skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mechanism of access varies depending on the claim made. "the sun is engaged in nuclear fusion" could not have been meant in 100 BC. But "I have a pen in my hand" could have. Julius Caeser could have made those sounds but he could never have meant the meaning of those words.

... to mean "I have" requires an "I" to "have", and so on. So what parts of non-linguistic reality language refers to matter for evaluating whether the user means what they say. An actor is likewise pretending to mean, and a child may say something without knowing what it means (as in, eg., a claim about nuclear fusion).

If two children were immitating sounds to each other, such that one "said", "the sun is nuclear fusion" and so on -- then neither in this conversation are communicating, neither know what these words mean. No child involved could ever come up with these words in this worder, and mean their meaning, they can only have this conversation via immitation. This is the case with an LLM -- it's an imitation game wherein the game is to either fool the adult overheading the child, or to generate some userful material (depending whether you're the CEO or CTO).

The problem with a "predict the next word" training goal is that any patterns which emerge will only be coincidentally related to the non-linguistic reality words refer to -- because the machine isn't trained on reference: it is not participating in reality and associating words with it.

The kind of participation necessary for an agent to acquire the meaning of words has no universal answer, but it always "some". An LLM has none.

For a claim about a composer, an agent who means to make this claim (rather than a child who imitates the sounds of words) -- must be aware of what a composer is, and so on. They cannot mean this claim if they don't have access to the non-linguistic reality to which these words refer (or are unable, via imgiation, to simulate similar ways the world might be, such that it has composers, given their prior knowledge -- eg., they at least have to have some prior direct access to music, leading-groups-of-people, and the like).

We can slightly weaken all this but it'll make no difference for an LLM -- however weak we require access, to access the meaning of words requires accessing a non-lingusitic reality. Words mean non-ligustic things -- that is their point.
You already had this problem pre-UTF-8 in Windows: changing your default codepage could cause app fuckiness. So giving the user the option to use UTF-8 is reasonable. Making it the default is also reasonable given the problems that the Best-Fit mapping are causing, though Microsoft would have to do something to help users easily figure out how to run older code.

Another not-so-reasonable thing would be to drop all mappings to "special" ASCII characters from the Best-Fit mappings, though this wouldn't help apps linked statically with the CRT. Not so reasonable because it doesn't fix the vulnerabilities.

Sometimes security vulnerabilities motivate backwards-compatibility breakage.
That does sound truly awful. I already hate the noise of internal combustion cars and am looking forward to cars getting quieter.
Certain cities it's like a Rails desert. I'd love to get a job using it but it's slim pickings. It's either .NET or PHP and maybe some Python and maybe some Node most of the time for web dev.
Yes, but this internal hierarchy for an issued number doesn't tell anything beyond those facts about a specific edition of a specific text.

One can't use ISBNs alone to create a hierarchical listing of texts which is useful for anything beyond browsing by language/publisher/order in which the ISBN was generated.

A visual and interactive representation of books by LoC or some other cataloging system would actually be useful.
Is It a DSL or an API? (2007)
I think it's about megalomania. Walter White is entertaining but deplorable.
I made a simple game with LLMs to help me learn more about football
Finland was traditionally a very homogeneous society, and immigration before ~1990 was negligible. But then there was a burst of immigration from the former USSR and Somalia, followed by a gradual increase over the decades. And in 2023 (and likely in 2024), net immigration was >1% of the population and exceeded births.
> Batteries included.

this is the Python standard library motto
Just received this email as well. I purchased a lifetime membership during Black Friday a couple years back. They're quoting the following terms as justification:

> 14.2 Termination. If you violate any provision of these Terms, then your authorization to access the Service and these Terms automatically terminate. In addition, Pluralsight may, at its sole discretion, terminate these Terms or your account on the Service, or suspend or terminate your access to the Service, at any time for any reason or no reason, with or without notice, and without any liability to you arising from such termination. In the event there is no Subscription Service in effect, you may terminate your account and these Terms at any time by contacting customer service at support@pluralsight.com.

The email directs you to their chat for support and questions, which is currently offline (email went out 1 hour ago).
Korea has the problem even worse.
Definitely relevant and maybe inspirational, though I find "fight to death game show" format quite distinctive, so much so that it created its game genre 15 years later even with the same name as the movie.
Might be worth spending 30 minutes watching a video of what you can build with Rails in that amount of time instead of smugly dismissing it.

