skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this approach: use a bunch of LLMs on various machines.

SomeOddCodeGuy in Reddit shared his very cool multi LLM setup [1]. I quote:

> I have 2 "assistants" set up, with the intention to later add a third. Each assistant is essentially built to be an advanced "rubber duck" (as in the rubber duck programming method where you talk through a problem to an inanimate object and it helps you solve this problem). Each assistant is built entirely to talk through problems with me, of any kind, and help me solve them by challenging me, answering my questions, or using a specific set of instructions on how to think through issues in unique ways. Each assistant is built to be different, and thus solve things differently.

Each assistant is made up of multiple LLMs. Some examples would be:

A responder model, which does the talking

A RAG model, which I use for pulling data from the offline wikipedia api for factual questions

A reasoning model, for thinking through a response before the responder answers

A coding model, for handle code issues and math issues.

See his post at https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1i1kz1c/sharing...
I doubt those crawler rules will be honoured for long.

I wouldn’t even be surprised if a law is passed requiring sites to provide equal access to humans whether accessed directly or via these models.

It’s too important an innovation to stall, especially considering the US’s competitors (China) won’t respect robots.txt either.
i think hypermarkets achieve their bigness not by being bigger supermarkets, but by selling everything a supermarket sells, and then also selling everything a department store sells.
You can synthesize the parts to get the whole. Both uses are correct AFAIK
I mean they could be googling things; I’ve definitely googled stuff during an interview. I do think in-person interviews area important though, I did some remote final interviews with Amazon and they were all terrible
Ya, this is about triggering vortexes in order to keep the flow stable and near the skin. It isn't about laminar flow which, at the back end of an airplane, isn't such an advantage.
It's called absurd not because it's not understood, or because there aren't technical counterarguments to be made.

It's called absurd because it does not deserve to be humoured the effort of writing out those arguments.

> Here's some names in the field. 15/19 think the risk is significant

A list that is largely a pile of clowns and morons, many with direct financial interests in amplifying the "danger"/power of AI.

This is why the doomsday cult is not taken serious.
So you stopped ca. 30 years ago?
Oh! Sorry I meant "Blowing the Bloody Doors Off".
Today's Russia is not communist in any way. It's a far-right-wing autocratic kleptocracy, where all power is held by a single individual and those who have personal favor with him, all wealth is managed through a cycle of corrupt state-sponsored ventures, and all cultural identity is wrapped up in tradition and faux-masculinity. There's not even a pretention of left-wing influence; it's a fully fascist state.

The USSR was obviously similar in practice for most of its history, especially under Stalin, but it still pretended to maintain the trappings of a communist structure. And at least the USSR made it clear what the rules were: it was an unabashed command economy, with property owned by the state, and economic decisions flowing through the party leadership. The Putin/Trump version where there's a de jure market economy but de facto control by the ruling party is a different kind of corruption incentive - it's much harder to challenge what theoretically isn't happening.
Anyone selling anything would want to remain crawlable if people use this to research something that could lead to a purchase.
this is so precise.
I guess we’ll need a global version of https://datacolada.org/ quite soon to not get hit by a bus in every scientific field
What do you work on now that doesn't have real negative impacts to individuals or society?
yeah the name of the game now is just to avoid any company that has shitty recruitment. you can tell in an instant if they are worth your time or not, which I'd say in Canada is about 90% a waste of time.

someone who actually wants to hire will want you and wants to do whatever they can to get a good candidate.
> Is it trans people who have caused women's sports to be second-class, or the patriarchy enforced by cisgender men?

Is there any possible other reason than these two things, do you think, for this state of affairs?

> making a class of women inherently lesser.

A sort of Morton's fork here would be that transwomen are lesser women because they have to assume that identity instead of starting there (to say nothing of the intuitive biological differences), or that women (and thus trans women) are lesser because they are a subset of the functionality offered by men (because they can be emulated by men choosing to do so). I don't particularly agree with either point, mind you, but both could be made. The trivial solution to avoid this is to simply acknowledge that trans women are neither men nor women (nor trans men) and are a category unto themselves worth valuing on their own merits and characteristics.

> True. Her brain was cooked by constant exposure to right-wing bigotry on social media, like many others'.

If it is reasonable to believe--as everybody seems told to--that constant exposure to right-wing media and bigotry can turn somebody into a bigot, is it really a stretch to believe that for some chunk of the trans population the same has taken place? Further, do you see why such doublethink would make the trans folks who preach it suspect to normies who see the obvious?

> We are entirely the products of our genetics and our environments.

If that's the case, it suggests something odious: there is no virtue in being trans--you're a medical and social anomaly, and if we can remove the factors that cause trans folks to occur all that suffering goes away in a generation or two and the system does better (on the metric of suffering).

And before you go off on how this is unethical or not virtuous or whatever, by your own assertion...

