skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russia is not showing itself to be particularly not good at war.
And drones suck up the meat attacks.
Best thing Poland could do is parachute into crimea and watch the negotiations from afar.
Everyone else needs to start training their meat (to die valiantly) two years ago.
What kind of restaurant takes tens of millions to start? Most estimates I'm aware of are less than 1 or 2 million at the very most.
Thanks for the explanation. I take your point, but in the `filter` case `bool` seems just as easy as `None`, but with the added benefit that no awareness of a special case is needed -- any python programmer should understand how the `bool` builtin works. Curious if there's any downside.
Mechanics in real time strategy games are integral parts of it though.
I think 0 A.D. is a super cool project, but I found it pretty hard to learn.

It made me appreciate how delicate a task it is to teach the player the mechanics of a game like AoE and how good a job AoE did at that. I felt like 0 A.D. isn't approachable in the same way.
> At least with some precious metal, it has a floor value as a function of its practical uses and abundance.

I don't really give this argument much credence any more. If the value of, say, gold or diamonds were to drop their practical-use-floor-value, they'd be valued at probably less than 1% (maybe much less) of current value. I mean, how much gold is actually consumed by industry? And we even have industrial diamonds now.

A friend argued to me that crypto is "A Terrible Thing" because its just used to fuel the (illegal) narcotics industry. At this point, I'm doubting that too - the market cap of all crpyto, and the value being transacted e.g. daily volume, has increased massively recently. Are we to believe that narcotics have caused that? I can't imagine so - more likely to me it's around 90-99% speculation which, you might well argue, is "Another Terrible Thing."
If the population of a nation trusts each other, shares goals, has a common base knowledge grounded in shared reality, enjoys a standard of living that doesn't make them suffer, etc, you don't need to hold people down to forcefully make them do anything.

A population like that wants to help each other, not outdo each other, not compete with each other over who is more divisive, and so on.
Is it still? Or was that true 10 years ago.

Not sure if I’ve changed or the landscape has.
Love the links to SWISH playground: really got me to want to try it out!
> Constantinople

I think it's not the same if you build a new city :)
James 4:1 – "We Have Met the Enemy, and He Is Us"
Why do you feel compelled to omit the subject from each sentence?

> Loved this site for a long time

>> I loved this site for a long time
Doesn’t exactly answer your question, but I am hoping zerospace is the ‘next big thing’ / thing to reinvigorate the genre

Recent steam demo is super, super fun

It’s a shame aoe3 didn’t manage to pull over the sizable aoe2 audience and build upon it. That is basically the only major rts release in years. And it is really good but it was never going to be aoe2 and that’s not good enough for that hardcore player base.
Yes, I was expecting a much more enthusiastic feedback. I thought that almost everyone would be willing to contribute 3 lines or so, which is sadly not the case. Can you think of any other site where this might gain better reception?

Another factor might be that I posted this one in the morning (IST), when HN is not really at its peak, and the post quickly got lost in the ‘new posts’ list. Do you think it would be OK to repost this link after a month or so?
It's certainly not safe from buyer's remorse. One sees videos of customers who rate a Mirai purchase as the worst purchase they have ever made. Also, Toyota is being sued.

Basically, physical safety is a nonissue if the purchase makes no sense anyway.
Heh, author of this should try living in south Sweden that allows Germany to suck them dry when the wind turbines stand still over there.

Quote:
Summary of Thursday’s Electricity Prices:

Electricity areas 3 & 4 (Southern Sweden): SEK 2.5-3.6 average price per kWh, peak at SEK 8.

Electricity areas 1 & 2 (Northern Sweden): 17 öre and 9 öre per kWh, respectively.

[source| https://www.timber.exchange/news/details/in-depth/electricit....]

