skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's as predictable as it is concerning how much the Rust community has hitched its wagon to the US progressive movement. Is this an attempt to remove an adversary in an engineering debate by appealing to a political alliance? Or an attempt to remove a political adversary by appealing to engineering arguments? Either way, both politics and engineering are bound to suffer for it.
That’s sort of what the phrase has started to mean because of how it’s used by many American police officers. It has more reasonable historic meanings.
Right, yea that's fair
Four Pieces Is Optimal
> I’m paranoid enough to check the source language

Same, especially because my crappy command of Italian, French and German (between A2 and B1) catches weird errors like this
Those aren't books. They're printed blogs you pay for.

Every book can be published as a pdf. That doesn't mean that every pdf is a book.
Yes, this is a link to a post where a pointer to the original paper is given, but the post contains an animation that shows what it's about, whereas the paper does not.

I propose that that makes the link to the post more valuable/interesting/useful that a link to the paper itself.
That’s a good point and I don’t know how “The purpose of a system is what it does“ reacts to change in a system.

Or what to call the side-effects of a system going away.

One of the statistics I read was that the average American judges foreign aid at 31% of the Federal budget instead of the true 1%. In one way, that’s remarkable efficiency: 31x perception. In another way, it gives bad actors in the government an advantage: by cutting a measly 1%, you can rely on uninformed Americans to give you credit for 31x cuts.
> this is the type of bullshit that causes me to withdraw from interacting with the bulk of humanity.

Nobody is mocking you, however your taxes allow you to do this without having to live in a shack in the woods and forage for food.
I like the idea, but I get the message: "Too long video"... So I am wondering about its application if it only works for short videos
Probationary employees at NASA Ames scheduled for layoff on Tues Feb. 18
Tangent: I now want a 10 hour YouTube video where an LLM gets stuck in some debugging reasoning loop and the loop is just recorded for 10 hours.

Preferably with some lofi music under it.
Arc Prize Side Quest: SnakeBench
No, I think he's completely wrong.

The world isn't being ruined by a meme. On the contrary, our problem is the complexity bias, which seems to have developed over the previous century.

As the result, nobody understands anything anymore. I fact it seems that more complex solutions have been worked out, that allow to run on sone kind of protocol, with little to no thinking involved.

Time is being wasted on dealing with problems in overly complex ways, and there is no room left for what can't be simplified.
Sad, images stopped loading, reloaded the article half way through and site is down :(
> It’s notable, I think, that you’re not absolved from operating “in the course of a commercial activity” just because you’re supplying software free-of-charge.

I can see why someone would have added this provision, if you think in terms of what loophole would exist without it.

Imagine a company that sells you a router, and they declare that the necessary software is provided "free of charge", and as an extra convenience they've pre-installed it for you.

Sure, maybe the device won't work with any other software, and maybe the software can't be installed on any other device, but anybody can download a copy from their website, so it is free...
This would be amazing with Smalltalk/Pharo or a similar language where the concept of debugging is a first class citizen (I guess it's the same for certain Lisp languages?)
The context that's missing for a lot of the left leaning people hearing this is that much of the population of the US still sees police officers as heroes worthy of emulation. The thin blue line between order and chaos is a powerful image for a lot of people, and it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with being a punisher style police force.
Mapping of pH and Hydrogen Peroxide Fluctuations in Autophagic Vesicles
From 10 years ago:

"I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in love"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8934237

So ... $25 --> $70. I guess that's inflation.
The fail whale was a thing in the late 2000s, when Twitter was famously still on Ruby on Rails. After the early 2010s rewrite in Scala (?) it was pretty much stable.
Is this where we’re at? The goalpost is now at eating human meat?
My European friend, just imagine us Canadians ... left behind in the water next to the sinking ship with the suicidal captain demanding you join him and clutching at your boat trying to bring you down...
Yes. I think you’d want half the players to watch the stack placement and half the removal and rearrangement. Lots of incentive to peek.
This is pure speculation, but I wonder if the likelihood of hallucination has something to do with the amount of "generic" tokens the model emitted before - I.e. tokens that themselves don't depend on the answer, but still restrict how a grammatically correct sentence would have to continue.

E.g. in the OP's example, the first tokens the model emitted were "The species Brachiosaurus brancai was reassigned to its own genus". This is just a reformulation of the question and doesn't itself contain any new information - but it does make it a lot harder for the model to make a turn into a "I don't know" direction, because this would lead to a grammatically incorrect or at at least very awkward sentence.

