, but I suppose it could be considered young compared to C++ (first stable release ~40 years ago) or C (~50 years ago).
There was a study done by Princeton I think a while back that Americans people’s opinions has very little to do with what happens in congress.

Also, Europe adopted a lot of socially beneficial policies in wake of ww2. The US never had the devastation Europe had, so collective thought didnt form in the same way.
> You need someone in the system to say that treatment is too expensive, you cant have it.

That'd be triage, and I don't think it's the insurers' business – or even the doctors', unless they're in a field hospital in a war zone.

The article argues that prices are too high, because of monopoly power. Get prices down and triage won't be necessary anymore.
A completely "mirrored" organism is not that dangerous.

- It would still have antigenic properties, just not the ones we are familiar with.

- It can't eat any ordinary food. Common proteins and sugars won't fit it's enzymes. It also means it can't attack our tissues.

- It's "mirrored" toxins won't have any effect on us. (But compounds that are normally benign could become toxic if "mirrored".)
Also curious about this. Several other posts of similar age and with fewer points are in top spots on the front page. This post is still gathering comments, but seems to be hidden.
This is not true and is a very common misunderstanding of modern wealth.

Elon Musk owns hundreds of billions worth of stock.

First, the value of those stocks varies from day to day. He can gain or lose billions of dollars in "net worth" on any given business day.

Second, he is not free to sell that stock however and whenever he wants; he has to get approval from the boards of his various companies and is limited in the timing and amounts he can sell. Additionally, selling large amounts of stock causes the price to drop, AND dilutes his ownership in, and therefore control of, those companies.

I think a lot of people have this stupid idea of Scrooge McDuck swimming in pool of cash, when they think about billionaires. That's not how it works, for most billionaires (I'm not sure about middle eastern oil royalty).

In reality, businessman billionaires have most of their wealth in stock, and it is not liquid, and they borrow against the stock (i.e. use the stock as collateral for personal loans) and sell small percentages of it to finance their lifestyles.

If you created a company, and it became wildly successful, and it was publicly traded, who should "own" the company? Should you be forced to divest, and therefore cede control to people who had no involvement in the company's initial success? Is that good for founders or for companies? How does it benefit society?

Also note that profitability influences stock price, so taking away control from the people who made a company profitable, has a high likelihood of making the company less profitable, which in turn will almost certainly result in each stockholder becoming poorer. Remember that most stockholders aren't Elon Musks, they're John Q. Publics with a 401(k).
The point I was snidely trying to make is that certain languages make certain representations and tasks easier than others. Ease, convenience, and representation length are probably more useful metrics than "possible" in the context of this discussion.
Tell HN: ChatGPT's real-time video and enhanced voice is incredible
The new real-time video and voice feature on the ChatGPT iPhone app is super impressive.

You forget quickly and it feels almost like speaking to a real person via Face Time. Spooky.

I highly recommend testing to experience yourself.
So like how they did it 3 years ago? And for all time before that?

If the paperwork load is unreasonable there’s an obvious solution. (Reduce the paperwork)

Generative ai will make things up. It’ll be inadmissible as evidence once judges catch on.
How would Starlink (the Ka band service) interfere with GSM frequencies?

Or is that about the new "direct to cell" product? Is that even being launched near Kenya (presumably it'd not emit anything over areas it does not have a license in)?
* does not apply to shooting pains
A car not being in front means more data for cameras because they can see more of the road ahead if the system can actually do proper road navigation.

The fact that it shuts off immediately shows that they're just copying what the car ahead does.

The system is unable to function on a pre-mapped highway on a clear day with lane markings if there is no other traffic on the road. What does that tell you?
People will probably avoid going to the doctor if they have to pay cash, missing the opportunity to detect the big things early.
Well my wife had one and it exploded (and it was Italian, Bialetti I think), we have several friends with explosions etc. It's of course possible that Italians use it properly and we don't, but I'm not an expert in this topic, so I just stay away from them.
*yawn* and here they are ... like flies to a pile of garbage ...

Here's a few of them,

https://www.dodig.mil/In-the-Spotlight/Article/3948604/press...

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/10/30/air-force-ove...

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/04/27/pentagon-over...

There's even this HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42410606

This was a 5 minute Google Search, I can guarantee there's much more overspending going on. Oh wait ... yeah, why would one believe me if I haven't performed a detailed audit of all US Govervement expenses and published it to support my claim? Oh no, you got me this time ;).
also see “ring species”. there are types of co-habiting gulls who cannot interbreed, but if you follow breeding pairs round the world you can go from one type to the other.
I don't think people really do it all like you imagine, you probably have the wrong image of folks based on social media highlights.