There’s a great example on the home page here: https://rubyonrails.org/
Not even sure which one I should try :) but yes tried both to no avail. Maybe it's just not something to achieve in the first try...
Kind of like a lot of people want to ban congressional stock trading, to serve some armchair philosopher's notion of what's 'fair'?
Yeah I wasn't going to post it if it was shared before. But I am happy that some are happy that it's reposted.
Akon (sob)
That is why I use Laravel btw
The two ceilings are different because I fought for them and insisted they be different and not associated with my style. Innovation comes from experimentation, and that needs to be respected. My husband and I invested our lives to reach this visual result, build the company, and create a product. We are immigrants in the first generation who started this company out of nothing. Do you know that banks do not loan money to companies with an artistic nature of business? Years of experimentation, searching for that simple combination of perfect lines, using credit cards, personal loans, remortgaging the house to buy machinery and materials? Why, after all that effort we put into our business, protecting my intellectual property in front of such a giant as Huawei is selfish?
Does this suggest permissions are a facade?
Be Aware of the Makefile Effect
That happened to me too but I persisted and eventually succeeded. I think I needed to cross my eyes slightly more than I was initially. I have been diagnosed with a minor eye convergence issue which makes it difficult to focus on near field objects in motion -- gaining this superpower was difficult but I did it without a headache thankfully.
Show HN: AIEasyPic – Generate AI Images. Simple and Easy
Hey everyone,

Finally "launching" my sideproject on HN, its something I've been working on for the last year. Its currently at ~$5k rev. per month

Yes I know it seems like a generic AI image generator, but its taken quite a bit of work from the initial POC of running this on 4x 4070ti super GPUs in my basement to now running a multitude of services, some in runpod servers, some serverless, some in falAI, and some still in my basement servers.

Instead of it being just some marketing blurb that no one gets much value out of, I'd love to answer any questions you might have regarding AI image generations, workflows if you're working on something in a similar niche or how you can get started with SEO as an indiehacker and things to avoid. After doing this for a year, I'd consider myself a bit of an expert in this area.
Is that three broadband providers serving the same address?? You guys are so lucky you don’t even know. In America we generally have a choice of one if you aren’t including Starlink or legacy slow satellite. And perhaps a joke of a 1-6Mbps DSL option in some parts.
Incredible! This technique is also used for the 3d visualization of protein structures, it was called "cross viewing": https://imgur.com/cross-views-are-commonly-used-to-view-prot...

You cross your eyes to get the two images to line up, hold it there and then try to adjust the focus of your eyes. It's a neat skill to have.
Changing How the World Does Business: FedEx's Incredible Journey to Success - The Inside Story by Roger Frock is an excellent story of creating a completely new way of doing logistics, and what it takes to start a network-based business that can only work if it launches on a large scale from day one.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/574979/changing-how-...
Reborn rich
I've used it before, but Next.js with TypeScript is much superior in many different ways.
> Disclaiming HTML as a programming language when it is actually powerful for programming comes across to me as a No True Scotsman argument about "real" programming languages being used to program only in some contexts or to make only some things as the program.

I mean it's just about the traditional intent, and still oft-used understanding, that web browsers are viewers for hypertext documents. But sure, feel free to call GCC a "C browser" and .c files "c documents"
wouldn't poeple just flag everything as their fav 5 and put high numbers of hours not actually spent on the application? unless the system can track all a candidates applications, this seems moot, and if it did track all that yuk no thank you, i don't need more tracking in my life to solve a problem we created artificially. Plus it is probably easy to game for anyone with a minimum of programming skills...
> this isn't even the best fingerprint extraction out there, just an eas to use open source one, there are some crazy advanced techniques not implemented in it

What IS the best tool? What other techniques do you know of that it doesn't it implement?

> you being logged in in different services that any website can check

how so?
IIRC, Stephen King's "The Running Man" and "The Long Walk" predate both Battle Royale and Hunger Games and deal with similar themes.
Just take a visit to Reddit's r/conservative. They may have elected this guy, but they are absolutely not on board with the billionaire class replacing us with machines.

I don't really know why they voted for him, but it wasn't for this.
It's worse than that. A hammer that shatters it's weak handle after normal use is a somewhat useful tool to the homebuilder. The hammer made out of painted cheese is only delaying construction of the house.
I will definitely check that out, thanks for the recommendation!
The problem is this is what people are being told is happening. I've talked to laypeople that think chatgpt is a superintelligent thing they get 100% truthful answers from. I saw a podcast last week from a PhD (in an unrelated field) claiming AGI will be here in 2027. As long as there are people out there claiming AI is everything, there will be people that look at whats available and say no, it's not actually that (yet).
> and you do not boycott any companies in any other countries conducting wars

Perfect is the enemy of the good. Feeding one hungry person is good. It doesn't make one a hypocrite if one doesn't feed them all. (The person yelling about the one doing good being a hypocrite, on the other hand, is less clearly uncontemptible.)

