skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it interesting that a Charlemagne Franc at 3.75g is roughly equal to a Venetian Ducat and to a Florin at 3.5g.

In the Middle East and much of Africa, a gold Dinar or Mithqal was 4.25g. In other words, the gold units for Europe, Africa, and the ME were roughly equal.

Meanwhile in South Asia, the Tola was 11.6g or one third of a franc. While in East Asia, the Chinese Tael was 37.5g or ten times the franc.
Nah Mandela Effect: the article you read / source you read said 10% were solved, not that 10% were investigated.

To wit:

Title: Big Rise In US Car Thefts
Date: January 24th, 2024
Link: https://www.newsweek.com/car-theft-rise-fbi-council-criminal...

"The "clearance rate" or rate of solving car thefts, has dropped from 26 percent in 1964 to 9 percent in 2022.

In comparison, the 2022 clearance rate was 12 percent for larceny and 13 percent for burglary. The homicide clearance rate in 2022 was about 50 percent."
Yes, Apple does a lot of feature-related marketing these days, which changes their naming priorities.

I remember reading it was a post-Jobs transition thing, where the key message about products transitioned away from vibes and overarching slogans ("shuffle", "the internet comuter"), to features ("iPhone X", "iPhone XS", "iPhone XR", "iPhone XS Pro (??)").

I'm sure that a lot of the old-guard exec team knows it's a loss... I'm sure how they feel about it or why.
Generally done for large deal sizes. there can be 100 vendors but when you spend 50 mil+/year on a vendor the strategy matters.
This whole thread is a tire fire poor logic and critical thinking.

That said, I have seen some absolutely horrendous responses to emergencies go from kinda bad to massive destruction of property, so much so that unless one has trained for the specific emergency, the best course of action is to assess way more than you think you need. And we often have more time than we think, and we make the the right decisions, they are the right decisions because they give us more time.
Trump is the best salesman in history.

I don't mean it as a compliment. But it is a fact.
19th Century Scientists Predicted Global Warming
The money printing in response to COVID followed by the the infrastructure bill were at a scale not seen before and shouldn't be so easily dismissed in reference to previous deficit spending.
I prefer it because I read by scrolling down one line at a time. This means that when I want to go back and read the previous couple of lines, I have to scroll up. This shows a big stupid menu of unknown size and behaviour on top of the text I'm trying to re-read.

The biggest problem for me is the randomness between different sites. It's not a problem for Firefox to display a header when I scroll up, since I can predict its behaviour. My muscle memory adapts by scrolling up and then down again without conscious thought. It's a much bigger problem if every site shows its header slightly differently.

I think the key thing is that when I scroll up, 95% of the time I want to see the text up the page, and at most maaaaaaaybe 5% of the time I want to open the menu. This is especially true if I got to your website via a search engine. I don't give a damn what's hidden in your menu bar unless it's the checkout button for my shopping cart, and even then I'd prefer you use a footer for that.
Yes, it's still an active laboratory, currently owned by University of Arizona.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2

However, it hasn't been operated as a long-duration closed-cycle ecosystem since 1994. It's surprising to me that lots of people talk about bases on the Moon and Mars, but basic fundamentals like this are neglected.
He just lost a teammate. That kind of loss hits hard, no matter someone's salary or position.

The pace of AI progress is genuinely unsettling for many people in every profession right now. I’m thankful that engineers at frontier labs are being transparent.
Why can't I create an ad hoc 4/5g network between phones?

Genuine question.

It looks so closed and complex compared to more traditional comms like wifi or even ethernet.
I agree. I think we believe that Apple's days of long-term skunkworks development is over... I don't think it's as dramatic as, say, the years since the PA Semi acquisition, or the "secret" Intel port, but they do some long-term planning.

(Apple Originals, their production house, is also an example. A huge bank of original prestige TV, subsidized by iPhones... they're just still finding a way to market it.)
I hope so too! Jouni is still active and recruiting maintainers here: https://simpsonsarchive.com/about.html
A few applications I could think of:

- Testing of various kinds. You can get deep inside an OSS base station, inspect and debug things, but likely may not even look at the proprietary innards of a commercial BS.

- Emergency connectivity when the backbone is broken, or did not exist. Most people would bring mobile phones anyway.

- Study / teaching, like MINIX OS or trainer aircraft which you can take apart and inspect.

- Maybe very small local cells to improve connectivity in difficult landscapes (mountains, skyscrapers, underground).
ouch, i didn't even know about that
Apart from the environmental externalities, the problem with induced demand and cars is that cars take up too much physical space on the road for the number of people they tend to carry, so induced demand in any reasonably populated area (like a city) will always produce excessive congestion, and you can basically never build enough lanes to fix that (especially because intersections are often a bigger problem).

