skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that still roughly an order of magnitude less than what one spends for housing, in an area with access to economic opportunities?
One of the more interesting bits is buried halfway through the article:

> Overall, the commission tends to collect about two-thirds of its money judgments, officials said.

Puts the $10B number in perspective, I think.
Can't you just work harder and smarter?
Uh, the EU has plenty of bans of very useful things. I know of at least one 500+ acre wildfire in California that was caused by burning roots.

As to how much it matters or not? No clue.
And many other frameworks did it too. LÖVE decided it's out of scope, and that's a 100% valid choice, considering the breadth and complexity of the problem. They still went quite far in ensuring it's no more difficult than it actually needs to be. Similar with e.g. cross-compiling Go programs (unfortunately, no cgo-less, cross-platform framework for interacting with windowing systems/video hardware exists).
I had a similar thought but about asking the LLM to predict “future” major historical events. How much prompting would it take to predict wars, etc.?
Show HN: Testify mock without the boilerplate (Golang)
I've been annoyed by writing boilerplate code for testify mocks, so I made this super lightweight and modest library that can generate mocks for any interface during runtime, without extra build steps.

There is a readme file in the repo root with a code snippet that hopefully explains the intended usage.

For those unfamiliar with testify mock:
https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/stretchr/testify/mock
Because you can just run the electrical wiring and plumbing and cover it all in concrete (?)
Sometimes I think the best solution would be to avoid that people from the hiring group interview the candidate. This would force the company to hire based on the needs of everyone, not based on who I would like to work with.
Pretty cool, but a little on screen pad would be good for mobile users.
Wrong. Western consumers thinks EVs are for tree huggers and prefer their 6L pickup trucks.
funny that nobody replying to you seems to even know what a test set is. i always overestimate the depth of ML conversation you can have on HN
I’m guessing it has to do with concentration. Like d-Limonene is a fantastic, natural, biodegradable degreaser… but you need PPE to work with it in any prolonged way.
It did say he was supposedly "considering" doing that, not that he actually did it.
The paper mentions that on several occasions the LLM will provide a correct answer but will either take big jumps without justifying them or will take illogical steps but end up with the right solution at the end. Did you check for that?
There are so many monsters, took me 3-4 tries...just like a real captcha!
> Studies like this should be deeply scrutinized because of the biases of their authors (an “urban planning expert”) and their fields.

One man’s “bias” is another man’s “expertise”. Who, exactly, would you say is qualified to study this sort of thing?
Right and how do you stop your wife and/or kids interupting you every 30 seconds?

I also I have a huge backlog of tech books that I should work on because this career kinda requires it.
> In Ruby 3.4, it has been added as a default name for the first parameter passed to a block. Rather than specifying a name in trivial cases like the one above, you can now write:

> [

> "beige chinos",

> "blue jorts",

> "rainbow jorts",

> ].filter { it =~ /jorts/ }

> # => ["blue jorts", "rainbow jorts"]

This reminds me of Perl's $_ (which in Ruby is last line read from STDIN).
They used the colors which had the best contrast against each other and if there was a driver issue, colors which looked the more appropriate in greyscale. Driver issues, forgotten today, drove most architectural decisions at Microsoft. The core word they used was ‘working with partners’. People used to bring it up all the time in interviews in the 80s regarding PC’s but not all in one computers like Apple and to a degree amiga. I remember people used to watch football on television on portable tv’s which was only made possible because the jerseys had a light and dark version which visiting teams would get to choose which one they get.
Hacking into Apple's new USB-C Controller [video]
> ask it for a formula for mass-energy equivalence

Way too easy. If you think that mass and energy might be equivalent, then dimensional analysis doesn’t give you too much choice in the formula. Really, the interesting thing about E=mc^2 isn’t the formula but the assertion that mass is a form of energy and all the surrounding observations about the universe.

