skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're both right in that we need standards, and we'll get them but with fractures, but at the same time we could try harder to reduce the incidence of fractures. Because at the end of the day this is all a social problem, and social problems can only be fixed by the society coming together.
wait why would this require sociopathy?
inertial mass, rest mass, gravitational mass - these are essentially all the same thing. “relativistic mass” is an additional concept where we rewrite energy as mass and is considered archaic
Your "b" just makes me think of The Amish and the like in a way. Once the kids find out the rest of the world, totally unequipped for it, it's either retreat to the suburbs or go bananas
It's incredible that the FBI releases this huge presser despite the arrest being peaceful and the guy only being charged with possession of short barrel rifle.

Meanwhile somebody crosses the border in 6,500 lb truck and 2 days later rams it into a crowd of people.

The FBI is addicted to PR arrests but seems incapable of stopping actual terror attacks.
ChatGPT Plus user here. The following are all fresh sessions and first answers, no fishing.

GPT 4:

The 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton is heavier than the 9.99-pound bag of steel ingots. The type of material doesn’t affect the weight comparison; it’s purely a matter of which bag weighs more on the scale.

GPT 4o:

The 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton is heavier. Weight is independent of the material, so the bag of cotton’s 10.01 pounds outweighs the steel ingots’ 9.99 pounds.

GPT o1:

Since both weights are measured on the same scale (pounds), the 10.01-pound bag of cotton is heavier than the 9.99-pound bag of steel, despite steel being denser. The key is simply that 10.01 pounds exceeds 9.99 pounds—density doesn’t affect the total weight in this comparison.
> their own embarrassing past two centuries of history.

I think part of the problem is exactly this. We don't say Spain should be embarrassed at the Muslim conquest, yet we're expected to say India should be 'ashamed' (for what?) for their past two centuries? History just is... We should stop assigning emotional value to it.

The issue here is twofold. Firstly, India is not unique in this pursuit. China also has taken charge of constructing its own history, and sometimes it's at odds with Western thinking. Often time, the oral / traditional accounts are found to be true.

Secondly, the West also falls into magical thinking. For example, right here, you are parroting the idea that Indian heterodoxy over their own history is misguided. However, it has a clear historical basis in the fact that Britain tried to expropriate most of its history. I don't mean taking various artifacts.

I mean that, for many years, Western historians pushed the idea that the Indus Valley Civilization inhabitants were not related to modern Indians. They couldn't deal with the fact that Indians may have had one of the oldest, largest, and richest ancient civilizations. Of course history has proved them wrong.... Harappan genes are well represented in the Indian subcontinent.

So, sure, we can make all kinds of claims about Indian historians inflating their own history (I would agree), but to then say that Western historians don't is just wrong... Remember, Nazi Germany's racial policy is the direct result of a ridiculously flawed and fantastical understanding of Indian history by Western historians. Like it or not, the Nazis were western too (and besides, plenty of non-German historians agreed with them... we just like to forget about that).

Finally, we cannot ignore the impact of Nazism here. Even today, it is difficult to talk about Aryans without conjuring up images of genocidal Germans. Research has to be qualified and disclaimed so that people don't take the objective historical record and try to justify more atrocities.

For example, going back to the IVC. European historians were insistent that the Aryans civilized India, and many insisted that the IVC was Aryan, and not really 'Indian'. Again, the evidence is very clear that the Harappans have no steppe ancestry. But again, we have an example of the very sort of behavior you accuse india of, except by British historians.
This is the easy part.

One of the issues with these tools is that more and more websites now employ multiple aggressive CAPTCHAs, fingerprints, device check, etc, rendering tools like API Parrot almost useless.
IDDQD works. Just saying.
That's interesting, I didn't know that, thanks.

Is the claim then that LLMs are pattern recognizers but also more?

It just seems to me and I guess many others that the thing it is primarily good at is being a better google search.

Is there something big that I and presumably many others are missing and if so, what is it?
Dr. John Gall was my pediatrician! When I was young, I was interested in astronomy and he gave me a membership in the astronomy book club. I only learned of his work on system theory after his death.
At my day job we use Ruby with Sorbet to stitch together a large number of data engineering pipelines. It's a good choice since we also often stand up small Rails apps to expose the results from those pipelines, so we can keep everything in one language. The fluent functional approach it enables is pretty nice for that business logic (but I would not want to do it without the gradual typing on top). We do find ourselves glancing over at the Python ecosystem with envy from time to time but overall it has worked pretty well. As I've gotten better with it I find myself reaching for irb for more and more one-off tasks in the shell too.
> Voluntary trade benefits both parties by definition.

