skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The web designers and developers are at the very least complicit. They are ultimately the ones typing in the code and hitting submit, so they at least must share the blame.
Mainly because they ousted Lassiter for being to critical of the crap that was being put in front of him. They framed it in other ways publically, but I'm pretty sure he was getting in the way of others taking the company in a direction that didn't prioritize quality.
low information article, perhaps one or two sentences that address that "why", a poorly framed milquetoast word salad basically ascribing it to risk posture.

it's not risk posture, and it's not muskly engineering genius either. it is culture.

i'm not sure space-x is 100% healthy, but they're clearly getting things done. what is crystal clear is that nasa culture, and that of it's major contractors like boeing, is terminally ill.

you need good engineers, not mediocre bureaucrats, and you need to pay market salaries and have an acceptable work culture to hire and retain those engineers long enough to become experienced.
Very first thing you can tell us (or try if you haven't) is that if you re-prompt, does it give the same answer? Second can you get it to generate (consistently and repeatedly) the text that gp pointed out?

Don't need to switch to a different repo for quick test, just make it reproable on your current repo.
What can you expect from a company that had a product named "Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate UPGRADE Limited Numbered Signature Edition"? Not to mention that they can't count correctly (Windows and Xbox numbering).

https://www.neowin.net/news/longest-product-name-ever-mwvuul...
I see pretty much the opposite.

There will be strong selection for expansionist cultures and species. As long as the universe is mostly unoccupied, expansion means increasing your share of the total population. Relatively static cultures will simply become irrelevant compared to their expansionist competitors. The experience on Earth recently is in the context of a world where all places that can be occupied (at the current tech level) have been.

The selection effect will operate at the biological level as well. Currently on Earth birth rates are declining. Modern civilization is acting like a kind of pesticide. But like any pesticide, it's going to select for resistance. This will likely mean more people will have an increased desire to have children. Selecting for this may take a while, but on the time scales involved in this thread it would happen very quickly.

In the long term, all societies in which selection is allowed to operate will push up against limits and be in states of Malthusian equilibrium. To counter this would require an unreasonable uniformity of control across time and space. All ET species, at all points in their history once they can undertake colonization, will have to exert rigid control on their societies and biology. Any defections from this uniformity will explode exponentially and overwhelm those who are not controlled.

Metallicity is not a good argument, since there are zones, even in our own galaxy, with higher metallicity. Closer in to the center, for example. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-01977-z
My immediate thought when I read the title of this thread was, "What? The US Navy invented bell-bottomed jeans." But I see it is just the headline here on HN that gets it wrong. The actual article pointed to credits her with the origin of the 1960-70's popular craze, not the invention.
Why would you do that? They could have shared a link if they wanted, they didn't.
Recently I've started appending "in the style of Edgar Allen Poe" to my prompts when I'm discussing code architecture.

It's really quite interesting how the LLM comes up with ways to discuss about code :)
It’s early days on this, so let me ask again what I have asked previously: What does timescape do to estimates of the age of the universe?
If Jonny startup has been building release prioritised systems all his life/career, there's a decent chance he doesn't even know what more goes into systems with higher release & maintenance standards.

Conversely, if Terrence has only ever worked in high rigour environments, he's unlikely to understand Jonny's perspective when Jonny says that code generation tools are doing amazing "reliable" things.

Again, this isn't meant to be a value judgement against either Jonny or Terrence, more that they don't have shared context & understanding on what and how the other is building, and therefore are going to struggle to have a productive conversation about a magic blackbox that one thinks will take their job in 6 months.
Unfortunately it seems they have discontinued all their smaller models than this... Likely because nobody is buying them. I haven't seen a dot Matrix printer in person for over a decade.

On the other hand their smaller units are still in support till 2027
This reference is right on the tip of my tongue, but I can't quite place it.
New LLM jailbreak uses models' evaluation skills against them
I've taken this approach as well. The WireGuard clients can be configured to make this basically transparent based on what SSID I'm connected to. I used to do similar with IPSec/IKEv2, but WireGuard is so much easier to manage.

The only thing missing on the client is Split DNS. With my IPSec/IKEv2 setup, I used a configuration profile created with Apple Configurator plus some manual modifications to make DNS requests for my internal stuff go through the tunnel and DNS requests for everything else go to the normal DNS server.

My compromise for WireGuard is that all DNS does to my home network but only packets destined for my home subnets go through the tunnel.
Mixing Languages
I'm thinking about training next! But deepseek is so good already
You guys are naive. Sure, it's possible, but most people don't do this, don't want to do this and will not do this. And of those that DO some of these things, a large subset probably does it in a ineffective way that OP so nicely illustrated in the phone/1 extra km by car example.

