skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that they are real and frightening and given that the preparation for this unlikely event can be a difference between life and death.

like the stories of companies at world trade center who took time to practice the extremely unlikely event of “airplane hit the building how do we get out” and then safely got out cause they knew what they needed to do, kids also need to be prepared as well. it is horrible thing kids have to go through in the US but pretending this is not happening I believe is not the way to approach it
The stunt worked because there's some controversy over the ability to verify Harris worked at a McDonald's as she stated. Trump very publicly worked there for a day to sort of rub it in. He was trolling her, and it appears to have worked.
>>> delay creating tickets until after I've already written the implementation.
Why? Because tickets in my employer's system are expected to identify which component needs to be changed,

abso-frigging-lutely

To me this is n example of software being a form Of literacy - creative work. And yet process is designed by software illiterates who think novels can be written by pre-planning all the paragraphs
If your devices are bound to an old or broken controller, you can rescue your devices by putting a zwave controller into exclusion mode near the device and triggering exclusion on the device (how to do this is device specific, but it usually means "pressing whatever switch the device has"). Note that this is different than what many devices call a reset, which usually doesn't fully reset the device.

Exclusion mode should work on all zwave devices, because they have been certified as zwave compliant with the zwave alliance. The problem is that exclusion mode is extremely counter intuitive. Here is what you need to know:

1. Any zwave controller can exclude a device from any network. It does NOT have to be the controller for that network.

2. The controller needs to be near the device, as other devices won't forward the exclusion messages... at least I think this part is true.

So to rescue your device, you can plug a zwave controller into your laptop and walk around your house excluding devices. I wrote a blog post on how to do this: https://notes.bayesup.date/How+I+Made+a+Mobile+Z-Wave+Exclus.... There are some USB zwave controllers that have a built-in battery specifically so you can do this without involving your laptop.

Anyway, this is so poorly designed I suspect many devices have been thrown away in frustration even though they could have been saved. I almost did this to over $1,000 in zwave switches until I figured out how to write the freaking exclusion program myself and walk around with my laptop.
Even since ChatGPT 3.5 AI coding has been astoundingly good. Like you, I'm totally baffled by developers who say it's not. And I'm not just unskilled and unable to judge. I have 35yrs experience! I've been shocked and impressed from day one, how good AI is. I've even seen Github Copilot do thing that almost resemble mind-reading insofar as predicting what I'm about to type next. It predicts some things it should NOT be able to predict unless it's seeing into the future or into parallel universes or something! And I'm only half joking when I speculate that!
The meals are pricey, no doubt, but the app is where the real value is.

In NYC, I’ve scored insanely cheap deals—last week I got 10 chicken nuggets for $1. Right now, I’ve got a 50¢ double cheeseburger offer staring me down. I’d redeem it daily if it weren’t for health reasons (it says once a week, but for me, it’s somehow available every day).

And don’t sleep on the $6 meal deal: a McDouble, 4-piece chicken nuggets, small fries, and a small drink. For six bucks, that’s tough to beat!
If you're using things like USB Zigbee dongles, they can be a pain to pass through to the docker container, or just not possible at all on macOS.
> LLMs are yet another step forward for intellisense

That would be great if the reality wasn't that the suggested LLM slop is actually making it harder to get the much better intellisense suggestions of last year.
I think most people experience hundreds of bugs per week, they may not notice them and or realize they are bugs.
I mean yeah that makes sense
Trying to juggle two kids, a mortgage, xmas and only having 30' at night to myself to even hear my own thoughts. I'd take your artificial constraints any day.
Introduction to Rotation for Computer Graphics
Terry Davis had his last interview (I’m aware of) at a McDonald’s.
Luke 9:60

> Let the dead bury the dead
"Personally, the team I lead is able to ship much faster with AI assistants than without, which means in practice we can out compete much larger teams in the same space."

So, you're giving away your company's IP to AI firms, does your CEO understand this?
Whelp, this is a bi-partisan congress who voted for it, the House representative and Senator you voted for probably supported this act too. And it's not a narrow majority, it's an overwhelming one. And the courts fully support it to.

When you were voting for your representative, would it not have been probable to know they likely would have supported the act? This bill and backlash has been building for years. It's unambiguously clear that America has made her choice here. There is no risk of "authoritarianism" because the overwhelming political plurality is in consensus. Nor is there any concrete political opposition or protests.

Thankfully, the internet isn't real life, and I'm hard pressed to know of the majority complaining here really are Americans with the best interests of America at heart or if they're mad because the interests of a certain country gets harmed here.
I think of it like this:

ASML makes the film.

Zeiss makes the cameras.

