skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever been able to get a community license? I've submitted a request for one several times over the last year or two and never received a response, not even a denial.
Is a new button assembly from LG not available? The JST connector suggests it was designed to be easily replaced.
The video is September 2019. Before December 2019. Hence PRC narrative that there were signs of covid like infections in US before PRC. I'm clarifying the propaganda. You can look up EVALI to see full timeline, which starts early 2019, in line with PRC narrative.
Cloud market working well if you're AWS and Microsoft
"Jobs are going to be lost unless there's somehow a demand for more applications."

That's why I'm not worried. There is already SO MUCH more demand for code than we're able to keep up with. Show me a company that doesn't have a backlog a mile long where most of the internal conversations are about how to prioritize what to build next.

I think LLM assistance makes programmers significantly more productive, which makes us MORE valuable because we can deliver more business value in the same amount of time.

Companies that would never have considered building custom software because they'd need a team of 6 working for 12 months may now hire developers if they only need 2 working for 3 months to get something useful.
(to_lisp);
(loop for i below 1000000 count t) takes 0.34 seconds on my system with vanilla maxima (on gcl). In the browser it takes about 7 seconds, so it must be a factor of 21 in computer time. Using sbcl outside maxima it takes 0.002 seconds. So one can get some idea about performance.

Perhaps it could be combined with J (array language), like in the playground https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Playground that is using webassembly

It seems to work very well locally without connection to the web.
Around 2011 a report from the CBO came across my desk. It was a study regarding how long US military retirees lived after retirement.

Two key findings were in the report:

Career Military lived (this is from memory but should be very close to accurate) 7-15 years longer than their civilian cohort.

The difference in longevity tracked so strongly with rank they had to run the numbers several times and make sure there weren’t errors. As in, E5 retirees were the shortest lived, while O6+ were the longest.

They identified several possible reasons for the longer lifespans including availability of care and adherence to care. They also identified several possible reasons for the difference between ranks including obesity, smoking, and alcohol use (all had the same trends).

That report likely led to us reducing the military pension, which has had a fairly impressive negative impact on retention.

All of that to say that defined benefits plans are EXPENSIVE and they cut those benefits 20% due to people living ~40 years retired vs the budgeted ~25.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835183
> Human corpses keep moving for over a year after death, scientist says (2019)

Some of them were even presidents. /s
Or move the whole outfit to the US and get access to plentiful chips and electricity... unfortunately I think the CCP might have something to say about that
The new link has some pretty good viz going on, so at lest they put a lot of effort into re-presenting the data.
Yes, if I go to the toilet I take my backpack/small bag with me, because usually I have valuable stuff in them and are easy to carry. This does not apply to a large bag (in which I don't put valuable stuff).

The standard is mine and I follow it. The same way I find absurd not to do it, you find it unreasonable to do it.

I find the expectation that things are not stolen (if unsupervised in public places) strange considering the huge amount of inequalities in wealth around even in civilized countries. I do not agree with the idea of stealing, thiefs should be punished, but expecting everybody "to behave" given the situation seems unrealistic to me.

That does not mean that I think that things are stolen 100% of the time. I have a friend that forgot a laptop on a bus (Netherlands) and the driver found it at the end of the line and gave it to lost objects so my friend got it back.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42849089
The Greatest Growth Hack of All Times Meets Its David in a Chinese Quant
Who besides Oracle offers this stuff though?

Yeah Oracle has a bunch of nice features, it also costs a gajillion dollars that no one besides a large enterprise can afford.
In your opinion, what "money" is not "funny"? Land? Gold?
The OpenAI Critique, Comparative Advantage and Infrastructure, Aggregation
Okay that makes sense. I can see how the tracking features would be really valuable to you, or really anyone that is very fitness minded. Probably folks like you make up a minority – though significant – market segment? Of my friends, many of them are fit, but I suspect only a few are engaging with their fitness data on the level you are.

I think some aspect of it must be aspirational. Man sees the advanced fitness features and thinks, "this is the thing that will get me looking like Vin Diesel!" and it feels productive to hit that Record Workout button and so the watch makes you feel more athletic in the same way that chatting on Slack can feel like you're being productive when you're not actually changing your behavior on a fundamental level.
Closed the window after the 3rd spam/ad overlay. Horrible site
I think it was just as much that the people who wrote blogs were switching to writing in the walled gardens of social media as it was the consumers. But yeah, I greatly prefer the days of blogs and RSS readers.

Now you have Substack and Medium and such, which are pretty decent.
One of the best Van Halen albums?
Sam Curry is a beast and I'm constantly amazed at how many vulns he finds each year. He's super talented and also gives great talks!
This kind of resource variability seems likely to favor the development of intelligence, so there’s that.

But I m sure we will find that the planet has issues that make complex life unlikely, just on a statistical basis.

