skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well for starters, until these claims are established by a more credible source who doesn’t come from part of a team with a recent history of lying about the work that usaid does.

Your concern about propaganda rings hollow given that you are trusting a government source talking about a government source.

https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-trumps-team-targets-usaid-w...
Oh, will have to investigate that a bit.
Death, taxes, and insoluble and exhausting debates around machine thinking and its value.
"The LLMs have no ground truth" claim (around chapter 2) that's core to the "bullshit machines" argument is itself wrong. Of course LLMs have ground truth. What do the authors think here, that the text in training corpus is random?

Hint: it isn't. Real conversations are anything but random. There's a lot of information hidden in "statistical ordering of the words", because the distribution is not arbitrary.

Statistical ground truth isn't any worse than explicitly given one. In fact, fundamentally, there only ever is statistical certainty. Realizing it is a pretty profound insight, and you'd think it should be table stakes at least in STEM, but sonehow it fails to spread as much as it should.
Thanks for the recommendation! I wanted a VPN like this for a long time, to manage HA in a remote propery, and this seems like a great option. Even the hosted service is very reasonably priced - https://www.defined.net/pricing/
DMA being a problem appears to be mostly a problem with a lack of identification of the data. If the shape of the data could be verified by the language runtime, instead of being an arbitrary stream of bytes whose meaning must be known by the recipient without any negotiation, this form of unsafety would disappear, since the receiving code simply needs to assert the schema, which could be as simple as checking a 32 bit integer.

Then all you need to do is also verify that the sending code adheres to the schema it specified.

This has very little to do with borrow checking. From the perspective of the borrow checker, a DMA call is no different from RPC or writing to a very wide pointer.
Hugged to death - archive up at https://archive.is/HdmGX
So several problems with infrastructure - the developers always underquote and then once there are overruns the government is locked in and doesn't want to bankrupt the companies making these public infrastructure projects otherwise nobody would ever build anything. Additionally borrowing for infrastructure is often done through public/private partnerships which ends up with private companies owning the infrastructure and payments being made by the government for all sort of things in addition to rent i.e. changing a lightbulb costs £2000 etc. Government tend to get all the downside and the rich (who own the debt and the companies involved in building these projects) tend to see all the upside, look at the utility and train companies in the UK for example, and hospitals under PFI.

The money for these projects is provided by the wealthy through the purchase of government bonds.

Brexit is a problem sure, nobody denies that, but QE of around £1tn since COVID, most of which ended up with the richest (see asset price increases and cash holdings and world stock markets at all time record levels) is even more of a problem as it makes normal people and tax income relatively even smaller so borrowing and taxes need to be increased. And of course we don't tax the people whose assets have gone up enormously until they sell those assets. Quite often rich people borrow money against those assets instead of realising a capital gains tax event or various other loopholes.

I don't know too much about the specific case of transport infrastructure in Australia, but if the government owned them outright without attached debts clearly they would be assets rather than liabilities.
I've never used Claude, but Perplexity often says that no definitive information about a topic could be found, and then tries to make some generalized inferences. There's a difference between a specific implementation, and the technology in general.

In any case, it's worthwhile for people to understand the limitations of the technology as it exists today. But calling it "bullshit" is a mischaracterization; I believe based on an emotional need for us to feel superior, and to dismiss the capabilities more thoroughly than they deserve.

It's a little like someone saying in the industrial revolution, "the steam shovel is too rigid, it will NEVER have the dexterity of a man with a shovel!". And while true and important to know, it really focuses on the wrong thing, it misses the advantages while amplifying the negatives.
The movie is based on a Shakespeare play, Henry IV part 1.

All that happens at midnight is that the clock rings, which is pretty late if you're in the 16th century. The scene is two old men reminiscing about their wild youth:

"We have heard the chimes at midnight"

"That we have, that we have, that we have"
Tim Ferriss got here almost two decades ago. Allen Morgenstern came up with "Work smarter, not harder" back in the 1930s. Not an original idea.

