skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decoding (sampling) uses (pseudo) random numbers. Otherwise same prompt would always give the same response.

Computing entropy generally does not.

See e.g. https://huggingface.co/blog/how-to-generate
Using the opportunity to mention AIAIAI Unit-4

First, why it is so hard to find out it exists when searching for wireless speakers?

Second, it eats most things twice it's price on sound and features, methinks. except power bricks, those are brütal
If you're using Kubernetes / Argo then who cares. There's no backporting, there's only moving forward. If the configurable code in question is only ever used from such deployments then making the configuration static and compile-time makes some sense, and saves you having to write code that handles configuration at run-time. One might like to think that this sort of code might get run in other contexts too, so one might tend to prefer flexible, run-time configuration, but if you know that code will only run from deployments then you might as well not waste the effort on run-time configuration.
> This wasn't something that existed, it wasn't regurgitating knowledge from Stackoverflow. It was inventing/creating something new.

Except it was. It wasn't regurgitating the exact answer it gave you, but it was using the collective knowledge of StackOverflow/other code to generate the solution.

Give your head a shake.
Magisk only works because Google still supports devices that don't support hardware attestation. Very soon you won't be able to fool Play Integrity without hacking the TEE
Woodward's reporting is classic investigative journalism. He's one of the two reporters who broke the original Watergate story. From the books I've read, he avoids speculation and he only reports what he can corroborate based on firsthand accounts. Regarding what you call "cognitive dissonance" – I assume you're referring to President Biden and not Woodward – this is discussed multiple times in War and Woodward doesn't shy away from it.

Woodward writes about a time when Biden had taken a friend on a private tour through the residences of the White House, and when they came upon a picture of his son Beau Biden, the President seemed to become "transfixed" on it (my words, I'm paraphrasing from memory) and couldn't stop talking about his son for what seemed like an uncomfortable amount of time.

He also wrote about another time during Biden's reelection campaign where Biden went to a private fundraising event in Silicon Valley and seemed so "out of it" (again, my words, paraphrasing from memory) that one of the SV bigwigs there called Biden's chief of staff with grave concerns about the President's health and ability to run for reelection.

The book is well worth the read, whether you're a Trump supporter, Biden supporter or just interested in politics and foreign policy in general.
I think they can just fax it, which saves a lot of the environmental waste you’re talking about.
Re: comments about relative safety to C, I don't know specifically what kind of comments you're talking about, but Rust's memory safety guarantees are:

- No data races: it is impossible in safe Rust for two threads to simultaneously mutate memory without appropriate guards

- No reads/writes from memory that is not owned/allocated

- Any location in memory may only have a single mutable reference at a time (and any number of immutable references)

Combined, you eliminate a large class of memory-related bugs, including use-after-frees, double frees, and buffer under/overflows.
Isn't Loop and Grow roughly the same as Metroidvania? Or does Metroidvania not require an actual repeating loop, whereas Loop and Grow does?
Here "affect" should be "effect".
No, trademarks are genuinely important because they allow consumers to distinguish between official things that an organization stands behind, versus hobbyist projects, imitators, etc.

But all the creator had to do was to remove logos and possibly change the name so there would be no confusion around whether this was an official project or not.

And it seems like the geographic map was fine, only the schematic map would have been an issue because its design is presumably specifically copyrighted and yes you would have to license that just like any other map.

The letters he received may have been heavy-handed but there's nothing wrong with the general principle of it.
i usually just have cursor chat open and i code some function, get cursor to do a code review of that, look for errors and do some chain of thought reasoning with o1-mini and its related functions. I then run the tests and put log output through cursor to identify bug fixes. Using LLMs as almost a pair programmer as well as something to check my work as im working.
> You can't work with it, you can't try to make changes to it to see what happens, and you certainly can't run it interactively. All you can do, literally, is curl up with it in bed. And promptly fall asleep.

I totally agree with this. Generating static typeset docs essentially leaves them "dead" because they can't be poked at, run, or updated in real time. That's why I'm a big believer in the value of tests and instrumentation, which stay alive alongside the code. In practice, we don't need every aspect of a project ( e.g code, tests, docs, and instrumentation) to be simultaneously visible at all times, and I think part of the complexity of onboarding into a new project is the overwhelming feeling you get the first time you see a piece of code with all its tests, all comments, and all its instrumentation thrown at you like you should pay attention to everything. When we're refactoring, we focus on a particular chunk of code and its tests; when we're debugging, we need instrumentation. For everything else, we can loop back later.