It absolutely does not [1]. This kind of blanket statement is on the level of "market intervention is *always bad, the free market solves everything". Wishful Raegan-era thinking.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42567145
I imagine it is easier when you own the president.
>Cloudhiker was created to bring back the nostalgic thrill of the classic Web 2.0 exploration era. Within our carefully curated selection of websites, you'll encounter completely random websites. If possible, the website will be shown directly to you, allowing you to dive in and engage with it firsthand. Here, you won't come across clickbait from Buzzfeed or lackluster blog articles; instead, you'll discover sites that are genuinely captivating, unconventional, mind-blowing, or geared towards learning. Some will tickle your funny bone, some will stimulate your thoughts, and others may prove invaluable for your work with their exceptional tools.
But in fact they are changing over time -- this is an expectations treadmill. When you get something newer and better, it highlights the flaws in what you had before.
You're absolutely right. At some point I spent so long working on the plotting code that I really couldn't be bothered anymore to make it prettier. Hopefully I eventually find some motivation to fix this.
ok but preview sucks, run it on o1 pro.

99% of studies claiming some out of distribution failure of an LLM uses a model already made irrelevant by SOTA. These kinds of studies, with long throughputs and review periods, are not the best format to make salient points given the speed at which the SOTA horizon progresses
My bona fides: I am old and have done it all. I will now tell you how it worked out.

Like you, I am a person who can do pretty much anything. I had nothing but success. Jobs came to me. Then, at around 45, the company I worked for went down and I found myself unemployed.

Like you, my resume was unusual. I broke it into skill groups. It was obvious that I had a lot of accomplishments and, if hired, could help with almost any need. Nobody hired me.

I did freelance work, started a company that didn’t work. Eventually needed a job again. Kept looking.

Finally, I ran into a headhunter who told me the magic: Decide what you want to do and remove everything from your resume that does not apply to that specific topic. Do not allow even a hint of general-purpose skill to appear.

She made me understand that nobody had a requisition for a ‘jack of all trades’. They have a requisition for a sales agent, bookkeeper, programmer, database guy. Specific stuff.

I was broke and did what she said.

In my case, my education and fundamental skill was programming. Gone were all of my proud accomplishments in favor of all the things I knew about PHP, MYSQL, LAMP of all sorts (this was in the ought). Also some things where I had helped a project team. It made me sad because I have done some very cool stuff that went by the wayside. But it was the resume of a professional programmer, dedicated to the craft.

I have never been unemployed since.
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Constantly looking for interesting cases.

Happy New 20¼!
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I built Discuo, a unique discussion platform that combines:
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If you consider that evolution has taken millions of years to produce intelligent humans--that LLM training completed in a manner of months can produce parrots of humans is impressive by itself. Talking with the parrot is almost indistinguishable from talking with a real human.

As far as pattern matching, the difference I see from humans is consciousness. That's probably the main area yet to be solved. All of our current models are static.

Some ideas for where that might be headed:

- Maybe all it takes is to allow an LLM to continuously talk with itself much like how humans have "the milk man's voice".

- Maybe we might need to allow LLMs to update their own weights but that would also require an "objective" which might be hard to encode.
interesting feedback, thanks - it was mostly a stream of consciousness written in a single three hour sitting with no editing. would appreciate more detail. I'm actually gratefully surprised you found my writing so skimmable, not something I optimize for
Ahh... is this safe?
My 2024 top 3:

- They would never hurt a fly. Croatian journalist Slavenka Drakulic covered the Hague trial for military crimes in Bosnia war. The book made me rethink how I view the war in general and what motivates people to do absolute evil things.

- A primate memoir by Sapolsky. I can't stress enough how interesting, witty and overwhelming this book is. One of the rare reads I couldn't stop reading until the very end.

- Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante. Even though sometimes it might be felt like a boulevard novel, it gave me absolutely fantastic insight and the atmosphere of Italian Naples in the 1960-1970s.
I know about the issue and still experience it. Sometimes these things also change over time. Of course, it still helps to use the browser extension!
I don’t know, I’m asking. Were the US laid off workers too expensive? Too difficult? Cannot put a car together? Too many hires? Scaling down?

Were these factory workers? White collar jobs? Managers?
Not sure how well this would scale if every users needing to compute all at once. Which all it takes is some meme new app that requires heavy computation and then everyone downloads it.
I think it's quite sad that Ruby is so associated with Rails. Ruby is one of my favorite languages and last time that I touched a Rails code was in 2017. Even in web dev Rails is not the only thing in Ruby, there's also Sinatra which is an elegant micro-framework for building HTTP APIs, similar to Flask.

Some projects that I remember that uses Ruby that are not related to web dev: Homebrew, Metasploit, Vagrant and Jekyll.

