skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I see a lot of benchmarks come and go with the scores on these benchmarks always creeping upwards, but my practical day to day experience of using LLMs has remained pretty lukewarm.

The things they were good at a year ago they’re still good at and what they were bad at they’re still bad at.

The products and infrastructure around them is better. Claude Artifacts are cool, for example. O1 has some clever prompting under the hood.

I just don’t know how much stock we should put in benchmarks.

They’re dubious for software performance as well.
And when you get ready to interview and you are asked behavioral question to gauge the level of “scope” and “impact” you worked at, do you really want to say you spent all of your time doing glue work?

Even before I understood those concepts, I made it a point not to just be a “ticket taker”.
https://archive.ph/COPTJ
Will they show ads to the bots?
I think the point is, you can consume nearly 400 calories drinking a smoothie in 30 seconds.

Diet is and always will be the key to weight loss.
The fall of the USSR was hugely beneficial to the occupied states in Eastern Europe, as well as several of the member republics. It does not seem to have gone well for Russia, though.

That’s probably how it goes when an oppressive empire falls. The core will suffer while the oppressed periphery gets a chance to flourish.
>it feels like outside of Wikipedia they've been dying

My understanding is that Wikipedia has been in decline (in terms of user activity) since 2007 (much as Stack Overflow has since 2014).
I've always wondered if feeling like I am something in something is the standard human experience. Never mind the philosophy or religion or any of that stuff, just the sense that I am a thing inside a thing (a spirit in a body, but that isn't quite right, more like a body+spirit in a body+spirit world?) I've always wondered if basically everyone feels this way.

I thought this was good: "spirituality is, at its heart, about our relationship with reality itself. Whether we name it God, Buddha-nature, or simply Life, we are always in relationship with it. The quality of that relationship - secure or insecure, trusting or defensive - shapes every aspect of our experience." - but the author uses "reality itself" and "just like a child" waaaayyy to often, at least they are honest at the start there is a lot of LLM in there.
Business Insider has some great YouTube videos, but there's no reason to use them as a source for news of the day.
> (or even a newer take on the original WikiWikiWeb)

I think that would be http://fed.wiki/view/welcome-visitors (the author of wikiwikiweb's new thing)
> If you can afford to use these connectors, you’ll also be able to afford to buy the appropriate tools to crimp them, even if only second hand – they are well worth it.

I've had a chance to use some well-maintained, calibrated crimp tools and there's a satisfaction that I can't quite describe. They feel substantial in the hand, the operation/sound are smooth and calming, and the resulting crimp will never fail. In my student days I had to improvise with whatever pliers or grippers were available. It was excruciating and the end product was barely serviceable.
Genuinely, I don't understand this take. 2024 brought huge additions like Solid Cache, Solid Queue, and Solid Cable, the stable version of Strada (Hotwire Native) which completed the current vision for the Hotwire stack, in addition to Kamal (let's not sell that short, because whether you personally like it or not, it's a fairly robust tool for what it's meant for) and other niceties. Even if you don't like one/all of these, I don't understand seeing these as small advancements of the framework, particularly in a single year.
Search engines rank crappy inactive fandom wikis above official wiki.gg wikis.
Fireworks in a car. On new years. What are the chances?
imo sms 2fa is great since it is sufficient to stop automatic mass account stealing.
Possibly unpopular opinion: PowerPoint is just a tool, and most people not only suck at making slides but are poor storytellers to boot. If you are a good storyteller and can effectively use the medium (as in, not just dump a bunch of bullets on a slide), you can actually convey a lot of information in a combined slide + narrative format.
There are also plenty of ways to have a large portioned meal that tastes good and meets your needs and satisfies your hunger for longer, without having to resort to drugs to curb your appetite.

Greg Doucette's cookbook shows how you can add "bulky" food that are lower in calories. I'm not a fan of the propensity of artificial sweeteners, but the principles are the important thing.

