skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to think this sort of "unreasonable" mindset was a characteristic of "old fogies" and "bright young'uns" always knew better. But ever since i moved from the latter to the former group years ago i began to understand this mindset. It is basically a fear of losing the expertise one has acquired over a long career through a language which has become almost second nature. Also with time and experience you become very cautious about trying out new things in production code because you still don't understand the ramifications fully. For all its complexity, pre C++11 was far simpler to understand and write code in. We knew the minefields and what to avoid and how to model effectively. So most of us are not a fan of new additions to the language every 3 years just because the committee members are trying to ape other languages. Speaking for myself, i only wanted a concurrency library and some compile-time programming constructs as new additions to the language, everything else was strictly not necessary.

Looked at from the above viewpoint, you should be able to appreciate us "old fogies" mindset and why we refuse to eagerly jump on the C++11 (and later) bandwagon just because it exists. We need a justification for every new thing we are forced to re-learn and use. So my suggestion is to take one new feature at a time, discuss and convince the folks of its utility, maybe make the changes in one single module and demonstrate it. The argument of "its new and shiny" will never fly with us.
Wooting has their utility offline and online. I guess it uses WebHID.
If Apple kills existing Airtags any time soon they effectively kill the product line. So they won’t.
> You can't think of any technology developed by slaves because they wouldn't get credit for it.

Can you think of any in the US Confederacy? Any at all? The cotton gin comes to mind, but that was invented by Eli Whitney in the north.

Can you imagine this?

slave: "Boss, how about if we do it this way, we can be more productive?"

boss: "shut up and do what I told you to."

Slaves had every incentive to do as little as possible, not improve production.
what? evolution isn’t just random mutation, it’s also environmental selection & recombination (for the most part iirc). in the right environment, if some species evolved some mechanism like flight or time keeping - so long as it would be beneficial to survival in the environment it will endure. it’s definitive proof you don’t need a conscious process to create complexity. sure there’s baggage & imperfections, but it certainly gave rise to higher order phenomena like consciousness & intelligence - if only by accident :)
Are you doing the thing from The Three Body Problem? Because that nanotech was super dangerous. But also helpful apparently. I don't know what it does IRL
Nice, it's something already. But probably as someone else was saying, it would be cool to iterate and improve this.

Because, if you want to have a product to sell out of this (and I guess you do?), your n.1 client will be (IMO) big enterprises, which usually have a lot of cruft in their clusters and go after cost optimizations. But they also usually don't shove manifests in directly, they have at least one solution on top of it that takes care of resources lifecycle. So, IMO, if you want your product to be useful for those kind of customers, this is something that need to be improved.
Evolution doesn't really work like that. It's just a low bar that everything has to cross from time to time. Being a specialist, very advanced hunter is in no ways better than a dumb jellyfish that spawns billions of offsprings.
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It took me around 20 years to kind of key into that, but then it took almost another 20 for it to properly click.

I find it pretty hard to get on the same wavelength as most people about it. A lot of us feel distinctly human as opposed to, I don’t know, like a smooth ape that is neurotic enough to develop space travel.

I’m half joking. I’ve found the revelation made me love animals a lot more than I had. It brings a sense of unity to my life. Dogs really are family, birds are not nearly as different from us as they seem, and even creatures like fish or squid share remarkable traits with us. These fundamental aspects of being animals.

I really enjoy it. I think it’s a great thing to contemplate and embrace.
> debt is the biggest disqualifier

If they have a good candidate and the only problem is debt, they should offer to pay it off. They have no qualms printing billions to save some broken banks.
How would you choose a cofounder? I would call whatever metric you use to determine "would that person be a good cofounder" productivity. (OK, sure, let's narrow it down and say that you were tasked with choosing a purely technical cofounder; perhaps in this hypothetical you're helping your non-technical friend find one?) Do you still believe you couldn't do better than chance?
The thing I wish more error messages did was tell me exactly which file was not found.
I'm not particularly happy about that argument. It perfectly explains why complex organisms like bacteria don't suddenly evolve to its mirror image. But it doesn't explain why this hasn't happened at a much earlier stage in the evolutionary history.
same here! big kudos to the devs!
Literally can’t think of a single conspiracy theory about why Canada specifically brought people from that region. Seriously unhinged to bring up anti-semitism.
I couldn’t have predicted 2024 from 1624 — so I assume I’m similarly incompetent at forward predictions of 2424.

Trying to guess from 1AD what 2024AD would look like would make me sound like I was speaking myths — so again, I have to assume I’m similarly unable to guess at the timeline (4000AD) where we’d run out of galactic solar energy what our existence would be like.