Whereas with more space-efficient transit, like trains, trams (streetcars) and buses, you can often increase capacity on existing lines or build more capacity for reasonable cost and space, so induced demand isn't as much a problem.
> likened to a horizontal elevator, you step in through some doors, doors close, stuff happens, doors open, you step back out later and you're somewhere else.

I like this analogy.

> it doesn't just turn up periodically like an elevator

Aren't elevators summoned by a button and then have their destination set by different button? That seems very similar to tapping in an app to "come get me" and tapping again to "take me there".
Complex: yes

Proprietary, Closed Standards: no

Here are all the 3GPP 4G/5G standards that govern cellular phone networks:

https://www.3gpp.org/specifications-technologies

Also look under the "Specifications" drop down menu at the top of the page. Every release is listed.

These standards being freely available is why SRS were able to write srsRAN. There is nothing stopping others from doing so either, apart from the amount of information that has to be understood and digested.

Edit: Apart from complexity the other potential barrier is patents, but that's not a technical barrier.
You are very welcome! It makes me so happy to hear that I could add a little to your day. Frontpage was my first IDE as well!
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>Patent unencumbered in a way that someone could make a commercially viable implementation.

Doesn't this exclude all modern cellular standards then?
Actually if you want to find the origin of bell bottoms, according to a museum exhibit on men's clothing I saw, it was the sans coulottes in the 1700s. They protested the aristocrats, who wore high-legged pants, and eventually led to the French revolution and the association of bell bottoms with revolutionary/countercultural things.
I'd love to hear more about how you're using cursor for testing especially e2e tests for frontend applications.

In my experience since cursor doesn't know how a frontend app looks like nor can it run a browser, the tests it writes are often inane.

Can you tell me what testing stack do you use, and how do you approach the process of writing large tests for mature codebases with cursor?
HN, being a gathering place of the engineers and types who actually do the work for systems like this, is heavily targetted for manipulation and influence by nation state and above actors to prevent too much truth in the narrative, which must be controlled from their perspective.

In this pursuit, consensus cracking is the most effective method based on how much it is the method used. (others are often at play, such as manual forum sliding)
I guess depth is going to make a big difference too. I've eaten at an underwater restaurant[0] before that was shallow enough that it was bright and sunny (while still being very much underwater), and I could see that working well.

0: https://www.conradmaldives.com/dine/ithaa-undersea-restauran...
Hey dang, nice to see you on my post. Thanks for making HN the best moderated community!
That’s mental illness, doesn’t mean being a well paid AI researcher is equivalent to fighting in WW2, sorry.
I'm skeptical on the claim. I think most folks, given the test you describe, would be able to pick out which is human. I think it can get there, but I'm not sure anyone has made one yet. ChatGPT responses are heavily downvoted and mocked because they're easy to spot.

Does there exist a public LLM that isn't so...wordy, excited, and guardrailed all the time?

You can pretty much spot the bot today by prompting something horribly offensive. Their response is always very inhuman, probably due to lack of emotional energy.
Very good point regarding international flights.

Of course, I'm making the assumption that the pilots somehow had to attempt a "a very fast landing, with no gear or flaps, spoilers". The core of the issue is probably there, hopefully the investigation will yield useful results.

But what I am fundamentally questioning is whether the pilots would have attempted that landing if they had been expecting a piece of reinforced concrete at the end of the runway.

To say it differently, it's not the existence of deadly obstacles near an airport that bothers me (after all, some runways are quite literally in the middle of cities), but the fact that the pilots could have reasonably not know about them. That, for me, is a pretty big issue.

There were plenty of concrete structures nearby when US Airways Flight 1549 ditched into the Hudson river: notice the pilot aimed for a path where there weren't any. Maybe that Jeju air pilot could have attempted something similar. Maybe not. But the absurd nature of that deadly piece of reinforced concrete probably didn't help making a good decision.
That sentiment is ethically sound and logically robust and directionally consistent with any uniform application of the law as written.

But there is a group of people, growing daily in influence, who utterly reject such principles as either worthy or useful. This group of people is defined by the ego necessary to conclude that when the stakes are this high, the decisions should be made by them, that the ends justify the means on arbitrary antisocial behavior (c.f. the behavior of their scrapers) as long as this quasi-religious orgasm of singularity is steered by the firm hand that is willing and able to see it through.

That doesn’t distress me: L Ron Hubbard has that.

It distresses me that HN as a community refuses to stand up to these people.
It would feel a bit more honest if you quoted the very next line:

> Of course, this is not to equate participation in AI research with physical combat in a ‘literal war’.
Looks like a bug - that card has an overlay at a higher z-index that obscures its mouseover and clicks. In the source the (i) links to Turing's original "Imitation Game" paper, and the (?) has this hover text:

> (?) While the Turing Test remains philosophically significant, modern LLMs can consistently pass it, making it no longer effective at measuring the frontier of AI capabilities.
Sometimes when you work less rigidly as a team, covering for others when it’s convenient for you, everyone gets more things done with less stress and less trouble.

