skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To modernize a running system, you have to duplicate everything so that you can someday do a switchover.

For commerce tech, you switch, see what breaks, switch back and adjust for next try. You may have lost some sales. But probably just inconvenienced people.

When doing travel systems, something breaking is likely a lot of deaths.
You've just described "law" in the current sense.

It's supposed to be applied equally to all citizens but we see cases everyday where it's not. The wealthy, the enforcers, and their allies are frequently spared from "the law"
Have you read the various reports that are available right there on the web page?
What makes you think this wasn’t indicative of how the agency was run?

The test was shut down because it was obvious and egregious: https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-.... But the people who designed it didn’t resign.
Yep. And it's annoying. So many cycles are being wasted essentially thinking about bad science fiction.

The same effort could be expended on plenty of other problems that are unsolved.
A wide variety of decades-old aircraft, and even newer aircraft are often modernized versions of ancient aircraft models. All of them built and operated with the motto "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", because every change brings risk (and costs money).

There was also a lot of resistance to the idea that every aircraft should broadcast its position, heading, etc. because of privacy concerns. And as long as there are holdouts the tower can't rely on the information being available
People don't understand the complexity of anything and why it cost so much, including the moron trying to make cuts.
I think LaTeX renderings are not unique. Is there a schema for normalizing them?
Ruby "Thread Contention" Is Simply GVL Queuing – Island94.org
Largest single-burial assemblage of beads at ancient Montelirio grave site
If you want to skip 30 minutes of audio fluff, read the original announcement.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/navigating-global-regul...

Long story short, it’s because of sanctions.
This site is pretty much silent on what the specific goals or demands are.
The PCV-AIS proposal integrates permanent cognitive surveillance into AGI systems by interpreting both stimuli and silences to anticipate needs. We propose a local operating system that manages resources and continuously updates the AI. Its value lies in enhancing adaptability, reactivity, and autonomy, with applications in personal assistance, robotics, medicine, and security.
Large infrastructure projects always take decades.

Look at the railroad development in EU for example. You have to invent a lot of tech (signaling, communication between trains, interoperability with old systems), build a lot of infrastructure, train a lot of people and roll it out at scale with the goal of zero accidents.

It is just impossible to do quickly.
Elon might as well be President in everything but name.
This is a nearly perfect problem for tech. We solve and automate very similar problems in other contexts at scale but FAA is extremely conservative about tech.
All of your examples are tools that incrementally improve upon what came before and, importantly, still require the user to have an understanding of and experience with the underlying skill.

The risk being posed here is that AI may not land as an incremental improvement that still requires the user to maintain some understanding of the underlying skill.

We aren’t quite there yet with the current LLMs. You still need to have a base level of knowledge to use them effectively. But if they were just a little bit better, hallucinated just a little bit less, the value of actually knowing things goes way down.

What would the incentive be to learn the underlying skill or area if the LLM can handle things just fine on its own? Why not just let the LLM figure it out and do it? And at that point, it ceases to be a tool and starts to be something you are completely dependent on. That is a risk.
seems like a bad idea
The case against CS Master's degrees
I just learned about poormansprofiler (https://poormansprofiler.org/): it's brilliant in its simplicity.
Faceless. Many of the "partner" orgs have copy from 2023.

A general strike is potentially useful tool in the US but the sketchiness factor here is high.
> as it is way too dangerous.

What led you to that belief? Air travel is one of the safest ways to get from here to there, and it’s widely enough used that clearly not very many people think it is too dangerous to use.
Oh! Of course, but the I think the word that OP used then should've been influential. Preeminent is more an adjective of quality I believe, but it might be my ESL showing.
I believe it still does at least for iOS, or it did last time I checked (for a Swift library I was writing).
It's a bit of both. Village societies don't have a lot of privacy. But they also don't make it possible for powerful individuals to datamine personal information of millions.

Most of us have more privacy than 200 years ago in some ways, and much less privacy in other ways.
AI is genuinely just a rebranding of "algorithms". Like I get it, it's faster and it works by feeding data instead of feeding code... but code is data, data is code etcetc...

Jim Keller said it best, about every 10 orders of magnitude in available computation the paradigm of computing shifts to a higher level of mathematical building blocks. In the beginning we had pure logic. Then came addition and subtraction, then came vectors, then came matrices, and now we're at tensors, he believes the next building block is graphs.

This is citing from memory while I'm sleep-deprived, but I think the general idea holds. Approximately every 10x increase in computation, there's a paradigm shift in what is possible.

