skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I always got the impression that the nuance between murder and manslaughter wasn't in their degree of unlawfulness but rather in their sentencing, but I am deeply thankful that I haven't needed to know

As an aside the difference between murder and manslaughter is in the intent of the perpetrator. Murder is typically when you intended for the outcome to be death (and is additionally divided into whether or not it was premeditated/planned).

Manslaughter is reserved for when there was not intent to kill, but your actions caused a death.
Was it ever a good place to work? When they opened their Berlin office the word was the mobile team was a revolving door of contractors doing append-only development on a monolithic RN app. It already seemed dysfunctional then.
Why Should a Unix Shell Have Objects?
Notable that most existing IT equipment can be fed 400Volts DC and it'll just work.

Sounds surprising, but the design of flyback transformers inside switched mode AC power supplies means (most) things compatible with 230 volts AC will also run on 400 volts DC.
What look are you referring to? Computer Modern font? Most journals I work with (ACM related mostly) use something other than the default.
I have my doubts about the validity of this. I've read about it many times, but there's never any pictures of it, other than the line drawing 'design'. It appears to be powered by an internal combustion engine, which surely limits it from being a realistic size - I've seen tiny internal combustion engines, but they are never tiny enough to convincingly fit in an object around 4mm diameter or so.

It always reads like someone's pipe dream that never really happened, even the anecdote about throwing it into the air, it flying 2 laps of the room and landing on a desk, how? The CIA didn't have access to microelectronics beyond what is known about, there's no way it had any autonomy, and the hinted-at optical remote control would require microelectronics that again is too big for a realistic size.

I suspect it's possible someone built a 'prototype' that was maybe a metre long or so, but that's a long way from the covert device we're asked to believe was made, if never deployed.

I have similar doubts about the anecdote of their 'brain controlled cat' snooping device that has often been written about from the same era, no evidence of the level of brain interface technology that would be required has ever been demonstrated from that timeframe.
They can’t even answer their support tickets using AI.

We just had one waiting for over two months (customer is multi million revenue per month) and after escalating twice, we get a link to the docs (didn’t have the info) and find out they have changed the name of their product for online checkout to Kustom after selling it off.
I’m financially interested in Anthropic being successfull since it means their prices are more likely to go down, or for their models to get (even) better.

Honestly, if you don’t think it works for you, that’s fine with me. I just feel the dismissive attitude is weird since it’s so incredibly useful to me.
Curious about something:

- let's say original Tintin works were created from 1929 to 1969.

- does this mean only the works released in 1929 are now "remixable"?

- or does it mean that the "concept of Tintin" is now going to be in the public domain?

- (I'm pretty sure the works from 1969 will not be in the public domain).
https://archive.ph/DG7Jf
It's a rather famous scummy company in sweden.

Basically digital loan sharks.
Then when these guys get shot there will be posts complaining
As a counterpoint, and very slight argument for 'code is law', it seems at least nowadays that there isn't just one 'court' for it to stand up in. It depends a great deal on which specific judge one gets randomly (or district shops for). I am open to the rebuttal of "well that's what appellate courts are for" but chasing all these appeals is an expensive endeavor
Nearly every CEO I’ve talked to in the past three months (only a handful, admittedly) has said something along these lines, if not quite as extreme.
They genuinely believed the current state of the art is polished and powerful enough to replace huge swathes of coders, designers, writers, etc. leaving only a middle-management supervisory layer and some lower-level grunts to herd the bots. Or it’s a good PR ruse to scale back growth ambitions as others have stated. But most of it appeared genuine belief in “AI”.

Some of these companies will not survive the inevitable reality check that is coming. I’m only sad for the people the glassy-eyed CEOs are shitcanning.
As part of my plan of not inconveniencing anyone, I already doled out kids' inheritance in cash and real estate, and will donate the rest. I also rented 100-years storage at forever.com, so nobody has to deal with my old photos, memorabilia etc. Everything else is a matter of 2 hours' work by a garbage disposal team. Executors can walk.
I have a decade of experience writing web code professionally, in my experience, LLM is a true waste of time regarding web.

On the other side, I'm switching to game dev and it became a very useful companion, outputing well known algorithms. It's more like an universal API rather than a junior assistant.

Instead of me taking time to understand the algo in the details then implementing, I use GPT4o to expand the Unreal API with missing parts. It truly expands the scope I'm able to handle and it feels good to save hours that compounds in days and weeks of work.

Eg.
1. OOB and SAT
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47866571/simple-oriented...

2. Making a grid system using lat/long coordinates for a voxel planet.
Yea, going by the picture that road is VERY incorrectly setup, then! There should be a pedestrian bridge for that kinda road. o_O
Possibly, but here's a data point in the opposite direction: Learning mathematics, especially higher forms of mathematics.

