skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this might be a dupe and the title is completely misleading, it (the AI) simply provided one of the hypothesis (which took two years to confirm) as the top result. A group of humans can come up with these in seconds given expertise in the subject.
Yes he was. I was the person who suggested he hook up with the BOFH, years ago. Sadly, Mike passed in 2024
I've been using Amazon Q Developer as it was provided and approved by my employer. It has been pretty good with Python codebases, Kubernetes configurations, and (not surprisingly) CDK/Cloudformation templates. I can pretty much just ask it "here's my python script, make everything I need to run it as a lambda, hook that lambda up to x, it should run in a vpc defined in this template over here", and it'll get all that stuff put together and its normally pretty solid code it generates. It seems to pull in a lot of the context of the project I have open. For instance, I can say "it should get those values from the outputs in other-cf-template.yml" and it knows the naming schemes and what not across templates, even if it didn't generate those templates.

I might go back and tweak some stuff, add some extra tags and what not, but often its pretty good at doing what I ask.

Sometimes its suggestions aren't what I was really wanting to do in my codebase, a handful of times it has made up methods or parameters of even well-known libraries. But usually, its suggestions are better than a basic IntelliSense-style autocomplete at least in my experiences.

I haven't used many of the other developer assistant plugins like say GitHub Copilot. I couldn't really say which is better or worse. But I do think using Q Developer has made me faster in many tasks.

I wouldn't expect a tool that doesn't have access to the context of my editor and the files I have open to be very useful for actually coding. There's a lot of context to understand in even a basic application. If you're just asking a locally running app in ollama "give me a method to do x", don't be surprised if it doesn't know everything else happening in your app. Maybe it'll give you a halfway decent example of doing something, but devoid of how it actually plugs in to whatever you're making it might be entirely worthless.
still wild to me that diffusion models are fast becoming the secret sauce behind ai image generation, but their roots are buried deep in stochastic calculus

who knew brownian motion would eventually help create cat memes?
I would love an app with a configurable "unlock" task. Ex:

- Do a quick mindfulness/breathing exercise.

- Answer a quick quiz question related to something you're learning.

- Remind you of pending to-dos

Anyone know of an app like this?
https://govwayback.com/
If something needs 4 hours of marketing, it is a pretty bad item, very possibly a scam. The key is to make things that people need, also relying on virality to let your users do the marketing for you. Moreover, to some extent, marketing through APIs can also be programming.
Why for parents
another person still using transmission 3 here! no clue what i'm going to do if/when it stops compiling.
They could move to Bangladesh or Africa and pay $3k / year. They aren't. China has many advantages beyond cheap wages.
Question for HN readers: We have defined about 50 spots (loci) in the mouse genome that contain DNA differences that modulate mortality rates. Most of them have complex age-dependent “actuarial” effects. We would like to predict age at death.

Would stochastic calculus be a useful approach in actuarial prediction of life expectancies of mice?

(And this is why I am pleased to see this high on HN.)
When I read "cracks superbug problem", I thought AI solved how to kill superbugs. From reading the article, it seems like AI suggested a few hypotheses and one of which is similar to what the researcher thought of. So in a way, it hasn't cracked the problem although it helped in forming ONE of the hypotheses, which needs to be tested in experiments(?)

Just want to make sure I'm understanding what's written in the article accurately.
Interesting, thanks. Whilst ".2G Twice a week, for 6 months" doesn't strike me as a lot- could be someone who just goes clubbing twice a week- apparently enough to cause brain lesions. Anyone know if the study is reputable, or could answer the question whether the "lesions" could be something like regions of the brain responsible for/exacerbating mental issues which have been altered by the treatment- ie, the method of action for treatment.
Why would Apple want you to have one though?
I think how Larry Ellison has decided to run Oracle is both atrocious, and his own choice. I think him experimenting with better agriculture is awesome and even failing in it can lead to progress as now we have ruled somethings out.

Few people are truly all bad or all good.
Seriously. It’s like half of the people in this thread are living in a completely different world.

And this is coming from someone who uses LLMs daily at the subscription, API (vscode and 3 nextjs apps) and local level. I have a custom langchain stack, prompt repo, you name it. And regardless of how little or how much I use what I have, or what soup de jour prompt or process (from Keep it simple to Prompt enhancers) I can’t say it’s made a meaningful difference in my life. Even with all of the customization and planning.

It’s a great search engine though.
https://archive.is/EVz5D
Can you please open-source it?
Mark my words: it will end up like the Apple Car.

Apple “Intelligence” has been a flop.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28758106 - Oct 2021 (318 comments)
I get the value add argument, but lots of people just need income to pay for living expenses. Without an income, those people become disaffected and sometimes violent. Then they embrace right-wing protectionism because, while their gadgets are cheaper, they have no income to buy cheap gadgets.

