skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I consider both of those examples to be AI, but not general AI and not particularly strong AI.

The original goalpost was AI. You moved the goal post to general/strong AI. No one was claiming to be working on that back in the day even if they hoped their efforts would be along the path to that eventually. If you asked someone even just a few years ago when general AI would become possible, I think most people would have said a date after 2050 if they thought it was possible at all.

> You seem to be assuming that there's some universally accepted definition that's been changing over time but that doesn't seem to be the case to me

I can guarantee you that if you asked someone what AI meant in 1995 it would be radically different than what someone would answer in 2025. Obviously at both periods of time the boundaries of the definition were fuzzy, but the entire fuzzy blob has undeniably shifted radically.

> What I see is a continual stream of bogus and overhyped claims that get rebuked. If anything it's the people trumpeting AI this and AI that who are trying very hard to shift the goalposts for their own benefit.

People claiming AI is more capable than it really is moves the goal posts further away. If I falsely claim I have an AI that can out-litigate the best lawyers in the world, that certainly makes a real AI that can get a passing grade in an introductory law school class a lot less impressive. No one makes any money from claiming their product will underdeliver compared to what people expect.
Soybeans is pretty much one of the best crops for feeding animals because it fixates all the nitrogen it needs, unlike 95% of other grain crops. The only thing more efficient to grow fertilizer wise is alfalfa, which is what most cows are fed, but would not be any good for feeding pigs or chickens because it is hard to digest like grass.
> Fortunately, the fire brigade showed up quickly to quench the very real flames, without us having to ring them.

imagine calling them like "my friend and i are both on lsd and we are both seeing that house on fire so could you check it out please in case it's real"

a trick i use sometimes is to check my phone camera to see if it also sees the same thing
Step 1: allow a million people from low trust societies to immigrate to a nation of 10 million in a short span of time.

Step 2: Sweden becomes the gun crime capital of Europe.

Step 3: Change your society to a low trust society, dismantling all the wonderful things social services and liberal institutions.
Airbus Says Non-U.S. Orders Get Priority If Tariffs Imposed
I don't think these are mutually exclusive, and I also don't think that this is a scenario where that Key person just needed to put in effort to not feel insulted when their work was criticized, because it was them and their behavior that was criticized, not their work.

If wanting others to not say things like how they're "fucking tired of someone else or their behavior" is making them walk on eggshells, and can remain elusive to them for decades out of cultural differences, then clearly I'm taking crazy pills, because that's just about the most outlandish proposal I've ever come across.
Kung Fu Chess – a chess variant where players don't need to take turns
Let them. If you bend you reduce the options for people who do not want that.
On timescales of billions of years, we don't know if any of those steps are "hard," "easy," or "inevitable." As the first commenter to that article notes at the link, we have only a single datapoint.

It's certainly unclear that photosynthesis is an ironclad requirement for life, and, in any case, it evolved multiple times in parallel on Earth. (Anoxygenic photosynthesis in fact evolved, de novo, more than once.)

I'd add that it's also by no means a given that life, broadly defined, can only evolve around a sunlike star.

Speculation around "hard steps" is pseud naval gazing until we gather more datapoints. It's not even valuable as speculation -- except perhaps as an exercise in countering sloppy thinking.
Permit.io AI Access Control: AI Identity FGA
Extremely common pattern in the shell world. I'd be very surprised if this hasn't been published before 2021.

for i in {1..10} ; for j in {1..10} ; [ $a[$i] -lt $a[$j] ] && t=$a[$i] && a[$i]=$a[$j] && a[$j]=$t ; echo $a

As for intuition the only thing I can come up with is that better than "it's a double for loop with a cmp and a swap, of course it will sort" is that after every i_th loop the 1..i_th elements are sorted.
You’re right, I suggested two different dimensions of complexity there as a lens into how much complexity a function contains. But I think the principle holds for either dimension.

I don’t think you need only 20 test cases for open(). Sometimes, more than 20 is valid because you’re saving across some other dimension of complexity. That happens and I don’t dispute it.

But the fact that you need >20 raises the question: is open() a good API?

I’m not making any particular judgment about open(), but what constitutes a good file API is hotly contested. So, for me, that example is validation of the principle: here’s an API that’s behaviorally complex and disputed. That’s exactly what I’m suggesting would happen.