Before students can learn directly from symbolic representations like formulae, mathematics teachers must communicate mathematical ideas to them using natural language -- and with just a few iterations of correcting misunderstandings, this process somehow converges on the students having the same understanding of these abstract ideas.

That is, natural language succeeds here in bootstrapping a more precise form of communication.
I’m not sure any one factor “explains” why something is written in a particular way. History, practical concerns, conveying the tone and register, signaling, and official requirements all play a part.

Still, it wouldn’t shock me if legal language is an unusual in how much of its incomprehensibility is explained by the “magic spell” hypothesis.

Looking at the full text of the article, much of the analysis involves center embedding, which makes me wonder whether other features that contribute to complexity work the same way.

Full text: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eric-Martinez-6/publica...
Programming Languages as Technical Artifacts
Nah. They're trying to eliminate the threat of content creators, artists, designers, animators, etc getting paid for their art and hard won skill instead of google.
Rust Crate Feature Debugging
But not just for AI, for all their data center operations.
Add "everything that communicates with a microcontroller" to 2.

That means potentially: the majority of devices in the world.
Net income -2.5 billion kr (2023)

Good thing they aren't growing, they appear to have scaled those negative margins, and it's time to dial it back.

Will AI also be able to hyperscale a negative margin business?
The author commented on that in 2022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33200731
They will better reconnect with their medieval history by having and keeping beautiful majestic living oak trees, as many as possible and as widespread in the country as possible.

Their boat project is in no hurry. Why can't it wait the natural pace of the "donations", slow as it may be?
This seems like an atrociously underpowered study.

The issue of non-lawyers just cargo culting the legalese style aside, did they try to actually interrogate whether the plain text descriptions held up to adversarial interpretation?

Like take the plain text, hand it to a lawyer with a test case description and let them shoot holes in it.
Humble Bundle revoked all Indiana Jones keys, even if in your Steam library
Well, that's a possible solution.

But often FFIs pollute the reason one chooses to use obscure languages.
Oh, this is great. I just did an implementation in gRPC in Go whereby I had to churn through 10MB/s of data. I could not implement any kind of memory pool and thus I had a lot of memory allocation issues which lead to bad memory usage and garbage collection eating up my CPU.
The Internet is good, and it’s quieter than a Starbucks. Back when more McDonald’s had 24-hour lobbies and my work habits were worse, I’d head over there to get a black coffee and ice cream to program or write.
> What they really want is just cheaper price for the same thing

They'd probably be happy with competitive market pricing, which is unlikely to happen without a competitive market.

Nvidia's gross margins are extraordinary vs. AMD or intel margins (or even "overpriced" Apple.)

There is competition of a sort - for example at the low end with intel ARC and at the high end with AMD Instinct based supercomputers. However, competitors don't seem to be able to match the CUDA software platform, particularly for AI/ML. The deepening CUDA moat is hard for competitors to cross and for customers to escape.

In the cloud space it seems that Nvidia may face more competition with platforms like GCP/Cloud TPU and AWS/Trainium.
Same here. Really liking it asking it Unreal C++ trivia.
It is indeed, and not just Tintin in Congo, but as you say its racists elements come from the historical background the author was working on and not because Hergé was trying to promote racist views (except for Tintin in Congo BTW, because it was ordered by a very conservative editor as a propaganda work, like Hergé's first book Tintin chez les Soviets).
Right, but that's why I said the sentencing part because to the best of my knowledge one doesn't become "more unlawful" in either case, rather if found guilty of the "lesser" of the two evils(?) you are unlikely to get capital punishment. The nuance is in the severity, not the crime

Err, having written that out I now guess there is also some social component to it: you may still be received at a party if convicted of manslaughter but maybe not murder so we need different words to describe the act for purposes outside of the legal system
Luckily, similar to how they made a choice for these constraints, you also chose yours. Both are artificial constraints; nobody is forced to solve problems in an esolang, and very few people are forced into having kids. You could have chosen their constraints instead. You chose a constraint set difficult for you; they chose a constraint set difficult for them, and the wonderful thing is that you both can work on the problems at your own pace, under the constraints you've chosen for yourselves.
20% attrition sounds like pretty on the edge of quiet firing.
Our limited tests show that yes, Hunyuan is comparable or better than Sora on most prompts. Very promising model
Very dubious claim, especially given that there is absolutely nothing related to religion mentioned in Dante’s sentence above, and that both Dante and the podestà belonged to the same party (Guelfi), but to opposed factions.

Despite referring to the Pope or the Emperor, it is my understanding that the division between Guelfi and Ghibellini, or Guelfi Bianchi and Guelfi Neri, were almost exclusively based on political interests and being able to control power (see for example https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/ghibellini-e-guelfi-in-...)
>It’s hard to see in present time, but it becomes clear in retrospect when the winning companies started making failing decisions while on top. Then doubling down on those poor decisions or switching strategies too frequently to make an effect.