In contrast, in your question, the model immediately started with "Unfortunately", which essentially set it on an "I don't know" trajectory right away.
We used it for a two week trip to Singapore and Japan last year, and yeah, I agree the app performance for packed trips is pretty rough.
There is a fantastic blog post by Ross Rheingans-Yoo about the shortcomings of poker as a tool to teach trading and why Figgie is a better one. https://blog.rossry.net/figgie/

He also wrote an equally brilliant eulogy about Max Chiswick, one of his colleagues, who helped him develop it. https://blog.rossry.net/chisness/
> As far as recommendations, my local bookstores are often staffed by people that don’t have much in common with my interests. Much easier to find relevant book recommendations online.

Then you haven't found the right bookstore. Many, if not most, independent bookstores specialize in particular areas. In those cases, the staff's knowledge of a product can be invaluable. Certainly better than online recommendations since you can talk to them about what you are looking for, rather than accepting random reviews or machine generated recommendations at face value. If they don't specialize in a particular topic, then any recommendation they can provide is not going to be any better than what you will get from a major retailer or website.
You're wrong:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1888326592096547245

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886092387098796499

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1858872775395426553

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1873796626223161603

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1861824194113343870
Just looking at their own marketing material, in some cases it's just making the titles longer and more boring without actually making them more descriptive.
Non-fiction text isn't that different. You have 5 to 10 minute blog/article reads and 250 page books from publishers with not a lot in between. (Yes, you can and I have, self-published books of an intermediate length but publishers don't generally want anything under 250 pages or so.)
Opened the website from India and it says blocked for you. Thanks, bye bye.
Thanks Karol Herbst for your past work. To me, dealing with Nvidia is probably stressful on its own, you do not need additional stress from people you are suppose to work with.

Good luck in future endeavours.
“A year ago” - wasn’t that gpt3?
Switching to Windows could also "solve lots of problems". It introduces many problems though and is an undesirable thing to do, especially in terms of the ecosystem of free software.

About "making Linux better" - that's false on principle, on architectural grounds, and is not a matter of finding.
Analysis of Groobo's Diablo WR Speedrun
The statement's recent place in the public consciousness is largely because it was used as a pro-police slogan against the BLM/"police abolition" movement in the US. The Rust community, being overwhelmingly progressive, is already sensitive about supposed dogwhistles, as well as words that cause them negative associations, in computing (in the vein of "master"->"main" renamings); having that slogan used as a metaphor for keeping out changes that they want in a technical debate would be felt by some of them as an open taunt or provocation.
The "historic" meaning directly references a military regiment standing their ground against the enemy (see "thin red line"). This particular quote has always evinced a highly adversarial attitude.
Introduction to the PDP-11 (1977) [video]
there has never been honour among thieves.
Being an Elite for any length of time simply requires:
1. competence
2. lack of empathy or remorse for others vs self
https://archive.ph/vX9gc
I don't really disagree, but it's also becoming pointless to use these terms. Naming Trump/Musk as fascists is mostly correct but all this does is make his adherents question whether fascism is "really all that bad" (or reject with lines like "NAZIs were socialist [nonsense] and Trump isn't a socialist, ergo..."

It's not enough to point out that Trump is fascist and therefore bad. You need to go the next step and say why fascism is bad.

(Yes, we've gotten to this timeline, where we have to go back and actually describe why fascism is bad -- where the press is reporting on proposed ethnic cleansing in Gaza with statements like "outlandish plan" and "unrealistic" rather than naming it for what it is: a brutal and immoral plan to exterminate an entire people. Oh, and now we need to explain why that is actually a Really Awful Thing)
FAT is not well suited to embedded use. The TFAT hack was patent encumbered and not widely supported outside of MS products.
I downloaded the app to try it. It's interesting, appears that you can join a game with other players? I see two tabs: "4 starting" and "12 active" But clicking on these had no effect until suddenly the overflow broke rendering.

I am fascinated by this app mostly because it has a recruiting message at the bottom from Jane Street. I've never seen that before.

But, it's also interesting because it is one of the more poorly designed apps I've seen. It's react native when you check out the logs using adb. I bet this was a side project from a Jane Street employee. They did their best.
> there's evidence that some government staff grew inexplicably wealthy

Those are a bunch of weasel words. You're giving a certain impression yet being vague enough that it's impossible to assess, argue or discuss the validity of that claim.

What evidence? Who are those 'some' staff? What's inexplicably wealthy?

There's a vast difference between government high-ups getting paid well and making money (as high-ups in any large organization might) and government organizations and their leadership and staff being generally corrupt.

Of course corruption is never impossible, partially because it can take forms that may be difficult to discern as such. But it's again impossible to assess that claim without substance.
Yes, humans can bullshit too. Is that the standard to which we want to hold our AI?