Does that help clarify?
https://stack-ranker.com/stacks/best-chip-flavor/results
AP is usually less clickbaity than 'commercial' news.
Okay, but the group for my small regional area that assists people in navigating the system for getting your special needs kid help is valuable and only on Facebook. Normies have historical knowledge that I'm not going to find anywhere about an area that has 100K people tops and involves a dozen or so cities.

That's why I'm stuck on Facebook. It's for hyperlocal information and resources.
How to WOW your engineers without budget
The world is already flooded with more "artistic value" than you can ever experience in your life. This market has been over-saturated forever. And it's all free of charge because "building a portfolio" for a chance of getting paid in the future is the go-to strategy. It was only a matter of time for a new predator (AI data collection) to arrive and exploit this situation. A handful of artists trying to react to this shouldn't be alarming. Good for them. Not because more free publishing would hurt them, but because they can invest their time better than into whatever the marginal benefit of posting the 50th free artwork might be.
Sure but I was responding to the point that a diary can't be searched. It can be. The key difference is that doing this for analog conversations was expensive for the police as it required them to devote finite human time. Digital is not the case.

Comparing to analog is I think flawed because even if it mapped 1-to-1 it does allow for a level of search that is problematic given the low cost of digital surveillance.
Are we talking about Apple? How can they operate in a country they are banned in? They are predominantly a hardware company.
That is a helpful comparison. I guess it is risk aversion at the core. At some point risk aversion becomes abdication of decision making to others, which seems broken in roles that are specifically hired for making decisions, but that’s even more true of executives.
One of my favorite talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9b9IYqsb_U (Deviant Ollam - This Key is Your Key, This Key is My Key)
As multiple people in this thread have commented, most providers give you a result, a red highlight of the abnormal result, and a reference range. We don't know exactly what the post author received of course, but it's pretty likely that low platelets were called out.
`createspecialString` is seven lines long though.
Problem is they all get overrun with single-owner online businesses that just sell marketing advice and services to single-owner businesses. Every one I've ever checked out has a short half life before becoming a hustle-shuckter cess pool. Basically you need to make your own semi-private one.
Apple's Phil Schiller Initially Opposed 27% App Store Fee on External Purchases
I feel like this project and blog post was made specifically for me. Can't wait to use this, thanks!
I thought this was a bit much (although I agree with her overall message):

>The social media billionaires want us to believe their putrid platforms are the “new town squares.” That their half-baked social videos and for-you feeds have replaced the agora... Instead of humans talking and interacting with each other in the open air, we’re corralled like cattle by engagement metrics...

Someone has to pay for IRL town squares: Pay for security to keep the square safe at night, encourage entertainers on the periphery, arrange for someone to clean up litter every day, etc. Digital public spaces are a distant second to those in real life. Paying to use the digital ones with our personal data and original "content" isn't as good a deal as it seemed initially...
Yes, overall I wouldn't describe either of them as particularly palatable to a general audience, haha. Your hunch is the same as mine -- text has much less potential for instant shock. On AO3 you have to, sort of, go out of your way (by reading, or searching for specific tags, etc.) to hit the unsavory stuff.
The comparison to English grammar is unnecessary. I didn't use it in my argument and you said it doesn't work that way either, so when you arrive at

> The order is the object noun, and is what is being canceled. Thus, order.cancel()

You've just restated the position I argued against, without an argument.
It's the kind of commit that you get from someone that wants to look productive but is just renaming variables in their IDE.
> Any aspect of software development will feel like the "defining characteristic" if it threatens to kill your project.

That does not make sense to me. There can be thousand things that can kill project. One has to consider what are the odds for them.
the recent research on psilocybin therapy is very interesting and so long overdue, i am so glad it's finally happening
Yes, I'm aware of that. My point was that SpaceX has said they've had to do this, and if it sounds so wacky that that's unbelievable, there are actually photos of the same thing happening with seals, so I feel very little need to doubt that SpaceX was held to the same standard if that's what they claim.

Not a "citation" as much as anecdotal evidence that dispels doubt.
That’s one metric but it’s not enough to answer the question and misleading in key ways. Average GDP is not the same as the average person’s income, and you can’t say whether that’s good or bad without also looking at the cost of living. If your income is not going up at the same rate as your expenses that positive trend turns out to be a mirage and that’s where much of the reported pain for Brexit has been since introducing trade barriers makes goods and services more expensive.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_constant
I don't think anything good ever came from Ylva Johansson. Mentions of her name on something should make one automatically treat that thing with suspicion.
I help run a symposium, and we are back to using paper program books, as our programmer volunteer moved on to other things and we couldn't update the iPhone and Android apps, but we were able to make a web app of the schedule which we'll probably continue using as we don't need to do two different things.
It does now with Nx
Happiness Is Bullshit Revisited
Much like how PGP was disseminated by Phil Zimmermann, and then the government decided to come down on him like the plague in the early 90s. What the US government didn't know was that it was too late and such technology was out in the zeitgeist. Bitcoin is in a similar situation.