It is even more infuriating when you see a big player makes a bad decision, but it takes years to see the effects (on the market for example).
Android Developers Blog: The First Developer Preview of Android 16
My understanding is that the difference is that the Meta-Cambridge Analytica situation wasn't a 'hack' data breach, it was Facebook sharing data in breach of existing Australian privacy laws.

ie. Meta is at fault, as opposed to a criminal intruder.
It was interesting to see how ChatGPT performed on the word problem about determining which weight is inaccurate:
https://chatgpt.com/share/67611e29-6db4-800b-9ebd-00d7938380...
I was surprised by how poorly it did.
All the HN posters love AI and sing its praises to the heavens until these articles are launched and it becomes reality, and the real reason tech wants AI so badly is revealed haha.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -Upton Sinclair
Reminds me of this

https://www.squawkpoint.com/2013/01/regression-to-the-mean/
I am not applying for a job, I'm just trying to get backfilled!
I searched boardgamegeek for games published in 1929. The only thing that grabbed my attention was Shambattle, the first published American miniatures wargame. It is an early, possibly the first, modern miniature wargame that used dice to resolve combat (no spring-loaded toy cannons like in Well's Little Wars for instance).

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31562/shambattle-a-game-...
True. Although if a tool is written in python, it can easily be installed with pip install. I’ve seen so many people get confused by doing pip install poetry in way too many places resulting in a very confusing work environment by having different poetry version and setup depending on which directory you’re in / poetry shell you’ve loaded. If you cannot pip install the tool, this particular madness goes away.

Requests: there’s urllib in the stdlib. It’s requests just worse.

Working with aws means you’re automating things, ci/cd etc. Many people use python they’ve installed locally for months or years without upgrading.
There’s a whole set of features built[0] to prevent this exact scenario - runaway controllers consuming all api resources. Not sure why it didn’t work, maybe they are running an old release

[0] - https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/f...
For a buy-now-pay-later business, it has aggressive narrative-shaping PR that seeks to paint it as something more. And most tech news outlets seems to regurgitate it willingly.
I'm open to the idea they see something I don't.

I'm not convinced, but I'm open to it.
I love this! The rationale too.

I wonder if people would try to get around length limits by referring to other, existing contracts or clauses. Would we wind up with npm, but for contracts?

We'd want to have certain well-chosen "primitives" defined, at least. What a "person" is, etc.
Yeah that makes sense, those two have been around for quite a while I guess.
MAGA types have a point on debanking
Whilst I agree with the sentiment, most definitely in the case of social networks funding old media for the privilege of linking to their news sources, I think in this case Meta "did something egregiously wrong" that was also illegal according to Australian privacy law.

(Aside: An amusing thought experiment is how voraciously would the Australian government pursue Murdoch's media empire had it committed a similar act? A $50 million fine would kill it's Australian enterprise, or at least be nearly-fatal, I'd hope...)
A bit off topic but… from my point of understanding,

Unless there’s a huge beneficial shift in cheap and clean energy production and distribution, and fast, climate change and its consequences on society and industries (already started) outweighs and even threatens LLMs (a 2-5 years horizon worry).
Fine-tuning stable diffusion tend to work pretty well for this kind of things.
Is it sustainable though? Financially I mean. The low bids could just be desperate undercutting as companies try to starve each other out. But they may not be able to operate at those prices for long.

And then there’s the other notion of sustainability. What would it take in terms of mining and other activities to produce grid level storage capacity to replace coal entirely in China?
First time I tried Klarna, their 'payment' workflow was actually a 'grant full access to all bank accounts' workflow in disguise. I was thinking this amount of misleading must be illegal. Further interactions with them always felt sleazy.

Maybe they know the regulators will dismantle the company in the near future and are optimizing for extracting the maximum before their implosion?
Great article, does anyone have a breakdown of the programs babbage wrote? It always seemed odd that Lovelace was the first programmer, suggesting Babbage created a machine without thinking how his it could be used.
The only problem is you have to find out where those pods are and your primary source of this information is currently under dos attack by said pods
> I have a decade of experience writing web code professionally, in my experience, LLM is a true waste of time regarding web.

As someone who knows web front end development only to the extent I need it for internal tools, it’s been turning day-long fights into single hour dare I say it pleasurable experiences. I tell it to make a row of widgets and it outputs all the div+css soup (or e.g. material components) that only needs some tuning instead of having to google everything.

It still takes experience to know when it doesn’t use a component when it should etc., but it’s a force multiplier, not a replacement. For now.
Vision Parse: Transform PDFs into Markdown formatted content using Vision LLMs
Hey HN,
I'm excited to share Vision Parse, an open-source Python library that uses Vision Language Models to convert PDF documents into perfectly formatted markdown content automatically.

