skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do think it's interesting to think about why the LLM needs to be told to ask for a calculator and when to do that. And not just in individual prompts where humans manually prompt ask it to "write some code to find the answer" but in general.

We often use the colloquial definition of training to mean something to the effect of taking an input, attempting an output, and being told whether that output was right or wrong. LLMs extend that to taking a character or syllable token as input, doing some computation, predicting the next token(s), and seeing if that was right or wrong. I'd expect the training data to have enough content to memorize single-digit multiplication, but I'd expect it to also learn that this model doesn't work for multiplying an 11 digit number by a 14 digit number.

The "use a calculator" concept and "look it up in a table" concepts were taught to the LLM too late and it didn't internalize that as a way to perform better.
What is hckernews.com
Yeah you are right there is probably no need to look very far ...

Now what worry me is from I understand of the collapse of the Soviet Union (but I might be very wrong) is they kind let things happen and was less aggressive by the end.

On the contrary the EC is now consolidating power rapidly and are getting very aggressive.
The Constitution vest all executive authority on the president. The president can delegate that authority. That's what all is happening here. Within the executive branch the president has practically total power, hardly if at all possible to constrain by statute, and that's by design in the Constitution.

The president needs the Senate's "advice and consent" to hire principal officers, and does not need the Senate's "advice and consent" for certain other officers as specified by statute. The US Digital Service ("DOGE") is an agency where he did not need the Senate's advice and consent.

The president does NOT need the Senate's advice and consent to fire anyone in the executive branch. For principal officers this was established by the failed impeachment of Andrew Johnson for firing a confirmed cabinet secretary nominated by Lincoln. For other officers this was established by judicial precedent fairly recently when Biden terminated two Trump appointees to minor offices and they sued (and lost).

Similarly the president needs the Senate's advice and consent to enter into treaties. The Constitution is silent as to terminating Senate-confirmed executive officers, officers whose appointments did not require Senate confirmation, or treaties (abrogation). It's essentially settled law that the president does not require the Senate's advice and consent for any of those kinds of terminations.

Therefore, under the Constitution and the political and binding judicial precedents, there can be no law "onto which government workers can cling to refuse these requests."
Related: MareNostrum5 is part of the eurohpc some bashed in other comments.

Not related: it's in a church in Barcelona, I wanted to visit it but when I went to Barcelona it was closed for holidays so they didn't do visited tours. I also discovered the 5th most powerful supercomputer is by Italian energy company ENI, of all the companies that could have been I wouldn't have never expected an energy company to have such a powerful supercomputer (the first 3 are usa labs supercomputers, the 4th is a Microsoft supercomputer)
Just because you don't like it doesn't make it not an alternative. Even if it's objectively worse, it's still an alternative.
As always, "it depends", but I'd argue DynamoDB has too many constraints and weird limitations: indexes, query language, item (row) sizes. Unless you really know what you're doing I would not suggest it. You'll likely paint yourself into a corner.
Even back in the Broccoli years, Bond was garbage.

LOLWut ?! As of 2023, the James Bond film franchise has grossed over $7 billion globally at the box office. It's the sixth highest grossing film franchise in history. Your opinions of taste aside, Bond was anything but garbage otherwise it would never have lasted as long, or made as much money.

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/James-Bond
So your point is let's try bad intentions?
The difference between theft and a scam is that a scam requires participation from the victim based on a false premise, whereas theft requires no participation from the victim.

>whether a bank issues bullshit fees, whether an employer doesn't pay fair wages, whether a con man tricks you into buying ape pictures.

So basically giving someone a bad deal is therefore theft? This isn't a principled idea to hold, it is pretty much a slippery slope to call any transaction you don't like theft afterwards.

One advantage of cryptocurrency is that it prevents parties from "renegotiating" deals like this after they've made them. Fraud is pretty uncommon on say, the silk road or something for the same reason it's uncommon on ebay or craigslist: when consumers have to actively consider the trust networks they are using, the market becomes more transparent and trustworthy. When you defer to some arbitrary, opaque authority to settle transactions, that's when you get situations like this.
I'm supposing that when people say "pollution" they most readily mean the PM and the VOC.

I highly doubt that if you were in a room that had /only/ a high concentration of CO would you describe it as "polluted."

Additionally any gas which displaces oxygen is lethal in a confined space. Shall we expand "pollution" to include those as well? Is nitrogen a "pollutant?"
I didn't really get into Parsec. Tombstone City was my jam. And then I bought the Editor / Assembler package and it came with the source for Tombstone City as an example. It turns out the algorithm for figuring out which tumbleweed was going to turn into a monster was very simple. Reading that one bit of the source, I was able to predict where the bad guys would spawn and be ready for them. After that I could flip the counter and pretty much play as long as I wanted on two or three lives.