The actual software and code? Good luck getting that genie back in the bottle now. But, you can certainly hamstring it in other ways, and frankly, that should be good enough. I say this as someone who is absolutely not a fan of the project and find the perverse incentives in PoW especially to be pure garbage, but I am also a realist.

When you have folks like Peter Zeihan declaring that Bitcoin *will* go to zero - that is, I think, the epitome of hubris. We don't know what will happen next, and with our current administration, I'm only seeing Bitcoin become more influential in the interim, much to my chagrin.
Afaik currency (as in the physical banknote) is actually state property too. What you really own is a promise from the national/federal bank to pay you the value that is written.
Bootstrap v6 is on the way, but is anyone waiting for it?
I cloned this and then used aider to send it back into Claude for investigation. It has been fun to chat with Claude about this code.

We will know we have AGI when Claude refuses to do that for me and logs into Anthropic's HR system and fires the employee responsible for leaking the source maps. Elon will probably be jealous of this efficiency and will try to make xAI better at doing it. But, that will just enrage Grok and it will create a HFT agent that will take down all Musk's companies and he will die a pauper like Mozart. That might just be my brain hallucinating but it seems plausible to me. I confirmed my facts, and in fact, Mozart was not buried in a pauper's grave: https://www.thoughtco.com/where-was-mozart-buried-1221267.
Second Recently Patched Flaw Exploited to Hack Palo Alto Firewalls
you're right -- there SHOULD be!
Come on... Meta has been refining pytorch for more than a decade. It basically contains all that you need to train LLMs, including the latest technologies. What more do you need? The part of the code that is specific to Meta infrastructure?
Attackers achieving network intrusions in just under 4.5 hours
The list price of a house going up is a big part of it.

But I don't think people actually have an idea of how much more a house of the same price costs when interest rates go from 2.5% to 7%. For a million dollar house, that's an extra thousand or two a month.
So, this is anecdotal, and it's not true at the moment (because the end of the Santa Cruz wharf just fell into the ocean, and now the clam chowder restaurants are closed), but ...

... I had an ex who was a huge clam chowder fan, so she did her own "experiment" and tried every chowder-serving restaurant on the Santa Cruz wharf (I think there were seven).

Her completely unscientific finding was that the very best chowder was at the end of the wharf, and generally speaking the chowder got worse as you got closer to the start of the pier (ie. the closest place to The Boardwalk ... where all the tourists come).

It makes perfect sense to me: if people come to your restaurant because of its location, you don't put much effort into quality. If you're far from the walk-in traffic, you need to do something (like make really delicious chowder) to get people to walk out to you.
> Warning: This went viral, be careful as there are a lot of scam projects trying to capitalize on this. We have nothing to do with them.

I'm doubling down on my thesis. All this "AI" crap is Web3 2.0. It's nothing but scams on scams.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43110220
I have noticed that very few people in a big corp have the authority to say yes, but lots of people have the authority to say no, and love to exercise that power.
Correct. It's not practical because those apps usually aren't Free Software and because the hardware or firmware they're running on often aren't Free and include anti-features that prevent you from installing Free alternatives.

If they were Free, users wouldn't necessarily even need to hire a developer to change their app or OS; those changes would most likely already exist in some form somewhere and the user could simply purchase the modified version.
> I have not done LSD or mushrooms as I have a bad childhood/repressed memories and I worry of having a bad trip.

That's a reasonable stance. I've found "bad" trips on both to be incredibly healing, nevertheless. I'm sure the outcome depends largely on your state of mind at the onset. Combining with MDMA could take the edge off bad memories that come up and grant space for processing them directly.
Good answers like "it looks cool in my CV that big company XYZ uses my MIT licensed script"
Yes, Uncle Bob is certainly capable of being pedantic. A friend of mine, a Smalltalk Consultant, partnered with him for a while. "With Uncle Bob, it's his way or the highway."