No, the solution must be technical while people are allowed to maintain most of the comfort they are used to. Anything else and you will simply not be able to convince people to do so even if that means burning the world down.
IMO browsers are broadly dropping the ball and failing to be "the user's agent." Instead they are the agents of web developers, giving them the powers that users should have.

If browsers catered to their user's desires more than they cater to developers, the web wouldn't be so shitty.
The system is designed with multiple layers of privacy and security:
- IP Hashing:
One-way SHA-256 hashing with environmental salt ; Original IPs are never stored, only hashes ; Even with server access, original IPs can't be recovered; Server memory only processes hashes, never stores raw IPs
- Per-Category Anonymity: Different poster IDs per category using separate salts ; Double-hashing mechanism: first for global ID, then for category-specific ID ; Cross-category correlation is mathematically impossible ; Each context generates a unique, unrelated identifier
- Technical Assistance Compliance: I can provide hashed data and salting mechanisms; I can track specific hashed IPs if required; I can ban users without knowing their real IPs; But I technically cannot reverse the hashes to original IPs

The system balances legal compliance with user privacy - I can assist investigations through hash matching while maintaining technical inability to reverse-identify users.
This is not about avoiding compliance, it's about responsible data minimization. The architecture ensures I can't provide what I don't have, while still maintaining effective moderation capabilities.
> - Missing feature; do not connect when on certain SSIDs.

I'm very surprised by this omission as this feature exists on the official iOS client.
Automation is a shitty deal for the workforce because in every case those who are not made redundant are expected to create more work product for the same wage.

The introduction of Photoshop generative fill, Office 365 Co-pilot, etc means that my team will only hire one marketing grad instead of the usual three-four this year, and the one will be responsible for the same amount of work product as last year if they don’t die from the panic attacks.

In February, the excess profits go to the owners by way of a stock buyback and the 3-4 designers we didn’t hire are free to work at a coffee shop.

I’ve not experienced a single case where automation has enabled the workforce to have more leisure time, or more technically, where efficiency gains have accrued to labor rather than capital.
Hi guys. This is for the Romanian learners out there, people who want to learn more about the country and culture through its unique language.

I noticed that there is not much, if any resource online for learning Romanian, certainly our government does not invest much effort or money towards education, so I decided to create a resource myself.

This is only a prototype product with one purpose: To engage whether the public is interested in learning the Romanian language. If enough interest is generated I will continue on building the best Romanian Language and Culture Learning App the World has ever seen! Or I'll try it at least, ha-ha!

You can leave a feedback here, through the app, via LinkedIn or email. Be nice! I am human too, you know? And I want to do something.

Thank you very much for taking your time reading this or/and trying the app. Here is the link:

Apologies if this is not traditionally the place for posting stuff like this!
ebay is still useful for obscure stuff. if you want to buy used servers, GPU, electronics, car parts, etc. I don't think ebay and FB MP really overlapped, MP ate craigslist. The closest thing to eating ebay is Aliexpress.
they are designed to elucidate the author's thought process - not the reader's learning process

No, it’s exactly the opposite: when I write papers I follow a rigid template of what a reader (reviewer) expects to see. Abstract, intro, prior/related work, main claim or result, experiments supporting the claim, conclusion, citations. There’s no room or expectation to explain any of the thought process that led to the claim or discovery.

Vast majority of papers follow this template.
Why doesn't everyone already do that if it's so simple?
what do you think about:

- openai meta prompt[1] or

- anthropic prompt generator[2] or

- deepseek model prompt word generation[3]?

you don't see these as user-friendly enough to consider prompt engineering tools? I mean, I feel like they're way more than just guidelines. Seems like they're a step beyond.

[1]: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-generation#me...

[2]: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-...

[3]: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/prompt-library - go to 模型提示词生成 card
Because 1) I work on an open source project as part of my employment, not for free on the side and 2) If there was no cla, most likely the source would not be open as the project wouldn't want external contributions. That's strictly worse. Also, the types of contributions that the project would ideally see are mostly from other companies, not people working in their free time, so the cla doesn't really discourage contribution.
Energy is like, totally free in Germany. How great things must be for their industry.
Poor people behave the same way all over the world.
This hit me hard this year. I'd looked at a lot of Reddit opinions about politics and assumed they were only a normal level of insanely biased, like MSNBC or Fox News. Turns out the average Redditor, even in fairly conservative subs, is vastly more left wing than the population average as seen in the recent elections. Even the Texas subreddit had "vote for Kamala" and "vote blue no matter who" posts that were highly upvoted before the election. Reddit's moderators are the thought police and absolutely nothing there besides perhaps Taylor Swift discourse is reflective of average Jane's opinion.
> But it simply would not exist to the same scale or utility if that was the only model that was funding it.