Nor can they move to these offshore places (where the cost of living is lower) because immigration laws exist in part to control worker mobility.
Finite resources (mostly, peoples' time) are expended.
The Koka language uses a similar approach to track resource usage, except there they use ref counting and just remove unnecessary ref counting operations. Neat stuff.
Played the original text Colossal Cave on the school RML 380Z nearly 50Y ago! I still remember us slaying the dragon with our bare hands!
Student refines 100-year-old math problem, expanding wind energy possibilities
It says it took them a decade, but they obviously published loads of intermediate results, as did anyone else working in the space.

I get that they asked it about a new result they hadn't published yet, but the idea that it did it in two days when it took them a decade -- even though it's been trained on everything published in that decade, including whatever intermediate results they published -- probably makes this claim just as absurd as it sounds.
There is an apocryphal story about AI:

Conglomerate developed an AI and vision system that you could hook up to your Anti-aircraft systems to eliminate any chance of friendly fire. DARPA and the Pentagon went wild, pushing the system through test so they could get to the live demonstration.

They hook up a live and load up dummy rounds system, fly a few friendly planes over and everything looks good however when they fly a captured Mig-21 over the system fails to respond. The Brass is upset and the engineers are all scratching their heads trying to figure out what is going on but as the sun sets the system lights up, trying to shoot down anything in the sky.

They quickly shut down the system and do a postmortem, in the review they find that all the training data for friendly planes are perfect weather, blue sky overflights and all the training data for the enemy are nighttime/ low light pictures. The AI determined that anything fling during the day is friendly and anything at night is terminate with extreme prejudiced.
And Sears had all the opportunity to be Amazon
Same for people who live in the Southwest US, unless someone makes a 'touch dirt' or 'touch cactus' plugin.
For code formatting, you can prepend two spaces to a line (this is in https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc).

(That's what ColinWright did at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43162234 for example.)
Come on, you have to link your blog on your profile!

HN does not do reply notifications, so please send me a link - my contact is in my profile :)
I was not. Some googling shows a DOS based on Win95SR2 / Win98SE's (?) with unknown changes, possibly just the copyright string or setup, possibly more?

Eg: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware/c/UEz0...

If you have more info I'd be very interested in hearing about it. I also have no info on the China DOS Union.
you could install some vigilante speed bumps maybe
there’s also the “national security aspect”, government often wants certain hardware not to be made offshore at all
Trading is only zero-sum at very small time scales. Over longer times scales, the stock market is not a closed system. Traders who run out of money will either exit the market entirely, or find more money from somewhere else. That money comes from either economic profits, or the economy's money-creation process. In the US economy, that process is fractional reserve banking[0].

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking#Mon...
Actually...
There is a study from 1989-1991 http://www.bv.transports.gouv.qc.ca/mono/0986299.pdf

Nothing going to be build though.

Although, yes, SNC-Lavalin (whatever realis they are called nowaday) will get the money for another study.

In fact there is currently study to study is going on.
>establish their credibility

>I'd like to know that I'm dealing with a professional, who takes their work seriously

As a sender of these emails, my credibility is established when you go to the location I say there's sensitive data being leaked, and you find sensitive data being leaked. Nothing else should matter.

Are you just going to keep data exposed publicly if, for example, some curious kid notified you instead of a professional?

Hostility to good-faith security research, as shown in the OPs article and in some of the comments here (not specifically you), makes everyone worse off.

Having myself received hostility, demands to prove my credibility, and legal threats when sending notifications like OPs, in most cases now I don't bother to notify anyone. Instead, the data just sits there, accessible to the actual bad guys. Hurray!
social security/labor and medicaid/health are the biggest pieces of the pie in terms of budget though. You could cut defense to zero and still have a deficit > ~1T. Clearly they are not sustainable in their current state.
What you've said has nothing to do with free software.

"Freedom" doesn't mean freedom from Rust, for starters.
cool idea, especially the newsletter so i don't need to visit the website every day
As someone who frequently disagrees with the overwhelming majority political opinion on this site, this is one thing I wish all states could find common ground on. The amount of waste and value extraction that corporations force on us, when we could simply repair and maintain what we already have, is downright evil.
As with many others commenting here, I've certainly had many suspicions I'd found a compiler (or equivalent) bug almost always proved false.

But in 30+ years of professional experience, I've also found two compiler-like bugs (I tend to use scripting / interpreted languages, so "compiler" isn't entirely accurate). One was in a commercial software package in which the documentation and implementation of a feature were reversed (what resolved as "true" should have been "false" and vice versa). That resulted in a code fix.

And another was a bug (specifics of which I've since forgotten) in GNU Awk, and not, I painstakingly verified, in my own code. That was also submitted and fixed.

