skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come up with a way to assess problem-solving skills and communication skills and you might have a real winner!

Surely somebody has tried to turn this into a business? Not a certification, but a skill assessment that gives you a level. Even better is if there was an AI where you could provide snippets of your C code, JavaScript code, and Fortran77 code and figure out what level you need in order to effectively and meaningfully work with it.
> Even if future amendments try to address test-time compute, the proposed regulation seems premature. There are too many unknowns in future AI development to justify using a fixed compute-based threshold as a reliable indicator of potential risk.

I'm disinclined to let that be a barrier to regulation, especially of the export-control variety. It seems like letting the perfect be the enemy of the good: refusing to close the barn door you have, because you think you might have a better barn door in the future.

> Instead of focusing on compute thresholds or model sizes, policymakers should focus on regulating specific high-risk AI applications, similar to how the FDA regulates AI software as a medical device. This approach targets the actual use of AI systems rather than their development, which is more aligned with addressing real-world risks.

How to you envision that working, specifically? Especially when a lot of models are pretty general and not very application-specific?
Unless they've changed it recently, the auto-save seems to only bother firing off every few hours. All three attempts I've made at the game have ended with losing progress to the save system.
Good point. I really need to get an RSS feed set up. I'll work on that! I do post on X, but RSS would be better.
With times like that you'd be better off with Starlink!

I'm not joking:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/is-starlink-good-for-gaming-we-pu...

Are you doing the 113 test from the actual device, or something tethered to it? For example, you don't want a bluetooth stack in the middle.
I've never dived (dove? doven?) into the output of an HTML minimizer, but I assumed this was one of the things it would do - remove all optional tags while retaining the same DOM tree output.
SpaceX Starship Flight 7 live streams
Official stream: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OwGWNYrzZVKQ

Unofficial streams with their own capable cameras:

NASASpaceflight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nM3vGdanpw

Everyday Astronaut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Px_b5eSzsAe
Related:

WH Executive Order Affecting Chips and AI Models

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683251
Accurate benchmarking: how to account for the loop overhead
The Open University in UK (living in Estonia myself):
https://www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/qualifications/f77

The course was S818.
Cursor Series B and automating Code
In average half of the certs would expire in half of the time. A 3.5 days sustained DDoS attack would cause half of the sites using a 6 day certificate to be offline.
> None of these require an LLM. It seems like you own this service yet can't find any valuable use for it.

Sorry? My point was that these are the only overlapping features I've personally found useful that could be replaced with the new scheduled tasks from ChatGPT.

Even these shouldn't require an LLM. A simple cron+email would suffice.

The web scraping component is neat, but for my personal use-cases (tide tracking) I've had to use LLM-generated code to get the proper results. Pure LLMs were lacking in following the rules I wanted (tide less than 1 ft, between sunrise and sunset). Sometimes the LLM would get it right, sometimes it would not.

For our customers, purely scheduling an LLM call isn't that useful. They require pairing multiple LLM and code execution steps to get repeatable and reliable results.

> ChatGPT tasks will become a powerful tool once incorporated into GPTs.

Out of curiosity, do you use GPTs?
i think so xD
Can you be specific about how it's worse for Israel? That's not my understanding, but maybe I missed something. This seems like an interesting conversation to have!
Official stream starts is live now.
It was the first taste of (sorta) 3D, at least in Nintendo’s lineup. Games like Pilotwings and Mario Kart were a big change.
We've had failed projects since long before LLMs. I think there is a tendency for people to gloss over this (3.) regardless, but working with an LLM it tends to become obvious much more quickly, without investing tens/hundreds of person-hours. I know it's not perfect, but I find a lot of the things people complain about would've been a problem either way - especially when people think they are going to go from 'hello world' to SaaS-billionaire in an hour.

