skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you managed to get the content by scraping the home website, did you really need to build a scraper to collect this and feed it into input for a model and have it spit out a proposal that you probably proofread anyhow? Or, could you have simply taken your own knowledge of the company, regurgitated some generic corporate speak yourself on top of that, and came up with more or less the same end product in maybe even less time?
I only get this with very faint white noise in very quiet environments. Humans can actually sense things under the noise floor, so the line between hallucination and truth is blurry.
Current macOS ships with both. On a new laptop with Sequoia installed:

√ ~ % /usr/bin/python3 --version
Python 3.9.6
√ ~ % /usr/bin/perl -v

This is perl 5, version 34, subversion 1 (v5.34.1) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level (with 2 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
...

EDIT: I'm wrong about Python. See below.
LLMs have had very little influence on my programming so far.
VC are terrible at technical due diligence so the money will keep pouring in.

However, CTOs are also terrible at assessing their technical necessities and vector databases will have customers the same way web scale databases did.
According to the comment just above you, that’s not the case, it’s talking about plain paper bags that are then treated. They link to an NIH page as their source.
Is this some attempt to get around "contains batteries" shipping restrictions, since if anyone looks inside it'll just be like any other chip and there's no way to tell unless you start googling part serials lmao.

"No batteries here, officer! Move along."
Building a multilingual IoT controller using LLMs and MicroPython
Discussion (48 points, 3 days ago, 43 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42477564
Perl was a beautiful name and sounded like "Pearl". Perl 6 is named "Raku" which I find substantially worse naming.
There are releases. Releases is plural
One of the worst logos out there...
About once a week the google ai summary completely flubs the numbers of something I query on google. If you did that on stackoverflow you’d be flamed and put in your place with the right answer. No one is flaming the ai, it just became the source of truth one day with billions invested.
clojure.gdx – Clojure API for Libgdx
> Real annoying when you want like a 4 GB memory card and it splits up your input of "4 GB" into "4", "GB" and then shows you everything with a "4" or a "GB" in it...

I'm still not convinced it's not a social experiment to find out just how much it will take to make users give up and go away.

Or the size filter on clothes. Great, I can filter by size to only see pants that'll fit me. Wow, nice selection, let's open this one. Ohh... it has that size in general but it isn't available. I've come this to just writing a scraper, getting all the data and then filtering it properly just so I can buy some pants.
I've met a breed of career min-maxers adjacent to Julius that I have a hard time describing.

Picture this: you join a new team with a senior engineer, call him Pete. Pete wrote the initial version of a new product, and you joined the team to take over and continue it's development. Pete is bona fide genius who can work miracles and he is always in the critical path of each new initiative, you are told.

Once you open the lid of this new codebase you discover that this new product is a half baked spaghetti ball of mud that barely works as the demo that it was intended. With no documentation or tests, it takes you a while to even understand what's going on. Meanwhile the clock is ticking. It took Pete a mere 2 weeks to write this system, why it is taking you so long to add new features?

You try to explain to management the pickle you find yourself in, but to no avail. They fucking love Pete, and won't have anyone criticizing him. He has saved their asses in numerous occasions, and why is it always that others are the ones who can't keep up with him?

So you chug along, paying the price of the mess that Pete made while he keeps moving to even larger initiatives under leadership adoration. He also seems to have a knack to leave ship before his acts catch up with him, and when he decided to leave the job for a promotion and significant raise, management will miss him.

I've seen this behavior more than once and it seems too specific to not be intentional. Let me know if you ever met someone like Pete and how you call such people.
The Wall is a double album though.
Ask HN: Are you crosssing the Amazon picket line? If no, where are you shopping?
Feels like such a bougie question, but I just wonder: have any of y'all discovered an online shopping experience with quick shipping and broad product selection that competes well with Amazon?

I'm a long-time newegg user, so I use that for computer components. But what about for general household goods, tools, dry goods, cleaning supplies, etc?