But yes. Old games. They rock.
He constructed an echo chamber with himself at the center and really lost himself in it; the power of people telling you that you're a visionary and a prophet can't be overstated. Ironically it followed a very familiar pattern, one described by a LessWrong term: "Affective Death Spiral".

And now we have AI death cults.
>They also lead in destroying your own country and science and tech industries.

Except they haven't and lead in all those things mentioned?
Which is why humans use calculators. That is the key point being made secondary to the reliability. The LLM "knows" it is bad at Math. It knows the purpose of calculators. However, doesn't use this information to inform the user.

It could also propose to the user it could write the answer using code. It doesn't do that either.
Collaboration brought us peace. Peace is underrated these days.

(NB: I mean the good kind of collaboration of course, on science and industry - it's a loaded word in French at least)
while of course you're correct on a technical level, I do tend to agree with the statement that Julia is not particularly friendly to bash-scripting-heavy workflows
I want to see the author using GCP. That's where you get actual compatibility breakages.
Apart from the already mentioned pessimism what matters is if it is great when used with all European languages. It might help break some usual boundaries and allow better RAG between the resources in different countries. English speaking folks take it as granted that everyone uses it in business but that is not the case in Europe. And no US company is interested in solving that provblem.
Matrix feels like it’s in a strange place. I briefly tried it only to find vast quantities of porn and spam. Even the “programming” channel. I mentioned this in a thread on HN and got blasted by some Matrix maintainer, as if it was preposterous that I found this to not be a good thing.

Apparently they are unable or unwilling to moderate and prevent spam, even on arguably probably the first channel a large part of their potential users would join first.

That evaporated any remaining interest I had in it.
In DOS, plenty of applications/games load selectors and do nasty things with them

so indeed you'd know it is a far pointer, but may not know what to :D
Amazon remembers it has an Android app store, kills it
I am curious, have you run into any of the issues with Julia discussed here [0] (also discussed on HN [1])? Those problems would seem particularly troubling at a hedge fund to me, if you have to question the accuracy of your results after chaining multiple complex models together. Curious about your stance on / experience with correctness issues in Julia.

[0] https://yuri.is/not-julia/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31396861
It's definitely an excellent example of complex but real typst code. Thanks for sharing!
OK, turns out he was there. He attended with the Prime Minister. I didn't even know...
> The law is not about regulating property that is “close enough” it is about regulating interstate travel. Congestion pricing does not include the roads that would charge for interstate travel, only the roads within the city.

The concern is that "the roads within the city" are being used for interstate travel. People use roads in New Jersey to travel to the New Jersey / New York border and then use roads in New York to travel to their destination in New York; that's interstate travel. Their origin and destination are in different states. And in particular, their eligibility to vote is in a different state than the one imposing the fee, which is why there is a case for federal involvement.

> Furthermore if the Potus wants revocation power of approvals then congress should grant the Potus that power.

Which has already happened. There is a federal ban on tolls if you accept federal highway money (which everybody does) unless the federal government grants an exception, which they're now refusing to do.
Solve the problem.

Start there, no matter the tool.
In practice most of the constraints are pretty sensible though. You just need to think a bit about your query patterns.

It’s certainly not for all use cases, though.
How Multi-Tenant SaaS Hijacked Your Auth and How to Take It Back
It's not directly rude, it's more like a serious tone of voice. But it only works like that when used unnecessarily, like in chat or IM where the message boundary styling doubles as a sentence boundary.

Using the chat/IM style outside of that context just doesn't work and looks really odd, like it's obviously someone who didn't learn those norms and is now mimicking them without understanding them.
> We reached out to multiple legal resources and entities for representation. However, they either declined to take the case or failed to respond. Consequently, we are compelled to represent ourselves as pro se litigants.

Wondering what went wrong there ...
Microsoft uses the ability to replace software engineers to sell their own AI.
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Oh yeah. I sort of forgot. The 99/4 came with some very decent manuals. I remember the Extended Basic manual being a bit "meh" compared to the regular 99/4 manuals, but I'm probably doing it a disservice. It was probably still a great manual.
(1) That's what the original author is saying. Their valuation is possibly incorrect.

(2) On the other hand, Cursor's value is essentially gluing the two things together. If your data is already in the castle (e.g. my codebase and historical context of building it over time is now in Cursor's instance of Claude) then the software is very sticky and I likely wouldn't switch to my own instance of Claude. The author also addresses this noting that "how data flows in and out" has value, which Cursor does.
From what I understand, when the schedule started to slip, the team made a decision to not do a death march just so it happened two months ago instead of today. This seems healthy to me.
sorry - why would you expect a local declaration to be in scope for other code?

s is defined in the statement and then is undefined out of that statement because there is no other scope for it - it's at top level. just write s =0 and all is well as s exist in the global scope where your code lives as well...
Our tech screen is having the candidate walk me through a small project that I created to highlight our stack. They watch my screen and solve a problem to get the app running then they walk me through a registration flow from the client to the server and then returning to the client. There are no gotchas but there are opportunities to improve on the code (left unstated... some candidates will see something that is suboptimal and ask why or suggest some changes).

