skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i've run 5$ vps for years with them

mostly works, there's maybe a "restart" once a year due to hardware problems

all handled transparently without you intervention

support is responsive enough

for personal use works perfect

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from a business account with many servers expecting higher reliability sometimes they don't correspond and have too many maintenance windows with _guaranteed_ downtiem
> Is that even feasible?

If you mean, is it feasible to empirically test the accuracy of detection software when the LLM output is so varied? That's an interesting question.

Is there a way to create a representative sample of LLM output for testing purposes? That's an important question, not least because we'd also be able to define the distribution and range of outputs (unless there's a statistical way to create a sample without knowing those things?).

It goes to the question of how deterministic is the output? How predictable, even statistically?

Maybe we just work with a large collection of output. Or maybe we can create a sample of inputs (the prompts), and work from that.
Build Flutter Apps using responsive widgets like TailwindCSS
Brain cells healthy after a month on ISS, but mature faster than on Earth
> For trivial setups this might work, but for anything sufficiently complex that actually hits on real complexity in the domain, it's hard to see any LLM doing an adequate job.

I mostly agree with this for now, but obviously LLMs will continue to improve and be able to handle greater and greater complexity without issue.

> Especially if the person driving it doesn't know what they don't know about the domain.

Sure, but if the person driving it doesn't know what they're doing, they're also likely to do a poor job buying a solution (getting something that doesn't have all the features they need, selecting something needlessly complex, overpaying, etc.). Whether you're building or buying a piece of enterprise software, you want the person doing so to have plenty of domain expertise.
I'm out of my depth here, but a high-level response:

First, I don't think the "unconscious" part is a single process, but myriad processes, and I'd bet they wax and wane.

Second, the "conscious" part is the part that can reason about itself and think abstractly. I think it would be correct to say it's doing higher level computations. The important part is that this is more costly - it's not optimized because it has to be flexible, so it would make sense that it's resting as often as possible.
Sounds like a Mr Bean skit
This looks really good. It's nice to see some options like this (and slint) appearing for cross-platform desktop GUI. I'm pretty skeptical of "modern" c++ but this looks like a good example of using it where it makes sense.

The data binding looks particularly clever. That's usually the Achilles heel of GUI toolkits (for me at least) and that looks like a clever and novel solution if it works.
It's like mentioning documentation in cursor, for everything on the internet
If you like @mentioning documentation in cursor, you’ll love Supafetch - you can now do it for everything on the internet.

You know in cursor when you give it a link to a set of docs and it crawls the whole site so you can mention the site and the chat has access to RAG on the docs - its like that but you can do it for any type of site.
There is absolutely going to be a golden window of opportunity in which a person who understands LLMs can sell zero-effort, custom-crafted software to SMBs at the most insane margins of any business ever.
\dot {} is not convenient to write everytime, and I suck at remembering to use macros. On the other hand, just writeing f' is far faster.
I have some of their stuff and really like it. It's not fully plug and play, but it's some of the best kit on the market for tech people.
I think a lot of times this is not about skill sets but more that data engineers don’t build datasets with UX in mind. The examples in this piece are not what show up when a leader browses a real database with hundreds of tables stuffed with abbreviations and numeric/short codes. If you want your leaders to use your data, you have to design your data to be used by leaders, not teach them SQL and statistics.
Describe a color. Any color.

In your mind you may know what the color “green” is, but can you describe it without making analogies?

We humans attempt to describe those ideas, but we cant accurately describe color.

We know it when we see it.
Do the math. It's bad.
Good points. Also, good engineering results in failures that don't have catastrophic outcomes.
Courts have their own politics which usually exist on a different spectrum than cable news politics.

Recently the courts have gained more power through congressional dysfunction. If congress doesn't like how the court interprets a law they can just amend it.
As it's not to do with the http request and the body was able to be parsed, in my book that'd be classified as being at the application level, so results in a 200 status with a JSON response detailing the issue

200 OK
{status: "failed", errors: ["field X is required"]}

How you deal with this on the application side, what JSON statuses you have etc is up to you.
Feelings of disconnection and lack of control fuel conspiracy beliefs
PDFs have so many ways to smuggle data. The only way I would feel safe sharing a PDF was to reprocess it in a dedicated pipeline that took a fuzzy monochrome screenshot of each page and package it up as a cbz (zip file of sequential images).
If the math is correct, you'd have an expected life of ~10.2 years. (30*(0.9)^n - n) = 0.