Simple life seems increasingly likely to propagate through panspermia, based on what we find deep inside the crust of our planet. Life forms that feed off of radioactive decay especially seem promising for panspermia.

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if we discovered that for habitable zone, earth-like planets , the presence of simple life forms deep inside the crust turns out to be the rule rather than the exception, at least in our corner of the galaxy.
It isn’t about trust, it is about how likely you are to encounter a risk and how big that risk, if encountered, is. Do you own a hazmat suit? A nuclear bunker? Did you install a 5-point harness and wear a helmet when you drive? Could you be tortured for information by the police? Yes. Is that in any way likely at all? No. Taking reasonable precautions against likely actions by law enforcement is better than acting like all things are possible so no point in doing anything.
I have no idea how to treat chimps, let alone glorified chimps. What does this mean in practical terms?
People want a villain.
Oh good, my favorite Rush song is still safe.
Yep! Less than 1B in total [0]:

> 860M UNet and 123M text encoder

[0] https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion/blob/main/README...
Error handling is really not an issue that needs fixing in Golang. That being said, I wish Golang had an assert key word as a shortcut to "if cond { panic }". A lot of those "if err != nil" in the wild should really just be assertions.
That would indeed be a bad point, and basically a conspiracy theory. I do not believe that.

My point is that "The Government" is not a singular hivemind, and can't be meaningfully analyzed as such. There are people, those people operate as part of The Government, but any analysis cannot be separated from the person or their affiliations.

Saying "The Government did X" only leads to the misunderstanding that "X" wouldn't have happened without The Government. In reality, "The Government" was the hammer that person "A" used to do "X". Had he not had that hammer, he could have used another.
> I feel like error handling in Go is divided between people who have been using the language for a long time, and those who are new to it. If you're used to exceptions, and languages with some kind of '?' operator, typing `if err != nil` all the time is probably excruciating. They seem to be the most vocal in the survey about wanting beloved error handling features from their favorite languages.

This implies that the only people who dislike Go's error handling are newbies that "don't get it".

Go's error handling is objectively bad for two reasons:

1. You are never forced to check or handle errors. It's easy to accidentally miss an `if err != nil` check, I've seen sages and newbies alike make this mistake.

> Errors in Go are right there, in your face, and undeniable that the operation you are doing can be faulty somehow.

2. Repeating `if err != nil` ad nauseam is not handling errors. Knowing the operation can be faulty somehow is a good way of putting it, because in most cases it's difficult — if not impossible — to figure out what specific failures may occur. This is exacerbated by the historical reliance on strings.
e.g., Is it a simple issue that can be easily recovered? Is it a fatal error?
Ah, that's fair enough. I was thinking of the positive e-ink-like properties, but this is a good point. "e-paper" in fact makes more sense here.
The biggest issue I have with this proposal is that reading the code in naïve fashion comes up with the wrong answer for me; YMMV. The proposed form--

foo ? { bar }

Reads naturally to me as "If foo then bar", when it's actually "If foo's error return exists then bar". I would suggest a different operator character, because this one reads wrongly IMO.

Maybe it's just because I originally come from C, where `foo ? bar : baz` meant "if foo then bar else baz", but the fact remains...
OpenAI's Sam Altman vows 'better models'
https://archive.is/wKdih
> What happens if my return objects are out of the normal order? Like F() (int, error, int) {...}

The convention is that error should be the last return value. If the error is not nil, then discard other returned values.
Personally, I woulden't even both for internal part requests like that, especially when devices are often stamped "no user servicable parts inside".

If you have the know how to rework PCB's like this person (and all the equipment already on hand), I would estimate that it's the same amount of effort to just fix it like this yourself, than to seek out the manufacturer, communicate and identify the internal part, and arrange payment.
Had a lot of fun with this last week, played 10-20 games. It does reach a point where you can beat every game, I found myself craving an extended version that introduces some new elements.

One gripe, the code is incredibly inefficient - my laptop fan was running full speed and battery draining fast, while the game board just sits there with no animations or anything going on. Should be basically using 0% CPU while idle.

Anyway really fun concept & execution, and great game design.
Highly recommend listening to In our Times (BBC) episode "The Habitability of Planets" that was aired last month.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025vvd
Not OP but I got one. Some days ago I got another mail with a new version followed by another mail with a bugfix.
> It's not in our habitable zone.

The habitable zone is defined as the area around a star where liquid water could be found, there is no "our" habitable zone and "their" habitable zone.
Good point. I'll add some code snippets when I get a chance
Fyi the latest builds of OpenSCAD have a new fast-csg library.

My compiling never takes more then a minute, usually it's less than a second.