I think mastery of the problem domain is still important, and until we have effectively infinite context windows (that work perfectly), you will need to understand how and when to refactor to maximize quality and relevance of data in context.
Agree on this. As a layman in Australia, i had a friend who was coming back from the USA and asked him to buy me an iPhone before its release in AU (late-2007 iirc, iPhone 3G launched in Australia in 2008) and promptly jailbroke it so i could get it on an Australian carrier.

When i whipped it out in public, take a photo at concerts, etc. random people would come up to me and ask me to play with it -- thats when i knew for sure Apple were on to something, a complete game changer that captured the attention of the public.
For most of the world, your platforms are already foreign-owned.
> Digital is mostly limited by bits, since a 14 bit image with a linear tone curve will have at most 14 stops of info right?

Bit depth ≠ dynamic range.

The dynaic range is about the highest and lowest value that can be measure ("stops" are a ratio per log_2, db are a ratio per log_10):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range#Human_perception

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range#Photography

The bits are about the gradation with-in that range. You can have 12-stop image recorded using a 10-bit, 12-bit, 14-bit, or 16-bit format.

And at least when it comes to film, it is not a linear curve, at least when you get to the darkest and lightest parts. That's why there's an old saying "expose for the shadows, develop for the highlights"

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlnt5yFArWo

* https://www.kimhildebrand.com/how-to-use-the-zone-system/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_System
I figured ZFS would do the low-level redundancy, but I was under the impression that Crucible does the higher-level stuff, and I don't know much about it.
So where is the rss feed of most important news per day?
You can do it on one single GPU but you would need to use gradient accumulation and the training would probably last 1-2 months on a consumer GPU.
Given this weakness in ACME, I don't understand why cloud providers don't provide transparent 443 proxying by default. I guess it's security theater.
Nobelists are so prone to it that Wikipedia has a page dedicated to it:

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

It's hardly limited to Nobel laureates. But it's certainly a strong marker that somebody had indeed tremendous scientific skills, and then failed utterly to apply that ability later.
The thing is if you merge immediately into master and have conflicts, you solve the conflict and only then you can merge. But then the conflict resolution sits at the merge point with a weird default commit message and is hard to decipher.

A nicer way is merge master into your branch, with the rebase option (you can set that option as the default). This will put your changes on top of the master changes that happened during populating your own branch. There you solve any conflicts and those usually immediately show you what happened in the meantime, making it easier to do so. The latest greatest now sits in your branch.

Then as a plus, you can retest that merge and if necessary, fix the merge.

Optionally you can do a pull request for reviewing. The diff the reviewers see is conflict-less and makes sense, has only your changes.

Then simply merge to master, which should be trivial if you don't wait for long.
You mean like later after it happens?
Twin Peaks film director David Lynch dies at 78
It's for the government's google analytics account, which is open data: https://analytics.usa.gov/general-services-administration
I’ve slowly become aware, over time, that David Lynch and David Bowie seemed to be the social bridge that was secretly connecting all of the artists I like across seemingly every medium. Like an erdos number for these two davids that seemed to drive good outcomes
I think the argument is that the extra value provided is a small enough context window for working with an LLM. Although I'd suggest making it a library if one can manage, that gives you the desired context reduction bounded by interfaces without taking on the complexities of adding an additional microservice.

I imagine throwing a test at an LLM and saying:

> hold the component under test constant (as well as the test itself), and walk the versions of the library until you can tell me where they're compatible and where they break.

If you tried to do that with a git bisect and everything in the same codebase, you'd end up varying all three (test, component, library) which is worse science than holding two constant and varying the third would be.
Here is an overview I wrote of next generation methods for ammonia synthesis:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/climatetech-134-de-carbonizin...

(FWIW - there are many many promising lab results that turn out to be false positives because the researchers did a bad job of controlling potential contamination in their ammonia measurements. Low concentrations of ammonia are everywhere, and you have to do a really good job making sure you're not measuring background levels vs. what you think you're producing)
It'd be interesting to see, but I don't fully trust ChatGPT to rate historic events that it already knows are significant. A much more fair comparison would be between events that it doesn't have in it's training data.