That said, when someone says "it reduces the lifespan by 10%", I'm a bit skeptical of the math. Either they are not properly testing it, or the temperatures are exceeding silicon parameters.
And yet Google seems to be doing just fine while spending less on GPUs than other big tech, so reality doesn't seem to align with your comment.
Your comment is substanceless.
Yeah, using a small number of geographically locked groups of modern foragers to project backwards in time to before agriculture is a fools errand. As interesting in as the Hadza are, it's impossible to really know what their lives looked like before the Bantu expansion, let alone later developments.
I haven't examined the specific assertions and supporting evidence (if any) the government has cited but I'm glad SCOTUS is taking a look at this. My sense is the allegations so far are pretty vague and masked behind a curtain of 'national security' secrecy.

The government targeting a company like this is extraordinary and should require due process with supporting evidence. Unfortunately, details of allegations remaining secret due to claims of 'national security' has a poor historical track record of abuse.
I've been using yellow night-driving clipons for my glasses for the last few years, and they help a lot, but they don't solve the whole problem. They do make it generally tolerable.
AI Slop
Eh, it was. The Lochner era was about the same as it is today. It was also arguably the same during the Warren court.

The main thing that has changed is this court has decided that past rulings do not matter. That's what is going to really cause a lot of chaos in the courts as time goes on.
As if DOGE had any competency at that. Most of their proposals are deeply flawed because they didn't bother to dig into details - not the behavior you want when examining failures.
"What’s Trump have to do with?"

I suppose because he cut spending on government work in general, that is not police and army related?

(But I lack insights into whether he cut any budgets related to this)
Might makes right sycophants without own opinions or values are worthless company wherever you go..
I find myself agreeing with a lot of these “gnostic” interpretations tbh. When you read stuff like Numbers 14, God just comes off as a total asshole lol

Although the whole theology they cooked up around the “true god” reads like bad fan fiction usually.
Joke aside, there are truly valid reasons why you'd want to change a single color across dozens of codebases, for what can amount to tens of thousands of occurrences. For example: adjusting link color contrast for accessibility compliance.

Salesforce (where the term "design tokens" was coined) is akin to an operating system for the web, with its own app ecosystem. Developers building Salesforce apps can blend into the Salesforce ecosystem thanks to their design system and design tokens.

And I recommend reading https://m3.material.io/foundations/design-tokens/overview to see how Google allows Android app developers to build incredibly expressive and user-personalizable UIs using design tokens.
Sounds like this could be the premise for a chapter in the book "Invisible Cities":

I shall now explain to the city of Fransisca, the blue city upon who's golden shores the azure waves drift over, and above which a sapphire sky is rent asunder by the golden sun, bringing an ever so grand glistening upon its ember shores. But above Fransisca, beyond it's beaches and waters, lies another city, marked by furling banners of red, whoe jealousy of Fransisca has caused it to erect a barrier so as to not see its flourishing. Fransisca with her petulance at seeing the barrier erect, so too constructed a barrier upon her shores. Concrete slabs covering her beaches, costal grasslands made way to fences. In this way Fransisca became a mirror image of her overseas counterpart. And the crimson city, unable to see Fransisca eventual forgot why the barriers were build. One by one each stone brick was removed. Parking lots were raised in who's place grasslands grew. And in such a manner the crimson city became Fransisca. Actually, Fransisca has always been the crimson city and what we know today as Fransisca is actually the city of red banners of old. Time will tell if the true Fransisca will be remembered.
That's odd. I had a single HDD vps for a few months, back when they offered those, and they immediately unblocked port 25 when I asked them via a support ticket. At the time I had expected more pushback about it, or clarifying questions. I kept using that same server for many years until they stopped offering that tier of server and force stopped it many years later.

The replacement vps I'm currently using still has the port blocked because I haven't felt the need to send email like that in quite a while.
In addition to politics is how they interpret the job of being a judge. Is it to judge a case on the laws that are written given the context they were written in? Is it to interpret laws based on a different context? This leads to different outcomes.
I can't wait to see TP-Link being sold rebranded on amazon as "ANDORBEST FASTEST PRO ROUTER ACCESSPOINT CHAINSAW WEEDEATER PINEAPPLE YOGURT"
It's more than a bit odd to say the generals and admirals (who do command militaries) are not primarily responsible for military results.
1. Prayer means several things - "I then prayed my friend that he would accompany me on my trip to Italy" does not mean that you worshiped your friend. Mary (and all the saints) are prayed to in that intercessory way, not in the worshipful way that we pray to God. The man at the Beautiful Gate asked Peter for charity and Peter gave him the ability to walk, not by his own power by by the power of Jesus (Acts 3:2-6). And again intercessory prayer as an important part of the life of the Church is well-attested - e. g., St. Paul in 1 Timothy 2:5 says "I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men". Finally, why the focus on Mary above all other saints? "Who am I, that the mother of my Lord should come to me" says Elizabeth "filled with the Holy Spirit" and before that "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you" says Gabriel bringing God's message to Mary. And what does Mary say in response? "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my savior" and "I am the handmaid of the Lord, let it be done to me as you have said". When trying to draw closer to Christ, who would you want with you on your journey more than she who was called to be His mother? And who among all mankind would be more eager to have you come to the throne than she for whom "the Almighty has done [great things for]"?

