skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a frequent user of both web and phone airline apps, the phone apps are just nicer. UI idioms that are appropriate for the platform, etc.
Dennis Overbye on Retiring as the New York Times' 'Cosmic Correspondent'
For offline use?
I don't get why you need tree search at all? What does it give you over a pure LLM trained to do CoT in a tree-like manner? If the context window's long enough, it can generate the reasoning-tree just by pure next-token prediction, and rather than BFS, it can guide the tree search with its own value function (which is part of the LLM itself) instead of sticking to hard algos like BFS and DFS.

By the way, BFS sounds like it will give you thorough results, at the cost of increased compute. Useful for beating benchmarks, but probably causes marginal improvement for massively improved compute.

Still, the improved quality could be meaningful, if it's used for generating training data for Llama4
I realize you are probably referring to UB in c/c++, but of course in hardware memory addresses are numbers. And when debugging, it’s really the hardware version of events that matters, since the compiler has already done whatever optimizations it wants.
https://archive.ph/26oDb
> Apple’s own transparency report indicates they turn over data to the USG for over 100,000 different apple IDs each year in the no-warrant-or-probable-cause (FISA orders and NSLs) category.

FISA “orders” are warrants and have the same requirement for probable cause as any search or seizure warrant (they aren't criminal warrants so the probable cause is not of there being evidence of a crime, but of the target being an agent of a foreign power.)

NSLs are administrative subpoenas accompanied with gag orders, not warrants, and correspondingly do not have a probable cause requirement; unlike warrants (and like other subpoenas), they are subject to precompliance challenge (and the associated gag order is challengable separately.)
All rely heavily on one aspect, consistency. If you system engineering can consistently operate without change, innovation or issue, then it is possible that these ideas could exist in a closed environment. However they just don't work when dealing with external factors.
The former is a belief. It always reflects the imagined realities of those investing--we assume that business reality catches up with them, and it mostly does but not always within a predictable time frame.
And now they're at the point where the population pyramid is collapsing. It's hard to make any predictions about the future when they got here riding a baby boom and now their ratio of elderly to working age is about to go through the roof.

https://www.populationpyramid.net/china/2023/
Hmmm. Wonder if this can be done for Valheim?
The general public can’t handle non vertically integrated things. My mum will never, ever know how to switch inputs on a display despite growing up with the first TVs and using one every day. My wife can just about do it.

Also it’s not just Netflix, it has other integrations and a full browser.

> And yes, code on microcontrollers can have bugs. But bugs mostly occur with advanced features or having those features hook into more basic ones.

It’s much worse than you think. Legacy car makers treat each micro only as an item on a BOM, software and all. It’s getting better now, but you would have a vendor for each of those microcontrollers with no coordination between any of them. The path from bug fix to rollout was non existent for a lot of them.

Not to mention the microcontrollers themselves are probed / final tested using VBA in a piece of “software” built on top of Microsoft Excel. No, I’m not joking.

I’m also still getting extra safety features added to my Tesla. I now get cross traffic alerts when reversing.
> DSLs that solve a specific problem with a page or two of documentation overhead are great.

Do you have any example? I’ve heard lots of good things of dsl, but never had the luck to witness it’s full glory.

(except for regex, which I love, but it has more than two pages of docs)
European countries actually had industry policies in the 60s and 70s. But countries like Korea and Japan were always going to be cheaper. The Netherlands lost a LOT of many protecting the shipyards.
> And a big strength LLMs have is summarizing things - I’d like to see you summarize the latest 10 arxiv papers relating to prompt engineering and produce a report geared towards non-techies. And do this every 30 mins please. Also produce social media threads with that info. Is this a task you could do yourself, better than LLMs?

Right, but this is the part that is silly and sort of disingenuous and I think built upon a weird understanding of value and productivity.