Also, the actual insight in 1905 was more about asking the right questions and imagining that the equivalence principle could really hold, etc. A bunch of the math predates 1905 and would be there in an AI’s training set:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Lorentz_transform...
The default block parameter name seems small, but I feel like I'm gonna use it all the time, especially when I'm in the Rails console just trying to debug data
You mean train on pre-1939 data and predict how WWII would go?
Does car dependence make people unsatisfied with life?
It's subtle in how it delivers it's brilliance: A Clockwork Orange.

Warning: spoilers follow that do not diminish the knock out punch this work delivers: It's written in it's own language, a mixture of Russian and UK slang, which one cannot read at first. About 3 chapters in, the language clicks and then a good reader starts the book over from the beginning. It is a popular book due to the film, and the ultra violence depicted within, but it is also ground breaking philosophical literature because the main character is a hardened criminal and is the narrator, he spends the entire novel explaining his philosophy of life, which by the end of the novel you realize is the same philosophy of modern politics, and the UK edition of the novel ends with the entire novel being the story of a senior member of parliament's youth origin story.

The fact that the novel is in a fictional language increases the reader's submersion in the story line, creating one of the most impactful novels I know.

Another great read, much shorter, more like getting into a street brawl: Notes From The Underground by Dostoyevsky. Practically the creator of self critical essays, and often the first read for people interested in Existentialism.

Anything from the "Beat Generation" authors, anything from Philip K Dick, anything from Herman Hesse.
I don‘t like how they mix up different ideas:

1) having liquid instead of air as the first heat transporting medium
2) having water evaporation chillers instead of air heat exchangers and maybe heat pumps to chill the (last) heat transportation medium.
After someone identifies the government and media working in coordination to mislead the public on whatever issue, they go looking for alternative sources of truth. Some of those alternatives are completely bananas.
The "world model" of an LLM is just the set of [deep] predictive patterns that it was induced to learn during training. There is no magic here - the model is just trying to learn how to auto-regressively predict training set continuations.

Of course the humans who created the training set samples didn't create them auto-regressively - the training set samples are artifacts reflecting an external world, and knowledge about it, that the model is not privy to, but the model is limited to minimizing training errors on the task it was given - auto-regressive prediction. It has no choice. The "world model" (patterns) it has learnt isn't some magical grokking of the external world that it is not privy to - it is just the patterns needed to minimize errors when attempting to auto-regressively predict training set continuations.

Whether these training set predictive patterns result in the model performing as you might hope on an unseen text depends on the similarity of that text to samples in the training set.
von Neumann Universal Constructor
The NFA has faced multiple post-Bruen challenges, particularly regarding short-barreled rifles (SBRs) and suppressors. A key case was United States v. Dalton in Nevada, where the court found SBR restrictions unconstitutional based on lack of historical analogues. Cases like United States v. Price question the NFA's tax requirements and registration scheme through Bruen's historical tradition test.

The core challenge is demonstrating historical analogues for regulating specific firearm features from 1791 or 1868, as required by Bruen. Registration and taxation of firearms largely emerged in the early 20th century, making historical analogues difficult to establish for much of the NFA's framework.

However, lower courts remain split on these challenges, and the Supreme Court hasn't directly addressed NFA provisions post-Bruen. This area of law continues to evolve rapidly.
my wish for new years is that every time people make a comment like this they would share an example task
The variant of this I've found useful is to have a separate types for raw/dirty and parsed/validated data
I agree, Collier's videos are usually light on facts and nuance and seem to stroke the rage of her viewers. There are many who knew Feynman as a person, attended his lectures, etc. who are still alive today and could have been consulted if she were serious about her journalism.
How do I find it: Daily driver for 9 months now, no regrets, love the board, and I've probably paid more for mine than anyone other than the creator :).

Hard to get going: I'm an ex-DataHand user. It was near instant for me. Took me a few hours to make the dvorak map usable for my old muscle memory. I made the dvorak map a pretty exact emulation of the OG Dvorak DH.