TSMC is the movie studio. They'd be making hit movies no matter who was supplying the film and the cameras.
Asking
That's a different topic entirely.
> I find it much more common for people to dismiss Econ 101 principles religiously (e.g. less strict zoning will just create more luxury apartments that will actually make housing more expensive; demand subsidies to college education, an inelastic good, will make it more affordable).

I don't think any of that's religious. People believe subsidizing college education will make it cheaper because of common sense and lived experience of short-term effects (increasing subsidy to something generally does make it cheaper in the immediate), and people believe relaxing zoning will make housing more expensive because they see higher prices in places that have relaxed zoning than in neighbouring places that haven't.
I haven’t been a fan of the UI for a while, although admittedly it’s a tough job - there’s a lot to cram in there! I started building a simpler alternative, where everything is just a simple, sortable, exportable table (details in profile). It’s been fun to build, but the sheer number of services has been a slog.
At all the McDonald's I've been to recently, you can still walk in with cash, give your order to a human, and walk out with a bag of food. You don't have to use the app. You don't have to use the touchscreens.
The short answer is they're trying to sell it.
"The arrogance of comments like this is amazing."

Defending AI with passion is nonsensical, at least ironic.
This is my first advent of code, my initial goal was solving the challenges using APL (note: I've never used that kind of language). It didn't work. :D

I continued in C++, but kind of lost interest. Next year I'll learn the language beforehand. hehe
Google Trends make it seem like we're out of the exponential growth phase for LLMs-- search interest is possibly plateauing.

A decline in search interest outside of academia makes sense. The groups who can get by on APIs don't care so much how the sausage is made and just want to see prices come down. Interested parties have likely already found tools that work for them.

There's definitely some academic interest outside of CS in producing tools using LLMs. I know plenty of astro folks working to build domain specific tools with open models as their backbone. They're typically not interested in more operational work, I guess because they operate under the assumption that relevant optimizations will eventually make their way into public inference engines.

And CS interest in these models will probably sustain for at least 5-10 more years, even if performance plateaus, as work continues into how LLMs function.

All that to say, maybe we're just seeing the trend die for laypeople?
The insanity of requiring an open source project to be
hosted on a proprietary for profit Microsoft social
platform with git hosting makes my head hurt.
Always surprised that more US tech companies don’t offer childcare, which is probably the biggest constraint on employees’ time at the office. In addition it is a huge tax win to pay childcare from top-line revenue rather than having parents spend post-tax income.
Absolutely, shorts shouldn't be available to Youtube children accounts.
My point was that there is a way to have lock files and keep using pip (using pip-tools), without full switching to poetry or uv or anything else.
The crazy part of the babel myth is that it tells a store of what seems like the first time in human history where people of all backgrounds came together, lived in peace, made technological progress, and god couldn't stand that, as it wanted the people dumb, scared and fractured.

It seems the pattern keeps repeating to today.
is it qualified tax deduction for corp?
True. Microsoft's all in, Apple's all in, Nvidia is selling shovels, insurance companies are all in, police & military are all in, education is all in, office management is all in. Who is left to pump line up?
I agree with you though, the title is misleading.
OK but if you actually read the article you will see that this is mostly about australian position, not US.
I mean, you have a lot of choice and the Tesla quality isn't exactly known to be as high as the BMW (Also Tesla real-life range != stated range).
So far LLMs scale the opposite of silicon, instead of exponential gains in efficiency/density/cost, each generation of model takes exponentially more resources.

Also, being a software developer is not primarily writing code, these days it is much more about operating and maintaining production services and long running projects. An LLM can spit out a web app that you think works, but when it goes wrong or you need to do a database migration, you're going to want someone who can actually understand the code and debug the issue.
Personally, I think it's bonkers that you think "I don't have time to comply with the law so I shouldn't have to" is a reasonable position.
Related:

What will enter the public domain in 2025?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42290448
Does this work if you have to finalize your submission before said organizers harvest shiny fresh dataset into existence?
"Stay on the cutting edge of how to increase your output and quality using AI."

If AI (there is no AI, it's ML Machine Learning) were truly as good as the true believers want to see it as; then it could be useful. It isn't.
I too enjoy defining my default attribute values at the protocol level, so they can never, ever be changed, and then defensively coding library functions in case the arguments are not constructed under the same semantic assumptions as I had years ago.

Also everything needs to be marked optional or you'll need to restart the whole service mesh to change the schema.
Yeah, I never got the audio (stt and tts) / assistant pipeline quite working, always the weirdest issues. I tried running with Docker and other configurations I don't even remember. Discord folks weren't very helpful. It's too bloated to run on old Pi's, requires new ones which are just computers by now and not cheap anymore. Gave up on it long ago.
It crashed Safari on iPhone 16 Pro Max, I doubt it's the device.