Is there a good place to buy where workers aren't striking?
That said, the paper states:

> To such end, three teabags of different chemical compositions were used in this study: (1) empty nylon-6 (NY6) teabags (as a model of polyamide), (2) empty polypropylene (PP) teabags, and (3) commercially available teabags containing tea, and cellulose as the polymer composition.
You can use modules to structure your own codebase. No more need to write headers and think about how to structure your code in terms of compilation units. But yeah, your link shows that practically none of the popular libraries (except STL) can be imported as modules today.
Some do! For example, I used Wezterm, and it offers that capability [1].

[1]: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/keyassignment/Scro...
iOS dev with a background in hardware (where I used Perl daily to parse millions of lines of test data). Funny, just used perl the other day to parse an iOS repo for deeplink path handlers. Love it.
> I don't think any of the big boys are working on how to get an LLM to design a better LLM

Not sure if you count this as "working on it", but this is something Anthropic tests for for safety evals on models. "If a model can independently conduct complex AI research tasks typically requiring human expertise—potentially significantly accelerating AI development in an unpredictable way—we require elevated security standards (potentially ASL-4 or higher standards)".

https://www.anthropic.com/news/announcing-our-updated-respon...
Israel concerned 'wild card' Musk could share sensitive data with others
Lexmark is unfortunate for Lexmark employees. Knew a guy who worked there - constant layoffs and train-your-replacement offshoring, nearly every year. It's a shell of what it was 20 years ago, but that's probably to be expected for a printer company.
Show HN: Willpayforthis.com -I am gathering posts about what people will pay for
When people have a pain point they'd like solved, I find that many of them resort to posting a Tweet about it.
Interesting story, but as a bond holder, you're a lender. As a lender, you are exchanging inflation risk for interest. With this in mind, how could anyone think that a 400 year bond would be a good idea (specially at only 2.5%!). You have to remember that when buying a bond, your principal is tied up until maturity. On a 400 year bond, you're basically never getting it back. So you've handed your money to someone 15 generations in the future for what is initially a bad return and by the end of the bond's life is unbelievably bad.

By the way, if you take the 1,200 Gilder and invest it in an investment vehicle at 4% compounding and wait 400 years, it's worth $7,807,589,396.13 This woman basically traded almost $8 Billion of future return for a total of $5,444 including that principal that is returned at maturity. Ouch.
I would love a feature to scroll back to previous input lines, I don't think I ever found something that supports it (I haven't spent a lot of time searching for it admittedly)
Login page redirects have become a big user security hazard it would seem - and OAuth is basically the culprit.
I filter my tap water because the water where I live tastes like mud sometimes. (No, I'm not making that up. And yeah, they've been working on it.)

I use an inexpensive carbon block filter that sits on my countertop and connects to the faucet with a little diverter valve. It works OK at reducing the taste issue here.

But I'm in no way under the impression that doing so somehow reduces the water's exposure to plastics. The pipes in the house are plastic. The pipes under the street, if recent, are plastic. The filters themselves are plastic.

I could get fancy and put in a nice reverse osmosis system, but that's just layers of differently-shaped plastic.

For me, the solution is to simply not worry about the things I cannot change.

(Although I guess I could go off the deep end and built a still... But sheesh.)
Cool. Now take the 1,200 Gilder and invest it in that same investment vehicle at 4% and wait 400 years. It's worth $7,807,589,396.13
Stopping a single source is not going to stop you from ingesting synthetic plastics and flame retardants. And you need to replace the utensils with something else, the cost of which might be worse in not only money but possibly health too, if you make a snap decision based on a single factor instead of the entire picture.

And sometimes the exposure already is effectively zero, making any action at all a waste of time.

I don't know if this case is safe or not, but acting based on a single variable is a bad idea, especially without keeping reasonable expectations at the forefront.
> No platform should facilitate targeted anonymous messages;

Isn't this basically all social media? Or just the internet in general? It's pretty trivial to do on any platform I can think of.
The Walton family disproves that theory.
> Number one on the list is laptops that don't sleep.