The adjustment time is real for most users. I've seen Injured highly motivated, injured users, move across in a weekend or two. Most people take 2-3 weeks? It really isn't bad considering the very well proven DH injury help.

Comfortable: It isn't your normal board... You make it what you need for comfort. There are different hand rests in the community, etc. I persoonally use a pair of gel wrist rests as my palm rests. I find them very comfy, :)

Fast: People are over 100 wpm. I am not a fast typist. I'm only 60-70 WPM usually, And I can hit it on sval.

The big thing I'd say is: Svalboard is more of a journey to your answer, than just a packaged answer, I'd also think about getting a 3D Printer if you don't have one. (I have 2 around, an A1 Mini and P1S.) Join the discord... the folks are friendly... and you'll find me there, as well as other users, etc,

Don't be afraid to to own your journey... I do not miss the other boards,,, and if your said "use one board." Svalboard is it for me I'm done.
Also a cool demo of oxygenated fluorinert allowing mice to live in liquid. It may be a tech required for stasis during space travel.
Happy to see chilled strings; eventually getting rid of the frozen strings pragma will be enjoyable.
reading the chat with v0 was interesting. the last time i tried v0 it generated really basic tailwind templates but the first image generation was actually really good for an LLM.
I work for myself, so I don't interview for jobs, but I do interview for projects or interim positions.

Being a generalist myself, my CV is also all over the place. I tailor my 'CV' to the company/project I'm interviewing for, so it appears less confusing. I have several versions where different skills and projects are highlighted, downplayed or even removed. I also write a tailored text for the position or project, making it explicitly clear why I would be a good fit, to make sure the person views me the way I want to be viewed. I try to ensure that my CV leaves no room for their personal interpretation. (many are often skeptical of a broad skillset, or lack the experience to properly value it)

That said, it could also be the current economy that works against you.
The liberal attitude is that the moral character of individuals does not matter for social order so long as the right rules and institutions are in place. Part of Confucius’s point, and that of any conservatism worthy of the name, is that rules and institutions are ineffectual without individuals willing to subordinate their desires to them. And individuals who do not seek the good (so as to “rectify their hearts”) and the true (thus pursuing the “investigation of things”) can neither curb bad desires nor cultivate good ones. The brute force of legal coercion cannot substitute for this missing moral fiber.
Dale Gribble
Portability in the C and C++ worlds generally means across standard-conforming compilers, not just across platforms
That seems like a huge drawback? Running new electrical and plumbing and doing repairs becomes much more difficult.
That's assuming you don't fill the gap with immigration.
The case of bicycle travel is interesting because from a distance perspective it's practical even in less dense US cities in a way walking isn't. The usual claim why the US is so car focused is that it's spread out, but even in my medium density city there are a lot of things within biking distance of my house. The problem though is that there is no safe way to actually reach a lot of those things by bicycle, you just have to ride on high-speed roads with no separated bike lanes. Fixing that problem wouldn't require restructuring cities or getting rid of cars.
but e=mc^2 is just an approximation

e: nice, downvoted for knowing special relativity
Most of our popular entertainment since the late 20th century has been chock full of these far-fetched ideas as plot devices. Everyone is primed to employ the techno-thriller "what if?" tool when building narratives and sensemaking.

And the huge and opaque organization required to make the modern world work provides a fertile ground for imaginations to run wild.

I think at this point it's so deeply ingrained that we're all somewhat susceptible to it.
Massive MIMO Networks: Spectral, Energy, and Hardware Efficiency
I have my reading material next to my work desk. I read 15 to 20 minutes before I start work and most days read about 15 to 20 before bed. I also read over the weekends and have chosen that over TV and other entertainment. I carry a book with me to places where I have to wait - doctor's office, DMV, airports, school conferences etc.
It does have it. If you tap on it, it should show it.
I think having/making time to read is pretty independent from being a techie. I know people who work 6 hours a week and 60 hours a week. People that haven't touched a book since college, and those that build their careers around the ability to read books.
>Yes, but neither Apple (at least for non-MDMed devices) nor Google (for synchronized credentials) provide attestation, so any relying party enforcing attestation implicitly excludes the two largest implementations, making it a non-starter for most use cases.

