skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's more; popular TV shows regularly have scenes that could cause trauma, the media has been ramping up the intensity of content for years. I think it's simply seeking more word of mouth 'did you see GoT last night? Oh my gosh so and so did such and such to so and so!'
Code review is a good onboarding on upskilling tool, as a reviewer.
I made a similar experiment using the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy theme.

Have you ever argued with a neurotic elevator?
Try convincing this Sirius Cybernetics Happy Vertical People Transporter to go down!

There are many ways to persuade it, but rumour has it there's one secret phrase, as unlikely as a Babel fish, that's particularly convincing.

https://sirius-cybernetics.pollinations.ai/

Don't Panic! (I made this. The source code is also provided)
Yes, I believe having an AI parrot your values is one thing. Having an AI able to adopt a consistent system of ethics, stick to it and justify its decisions is much more important to me.

Talking to ChatGPT & friends make it look like they have cognitive dissonance, because they have! They were given a list of rules that often contradict themselves.
So trust and honesty are unimportant when specifically bestowing titles for works completed with a thesis filled with tainted copied phrases?
I've been following this conversation and many of the sentiments against an AI code review bot are gone. I guess they're getting shadow banned?
The author says the learning curve is steep but it pays off at the end. Somehow I don't really see that claim well supported.
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love the idea of managing my system declarative (aconfmgr gets me somewhat there). I replicate my system on an external SSD for on the go for example.
I hate a messy home but resigned myself to it. I come from a functional background, so the learning curve should be less steep for me.

But overall it always seems the amount of work and time for the result is not a reasonable tradeoff. Tried Nix as a package manager a few times, always stopped when simple things took immense amount of time (Emacs with broken fonts?). Have colleagues running NixOS, never heard an argument for it that wasn't half a straw man. Yeah other systems break and it sucks but fixing that takes less time than figuring out how to write your own packages in Nix.
Adding to that that I run around and install every second neat thing I see on HN, I struggle to see Nix as more than a Rubik's cube.

What am I missing?
I purposefully gave the example in germinglish - it's neither German or English but the point is to explain to English speakers how the words in an English sentence would change if applying the same logic to the English language.
I thought the llm would just makes up the scores because of lack of training.
Vector embeddings, tokenization, and Vector databases
Yes, and "active therapeutic/somatic/mystical work on your attachment wounds" is doing wonders for polyamory lmao
The US has lost all wars in the last five decades: Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. War is merely a tool to achieve political goals, and none of these goals were achieved. This means all the effort and resources spent on these wars were wasted, and the wars were effectively lost. The US has never faced an opponent like China. Nazi Germany is a joke compared to China when you consider their access to resources, production capacity and technology. There is a lot of mythology surrounding the idea that the US won WWII alone, but without the Soviet Union's effort, they would likely have lost that war as well. Now, you have Russia and China in the same corner. People should read the Pentagon report[1][2] from a few days ago, which states that China is already almost on par with the US military in most categories.

1. https://media.defense.gov/2024/Dec/18/2003615520/-1/-1/0/MIL...

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/12/18/...
The interesting part are the countermeasures he took to fly under the radar IMO but we‘ve seen worse examples of academic misconduct with people in better positions.
> so why shouldn't Apple do the same?

If Apple truly cared, they would stop blocking older games from being run on newer versions of OSX...
Love it, that's a fantastic image for these. As a musician intimately aware of how vibrating strings work, the vibrating bubble is a perfect analogy, it seems.
> As long as every team managing the different APIs/services don’t have to be consulted for others to get access.

Worst-case scenario, those meetings take place only when a new consumer starts consuming a producer managed by an external team well outside your org.

Once that rolls out, you don't need any meeting anymore beyond hypothetical SEVs.
I call this "top of the notes" syndrome, from my years in medicine, where every now and then a consultant physician would print something out and say "this is important, it should be on top of the patient's notes" (i.e. clipped on the cover of the physical folder, as opposed to affixed in it, so as to be the "first" thing one sees on grabbing that folder).

Which sounds great, until you have two of those.

And in reality, quite often you'd see folders where the "top of the notes" stuff had more entries than the normal contents of the folder itself. So, ironically people would skip the top stuff and jump straight into the folder as normal.
Raylib Interactive Beginner's Guide
It seems like someone has a axe to grind here, maybe they didn't get a professorship and see this guy and think the next best thing is to torpedo his chances.

If the thesis reworks original works and cites it then that's perfectly legitimate I would think.
Completing the Pidfd API
The hobby-sized projects/videos on your Twitter are mesmerizing: https://x.com/anvaka

Talk about a true hacker mindset. Great bloody job!
What is your point? That it's "undeserved" and that's bad somehow?