We already have powerful ways to merge issues, commits, and discussions, but we still rely on massive documentation dumps that go stale fast. A more adaptive approach (perhaps using an LLM to generate contextual help from version control) would allow us to focus on the core process of writing and verifying code. I especially like the idea of code that can "talk back" and give just the right amount of detail based on what we're trying to accomplish at the moment. Sometimes it suffices to have novice-friendly, high-level explanations; other times, we want to jump in and change the behaviour of a very specific feature across some specific files. Maintaining documentation for every possible scenario is a huge burden, which is why I think flexible, on-demand help could be a game changer.
It seems to me like in 20 to 50 years humans will still be writing computer code, but hopefully some IDE-like 'block-based' editor approach similar to Jupyter Notebooks will have taken over. Block-based editors let you mix in different "types" of artifacts like documentation, code, images, examples, scripts. It will need to be some kind of 'tree-like' structure with expandable nodes like a file system I think, so that for example underneath every method implementation you can have it's test cases right there with it, sort of 'inline'.

I've also thought that eventually even web-browsers will be replaced with some system like this too, where everything is "typed" (like Semantic Web), so that both machine parsers, AI systems, and humans can equally well consume and understand the content.

The problem is 'momentum'. People tend to build new capabilities on top of the old capabilities like layers of an onion rather than rebuilding something new from scratch like a Jupyter Notebook-like "do everything" browser/IDE/editor.
Making a wrapper is commodity knowledge (there is a ton of wrappers out there as examples, tons of literature about it). It's more about hard work than intelligence.

Eventually, AI (as it is today) will run out of commoditizable knowledge.

It is impressive, but there is a man inside the machine writing wrappers and talking about them to allow this magic to happen.
Microsoft Blog: Introducing Core AI – Platform and Tools
CreateProcess() and related APIs can fail.
> It's not like he's going on Twitter/X and hectoring people.

He personally may not. We do know though there are a lot of people very eager to wage such campaigns, and we know speech-policing campaigns have very real and very far reaching consequences sometimes. So the sensitivity to such things is heightened right now. And I am sure that if the "rambling on his personal blog" contained some things that are considered culturally unacceptable (something like Damore memo, for example), there would be a lot of people who would call not only for widespread discussion but for suppression and deplatforming of the person expressing it. I think this is extremely wrong approach, regardless of the content, but I think also this may be the reason why discussing this seriously is an appropriate reaction. To be clear, I do not call (and I am extremely opposed to) attacking the person writing it in any way. But I think it deserves the pushback - in the form of discussion and critique - that it is getting. Language policing and censorship is very real, very dangerous and should be discussed and pushed back against.

> he gives a good obscure-history lesson as to why the phrase "cargo cult" doesn't actually mean what most of us think it does.

I am not sure that's actually true. Most of us probably thinks cargo cult is a religions practice somewhere in the Pacific that mimics external looks of the logistical operations performed by Westerners on their islands to expect the results of coming of goods that the Westerners brought in (cargo), without understanding what caused the actual logistic processes to happen and how they work, just by magic means. Most of us would probably have the specific details wrong, but that's true for almost every area. The article provided very good plenty of details, very interesting - but with all the "akshually"-ing there, I don't think it has proven the main premise wrong. The information itself is very much appreciated, but I don't think the conclusion - which seems to be "you are all wrong and should stop using this term" - is warranted.
I found this rather odd:

> “We used to pay for VMware software one month in arrears,” he said. “With Broadcom we had to pay a year in advance with a two-year contract.”

If your goal is to extract every possible cent from your existing customers, why would you also switch them from net 30 to requiring partial prepayment? VMware wants money in general but should not have a cash flow problem, and forcing a monster early payment seems like it will force customers to notice an immediate problem and make a choice instead of allowing themselves to be slowly and steadily ripped off.

If I were a pointy-haired CEO committed to the multiply-pricing-by-five strategy, I would do my best to sweeten the deal: offer generous payment terms, give nice-sounding discounts for up front commitments, give very large discounts for nodes that haven’t yet been leased to a customer, etc.
They’re gonna create a competitor to OpenAI using the British Civil Service and government spending. Yeah, ok. Best of luck to them.
It sounds really weird that critics cannot place themselves in the shoes of the virtue signaler and describe where the virtues or morals are being communicated. I'm repeatedly trying to abide by the site guidelines by getting curious rather than disagreeing. It's like some sort of ideological opposition is causing a mental barrier to empathy. I still don't understand it, but some day I hope to. Thank you.
https://www.whathifi.com/advice/what-is-auracast-and-when-is...
This must have moved recently! I looked at this around end of December and it was hosted on https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone/releases which had nothing to do with UV. If you read through the docs now it still references indygreg and still shows this https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone so I guess the move has not completed it, but yes it's a positive change to see UV taking ownership of the builds.
> One plane is not leaving South Korea laden with just one laptop stand and nothing else, and one delivery truck is not leaving the Fedex or UPS depot almost entirely empty save for one laptop stand destined for the consumer's house.