Another thing to consider is that much of what you see was built over years. If you take Redis for example its first release was in 2009.
There is a further condition on p and q. They both have to be prime. The article states this very clearly, though it may have been updated?
Probably "dishy": Their terminal is internally called "Dishy McFlatface".
> I am not really going to argue on the issue of Palestine since that is apparently what you refer to, only to say that I still think there's a meaningful difference.

Yes, I'm referring to the genocide of Palestinians. It's not something I, or other American voters, could overlook.

> you can't avoid the responsibility of voters

No, and I don't, but when corporate media acts in lockstep with the duopoly's oligarch owners (hey, guess who owns corporate media) then voters can't take the full blame.

Look at corporate media folding themselves into conniptions trying not to acknowledge that Americans response to the assassination of a mass murdering CEO was glee, right across the political spectrum. Look at how they've twisted the 'conflict' (aka genocide) in Gaza.

I'll say it one last time: If Democrats had wanted to win this election, they could have. Easily. All the numbers, all the polls, all the world was telling Biden and Harris for the last year: Stop arming Israel. Stop vetoing ceasefires. Just do the absolute bare minimum so we can hold our noses and vote for you, as is tradition...

Dems refused point blank. Trump's presidency isn't on voters, it's on the Dems themselves; and any analysis which misses this fact isn't worth a pig's fart.
I remember on PS1 it sold with 3* CDs. It was beautiful as they had to make a special double edges holding box. Stood nicely aligned with all the other games but could be spotted from afar.

We see physical media as a burden today, that's sad as they used to be pieces of arts.

Edit: 3, not 4.
Harvard and Google to release 1M. public-domain books as AI training dataset
The Myth of Bitcoin Liquidity
Deprecation of the "X-" prefix in HTTP Headers (2012)
Ask HN: Do you have cool last minutes gift ideas?
But what about someone like myself who is good at reading but doesn't get the same pleasure from it anymore and can no longer finish books?
I thought one of major points of pride for Rust was eschewing garbage collectors. Why don’t I understand?
Is AI generated content any different from a human reading a bunch of books or watching movies and being inspired by them to create something similar but not identical?
Agent Clouds
Rotary pumps aren't that big -- most of the premium espresso machines with vibration pumps are actually bigger than the ones with rotary pumps, i.e. compare a dual boiler or heat exchange vibration pump like Synchronika with a Linea Micra or Lelit, with two boilers and rotary pump.
There's a big gap between needing something and benefiting from knowing something.

If a book/movie/whatever describes someone carrying a 60lb backpack is that a big deal? There's a big gap between a 6kg vs a 54kg one.

The cost of ignorance here isn't missing a question on a test, it's not getting the joke or similar in the moment thing.
That is the meaning of what I call orderly liquidation. Sales are usually structured in order not to crash the market.

That being said, just because you need to structure a big sale does not mean it can not be done, or that you can not leverage your asset to have cash available at short notice. For instance, a loan with your actions as collateral will let you structure your divestment over years for a very moderate price.

Again, what I’m describing is not science fiction, it’s litterally what happened with twitter.

Imo it would be a harder challenge to find valuable stuff to buy than to divest orderly.

> Isn't Twitter a good counterpoint? I vaguely recall Musk had a hard time liquidating shares to buy it?

From what I remember, the issue was more along the lines of him making an offer without thinking it would be accepted, and then be under the gun because he was not prepared. Even then, he eventually found a reasonable financing scheme.
The answer is to work with your bank to block payments. Equity is a legal contract, it's not going to evaporate because Carta says so. Carta isn't going to hire a debt collector against a well funded startup and get counter-sued / risk the bad PR.
A gift doesn't have to change the person's life. Just make them smile on the day.

Good to remember if it's all seeming a bit much.
Whether or not its monopoly was "natural" is perhaps a topic for debate. But it was definitely a regulated monopoly.
> Unlike any of their competitors, they assume full legal liability for their car's behavior while Drive Pilot is enabled.

Source? If someone gets killed when the system is driving, there is no legal framework for you as a driver to escape criminal penalties. Who at MB are they going to jail for it?

Can UPS indemnify their drivers from involuntary manslaughter charges?
I have this conversation with my wife (who is an avid book reader) at least once per month. I read so many technical documents for work, via my computer, that I often don't want to read a book for pleasure.
Show HN: AnnotateAI – Automatically annotate papers using LLMs
Cardless swipes up $30M to build a new generation of co-branded credit cards
it would be cool if Word just had that implemented inside the product like Google Docs does.
Update 3:00 PM ET: I've finished scaling up from 2 VPCs to 5 VPCs. Limits have been increased back up to 3 anonymous / 10 signed-in.