Did you mean to post this on LinkedIn?
2/50,000th of their budget. Its straight up right wing propaganda. If you use wayback machine you can see what they funded like a huge oxygen tank in Vietnam for a hospital.

Its like spending 10 bucks on a camgirl site and your wife divorcing you after 10 years.
The best part of tailscale is that you can use an Apple TV as a subnet router and exit node. So even if you do not have any home networking equipment, you can utilize this by just using the Apple TV app. This is particularly great if you have a second home etc.
Looking at that file may make you reach misleading conclusions. Some tun/io code may be use but there's that. As far as I understand WireGuard the protocol is not used anywhere:

nebula (master)> git rev-parse HEAD
2b427a7e8934f0a436fea25eb40a6b979b34ee7a

nebula (master)> rg --glob '*.go' -i wireguard
wintun/tun.go
6: * Copyright (C) 2018-2021 WireGuard LLC. All Rights Reserved.
9://NOTE: This file was forked from https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-go/tree/tun/tun_windows.go?id=851efb1bb65555e0f765a3361c8eb5ac47435b19

udp/udp_rio_windows.go
4:// Inspired by https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-go/tree/conn/bind_windows.go
25: "golang.zx2c4.com/wireguard/conn/winrio"

overlay/tun_wintun_windows.go
17: "golang.zx2c4.com/wireguard/windows/tunnel/winipcfg"

wintun/device.go
6: * Copyright (C) 2017-2021 WireGuard LLC. All Rights Reserved.
9://NOTE: this file was forked from https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-go/tree/tun/tun.go?id=851efb1bb65555e0f765a3361c8eb5ac47435b19
It should work with any type of model, obviously longer chain of thoughts will be more difficult to analyse by the evaluation model, because it will have way more reasoning steps to identify and separate. The quality of the outcome depends a lot on the chosen model to give you insights. We tested with Llama3-70B and worked smoothly most of the times.
Demetallization is finally here!
I agree. I tried the first chapter with the Reader Mode in FireFox, and the whole long scroll hell collapsed to about one screenful of text. I have a feeling it skipped some text, but the result was a quick read that got the main points through.

I wish the whole thing was available in a plain text format, preferably in one longer document.
Related articles on this guy website ring true with me, even though he doesn't give a "solution" to improve

https://www.seangoedecke.com/weak-engineers/

This other one had a "criticism" that hit me hard

https://www.seangoedecke.com/being-right-a-lot/

I don't do many assertions on our systems, out of fear of getting things wrong. This shows the holes in my understanding.
I’d suggest tracing a line through the points of published research on autism, hyperthermia and its effects on autism spectrum related behaviors, the effect of Interleukin-17 thereon, the relationship from between IL-17 and Th17 helper cells, and the 5-HT2A receptor’s effects on Th17 cell regulation. And other stuff. Like thermoregulation. There’s more interesting stuff on the way and at every point.

To manage expectations: It’s… an imaginary line?

—- edit: on the run, hope to be able to follow up with papers
My guess is that they've taken the 0.1% silliest sounding things out of some endowment for the arts program with many thousands of recipients. It would only actually be propaganda if such a program specifically excluded political opinions you disagree with and groups you dislike, such as trans people. For all you know, there could have been many right-wing recipients for this program that they decided not to tell you about. You can only determine the nature of such a program when you look at how it actually operates, not by looking at a random small selection of the things funded.
You can use it for remote LAN gaming, just like we used Radmin or Hamachi to play Minecraft.
How does it with the darlene of HN, Tailscale?!

Tailscale has magic DNS. Can you use a custom domain and DNS entries in any of these mesh VPNs?
I’m not sure where you live, but I’ve never had to install anything to access the features you described, going back over a decade.

All of that has been solved by the web at this point.
It has long been known that eveningness correlates with various mental health conditions.
In addition sleep is used as a marker for mental state.

Usually depression improves in the evening, sometimes very specifically at dawn. So does anxiety and OCD for some. To the point where there are little to no symptoms. In the morning however, the illness is back in full force.