2. "In fact, [God has not forbidden contact with the dead], because he at times has given it — for example, when he had Moses and Elijah appear with Christ to the disciples on the Mount of Transfiguration (Matt. 17:3). What God has forbidden is the necromantic practice of conjuring up spirits. " Via https://www.catholic.com/tract/praying-to-the-saints
The person who you should expect (or look for) to buy your startup for $50M will reasonably expect to meet someone else in the future who will then buy the "startup" (probably at that time an established company) for $100M or maybe $200M - otherwise why would he want to buy your startup? People rarely buy startups just to extend their collection of statups ...
If you build a staryup with the mindset of selling it to someone bigger - you will never grow to be the next BIG among the Big Guys. And if you are not looking to be one of the Big Guys (which implies you do not plan to sell your startup) - you can live happily on the plateau with 20 employees and a satisfying income.
I suspect there are other cases where you would think the court overturning precedent was a good thing.
Probably in relation to https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
It doesn’t on mobile, just checked again (browsing from the UK)
Everybody would say it outputs 10 bits per second. And when it comes to consciousness simplified answers at 10 bits per second is the best you can get. This article asks why.
Just sell me the whole ABS controller then.

That is actually the hard part, odds are the chips inside are not longer made. When making ABS controllers the OEM guesses how many replacements will be needed and buys that many extra to put in a environment controlled warehouse - when they guess wrong they run out and if the parts inside are no longer made the rest of us are out of luck. If the chips inside are still made the OEM will generally order more (if they run out before the expected date that implies there is a lot of demand so it is worth ordering more).

The expected date above is for normal care lifespan. If you are a collector good luck.
Maybe some other company will catch up. But it is hard.

Intel is better at chip design than any of those companies. They spent a lot of effort coming up with a very clever chip that competed well against the current generation of Nvidia chips, while still running your old x86 codes.

Nvidia continued increasing memory bandwidth, and nobody cared about Knights Whatever.
Genuine question: is that true? It seems bonkers that they'd be cranking out more proprietary processors than they could acquire from an established GPU manufacturer.
Trump's administration loosened inspections to allow more self-reporting in places like meat packing plants.
The headline is clickbaity for sure. Vinfast hired JLR to design some aspects of their cars and the guy was one of the engineers assigned to it.

On Reddit, he praises JLR engineering standards and says the problem was Vinfast’s leadership ignoring engineering concerns, always picking the cheapest materials, and skipping safety tests.

The title makes it seem like JLR’s cars are the ones being whistleblown, which isn’t true.
Related:

TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42340959

TikTok Asks Supreme Court to Block Law Banning Its U.S. Operations

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42436587

US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42427132
The NPR podcast series More Perfect is quite interesting, about this, they should have an episode called 'The Political Thicket' or something like that.
Silly name calling isn't how grownups should discuss politics. If anything, it makes it harder to agree with any point you're trying to make.

Edit: I had no idea it was controversial to say that name calling makes an argument less convincing.
The point of Citizens United was that American citizens don't lose their rights to speech if they organize together.

What limits do you think are appropriate to individual speech when people get organized?
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42452131
Previously, TX Gov GWB instituted self reporting for air pollution, followed up by POTUS GWB creating OSHA's Voluntary Protection Program to do the same for labor and safety.

It played out as you'd expect.
“Our automotive customers are now at the leading edge with 5nm and 3nm chips.”

This is the problem. We know that the number of problems with silicon goes up as the feature size goes down. The older nodes are much more reliable. Not putting something on an AIC is often easier to fix, too.

The solution is to keep cars simpler so that they can use robust nodes. as a consumer, by the dumbest car that you can buy. You also want this little proprietary addons as possible so you don’t have to replace a whole module because a chip fails.

I’d like to see a whole, new, auto company funded the bed makes nice cars that are easy to repair with minimal electronics. Maybe customizable with different skins on the outside. Open interfaces in format so that they’re easy to customize on the inside.
You don't even need small claims court. You just don't pay, and point them to (small claims?) court if they want to get paid for the service they don't provide.

None of these shit companies will ever take you up on the offer though, because expecting to get paid for a service you don't provide (and can't provide in this case) won't fly in court.
I might be missing a joke, but if not, there is a saying ‘closing/shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted’. It’s used in a context where someone has acted too late.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/104948/english-p...
Now if only SCOTUS could still be trusted to actually do what's right by the spirit of the law for the good of the people.
>> Although I realized fairly early on that the New Testament Letter to the Philippians is quoted at the end, I still spent a long time puzzling over the text, which is written in quite a crude form of Latin. I consulted specialist literature and databases and, finally, made some suggestions for how it might be interpreted.