And you go home at 5pm and had a good work day.
Honestly, after that, I'm tuned out completely on him and ARC-AGI. Nice minor sidestory at one point in time.

He's right that this isn't solving all human-intelligence domain level problems.

But the whole stunt, this whole time, was that this was the ARC-AGI benchmark.

The conceit was the fact LLMs couldn't do well on it proved they weren't intelligent. And real researchers would step up to bench well on that, avoiding the ideological tarpit of LLMs, which could never be intelligent.

It's fine to turn around and say "My AGI benchmark says little about intelligence", but, the level of conversation is decidedly more that of punters at the local stables than rigorous analysis.
I thought the title meant that a chatbot gave bad medical, engineering, and/or safety-critical advice that a human ended up following.
Excellent point, I'm not sure people are aware, but these are straight-up lifted from standard IQ tests, so they're definitely not all trivially humanly solvable.

I needed an official one for medical reasons a few years back
HN is social media. An easy place to get a pulse on "what's new". Don't spend too much time here for anything meaningful.

Get your breadth on HN. Get out of here for depth.
No, Apple’s privacy stance is about giving users control over data in ways they understand. Posting on Reddit or Arxiv is not a blank check to have your words be reused for LLM training, even if it’s technically public.
https://archive.is/kQYp4
I'm really surprised that it's not set on a federal level yet.

I was working with background checks in the US and it was a rule for a while that every rejection has to go through a real person
You're likely too young to remember the religious language wars, but I expect you'll see some of that here.

The prosaic answer is that there are hundreds of languages to choose from. In most cases we choose the one we know because that gets the task done quicker.

In other cases the language is chosen for you; because existing code, or platform limitations or embedded or whatever.

There are lots of things to like about C - but it's slow to write because it's so low-level. Even dealing with strings is painful.

On the other hand it is low-level, so it's fast, and small. In some cases that is important.

Which is all to say that "context matters" and the context matters much (much) more than persons choice. We have lots of languages precisely because we have so many contexts.
> BUT... this is all contingent on having fast-running automated tests that can reproduce your bugs. But you should have that anyway.

Ideally, yes. But for many bugs, getting to a reproduction is already more than half the battle. And a debugger can help you with that.
Early (2003 for sure) 350z had it as well.
Even if the training data is discoverable, there's be no way to provide any assurance on what the training result ended up as.
Chasm: A simple and fast runtime x86_64 assembler library
Here you go:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41683969

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23483715

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041
It’s been this way for at least 2 years.

I suspect that WSJ held back such topics until after the election…

The people I know that lose their job spend at least 1 year looking for a job. Usually at a significantly lower salary. With the current rate of inflation it’s a 1-2 punch that requires a big step down in lifestyle.

I don’t really see these conditions changing until there is a AI bubble pop or something. Facebook is no longer trying to poach FANG general SWE’s so there is no more pricing pressure in the market. Their recruiting departments have gone dark and their staff was eliminated.
Aren't you just describing those emails in a big corp that are supposedly still written by humans? Yes, they are wordy, excited, and guardrailed, but I don't think they are written by AI yet.

I guess this is why LLMs are so feared by high school English teachers. Yes, they don't write well, but neither do their students.
We literally just saw a case[0] where an application (iterm2) mistakenly left verbose logging on in a component of a production build and logged sensitive console contents to connected hosts.

Are you diligent enough to remove your sensitive logging/printf statements EVERY time, for the rest of your career? Or should you make a habit of doing things properly from day one?

0 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42579472
https://rxjourney.com.ng
How can what you're saying be true if Elon Musk says we need more H1Bs because there is a labor shortage?
Thanks so much for sharing your perspective—it’s incredibly valuable to hear from an experienced freelancer! It sounds like simplicity and low friction are your key priorities, and it’s great to hear how you’ve streamlined your invoicing over the years.

Out of curiosity, if there were an invoicing platform designed to be as effortless as a spreadsheet but with added features like automatic payment reminders, integrated time tracking, or transparent expense tracking for clients, would that spark your interest? Or are there specific pain points you’ve encountered (even minor ones) that you think invoicing tools haven’t addressed well?
Sorry for wrong thread; 38c3 kept me too busy to catch the reply window for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42490859 :

actually, that was the point of my comment a few parent generations up from linked: by hanging the train under the rail, you get perfect banking for basically free. Fair, entry and exit of turns has to be handled smoothly, but you get passive pendulum-based perfect bank angle at any speed from 0 to the maximum allowed for that radius.
And while it's certainly not cheap to be forced to build the track as "technically a bridge", the lack of serious span makes the cost not actually that bad relative to train track in locations where the curve radius and speeds tend to actually be used (valleys narrow enough to need quite tight radii, as well as near existing infrastructure: if you're already bridging, it's easy to design the pillar point foundations to not conflict with existing usage).