This problem plagues every version of Windows. It's also a problem on my MacBook too, FWIW.
> Meanwhile: we are commenting on a story about someone murdering a health insurance executive.

Is this surprising? Motive is always of interest after a high profile crime. And apparently it requires assassination with manifesto to bring these robber barons into the spotlight. The only thing I find surprising is the use of a 3D printed gun instead of just buying one from a show or local gun store.
TXR Lisp version:

(defun fib (n : (cache #H(() (0 1) (1 1))))
(or [cache n]
(set [cache n] (+ (fib (pred n)) (fib (ppred n))))))

TXR Lisp does not have broken Python semantics for evaluating the default expressions for optional arguments. The expressions are freshly evaluated on each call in which they are needed, in the lexical scope in in which the prior parameters are already visible, as well as the scope surrounding the function definition.

Why this works is that the #H hash literal syntax is a true literal. Every time that expression is evaluated, it yields the same hash table, which is mutable. This wouldn't work in an implementation of TXR Lisp in which literals are put into a ROM image or mapped into read only virtual memory. We will not likely see such a thing any time soon.

If we change #H(...) to, say, (hash-props 0 1 1 1), it won't work any more.
What did you learn in high school chemistry that made you suspicious of plastic? I did pay attention and I don't think I remember us covering plastic at all.

> On the other hand, anyone who has some idea about the components of any usual plastic can see that it is practically certain that at temperatures not much above room temperature some of the garbage fillers included in any plastic besides the base polymer will degrade and leak.

How do you know this? Even as someone actively looking into this topic I'm not sure whether this is true. I'm not challenging you, I'm genuinely asking where to learn about this.
They should get a new one. The P 6 in the wings relates back to an association that they're explicitly trying to move away from. Ie. the whole justification of the rename to Roku in the first place.
This $10K/month SaaS gets passengers $$$ back from airlines

- Problem: Airlines deny compensation for canceled flights.
- Solution: SaaS that helps passengers claim $$$ easily.
- Results: €350K secured + $5-10K/month in commissions.

You don’t need all the answers to start
I didn't mean "dance clubs." I meant "activity clubs" - chess, sailing, keeping chickens, etc.
Imagine the ceo of intel going on stage and saying I can promise with a high degree of certainty the next cpu will be faster than the last. The fact that had to be said at all means the short sellers are making their money alright.
I keep reading that in the way prof. Farnsworth yells "Wernstrom!" in Futurama
I am skeptical of generic sparsification efforts. After all, companies like Neural Magic spent years trying to make it work, only to pivot to 'vLLM' engine and be sold to Red Hat
The paper states:

> To such end, three teabags of different chemical compositions were used in this study: (1) empty nylon-6 (NY6) teabags (as a model of polyamide), (2) empty polypropylene (PP) teabags, and (3) commercially available teabags containing tea, and cellulose as the polymer composition.

To me, that suggests there were bags included containing no PP or Nylon-6.
The book version of this article (The Checklist Manifesto) completely revolutionized how I did experimental science in graduate school. Early on, I saw many experiments ruined by human error: machine settings were incorrect, sensors not switched on, equipment not calibrated, incorrect instructions given to the subject, etc.

I was mortified by how little attention most professors and students paid to this problem. Something like half the data collections I was helping on (as a lowly first-year PhD) had some problem with the data collection.

I read The Checklist Manifesto and used it to design my own checklist -- and crucially, checklist procedure -- for my data collections and it made a huge difference. Not only did I collect much better data, but I was able to do much more sophisticated multi-step experiments without making mistakes.

The biggest takeaway for me was that checklists are not a piece of paper; they're a system. It's not enough for the surgeon to have a checklist, they'll just glance at it and think "oh of course I did these things". They only work when the nurse reads the checklist, item by item, aloud to the surgeon (I later realized this is exactly what SpaceX and NASA are doing during launch countdowns). Additionally, the checklist itself needs to be iterated on many times, removing unhelpful items and adding things you miss. And the checklist MUST be one page, no more.