Doing more constantly isn't inherently valuable. If one human writes a magnificently crafted summary of those papers once and it is promulgated across channels effectively, this is both better and more economical than having an LLM compute one (slightly incorrect) summary for each individual on demand. In fact, all the LLM does in this case is increase the amount of possible lower quality noise in the space. The one edge an LLM might have at this stage is to generate a summary that accounts for more recent information, thereby getting around the inevitable gradual "out of dateness" of human authored summaries at time T, but even then, this is not great if the trade off is to pollute the space with a. bunch of ever so slightly different variants of the same text. It's such a weird, warped idea of what productivity is, it's basically the lazy middle-manager's idea of what it means to be productive. We need to remember that not all processes are reducible to their outputs—sometimes the process is the point, not the immediate output (e.g. education).
Yes, if implemented as shown.

You could use intrinsics for the bit casting & so on and it would be well-defined to the extent that those intrinsics are.

(I understand some people consider SIMD intrinsics in general to be UB at language level, in part because they let you switch between floats & ints in a hardware-specific way.)
The Dreamcast launch price in Sep 1999 was $199 (US market).

The PlayStation 2 launch price in Mar 2000 was $299 (US market).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2

So the Dreamcast was much less expensive than the PlayStation 2. Did you mean to say that rather than saying it was more expensive, or am I missing some detail?
Heh that's me, guess they weren't ready for it. Also the decoder (where i linked) is one of the best just ai news sites ive found
No. Where do you read that I take it at face value? I literally said that I expect Claude to give me "half-assed" medical guidance. I merely said that that is still better than having no clue for the next 2 hours while I wait on the phone with 35 people in front of me, which is completely different from "taking medicine advice at face value". It's not like I will let my wife drink bleach just because Claude told me to. But if it tells me that it's likely an ear infection then at least I can discuss the possibility with the doctor.

So I am curious about how TCM works. So what if an LLM hallucinates there? I am not writing papers on TCM or advising governments on TCM policy. I still follow the doctor's instructions at the end of the day.

For anything really critical I already double check with professionals. As you said, human in the loop is important. But needing human in the loop does not make it useless.

You are letting perfect be the enemy of good. A half-assed tax advice with some hallucinations from an LLM is still useful, because it will prime me with a basic mental model. When I later double check the whole thing with a professional, I will already know what questions to ask and what direction I need to explore, which saves time and money compared to going in with a blank slate.

The other day I had Claude advice me on how to write a letter to a judge to fight a traffic fine. We discuss what arguments to make, from what perspective a judge will see things, and thus what I should plead for. The traffic fine is a few hundred euros: a significant amount, but barely an hour worth of a real lawyer's fee. It makes absolutely no sense to hire a real lawyer here. If this fails, the worst thing that can happen is that I won't get my traffic fine reimbursed.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with using LLMs when you know their limits and how to mitigate them.

So what if every notion you learned about medicine from LLMs is wrong? You learn why they're wrong, then next time you prompt/double check better, until you learn how to use it for that field in the least hallucinationatory way. Your experience also doesn't match mine: the advice I get usually contains useful elements that I then discuss with doctors. Plus, doctors can make mistakes too, and they can fail to consider some things. Twitter is full of stories about doctors who failed to diagnose something but ChatGPT got it right.

Stop letting perfect be the enemy of good. Occasionally needing human in the loop is completely fine.
> RIP Northvolt

Northvolt isnt lacking funding (pedantically they are, else they wouldnt be bankrupt) or clients, but know-how for scaling putting aside some conspiracy theories about Chinese equipments. Turns out scaling isnt easy.

vanadium redox flow isnt very big yet even for Energy Storage System

Side note: The tendency US and Westernin general to depend on Wunderwaffe tech (Vanadium Redox! Solid State Battery!) is quite amusing.

> China’s startup scene is dead as investors pull out

Turns out Emperor Pooh dislike get-rich-quick startup mentality and yet another useless apps. He wouldnt mind hard tech bro like Ren Zhengfei or Wang Chuanfu though.