Citation needed. Are you saying that if there were a billion YT premium subscribers, YT would still need ads for its scale? I doubt it.
Unfortunately the deeply irresponsible immigration policy also hasn't helped.
California lost people from emigration (migrating within the country) but gained slightly more from immigration.
You need to be more specific
I really don’t care for this insinuation.

I recently created a new YouTube account, and for the first few months, YT couldn’t work out if I was a Nazi or a Communist. I’m neither.

You should not just assume that users are only shown ideas they already believe in. Because, that is obviously not true.
If the world was a nightclub, the tech industry would be a creepy guy who goes up to everyone and says "You're now dating me. [Accept or Try Again Later]"
It seems clear from this definition especially:

> (A) to “circumvent a technological measure” means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner

In this case there is no copyright owner.
Not the exact text, but still decent quality. I'll play around with temperature and prompts a bit.
a cloud based AI having access to a document like a W2 pdf on my computer worries me. It has details like social security number, how much you earned, etc.
Instant Graphics and Sound
I saw Costco has shopping bags made from recycled ocean plastic. That's one way to address the problem, even if it is much more expensive than using virgin plastic.
I'll do it personally in the beginning but was thinking about doing it on scale
pretty cool; that frida tool seems really nice. https://frida.re/docs/home/

(and a bunch of people seem to be interested in the "IP" note, but I took as, just trying to not get run into legal trouble for advertising "here's how you can 'steal' models!")
> Furthermore, the article is so bereft of detail and gushes so profusely about the success and virtues of their newly minted "senior level" AI that I can't help but wonder if they're selling something...

With all the money in the AI space these days, my prior probability for an article extolling the virtues of AI actually trying to sell something is rather high.

I just want a few good unbiased academic studies on the effects of various AI systems on things like delivery time (like are AI systems preventing IT projects from going overtime on a fat-tailed distribution? is it possible with AI to put end to the chapter of software engineering projects going disastrously overtime/overbudget?)
As a person that hires tower service companies, I seriously would not recommend it as an entry level employee... The pay is horrible, the benefits suck, you'll be travelling 75%+ of the time. The bar to entry is very low if you're physically fit. If you don't have any DUIs and can pass a drug screen you are already ahead of many candidates. Most of the recruiting takes placein social media these days, for instance there's probably 20 or so tower climber related groups on Facebook.

One of the reasons for the extensive use of social media is that to put it as politely as possible, the talent pool they're recruiting from are not highly educated, often don't own laptops or any device other than their phone. Many cannot put together a grammatically correct cover letter or CV. There is a very high turn over rate in people with less than 2 years experience. You will be working with (and sharing the cheapest possible motel rooms with) some very crude and uneducated individuals, with whom you might have nothing in common. All that for a rate of pay about the same as Dicks Burgers pays in Seattle to literally flip a burger, and Dicks has much better benefits.

The majority of the work will be mundane cellular tower and monopole stuff, unless you are hired by one of the more rare and specialized broadcast industry tower companies. The tower erection specialists are also a whole different ball game from the cellular industry contractors and subs.

The industry in general is a frustrating race to the bottom in subcontractors, turf vendors, subs of subs, unpaid invoices, and similar. It's very much like getting into any other hard labor construction job like roofing.

For the person in the thread here that said drones can only fly to 400 ft, not quite, the faa has specifically addressed this.

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https://pilotinstitute.com/drone-altitute/

The relevant rules under Part 107 are summarized within Section 107.51. This section is entitled “Operating limitations for small unmanned aircraft” and contains a set of limits associated with speed, altitude, and visibility. Pertaining to altitude, item B of the Section states that:

“The altitude of the small unmanned aircraft cannot be higher than 400 feet above ground level unless the small unmanned aircraft is (1) flown within a 400-foot radius of a structure, and (2) does not fly higher than 400 feet above the structure’s immediate uppermost limit.”
Explore vs. Execute
Show HN: NiftiView – View your MRI (+convert to GIF)
The NiftiView App allows you to view your medical scan (often handed out as a CD) and to export it as a PNG or GIF.