If I ran an experimental lab of any kind, the book would be mandatory reading.
This is the proper Ruby form since it relies on the [] operator and is therefore substitutable for any other callable esp. procs/lambdas, and able to wrap them as well.

This isn’t just golf, it’s an excellent way to pass around a lazily computed, self-caching closure. I use it often in preference to memoization gems.

Aside from noting the false/nil equivalence concern, the original article seems over-engineered to me. Excessive metaprogramming is a common trap for Ruby devs.
This is some really solid advice, thanks Buildsjets. I'm gonna give this a try sometime.
> If someone believes the world is purely mechanistic, then it follows that a sufficiently large computing machine can model the world

Is this controversial in some way? The problem is that to simulate a universe you need a bigger universe -- which doesn't exist (or is certainly out of reach due to information theoretical limits)

> ---like Leibniz's Ratiocinator. The intoxication may stem from the potential for predictability and control.

I really don't understand the 'control' angle here. It seems pretty obvious that even in a purely mechanistic view of the universe, information theory forbids using the universe to simulate itself. Limited simulations, sure... but that leaves lots of gaps wherein you lose determinism (and control, whatever that means).
Another UTC person! I thought I was alone in my odd crusade; nobody even knows what I'm talking about when I suggest it.
Sudden damage that is bad enough is easy to quantify. You should take a look at the decades long struggle to prove that cigarettes are harmful to see what it is like when the harm is chronic.
Things could change under the new administration, but the SEC considers crypto to be securities: https://www.investopedia.com/crypto-regulations-for-financia...

She promoted it. Did she disclose why? https://www.npr.org/2023/03/22/1165477713/lindsay-lohan-jake...
Laser printers print a status page that describes most of their settings, how many toners you've changed and also includes the total page count.
That would be an example of AI providing real value that I would pay for.
Bill Gross:

https://twitter.com/Bill_Gross/status/1859999138836025808

https://pdl-iphone-cnbc-com.akamaized.net/VCPS/Y2024/M11D20/...

He appears to be criticising "AI" only to solicit support for his own company.
In chromem-go [1] I'm searching through 100,000 vectors in 40ms on a mid-range laptop CPU, even without SIMD. It's quick enough for many use cases.

[1] https://github.com/philippgille/chromem-go
Show HN: Give feedback on my mini search engine. There's still work to do
Being inspired by a reddit post I made this mini search engine that gives you exactly what you need. Use with prefixes to get best result.
There's a recent interview with Lisa Su where she basically says she's never been interested in software because hardware is harder, she doesn't believe AMD has any problems in the software department anyway and AMD is doing great in AI. So make of that what you will. Suffice it to say, clearly the AMD board doesn't care either because otherwise they'd replace her.
That’s also the materials from each type of tea bag, not a list of materials found in a single bag:

> To such end, three teabags of different chemical compositions were used in this study: (1) empty nylon-6 (NY6) teabags (as a model of polyamide), (2) empty polypropylene (PP) teabags, and (3) commercially available teabags containing tea, and cellulose as the polymer composition.
Interesting, thanks for the link. I'll investigate and see if I can get it working more better.

But FWIW, I have multiple Model M classic keyboards (from 1992), and also other Unicomp full-size keyboards, and I've never had this issue with them.

I also know the story that the market has "better" options than the Model M. Maybe it's just nostalgia but I've never found anything with the same feel as a buckling spring. The Model M just feels nice to me.
It's not that bad ...
> So are they talking about … meta language

Said kindly, no, they’re not. They’re just stating values here, imho, not impl detail
For the bags made of cellulose, yes, for the PP and Nylon-6 bags, no:

> To such end, three teabags of different chemical compositions were used in this study: (1) empty nylon-6 (NY6) teabags (as a model of polyamide), (2) empty polypropylene (PP) teabags, and (3) commercially available teabags containing tea, and cellulose as the polymer composition.
It was, for a while. I think this is an area where there may have been some regression. It can still write code to solve problems that are a poor fit for the language model, but you may need to ask it to do that explicitly.
we can agree to disagree, but thank you for your thoughtful response.