Every other time, though, my own damned fault ;-)
Thanks, that's a great source! Definitely illuminates a part of Cloudflare's infrastructure I had no idea about before. Interesting to hear about their cooperation here given their publicly very anti-censorship reputation.
In addition, the words of a heretic were believed to be a mortal threat to the eternal lives of those who might hear them. So heresy was the spiritual equivalent of randomly spraying bullets into a crowded place with a machine gun.

The beliefs have not changed, but democratic society has moderated their effects.
Why do I need an account to view the docs?
Per the article, Starlink is not the answer because:

> Capacity constraints

Take the author's word for it

> high prices

Odd criticism of Starlink, given this article cites a project in Oswego County, NY as a success... even though they spent $2,400 per connected household!

> erratic leadership

This is journo for "I don't like the CEO's politics"
Will see if I can scrounge up some links, but farmers are paid (just an example, there are many environmental and other programs) federal money to do stuff like leave strips of land uncultivated to reduce fertilizer run-off from fields. These payments are stopped and farmers are left to foot the bill. Also, technically, if a contract is for 3 years and a farmer is 1 year in but decide to stop because the money isn't coming in, now the farmer is in violation!

On a related note: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43162502
> - Do a quick mindfulness/breathing exercise.

Clearspace does exactly this:

https://www.getclearspace.com/#how-it-works

I've been using it for a month or two, with good results. Good luck!
If I had to guess they might see embedding models become small and optimised enough to the point that they can pull them into the DB layer as a feature instead of being something devs need to actively think about and build into their app.

Or it could just be an expansion to their cloud offering. In a lot of cases embedding models just need to be 'good enough' and cheap and/or convenient is a winning GTM approach.
Depends whether you're talking about salaries based on hourly rate or outcome rate.
Pentagon, FBI and other key federal agencies refuse to comply with Musk
So just because it's better than nothing we should consider it good enough?
That is ~$164 million per mile, compared to Japan's ~$35 million per mile, which is considered quite expensive due to so much being through tunnels.

https://www.railjournal.com/in_depth/hokkaido-shinkansen-pre...
Neither. But let say it was COVID. Also REM is unreliable, very unreliable by modern standards.
Yes. The inevitable rejection is the point. It reinforces the otherness of the outside world, creating more separation from non-believers and stronger connection and devotion to the cult.
Back in the XEmacs days, when I cared about it, graphical widgets, better extension points, and not so religious against usability features as Emacs understand the stewardship from the mighty Stallman.

Nowadays no idea, I even lost track if Emacs finally does everything that was special about XEmacs, 30 years ago.
Google Co-Scientist AI fed previous paper with the answer in it
>He gave "co-scientist" - a tool made by Google - a short prompt asking it about the core problem he had been investigating and it reached the same conclusion in 48 hours.

Could it be the case when asking the right question is the key? When you know the solution already it's actually very easy to accidentally include some hints in your phrasing of question that will make task 10x easier
Evidently I disagree. Apparently not enough people are angry enough. We elected a man who accepted $30 billion in brides the day before his inauguration and his supporters don’t care.
I don’t think you have a solid understanding on how government works and are conflating many things here. Fiscal balance is not going to cause the USG to gonna blink out of existence (unlike a company). While there is certainly the need to increase efficiency and solidify government operations, you don’t fix democracy by unilaterally gutting the federal government and regulations and concentrating power on a handful of rich individuals. That’s going in the opposite direction of a democratic system. Try more reading a history book and less of Elon’s feed.
What I would love is social unlock, where your friends have to approve or deny your requests

I didn't realize there was a screen time api! I was waiting on Apple to do it, now I'll have to do it and wait for Apple to commit an antitrust violation and do it after it gains traction!
Very cool idea. It would help to have testimonials. Also it looks kinda janky on Safari mobile

Marketing/distribution/adoption is maybe the hardest thing about creating a new product or service

I think you have the right idea about focusing on companies, because they can be recurrent users, whereas people preparing for interviews will only briefly use the product
website takes a long time to load for me (which is ironic for a static website generator)

my 2 cents are that the problem with static websites IMHO is not to generate some HTML but to have some inspirational templates

hugo has a ton of cool templates one can fork quickly and adjust
TL;DR tech bro's underestimate the difficulty of farming. News at 11.
High-Performance, Power-Efficient Ethernet Solutions
Google openly train stuff based on your email, they used is specifically to train Smart Compose, but maybe other stuff too. He likely uses multiple Google products. Draft papers in Google Drive perhaps?

These LLM models are essentially trying to produce material that sounds correct, perhaps the hypothesis was a relatively obvious question with the right domain knowledge.