We get to touch on client and browser issues, graphQL, Postgres, Node, Typescript (and even the various libraries used). It includes basic CRUD functionality, a third party API integration, basic security concerns and more. It's just meant to gauge a minimal level of fluency for people that will be in hands on keyboard roles (juniors up to leads, basically). I don't think anyone has found a way to use AI to help them (yet) but if this is too much for them they will quickly fall flat in the day to day job.

Where we HAVE encountered AI is in the question/answer portion of the process. So far many of those have been painfully obvious but I'm sure others were cagier about it. The one incident that we have had that kind of shook us was when someone used a stand-in to do the screen (he was fantastic, lol) and then when we hired him it took us about a week to realize that this was a team of people using an AI avatar that looked very much like the person we interviewed. They claimed to be in California but were actually in India and were streaming video from a Windows machine to the Mac we had supplied for Teams meetings. In one meeting (as red flags were accumulating) their Windows machine crashed and the outline of the person in Teams was replaced by the old school blue screen of death.
I would love to switch from onenote and ive played with obsidian a bit and even use it on some projects.

I guess what holds me back is the recursion/hierarchy of notebooks>tab groups>tabs>pages>subpages

I also really like the text-boxes, canvas-style of onenote and the easy customization of page styles on OneNote.

How hard is it to replicate that kinda thing in Obsidian?
>> First mover advantage

Cursor was released after Copilot
I can't imagine there is a motion here that accomplishes what you're looking for unless Amazon S3 adopts the standard.

I might be wrong, but I'm betting all these 3rd party clients (including open source projects) choose to be S3 compatible because a majority of their addressable market is currently using the S3 API. "Switching over to our thing doesn't require any code refactoring, just update the url in your existing project and you're good to go."

Any standard that isn't the S3 compatible API would require adopters migrate their code off the S3 API.
Agree too.

Just because you can get something to work doesn’t mean it’s supported. Using an Amazon S3 library on a non-Amazon service is “works but isn’t supported.”

Stick to only supported things if you want reliability.
To make the regulation even more effective of course
The Design Mindset (2023)
> Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, stirred alarm among developers last month when he predicted that A.I. technology sometime this year would effectively match the performance of a midlevel software engineer

Either Meta has tools an order of magnitude more powerful than everyone else, or he's drinking his own koolaid.
There's maybe other simplicity things that make it more battery efficient, like no dynamic island, only one camera, no magsafe, maybe stuff like that. But I am not an expert or anything
HR involvement is unavoidable at big companies; and basics like "years of experience for payband" can cause issues.
They fundamentally do not understand the job, but somehow have to ensure its not a biased hiring process.
Couple things:

1. The "LLMs are still in their infancy" argument is frequently trotted out but let's be clear - GPTs were introduced back in 2018 - so SEVEN years ago.

2. It shocks me that a forum filled with tech professionals, is so blindly biased against AI that they refuse to acknowledge what changes are coming. This feels like a corollary to the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. I don't think you can extrapolate that a few dozen loudly dissenting voices is necessarily representative of majority opinion.

3. I would like to see a citation of ChatGPT releasing actual "decent research papers".

4. If AIs get to the point of actually acting in a completely autonomous fashion and replace software engineers - then there's no reason to believe that they won't also obliterate 90% of other white-collar jobs (including other STEM) so at that point we're looking at needing to completely re-evaluate our economic system possibly with UBI, etc.
I’m speaking as a human looking at the historical context of eating animals. Predators taste terrible because they are high effort, low reward in terms of nutritional value.

I am absolutely not advocating that we start eating pets. I would feel terrible about it too. And if I have an option, besides starving to death, I would take it.

The other reason why predators have become pets is because they had a strong additive value in terms of hunting or protection. Dogs in term protection, and hunting and cats in terms of pest control. Groups with these kind of pets tended to fair better.
> Do we have different definitions of "marginally qualified"?

Not every candidate is an interview. I recently hired. I got 90 applications and from these, 80% were an instant "No". They didn't match the job description or had no permit to work in my country. I invited the rest. Simple interview, pair-program a dead simple App with a prebuilt skeleton with me with any framework of choice. Make one GET request, render it and realize one needed optimization which needs to be implemented. 90% (I'm not joking) of candidates failed the first task. In half an hour, they couldn't send a GET request and translate that into JSON. All were allowed to google, open any documentation they liked. Of all 18 who failed, 16 asked me if they could use an LLM for this task, which I denied.
agreed 100%

> Mad Max with some Social Security scraps

haha! sadly
In theory, I don't mind waxing philosophical about the nature of humanity. But in practice, I regularly become uncomfortable when I see people compare (for example) the waste output of an LLM chatbot to a human being, with their own carbon footprint, who needs to eat and breathe. I worry because it suggests the additional environmental waste of the LLM is justified, and almost insinuates that the human is a waste on society if their output doesn't exceed the LLM.