Denmark is trying to do to Norway what Germany has done do the Swedish in that respect. I fully understand that the Norwegians want to cut the cable to the south.
Good evening sir Bryan, a 15 year old with you...
Can you teach me how you made the PC, please... Last year I was able to create a mobile application running on a smartphone.. this year I planned on creating a mobile phone and a PC... Please can you teach me....
I don't know anything about designing PCB's tho..
Have you seen the job market at the moment? Humans will do a lot of things to keep a roof over their heads.
Tether appear to have created a huge amount of USD out of thin air.

Best not to pay much attention to Andreesen though.
I agree. But I think we’re stuck with this until a chaotic event happens. It’s really hard to untie some knots through reforms.
but would Airbnb or Uber exist if they tried to get permission first? Netflix streaming was illegal at first. Youtube for sure. Napster. Tesla (no dealerships it was direct sales to consumers.)

Even craigslist or ebay or the very first Ford Model T. They break rules because that's the only way to test the waters and see if the public wants the rule broken?
I accept your points today, but I'm optimistic this problem will be resolved in the mid-term. I just feel some of the arguments smell similar to concerns levelled at the earliest compiler developers about the perils of abstraction. Now we gleefully stack layer upon layer with most developers being unable to grok more than a layer below their choice of abstraction (if they're good!)

I am extremely LLM-optimistic though and largely in favor of abstractions, so that fuels my viewpoint. I still remember my dad, an embedded developer in the 90s-00s, ranting about how many people were starting to use 'inefficient and unpredictable' C compilers than whatever assembly he was using. I reckon he'd be appalled to learn that now even assembly isn't always a reliable model of what's really happening on the CPU thanks to microcode and optimizations.. ;-)
You are looking at one model and also you do realize it isn’t even multimodal, also it shifts training compute to inference compute. They are shifting the paradigm for this architecture for LLMs, but I don’t think this is really new either.
In the $5k-$10k savings range, you can also average 4.5% just by switching banks every year and taking advantage of sign-up bonuses. With a spouse and the referral bonus, the break-even cap goes up to $15k-$30k. Everything is FDIC-insured the whole time.

I'll wager that under $5k in savings, the $35/yr difference between those two account types might probably doesn't matter in the slightest. That opinion is colored by a couple of these neobanks "losing" thousands of my dollars for months at a time during transfers, the prospect of which seems much more dangerous to somebody with limited savings and likely only one bank.

Above $30k, you can easily and cheaply get a medium-touch experience with a company like Merrill Lynch (who themselves offer 4.2% even in zero-risk (outside of bankruptcy) accounts) and should maybe start looking at moving some of that out of a traditional savings account anyway.
If you ignore the complexity added by divided governments, the idea of using LLMs to help draft laws, because they can understand many more domains than the average human, is kinda interesting.
The government is very conservative in handing out banking licenses.

There was a famous scandal with an Icelandic bank that was disrupting the market with higher interest rates.
Very good article indeed.it would be great if AWS sold nitro cards for assembling onprem servers. Maybe a new OSS project worth pondering on.
> mega banks have the sole power of creating credit out of thin air

Amazing that more people don't know this. Most people will insist until their face is red that bank credit is a "loan" with equal debits and credits on both sides of the balance sheet. Wrong. The borrower's bank account goes up. And the bank's balance sheet goes up (the loan is an asset). Viola, new money.
China has seen its banks disrupted quite a bit more than over here with things like WeChat or AliPay. All daily transactions are done with them, and even small loans.

UPI in India at least made payment system much better, by forcing banks in the end. So quite different.

In Europe, SEPA is doing something similar to India’s UPI, albeit much slower. Again by forcing banks on a standard, unlike in China.
If anyone’s interested, here’s a relevant video that goes a little deeper into the details of some failed YC startups: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rSY2sUPTDDc
Is it “thinking” or is it regurgitating analysis of the problem it found somewhere on the internet?
My electric rates more than doubled. No doubt for different reasons, including previously shelved infrastructure improvements such as underground lines.

For whatever reason, it hurts like hell.
Content marketing for a new text editor thinly disguised as AI rage-bait.

HN fell for it hard - 156 points, 180 comments (as of this writing).