I’m not happy about Kagi integrating Yandex. But I’m not going to drop them over it. That’s a personal tradeoff I’m willing to make, though I readily admit it’s trading access to a great product for participating in something evil.
There is a wonderful stable diffusion prompt here.
I'd be fine with an EV as a second vehicle. I used a friend's leased Nissan Leaf for a couple of months and it was great for running errands around town. I work from home so I don't have a commute but I have a side gig that requires frequent plywood purchases which makes having an older small truck practical. For making runs to the grocery store, going to the park, or just going out to socialize, something like the Leaf would be nice. That said, the added cost (and environmental impact) of an addition vehicle doesn't seem like it would make the lower usage of my ICE truck worthwhile.
I agree. I tried to get it to work recently with datadog, but there was so many hiccups. I ended up having to use datadogs solution mostly. The documentation across everything is also kind of confusing
Painfully accurate.

Although I thought, based on the title, this was going to be a rant specifically against people who send email / LI messages that always end in "please select one of the following times and click here to schedule a call with us." Like it's some fait accompli that I will want to talk to you. ROFLMFAO. It almost makes me want to punch somebody in the throat at times.
There's also mechanical similarities to Fortnite and PUBG. Especially the variety of weapons and an ever-shrinking map.
Definitely true, and I know that its common for people who are terminally ill to feel the same.
You have understood the point correctly then.
You are the dumbest person in most of the rooms you enter. A judge will express this in more words and flair, but it will mean the same thing.
Link to the game https://marieflanagan.com/loserlane/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Dangerous_Game
Does Waymo run on JAX?
You are going to have requirements whether you like it or not. It doesn't matter if you discover them during requirements engineering and validate and deconflict them on a simple text document, or if you discover them as you go during coding (possibly after having coded the wrong thing), or if the client discovers them during the "sprint review" of some allegedly agile cult. The only difference is how much money and time are you willing to trade for being called "agile". Ironically the traditional way of doing a requirements stage is the less expensive of all three options. It is also the most aligned with the original agile spirit, since it converges with the client as soon as posible, at the point where changes are the most cheap (changing a line on a text document).
Agree, that is why the agent hype is going to bust. Agent means giving AI control. That means critical failure modes and the need of human to constantly oversee agent working.
Right! To complete the unusual list : flying fish and... Amphibious fish! Wikipedia says there's 11 of them. Ok stop procrastinating now.
Thank you, I will definitely give this a try!
Temperature System: How and why do we control heat on a spacecraft?
"Everything" except allowing help from the people who want to help, I suppose.
Seems like you have it good. It sounds like it is a personal decision to be an insufferable loser in the industry you cultivated.
There's something also in the UX dynamics. As a developer writing property based tests I'm encouraged to think much more carefully about system invariants, otherwise there's not much value added over unit tests. For anything nontrivial this entails building a model of the system and checking it against the system under test, like they did at AWS. So the decision to use this tool shapes how you think about the system--it makes you reason more formally about it rather than just winging it and writing tests to exercise the code.
But that's kind of my point - when I was originally working on it - I didn't know there's a more idiomatic approach - why would I copy paste the docs to ask it to improve the results ? Especially given the LLMs tendency to hallucinate and gnerate noise when asked to "improve code".

Also without reading the docs would I be able to spot why the idiomatic approach is better from single use case ?

You're basically depending on LLM to make choices for you - and in my experience so far it makes very suboptimal ones.
There was a part that stuck with me, a journal entry that described the Endurance crew standing on a ice that had trapped their boat, and just watching in horror as the shifting ice flow crushed it. It powerfully conveyed raw despair and overwhelming hopelessness, which in an of itself is exceedingly difficult for anyone to overcome, let alone in extremely hostile conditions.
> For an AI model to be "a big deal", apparently we need to be able to give it a hard problem in an arbitrary field, one that humans have not yet solved[1], and have it spit out a good solution.

Once you've been to the moon, the next stage is Mars or Deimos. Humans celebrate progress but also appreciate incremental improvements.

I run an AI/ML consultancy so I have skin in this game. The "traditional" model approaches still have tons, tons, tons of value to offer. Few need to have the frontier right away.
Bubble Bobble Lost Cave
The GAN is dead; long live the GAN - A Modern GAN Baseline
To put things into perspective, the people behind the browser with < 2.5% market share are acting like they have the biggest swinging dick in the room, and proposing policies with authority, that could potentially screw over 100% of the internet. Think about that for a minute.

The reality is the CAs could tell Mozilla to go pound sand and they would have no recourse. Is there not a governing body for certificate policies with voting members?

CA trust should be handled at the OS vendor level. Mozilla having its own trust anchors is a relic of the past. If CAs refuse to comply, they at worst inconvenience 2.5% of their customers temporarily until they find a better browser.
Always know where the data comes from! I see so many examples of people generalizing to the whole population of a country when the data comes from a specific subset.
Lifetime access plans are (mostly) a hoax
I have never trusted the "lifetime access" plans offered by SaaS websites with subscriptions, as I know hosting services costs money and human resources to manage. An email from Pluralsight confirmed this today.