P.S. Watch the robotic space, things might get interesting in a year or two.
We need a forum mod / plugin that detects AI training bots and deliberately alters the posts for just that request to be training data poison.
> the only interpreter being fucking batchfiles with no docs… come on…

QBASIC was always there, though?

From Win98 onwards, Active Scripting was there out of the box with VBScript and JScript. From Vista onwards, .NET runtime shipped as an OS component, and it includes C#, VB.NET, and (back then) JScript.NET compilers in the box. Although, granted, no offline docs in either case.
How various Git diff viewers represent file encoding changes in pull requests
Absolutely no. It may have specific syntax, but is not needed. Where do you have such definition? In fact the typical example is in Lisps, where you add no syntax.

Is not about fancy functions. And not about new syntax. Is about adding semantic value. If somebody adds a collection of functions that allow the expression of solutions to a problem in the very language of the problem, that is a DSL, if the syntax chosen, for whatever reason, e.g. simplicity, happens to be the same as some underlying language, that takes nothing to the fact that it is a DSL.

If you look at the examples of SICP, they are “just” fancy functions. But they are DSLs

An extract of the wikipedia article:

As embedded domain-specific language (eDSL)[4] also known as an internal domain-specific language, is a DSL that is implemented as a library in a "host" programming language. The embedded domain-specific language leverages the syntax, semantics and runtime environment (sequencing, conditionals, iteration, functions, etc.) and adds domain-specific primitives that allow programmers to use the "host" programming language to create programs that generate code in the "target" programming language.
literally each of those things is also totally possible and easy with a PWA, except maybe the widget.
What's the true secret to happiness? Scientists could be about to find out
Perhaps you have something profound to communicate here, but you're not doing a great job of getting it across.

As an example, in response to "very few have achieved anything like the Incas," I asked for something specific to establish a frame of reference, and you replied with something that can be summarized more or less as "very few have achieved something like the Incas."

As to your second point, this is remarkable. Nobody has disagreed. But it's not extraordinary. Not every culture has to be agrarian. Not every culture has to be written. Draft animals, arches, wheels. These are one way to solve specific projects problems. They aren't the only solution. The Incas, through remarkable ingenuity and effort, solved those problems differently. Again, remarkable but but extraordinary.

It feels to me like you've asked and been answered, and for myself at least, it sounds like you've sort of dug in and want to be found on this hill of Incan exceptionalism. I personally find their exceptionalism exceptional, as exceptional as the many other exceptions that have been discussed in the thread so far.
Yeah, and it might not even gain us that much. It reminds me of how a zipped piece of JSON often comes close enough to bespoke binary serialization formats that it's not worth bothering with it.
I just tried. I get the same.

URL looks like that: http://undefined/api/verify-email?token=.....
>There's next to no loss for them here.

If anything, going after the people making this would be a greater loss than just letting it exist. Lawyers ain't free.
Study website/info - https://www.happinessmegastudy.com/
I've built a scrabble tournament management app on google sheets, because it was the easiest way I could think of to let multiple people edit it with all the others seeing live updates. From a developer's point of view it kind of sucks, having to maintain everything in one large javascript file and having to use spreadsheet tabs as input and output, not to mention manually attaching the script to a new sheet for every tournament. But the user experience has been excellent, modulo a few permissions glitches.

I'm still trying to rewrite it as a self hosted web app this year because the aforementioned permissions glitches and the difficulty of doing versioned deployments has made me reluctant to continue relying on google, but overall sheets has been a huge boon and we have gotten years of use out of it.
You keep saying you have a device that solves the problem, but you don't provide any actual details above what everyone already knows. You keep insulting people when they call you out on it. Either show your hand or be more humble. The other options don't make you look good, trustworthy or competent at all.