As an aside, I also wonder if this fascination with having "quick fixes" (aka let's add GLP-1 agonists to reduce appetite) is a generational thing, or just that in HN we have a bio-hacking mindset?

It's quite a contrast to the other article in HN today, "An Unreasonable Amount of Time", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42557098

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No one is suggesting that you can out run an increasing calorie surplus. You can however keep your diet the same and add two hours of running to your week and lose weight.
> Software that works fine on the developer’s 6-month-old high end workstation and like molasses anywhere else.

Also: software that works like molasses on the developer's high end workstation
When it first started, there were great swaths of stuff that could be written. Some huge fraction of history, art, science, etc now all have pages with some level of detail. To continue ongoing maintenance for current events is going to take significantly less activity.
Who is arguing otherwise?
The hard part of counterfactuals is that the result of a counterfactual is often an entity that shares only a name in common with the real historical entity. Could the Soviet Union have survived? Sure, maybe, if it didn't look anything like the Soviet Union that actually existed. Could the Chernobyl accident have been avoided? Sure, if the reactor hadn't been designed for better weapons production, if the crew hadn't been pushed to perform an unusually risky procedure, or if the crew had the initiative to avoid the problems they encountered. But the Soviet Union that actually existed was overly militarized and had a culture where obedience was more important than safety, and if it didn't have those traits then it wouldn't have been the Soviet Union that actually existed
Then eat a "healthy" avocado toast and gain 400 calories back.
> What is the relative price of them

If price was a factor, why rent a Cybertruck, or any truck at all? Or an EV? A small traditional car would be much cheaper.

Does Turo make it easier to rent a car anonymously or with false identity? I've never heard of them or used them just wondering if that might be more the reason. I see they are "Car rentals, reimagined" and they sound something like an AirBNB for cars so it would be unsurprising to me if they played fast and loose with things like customer identification.
I am currently doing development on a VM with remote SSH, but I use the terminal on said VM to run a docker container when I need to actually run and build the thing, so it is possible to get both remote SSH tooling and containerization benefits, without needing to build a docker container and SSH into it from vs code, which might be what GP was saying.
> especially if they coupled that with a de facto return to a market economy, the course that worked so well in China

I think it would be much harder to do in the Soviet Union - it was much more ideologically committed to communism than China, such a pivot would probably not happen without major political turbulence.
Tufte addresses that in the postscript. It is the first item in it.
Google the perspective of the people-- polls. It's not "hugely beneficial" as you claim.

NATO bombed the shit out Yugoslavia shortly after, one part of the world that remained communist.

Virtually every remaining communist country was bombed into oblivion or subject to suffocating sanctions.
Maybe another way to put it is: the Russian empire was reasonably “successful” (not actually good, ethically, IMO) in assimilating areas that had a stronger tie to the historical Eastern Orthodox core of the Moscow state. Tie also meaning the expulsions you mentioned. They had a more difficult time on the borders of and outside this zone. (Poland, for example.) This continued into the Soviet era.

A good metric of assimilation might be the alphabet. Seems to me that if the imperial core is using one alphabet (Cyrillic) but outlying areas with a hostile history are using another (Latin), then the assimilation process wasn’t working and perhaps never would work. And more broadly this alphabet difference is really a religious-cultural difference going back a millennium.

In short, IMO the Latin-using Catholic Poles had a long history of being different from the Cyrillic-using Orthodox Eastern Slavs, and were large enough as a group to not get relocated or assimilated, and therefore basically never would have been properly assimilated into the Russian-dominated Soviet identity.
Predates the internet, just like me. My mom was a high school math teacher, and was taking a COBOL class for her Masters at Hofstra University in 1977. I’m certain it was ‘77 because the Commodore PET had just released and she had one on home-loan that summer. One of my earliest memories is visiting the mainframe room, probably age 6-7, where the bearded sysadmin used a teletypewriter to print me a giant ascii art picture of Snoopy, standing in profile, on a green and white striped, tractor-fed paper. I’m sure the sysadmin had other interesting ascii art that was not appropriate to share with 7 year old.