I also find Ruby very useful for shell scripts. I wrote a blog post about that some months ago, you can read it and the discussion about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40763640
Indeed, although I think people "on the right side of history" (whoever they may be, fill in the blank yourself) would (could) do a bit better to ensure they use violence as a last resort. Never too late is crucial, but never too early is still important.
o1.

prompt> Which is heavier, a 9.99-pound back of steel ingots or a 10.01 bag of fluffy cotton? Please state in your answer what's the difference in grams.

answer> The 10.01-pound bag of cotton is heavier. The difference is 0.02 pounds, which is roughly 9.07 grams (using 1 pound ≈ 453.59237 grams).

Reference
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): Conversion Factors
> This issue is about capital vs labor

The issue is about how a nation serves its people, and whether it protects American people and their culture.

America is not an economic zone but a nation with a responsibility to its citizens not random foreigners handed visas.
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I took on a new year's resolution to resume writing blogs. The last I did was when I was doing my undergrad. At that time, blogging was not that popular but I still loved it. But I got busy in work and lost that passion.

So here is to new beginning. Looking for support from the community.

Happy New Year!
Definitely a case for the Futurama "I'm shocked" meme. OpenAI has a lot of talented people that work there but it's clear @sama only cares about chasing the biggest possible payday and nothing else means anything.
I fear we have lost the collective will to conduct pandemic mitigation. The next time something bad comes round, we're just going to have it wash over us and Black Death it. It's a shame
yeah I'm worried it could be me getting bored instead of the writers getting boring, but nobody could look at the writing in The Black Swan vs Skin in the Game and not be able to tell the huge difference in fluency, coherence, and beauty.
Thousands duped by hoax firework display 'created by AI'
He has the opposite, the executive branch hates him so much that they didn't invite Tesla to a government EV summit where Biden declared GM's CEO as the pioneer of EVs.
Definitely, although Rails is its most common use
Political biases and inconsistencies in bilingual GPT models in the US and China
I had mine for almost a year now. The laptop is nice, although I had problems with the motherboard twice.

Pros:
* super modular, I have 2 usbc and 2 usba usually and the hdmi and ethernet on the backpack for when needed
* it's pretty fast in comparison to my carbon x1 from 2021

Cons:
* the motherboard died twice and they still don't know why. I suspect the charger as it stops charging after a while, something tells me they haven't fully figured out the motherboard completely yet.
* BIOS software is also somewhat lacking still, but this is a well known problem they are hoping to fix with time
* Battery life is not really the best, but again I blame it on the BIOS
* fingerprint reader just works in Linux, and webcam too which is a difference with Carbon x1

I'm looking forward to future improvements and maybe seeing them enter the mobile phone market.
But we know Hitler has a Time Machine that goes forward, he doesn’t need to return to use that knowledge as he already has a timeline here to use. Definitely risks involved here.
The issue with the commercial Deepseek API is that it supports a context length of only 64k, whereas GPT supports at least 128k.
Does not work on a smartphone
Lots of Americans don't understand legal due process. Especially the ones who watch hyper-partisan news.
The problem is that it requires the same effort to verify that the magician isn't just lying, and if there's some way to effortlessly verify the number, then that same method could have been used by the magician ahead of time. To capture the sense of something magical, the reveal has to be immediately obvious, but in a way that (seems like it) can't have been used by the magician to set things up.
The cost of an expendable third stage is surely more than made up for the brute force cost savings of being able to launch 150T to LEO for the cost of fuel and a car wash.
May be. But a lot of new account for comments are also for insight on certain topic or subject that they are bound by their job and dont want to use their real account.
I wonder if this isn't the same as explore vs. exploit.

Fail fast = use it when in exploration mode. Dig here, dig there until you find something of worth

Embrace the grind = once you have found something worthwhile, speed a lot of time
Requiring 'The last two major releases'[1] for browser version isn't much better.

[1] https://www.notion.com/help/system-requirements-for-notion
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Things I learn on HN... Thanks! I wonder if the guy had all necessary tax stamps or licenses?
Not sad at all! Mac has excellent hardware, excellent reliability, excellent day to day performance. Im not a fanboy, but it won for (IMHO) clear and obvious reasons. Of course folks want a mac app. No comment on the “harm” bit.
I never wrote code for the hp48-gx, but I remember that some games written in assembly looked like Game Boy games. The screen even had shades of gray by writing once every 4, 8, ... loop. I don't have the details but it was pretty convincing. Some source code would help in that case.
Thanks! I did spend some time fiddling with CSS to make the yellow highlights so that the titles stand out a bit more, and to improve the code blocks, but otherwise it's a relatively common theme for Hugo. (I think it's linked in the footer.)
Concepts need to be linked to reality somehow in order to carry any meaning. They are thus not just relations between themselves.
If TNT was legal to own I'd be buying it for my farm.
Thanks for checking, clarifying, and filing those bugs!
No BFG 9000 :(
Did you miss the parts where I said that I only have time when they're closed, and they're only open when I'm most busy?