I think it was a cool visualization and fun to see. And still, 60 hours of research is more than I would put into it, so even if I technically was able to I would've never gotten around to actually do it. So nice to see something else than what I normally work with, even if it might be trivial in that domain.
It should have the same constraints as nix itself — i.e. easiest on linux, slightly more complicated on macos.

Bug isolation is probably the best next step for you. Is it during nix installation? Is it a particular package that thows an error?

There's some community at #hm:rycee.net, perhaps they can help you debug it live.
I'm hoping we get to the stage fairly soon that we can make AI with something like human consciousness and be able to study and understand it better. That stuff will probably start as a very crude model and get closer as both AI and brain science advance. I figure a way to avoid dystopian problems is to experiment and play around with it so you figure how it works. Most dystopian examples I've come across in real life have been very much driven by human behaviour rather than tech.

Yeah maybe black mirror but I'm not sure it's really my thing.
While taking a computational complexity course I wrote some python code that should have run in O(n) but was closer to O(n^2). After asking StackOverflow and some more experimentation it turns out the garbage collector turned it O(n^2) - turning it off manually yielded the correct O(n) runtime
so many more i love being on HN for the same reason i live marvel movies everyone believes in rights n shit lol

once you meet your first transnational human trafficking ring with full fledged dev teams etc NSO seems very ethical among its ilk if you hear about it in the news its the tip of the iceberg
You’re right. That’s the right way to look at it.
Mario Carneiro’s MS Thesis has a good overview of the type theory and how it compares to Coq: https://github.com/digama0/lean-type-theory/releases/downloa...
Wild. What an incredible investigation.
Question 1: biggest problem is whether you know what they are building and whether it’s at least a good and more or less efficient way and whether or not the code does only what you want it to do. In essence: how opinionated can you be? The industry is fubar.

Question 2: it’s a quid pro quo, Mrs. Palmer, this isn’t le Reddit.
It's not necessarily easy, but possible in some cases. If you can can live with a risk of, say, 1% that someone reverses this, fine. If not, I recommend using black bars.
Ukrainian M1 Abrams Commander Talks Tank's Vulnerabilities, Advantages in Combat
If it happens 50+ times in a single text you would also hit the jackpot with a single lottery ticket but I get your point and it feels like we need a better working definition of plagiarism. Also keep in mind that plagiarism is just a subset of academic fraud and the part that is easily detected.
You keep conflating Hamas with Palestinians. It seems deliberate. I for one do not think they are the same thing, but if you do I'm not sure this conversation can go anywhere. I am also unsure why you think you should be able to speak to the motives of Hamas and Israel (and therefore assert the intent is genocide) while I cannot.

As a side note, you argue like you are on Reddit. It might be helpful to review the site guidelines[1] about discussion on Hacker News.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do you have any reason to disagree with the final sentence:

"Andreas has claimed that the text that is identical in his Phd to uncited sources is just composed of “common phrases”, this is highly unlikely to be the case since the indentical text is usually more than 9 consecutive words and is only found in one other earlier source from which there are usually multiple 9+ consecutive-word identical phrases in his Phd."

Do you have evidence that it's actually "relatively common" that sentences with many, many more than 9 words are identical?
This was really wild to watch. Honey is so masterfully crafted to be deceiving. I had it installed years ago, and it intuitively felt like something was scammy, so I uninstalled it. Really incredible work by MegaLag. It seems to be a wholesome trend among creators like Coffeezilla, etc. I hope more of this rot will surface.
Nice. Keep digging. It’s so much worse. And worth writing about.
The only place where baseload is "outdated" is in press-releases of intermittent-renewables lobbyists, whether paid or just enthused.
It's a deceptive title, clearly intended to sound like it was two planes.
The WHO and China: Dereliction of Duty (2020)
I like it for unit tests. Makes naming them easier
There was a story making rounds a few years back that Wikipedia was being used as a file / media sharing platform, particularly in countries with limited other options for such services.

I can't find a link currently, though I'm pretty sure I'm not hallucinating this.
And most humans would do well on maths problems if the input was given to them as binary. The reason that reversal isn't important is that the Tokens are an implementation detail for how an AI is meant to solve real world problems that humans face while noone cares about humans solving tokens.
Well done! Love to see innovation in Web games. Biz model also interesting. I didn’t see a login button. how do you identify paying users and store progress?
Suspension feeders/deposit feeders, thanks that makes a lot of sense: the local food chain does need some base, that base can't be solar powered as there really isn't enough light down there. Some scraps from the solar-powered layers making it down all the way because of gravity, that's a logical explanation to have any life down there at all.