Old man story over, but holy F, Hofstra is still teaching COBOL, wow?

https://www.hofstra.edu/academics/ce/professionaldevelopment...
In my opinion the community wasn't asking for free labor but rather consistency on macOS, which is a supported target for Alacritty.

It's silly to fork for an icon change but it's also frustrating to have an icon change get overridden each update. Most of the community agreed with the icon change and some even offered assets or assistance implementing it. I have no malice towards the maintainer but I do believe their stance was unnecessarily combative.
Turo cars are typically owned by private individuals, are they not? (It's like Airbnb for cars.) Gotta suck to be the owner of one of those trucks. Both from an insurance standpoint (are terrorist acts covered?) and also as a "this one time I rented out my car on Turo" story... especially the New Orleans truck owner :/
Llama 3.33-70B:

"To determine which is heavier, we need to compare the weights of the two objects.

The steel ingots weigh 9.99 pounds, and the fluffy cotton weighs 10.01 pounds.

Since 10.01 pounds is greater than 9.99 pounds, the bag of fluffy cotton is heavier than the bag of steel ingots, despite the cotton being "fluffy" and the steel being dense. Weight is a measure of the amount of mass in an object, and in this case, the cotton has a slightly greater mass than the steel."
Sure, you get more efficient but then you can just run a little faster or find a nice hill. If that’s boring go pick up something heavy. You can endlessly switch up training to find a thing you haven’t gotten used to yet. People act like there isn’t half a century of exercise science out there being put to use by athletes and regular people.
So is an authenticator app.

Also, SMS isn't, because attackers often get access to the SMS network itself (see e.g. Salt Typhoon) in which case they can do automatic mass account stealing because they can see all the totally unencrypted SMS codes.

The security of SMS really is that bad.
Saran wrap would would a pound of gold. It's just a pound in roughly a cubic inch of material. A cloth bag (like a pillow which is how features are normally contained) would definitely suffice. Remember, a pound of 800 fill down would require 8 cubic feet.

The bag for the gold doesn't need anything substantial.

So, no, the chances are strongly on the side of the feather bag being heavier.
How so? I'm too dumb to see it.
Thanks. Link to timepoint (for those who can't stand this TV 'news' format):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLgKKKWDJF0&t=49s
Site is experiencing the hug of death so I can’t read it, but I just use these from the Japanese company Engineer Tools: https://www.engineertools-jp.com/pa092021

Edit: hah yep they get an honorable mention. Definitely get the PA-20 or 21s, not the 09. They’re not perfect but they don’t cost an arm and a leg.
Probably because if this is created, most IP owners would mass opt out. To prevent that, you have to make the process difficult to do, hidden, or framed in an extremely careful way.
Related:

A Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42566387
The number of books, blogs, papers, textbooks, monograph, tutorials, reports, comments that are worthwhile reading will only ever increase though. Today is as information-lite as we're going to get. I feel like it's only natural to try and condense all this data (usually in a lossy way).

I hate PowerPoint but bullet points could be quite information dense. They lose effectiveness past 6 bullets due to readability reasons, but I still prefer them over fluffy low signal prose. I think at the end of the day, it all depends on the writer. I got to the end of your comment just fine. But I cannot and will not get to the end of a corporate jargon filled report or ppt.
5-Level vs. 4-Level Page Tables: Does It Matter? [2022]
Anything but the Metric System, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy4JhPXUZgo&pp=ygUVZXZlcnl0a...

To make it more relatable, 1k lbs is approximately 71.5 stone
yeah, what you say makes no sense, since it has nothing to do with reality.
At a certain weight, walking is the exercise.
Not saying goto80 is wrong, but I'd like to know what his research found and why he's qualifying it with "probably".
> some people, particularly in higher levels of management, just want to be spoon fed bullet lists and then feel like they’re making informed decisions.