Who do you imagine thought of it this way, and how does an objection to shipping trash require you to think this way?

What normal people imagine is that a package containing this displaces a package containing something else, and that an collective shipping container of these is a shipping container that wouldn't have been shipped otherwise.

What you seem to be theorizing is that if these weren't being shipped, some other product would have been invented to take up the volume that it uses, or all other products would expand in order to fill the space. That has a burden of proof that the normal people explanation doesn't require.
The lake existed as recently as 2023…
I honestly have no idea what you're on about. You are projecting things into the statement which it does not say.
Yea, Spanish and French (well, Parisian) often suffer from that blight =)

Perhaps try slowing down the video?

Also, there is a French / German public broadcaster called Arte. They have amazing content (documentaries, concerts, etc). Generally things where the Words Per Minute rate is a lot lower.

https://www.arte.tv/fr/

One of my favorite shows is Karambolage. 20 minute items about French and German culture, spoken in perfect French at a leisurely speed.

https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/RC-014034/karambolage/
Even better would be if you could specify the dependencies inside of the script.

Edit: might be possible now? https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/one-shot-python-tools/
The problem with Windsurf is that it works great until it doesn't. And the time you spend checking and fixing its mistakes is longer than it would take for you to implement that yourself.

Some of those cases are:

* Sometimes the Accept changes button doesn't work

* Sometimes it DELETES a lot of your code, without you noticing

* Sometimes it duplicates code

* Sometimes it gets stuck in a loop trying to fix an error, or it can't fix trivial errors

* Sometimes it suddenly can not access your files.

* Sometimes it adds "// ...rest of code goes here" comments instead of writing the code.

In my experience, the best use-cases for AI assistants/LLMs are:

* Generate boilerplate/scaffold for a new project

* Refactor code (rename variables, functions, or slightly alter functionality like use "while loop instead of for")

* Quick way to find the name/signature of an API/function without having to google the docs of that library (e.g. "add a new React MaterialUI list")

I have used it for about 2 months, but in my experience it actually gets worse with time, not better. The problem now doesn't seem to be with the actual writing of code, but with the UI and how it applies the changes.
The concept of a design pattern is ~fine, and people have done good work applying the concept to specific programming domains (concurrency being the best example I can come up with), but "Gang-of-Four"-style design patterns are just workarounds to the limitations of the languages those authors were grappling with at the time, and are deeply silly in modern code, mostly living on today as an AbstractFactoryFactory joke.
It's a wonderful design, but like many recyclable products, the price isn't low enough to convince the average consumer.

Like someone else said, release the instructions.

If you want to make an environmental impact, you have to make something people are willing to buy. That's why Tesla became so successful, no one cared 10 years ago when it was a status symbol. Once it got to like $40k it sold like crack.
Would You Use a Platform That Simplifies Financial Feasibility for Entrepreneurs
I’m Tarek, the founder of Front Figure, a platform I created to help entrepreneurs validate their business ideas financially. I wanted to reach out to this community to get your thoughts on the approach we’re using and whether it makes sense for people who don’t have a finance background.

Here’s how it works:

Users answer a series of straightforward, explained questions about their business idea through the platform. Again, each question is explained in simple terms for non-finance people.

The system generates a professional, customized pdf financial feasibility report with the results, charts, sources and explanation of the startup. This report I am guessing could be used for investors, banks and/or internal purposes, that is why it contains alot of details.

We provide support through live chat, email, and even online calls to guide users or clarify anything they find confusing and provide assistance in any kind.

My goal is to make financial validation as simple and accessible as possible, especially for first-time entrepreneurs who might find the process overwhelming, whilst, at the same time try to create something scalable.

Do you think this approach makes sense for non-finance entrepreneurs who are considering performing a financial feasibility study? If you were in their shoes, would this feel like the right kind of solution?

I’d really appreciate your feedback and any thoughts you have on whether this method sounds helpful or if there’s anything that might make it better. Thank you so much for your time!