>> The inscription begins with the Trisagion, the threefold cry of “Holy” [based on Isaiah 6:3], which remains part of the liturgy of the Eucharist to this day. In this case, however, it’s written in Greek [“agios, agios, agios”] but in Latin script.

https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/university-of-bonn-researche...
Yes it does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Originalism
This is what they agreed to, in order to win the OpenAI partnership. In exchange, OpenAI doesn't have to build or support their own infra. In theory, a win-win, but only if MSFT can effectively sell OpenAI-on-Azure.
One saving grace is that nukes do have a shelf life. They require regular maintenance too. The radioactive core of plutonium or uranium can last for a while, but the various components will degrade. I heard once on the Arms Control Wonk podcast that this could be on the order of like 10 years. Someone could still salvage that to make a dirty bomb, of course, but there’s plenty of easier ways to make a dirty bomb from other radioactive materials
I'm sorry, you wrote words but they don't say anything. They sound like machine-generated nonsense.

Can you actually provide a concrete example of a concrete problem you want to solve with the token-based UI initiative? Write your answer following the STAR format, and leave the buzzword bingo out.

If you cannot explain your problem then this is a very clear tell that it might not exist at all.
Trump has said he’d like to “staple green cards to diplomas”. Despite what the media portrays, he’s not pro American, pro white, pro nazi, whatever.

He’s owned by a different slice of the parasitic ruling class that, while opposed to some of the goals the Biden admin was for, still share a common theme of not caring about the average American at all. He has probably the most pro Israel cabinet we’ve ever seen and appears to be cozying up with big tech (thiel, musk, zuckerberg, etc).

If he was truly pro American H1-B would be thrown out and we’d require these companies that are wildly profitable to invest in educating American workers. H1-B is used to exploit both foreign and domestic labor to the benefit of a tiny population of capital holders.
Not directly about the bank, but [Insurgent Democracy](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo210283...) is a great read. The Non-Partisan League successfully organized rural farmers against corporate power in the 1910s & 20s. Though they only were in power for a decade or so, their legacy is still quite strong. BND, state hail insurance, and a state-run grain mill to name a few!
Reductionism is the only way humanity ever progressed on anything.
Root cause is that wages cannot sustain climate liabilities (insurance costs) that have been incurred by decades of fossil fuel strategy. People also can't afford to move, it is costly to build new housing due to labor and material costs. Bit of a death spiral all around.
I think they are trying to paint self sufficiency as a masculine trait. Maybe it is but I doubt that's what drives boomers. Their parents lived through some very rough times and did not have the money to pay others to do things for them. They learned to get things done themselves, as did their children boomers. In my opinion this trait needs to return but I have no idea how short of another great depression.
> a reverse IP lookup should give you a good estimate

Not really, no.
Power draw doesn't matter in cloud. All that matters is performance/price for the task in hand.
From a technology perspective, bank & CU core systems all have approximately the same schema. The front and back offices are virtually identical business patterns. Most of the difference resides in the regulatory framework, forms, etc. Field of membership and ownership models are probably the biggest impact here.
Sorry Spotify, I Wrapped It Myself
> As mentioned before, the CI critical path is bound by its longest stretch of dependent actions. If one test consistently takes 20 minutes to execute and flakes, and has some logic to retry on failure, let’s say up to 3 times, it’ll take up to 60 minutes. It doesn’t matter if all other builds and tests execute in 30 seconds. That one slow, flaky test holds everyone’s builds back for up to 1 hour.

Honestly, really surprised to not see this mentioned til the end. Some of the other things in the article were almost jaw-dropping ($1+ million in instances savings, needing 48 cores to run CI, etc.), but having flakey tests regularly causing you problems, having to rerun extremely expensive jobs, is something that I would argue should have been addressed first, not last.
I'd argue its even less blatant today it just appears more blatant because you can see the happenings on the other side of the country in an instant on your personal cell phone. As can anyone else.
I feel like this came up somewhat recently, but I can't find the context.

In any case, I wonder how it compares to Screamer, ACL2, and Kanren.

EDIT: found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41805702 (6 comments)
Most people are confused by this legislation. It's specifically going to keep allowing tiktok via mobile browser, which is essentially the same experience and tracking of user interactions, therefore the legislation is specifically about the extra data the apps are able to record.
"Quarterly thinking" is an implementation detail of "people just don't care".
"requires the top chip to be thinned" and then "bond a thicker piece of silicon on top of it." That doesn't seem very efficient to me but I'm sure they know what they are doing.
Prior to this court, the last time the court overturned precedent was Brown v Board of education. Historically the court has pretty much never overturned precedent. That's new with this court.