That caste likes to say, "I have people that do that for me."
The idea of the fediverse as an agglomeration of private forums is a half-decent mental model. Each instance has its own rules and community, and some of them really hate each other.
A Desert Storm equivalent would have won the war before any substantial aid could arrive. The fact that the US could carry out such an operation on the other side of the planet, and Russia can’t even do it on its own border, really casts doubt on this idea of Russia as the world’s second military power.
>"The evil knuckleheads picked the wrong vehicle for a terrorist attack. Cybertruck actually contained the explosion and directed the blast upwards.

Not even the glass doors of the lobby were broken."

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1874614362612326761
I can totally see some add on gem for rspec breaking that assumption.
Perfume: Is it art, design or craft?
I think it was declining, but somewhat stabilized around 2015.
> The vast majority of users aren't going to have their laptop stolen by the CIA/NSA and have their DIMMs popped and cryofreezed.

If you happen to have a Pro variant of Ryzen (there may be some Intel variants as well) then you can enable RAM encryption. The RAM will be encrypted with an ephemeral AES key on boot.
I mean Facebook massively inflates impressions anyways and has been doing for a while.
There's also a lot of small business type operations on there that have a dozen or so cars. Like Airbnb, many folks are buying assets just to rent them out.
Sure, but my point is when someone says staff plus they mean staff or higher. They don’t mean higher than staff, or the best of the best staff engineers.

It just means anyone higher than a senior engineer.
The one trick I found that work well is to move everything in the VM. I usually opt for either emacs or vim, and if I need an IDE, I install i3. It just takes a moment to copy my dotfiles over.
The problem with rust is that it’s has lots of features but isn’t c like. Python doesn’t have much syntax so it’s fine to be not c like but rust has 100% new syntax and a lot of syntax with respect to c. I can pick up c like languages easy but rust just makes me mad to look at.
> Here “tropical year” means the time it took earth to orbit the sun from the perspective of the “fixed stars,”

Isn't tropical year relative to sun, i.e. equinox to equinox? And sidereal year being relative to fixed stars?
> But it is not impossible to use it, otherwise you wouldn't need it. Creating a reinterpretation of software without looking at the decompiled code is fine, that's what OpenMW or Wine do.

Sure that's also possible, that's also what librw (Renderware engine) has done here for GTA3 and Vice city, only the game code itself was decompiled, not the game engine.

But then again, it's not because you use the binary that it makes it a derivative of the original source code. The conversion of source code to binary loses tons of information, it's a destructive process.

> If I "decompile" a movie into a script, that won't perfectly match the original script. I'd have to add my own stage directions, set descriptions, etc. And of course the film never 100% matches the original script. Is that script now somehow not Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?

I'd say no, that's a different movie script.
> The realist argument would probably be that reforming to a justice system with some integrity and adopting some policies to score consecutive years of 10% growth was all they needed to keep treading water.

"all they needed" - as if that's easy to achieve consistently for decades.

In the end what killed it was the combination of stagnation and the ability to freely talk about it.
found new banners for my servers
It should guarantee the right to carry the same weapon we give to 17 year kids in the military. Which is an M4 carbine. That would be the modern musket and more or less consistent with historic tradition.
I don't think this is true; it would be hard to compare China with the USSR in 1979 and come away with the impression that the latter was the more ideologically committed country. The PRC at the time was only three years out of the Cultural Revolution and Deng had to tread very carefully to avoid being ousted by powerful left factions in the party that had no counterpart in the Brezhnev-era Soviet Union.
Agreed that life is not that simple as a math equation, but I think baselines apply, e.g. if you are sedentary, adding 150-180 mins of moderate exercise will definitely improve your health and life.

if you are already meeting that baseline, and still have issues, then you should look at tweaking other variables in the equation, whether diet, stress, etc.

What I find worrying is the cherry picking some people do, e.g. "aha your body will get used to exercise, so I might as well not bother", then wonder why at their next visit to the doctor, they are now told to go on a steady diet of statins etc.
Dick pics like 8=====D would be on the honor system.
Sign of times - both EV
Just go on X. I created new account that only follows Video Gaming accounts and the amount of disturbing crap X has shown me this past month has got me straight up scared to scroll.