The website is horrible on resources.
Oh. I wrote this post. I didn't expect it to make a second round here.

I'll elaborate on anything in here if anyone wants to know things.
Small discussion 23 days ago (13+7 points, 3+1 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42200931 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193906
Same here. Well, Google being Google, not surprised.
Agreed, I have made wormwood tea before (taste is intense, but it does really clear your sinuses...), barely any impact on the senses (other than taste).
Why do people foolishly claim these are unintended consequences?

This is a way to regulate political speech and create a weapon to silence free speech online. It's what opponents to these measures have been saying forever. Why do we have to pretend those enacting them didn't listen, are naive, or are innocent well intentioned actors? They know what this is and what it does. The purpose of a system is what it does.

Related to this, and one version of a label for this type of silencing particularly as potentially weaponized by arbitrary people not just politicians is Heckler's veto. Just stir up a storm and cite this convenient regulation to shut down a site you don't like. It's useful to those enacting these laws that they don't even themselves have to point the finger, disgruntled users or whoever will do it for them.
Why should they be more ahead?
If the data transformations are the hard part, sure. But often the hard part is whether you're even outputting the right thing at all. Also, if you're planning in that much detail, you might as well be writing code (perhaps with some holes).
The saddle, the stirrup, the horseshoe, the wagon, the plough, and the drawbar all enhanced the productivity of horses and we only ended up employing more of them.

Then the steam engine and internal combustion engine came around and work horses all but disappeared.

There's no economic law that says a new productivity-enhancing programming tool is always a stirrup and never a steam engine.
I wonder what the world would be like if we took corporate personhood to its logical conclusion and applied the same punishments to corporations as we apply to people.

You can’t really put a corporation in jail, but you could cut it off from the world in the same way that a person in jail is cut off. Suspend the business for the duration of the sentence. Steal a few thousand bucks? Get shut down for six months, or whatever that sentence would be.
Yeah but we can only use 10% of our brain too, so.
A site for kerning's so bad it's keming, plus other typographical failures
Tintin was Belgian. So does it go into the public domain everywhere? Could copyright owners in other countries go after you in the US?
It can't be "no regulations", but yes, in general every law that requires compliance infrastructure should include a minimum size to ensure it only applies where it is relevant. In this case though, I believe the intent of the UK law is to ban all online communication that is not subject to safety scanning and the like. It's fundamentally a draconian law.
My point was not that there are more atheists; my point is that whereas 1-2k years ago, ~100% of humans believed sincerely and wholly in supernatural nonsense, now we have beaten that back to somewhere around 90%, which is hundreds of millions of people who at least sometimes are aware of and pursue truth and rationality.

You can even publicly state same in most places on Earth today and not be beaten or killed.

The situation improves even faster with the mass education that the internet allows for.
I managed a lab full of these. So painful to work on because of all those sharp edges. We upgrade the RAM by hand though, which did help. And went from OS 7.6 to 8.6 eventually... which made things a bit more stable. Such weird machines.
Looks like they “debugged” you, fixed you, then pushed you to production ba-dum tss
insane! thanks for sharing
Let's see what else becomes a matter of 'national security'.
HAOS uses docker to containerize everything, so it can’t be that difficult, and it really is not. Docker has a —-device flag for this purpose, udev makes it easy enough to assign stable names.
And that’s what matters the most! To me, at small model sizes (1-8B), anyway. A few thousans tokens already bog my RAM down quite a lot and I’d love to have more - I’d go as far as saying that context greatly determines LLM capability at this point.
Agreed, but I can't imagine that everybody here on HN that's defending LLMs so... misguidedly and obviously ignoring observable reality... are financially interested in LLMs' success, can they?
If you change 1,2,3,4 into A,B,C,D - you're still counting. You're just using different symbols to do it.

Take a moment longer to think about it and you realize that 1,2,3,4 are also just symbols - potentially raw counting does not require these symbols at all.

So ABCD is unlikely to make life easier for the subject of this story.
That sounds like a traffic limit, not storage.

Comparison: https://seedboxgui.de/seedbox/
I've heard this many times already, why don't you back that up with a serious study that proves the reason young adults don't want kids is to, quote "travel, party and drink"?

And if it's not an economical issue, what are we to do? Force people to have children? Artificial insemination?
Pretty much any z-wave device is going to work as well.

Highly recommended zooz devices, they’ve been robust and get consistent firmware updates.
The Four Corner Code is not really a hash, just an index. Do you have evidence of the use of unnatural, random-looking "hash" functions for the sake of an even distribution? That's the key insight that makes a hash table what it is.
Is VATMOSS more complicated for small merchants in the EU than it is for foreign merchants that sell online into the EU?