The question is not if humans do bullshit like LLMs, it's whether AI can think like humans.
Gorton Digital (https://github.com/drdnar/GortonDigital) seems like a faithful reproduction.
What situations in classical physics are non-deterministic? (2018)
If you can say, what are her clientele like?
I like planning as well (although many people don’t), but I still miss a ton of stuff that chatgpt’s Deep Research can find.
pypdfium2 is a great choice and a solid piece of software!

You might want to look into https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya as an alternative to tesseract. Yes, it's associated with a commercial company, but as you long as you aren't a company with 5M in ARR or $5M in funding it's free to use.
The article does not explain how they entered it into the public domain. One cannot just declare something is public domain. Public domain is a special circumstance.
Me and my wife play a game where we look through The Website Formerly Known As Twitter and try to discern from generated vs non-generated art, and while it’s typically rather easy (artistic style plays a big role) some pieces just absolutely blow us away, and I have been tricked a few times.
Google deactivates Android's earthquake alerts after false alarm in Brazil
I agree that split exists, and that the former is more rare, but in my experience the split is less about avoid magic and more about keeping control of your system.

Many, likely most, developers today don't care about controlling their system/network/hardware. There's nothing wrong with that necessarily, but it is a pretty fundamental difference.

One concern I've had with building LLM features is whether my customers would be okay with me giving their data over to the LLM vendor. Say I'm building a tool for data analysis, is it really okay to a customer for me to give their table schemas or access to the data itself to OpenAI, for example?

I rarely hear that concern raised though. Similarly when I was doing consulting recently, I wouldn't use copilot on client projects as I didn't want copilot servers accessing code that I don't actually own the rights to. Maybe its over protective though, I have never heard anyone raise that concern so maybe its just me.
As I expected. When I got a cell phone I forgot everyone's phone numbers, and I'm afraid if I use AI I'll forget how to think.
Yeah I think this is more like... a huge number of people literally don't care or don't think it's a problem whatsoever, then a huge number think we should be doing tons of little things, and then a small number who are actively working to produce breakthroughs.

Group (1) is the impediment to progress on the problem.
It seems to be a largely American thing to think the phrase is bad (reasonably so, given how it has started to be used) and many others seem to not know what it means, evidenced by only understanding the current law enforcement use or their admission that they had to read wikipedia.

That said, for many people, it is a hostile phrase that refers to privileges that law enforcement provide for each other and those close to them but not others. Things like letting people out of tickets, misapplying situational judgements to make a victim look like the perpetrator, lying on the stand about it, etc.

In that context, it’s a phrase with bad optics. I see presumably why they chose the phrase but that also presumes they were not aware of how it’s used by many American police officers. It would otherwise seem incredibly tone deaf; well past the 70% figure among those circles.
To create something new, you need to make some noise
> In France it's totally fine to send spam emails during elections, maybe you just got lucky ?

In the US, when are things not in 'election mode'?
o3-mini:

Who reassigned the species Brachiosaurus brancai to its own genus, and when?

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Here is the transcription of the text from the image:

Reasoned for 8 seconds ▼

The user is asking about the reclassification of Brachiosaurus brancai to its own genus. Originally, Janensch described it as Brachiosaurus brancai in 1914. However, in 2009, Michael P. Taylor and Matt Wedel reassigned it to Giraffatitan brancai. Their paper, titled “Brachiosaurus brancai and the early evolution of titanosauriform sauropods,” argued for this change, distinguishing Giraffatitan brancai from Brachiosaurus. I’ll check the exact references to confirm the specifics.

It seems “Giraffatitan” was first proposed by Gregory S. Paul in 1988, when he reassigned Brachiosaurus brancai to its own genus. Although some confusion exists, it’s generally accepted that Paul was the main figure behind this change. Other references, such as a 2007 paper by Sereno and a 2009 paper by Taylor and colleagues, also discuss this reclassification. The 1988 reshuffling is usually seen as the turning point for Brachiosaurus brancai, although later research helped solidify this decision.

The species was reassigned to its own genus—Giraffatitan—by paleontologist Gregory S. Paul in 1988.

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That looks pretty good to me!
but AI is telling you what 'people' think-- not a person-- but a blended up mismash of people, like the move Dark City, then strapped into a torture chair to diminish wrongthought. But it's people. or peopleish. It was made by people at least. sorta.

Besides, after being filtered through perception and narration who is to say any story you hear from another person is real?

Shouldn't it be more a question of what it does for you? And if some amorphous nonphysical branding of Realness(tm) and Authenticity(tm) is what you value most, then ultimately someone is marketing to that. And paradoxically it means that the most "real" stuff won't tend to be real at all.