> I am a very firm believer that there is no free will.

...such a solution is admissible and without blame, because no moral agents would be involved in its occurrence.

(You don't get to claim there is no free will and then hold anybody accountable in any moral way. Morality does not exist unless free will does; otherwise, it's just the dull observation of iterated cost-benefit analysis and reactions to an environment.)
> At least there was some understanding behind the scenes of where the numbers came from, and sources would/could be provided.

Oh Sweet summer child.
I think this is a Type A enjoyer vs Type B enjoyer thing.

To me, if I enjoy every episode but dislike an ending... I still enjoyed 99% of the series.

Because, as I was watching each of those episodes, I was having fun.

It seems super unhealthy to retroactively go back in time and say 'That expression of glee on my face at the time wasn't actually happiness, because I just didn't know the ending was going to suck.'
Charlie Hamilton James and Jeff Wilson of "Billy and Molly: An Otter Love Story"
I can't take that logo seriously with that unholy union of a hard drive and a floppy
The "environment".
Federal employees are unionized. There are procedures to dismiss employees. They are not following those procedures.

So, no, I didn't just throw that on there.

Even if there weren't, are you so callous and heartless that you can't see how this blow-it-all-up approach is making chaos of people's lives? Is that what you're here for... to make things hard on people?

The Republicans won the election. That doesn't mean trample the entirety of the country to fit their vision. The Democrats have done nothing like this.

Stop defending fascists. It's not a good look.
Yes! This plays into my favorite pet theory - that herpesviruses (and/or other microbes) are the cause of Alzheimers:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5457904/pdf/nihms85...
The accuracy of this tool does not matter. This is exclusively designed for box ticking "reports" that nobody reads and a produced for the sake of itself.
So much cynicism and hate in these comments, especially as we are likely witnessing AGI come to life. Its still early, but it might be coming. Where is the excitement? This is an interesting time to be alive.

HN has a huge cultural problem that makes this website almost irrelevant. All the interesting takes have moved to X/twitter
Two birds with one stone: timing for Deepseek and feature for Gemini
This is trivially bypassed by OpenAI asking the user to take control of their computer (or a sandboxed browser within it,) then for all intents and purposes it’s the user themselves accessing your site (with some productivity/accessibility aid from OAI.)
You get functions that are easily testable in isolation with all state provided in parameters.

You also get explicit dependencies and scoping controlled by caller.

I don't mind globals but saying you get nothing for avoiding them is :/
Primarily, I agree. However, I think there is a secondary effect once it's wide enough spread that others start to think things are hopeless, or the crime and broken homes from the drug use erode the hope of others.
Apple Designs a Virtual Knob (2022)
Sure if you're viewing this as some kind of spectator thing, or entertainment, maybe it's less interesting. But it doesn't really matter whether "people care". What matters is whether it's useful and has impact. It's enough if the small number of people use it for whom it is useful. It doesn't matter if the average Joe on the street is excited by it.

Few people care or even know about various advances in various specialized fields. It's enough if AI simply seeps into various applications in boring and non-flashy ways for it to have significant effects that will affect a wider range of people, whether they get hyped by the news announcements or not. Jobs etc.

An analogy: the Internet as such is not very exciting nowadays, certainly not in the way it was exciting in the 90s with all the news segments about surfing the information superhighway or whatever. There was a lot of buzz around the web, but then it got normalized. It didn't disappear, it just got taken for granted. No average person got excited around HTML5 or IPv6. It just chugs along in the background. AI will similarly simply build into the fabric of how things get done. Sometimes visibly to the average person, sometimes just behind the scenes.
> We wouldn't have to guess and allow for right-wing conjectures if FAA were just transparent on the process and if any changes have been made.

There's no world where you out-research every conspiracy theory, especially all the right-wing ones during an Trump/RFK/Musk era.

But for what it's worth the family member who failed was a minority, even though my father was an ATC, so all else being equal you'd expect them to have a relatively good set of chances (just due to genes, if that's a thing).
not a counterfactual. "fish" was a legal definition which allowed hunting.
Its number for one of the benchmark has:

**with browsing + python tools

Maybe we have different definitions of scaling?
I was wondering what kind of plant purposefully incinerates 6k birds a year but then I realized I just described KFC.
I recently watched a new show called Prime Target. Watching it frustrated me as some aspects just didn't hold together, or were totally overstated. The wife would get frustrated with me in turn when I would point these out.

"How do you have a problem with this, but Marvel or Star Wars is fine". I wasn't sure how to answer that at first, but I think your comment solidifies it. I can accept ridiculous and unrealistic scenarios as long as they are fun, and held together within an equally ridiculous world.

Theres a fine line between something that is clearly a dramatisation being frustrating or just fun.
> In theory you can prove a theorem just by enumerating all the possible proofs until ...