But from what I've seen it's pretty indifferent to "sides", it's more focused on raw numbers of people affected and magnitude of the event.
In the US. Most of the world doesn’t have these laws.
Lean Times: The Surprising Rise of Calorie-Cutting Diet
As a magit user I agree, apart from the fact most GUIs I've seen are horrendously broken and can lead to an even worse mess. For example, I was really confused about how a colleague messing up and got them to show me. Turns out in VS Code if you set the upstream branch correctly (ie. to master), it tries to get you to "sync" the branch. So it assumes the upstream branch is the branch you push to, which makes no sense at all.
Ah, thank you, really didn‘t know that (now I learned: A is a linear amplifying device, D is switching, but both are analog circuits)
What a throwback to the time when some edgy folks would share printed codes in Pascal… I even remember seeing a hard copy of a binary in hex which was best not to execute.
Oh. I was going to buy a P1S in a few months. Looks like they don't want my money.

What's the best alternative?
straight off my android phone by disabling wifi then moving through my 2 sims
Sometime in the late 80's I was working in MSDOS and needed more working RAM for an app, so we bought the Phar Lap DOS extender.

Got the box and started reading the manual when someone stopped and asked "Why are you reading about horses?"
What horse? "The mighty Phar Lap of course."

I had no idea it was the name of a horse, but I guess since their logo had a black horse I should have known :-)
Except for drive assist, they all actually do, at least to provide the level of experience we have come to expect. High quality speech-to-text, ML, realtime traffic updates and routing, access to endless music libraries and randomized playlists, are all cloud based.

That’s like saying cooking at home doesn’t “require” a stove. Yeah you can build a fire, at a massive cost to convenience.
You mean a restaurant that gets away with serving mediocre food for ridiculous prices, because the "no prices on the menu" gimmick generates enough status/prestige to compensate for any customer dissatisfaction? I.e. the restaurant equivalent of being famous for being famous.
A lot more processing power, at a time where that made a huge difference in the graphics.
It's not unfair to say the first generation iPhone was a bit of an aspirational device. It helped a lot if you found some working public WiFi, but even then the speed wasn't entirely the fault of the radio, the processor and especially RAM on the phone hurt performance.

It's not hard to see why the iPhone 3G was a major success. It smoothed over so many of the rough edges from the original iPhone.
Tim Dodd is live as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Px_b5eSzsA
I worked there a few years ago. It was almost always easy to reserve a room if you wanted more quiet or more privacy.
> Baby name generator: why would this be a scheduled task? Surely you aren't having that many children... :)

So far it's help name two children :) -- my wife and I like to see the same 10 ideas each day (via text), so that we can discuss what we like/don't like daily. We tried the sift through 1000 names thing and it didn't fit well with us.

> Reminder to pay, notifications: what value does OpenAI bring to the table here over other apps which provide calendar / reminder functionality?

That's exactly my point. Without further utility (i.e. custom code execution), I don't think this provides a ton of value at present.
They did continue to sell iPod Classic in parallel to iPod touch for a while afterward, and even revamped the UI on the nano to look and feel more like iOS. But yeah, there was obvious cannibalism there, no question about it.
Terragrunt and OpenTofu: Better Together
Fortunately, most ACME clients, including my own, support other CAs as fallbacks. (Caddy's ACME stack falls back to ZeroSSL by default, automatically.)

That, and extended week-long outages are extremely unlikely.
of course, no space x event is complete without the scam fake streams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1VbZoYSyzA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMG8BbUjwRk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-uQNSxqQHY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PYuUj777a0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqsGPQnAP-M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAC4JzHqRk4
Git commands, while they may be cryptic, actually mean something. Whereas that was just gibberish made by putting random mathematical words together.

(There is a similar sounding joke about category theory, "A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors" but this sentence has a mathematical meaning.)
I don’t even use it. But in terms of funding, it’s in the top 5, according to Crunchbase data [0].