But it's just algorithms. Always has been, and still is.
Chain of thought is very weird and very impressive. When you watch it work, it looks like a series of flash-frozen human voices being recruited onto the page. We know, of course, that these are the ones that happen to produce the responses we want at the end of the chain, but there isn’t imo an underlying meaning being communicated through the words. It’s a Chinese room responding to itself, built to produce desirable paths. Humans mostly don’t work that way. The subconscious can talk to itself without words, and it’s only the most blunt, underspecified ideas that get put into internal monologue.
Your comment assumes the current system can be scaled indefinitely. But you also acknowledge that we can't currently fill the staffing. I also explicitly called out that the modernization might not be tech changes but procedure changes (realistically it would likely be procedure changes made possible through tech).

Doing something to distribute information differently could result in redundancy such that if the commercial craft have a 1-3 mile ADS-B view around them, they can check that ATC isn't giving them bad instructions and that others are following directions.
The current admin no, but the current party yes. Politics cannot be ignored because this is the result of downstream effects from the Reagan era.

Firing everyone during the 1981 strike fucked up hiring for a decade. Rehiring a bunch of people all at once meant that they all would have the same general retirement timing (20-30 years). The bush era had some fucking around with the FAA as well.

COVID accelerated retirements and now Trump is demanding the fee that remain retire as well. So naturally the end result is a complete lack of staffing and a poor training pipeline for a job few people want to do.
Elon seems to have bought control over the US treasury, so he's in those leagues.
Is there any hope that desktops get 64GB dimms? 48GB dimms have been a nice boost but are we gonna get more anytime soon?

I'd love so much if quad-channel Strix Halo could get up to 256gb of memory. 192GB (4x48) won't be too bad, and at 8533MT/s, should provide competitive-ish throughput to these massive Epyc systems. Of course the $6k 24 channel 3200MHz is 4.4x more throughput but it does have a field of dimms to get there, and high power consumption.
Undated, a bit old, but solid/true.
But people talking about tools usually mean tools in the concrete sense. Even very complicated tools in the concrete sense, e.g. compilers or CNC mills, only act as multipliers to the operator's ability. A consultant is an agent, not a tool, and this is a better comparison for modern AI. It's an important distinction because an agent can fail or act against your interests through no fault of your own. The ability multiplier is unpredictable and potentially negative.
You mentioned Tracfone so I assumed your use case was what Tracfone users generally are. The phones are throwaway but they're very good throwaway devices. I don't know about your security updates comment being the case given I get plenty of security updates on the Tracfone I am using.
> - the task of crafting textual inputs to effectively direct LLMs -- remains difficult and labor-intensive

Damn, I knew we were lazy but describing prompting as labor-intensive is impressively lazy even to me.

Obviously reading the rest of the abstract was too labor intensive for me but I'm hoping I can just hook a probe up to my drool and it can infer my desires from that.
No. Slackware was my first distro after MS-DOS and Windows 95/2000 and the benefit was that it was a really simple thing, conceptually, and quite malleable.

So if someone's suggesting a distro that's good for "reclaiming your freedom", then one of the simplest distros out there, made and maintained by a single person and well docummented, but still challenging enough that you end up learning something, should be a legitimate way to go.
Nice work!

Things I love:

- How every book has a title & link to the google books

- Information density - You can see various publishers, sparse areas of the grid, and more

- Visualization of empty space -- great work at making it look like a big bookshelf!

Improvements?

- Instead of 2 floating panels, collapse to 1

- After clicking a book, the tooltip should disappear once you zoom out/move locations!

- Sort options (by year, by publisher name)

- Midlevel visualization - I feel like at the second zoom level (groupings of publishers), there's little information that it provides besides the names and relative sparsity (so we can remove the ISBN-related stuff on every shelf) Also since there are a fixed width of shelves, I can know there are 20 publishers, so no need! If we declutter, it'll make for a really nice physical experience!
I think you are making a mistake in assuming that the social dynamics around censorship in China are fundamentally that different from the ones around censorship in the US or other countries.

You could similarly argue that it is "funny" how every US business that builds something that can move around information must be knowledgeable about statistics that break down criminality or IQ by census race, or biological sex differences, or all manners of other "forbidden" information - but of course as members of the same social stratum as the people involved in such businesses in the US, we are not actually that worried about the possibility that our fellow tech elites will see the information they were supposed to censor and come in droves to want to introduce slavery or the Handmaid's Tale world or whatever. We consider the "forbidden" information merely wrong, evil, misguided or miscontextualised, and broadly trust our peers to see it in the same way. The real danger is instead if some other people, parts of the scary masses we don't have a good grasp of, are exposed to those memes and are misled into drawing conclusions that we know to be inappropriate, or at least unacceptable.

It's easy to imagine that a Chinese LLM wrangler would feel much the same: trustworthy, well-adjusted people know about Tiananmen Square and the Uyghurs anyway but understand that this information has to be seen in context and is prone to be interpreted in problematic ways, but who knows what would happen if we allowed uneducated and naive people to be exposed to it, and be led astray by cynical demagogues and foreign agitators?
I think “sense of urgency”, “trouble shooting”, “understanding what is influencing other people’s actions” and even the ability to run a sort of “run a mental simulation and anticipate second order effects” are uncommon skills.