So I think ultimately the only thing real is going to be the stuff you experienced yourself or comes from acquaintances you know well enough to know when they're not being earnest. I hope won't be so bad, after all it was the condition of all humanity until not so many years ago.
Seems the causality is going the wrong direction there. Commercial jobs were limited by mainframe constraints, so that's where job sizes topped out.
I have FreeDOS installed on my Ryzen machine. It runs okay except that modern video hardware doesn't dependably support classic C/E/VGA modes.
Because running systems for entire countries for decades is complex. And bugs and problems arise. This is normal behaviour of complex systems.
Not to mention the whole Eric Adams quid pro quo. 7 prosecutors resigned when ordered to sign the dismissal! 7! Including people who were put in their jobs during the first Trump admin! It was finally signed by...a new DoJ appointee who was most recently employed as one of Trump's own lawyers. Holy shit!

It's barely started and the corruption is everywhere. It's blatant and out in the open, and it's disgusting.

I'm going to a protest today. I encourage others to do the same.
They do both business and individual trips in that agency. I guess she uses it the most for "citizen" trips and not for business trips, since on business trips they just have to manage the plane, pick ups (...)

Mostly middle higher class to higher class. There are exceptions of course, but regular Joe of people wanting to save money will plan a trip for themselves
I wrote a tool for rewriting semgrep matches using an LLM https://github.com/icholy/semgrepx
I doubt they mind if their customers lack critical thinking skills
I kind of agree. I’ve had very mixed experiences with LLMs and DSLs.

I was writing an NRQL query (New Relic’s log query language) and wanted to essentially do a GROUP BY date_trunc. It kept giving me options that I was eager for, and then the functions it gave me just didn’t exist. After like four back and forths of me telling it that the functions it was giving me didn’t exist - it worked.

Then I needed it to split on the second forward slash of a string and just give me the first piece. It gave me the foundation to fill in the gaps of the function, but the LLM never got it.

In that case, I assume it’s a lack of training data since NRQL is pretty niche.

I catch myself swinging from “holy shit this is impressive” to “wow this sucks” and back regularly for code.
Bad websites make the times we interact with the government much less efficient than it otherwise would be, especially if a artifice has no reasonable online alternative and instead required in person appointments, costing you time, requiring additional staff, and requiring office space.

One of the best examples of this is passport renewal. In the US until very recently you were unable to do this online, either having to print and mail in a form or go in person to an office.

Another example is the work of 18F to allow Americans easy direct filing of their taxes without the need (or cost) of a third party.
> It's not uncommon for people born in countries with dysfunctional governments

Think of the United States during the Great Depression, for instance. Today’s 80 to 100 year olds were born in that era.
> I’m unsure whether the CRA would allow me to distribute ready-to-run binaries along with source code.

Why?
Travel can be as easy as you want it to be if you are willing to spend money and/or plan. Stay at hotels that are part of a hotel group (e.g: Marriott) and check-in will be seamless. Use airport transfers and someone will be waiting at the airport with a sign and take you straight to the hotel (any reputable hotel will arrange it for you at a fair price). Use a global e-sim that you can activate when your plane lands. The pain you're describing is a choice (a completely reasonable choice to make for many people, but a choice nonetheless).
Thank you so much for writing this. I am a solo game developer working on a vintage-styled spacecraft simulator, tearing his hair out over the cockpit typeface problem. I recognized the classic Apollo spacecraft from the sign engraving tools I'd seen in use on the job about 40 years ago, but I couldn't figure out the name for it or identify a font that recreated it properly.

Add this to the list of wonderful things I never expected to wake up to on HN!
with youtube enhancer (there's also an open source one i wanted to check out but haven't yet) f.e. one can add a speed icon in interface on which the scroll wheel works, allowing dynamic speed adjuistment which, accompanied with [cursor left] to jump back a bit and [number keys] to jump to 0-90% position is amazing for extracting info.
Also, muting videos, turning on captions and rushing through them without the mindfsck is a soul saver often times. Our current attention economy with its commercialization incentives hopefully is just a toxic glitch in history..
Gotta write something named Wedding, Schoneberg, or Pankow. Kewt names.
I mean, it’s already personal for you. Your Medicare being defunded and you not being able to use it feels like it would be the epitome of personal, but whatever. Good luck.
So if the legitimately smartest person in the world happens to be ignorant about Brachiosaurus brancai then it means he's actually dumb?
Reminds me of 'Pivot' from friends.
It's all very bullshit-ese, but it's worth pointing out that the majority of Google's important backend services are written in C++ (on Linux though). And not just stuff written in that same era, but all the way up to about 5-10 years ago.

Granted: Google was not so dumb to imagine deploying on NT / IIS. And their reasons for doing C++ were nothing like what Musk is blathering about here.

The biggest issue here isn't even about the technology. It's Musk as management stepping outside of his domain trying to tell the professionals working under him exactly what to do... because he's an egomaniac narcissist.