Well done Nick! :) And congrats on launching Codescribble! Hope to see a "how my post on AI grew my userbase" followup in a few weeks!
Like the cloud compute we all use right now to serve most of what you use online?
Wow, thanks for sharing this beautiful essay by a legend that captures the essence of the llm debate.

That, the use of formal languages - although an evil (since it is not a natural human language) is essential to avoid nonsense (ie hallucinations). While intuition/natural language is more imaginative, formalism (ie narrow interfaces) is a forcing function to make things work.

According to Dijkstra, the use of natural languages regressed civilization by thousands of years (because of the nonsense and imprecision) ! So, expect thousands of years of LLM hell if we adopted it to replace our formal languages.

Indeed, math and other symbolism/formalism is a crowning achievement of humans.
And 2 months later I get asked to debug code like yours when it doesn't work for a customer and have to spend days or weeks digging into your code before I notice the LLM took some shortcuts that work most of the time, but are ever so slightly broken in edge cases, followed by me having to rebuild it all from scratch.

I literally just spent a full week on such a project. Respectfully, fuck people who don't read the docs/spec.
> What isn’t the bank doing for me that is in need of “disruption”?

Why is there still a hold for check deposits? Why do we still have banker's hours and business days for transactions?

There are plenty of ways banks could be improved
Not an expert myself, but I don’t believe $200k/year counts as a “FAANG salary” for anyone with founder-level responsibility.
Well, it's been used in this context for at least 33 years, so it the complaint is a bit late to make an impression.

https://minesparis-psl.hal.science/hal-00752774/document
Without being cynical: There are powerful and wealthy actors who benefit from the rules being so complex that the little guy can't manage. So it won't get simplier, if the rules are made by people who profit from them being a untraversable jungle that can be interpreted one way or another. If the rules are vague and complex, the corrupt elites profit, as they are the ones who decide how to interpret them.

And they currently got handed the keys in the nation with the worlds most powerful military.
The part where a python script ingested the books is not the infringing step, it's when they downloaded the books in the first place.
What's the line about paleolithic brains, medieval institutions, and sci-fi technology?

There's probably a use for AI in government. You can imagine the ability for a city council to ask constituents "we're hearing about this, share your experience" and break down 100,000 responses rather than just the 10 people that show up to a meeting for their 2 minutes. I can also imagine automations speeding up passport renewals. Red-teaming legislation for ambiguity isn't a bad idea.

But that's not our problem.

We don't need more software. We need structural incentives that favors solving things that are widely agreed upon problems and disfavors unpopular hyperpartisan stunts. We have the opposite.
From German Idealism to American Pragmatism, and Back (2012)
I believe a genuine way to address this problem is through the creation of financial sandboxes [1]: controlled environments where regulations are relaxed to promote innovation at a certain scale.

However, current regulations favor banks, making it difficult for new entrants to disrupt the status quo without becoming a bank themselves. This complexity is further compounded by the intersection of regulations and geopolitics, which makes change particularly challenging. Additionally, while lifting regulations can encourage innovation, it must be approached cautiously to avoid potential financial disasters.

[1] https://www.fca.org.uk/firms/innovation/regulatory-sandbox
> I’ve yet to see anything of value in terms products out of Meta.

Quest, PyTorch?
10x return
The implication isn't so much that AI will write laws, as it is that it can raise standards, make things clearer and more detailed.

And... Enable better understanding of context, since unlike human politicians, most LLMs have very board knowledge.

So it should reduce some of the automatic bad decision making that comes from bureaucrats making laws about things they don't (and maybe can't) understand.
Depends on what kind of restaurant.

But the point is that a business model that is "profitable" but actually took millions in initial capital and has no provision for debt service isn't an actually profitable business model.
Not when it's code that was only hard to write because you needed to know the right incantations to pipe data between different services.

Now you see the incantations that mostly work and the job of transforming it is easy.