An interesting hypothesis! I'm neither a mathematical logician, nor decently up to date in that field - is the possibility of this, at least in the abstract, currently accepted as fact?

(Yes, there's the perhaps-separate issue of only enumerating correct proofs.)
Let's not pretend Lost didn't explain anything. There were certainly plot holes, but there's also a ton of concrete explanations and information you get but don't have at the beginning of the show.

I mean, two of the biggest: smoke monster and hatch.

Both get definitive answers.
The “right” answer is not the one I end up with but rather the version sold by the vendor.
this is what Apple and Google would say.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says everyone should get an AI tutor right away
sunnybeetroot explicitly said being "if your goal is being understood then x".
I think this looks cool. Apparently unlike everyone else on this website?
what I asked was to convince me that this is not about China.

you have failed to convince me that this is about quebec, somalililand or palestine, those are absurd notions, so you have failed to convince me that this is not about china.
As a buyer of low volume metal castings from both domestic and foreign foundries that my company finishes and sells to the energy industry in the US, our customers often tout that they’ll pay any mark-up for a domestic casting. We then have to explain to them that regardless of their willingness to pay up, there are literally no domestic companies that are willing to produce this stuff, let alone at a reasonable price.

To give more detail, one casting is a low precision structural attachment that connects an heavy anchor chain to a floating buoy. This part is cast from 316 grade stainless steel in China for ~$50/ea. For GSA work in the US, we have to use the same part cast domestically from A897 Ductile Iron (a far inferior material in a marine environment) because none of the few remaining US foundries who do stainless are willing to take on the work.

Unless the government is going to take the tariff revenue, and immediately incentivize more domestic competition and investment in manufacturing infrastructure (dirty industries frowned upon by VC tech bros who have no idea where any of the physical items they rely on to survive come from) at a level greater than FDR’s New Deal, then the result is simply going to be extreme inflation and massive scarcity.

I’d love to just start a foundry making our stainless castings right here in the USA, but anyone with the time for that doesn’t have access to the funding and anyone with the funding doesn’t have the time for the lengthy payback period of building a factory. Industrial prowess in a America is basically far too gone to catch up at this point and even the high value and cutting-edge R&D stuff will fall off as we don’t have all of the legacy “heavy industrial” know how that unlocks the latter part of the value chain.
Hugo voters are members of the World Science Fiction Society (who are mostly Worldcon attendees). Which is to say, voters for that are chosen for enthusiasm for the genre, not taste.
The bug in the program reveals a poor understanding of object lifecycles by whoever wrote it. The `obj` argument to `simple` is not globally unique and so it makes a poor location to store global state information (a count of how often `simple` is called, in this example).

Never tie global state information to ephemeral objects whose lifetime may be smaller than what you want to track. In this case, they want to know how many times `simple` is called across the program's lifetime. Unless you can guarantee the `obj` argument or its `counter` member exists from before the first call to `simple` and through the last call to `simple` and is the only `obj` to ever be passed to `simple`, it is the wrong place to put the count information. And with those guarantees, you may as well remove `obj` as a parameter to both `simple` and `complex` and just treat it as a global.

State information needs to exist in objects or locations that last as long as that state information is relevant, no more, no less. If the information is about the overall program lifecycle, then a global can make sense. If you only need to know how many times `simple` was invoked with a particular `obj` instance, then tie it to the object passed in as the `obj` argument.
Doesn't make it untrue.

Agents that can search the internet exist for a while now and have been essentially solved and happily used in platforms like Perplexity.

It's really "meh", very far from revolutionary.

Keep in mind this company is trying to convince everybody they need 500B USD now (through the Stargate project).
What I wrote is not contrary to what Sax writes, in any way. In fact, I fully support what he wrote, and would urge people who are interested in the subject to read his much fuller explanation on his website[0].

As such, I really do not understand your objection, and that’s probably because you don’t understand your objection. Sex in humans determined by the strategy for gamete production, which can only result in a large gamete or small gamete - not by chromosomes. Hence, “intersex” people are still male or female regardless of their disorder. This is well understood, settled science, and is not my opinion. If you think sex is decided based on your chromosomes, then you’ve been misinformed.

[0] https://www.leonardsax.com/how-common-is-intersex-a-response...
HN is and has always been quite negative/pessimistic/cynical in general. That Dropbox comment was quite a long time ago already.
Would you hire Electroboom?
Show HN: Ohy – Lightweight, Privacy-First CLI for Packaging Web as Desktop Apps
saying "it's North Korea" does not make a case that it's North Korea (especially when I acknowledged these disputes are all around the world, indicating that I understood that already). Fail.
That Google product isnt that good, it can't really replace research done by a person.
Especially with the Raspberry Pi, another point is power delivery. You need a beefy power source, but also a good cable. I bought a USB-C charging cable for my Pi4, and it was very unstable and crashed a lot. Corrupted the install a couple of times, and so I got some new SD cards.