[0] https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/startup-billion-dollar-fundra...
No, they're protecting money on their company's table from being taken by random sellers. "Let's get on a call" game seldom leads to better deals for the buyer.
These did not come at a time when Palestinians had unrestricted access to Israel, though. These happened while Israel was militarily occupying Gaza and the West Bank (yes, international institutions recognize Gaza has been occupied via blockade and control of resources, even though the IDF had "withdrawn").
I do not have opinion about the person or general issue, but platforming crypto scam at FOSDEM is rather sad.
Malicious PyPI Package 'Pycord-Self' Targets Discord Developers with Token Theft
If you only watch one, I think Fire Walk With Me is the most representative. If you like it, there's a lot more to explore. If not, then maybe Lynch isn't your thing.
Eraserhead is highly watchable, but the first time you see it, it's best to just experience it without trying to process it too much. The nuance comes through on repeat viewings.
It is incredibly to me that Google doesn't seem to give a shit about this. It would be so easy to fix.
Ego, curiosity, potential bug bounty & this was a low hanging fruit: I was just watching API request in Devtools while using ChatGPT. It took 10 minutes to spot it, and a week of trying to reach a human being. Iterating on the proof-of-concept code to increase potency is also a nice hobby.

These kinds of vulnerabilities give you good idea if there could be more to find, and if their bug bounty program actually is worth interacting with.

With this code smell I'm confident there's much more to find, and for a Microsoft company they're apparently not leveraging any of their security experts to monitor their traffic.
So everythings nature except stuff that's nurture? You're kinda hedging your bets there.
You're not missing anything, other than us using Siri :)

My point was that this new functionality, while neat at a surface level, doesn't provide much real utility.

Without custom code execution, you're limited to very surface-level tasks that should be doable with a cron+sms/email.
It seems some EU countries are unrestricted but others are. How is this compatible with the EU single market/customs union?
DBOS always uses transactions to perform database operations.
If you're writing a function that performs database operations, you can use the @DBOS.transaction() decorator to wrap the function so that DBOS's bookkeeping records commit in the same transaction as your operation.

However, if you're interfacing with a third-party API, then that wouldn't be part of a database transaction (you'll use @DBOS.step instead). The reason is that you don't want to hold database locks when you're not performing database operations.
Java IDEs have done this for quite a while, and recent versions of VS and Rider as well.

However even before .NET came to be, you could have had such experience in Smalltalk and Common Lisp environments.
None of these seem to preclude a command to make an arbitrary branch point to an arbitrary commit without changing anything else.
It's a WebGL metaball shader. Felt artistic one day, and I'm a nerd for Cloudflare's lava lamp wall. :)
A community of 100 players is totally achievable if you are willing to put some time and effort in on social media presence, like a YouTube channel. I worked on a small game and managed to host a Discord server with 40-50 members relatively quickly.
I, for one, am glad that I live in a country that's willing to commit atrocities and hide them from me so that I can peacefully sit on my ass and have all my goods and entertainment delivered straight to my various orifices.
By making the Mark convertible to Euro indefinitely, Germany decided that it would be the only Euro-zone country that wasn’t going to participate in the confiscation of what turned out to be billions from their own citizens. It’s called seigniorage and has been a thing since Roman times or even before.
If a genocide supporter calls me a terrible human being, I'm clearly a good person.

Dresden was a war crime and played no part in winning the war. Same with the atomic bombs.
I don't know much about CT requirements, but can't they prune data out of their logs after some time? Since the certs only last 6 days, the growth of the logs can be capped at some point right? If not now, provisions for such operations could surely be implemented, I imagine.

PS. Neat site!
Time means more entropy, so I would think that makes the calculation much more problematic, no?
I’m trying to track down an old story about the network not working in a firm on Wednesday morning near 7 am.

I remember the details being that only on Wednesday did they use the freight elevator to deliver donuts to an all-staff meeting and when they did, the network would fritz.

It turned out that if you move a very large electromagnet (on the elevator) along the network cable, it makes the network go crazy.