Cheers,
Tarek
Data Poisoning in LLMs: Jailbreak-Tuning and Scaling Laws
The story of this games development would fit perfectly into this game.
In 2025, I resolve to spend less time troubleshooting
uhm, hard disagree. Harassment is the #1 problem blocking helps with but...
I block anything the platform suggests to me as a form of protest against it shoving click bait triggering channels in my face. I see this as resisting getting forced into a bubble by the platform.

I can't not use social media because it is the only way to get local info and it is a terrible way when you consider that for every post from someone i subscribe to, there are 6 ads and 6 channel suggestions specially chosen to entice me to join in a flame war of comments. I'd just give up if i didn't have the hope of at least from time to time catching a break because i blocked all the things the platform thought to suggest for a few weeks. My hope is to one day achieve a whitelist of local posts which is driven by geography, not agreement/alignment on politics or ideaology. since that's not an option, i'll blacklist the entire world if i must...
Coming cyber executive order includes a push to mobile drivers licenses
> "the regulators, the blockers and bureaucrats" were part of an "alliance of naysayers" who mean that "we can't get things done in our country."

Promising investors widespread deregulation to allow energy hungry data centers be built with less oversight is not what I would call "socialist".
Build local and offline-capable chatbots
My point though is that if a person renders themselves unable to have offspring, especially before they have any, then from a purely biological perspective it's a form of illness. The same view would apply to all animals. If every member of a group acted the same way then the group would also die out. The functional impairment you mention includes the inability to attract a mate and reproduce. Hormones and sex reassignment surgery also severely hamper fertility.

Also trans people tend to have many other correlated mental issues and for example have high suicide attempt rates.
Why not put out the fires first? Imaging being a first responder hearing this political nonsense takes precedence over your safety. The fires are here. They need to be dealt with.
Water shortage fears as Labour's AI growth zone sited next to new reservoir
What kind of discrimination isn't covered by motives of nepotism or DEI?

To be clear I think its not necessarily bad, its the dose. The Cosmonaut had proven genetics, that counts for something on top of meritocracy.
They have 10.5. Yeah, that makes sense that these would be good OS 9 machines.
Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way
> There really is no ambiguity. I don’t talk about anything that can hint at going in a sexual direction, or politics or religion

One can absolutely impute all kinds of nonsense from inaction as much as action.

I’d also challenge the fact that I don’t need to make lewd jokes as extending to the premise that they need never be made. (Or that our refraining from making them doesn’t cover up something darker.)

> norms have changed through the years and rightfully so. Did your parents grow up in the Jim crow south?

And most of those shifts are reasonable. Some, however, are purely performative. Latinx is a frequent example, though I’ve never met anyone who seriously used it. As a gay non-white man, there is plenty of performative nonsense online that comes from people who I can’t imagine actually have any friends who are in the category they claim to be looking out for. (There are also jokes that, while off colour, speak to something true, even if they’re made at the expense of some of my immutable characteristics.)
200k?

That seems very little to be honest. Who is licensing what from the London Metro?
I definitely don't need an AI to write // TODO make this work. That's what I'm for!
There are also TV series with very little title sequences.

OK it is dating a bit (last season ended in 2009) but we are about to finish rewatching ER and the title sequence is just a black screen with the title name.

I'd have to check but I would guess there are still some series with a short title sequence.
There's extra randomness added accidentally in practice: inference is a massively parallelized set of matrix multiplications, and floating point math is not commutative - the randomness in execution order gets converted into a random FP error, so even setting temperature to 0 doesn't guarantee repeatable results.
Annual subscription to Cursor. Easily one of the most powerful pieces of software out there and even if it's the only thing that survives this AI bubble, I'd be very happy.
see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42681976
I like AI for specific tasks its suited to and the tech involved. But i'm skeptical it can create widespread massive productivity improvements. I think its bit oversold on that.

We seem to lack people to fix pot holes, not report them. We need carers to support old people. AI seems to be mostly good at writing meeting minutes, reports and generating slightly incorrect content/code.

Happy to be proven wrong though.
Or buy the OG, the Roost.

It's pricier but lighter and more compact.
> we don't have to worry about programming jobs

Maybe not writing the code itself, but creating a product/business still requires deciding how things will work, what technologies to use, what's the public API, etc.

So instead of writing the code to do it, you still need someone to ask the AI to do it: "create a to-do list with login system, that has e2e encrpytion and stores the data in a NoSQL database", etc. So you still need some programming knowledge to use it, otherwise you don't know what to ask for.
What adaptation is actually necessary for competent software developers? If it is as easy as writing what you want the llm to do, I'm pretty sure any competent software developer can learn that within a few days. And the necessity of precise prompting techniques will quickly diminish over time.