Oh, and about the coffee you mentioned: just like bus and subway, (open) drinks and food are not allowed anyways. In any case, the only substantial forces would be increased gravity, and whatever traction limited acceleration along the direction of travel (this would be with deliberate jerk minimization, though, as people would otherwise loose their footing, where the currently active limits for subways come from).
In axiomatic safe Rust -- Rust code that doesn't deal with raw pointers -- you won't run into issues like null reference issues unexpectedly because code that can fail will return a type encapsulating the result (ie: Result or Option) that has to have the failure case either explicitly handled, or explicitly discarded with an ".unwrap()"/".expect()" call.

You still have to deal with errors in logic, but it's quite nice to not have to deal with all the other headaches.
According to the White House, food inflation over the past year was just 0.3%, as that's the number they used to adjust SNAP (food stamp) benefits. Wonder how many low income votes that cost to keep rosy numbers in the press.
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The choice of keeping the craft intact is much more likely likely to lead to a safer outcome, isn't it?
No, the other option is to store your stuff in airtight jars.

Though frankly, we just leave big bags of rice out, open, in a kitchen in California, and weevils have never infested it.
I hadn’t realised this had resurfaced after snpp.com went down! Pleased to see I’m still listed as a contributor to the computer list - https://www.simpsonsarchive.com/guides/computers.file.html
I'm banned from eBay since about 2010. Sold a cellphone which my sister shipped without requiring signature, guy just said he never received it.

My sister was working at a Telco so we just confirmed that he had actually received it because he put a SIM card into it, proof and everything eBay didn't care.

I withdrew the money from my PayPal account before they could claw it back. PayPal still works for me but eBay is amazingly impressive at immediately banning any new account I tried created since then.
The LTE protocol is asymmetric between towers (eNodeB) and phones (UE).

You could build srsRAN and run a local eNodeB instance to form a local LTE network. Given that it has a radio that operates in the LTE bands, in theory you might be able to build srsRAN for a phone and run the necessary base station software (eNodeB and EPC) on a phone to form an "ad hoc" network. It wouldn't be truly ad hoc in that the network would still have a base station, just that it would be running on phone hardware. srsRAN wouldn't be running as an application, but would be replacing the firmware in the phone's LTE modem.

Edit:

Here is a paper by someone who has built an ad hoc LTE network.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.09262

It does exactly the above: using srsRAN (which used to be called srsLTE) to run local base station software (eNodeB+EPC) to get around the asymmetry in the LTE protocol.
Why does this need AI? Isn't this just dividing by two, which you can easily do in your head?

(I get that not everybody bothers doing vaguely complex mental arithmetic, but dividing by two? Come on!)
See: Health Insurance Industry lobby
How would you square this with AA being equal and sometimes superior in outcomes to conventual therapy?
Americans surely do love to make things illegal.
That's fine, when and where that's legal.

Eg even the US has no laws against insider trading in commodities. Similarly, French insider trading laws work on rather different principles than US ones. So it's hard to attach much moral significance to the legal accident of insider trading laws in one place and one time.

(And arguably, laws banning insider trading are bad for the general public, because to the extent they are respected and enforced, they keep information out of market prices.)
I am not talking about the individual consumers, but rather that even glass that ends up in a recycling stream usually doesn't get recycled unless customers do all the pre-sorting work.

https://cen.acs.org/materials/inorganic-chemistry/glass-recy...
https://archive.is/NKob0
Get those beans dry and you'll have $ for salsa :D
There's a lack of dirt cheap highly educated labor.

It dovetails nicely into their desire to slash education for Americans

Once we deport all the "illegal" immigrants, the MAGA folk can pick fruit in Florida while the H1B's work at Amazon for pennies on the dollar I suppose
> If this OS were shipped to consumers, you would have a nearly unhackable system that would make it basically impossible to tinker with.

I mean you can hack it the same way you would hack any other Darwin platform
Rice and beans are cheap enough. Around here, fresh fruit and veg tend to be pretty expensive though. It's not hard to find pork shoulder or turkey that's cheaper than many varieties of apples, or roughly on par with bell peppers and tomatoes, as an example.

Beef and chicken always tend to be more expensive, of course, but you'll be pretty sad if you like food and stick to only things that are "cheaper than meat".
In theory, one could get a copy of the AI and run tests on it, proving or disproving a claimed bias.

That said, I'm happy with the new law.