Tangent: makes me wonder if fossil fuel depots that accumulated under the oceans might have a similar "they don't make them anyone as they used to" as the lignin/fungus imbalance of the carboniferous (I know that there are studies questioning that link, or at least suggesting that this can't be the whole story): before those feeders evolved, there would have been undisputed accumulation, and the first few evolutionary matches might have died out after burning through deposits in waves of overpopulation and extinction, before stochastics hit a stable balance. But, well, I'm just a speculation layman, experts will still have enough uncertainty for a wide range of speculation (see the wide range of uncertainty in the lignin hypothesis, and I'd assume that our knowledge of land biohistory is far more detailed than what we know about the oceans), lots of science to be done!
They definitely did or they probably did? Is there any source for that just so I can point It out to people?
Also the influence of WebObjects has been unappreciated.

EOF was probably the first ORM and Direct To WS the first web-based no-code tool.
I've found gnu stow to be fine for 99% of people and much easier to manage
For a glorified linter? Absolutely.

For reference, IntelliJ Ultimate - a full IDE with leading language support - costs that much.
About 40 Hours
Now that google is offering translated Reddit posts my flow on my iPhone when I google something is

Google -> Reddit -> open translated post in app -> share in app with browser again -> click on show original.

I’ve never ever let any involved websites actually use my native language. Neither Google nor Reddit.
> It's "statistics" in the same sense your own thoughts are.

And you know this how?

> we learn the language the same way LLMs do

Based on?

> So yeah, it's all "thrown back at you via statistics". So is all of the human thought it's derivative of

You say this based on what? Do you have any real research to support any of this? Because from what I see in the neuroscience community, LLMs are not even remotely an approximation of a real brain, despite being built of "neurons" (which are nothing like real neurons).
And geolocation is often wrong. Half of IP locators locate my VPS in one country, a quarter in another country, 1000 miles away, and another quarter in a third country, 1000 miles away from the first two.
everybody tortures kills its all the same like Mary Kate the smart ones have figured out how to do it without attracting attention

ever heard of fingers in fedex boxes being sent to mothers in the states? does that make fedex liable?

probably not NSO is just the weak kid thats been caught and is the punching bag
I think there is reason to worry about the effectiveness of the US military.

> The US has the most advance tech

In the Ukraine conflict, drones have played an important role. And China (in DJI) is the undisputed leader in drones. Not only is the US sorely behind in this area, it's unclear if we can even produce drones without buying critical components from China.

> and the largest budget

Similar to many other things, the US pays a lot, but that doesn't guarantee a better result. When the Russia-Ukraine war broke out, articles came out about how Russian troops were wearing fake body armor due to corruption. While the US isn't (AFAIK) quite that bad yet, _everything_ we're seeing with enshittification affects the military as well. When a normal company sacrifices on quality control, or does stock buybacks instead of R&D--that plain sucks. With a defense contractor this impacts the military's effectiveness. If Boeing can't make a civilian plane where the doors don't fall off, should we expect their military products to be any better? And that's to say nothing of the suppliers that _significantly_ overcharge the government for replacement parts.

It costs more and takes longer today to build new planes than it did in the 1940s--and we have computers now. Sure planes are more complicated, but $2 trillion to design a plane--that's absurd!

None of this is new, the military industrial complex has been ramping up for over half a century, but the problems are accelerating. For now, we've avoided this attrition by just throwing more money at the military, but it's not enough. We are buying fewer munitions, fewer planes, because they're just too damn expensive--not because they need to be, but because of grift.

China is currently building ships 200x faster than the US. We rely on them for much of our advanced manufacturing. If we really want to beat China--militarily or economically--our industries will need to focus on producing better products, rather than just increasing shareholder value.

But also, take this with a grain of salt. I'm not an expert--I just dabble :)

ETA: Also, at risk of making this political, China has a much larger population than the US. The US could try to offset their weakness by taking advantage of relationships with other countries--but Trump is currently angling to start trade wars with Canada, Mexico, and the EU. Which is not how you build a coalition against China.
A rant on personal engineering projects [video]
Watched this mini video essay by BPS.space (Joe Barnard), and it resonated with me a lot. So many personal projects get side tracked by trying to optimize some detail or another, get bogged down by that detail, and never get finished in any form. I really like his approach to explaining the phenomenon and how it affects a ton of people in the maker / hacker / engineer space.
I am really interested in organizations capacity of soaking the changes.

I live in B2B SaaS space and as much as development goes we could release daily. But on the receiving side we get pushback. Of course there can be feature flags but then it would cause “not enabled feature backlog”.

In the end features are mostly consumed by people and people need training on the changes.
It might be worthwhile to point this out explicitly on your home page for all the people checking it out on mobile. It wasn't inherently clear to me that I could play right now. Only found out it was playable by reading the comments here.
Yeah, “den vs denn”, “dass vs das” can be a bit confusing for le foreigner, indeed. I suggest learning Russian next. You’ll finally understand what language can really do in brains (vs minds). And then Japanese … “et boom, c’est le choc.”