Additionally, he may not have been the first to ask the question. It's entirely possible that the AI chewed up and spat out some domain knowledge from a foreign research group outside of his wheelhouse. This kind of stuff happens all the time.

I personally have accidentally reinvented things without prior knowledge of them. Many years ago in University I remember deriving a PID controller without being aware of what one was. I probably got enough clues from other people/media that were aware of them, that bridging that final gap was made easier.
It's funny either way, isn't it? Just in very different ways...
That could be motivation if one doesn't mind absurdity, like “gun control yes, but you're exempt if you pinky-promise you only shoot <people-I-don't-like>”.
At least in my area, we also don’t build new highways. We only widen existing ones.

Right of way seems to be the biggest driver of cost and seems to be a major blocker for transportation progress.
Well said. I hear my arty/crafty friends get recommended to sell their "works". Thinking of art as an investment is a scourge.

Unfortunately money is useful, even if the game of chasing it is stupid and can be doomingly addictive. Looking after it for retirement is hell and trains one to be tight or a gambler.

The worst part is that we all know other things are more important than money: most people seem to choose jobs for their invisible benefits rather than financial outcomes. Our world runs because of our internal goals rather than money. The teacher that wants to help their students. The taxi driver that just likes to meet people. The engineer that strives for perfection. Does Matt Levine write for money?

The social incentives are whacko, and the government incentives are often insane. I have some admiration for those that find a way to get the benefits of society at the lowest time costs to themselves.

We fear we live in a purely capitalist world - yet the invisible incentives (economic surplus) are what makes everything work. The danger of seeing everyone else as a money grubber, while knowing that we ourselves are driven by better motivations.
I did consider that interpretation, but by "praise" I simply mean that the article says "Five states (New York, California, Minnesota, Oregon, and Colorado) have passed electronics Right to Repair legislation" and that "the remaining states are working hard to restore repair competition" which is also overblown since so many of the States are merely "Historical" with nothing going on.
Question on paper writing... There is only one author listed, but the wording keeps using "we" as in "we show that..." Is it considered poor practice to use "I" in a one-person paper? Or is "we" including the reader in the exposition?
Even the "active and passed" states (particularly New York) passed a neutered version of right-to-repair that barely does anything. I only understand vaguely, but Louis Rossman has been outspoken about the progress of NY right-to-repair in particular, and how it flopped hard. As much as right-to-repair seems like a party line issue, even many of the Democrats have thus far been all talk and no substance.
I think your email report was good.

I think your blog post was a bit juvenile. Amusing maybe, but you're a professional and there's no need to resort to name-calling. Let the toddler's behaviour speak for itself. You don't need to laugh at them in public. It's fun though, I get it. Just gratuitous.

My recommendation to you, to turn your email report from "good" to "great", would be something like this:

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> Hi, I'm an independent security researcher and I publish my findings under the name "Yyyy". My primary website is yyyy.com and I've had reports published in Blah, Blah, and Blah. A quick web search will tell you more about me and my background.

> I'm writing to report an issue I noticed in toddlerceo.com. Specifically:

> (your good and complete list of specifics here, including exposure risk and high level mitigation notes if practical).

> My intent is to improve the security of the Internet, and to write about the kinds of issues I've discovered. The issue I've described here will make for an interesting and valuable article, but I don't want to publish until you've had a chance to fix the issue, so my standard procedure is to delay publication for 30 days. I'll work on the article now, and schedule it for publication on March 24th, 2025.

> Please let me know if you need any more details on the issue I've found.

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This may be more than they deserve! But that's OK, because you're a professional and if you are lucky enough to get a professional on the other side of the conversation, you will earn their respect, at no cost to you.

And let's be honest: your motivation for writing this article is self-promotional. You want work. Impress the CEO/security officer/etc, and you will get work, or referrals for work. So it may be more than they deserve, but it works in your interests too.
free tier allows you to download the csv.
It's pretty obvious to me that this is all about profits and public image, it's not like they suddenly started to give a damn about other people.
The direct answer to your question is that the idea of "responsive" web design gradually took over when smartphones became popular. People liked the idea of not needing to create a separate mobile version of their frontend, and instead simply adjusting the styling and structure of the page in response to the size of the viewport. Tables were bad at this because you couldn't use CSS to arbitrarily move around the way a table is structured.

(The funny thing is that, in modern browsers this is no longer true - you actually can use CSS to restructure table layouts now. But, the world has already moved on.)

Though there's a broader answer, which is that generally as web design has modernized, so too have ideas of "semantic" markup. Semantically, table is supposed to be used to display data. HTML which is used for its proper semantic purpose is easier for screen readers, improving accessibility, and easier for search crawlers to make sense of the content, improving SEO. So a lot of old HTML tricks fell out of use when HTML5 started becoming popular.