- Converts each page in a PDF document into high-resolution images
- Detects texts, tables, links, and images from the high-resolution image using Vision LLMs and parses them in markdown format
- Handles multi-page PDF documents effortlessly
- And it's easy to get started with this library (just pip install vision-parse, and then a few lines of code to convert a document into markdown formatted content).
They see dollar signs
The most expensive court cases aren't over clearly written contracts that have a clause for the dispute, they're over ambiguous ones. Contracts are written to minimize costs already, and that's why they're long. Legal cases are often much more expensive for the parties than they are for the US (you could have a dozen lawyers on each side plus staff, and one judge). The existing incentives favor minimizing the amount of time spend in a courtroom.

A sign that this is working is that breach of contract doesn't show up in the supreme court very often. The big legal battles involving major corporations are usually regulatory, copyright or patent disputes wherein the parties were opposed even before the thing the case is about happened.
It's for KV caching. In most conversations that will mean inference. But you can do reinforcement learning using sampled sequences, and you could use KV caching to speed that up too, so that would be an instance where training could get a slight boost.
Hah, plus one on this one. Once I went as far as buying a French car famous for the suspension problems due to the terrible quality of pavement in my country, mainly to prove everyone was wrong about the unreliability claims (and it was unreliable btw). I guess I was often feeling I was outsmarting the dumb crowd... got me screwed so many times.
does a thought occur in a vacuum?
Yeah I'm the same, did it twice unfortunately.
If this is such a powerful niche for an organism to be in, why haven't they already emerged naturally over the 3 billion year history of life on earth?
Final problem being, as usual, if your product is already running and not a complete shit show, it will take some time to see how you messed up, maybe even when the ceo/decision maker already moved on to another company, so it's someone else's fault. Twitter fired how many engineers and still runs the same from an outside view...
What if anti-aging technology is developed and you can live up to 1000 years?
is there a lot of tornadoes in a vacuum?
There are influencers making many multiples of that for doing far less. Monetary returns has rarely if ever reflected skill, social value, or talent in capitalist economies, this is always been the case, not sure how that is relevant

I was merely commenting on why these tests exist and the dynamics in the measurement industry from an observer, we shouldn't conflate exclusivity or difficulty of a test to its quality or objective.
Would you like that with or without tokens?
No, it’s based on the fact kids are watching the adverts. This isn’t the US, advertising isn’t a free for all and hasn’t been for a long time. It’s not particularly controversial.
And I'm sure they had no idea what was happening and using it as a loophole for cheap labour
Isn’t this common in other countries, where a “notary” has to sign contracts as well?
It’s awesome they try to define those terms. But I wouldn’t call that well defined at all. https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=6a4c20dc-594d...

I would say that math is unambiguous.

Measurements are becoming more unambiguous. The accepted measurement of a kilogram equalling s Avogadro’s constant. Something like the number of silicon atoms in a 93mm sphere?

But the definitions of best and reasonable are only accepted based off precedent and we’ve seen in recent history precedent in law isn’t as reliable or defined as we may have thought.

Is there any language or any level of language that can remain defined across time and culture?

So long as legalese requires interpretation to determine intent and outcome it can be expected be incomprehensible.
Sounds like 20 years ago when everyone was moving IT to India.
Hmm, alright, sure: Pick a field. What would the shift you are proposing look like in that field? What’s the ratio now between qualitative work and quantitative work, and what ratio would you like it to be, post-correction?

What will be the outcome of that shift? Some kind of better research?

On what basis do you think that field should agree with your perception?

On what basis do you think your perception is correct?

Note that I’m using “qualitative” and “quantitative” as stand-ins for whatever you think there’s too much of and too little of, respectively—please feel free to clarify if these words don’t effectively capture what you are trying to say.

It’s not at all important to me to attribute to you a “total rejection” of these methods, your writing implies to me that you have a preference for quant methods and think they’re better. You’re not, for example, complaining about too much quant methodology in economics, and too little qualitative. Sure, you don’t think that qual methods are bad per se, but you do think that the social sciences could use fewer of them, and that they’re overused.

I imagine you would agree that these methods can tell us different things, and that they’re not interchangeable for any given research question. You’d probably also agree that some fields bias towards certain types of questions, and that maybe the ratio of methods of work in a given field reflects the bias towards questions that are best answered by those methods. So, are you suggesting that entire fields should focus more on different questions, specifically those that can be answered quantitatively?

If not, I’m not sure I understand what the implications of your argument are.

For what it’s worth, here’s my bias: I am both a quantitative and a qualitative researcher, and I actually think the underlying issues holding back the production of generalizable knowledge have little to do with choice of methodology, and to the extent that they do, it’s in part due to a fetishization of quantitative methods that tell us something generalizable—but not necessarily something useful or even something true.