Waiting over an hour to compile a CAD drawing seems untenable to me.

https://ochafik.com/jekyll/update/2022/02/09/openscad-fast-c...
No the O-rings were essential to prevent blowby. If the seal the o-rings provided was lost, then exhaust gasses could exit the rocket not via the nozzle. This would cause a cascading failure where the exhaust gasses would erode the structure of the booster and make the hole bigger until eventual failure.

In the case of Challenger, the booster structure didn't fail completely due to blowby because the fuel tank exploded first.

What you're thinking of is the fact that they used multiple O-rings to prevent blowby, but in reality only one was needed. Blowby appearing on the primary O-rings was ignored since the secondaries prevented catastrophic failure on earlier flights, but any blowby erosion on any O-ring should have been recognized as a dangerous anomaly.

O-rings were the best way to seal this joint because they had a high ability to resist temperature and pressure, while remaining flexible. There's no "putty" that could be applied that would have worked better.
My greatest problem is duplicating the secret sauce of GHCP: it has access to your project and can use it as context.

Admittedly, I haven't looked too hard, but how could I do that with a model from, say, Ollama and run exclusively on my machine?
They've bought up a whole series of services I was using and ruined them.

Anyway. Nice to see the FTC getting a few wins in before they are defanged by the new administration.
> "appears to behave normally in regular matters and is capable of independent living, does not match other DSM symptoms, but believes insane things"

I have met a lot of people in my life who fit this criteria. Not one of them has gone on to become a mass shooter.

Saying we need a phrase to label people like this in order to _stop mass killings_ sounds crazy to me.

If you really had the option to explore the psyche of everyone to the depth necessary to check for "believes insane things" if we could even agree on what that means, I wouldn't be surprised if the test came back positive on 40-70% of the population. A strict enough test and I think we could get that number to 100%.

Isn't it a meme at this point how people win the nobel prize in one field, and then say some nutty nonsense about a completely different field? The human species is rational, insane, brilliant, stupid, compassionate and vicious, ugly and beautiful all at once. All of us.

More compassion for self and others would be my preference.
How long do you see the humans in the loop being necessary?
I remember when I was young, fixing the power button for my Commodore monitor with a switch salvaged from a hairdryer. It just hung off the monitor, dangling with several inches of extra wire.
> Meta scrambling 'war rooms' of engineers to figure out DeepSeek's AI

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in the war room."
Expensive models are AI companies core business.

Meta can use cheap models to enhance core business.
> To your point about OCR: I think you'll find that the existing OCR tools will not know where to begin with the 18th century Mexican medical text in the second case study. If you can find one that is able to transcribe that lettering, please do let me know because it would be incredibly useful.

My point about OCR is you haven't done any comparison and is now making the same mistake of claiming without any evidence. The most basic one from google translate does "know where to begin", it even doesn't make the "physical" mistake, though makes others. It also does know where to begin with the image from your second post, although it seems worse.
And it's not the state of the art, and I don't know what that is for spanish either, but again, that wasn't my point. You do not have a care-free option, to be able to understand that "physical" mistake you'd still need to read the source, which means you still need those days/weeks of training

> none of them that I'm aware of are good enough to deal with difficult paleography

And you haven't demonstrated anything re. difficult paleography for the LLMs in your article either!

> entirely typos which don't change the meaning

First, you'd need to actually demonstrate that, and that would require the full accounting which you haven't done (and no, I don't plan to do that either)
This could be a typo in a name or a year, which is bound to have some impact on a historical researcher? He'd try searching for a misspelled name and find nothing while there could've been an interesting connection in some other text?

>translation, the state of the art that I was aware of before LLMs is Google Translate, and I think anyone who tries both on the same text can see which works better there.

Yes, do try it, for example, in Deepl, to see that it's not any worse

> no way to make an objective statement about what's relevant and what's not until you actually read something rather than an AI summary

Sure, but presumably you've done that before making the claim of relevance "on reflection"? So how is it relevant to demand this "human labor" of the students?
Parts of our own Earth aren't in the habitable zone, by that definition. Even here we get big surprises - undersea vents were unexpected oases, microbes miles deep underground, microbes living in boiling water in Yellowstone...

Not all life in the universe may require liquid water, nor require it 24/7. In our own solar system, some planetoids outside our supposed habitable zone likely have some liquid water - Europa and Enceladus, for example.
This being HN, my mind went immediately to the IBM 5150...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5150
Economist Exposes Nobel Prize Winner on Climate Change [video]
It is outrageous and irresponsible to charge for MFA.

It show a cavalier attitude toward the greater security of the internet.
honestly with copilot and friends this is not really an issue
LLMs are only marginally useful for coding. You have simply chosen to dismiss or or 'give up' on that fact. You've chosen what you want to believe in contrast to the reality that we are all experiencing.
you can also find the model via OpenRouter https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-r1
Total dissolved solids?