The discussion was about passkeys as a standard, so "well right now Google and Ape happen not to use this part of it" doesn't really change that. It could change tomorrow for all we know and there'd be nothing to be done about it.

By the people on HN who stay away from passkeys, this is one of the most commonly named reasons.
This will work until agents are common. I bet the best bot farms are first adopters of agents though.
There is a pad on the screen for mobile, I think you just need to tap it
That will never work on any complex system that behaves chaotically, such as the weather or complex human endeavors. Tiny uncertainties in the initial conditions rapidly turn into large uncertainties in the outcomes.
From literary perspective, it was a rather weak work. Giving him the Nobel prize was certainly politically motivated and put a lot of shame of the Nobel committee. It's dull, quite repetitive, and overall boring.

Also, it is now known to be largely made-up, with many of the stories of the book being a certain lie.

In any case, whatever helped kick down Soviet Empire was worth the costs incurred and i think he was one of the greatest figures out of those who made it happen. What matters is that plenty of people read, and believed it. Glasnost created, almost instantly, a critical mass of literature like that, widely available to the Soviet reader, bringing up realisation that the very existence of the nation they lived in, was immoral, unacceptable, and it had to be smashed as soon as possible.

Almost no one really did anything about it, or if they did, it didn't matter. It's just that when USSR started shaking, almost no one was willing to help it.

In Ukraine in 2013, we had Maidan and similarly sized Antimaidan. In 1991 Moscow, there was no Soviet "antimaidan", no one gave a flying fuck about saving the Union anymore. People like Solzhenitsyn were the main if not the only reason why it was the case.
Novelty (is it new) is the easy question because it’s just checking a database. Patentable inventions also have to be non-obvious, which is a more subtle question.
For those interested in learning more, the source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.js-examples/tree...
No, I don't know enough math to test the logic, only the check questions against their expected answers in https://anonymous.4open.science/r/putnam-axiom-B57C/data/Put...
Could also be husband and kids ;)
I know companies have to do everything to continually increase profits, but it sounds like they were intent on killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. The journal can't be expensive to run and must bring in vast quantities of cash. They wanted to make further cost cuts, in a way that would cost the journal the credibility it relies on to make any money at all.

Does Elsevier have some four dimensional chess going on, or are they just bad at making money?
Philosophically sure, but note the rather elaborate system they created to encode that philosophical view into reality. They clearly did not think that God would do the heavy lifting. That's what we're talking about here.
High speed "Avril" trains in Spain stop operating due to Y2K25 bug
Same, happy new year.
The domestic terror intent seems like a real stretch. Guns, grenades and explosives are legal, if you do the right paperwork. This guy is being charged with not doing the right paperwork, with a bunch of inflammatory right-wing memes stacked on top.
See also: https://nithinbekal.com/posts/ruby-3-4/
It is on the open internet - questions and suggested solutions:

https://kskedlaya.org/putnam-archive/

I would expect all llms to be trained on it.
it is a tough cookie indeed. We do have a 2FA option that compares a selfie with the picture embedded in the chip. There is also a liveness component part of that, in line with what is offered from other providers.

Some kind of tracking to tackle this is interesting. A public list of blocked certificates. Could probably be open or decentralized somehow, or the authority is ID providers like us and our peers
I’m hopeful then next gen of micro EVs and autonomy drop the cost per mile by an order of magnitude below existing public transportation costs.

This will justify the public owning and maintaining these types of hybrid networks.
https://chatgpt.com/share/67755e6f-bfc8-8010-9aa3-8bcbbd9b26...
Perhaps, but the fact that they needed to include that line almost defensively speaks to the culture, as if they had to justify why they were reading fiction books.
Yes, plan in advance ...
> Still waiting for you to admit you were wrong in the first place.