The people (other than me) in this thread have provable track records talking about this field. They're asking for more details and you just keep insulting them.
Is there a reason why you think location access is OK for the Uber app but not ok for the uber.com website?
If you install Python using the official installer from python.org and check the "Add interpreter to PATH" box when installing, running `python` in shell will launch it.
How does having Bitcoin be a software project with innumerable contributers make it a secure, distributed store of value? Just asking.
The WHO report was inconclusive because the lab withheld data.

This creates a bit of a catch-22, no? There's no basis to claim it was a lab leak because the lab in question won't cooperate with establishing whether there's a basis for the idea.

It'd be one thing if the proper amount of research was done and made public and we could see that there was no conspiracy. As is, there's a lab located in Wuhan studying coronaviruses that pinky promises that they didn't start COVID-19, while the WHO director is on record saying that the lab blocked the WHO investigation that might have exonerated them.

I think it's prudent to forgive people for whom "this is a baseless conspiracy theory" isn't a sufficient explanation.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-ch...

https://doi.org/10.1136%2Fbmj.n1890

https://apnews.com/article/health-china-coronavirus-pandemic...
Leading from the rear, with subterfuge and theft.

Keep going, China, you’re an inspiration to us all.
"Christmas comes this time each year" — Little Saint Nick, The Beach Boys
btw, fusion has arrived by that definition: No reactors that would produce more energy than they consume, But net positive reactions have been achieved. Tasks where LLMs output is more than 1x are few and far between.
I am genuinely curious of what a good solution would be to this problem, because I love Photos on Mac but its not perfect either, one key thing Photos does insanely well is face grouping.
How did you measure that? Podcast ads seem almost like old school TV in that a lot of listening is offline, with no call to action or method of measurement. Despite racing and resonating deeply with an audience.
This is the interesting part of the experiment. Since these LLMs are general and not specifically trained on historical (and current) stock prices and (business) news stories, it isn't a measure of how good they could be today.
to be alive
You need macOS, which you can run in a VM (e.g. https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM ) or by setting up a hackintosh.
I’m hesitant to simply say “read this”, but please consider The Mom Test. It’s a quick read & teaches how to structure conversations with potential customers.
is it wifi, bt, zigbee? surely matter-compatible, right?
This is already a thing for basically all of the second[0] and third worlds. A non-trivial amount of Cloudflare's security value is plausible algorithmic discrimination and collective punishment as a service.

[0] Previously Soviet-aligned countries; i.e. Russia and eastern Europe.
var is global scope, const is block scoped...

<script>
var x = 1;
if(x < 5) {
// now y is global (window.y can be accessed everywhere)
// using const y = x * 2 would be inaccessible outside the if block
var y = x * 2;
console.log('double x is: " + y);
}
</script>

Besides that, var is "pulled" upwards, as if it was the first line in the function. That may have side effects.
LLM's are inherently untrustworthy. They're very good at some tasks, but they still need to be checked and/or constrained carefully, which is probably not the best technology on which to base real-world autonomous agents.
Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out
The big problem with installing packages written in C is that on Windows, you needed the matching version of VC++ to build, which wasn't anywhere as easy to obtain as the standard build tools on Unix platforms, usually (where they'd often even be preinstalled, and if not, it's one apt/yum invocation away).

The eventual solution for this was something called "Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7" - which was pretty much just enough of VC++ command line tools packaged to make it possible to build things.
China's real estate prices having dropped 50% or more has been accompanied by/caused by wages being slashed 50% or more, and increasing unemployment rate, such as 30%+ for youth.

Here are some good posts on why nobody wants deflation:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEconomics/comments/uzq5bu/why_is...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEconomics/comments/mbsxyl/can_so...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEconomics/comments/yotf0c/i_dont...

also coincidentally and recently, China’s Xi Jinping asked ‘What’s so bad about deflation?’ amid economic slowdown https://fortune.com/2024/12/29/china-economy-deflation-xi-ji...
Prepare to pay more if you drive to busiest part of Manhattan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Overbye
The 68k has both signed and unsigned 32/16 bit divide instructions.
> And a big strength LLMs have is summarizing things - I’d like to see you summarize the latest 10 arxiv papers relating to prompt engineering and produce a report geared towards non-techies. And do this every 30 mins please. Also produce social media threads with that info. Is this a task you could do yourself, better than LLMs?