Java's Bouncy Castle crypto library is a good example of this. The thing you're trying to do might be simple, but to do it, you might need to instantiate 8+ Java classes. It doesn't mean it's complex to read or hard to debug.
Haha, it's wild I get the reference. Amazing stuff MrCoffee!
Couple of notes:

- 96gb is not in the default numbers. This is a super common amount (4x24gb)

- The custom params input has bad UX where if I select the text and type 200000, it insists on putting a 0 in front (0200000)
Digital Seams, a blog about connections
The idea isn't to make them harder to understand, but rather to make them more consistent, nuanced, and aware of the real world in ways that politicians might not be.
Banks sell one thing--debt. Many have tried to "disrupt" that industry, but all attempts boil down to: getting a cut of payment fees or getting paid to resell debt. All "innovation" in this sector is done by crossing fingers and hoping the regulators don't notice you trying to use language to pretend you are a bank when you are not.
The declarative expression of the problem is elegant but even if this toy example is successfully resolved, make it a little more complicated and you'll have the interpreter ping-pong between two states infinitely.

As I see it. Prolog as a language and idea is great but the existing solvers are useless for any real problem ... or you'll have to resort to cuts and memorizing states and at least partially implement an imperative solution that you yourself have to come up with. And that's totally killing the magic.
Dustin Browder was hired by Blizzard to direct StarCraft 2 after directing Generals. That's about as big of an endorsement that I can think of.
What was illegal about Neflix, YouTube, and Tesla at first?
Are there any examples of medication that was developed for a disease that came out of GoF where the medication was approved and preventive mass production took place?
I don't have bluesky. I can get it. I just don't know where Tpot is on Bluesky
Perhaps you could direct me.
A is wrong but that’s fine because B also is.
This. Regulation has been set so high on banks that it makes it extremely difficult for new players to compete.

The reasons given for regulation are:

- protection from failure because of inability to not bail them out (and it has done a good job of this by and large, with some obvious risk oversights - e.g. silicon valley bank)

- money laundering regulations

The real corruption/monopoly in financial services that needs addressing are the amex/visa/mastercard transaction fees. The only way to fix this, in my opinion, is to have the consumer pay the fees.
The counter is poisoning the well of training data not trying to hide it.

Crawling the web is cheap. Finding hidden land mines in oceans of data can be next to impossible because a person can tell if something isn’t being crawled but they can’t inspect even a tiny fraction of what’s being ingested.
> compared to previous similar projects

Such as?
You'd almost definitely get more consistency. And improving the system would be easier.

Whereas the biases of human judges can be hard to detect, and even if you could correct one judge, that fix doesn't propagate to other judges with the same flaw.
I don't think most of your examples are correct, but in any case, not everything has to be started in the USA.

Private companies running a taxi service (arranged by phone) were widespread in the UK long before Uber, and surely also other places. Why couldn't Uber start there, if the USA was too restrictive?
Okay, but I'm not good at playing chess without seeing the chessboard. In fact I'm pretty awful at that.
> Content that is mostly-or-completely AI-generated that is passed off as being written by a human, regardless of quality.

I think something does not necessarily need to be "passed off as being written by a human" -- whether covertly, implicitly or explicitly -- to qyalify as AI slop.

There are ample examples of content sites and news articles etc that shamelessly post AI generated content -- without actively trying to claim it as human generated. Some sites may even have a disclaimer that they might sometimes use AI tools.

Still slop is slop becuase we are subjected to it and have to be wary of it, filter through it to separate low quality low effort content, expend mental energy in all this while feeling powerless etc.
The chinese gv would be cutting spending on AI according to your logic, but they are doing opposite, and they’d love to get those B200s I bet you
I turn to go; a creaking sound

Something huge looms behind.

“Tiny seed”, what have you done?
The “right to be forgotten” has caused a lot of conflicts with certain immutable data stores. If I can reconstruct a snapshot with a user’s data, have I actually “forgotten” them? Having a deadline where the merges fully occur and old data is rendered inaccessible is sometimes necessary legally.
Thank you for the feedback.

I also don't see myself writing an entire webapp with this either - perhaps small sites or simple API endpoints?