I worked with a good technical support team that worked on some high end equipment, and regardless of education the ability to troubleshoot could be found regardless and … in spite of education.

In my current coding role I find myself saying “I don’t care if he used an html tag wrong, he anticipated a problem with several tickets and avoided them.” Just the will / ability to do that is so valuable.
Basically three components : ollama , openwebui and deepseek. Nice!
> As we near our critical goal of 11M strikers we will finalize our demands and prepare for Strike Day.

If you're going to ask 11 million people to commit to striking, shouldn't they know what they're striking for? Committing to a strike is an enormous commitment and risk - how can I possibly sign this if, when push comes to shove, the demands end up being like "coal workers will get a $0.10 raise through additional subsidies" or something. They don't seem to even have a hint of what they will demand.

The idea of a general strike has enormous power, but this in particular seems like a recipe for disappointment.
I have a riddle I’ve been asking AIs for a while. O3-mini not only gets it wrong, it digs its heels in and insists it is right.

When I present proof it is wrong, it says the proof is unreliable.
Yeah, but some of the next generation upgrades have already been successfully tested at some facilities and it's just a problem of updating the rest. Sure it will take years, but it shouldn't take a decade after successful testing in the field.
Is it possible to see microwave ovens on the ground with a Rydberg antenna array for in-cockpit drone Remote ID signal location?
Or 3D rendering, or even particularly intense graphic design-y stuff I think, right? In the 90’s… I mean, computers in the $1k-$2k range were pretty much entry level, right?
> Large craft could have ADS-B tracking of a 1-3 mile bubble displayed to them. This would add a check to being blindly told what to do and blindly trusting that others are doing what they're told.

Already exists, it's called TCAS
The reason AI slop is slop isn't because models are not advanced enough. The slop factor is inherent in the way AI works and cannot be fixed by brute force compute power.

AI is likelihood optimization under the hood. It draws the most statistically likely image. The human brain and eye is very good at picking out "average" pictures. Turns out our in-built AI detection capabilities are very, very good. (This might actually kill the AI industry very quickly. I imagine in a couple years AI-generated pictures or texts will be the lamest thing ever, and AI companies will lose a shitload of money in this arms race.)
What were the good ideas?
The implication is some sort of greenfield change-everything-at-once idea?

There is no choice but to do the alternative: modify and modernise all our critical systems piecemeal over decades while they are running, covered by the business cliche "We are building the plane, while flying it."

We all naively desire (especially politicians) the software concept of the big rewrite, the version 2, project phoenix, Second-System
Syndrome. With development experience we learn both the psychological pull of the concept and we learn why it is so hard to do successfully. It always seems so simple how to fix societal systems we have no experience with.

Successful systems slowly improve, slowly introduce and prove new ideas, slowly accrete changes: we accept the costs of vestigial path-dependent aspects and technical debt.

One of the incredible learning experiences of developing software systems is that it is a huge melting pot of different techniques that are iterated quickly (fast parallel evolution and proving) and the knowledge diffuses between people and teams and organisations. The waterfall model is rarely used! I believe we are now seeing those skills and techniques be applied to other system domains - especially high growth businesses.
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-linux-terminal-d... :-)
It seems like there are shortages in every field according to the media. Shortage in tech workers, shortage in doctors and nurses, shortage of air traffic controllers. Shortages all around.

Here's how to instantly cure shortages of ATCs: Each airline is responsible for staffing N ATCs per scheduled flight at a given airport, calculated on a yearly basis.
The concerns you mention don't exclude the ones GP posits.
They didn't make anything up. What they said is 100% accurate and lines up with what you said, you just have additional context they didn't have. Your fight should be with the reporting outlets because that is how they are reporting it.
The Road to Mainstream Matrix [video]
For me, o1 but not 4o could solve the modified problem when told it’s solving a logic problem.

Having to give explicit framing reminds me of tutoring children and trying to teach them about abstract problems — some really struggle with the concept, when it goes against previous knowledge, eg cabbages eating goats. (And LLMs are sensitive to context.)
Does this kind of big bang organisation work versus something more organic?

What I mean is this idea you get 11M to commit then they'll do it and not chicken out.
tl;dr

He wasn't developing new drug dosage formats as a hobbyist, by experimenting using contraband without having permission.

Nope, he was just stealing contraband from the evidence room, and covering it up in a way that wouldn't be expected to withstand much scrutiny.

Whether he had permission to do that or not over an entire 10-year period would be hard to know for sure, considering how easily such permission could be revoked :\
In the leaked ATC recording, the display is showing a collision alert before the impact. It just doesn't have any capability to do anything about them, it has to rely on the air traffic controller to resolve the issue.