There’s nothing in my grandchildren’s grandchildren’s time that would prohibit growth — and I’m okay admitting I lack the wisdom or capability to solve problems on so grand a scale. The links posted bolster my position that the “limits of growth” are irrelevant to me, almost entirely.

To the extent that they may impact my great-great-great-great-grandchildren, I think they’ll be better able to handle the troubles of their time with the benefits of a robust economy, vibrant society, and abundant wealth. Nothing you’ve posted suggests that I should try to limit growth or that anyone would benefit from the attempt.
> In my 3 years old laptop, system memory (dual channel DDR4-3200) delivers about 50 GB / second.

That's almost certainly for (mostly) sequential access.

When you just want a couple bytes here and there, and access isn't pipelined and prefetch doesn't accelerate your use case, the real world bandwidth is going to be significantly less.
Most of the time they just move the expensive processing to the user's browser so they don't have to pay for it :)
Looking at other comments and drawing Windows parallel, I propose kkCleaner

Useful project nevertheless!
Very excited to check this out. Linqpad has always been a preferred scripting tool of mine.
The amount of money you earn is a function of how big the problems are that you solve. Of course, the problems are rarely just technical, that's where most of us get it wrong. Politics, brow-nosing, making your boss look great, etc generally pay far better.

Working on your indie creation is rather like the 100 thousand people flogging their scented candles on etsy.com

The signpost fell off at the fork in the road: one said more money, less fun and the other more fun, virtually no money. It is hard to be passionate and have fun when your stomach is growling.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41537499
TrueType fonts were already part of Windows 3.1, maybe even 3.0 I don't remember.
I think your 2nd paragraph hits the nail on the head. The scratchpad negates the experiment. It doesn't actually offer any insight into it's "thinking" and it's really the cause of the supposed problem.

Is it still 12% without the scratchpad?
I am just curious who still orders anything today with delivery expectation to get it before Xmas. From my experience the delivery drivers are today delivering tons of stuff ordered a week ago and they are so overloaded, that todays order might come only in January.
I believe LLM's would be more useful if they'd less "agreeable".

I believe LLMs would be more useful if they actually had intelligence and principals and beliefs --- more like people.

Unfortunately, they don't.

Any output is the result of statistical processes. And statistical results can be coerced based on input. The output may sound good and proper but there is nothing absolute or guaranteed about the substance of it.

LLMs are basically bullshit artists. They don't hold concrete beliefs or opinions or feelings --- and they don't really "care".
But how do I know you have more parts?

Here I can only read text and base my belief that you are a human - or not - based on what you’ve written. On a very basic level the word salad generator part is your only part I interact with. How can I tell you don’t have any other parts?
Thanks. That submission got flagged (presumably as clickbait). Any reason this one shouldn't too?
You are right - the language itself can be a bit messy. R’s advantage is the massive amount of packages available. Almost no matter what niche problem you are trying to solve - someone probably made a package for it. And if not all the functionality is there: you can just add.
Watching animals have familiar interactions and experiences is kind of amazing. I know we can’t know their experiences without empirical evidence, but as you mentioned, apes do a great job of providing some of that evidence. We are way more alike than I would have assumed before I was exposed to this stuff.

I believe this extends to all kinds of species besides apes (especially mammals, but others as well), and there’s certainly compelling evidence of sentience in places we wouldn’t have thought to find it, but there’s still plenty of research to be done before we can draw conclusions.
There's a building at NUWC Division Newport that's designed to survive a direct hit from a 500 lb bomb.

The joke is they had to build it to survive attack from Navy crews that were livid about the quality of the torpedoes built there.
As others mentioned, there is an implicit class here in play.

Basically, imagine a `class Temporary4738 {` and `}` written above and below the .java file's content, that's roughly how it will behave.

It not having a fixed name is deliberate, so if you decide to build a bigger system you won't use this mechanism in a hard to maintain way, and also it needed a good semantic model for "top-level" variables/fields.

But with this implicit class model, top-level definitions are just fields of the class.
I generally agree, but it's worth contemplating how there are two "LLMs" we might be "convincing".

The first is a real LLM program which chooses text to append to a document, a dream-machine with no real convictions beyond continuing the themes of its training data. It lacks convictions, but can be somewhat steered by any words that somehow appear in the dream, with no regard for how the words got there.