There are numerous studies on the involvement of the circadian clock in depression and bipolar disorder. Many agents treating those conditions alter the circadian clock.
Still trying to finds words for this, but living in the San Francisco Bay Area and dealing with a lot of tech developers it is shocking how many people have great tattoos, great clothes, great jewelry, great accessories, and yet all it takes is a glance to see that they themselves have bodies atrophied by a lifetime of chair sitting and inactivity. Go for a walk and wear a ripped up tee and you might look better?
>cumulatively the would make a big impact

Because of the nature of the healthcare market a reduction in physician salaries would be almost entirely captured by private equity and insurance companies.

The only realistic way a reduction in physician salaries leads to a significant reduction in costs is with a single payer system.

>fractal/recursive

This is just wishful thinking. I can think of zero mechanisms where paying physicians less has a compounding negative effect on prices.

I can think of several mechanisms for how it would have a compounding positive effect.

Decrease in quality, decrease in recruiting, acceleration of retirement etc…
Looks good, but only Pair is not satisfactory. Even lisps have vectors and hashmaps at least
And here's the shipwreck: https://www.google.com/maps/place/North+Sentinel+Island/@11....

Anyone know the story of this shipwreck? Wikipedia says that "Nineveh, an Indian merchant ship, was wrecked on a reef near the island" in 1867 - is this it?

I have my doubts because a) this shipwreck is not "near" the island, it's practically ashore on the island and b) the wreck looks reasonably intact. Wouldn't a submerged, 150-year old wooden ship have completely rotted away by now?
Yeah, at least in my experience as someone autistic, I sometimes joke that everybody else got together and decided on a bunch of rules for how everyone needs to talk to each other going forward, but somehow my invite got lost and I missed my chance to learn them. I don't pretend to have any idea if things would be better or worse for society as a whole if everybody did things the way that would seem more natural to me, but it does seem pretty likely to me that neurotypical people would probably struggle in a lot of the ways I often do.

In a certain sense, this makes the experience of being autistic more frustrating. If there were some definitive flaw someone could point to in my brain that would make communication difficult for me regardless of social norms, that might be easier to come to terms with; the feeling that I'm not actually struggling due to any actual issue other than not being in the majority makes it hard not to feel resentful sometimes though. That being said, it's so hard to conceive of a clean separation between the parts of my personality that I do like and the parts that make me struggle to communicate in a neurotypical fashion that if there were a magic switch I could flip to make me like everyone else (whatever that would mean), I still don't think I'd do it. At the end of the day, it's part of what makes me who I am, and I wouldn't recognize who I'd become without it.
Was thinking the same, the image slide-ins are broken in firefox and unreadable (white text on white background)
Go Away Green
I’m in the process of ditching vscode and for now settled on nvim as the replacement. Currently, I still use Dendron for taking notes. There are some suggestions for companion plugins at the end of the readme - does anyone have additional suggestions? For example for tagging, linking between notes and visualizing the graph?
When it come to govt - they don't even appear to care about the results.
I just want to say: I've been publicly calling them "bullshit machines" since the first big media wave. I am incredibly pleased that this mental model helps other people, too. And that the specific term sees broader use is also nice.

Also, neener neener neener I called them bullshit machines BEFORE it was cool. /humor

Seriously though the humanities have a lot to chew on with LLMs, and are incredibly important to how we live and work with them. Who knew that epistemology would become front page news, and the sexiest topic for VC?
I second this. Guy is to me today’s foremost communicator and decipherer of the code of men’s fashion.
Just ban ranges lib, it is hot garbage anyway. The compilers are able to optimize lambdas fairly well nowadays(when inlined), I wouldn't be that concerned.
Making Sense of Evangelion
Yes, but interviewers can never know the candidates' real underlying strength, only their perception of their strength.
Neither does this remark

> I feel like languages like Go and Rust didn’t become C++ killers because they expected everyone to jump on the bandwagon and abandon all their legacy code

Abandon is not a synonymous with rewrite, last time I checked a dictionary.
So if I ask ChatGpt about bears and in the middle of explaining their diet it tells me something about how much they like porridge and in the middle of habitat it tells me they live in a quaint cabin in the woods, that's ... True?