Technical Documentation Services?

Time-driven switching?
Yeah that makes a lot of sense, my mistake for posting before coffee.
> You are never forced to check or handle errors. It's easy to accidentally miss an `if err != nil` check, I've seen sages and newbies alike make this mistake.

While I also don't like Go's error handling approach I thought Go compiler gives an error if a variable is unused, in this case `err`. Is this not the case?
It's not even a "gray swan" event, it was entirely predictable. Google was internally explicitly predicting this a year and a half ago* and they can't have been the only ones.

*"Google 'We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI'" - https://semianalysis.com/2023/05/04/google-we-have-no-moat-a...
surely more relevant comments could exist in the aether of the internet.
So they cannot wear a flag emblem, unless it's tattooed on them maybe.
Given the opportunity I usually install a heavy toggle switch when a cheap plastic PCB switch fails. I don't think I could pull that off with a 5-option joystick like that.
The reason why this doesn't work on Firefox:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41157383
Seeing two times "trusted", makes me suspicious.
Was this blog also written by LLM?
"blogspam" is a bit harsh - it's based on a different dataset, and if you scroll down they do acknowledge Nick Berry's old analysis.
There are a bunch of tools that might be able to do that. I'd start by exploring https://aider.chat/
Loving this comment on that PR:

> I'm losing my job right in front of my eyes. Thank you, Father.
There is no indication that adding more compute will give AGI
Not everything is american politics though. It does get tiring to hear about American politics non stop. We aren't talking about general social issues here, but about American politics. I wouldn't want to hear about Chinese local politics non stop either, and I don't think a lot of people browsing Hn would.
How quickly do you think that manufacturers could set up American fab plants? Domestic chip production on the level of TSMC is several years out even if all available resources were directed toward it now.
Reminder that Subaru have terrible data privacy terms: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/subaru/

Opt out here if you own one of their cars with connected services: https://subarucustomersupport.powerappsportals.com/Consumer-...
I'm taking this opportunity to Ask HN: what do you think of the new Bitwarden browser extension?

Sure it looks more modern and a few things are better.

But personaly I HATE the new "copy" button.

With the old version there was a button for each field : one to copy the login, one to copy the password, one to copy the TOTP.

Now there's just a single button that will display a list of options to choose from depending on what you want to copy.

So instead of copying a field with one click, now I need to do one click, go on the right option, and another click.

Even worse: if the account contains only one field, the copy button will still display the list of options, with just one option.

How could nobody think that when the user want to copy something from a list, and this list contains only one item, the right thing to do is to copy this single thing, not ask them what they want to copy...
yeah. good points. mandlebrot wrote about this as well. that portfolio theory is based "normal" curve returns but crashes occur with much higher probability than a normal distribution would assume. he made a case for fractals.

managing options is hard. when do you close the hedge after it gives you a profit? when do you put it back on.
Forgiven, yes, but I still cannot trust them.

A decade of messing with my search results (they only cannot do that anymore since I switched to Kagi) and the killing of Google+ (still interested if anyone have alternatives. Despite its problematic start it became the only social network I ever enjoyed).
Awesome. I love desmos. I just used it yesterday for a Wave mathematics class I taught for a homeschool group. I also wrote a math graphing program that helps make math beautiful called [Truthy Graph](https://truthygraph.github.io/). It came from a thought: most graphing programs only graph were both sides of the equation are exactly equal, but what would it look like to see also where they are nearly equal (in other words, the error gradient)?
The new chair was nominated for the FTC (as a commissioner, not chair) by Biden.
But a random passerby also isn't admissible in court but could be used as a tip, right? If an anonymous person calls the cops and says "I heard someone say that Bob did it", there's no chance in hell that an anonymous person's hearsay could be admitted as evidence in any court, but if the cops get that tip, decide to check Bob's social media and decide that Bob looks a lot like the guy in their CCTV footage, they're not getting a warrant for a search based solely on the inadmissible hearsay, they're getting it based on their determination that the tip that they got does happen to match the footage they have. If they had to manually make a determination about whether a given person's face matched up with their CCTV footage and the warrant was issued on their determination that it does, it seems very complicated to then figure out to what extent the tip itself has to be admissible as evidence, right? Like, if a psychic called a police department with a tip and the cops put a house under surveillance and the surveillance reveals probable cause to get a warrant, should that kill the case because the tip came from supernatural sources?
Don’t forget the chance for him to shit on domain experts for having models that fail to account for everything as if that’s supposed to be a gotcha
LLMs are incredibly useful for coding, if you learn how to apply them effectively. You have simply chosen to dismiss or 'give up' on that fact.
Here's a heat map you can zoom in on:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1cn7l7r/oc...

Also consider this scene from Trainspotting 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EQCpQbUrzI :)