I used to have a set of courses I bought from ACloudGuru back in 2017. I loved ACloudGuru back then as it was a solid source to learn AWS for me.

I didn't follow up with ACloudGuru anymore and I didn't access my courses for 6 years, but it looks like it's owned by Pluralsight who decided to pull the plug on perpetually bought courses.

Do I need these courses? Could be, I may need to refurbish my knowledge if I move to another job, or renew my certificates. Now, I will lose my "lifetime access" courses by end of January 2025.

Lessons learned:
- There is no "lifetime" access for online material. The lifespan of these materials are how long the host doesn't decide not to pull the plug.
- Anything that is online and you don't have a copy of on your own drive means you don't really own. You just rent it.
- NEVER trust lifetime access plans offers you to pay 3-5 times of their annual plan for the hope they will stay longer than the average startup lifespan of 5 years.
Boeing 747 Preflight Checklist (2007) [pdf]
My Thoughts on Kotlin: Perspectives after 4 years
You can also just back away from the screen. For the 3rd one I had to back up about 6 feet from my monitor before it clicked into place, once it is in focus you can move closer to see the difference better.
Are you able to confirm the images are completely aligned? You can do this using landmarks, like the brightest stars on the telescope pic. I.e. if you see more than one of any landmark, it is not aligned. You may need to adjust zoom, and distance from face.
It's not really "of course", and I don't think we have such a theorem in general. But in this case, I believe the fact that it's not an integer follows from the same theorem that says it's very close to an integer. See eg https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4544/why-is-e-pi-sq...

Basically e^(sqrt(163)*pi) is the leading term in a Laurent series for an integer, and the other (non-integer) terms are really small but not zero.
Pg_mooncake v0.1.0 Release Notes
What doesnt look good? Just curious!
It took me some attempts but I agree, it's very obvious, the 2nd image made it glaringly obvious after I managed it well on the 1st one.

My eyes get very watery after just a few seconds though, curious to hear from others how common this side-effect is.
And also to make PHI portable across providers.
Well, these services take a lot of moxie to run
I have iTerm set up to change the background colour of a shell based on whether it's local, docker, staging or production, and on top of that prompt colours change depending on how privileged the user is. Without all this, I'm sure I'd be making terrible mistakes on a regular basis.
A lot of levels in the conversions were created specifically and are not in the arcade version. An Italian programmer, Aladar, did a comprehensive reverse engineering of the Bubble Bobble arcade code in order to port the best 100 of those levels to the arcade machine (the levels were selected and adapted by Aladar's collaborator. This is "Bubble Bobble Lost Cave".

Also, Bubble Bobble had part of the game logic running on a separate microcontroller with encrypted ROM, and it took almost 30 years until it was decapped, decrypted and emulated. This microcontroller is why most Bubble Bobble bootlegs suck. As part of Lost Cave result he also adjusted one of the bootleg ROMs so that the game's Z80 CPU implements all the original logic of the microcontroller faithfully.
Yes! The ChatGPT moment has warn off. And there hasn't been a step-change other than Claude Sonnet 3.5 + Cursor for dramatic impact (which is only for coding) since then.

I 100% agree with you that AI is fantastic and it is a big deal in general. But now that the world has gotten used to it being able to parrot back something it learned (including reasoning) in the training set, the next 'big deal' is actual insight.

But I see your point, I still think what we have currently is out of a sci-fi book, but I am also not that amazed by computers in our pockets anymore :)
The stars puzzle helped me find a speck of dirt on my phone screen.
> rather than using them to implement typing itself.

I'm not sure what this means exactly. Those papers do use macros to implement extensible/pluggable static type systems just like those we use every day. The point is that the phase distinction is respected as macros run at compile-time. If your macro language roughly matches your value language, then this would look something like Zig, but more expressive, and the compilation output is a residual program that can run without types (although runtime type embeddings are also possible where needed).

The problem I have with typing all of this is that I haven't yet found a satisfactory approach that doesn't explode into a typing zoo that's only usable for niche experts. Economy of mechanism is very important for wider adoption IMO. People can debug ordinary programs, so if your compiler runs your source program like an ordinary program, people can straightforwardly debug that too if this is designed well.
It allows external sources. I think even the ICC profile can sit outside the document, as well as stuff like video.

I like the archivable series, the document comes with what is needed to render it.
> Are you saying they actively remove ISBN numbers from scans?

No, he‘s playing the pointless „well, actually a scan of a book is a different thing from the book itself“ game.
I think the garbage CAs that want to delay certificate revocation way beyond requirements are numerous enough that this proposal won't go ahead. Much easier for them to just do nothing and hope they won't be the next Entrust.
If you're including possibly NULL columns in a distinct or group by and you want to treat them in a particular way, use the COALESCE() or NVL() or whatever similar function to give a real value to the NULL for that purpose.