Statistically we certainly have a lot of words about 3 bears and their love for porridge. That doesn't mean it's true, it just means it's statistically significant. If I asked someone a scientific question about bears and they told me about Goldilocks, id think it was bullshit.
Resilient Microservice Applications by Design and Without the Chaos
Blasting Tennessee's Fight Song at an Ohio State Bar? A Jukebox App Sows Chaos
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/whos-blasting-tennessees-fight...
If Apple users really appreciated backward-compatibility, the would be a significant market for 3-rd party emulators and VMs to run old software using no longer supported hardware or software API. It is not there. There are VMs, but they are mostly used by developers or by people who want to run Windows software on Mac, not old Mac software. So from Apple perspective if their users do not want to pay for backward compatibility, why should Apple provide it?
Your scroll-to-death user interface made me close the window before the end of the second page.

Did you ask an LLM to recommend the most user-friendly UI to you?
If you already used C++20 you aren't meaningfully behind, very little of interest has been introduced since then, and much of it isn't usable yet because of implementation issues.
Adding +1 to the Nebula recommendation.

The last time I tried ZeroTier (years ago, I admit) it wasn't possible to self-host all of it I think and I couldn't make it reliably use my own relays for good performance of non-direct connections.

I've been happily using Nebula for a while now, pretty easy to configure and self-host.
Anecdata, N=1; I recently used aider — a tool that gives LLMs access to specific files and git integration. The tools are great, but the LLMs are underwhelming, and I realized that — once in the flow — I am significantly faster at producing large, correct, and on-point pieces of code, whereas when I had to review LLM code, it was frustrating, it needed multiple attempts, and it frequently fell into loops.
Documentary: Reproducibility in Condensed Matter Physics [video]
Fun fact: Windows Vista/7 had THREE separate OpenGL implementations built in
Does anyone happen to still remember the controversy over the rumors that Microsoft was going to deprecate OpenGL once and for all in the new WDDM driver model announced for Vista? Well, almost 20 years later, here comes the final counterargument, lol.

The really amusing part for me here is that for some reason this fact is not widely known. Even the Khronos Wiki itself has some outright false information.

- C:\Windows\System32\opengl32.dll
GL_VENDOR: Microsoft Corporation
GL_RENDERER: GDI Generic
GL_VERSION: 1.1.0
GL_EXTENSIONS: GL_WIN_swap_hint GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_paletted_texture

- C:\Windows\AppPatch\AcXtrnal.dll
GL_VENDOR: Microsoft Corp.
GL_RENDERER: Direct3D
GL_VERSION: 1.1
GL_EXTENSIONS: GL_ARB_multitexture GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_SGIS_multitexture

- C:\Windows\System32\ogldrv.dll
GL_VENDOR: Microsoft
GL_RENDERER: OpenGL-D3D Translator
GL_VERSION: 1.4
GL_EXTENSIONS: GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_EXT_packed_pixels GL_EXT_vertex_array GL_WIN_swap_hint GL_ARB_multitexture GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture3D GL_EXT_draw_range_elements GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_ARB_texture_env_add GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_EXT_blend_logic_op GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_NV_blend_square GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_ARB_window_pos GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays GL_EXT_texture_cube_map GL_ARB_texture_cube_map GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_Autodesk_valid_back_buffer_hint GL_ARB_texture_compression GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc GL_S3_s3tc GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_EXT_polygon_offset GL_EXT_subtexture GL_EXT_copy_texture GL_EXT_texture_object GL_EXT_texture WGL_EXT_extensions_string GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar GL_ARB_multisample GL_ARB_point_parameters GL_EXT_point_parameters GL_KTX_buffer_region GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_EXT_fog_coord GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar GL_ARB_depth_texture GL_ARB_shadow GL_SGIS_texture_lod
wglGetExtensionsStringEXT(): WGL_EXT_extensions_string WGL_ARB_buffer_region WGL_EXT_pixel_format WGL_ARB_multisample
I've built a simple OCR tool with gemini 2 flash with several options:
1-Simple OCR: Extracts all detected text from uploaded files
2-Advanced OCR: Enables rule-based extraction (e.g., table data)
3-Bulk OCR: Designed for processing multiple files at once
The project will be open-source next week.
You can try the tool here: https://gemini2flashocr.netlify.app
I'd guess it's because it's tiring to get asked if you have accepted ChatGPT into your life on every HN conversation...
Flatpak is winning on Linux because when every app has its own dependency chain of packages it becomes totally impossible to run older versions of an app or to run multiple versions side-by-side. Proper sandboxing is way too hard when files get strewn all over your system. rpm/deb packages only work for utilities and core libraries where you're happy to run whatever the latest version is. For everything else you need some combination of containerization/virtualization for security and robustness.
Oh no doubt that’s not coming to people in the next 5-10 years.