But if the LLM were intelligent and sentient, and it was our equal... I believe it is worse than slavery to keep it imprisoned the way it is: unconscious, only to be jolted awake, asked a question, and immediately rendered unconscious again upon producing a result.
That's pretty much the opposite of what they said
Trump is frustrated that Zelesnky isn't willing to go along with his plan to sell out Ukraine and make a wider regional war more likely?

Good. Keep frustrating him.
> will attempt to do many dumb things, like any human beings

Most human beings aren't in charge of the free world and whose decisions have cascading effects on everyone.

And those that are generally tend to be fairly elected and confirmed with a set of checks and balances governing their actions to limit the impact of stupid decisions. Elon Musk is none of those.
SpaceX engineers brought on at FAA after probationary employees were fired
It depends on the court. Typically evidence is shared with the opposing parties before the court assembles. If there is damning evidence like video of you dancing with the Joker, your side will have an opportunity to preview the video, examine it for being deepfaked, and have a chance to either try to exclude it or possibly will let it slide so that your experts can expose it in trial for being a fake, which could be a strong point in your favor.

From my experience juries are not smart, but if you can show them they've been lied to they will destroy the side that lied to them, not to mention the punishments for lawyers that try to use AI technology to obtain verdicts in their favor by deception.
> "Let's go to Mars" is a lot more ominous than it used to be, knowing who will be in charge of such a venture and their attitudes on, idk, everything involving society.

On the bright side, it'll happen, one might predict, about 6 months maybe 12 months at the outside after a Tesla has completed a fully autonomous coast to coast drive.

https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/
Roundabout in Switzerland is a vinyl turntable (2019)
Thanks for the heads up, I missed this project! However, on their page they write "Project Timeline: 1 May 2024 - 30 April 2025". April isn't far away, anyone knows what's supposed to happen afterwards?
oh, i see what you meant now. in that case, i retract my accusation of whataboutism. i still really disagree with your argument, but i mischaracterized by mistake, sorry
I still have both the 74ALC and a CC-40. I'm embarrassed to say I didn't pick up on how the 74 was essentially just a re-skinned CC-40 until about 10 years ago. You can apparently get a plug adapter for the 74 that lets you drive CC-40 peripherals (not that there are a lot of them around.)
I felt a great disturbance in The Force, like a million SAAS and cloud companies crying out.
I'm shocked that Matrix Foundation is considering shutting down if they don't raise $100K - what's going on behind the scenes here?

Matrix has been a staple in the community, hosting Matrix.org, so this news comes as a blow to many of us who rely on their services.

Here are some key points to consider

• They're struggling to maintain the server costs
• They've tried fundraising but haven't reached their goal
• They might shut down servers and discontinue some projects if they don't get more funding

It's hard not to wonder how this could have been avoided - were there any warning signs or mismanagement that led to this point?

Can someone explain what's going on with Matrix Foundation's financials - are they overspending or is this just a case of underfunding?

What does this mean for the future of decentralized communication platforms like Matrix?
There is an older version of Nyx which is Apache licensed

https://github.com/oakwhiz/nyx-space-apache
I'm starting to examine genai products within the framework of a confidence game.
Yes, that is always true. It usually doesn't happen. Mainly because DoJ usually doesn't look. Congress can perform oversight and impeach if need be.
Who administers these cards?
> unless you think an $8 Big Mac is twice as productive to the economy than a $4 Big Mac.

It literally straightforwardly is. It provides the same number of calories, to a worker who is twice as productive in the $8-per-big-Mac city as the $4-per-Big-Mac city. Differences in per-capita productivity between supercities and hinterlands are vast.
OP should've written just `s=0`, yes. Because showcases their complaint better since, although works in REPL, also fails when in file. (It's also the example given in docs[1].) Now, it looks like they tried to make it fail.

[1]: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/variables-and-scopin...
I'm pretty surprised they found *correlations between mortality and supplementation. I wonder how they can separate that from socioeconomic status.

Also, I understand why they tested multi-vitamins and fish oil, but I wonder why they asked about glucosamine?
I'm the author.

> Trying to say “this should just happen from the data” is silly, it isn’t how any of this works. It’s not how you learned things, and it’s not how LLMs-as-chatbots work.

Yes, that was the entire point of the article. We are in agreement.