Have you never seen knowledgeable people get things wrong, and having to verify them?

Did you miss the part where they cost money, and I better come in as prepared as possible?

I really don't get these knee-jerk averse reactions. Are people deliberately reading past my assertions that I double check LLM outputs for everything critical?
Despite everything they’ve been saying (this was all in the court filings to try to deny him bail), he did still end up getting released on bond.

So it wasn’t enough. or the evidence they provided wasn’t credible.
Because the hype is not only annoying, but it makes potentially cool and interesting technology toxic once people figure out that the people hyping things up know it to be mostly bullshit.

Great things take many years, sometimes decades to develop properly. Different generations of people to experiment and try things out.

That is not good for the ones pushing up the hype. You don't get rich quick by doing that, you don't get to scam enough investors by something being slowly improved.

You may call it bitterness, whereas I am just jaded by watching things play out.
Most people scraping sites aren’t writing anything low-level enough to care about the particular flavor of Unix-like OS it runs on.
I made a simple retro game out of pure passion and released it for free at itch.io, however I see many good games that sell for low prices. There's definitely a niche market. Alternatively users can also donate or become your patrons. From what I see, if the game is decent and the price is lowish, then it sells quite well. Obviously won't pay your bills, but it's something...
can it reverse websocket-protocols ? If so, how does it do binary decoding etc ?
Exactly the kind of thing I was looking for, thank you! And thanks for the tip about "double ratchet protocol," that helps a ton.
Nope, not for Android Chrome.

Taping shows the instructions for keyboard use.
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SQL is king and history has shown non-sql languages are not good which causes many non-sql DBMS's to adopt sql eventually.
What a rage bait title and un nuanced article. First of all provides no clear evidence. Second of all these articles are making folks in H1B the enemies. What a shame.
The reality is that some folks on H1B are also the victims of the system. Rather than talking nuance about how it’s beneficial and how it’s abused and how to prevent abuse, it places workers against workers.
Since we're talking about Hibernate, I assume you mean the JDBC driver? Because the API is tedious and unpleasant.

The mapping of database results to java objects with Hibernate is convenient. The basic "load entity, change a couple fields, let Hibernate persist it" flow is convenient. In a limited set of cases, basic entity graph navigation is convenient.

As I said, if you're working in an object-based language, by definition you need something that maps relations to objects. Hibernate is a competent choice. There are other competent choices, but JDBC is not one of them unless your app is trivial.
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So, I am not a software engineer but I do like some Excel, PowerQuery and VBA.

Seeing all the amazing work that Claude can do, I spent the last 5 days (until 8:30am) building a web app pretty much only with Claude, Vercel, Visual Studio, NeonDB (marketplace).

I know this is a simple app and I know I have not "hardened" this, but I cannot tell you how empowering this was and how much more I want to build.
Many non-SQL DBs had query languages that were broken Javascript-ish versions of SQL. Of course, this is wrong, and people will eventually adopt SQL instead. But if your data model isn't anything like relational DBs, non-SQL makes a ton of sense. OP seems to miss exactly this, that the Redis query language is shaped on the Redis data model, that is basically alien to the relational model.

The idea behind Redis data model is that "describe data" then "query those data in random ways" is conceptually nice but practically will not model very well many use cases. SQL databases plagued tech with performance issues for decades because of that. So Redis says instead: you need to put your data thinking about fundamental things like data structures and access times and the way you'll need those data back. And the API reflects this.

You don't have to automatically agree with that. But you have to understand that, then provide your "I'm against" arguments. Especially if you are in front of young people listening to you.
Show HN: Tiny Memory Game That Is Not So Easy to Beat
My wife did a tiny memory game, and I love it so much that I wanted to share it with you. It isn't easy. My best try was to finish it in 34 moves so far. Maybe you will be better?

Anyways, Happy New Year.
I think there's a definite itch to scratch with this kind of stuff and you can see hobbyists already tinkering on the edges with things like home assistant and the homelabs community.

As much as there are market drivers to make the cloud attractive to businesses and legitimate reasons why cloud solutions are better than alternatives there is a real desire in a growing number of people to have a solution that they can tinker with but that also has a polished UI so they don't have to tinker with it when they don't want to.
Trying to “hack” exercise is like trying to find that one neat trick to live on $10k a year, even if you win you lose, you’ve missed the point.
No, they don't, since the weather is chaotic.

I mean, there are the theorems about how close you can get, and models are not better than theoretically possible.
Centralized platforms are for algorithms, the Fediverse is for humans
Deliberately chosen for the nostalgia value :)
Why does storing 2FA codes in your password manager make sense?
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