I have no clue why people think Elon firing everyone at twitter was a success.
Yugoslavia was not one of the occupied states. Tito famously liberated the country before the Red Army and told Stalin to go fuck himself.

I have no idea what you’re talking about with bombing or sanctions. What formerly occupied Eastern European country suffered this? For that matter, what formerly occupied Eastern European country isn’t wildly better off today than they were in 1989?
I’ve always felt this was partly database vendors fault for not having tooling that integrates well. I think there is some theoretical world where pgTAP and other database specific test harnesses work fairly seamlessly with language runtimes via some well designed SDK. Tracing would need to walk into the db call stack from the application code.

Clearly this is harder to get right than expected since there aren’t many places doing stuff like that, that I’m aware of at least. Maybe if some of these database vendors built out better API’s for things like that with the expectation other language runtimes would be calling them the situation would be better. But it seems a lot of the old school db world is perfectly happy to build their products as if they were a black box from the application’s perspective
I read it as “most people don’t connect put 2 and 2 together - the doctor could be the boys father”. It is poorly worded, but not strictly wrong I think?
Fireworks are explosive. Low-explosive, to be technical. Low-explosives are also considered explosives.
I was looking for a mature, complete and powerful statically typed stack as well. ASP.NET was my clear answer (not Go or Rust).

There's a lot of noise coming from Microsoft to sell their new products (this year: Aspire.NET). But don't be mislead by this noise: .NET Core (C#, ASP.NET Minimal API or MVC, EF Core) is more batteries included and reliable than most other options. The only gripe I have is the need to get into the OOP and DI mindset ("create custom implementations of some abstract classes and put them into DI and the framework calls your implemented methods magically" kind of stuff). Takes some time, but not a big deal for experienced devs (and younger ones can learn faster anyway :-)).
Fireworks in a Cybertruck, blowing up in front of the Trump hotel, using the same app?

The symbolic alignment there is... considerable, for it to be a coincidence.
yeah... he's telling a white lie of sorts...reread the comment. That doesn't sound like someone lacking self confidence. "the other members collectively ...". He's basically saying "get the world leading experts in some area of math that I'm sort of interested in in a room and between them they'll know more than I do myself". Lol. And, that's happened "several times".

I'm sure he's a genuinely nice, friendly person trying to do the right thing. But he is also likely confident as hell and never felt like an imposter anywhere.
The RAG application gets the most attention and is probably most widely used, but I use it for everything.
If your theory is correct then why does the text say the right of the people to keep and bear arms, and not the right of the militia to keep and bear arms?
You mean “can’t resist the name placement kickback promises”, surely.
doom is deterministic so does not make a good choice for a captcha.. that being said.. this is cute
Let me google that for you

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2009/11/02/end-of-communi...
It seems like you've picked 1 option for Windows and decided that it's perfect, and then looked at every single remotely possible option on Linux, and then pretended that that was somehow a fair comparison. If we use every GUI toolkit that Microsoft has ever offered, and also every sound API they've ever offered, and also every distribution format (do you use the store? .msi? bundle up a Portable App so you don't need an installer?), your matrix will also blow up.
They never said that exercise doesn't lead to fat loss.

Only that it's a minor contributor and I would argue that's the case.

One of your examples, swimming, will put on weight as it will builds muscle mass which obviously is heavier. But one of the side effects of this is that your appetite will increase. And without careful diet management it's very easy for this exercise to be a net negative.
I agree, Neovim's LSP support is in a pretty good spot now. I still use Mason but perhaps I could spend time moving away from it.

The only issue I have with Neovim is sometimes a plugin update breaks things and I have to fix it immediately otherwise Neovim greets me with an error each time I use it. That's not so bad on the surface but it usually involves me reading the plugin documentation to see what changed and what Lua needs updating.
Show HN: Can doctors just simply send their AI clone to patient consultation?