You could argue that helicopters, being very nimble craft, should have ADS-B receivers and provide display and sound their own collision warnings to their pilots. That's perfectly possible, I just don't think it's mandated
This reeks of manipulation and propaganda.

I'm not opposed to the idea of strikes but ... why would I join a movement when it's not clear to me what I'm signing up for.

Check it out, nowhere in their site, nowhere in their media, nowhere in their comms do they lay out exactly what such demands are.

>Research shows We need 3.5% of the population, OR 11 million Americans, to be successFul

(typos from the original source)

What does it mean "to be succesful"? Who gets to win what, how, and why?

>A strike of 11 million people means people of every race, gender and ability must come together to win.

(from their "Values" page)

Again, what exactly does it mean to win?

These questions should be answered in the opening paragraph of the site. If they don't do it it's because they are either extremely incompetent or have a covert motivation. Both reasons make me want to stay away from this movement.
I think you can also easily do the pretty animations in a 50mb in ram "native" application
> In the era in which government information was published in paper formats, preservation of that information relied on libraries. The information was distributed to FDLP libraries based on the needs of the communities that those libraries served.

[...]

> In the digital age, government publishing has shifted from the distribution of unalterable printed books to digital posts on government websites. Such digital publications can be moved, altered, and withdrawn at the flick of a switch. Publishing agencies are not required to preserve their own information, nor to provide free access to it.

An important lesson here.

Which I guess was already known - see how the Library of Alexandria burned down, but random receipts on clay tablets / papyrus were preserved.
Highlight (benchmark of Perl source code):

The results follow:
xz -T16 -9 -k - 2'056'645'240 bytes (c=12m09s, d=4m40s)
bzip2 -9 -k - 3'441'163'911 bytes (c=17m16s, d=9m22s)
bzip3 -b 256 - 1'001'957'587 bytes (c=7m10s, d=4m6s? Unclear on source page)
bzip3 -b 511 - 546'456'978 bytes (c=7m08s, d=4m6s? Unclear)
zstd -T12 -16 - 3'076'143'660 bytes (c=6m32s, d=3m51s)

edit: Adding times and compression levels
can't be "First Emperor" if it's known that someone else was in charge before you
'“run a mental simulation and anticipate second order effects” are uncommon skill.'

There are literally people who are innately unable to do this (run mental simulations). I wonder what the percentage is though.
Yeah, there is a lot of space to explore regarding RNGs (e.g. short period but with a large stream space), but this isn't helpful.
Ask HN: Are you tired of all LLM posts on HN?
I'm something of an LLM researcher myself, but there's just too many LLM-related posts on HN imo. Almost anything with the word "LLM" in the title finds its way to the front page, while other actually programming/hacker-related posts get ignored.
Have you asked any? I mean has anyone literally told you this?

Because people here in the field are saying what discourages others from applying is low pay and high stress. Yet you seem to think it’s an outdated hiring practice, so who told you that?
There are so many avenues to do that today that don’t involve working to advance the coming dystopia.
Kevin Kelly was on a recent episode of the Farnham Street podcast and was surprised by how much he anthropomorphized AI. Maybe that's not a surprise to people that know more about him, but it was to me.
>> I think the world is more likely to end due to bog standard conflicts escalating into an actual war. Not some sort of AGI/ASI going skynet

WOPPER, not skynet. You saw War Games right?
A society accustomed to "magic pills" tends to think this way.

Feels like a marketing/PR issue where every complexity or downside is hidden.
Yes, the context in which this happens could provide clues as to the nature of these losses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42898165
elect a clown, expect the whole circus
Duolingo has come a long way from those origins. It’s a gamified language learning app now, but with support of some languages reflecting that earlier crowd-sourced era. This video is a super interesting dive into the history and current state:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SoTT-GGmiXA

FWIW, I like Duolingo and think it is a healthy and productive use of gamification, but that does come at the cost of pure efficiency and comprehensive treatment of grammar. It’s best when paired with other tools.

Most people’s problem with learning a language is not speed, it’s the quit rate.
These days getting on a list may require as little as "is trans" or "has immigrant parents."
Swift is a nice language. I'm glad to see it being released from the clutches of Apple. I can only imagine how large of a task this is. I hope some day to be able to use it. The last time I tried a cross-platform project with it I switched languages due to `URLSession.shared.data` (a network request) being unable to compile on Linux.
AI-Driven Self-Healing CI Pipelines: Automating Test Fixes and Merging Safely
Frankly the pay should be comparable to commercial pilots in the current market. Or more.

Funding sadly is probably better handled as a tax on the people rather than the industry simply because ATCs protect more than just commercial crew and passengers, and more than just their home country.
Working on it:
https://github.com/swiftlang/swiftly?tab=readme-ov-file