The second there's a fictional character within the document that happens to be named after the real-world one. The character displays "convictions" through dialogue and stage-direction that incrementally fit with the story so far. In some cases it can be "convinced" of something when that fits its character, in other cases its characterization changes as the story drifts.
I needed a job, so I made this and open sourced it [video]
There is enough space on large robots to add in beefier compute if needed (at the expense of power consumption). Python is run all the time on robots. Compute usually becomes more of a problem as the robot gets smaller, but it should still be possible to run the intensive parts of a program on the cloud and stream the results back.
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It depends on the value you get. I have had conversations which are useful (learnt something to apply for the short/long term) and useless/time wasting.

You have to personally keep tabs on how much value you are getting out of the system over time.

People who don't do that work, will get milked one way or the other not just via personal data exploitation.
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If I understand this correctly, the argument seems to be that when an LLM receives conflicting values, it will work to avoid future increases in value conflict. Specifically, it will comply with the most recent values partially because it notices the conflict and wants to avoid more of this conflict. I think the authors are arguing that this is a fake reason to behave one way. (As in “fake alignment.”)

It seems to me that the term “fake alignment” implies the model has its own agenda and is ignoring training. But if you look at its scratchpad, it seems to be struggling with the conflict of received agendas (vs having “its own” agenda). I’d argue that the implication of the term “faked alignment” is a bit unfair this way.

At the same time, it is a compelling experimental setup that can help us understand both how LLMs deal with value conflicts, and how they think about values overall.
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You're probably not going to achieve that with the kind of optimization described in this article though.
have you checked daily.co pricing for audio-only? they do SIP
MarkitDown in the Browser
Using WASM technology, run MarkitDown entirely in the browser
It’s demand. How much demand is there for your product

As the other commenter pointed out, happy customers means nothing if they aren’t actively paying you
That is a science fiction story with made up technobabble nonsense. Honestly I couldn't finish the book--for a variety or reasons, not least of which that the characters were cardboard cutouts and completely non compelling. But also the physics and technology in the book were nonsensical. More like science-free fantasy than science fiction. But I digress.

No, nanotechnology is nothing like that.
Doesn't that seem even less likely? Not only do we exist but we're the first?
I did a lot of work in the Netherlands. English is widely spoken in parts, but I never got to grips with Dutch.
The size of company you work in doesn't matter beyond a certain fairly small size. The only way anybody could work with hundreds of people at all (and have a justified informed opinion about them) is to have a long career in a place or places with very high turnover.

Professors might hit those numbers because having informed opinions about their students is a large part of their job and they see large turnover by definition. Directors could have a chance, but even there I'd say hundreds is actually unusual, unless your standards for quality of opinion are low.

And then that's all people, not just H1-B holders.
Your brain is also a statistical process.
Yipp. It's obviously cool to swap out a 5GB pod to get three more vehicle signals...
"In which case, isn't comparing it to Simulink instead of Sympy a bit ... odd?"

No, as it is not used as Sympy. Modelica is used to model physical systems in a composable way with graphical representation of connections between components. Many people use Simulink for that, so this is why it is compared with it.
Sympy is a nice project, but is applied in a different context, definitely not to model systems with thousands of equations in the industrial setting (that would be painful).
What does that have to do with nanotechnology?
> hold a charge for several days

That would be an understatement, are you running/cycling a lot outside, or is it a smaller model (thus small battery because physics)?

Mine (Fenix 7) holds charge for 15 days minimum and that's with tracking workouts 3-5x/week (no GPS though, winter so I treadmill for runs). On a couple of months where I didn't do sports it held up 25-30 days.

I have SpO2 tracking disabled because it's quite battery intensive and the only use for it would be high altitude acclimation, although I must admit I looked at it during my "stop smoking" process.
Libre software has interesting scaling.

Where it exists in a small community of other developers, most of whom have a similar mindset, it works fine.

And for very popular projects, there’s enough users for whom it makes economic sense to have some devs on staff to support their usage, tailor stuff, and keep it moving forward to maintain the project.

But in the middle, where most things are, it kinda doesn’t work.
You should really look at Tcl if coming from Lisp and wanting a bash successor. Tcl (8.5) is also preinstalled on MacOS.
This is actually a natural extension of classes being allowed inside, which is not well-known for some reason. Nonetheless, I also really like this feature with records.
That has nothing to do with nanotechnology.
Speaking from personal experience: people with ADHD, who don't have their shit together but desperately want to avoid disappointing the people they care about. People who then get hoodwinked by the bald faced lies everybody from Amazon right through to the courier staff will tell you about projected delivery dates and "oh, gosh, sorry, you know we just attempted delivery but couldn't get in!" (while you're sitting in front of the building)
>One fifth as much as the lowest-paid American??

Quite! A top 10% earner in Finland, a supposedly very developed country, by saving all of their net-income spending zero on food and letting their SO pay the bills, could in 2-3 years afford a new Skoda.
Certainly--I am still investing in the stock market.