Update 2:30 PM ET: Back up (for now). Still waiting for Anthropic and Gemini quota increase requests, so those have been migrated to GPT-4o for now. Running on 2 VPCs, in the process of launching 2 more. Confident that I can increase the daily limits by EOD once everything's more stable.

Update 1:30 PM ET: HN blew up Ithy and it's 99% down right now, congrats ._.

1. I've exceeded my weekly Anthropic API limits; I've gotten in touch with their sales team and I've temporarily disabled the Anthropic model.

2. Blew past my Google API limits as well. I was using Gemini for prompting and aggregation, and I'm waiting for their quota increase response. In the meantime, I've switched to GPT-4o for the prompting/aggregation.

3. My VPC is at 100% CPU load. Launching more right now with some load balancing.

4. Limits were previously 5 anon / 20 per logged in user. Reduced this to 1 anon / 3 logged in while I deal with the load issues. Planning bring these back up as soon as everything's working again.

Hope to get this all back online within an hour or two. Sorry for the crappy launch. To think I was an SRE in a past life...
That's a great framework for assessing it, thank you!

It seems to me that to a degree nuclear weapons show some of the problems with a research ban. I think that it's possible that nuclear weapons are proliferating just very slowly. The problem seems to be that once someone engages in forbidden research, then their rivals feel the need to as well. E.g. we allowed China to get a nuclear weapon so India decided they needed one which led to Pakistan needing one. More currently, we allowed Israel to get nuclear weapons so now Iran is likely trying to get them.

It's also notable that the two instances where people gave up nuclear weapons, Gaddafi and Ukraine; have both ended poorly for the people who gave them up.

All this to say, I wonder if it might be possible to slow research on a subject but not to stop it completely.
It doesn’t have to be an advantage, it just is what it is.
Nary a mention of LLMs in the readme. That was an unexpected but pleasant surprise, when the idea of converting something to markdown for LLMs is floated as if it's new and the greatest thing since sliced bread. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

It's interesting to read the code. It's mostly glue code, and most of it is in single 1101 line file. But it does indeed say what the README says it does. Here is the special handling for Wikipedia: https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/blob/main/src/markit...

Edit: good to see the one from yesterday flagged. I tried to assume good intent, but also wondered if it was a place to draw a line in the sand. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42405758

Edit 2: ah, it came down to simple violation of the Show HN rules. I didn't notice, but yeah, that's definitely the case.
"It was an issue in Linux for a while, but isn't in recent kernels" is not really sufficient grounds for acting like it's not an issue.

A language designer or library developer, especially, generally can't assert that their code will only run on the most robust, modern, popular systems currently available. They need to work defensively, anticipating the issues that they may plausibly encounter -- especially where those issues will not be apparent to less expert application developers.

And those less expert application developers are in an even worse position, because many barely even know what they're doing in the first place, making all kinds of foolish decisions while they paste together their docker script and relying on inexpert devops/sre people (or end users!) who make their own choices about what things are running on.

It's encouraging to learn that there are now established, widespread, inexhaustibly secure RNG's out there. But it remains irrelevant to a discussion of what developers need to keep themselves mindful of because there remain many implementations in the wild that don't behave like that and most developers aren't in a position to guarantee which their code will encounter.
Both examples were killed by the state... That's my point, the safeguards failed and the people were euthanized...
Microsoft also made a version of C++ that integrated with the .NET garbage collector. Just because it doesn't fit with how most people use the language doesn't mean someone won't find it useful. Not like this will ever become part of Rust's standard library anyways.
Business in US? Don't wait for ruling on AI to act: former Senate chief of staff
Thank you! And you should still design an espresso machine!

Argh, yeah squarespace seperates the store from the overall site. Definitely need to re-organize and add some stuff, like an about us page. For now, you can uhhh watch me fighting robots on TV

https://youtu.be/vaBejT_TpWs?si=ZTs0fpLuHzNX31uS
Yeah this isn't replacing MRI anytime soon.
There is no oil used in the video that I linked. Did you watch another video?

The water glides across the pan due to the Leidenfrost effect. That’s the point when you add the oil.

I suspect there are some truisms involved here, but the common wisdom is that there is a combination of contractions in microscopic imperfections of the surface of the pan from the heat (more accurately, expansion causing the gaps to close) and the laidenfrost effect keeping the food from sticking once the pan has reached sufficient temperature.

Regardless of the true mechanism, my own experience suggests that most complaints about sticking with stainless steel can be avoided by properly heating the pan before adding the oil and food.

For what it’s worth, here is one manufacturer referencing a porous surface:

https://www.heritagesteel.us/pages/cooking-techniques#:~:tex....
I love it!
Very well done!
The long (after)life of some of our old fileserver hardware