Well, turned out the "charging cable" had 1 ohm resistance and so when the Pi load spiked, the voltages would drop well below 4.5V...

Tossed it away and got a proper cable, and the thing has been rock solid since.

Highly recommend getting a USB cable tester, I had several black sheep in my collection.
99% of corpo upper management slide deck work. ai only makes more of this useless pencil-neck board of directors slop.
I mean you want it to grill your steak and eat it for you too?

I mean I too can complain that my iPhone doesn’t automatically screen out spammers and send my mom flowers on Mother’s Day.
That doesn’t make any sense. The best engineers I know can’t pass these interviews because they started working long before they became standard.
That just seems like globals with extra steps. Suddenly if your context structure has a weird value in it, you’ll have to check every function to see who messed it up.
Sure, they get by, but mostly on their own, not because we care so much, right? As WP puts it, they're mostly seen as pest but also serve as "important prey species for birds of prey".
scarecrows?
I don’t know the answer to this, which is why I didn’t mention it in the post.
However, I could speculate that these data-broker companies scrape leaked [hacked and stolen] data from various panels and then match records on their end.
kinda OSINT for bad reasons.
It's fashionable to invoke the baddies of Germany but let's zoom out a bit and just live in reality. Virtually no group on this planet that is not primarily about sexual characteristics or fetishes or whatever is almost entirely made up of people from this particular group and this death cult that is, presumably about "rationalist" mumbo jumbo, is primarily made up of this group. That is certainly newsworthy.
> The plant installed a large fence to keep out endangered desert tortoises, but the knock-on effect is that this has made it way easier for coyotes to kill roadrunners.

Acme, but better.
Yup. As I recall, some fan site I liked because it had some maps and such was shut down by Nintendo.
So he's trying to go super-mainstream to sell even more GPUs he can't ship.

HYPING so hard.

shaking my head

Maybe try getting your product manufactured in non-paper launch numbers before hyping your supreme vaporware product?

So tired of Nvidia.
I never said I want it to go away. I merely said that maybe we shouldn't advertise things that commonly lead to addiction. I've gambled a little here or there and don't see any harm if it's limited and done for fun.

It might reduce the number of people who get into in the first place. But more likely and more importantly I would hope that it makes it easier for people who want to recover to not be tempted. I can't image what it would be like for an alcoholic to watch a cold refreshing beer cracked open in the types of party settings they used to enjoy during an ad, or for a gambler to see someone in an ad winning and hear that if you put $1k into an account they'll give you another $1k and other benefits.
Yeah, thought the same. Not to mention that I tried to have a bunch of old USB sticks put into one of my servers and it added like two minutes to its reboot time. (Though admittedly I didn't fight hard with systemd to make sure their mounting does not block anything -- it's likely possible to do.)

Ultimately I am not willing to shell out hundreds of EUR for f.ex. 2x SLC internal SSDs at 32 or 64 GB each so I guess I'll just have a few spare disks around when I am back to being employed, and that's going to be that.
I interpreted taurath to be saying that it is hard to untangle causality because autistic people are almost universally traumatized. Because we know autism causes trauma, it's very hard to tell if trauma causes autism. A slight variant on this is that we know that some of the symptoms of trauma and of autism are the same, and while these symptoms are often taken to be defining characteristics of the autism syndrome, it isn't at all clear that the etiology of autism causes them through any pathway causally independent of trauma. You'd need to find a lot of non-traumatized autistic people to be able to tell, and it's hard to find any.
Maybe. Not enough data to say. Say it does a days worth of work in a query. It is sensible to use if it takes less than a day to review ~5 days worth of work. I don't know if we're near that threshold yet but conceptually this would work well for actual research where the amount of preparation is large compared to the amount of output written.

And eyeballing the benchmarks, it'll probably reach a >50% rate per query by the end of the year. Seems to double every model or two.
Eh, if you like it, you like it. Unless it's hurting someone, why care about what gets people's dopamine receptors going? After all, that's why the concept of the guilty pleasure exists
The PDF format isn’t really designed for editing. For viewing, there’s pdftotext [0] or ebook-convert [1].

[0] https://manpages.debian.org/poppler-utils/pdftotext.1.html

[1] https://manpages.debian.org/calibre/ebook-convert.1.html
Somehow I manage to get by just fine with c++11. I have refactored more than a few codebases that use 17 or greater.

Strangely, the codebase became more maintainable afterwards.
I think it should be allowed. His actions often have significant impacts on tech and he seems to be expanding his reach by taking control of government spending science funding.
This sucks, especially since there are better ways to accomplish the same goal. We are going for a ride.
agreed, however there are duplicates in that list + same app for ios / android.
if I’m not mistaking I did a simple unique count on it (or catch the 2000 number from 404media post)
I’m sorry is the job “professional Leetcoder”?