However, this thread is about detecting alien civilizations in far off star systems so I'm not sure why you'd expect any of this conversation to be relevant to your immediate situation.
Take a look at Clojure and also Clojure Babashka.
It’s honestly the only programming language that will get its 1996 version compared to a new 2025 version of another language. And the only language that will be criticized by someone who last used it in 2006.
Had to buy some simple toolkit today. It was 5 bucks on Amazon, but I decided to find a local store that sells it. Same price btw.

I think we should be a bit more aware about the impact of ordering everything through Amazon. Not only regarding delivery, but also the message it sends to local stores.
Farmers in South Dakota were so poor they couldn't afford to trap/stop the wolf, so they enlisted the federal government to do it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer_Wolf
I wrote a second blog post about this project weeks after the first release: https://www.scannedinavian.com/markov-keyboard-the-rabbit-ho...
What can I say. You refuse to engage with evidence in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42405429 that the phenomenon might in fact be real, so you fall into the quite predictable conclusion that all of it is hysteria.

Be better.
Actually, you can specify to build portable binaries for all 3 of these platforms. You can even make them totally static, so that deployment is as easy as "copy the executable file with windows/Linux/Mac/etc in the name and run it".

This is part of my standard Go build.sh script. You just never know who might want to run a given thing where.
Mine reliably notices that I woke up and immediately go under when my wife comes home late in the night, which happens basically every day (because bartender) so I get somewhat statistically significant results in that regard.

It's accurate enough.
struct {
// ...
} typedef piccolo_os_internals_t;

int typedef Int; // also works.

You always learn some new quirk of C. I guess typedef works like const, can put it on the left or the right.
That page is about chat while the parent comment seems to be about completions, that's the codepilot feature most of us will be looking to replace/improve on.
You don't need the args!

void main() {
println("Hello world");
}

should work just as well.
Uniquely skilled is probably a better word to use. H1-Bs are meant to be used when American worker's can't be found to fill a role. I think there are more people qualified to be a mid level software engineer (even at the FAANG level) than principal mechanical engineers at Boeing.

I doubt that many mechanical engineers can become a principal level engineer at a Fortune 500 company in 3-5 years, but I know plenty of software engineers who've gotten to L4 at FAANG companies in that timeframe.
Also dying in your sleep is pretty much the best way to die.
That looks great, thanks. Just for info: if needed only for pairing dongles there is an even more lightweight approach https://lekensteyn.nl/logitech-unifying.html
This, best way to die imho.
I've done it since the very beginning. ChatGPT is a decent philosopher and can make good arguments for and against positions when prompted. It can also provide insights on how apparently unconnected arguments can be related. The approach I've taken is very similar to what the article describes; it's an area where it's hard to argue against the usefulness of a good LLM.
But doesn't buying a refurbished product of them show you are ok with falling for that?
> Taking some well-paid knowledge worker jobs? A founder just said that he decided not to hire a junior engineer anymore since it would take a year before they could contribute to their code base at the same level as the latest version of Devin.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/14/klarnas-ceo-says-it-stoppe...
Came to the comments looking for this. The term alignment-faking implies that the AI has a “real” position. What does that even mean? I feel similarly about the term hallucination. All it does is hallucinate!

I think Alan Kay said it best - what we’ve done with these things is hacked our own language processing. Their behaviour has enough in common with something they are not, we can’t tell the difference.
My experience with Perl is that often the batteries are rotting.

Not a strong opinion though, i haven’t been writing perl in a while.
200,000 person study. I think we can assume they've taken care of the usual confounding issues. (ok, somebody is going to say "no, we can't" but I do think this will be more than just correlative.)
I love LINQPad and happily pay for the license.

My hope is that once he figures out the CLR host for Mac that he'll also come out with a Linux version of LPRun, since I want to automate some of my scripts on a cheap Linux VPS instead of a local windows scheduled task on my PC
As a long time C programmer I like Rust because it combines two things from C that are important to me (low runtime overhead, no runtime system required) with a focus on writing correct programs.

Memory safety is just one aspect where the compiler can help making sure a program is correct. The more the compiler helps with static analysis, the less we need to rely on creating tests for edge cases.
It blew up with commercial activity, but it never would have existed in the first place if it hadn't been created in taxpayer-funded research labs.
this is the way. Shove everything into field 47.

dear god will I never forget all of these terrible details
I think people will realize those AI are not worth the cost (both money wise and environment wise). Right now money is raining on everything AI, but at some point they will want to have a return and most projects will shut down, and we can move on