I was mainly scratching an itch I've had for a couple of years. I also really like tuning C code just for the fun of it!
What type of transactions do you need to make outside of business hours that you can’t do electronically?

And who actually deals with physical checks? Even the various contractors I used when preparing my home for sell took some form of electronic payment
could it be something to do with:

Air Quality Management Areas

Current AQMAs by Pollutant

https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/aqma/summary

OR maybe our water, full of human shit and run off chemicals

07/01/2025 Intestinal Enterococci levels = CFU/100ml = > 1000

07/01/2025 E.Coli levels = CFU/100ml = > 1000

https://watertestingriverthames.co.uk/

OR could it possibly be all the chemicals in food, in particular the "processing aids" that do not appear on food labels.

Forever chemicals, pesticides, herbicides etc etc

OR could it be all the unnnatural prescribed drugs that you dont need.

In fact just being alive today is a risk factor
There's definitely a balance between innovation and cancer. AirBnB started off great but now it's a cancer. Housing supply is at a massive shortage and Airbnbs eat up what little remains. 2 houses on my tiny street (which are all starter homes are Airbnb).

Uber started off great but quickly became incredibly expensive thanks to surge time and increased costs.
This is a case of doubling down on an investment too fast. Getting better lighting (enabled by cheap reliable LEDs) improved sales.

In this case the enabling technology price/existence was apparently not well-estimated. And apparently they didn't have enough foresight to use a conformal coating.

Also an initial contract of 10 years without a test market? That would be the pinnacle of incompetence.
It's fine until the LLMs succeed. Then you need to try another one.
I hope he's trolling. Some of the framing in the article suggests he might be. If he is, maybe he hopes this will stimulate public discourse into legal limits for the use of AI.
Youtube had a lot of illegal content early on and didn't make much effort to respect rightsholders etc. for a while until the service had taken off.
that was enjoyable, but someone anxiety inducing :) reminded me of ProZD's take on TCGs: https://youtu.be/EBIsZlV1jHk
Trust me I'm trying to dodge watching anything Musk but it ain't easy. The man becoming Rasputin doesn't help.
I have one and my main gripe with it is how large the power brick is. It's practically like carrying a second mini pc; I didn't take this into account when I got it, lesson learned.
I can see how it might be useful if the AI is only used for research and pointing out existing case law etc.

Otherwise it just sounds like another pointless and BS use-case from another rando AI company to keep the money taps flowing.
Maybe they should not exist at the first place.

So I cant use my car to carry out people, without a permission. However, if I do it with uber, I suddenly can!

More than this, I wonder if I can create a company to do taxi bussiness. I will buy 5 car, then rent out 5 more, do taxi bussiness… what makes uber so special, I wonder
Getting a banking license in the US at least is totally doable and lots of banks are created de novo every year.

As another commenter noted, anyone can create "money out of thin air". Come to my corner store and buy an apple on credit. Poof!

Credit was the original money, made out of thin air, and can be by anyone.
In a double-entry ledger the order of transactions doesn't matter, the balance is the sum of entries.

Depending on the data model of your log, if calculating the current state is a commutative operation, I think it's fair to call it a "ledger".
The essential feature of crypto is that you can transfer it without regards to rules. There are on/off ramps dealing with crypto as well as fiat, thus centralized entities, and they have to obey the rules indeed.

Look, guns are about shooting people. But at shooting ranges people are not shot. Nevertheless, guns are about shooting people.
And then Muscovites stole Rus name and tried to pretend they’re the leaders of pan(east)slavism. Probably one of the reasons for the outgoing war. Moscow wants to be the real Kiev. The only way is to destroy it.
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> a law should never be so complex that you need a superhuman AI to write it.

I would argue even more strongly: laws should be so simple that the majority of people affected by them should be able to understand the main points of those laws by reading them, even without legal assistance.

Lawyers to dot the i's and cross the t's, and to make sure the counterparty also did so, not to explain the basics.
I made a better table viewer to quickly find a new book