Combine that with cable-pullers that rather than putting holes in multiple ceilings and floors in the cable closet, saw that the elevator shaft was a pre-existing hole between floors anyway, simply took the path of least resistance and hilarity (and a real hard network debugging problem) ensues.

Does anyone know when or where this anecdote occurred ?
Agreed that UIs generally provide a better UX for Git.

I use Magit and doing things like "abort cherry-pick" is discoverable in the interface itself and uses the exact same shortcut as the other "abort X" operations. If I had to use the Git CLI, I'd have no idea where to start.

Similarly, I've made mistakes in interactive rebases where I deleted a commit that shouldn't have been deleted. If I recall correctly, the start of every rebase creates a snapshot that is accessible from the reflog, so this is a safe way to revert changes from a rebase gone wrong. Magit's UI for the reflog is exactly the same as the UI for the log, so I was not lost when I saw it for the first time. With the Git CLI, I'd likely have no clue what's going on.
The Djikstra way.
SVN has always worked for me. You don’t have to “teach” people SVN because it’s intuitive and works just fine for the 99% case. I wish we would all stop larping as 1337 hackerz and just admit that git is overkill for the vast majority of people.
> When the next person asked for a call, I responded with a simple "No, we don't do calls, but happy to help via email. Feel free to CC any relevant team members onto this thread."

"No calls" and "talk to right people" is unrelated. Just have a call with the engineer. At least you know they heard you not just ignored a cc.
More information here:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00...
My buddy will soon offer an RSS reader. I will post it here.

Yes, you can create an RSS feed from a Youtube Channel.
You can can create an RSS feed from Reddit.

You can't to my best knowledge create an RSS feed anymore from Twitter

Newsletter to RSS: https://kill-the-newsletter.com/

More stuff:

Blogs & RSS
https://rssfeedasap.com/
https://code.rosaelefanten.org/rssparser.lisp/dir?ci=tip

This one you have to pay. I am considering it. Some RSS feeds don't work on my TinyTinyRSS. I think cloudflare, like always, is killing it:

https://politepol.com/en/prices

PS: If you have an idea for a RSS reader domain, please suggest.
That the fucking marketers are winning and making the world (HN) a worse place.
What would be amazing is if Swift and/or Kotlin could just be the 'native' language across both platforms and work at native speeds on both platforms.
> That, and extended week-long outages are extremely unlikely.

You only need the outage to last for the window of [begin renewal attempts, expiration], not the entire 6d lifetime.

For example, with the 90d certs, I think cert-manager defaults to renewal at 30d out. Let's assume the same grace, of ~33% of the total life, for the 6d certs: that means renew at 2d out. So if an outage persisted for 2d, those certs would be at risk of expiring.
<< It seems like letting the perfect be the enemy of the good: refusing to close the barn door you have, because you think you might have a better barn door in the future.

Am I missing something? I am not an expert in the field, but from where I sit, there literally is no barn door at this point to even close too late..
Not just that, they also plain tell you how much it costs to buy an entire rocket launch for yourself.

https://www.spacex.com/media/Capabilities&Services.pdf

To save a click, that PDF at this moment says clearly:

STANDARD PAYMENT PLAN [for Falcon 9]
(through 2024) $69.75 M
Up to 5.5 mT TO GTO

If they can put a specific base price on their website, so can any SaaS.
As an RSS user, I would love an RSS of the main page content, one entry per story over 5.5 is a perfectly reasonable baseline.

Also: It'd be great if you had a feed tag in your HTML head, so RSS readers could pick it up straight out of your homepage URL instead of needing to manually hunt for the right RSS link.
Would it be suitable for Mars atmosphere?
Developing for Apple can be a PITA with their strict background processing rules, apps just terminate/stop working unless they fall under a special case. I get it but yeah.

edit: by terminate I don't mean crash, it just stops code execution an example is an active socket connection getting disconnected unless it's doing something like streaming audio