For the record I don’t think killing anyone is acceptable, but I hope this tragedy serves as a catalyst for some serious discussions in government and by the elites to fix the grotesque healthcare system in the US. That would be the best outcome.

It’s pretty “convenient” that right after this murder, the insurance company Anthem Blue Cross repealed their new policy to deny anesthesia claims over an arbitrary time limit. It’s almost like they know what they’re doing is awful. The difference is now they’re under a microscope…
That thing is an abomination.

I remember when it was proposed and I thought it was a joke.
This is something being done but not for consumers right now. On a more roll your own basis. I know a few people whose companies have already established their own gpt trained on their own internal codebase, standards, documentation, and I’m sure relevant reference information as well. Think big r and d companies in stem.
The consumer never gets the affiliate cut either way. If there are coupon codes, the consumer wins. If there aren't, the customer only loses a bit of privacy about what they're buying, which most people don't care about anyway.
At the risk of getting too meta, I feel like lots of folks will get the gist of Julius and check out from the article…

…missing the twist.

So as a TLDR, I’ll say that Julius is a peer of the author who is polished but uncomprehending, often spouting convincing-sounding nonsense.

And here in 2024 we not only have folks like that to contend with, but also have polished AI output being forced at us from every direction.

What a world we have ahead of us with Internet-scale automated uncomprehending nonsense
Do you honestly think CEPH isn't doing data consistency handling?
I'll pay for your ticket to cephalocon if you'll speak to that effect(!)

Split brain stuff only happens when you're splitting a single threaded task and put it back together. MDS in CEPH has this problem but that's so far into the weeds here as to be off topic.

Again you're implementing something storage not in storage and taking any storage. Fine if you want to do it that way, but talk about _that_ not hecking ZFS being mah saviour.
(Btw daily driving and love that too but an email provider _relying_ on it should raise eye brows)...
And just like that brand of cigarettes, it was a lot of fun back in the day (seriously, Camel did cool stuff), it's frowned on today, people constantly disparage the people who stick with it, and those of us who still use it will stick to it until we die.
You know, "You're using it wrong" is usually meant to carry an ironic or sarcastic tone, right?

It dates back to Steve Jobs blaming an iPhone 4 user for "holding it wrong" rather than acknowledging a flawed antenna design that was causing dropped calls. The closest Apple ever came to admitting that it was their problem was when they subsequently ran an employment ad to hire a new antenna engineering lead. Maybe it's time for Wolfram to hire a new language-model lead.
In TXR Lisp, I implemented an original invention of mine called Paremeter List Macros (Parameter Macros for short).

A parameter macro works in any lambda syntax. Methods, macros.

The documentation for Parameter List Macros shows an example implementation of rudimentary memoization.

https://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-C9CAE162

You can use :memo in a method if you like, in a lambda expression, defmacro, macrolet, labels, ...: anywhere you have a lambda parameter list.

There is a predefined parameter macro called :key which implements keyword parameters. (Common-Lisp-like keyword parameters are not native to the language run-time at all: you have to use this param macro if you want them.)

Another predefined parameter macro called :match allows you to express a function with pattern matching. :match will take stock of your patterns and implicitly generate a parameter list which can take any of those patterns, and a function body which then further handles the cases.
Ask HN: My non techie partner wants to move away from Gmail any suggestions?
Recently my partner had a horrible experience when they stopped receiving emails because ‘Gmail was out of storage’. Very frustrating experience especially since they were on an overseas trip and didn’t know why? In panic they started deleting all the emails but didn’t realize that their Android phone was automatically syncing photos to drive. My mother incidentally encountered same issue on her new Pixel 8 pro, so this was a wake up call.

This feels like a nightmare scenario when all our documents and conversations can be blocked. What’s a good alternative to Gmail, paid or free, that is secure and not shady ?
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