I don't mean to nitpick, but how good do you really think the output of this would be? Papers are short and usually have many references, I would expect the LLM to basically miss the important subtleties on every paper it's given, and misunderstand and misattribute any terms of art it encounters.

I mean, of course LLMs are good at summarizing: the summaries are probably mostly sort of good, and anything I'm summarizing I won't read myself. But for technical and specific texts, what's the point when you're getting a "maybe correct" retelling? Best case scenario you get a pretty paragraph that's maybe good for an introduction, and worst case you get incorrect information that misinforms you.
Is OpenOffice.org getting faster? (2008)
You're arguing that software makes or breaks artistry, and it doesn't. Composition, subject, and lighting still get you 90% there. Software just comes in at post and it plays less of a role than the HN crowd thinks it does.

Maybe it's my circles (photojournalists) but none of them care about different algorithms in post. Their artistry comes from a complete mastery of layers and masks along with old fashioned tone and color sliders. Those tools are far more powerful than knowing the difference between method 1 and method 2 of a Gaussian Blur filter that have no discernible visual difference anyway.
No? Your expiry just extends the number of years you add to the renewal.
I wonder if there's research on this, like if you took a group of individuals who scored the same on an IQ test, then got them to solve one together, how would the score improve?

Is there a way of selecting people to cover each other's intellectual blind spots?
Right, sorry, I was (correctly, right?) assuming this wasn't a minor.
The problem is that select() is a wrapper around WaitForMultipleObjectsEx() or whatever it is that select() uses, and those functions (the ones that can call APCs because entering them enters "alertable state") are extern "C" functions, which means they cannot throw exceptions, but here we have an APC throwing an exception, which is not allowed!

Now, MSFT does NOT document that APCs can't throw, but since the functions that enter alertable states (hence which can call APCs) are extern "C" functions, it follows that APCs cannot throw.

So part of the problem here is that the PAPCFUNC function type is not noexcept, therefore the compiler can't stop you from using a function that is not noexcept as an APC, thus APCs can -but must not!- throw exceptions.
The name is Biyadi
At a fully remote startup I once worked at, they intentionally cultivated connections by having a randomizer pair employees up for 30 minute blocks of "getting to know you" time.
For most people yes, but Rockstar probably has a salaried legal dept with nothing better to do.
FBI: Largest homemade explosives cache in agency history found in Virginia
I'm not saying "android on a laptop is the way of the future". I'm saying the Android model, to sweep aside the status quo distros and start fresh with new approach to userspace, is the path I see most likely to bring Linux to the masses in laptop/desktop form factor.

If the people you see using Linux on the laptop are developers, then I don't think they count as "consumers" - they're on the production side of things! I don't know any consumers who use Linux on a laptop. I last gave it a shot in 2018 but decided it's not for me.
The question you posed, how Signal's identifier system minimizes metadata, has a clear answer. I'm not interested in comparative threat modeling, but rather addressing the specific objection you raised. I believe we've now disposed of it.
If only you could check your claims with the investment of 20 seconds and 2 clicks

Here, now it's one click

https://dogagingproject.org/our-team
Hatsuyume – First Dream of the Year
Intelligence is a prerequisite for lying, but its foundation is morality and agency.

To lie, you have to know that you are not telling the truth, and arguably have to be able to held accountable for that action.

It's easy to babble a series of untruths, but lying requires intention, which requires an entity that can be recognized as having intentions.

I'd argue that ChatGPT's lack of a cohesive self prevents it from lying, no matter how many untruths it creates.