I work for the latter kind of merchant, and "complexity" is not a word I would associate with VATMOSS. Here is what we've had to do to deal with VATMOSS:

• Register with the tax authority in a country that was part of VATMOSS. We registered with Ireland. We did this online via the Irish tax authority's web site. It took something like 15-30 minutes.

• Collect VAT. VAT rates are country wide and don't change very often so it is easy to simply have a rate table in our database. No need to integrate any third party paid tax processing API into our checkout process.

Once a month I run a script that uses a free API from apilayer.com to get the rates for each country and tell me if any do not match the rates in our database, but that's just because I'm lazy. :-) It's not much work to just manually search to find news of upcoming VAT rate changes.

• At the start of each quarter we have to report how much we sold and how much VAT we collected for each country. I run a script I wrote that generates a CSV file with that data from our database. We upload it to the Irish tax authority's web site and send them the total VAT. They deal with distributing the data and money to the other countries.

It was a bit more complicated before Brexit. Back then we made the mistake of picking the UK as our country to register with. Instead of going online by making a web-based way to do things like Ireland did, the UK did it by making available OpenOffice versions of their paper forms for download. You could download those, edit them to contain your information, and then upload them.
"Interest" usually comes from within, when you have agency and see the results of your work.

One of the most interesting periods of my work was when my cross-border e-commerce business grew too fast, and we started to outgrow our warehouse. We designed so many ideas to save space and optimize work, it almost doubled our efficiency. I remember drawing some sliding rows and robotic shelves, though it didn't come to that. I was tired but happy, and the work was one of the most interesting in my life. Now, if I say, "I have an interesting job, it's in Warehouse Automation", you'd think I'm crazy, right?
This is some of my favorite Tintin fan art: https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3270528/random-cool-tinti...

I grew up with Tintin and Asterix.
> US tech companies don’t offer childcare, which is probably the biggest constraint on employees’ time at the office.

As a rule of thumb, US companies don't care about workers. Employees are considered an expense to be tolerated.

Before someone tries to present a contrarian view, I implore you to run a thought experiment with your employer - if share price/margin/profits drop tomorrow, what will they do? Layoffs/cuts or ask shareholders to accept lower returns for some time?
Even beyond that, there's a bunch of neuromuscular training needed to deploy the muscle properly!

When you first start lifting, your 1 rep max is limited by your ability to recruit muscular functional units simultaneously (and in the correct order) to complete the movement. I forget the real number but an untrained person will be able to recruit maybe 1/3rd of the muscle they have for a 1RM movement.

Keyboard ticklers - get out there and use that meat! I mean it!
Did you do this? I'm just curious, if you unplug the TV and plug it back in, how quickly does it start up when in "dumb" mode?

My problem with the Bravia TV I have is it takes a solid minute for the Android system to boot up, so I can't just put it on a smart plug and expect it to turn on when I turn it on...
I think this advice is pretty context dependent. Plenty of folks have tons of trouble with their wifi network. For example, someone in an apartment with a very crowded wifi spectrum might have better luck with zwave (900 MHz).
"In the last two years LLM capabilities have gone from "produces a plausible sentence" to "can generate a functioning web app". Sure it's not as masterful as one produced by a team of senior engineers, but a year ago it was impossible."

Illegally ingesting the Internet, copyrighted and IP protected information included, then cleverly spitting it back out in generic sounding tidbits will do that.
Elon Musk will not receive highest-level government security clearance – reports
It's about the semiconductor wafer manufacturing and processing techniques. Just wafer manufacturing alone, to get the desired electrical characteristics, doping and the lowest number of defects possible is a mighty task. TSMC has perfected this black art. They are head and shoulders above anyone else.
Vermouth also has artemisia (though requirements vary regionally - I think in the USA it's not essential, whereas in EU the law requires some form of wormwood).

Vermouth being the French take on the German word for wormwood - Wermut
Ahh we are in agreement there then.
Another creepypasta 10 years down the road...the "dead" robot haunts back
I read the top part, skimmed some more, then looked at the end. It did warn me that it was a long post. What I didn't expect was that it was a well-written rant that didn't seem to have any salient actionable points. I expect a certain amount of new information per unit written/read, so either have more to say, or use fewer words to say it.

Perhaps it's a good read for folks who enjoy words about something they already agree with.
The pMHC-TCR complex, which is the cornerstone of the adaptive immune system, has evolved to bind peptide epitopes.

Most D-amino acids are known to bind MHC poorly and lead to reduced TCR recognition. I imagine this could increase the chances of evading immune surveillance.