NiftiView can be downloaded as an .exe file (or .bin for Linux) despite being written in Python (using NumPy and Pillow)! These standalone executables are compiled via GitHub Actions!
I get SSL handshake error from cloudflare when I try to visit that URL.
Sharing Data in Rust
Intermittent fasting impacts hair growth, says new study
> here could be empty regions of space in which billions of years more have elapsed than in e.g. a galaxy.

important to note that the motivation for releasing the cosmological principle, is that we know that there are "small" voids and that there is strong evidence of much larger voids and structure on the scale of tens of billions of light years that is incompatible with the cosmological principle, so it's not just a thing to do on a whim, it's supported by observation.
Where i am, every package repo - docker, pypi, rpm, deb, npm, and more - all go through artifactory and are scanned. Packages are autopulled into artifactory when a user requests the package and scanned by xray. Artifactory has a remote pull through process that downloads once from the remote, and then never again unless you nuke the content. Vulnerable packages must have exceptions made in order to get used. Sadly, we put the burden of allowances on the person requesting the package, but it at least makes them stop and think before they approve it. Granting access to new external repos is easy, and we make requesting them painfree, just making sure that we enable xray. Artifactory also supports local repos so users can upload their packages and pull them down later.
> no paid sponsorships, no ads, no algorythm manipulations, no collection of behavioral information, no clickbaits, no shitty content promoted

There are plenty of channels that do none of these. As for "algorythm manipulations", YT recommends more of what you like or subscribed to. Not sure what you expect a content aggregator and provider to do. Just have a search bar? I've come across so many interesting channels thanks to the "algorythm manipulations".
There's a reason why a lot of the Costco receipt checkers wear nitrile gloves now.
Yeah, it is hard.

The principal you need to work to is that you need to create evidence that other people will find compelling and then show that you have interrogated your results to show that you have checked that it's really working better than chance and not the result of some fluke or other. Finally you need to find a way to explain what's happening - like an actual mechanism.

1. Find or make a data set - I've been using code_search_net to try and study the ability of LLM's to document code, specifically the impact optimising n-shot learning on them*, this may not be close enough to your application, but you need many examples to draw conclusions. It's likely that you will have to do some statistics to demonstrate the effects of your innovations so you probably need around 100 examples.

2. Results from one model may not be informative enough, it might be useful/necessary to compare several different models to see if the effect you are finding is consistent or whether some special feature of a model is what is required. For example, does this effect work with only the largest and most sophisticated modern models, or is this something that can be seen to a greater or lesser effect with a variety of models?

3) You need to ablate - what is it in the setup that is most impactful? What happens if we change a word or add a word to the prompt? Does this work on long code snippits? Does it work on code with many functions? Does it work on code from particular languages?

4) You need a quantitative measure of performance. I am a liberal sort , but I will not be convinced by an assertion that "it worked better than before" or "this review is like an senior, I think". There needs to be a number that someone like me can't argue with - or at least, can argue with but can't dismiss.

*I couldn't make it work, I think because the search space for finding good prompting shots (sample function)is vast and the output space (possible documents) is vast. Many bothans died in order to bring you this very very very (in hindsight with about $200 of OpenAI spending) obvious result. Having said that I am not confident that it couldn't be made to work at this point so I haven't written it up and won't make any sort of definitive claim. Mainly I wonder if there is a heuristic that I could use to choose examples a-priori instead of trying them at random. I did try shorter examples and I did try more typical (size) examples. The other issue is that I am using sentence similarity as a measure of quality, but that isn't something I am confident of.
GRE Practice Test Series
They drive in downtown SF, downtown LA and soon Tokyo. I've been to all these cities and besides occasional snow, I don't see what's so special about NYC. Shibuya Crossing is even busier than Times Square.

What's the difference in your eyes that makes these things the absolute best drivers on the road in SF, but not competent to drive in NYC?
This is a reference to the story of the novel The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.
Thanx! Yeah, they should :) Would love to do this with CoreML on Apple devices, but my newest iPhone is a 7.

But if you subscribe, you may see me doing the same with a surveillance camera soon(isch) :)
I also think there's some exaggeration. Annotating files with a feature tag system is both manual and not scabale. Custom prompting for each commit or feature a lot more so. You do a decent bit of specialized work here.

And I think he left out the most important part, was the answer actually right? The real value of any good dev at all is that he can provide reasonably accurate analysis with logic and examples. "Could have an error" is more like a compiler warning than the output of a good engineer.

Side note: "broke the benchmark script?" If you have an automated way to qualitatively evaluate the output of an LLM in a reasonably broad context like code reading, that's far bigger a story.
Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature
I presume Google Mariner is using the digitized behavior of googlers searching for products, analytics from shopping websites (I would use it), even ad interactions (why not?). If it works, boom, lots of unproductive stale data turned into a potential product (if someone builds this, I want 5%).

The problem is: that data has a lot of users under the influence of dark patterns. People shopping in stupid ways, falling for tricks. They probably know this and improved search against some of these patterns in the past. But it's not perfect, right? Search isn't.

Large models fall for tricks all the time, you have to assume the other way around. They will fail, and you can reduce that failure rate, but never zero it.
it’s a greed problem. No automation will fix that.
Which airlines fly on time most often according to an aviation data provider