It’s actually incredible you still don’t see. It’s impossible for my comment to be wrong, because I get to decide what I’m impressed by. Just because you wrote a terminal, doesn’t mean you suddenly have authority to tell others what they should or shouldn’t be impressed by. You have no such authority :) If I’d claimed that ghostty’s release velocity is better than kitty’s (or vice versa), then you’d have a point. But I didn’t ;)

> You have provided increasingly desperate personal attacks.

Actually, I haven’t. I also don’t have skin in the game and have no reason to be desperate. I haven’t devoted a significant amount of my time to writing a terminal, for example. And I don’t even use ghostty (yet).

Downvotes on your comments are still ticking up, as are upvotes on mine. I know it’s not kosher to talk about votes, but I don’t know what other signal you need to maybe take a break for a bit and calm down :)
Easier to believe or not, thinking that it's not a reasonable possibility is also funny.
I think it's almost irrelevant how good Rust is as a language. Rust is winning in many contexts, because you can use it to replace C++, but the standard library and tools are substantially better.
“a poem about” reads to me at least like the solution need not be in the answer; maybe something like “a poem that includes the answer in the last stanza”
Hi HN, editor-in-chief of Standard Ebooks here! As always I'm happy to answer questions about the project and discuss ebooks and literature.
I haven't seen "intelligent" used as "economically useful" anywhere outside the AI hype bubble. The most charitable interpretation I can think of is lack of understanding of the common usage of the word, the most realistic one is intentionally muddying terminology so one cannot be called a liar.
Are LLMs helpful tools for some tasks like rough translations, voice2text etc? Sure. Does it resemble what humans call intelligence? I'd yet have to see an example of that.
The suggested experiment is a great idea and would sway my opinion drastically (given all the training data, model config, prompts & answers are public and reproducible of course, we don't want any chance of marketing BS to taint the results, do we). I'll be honest though, I'm not going to hold my breath for that experiment to succeed with the LLM technology...

edit: lol downvoted for calling out shilling i guess
(2 + 0!)^25 is only 45 on my account, should be ((2 + 0!)^25)^2 :-/
I am familiar with ‘it’ as a default closure input from Kotlin. From a quick search, that in turns seems to be inspired by Groovy.
> ... Falcon 9 ... nearly 10 flights per booster

Just curious: what year is your data from?
my memoir
You're right about the respect part, but it does in fact compute. We (I'm Indian) treat books with respect, but we have no preservation ethic beyond treating them with respect. An old book is in our home until it disintegrates or termites get it. But beyond that, shrug. Humidity control etc, what's that. This is of course partly because India is a poor country, and partly because of corrupt government, but it's also because of the fatalism - we simply do not care about the past as is the norm in the West. You know how even a tinpot town's history is available in the local library in the US? Beyond rarefied academia and the odd hobbyist, India just does not have that culture.
The one-page calendar that changes how you view the year
From Birds to Humans: How Hidden Mutations Are Driving the H5N1 Crisis
3d printers haven’t changed that much… they’ve gotten easier to use, sure, but the materials and quality we’re printing is about the same as 10 years ago.
Kotlin also has it, I can tell you that it's really useful
Man, and just like real CAPTCHA it is hell for people with disabilities... 10/10
Thank you for your valuable input.

I’m keenly aware of attention value and try my best not to reinforce bad behaviour. But if he’s doing something truly dangerous I cannot ignore that. I understand that even that can be dealt with differently, e.g. in a calm and non reactive manner or get upset (reaction). I mostly try to stay calm, but of course it’s not always possible. My spouse on the other hand just doesn’t get it and always reacts which I know is a huge problem.

Advise on therapy is also good and something I was considering. Just don’t really know where to start I guess. If you have any actionable advice here would be great.

Thank you.