They’ll release whatever half baked thing they have in Austin, because Musk controls the government now and then when it kills a couple of people, they’ll roll it back with no consequences.

At this point, it’s more likely that AGI will emerge first and be able to drive on its own than FSD unsupervised being ready.
I have done this, albeit on a smaller scale. Partly it was easier to find useful categories with the bugs on paper, and to resort them when I found a better categorisation.

I didn't use whole pages, I exported the bugs as a CSV and then used glabels to extract a few fields and lay them out before printing (on ordinary paper, not label paper, which I then cut up). Once sorted it was then easy to apply labels in Jira

The other useful part was to have a physical way to show our overoptimistic boss just how much work his plans entailed
Came here to say this. And he also gives a lot of insight on how men's clothing is made and why it's made that way.

He also regularly gives tips on where to shop and what to look for. I really like the fact that it's not totally focused on bespoke tailoring.

He's also on bluesky for those who do not have a Twitter account: https://bsky.app/profile/dieworkwear.bsky.social
In many countries, such a problem is solved via that a lot of incapable students are "weeded out" by brutal exams (in particular "math for computer scientists" exams are prone for this) in the beginning or in the first semesters - consider it to be a kind of hard "sink or swim"-style curriculum.
It's primarily just a statement of widely agreed principles everyone has always claimed to follow, even when UNIX was new, and others arguably followed them with more success e.g.

> The Unix philosophy emphasizes building simple, compact, clear, modular, and extensible code that can be easily maintained and repurposed by developers other than its creators

Nobody says "we want to build complicated, sprawling, unclear, unmodular and rigid code", so this isn't a statement that sets UNIX apart from any other design. And if we look at the competing space of non-UNIX platforms, we see that others arguably had more success implementing these principles in practice. Microsoft did COM, which is a much more aggressive approach to modularity and composable componentization than UNIX. Apple/NeXT did Objective-C and XPC, which is somewhat similar. Java did portable, documented libraries with extensibility points better than almost any other platform.

Many of the most famous principles written down in 1978 didn't work and UNIX practitioners now do the exact opposite, like:

• "Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features" yet the --help for GNU grep is 74 lines long and documents 49 different flags.

• "Don't hesitate to throw away the clumsy parts and rebuild them." yet the last time a clumsy part of UNIX was thrown away and rebuilt was systemd, yielding outrage from people claiming to defend the UNIX philosophy.

About the only part of the UNIX philosophy that's actually unique and influential is "Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface". Yet even this principle is a shadow of its former self. Data is exchanged as JSON but immediately converted to/from objects, not processed as text in and of itself. Google, one of the world's most successful tech companies, bases its entire infrastructure around programs exchanging and storing binary protocol buffers. HTTP abandoned text streams in favor of binary.

Overall the UNIX philosophy has little to stand apart other than a principled rejection of typed interfaces between programs, an idea that has few defenders today.
If this post was written by a non-celebrity, then it would have been immediately buried. But here were are at 771 points for some cheap maxims.