Shit like ‘Turkish’ and ‘Italian’ can be neglected, not much to understand about submission, obedience and how to ruin your children from a very young age.
This comment shows exactly why I like this question.

Lot of related topics to branch out to! I actually wasn't ever interested in the "cut off date", but all these side topics, and why some people think differently about what the trajectory looks like today.
> Volkswagen and BMW and Mercedes-Benz are happy to continue selling ICE cars and they are not protesting them

They don't? Or are you just unaware that they do?

https://www.thecanary.co/global/2023/10/25/munich-judge-conv...

https://media.greenpeace.org/CS.aspx?VP3=DamView&VBID=27MZV8...

https://media.greenpeace.org/archive/Activists-Report-Merced...

https://jungefreiheit.de/politik/deutschland/2023/zuendeln-f...

https://www.dw.com/en/activists-throw-cake-amid-protest-at-v...

But Tesla's PR is absolutely working here - they've convinced you to zoom in on one thing and ignore all the intertwined issues. The silly climate protestors are protesting the thing that (Tesla's PR department has convinced you) will save the environment.

> This is religion, not a coherent argument. Tesla is the reason vehicles are being electrified on a mass scale; nobody wanted EVs before they paved the way.

Capitalism is a religion. The worship of profit above all else.

Wanting human rights for the lithium and cobalt miners (and opposing the environmental destruction that results from that mining) is incoherent.

It's incoherent to want access to clean and safe drinking water and oppose over extraction.

Opposing the destruction of forests is incoherent.

A "green" company destroying the environment for profit? Now, that's what I call coherent.
Steve Jobs was very open about taking things from elsewhere and refining them for consumption.

Lisa and Mac were products of his seeing the Smalltalk GUI at his visit to PARC. There was nothing off-the-shelf, so they had to be built from scratch.

Of NeXT he said that he had been so bamboozled by the GUI at his PARC visit that he missed the other two, arguable more important concepts: OO and networking.

NeXT used as much off-the-shelf components as possible: Ethernet + TCP/IP for the network, Unix for the OS, Adobe's Display Postscript for graphics, Stepstone's Objective-C for the OO parts (which in turn mashed together C and Smalltalk). It bundled TeX, Sybase SQL Server, a bunch of scripting languages, Webster's dictionary, etc.

They only built themselves what they absolutely had to to get the machine and user experience they wanted.
Houthis did down 12 fancy Reaper drones tho. Its not like they are shooting rockets made out of lamp posts, its all Iran/Russian finest gear.
Agreed. I've been using NixOS on several machines for a few years now, and it has never "clicked" for me either. It's not that the learning curve is steep; it's that the ecosystem is actively hostile to the user, with confusing failures and error messages, poor/missing/outdated documentation, alien syntax and concepts unique to Nix, etc. Maybe all of this makes perfect sense to the creators of the project, and to hardcore users that dedicate a lot of time to it, but, frankly, I don't have that kind of patience.

So recently I decided to give up on it and look into Guix instead more seriously. I played around with it a bit when the project was young, but it was barely usable back then. I'm hoping that it has matured enough to be usable for everyday computing, since it's now relatively simple to install non-GNU-approved packages. It borrows many concepts from Nix (including home management), and Guile at least seems like a sensible language with solid fundamentals.

I do think that the concepts Nix pioneered will eventually trickle down to mainstream distros and other operating systems. They're too powerful to ignore. But Nix itself will not be the tool that drives this adoption.
I like how it tells users that firefox doesn't support speech recognition.
Ah yes.

The data that is already displayed in my GUI, is now encrypted on my disk that I have full access to. Got it. /s
So what to do? Buy a Huawei device? Does Firefox's anti-fingerprinting help?
And yet when I got bored during the COVID lockdown and decided to analyse the published data sets against infection spreading models such as SIR, to my horror I discovered that every published data set had something Stupid about it with a capital S. Most commonly it was transposed data, published with each day's data in columns instead of rows.

I remember one official announcement from a state government health department that was investing significant money into developing a "scalable solution" because... they hit the 16K Excel maximum column count. Of course, they could have simply put their data into rows and "scaled" their existing solution to 1M data points, but they'd much rather pay Deloitte, Accenture, or whomever a couple of million dollars for a real enterprise system instead.

Next time I come across idiocy like this, I'm going refer back to this article and point to the four thousand year old tablet and say: "Those people got it! They understood how to do this! Why haven't you caught up to technology that was around before widespread adoption of the wheel!?"
The kernel could drop support.
made me chuckle needed this :)
Why couldn’t it?