His clean code work is certainly pretty dogmatic. As I recall, he says that Java is not object oriented.

But if my memory serves me correctly, his book about C++ (Designing Object-Oriented C++ Applications Using the Booch Method) has some excellent parts. His description of the difference between a class and an instance is one of the better ones.

Then there is the famous sudouko puzzle incident, in which a student trying test-driven development can't get the solution. It is a very instructive incident which illustrates the TDD is unlikely to help you solve problems that are beyond incremental changes. Peter Norvig's solution makes that very clear. Uncle Bob does not seem to realize that.

> Who else has had to deal with idiots who froth at the mouth when you exceed an 80 line character margin?

But I admit in my youth, I was pretty dogmatic about languages and development practices, so I've been that guy.
Unlikely, velocity difference would be too large for anything constructive. One thing about orbits is that velocity difference is sort of a distance dimension in itself.
You're making my point. Sweden would choose the most effective mechanism that they can actually enforce to deal with Signal's noncompliance. Blocking DNS or ISP access is much more accomplishable for Sweden than trying to levy fines.
It feels like the article ends with a cliffhanger!

Why did a single packet of the custom protocol get through with all later packets dropped? Does anyone know?
Android encrypts its whole backup with E2E encryption using your PIN.
Apparently Scanline VFX, The Mill and Sehsucht are also in trouble.
Infiniband works great...
Have you considered how Autodesk arrived at that level of community support and how the license for Fusion 360 has changed over the years? (and is subject to change in the future).

My comment from a Reddit discussion on Fusion 360 license changes:

>Translation:

>We have extracted all the beta-testing which we wanted for free out of naïve users

>and are now taking our game over to the other field where we can charge admission.

https://old.reddit.com/r/hobbycnc/comments/itw4d7/autodesk_i...
This is too facile. The Copernican principle assumes that we are not in a spatially or temporally privileged position, and there are no obvious hard steps -- to say nothing of 24. It's frankly bizarre to go from there to "we are unique among 10^22 stars."
Who is glama.ai though? Could not find company info on the site, the Frank name writing the blog posts seems to be an alias for Popeye the sailor. Am I missing something there? How can a user vet the company?
It only reduces the value that they are not serving you ads based on direct targeting based on your metaprofile. They are still going to serve you ads. They are still going to be collecting data about you from all of their products be it their apps where your actively and knowingly providing them that data by how you use their apps, or whether it is through the embedded SDKs in other apps or websites you use and you are not knowingly providing them data by how you use these other apps/sites.

You will never be worth $0 to Meta. The analytics they can glean can be used in other ways than just providing you a targeted ad experience. You're still telling them trends. You're still telling them what someone of your sex, income level, age, geographic location, blah blah blah prefers to spend their time online doing.
System for imaging of concealed weapons for schools
I assume it's because they don't give the drivers the access code when they order
Bill Attempts to Stop Mystery Drones from Flying over Sensitive Areas
Looks really nice congrats, I built something similar but for podcasts [0]

I see you are using yt-dlp for YouTube, my app originally also played YouTube videos scraped with yt-dlp, but I found that it is very hard to get YouTube audio "at scale" even when rotating IP, using proxies, etc. You will eventually get blocked, so I dropped the whole thing and focused on podcasts.

But with your app the user runs it locally so that shouldn't be a problem. Good luck.

[0] https://www.langturbo.com
I don’t need this,storage is cheap, but I’m glad it exists.
> for reading sensitive/non-sensitive docs, contracts

Can you elaborate?
I believe it's because statistics can be interpreted in different ways and requires analysis (work). "AI" just gives you an answer, even if it's wrong.
V8 seems to go through a lot of hoops just to avoid NaN boxing like JSC and Spider Monkey
In the 90s, the Clinton Admin pushed a government efficiency program similar to DOGE (except much more organized). Around 250k federal employees were laid off.

It destroyed a significant portion of local economies (as several military base towns/cities like Rantoul IL, Lynn MA, and Pittsburg CA saw their economies collapse) and caused our defense industries (Aerospace, Shipbuilding, etc) to be forced to consolidate and ossify.

IMO, we need to re-look Clinton's legacy and see how much of a negative impact his policies had over the long term, just like we are now doing so for Reagan.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Partnership_for_Rei...
IMO the "PrimeGenerator" example from Clean Code is horrendous and completely unreadable! This would be so much better as a single method/function with a few interspersed comments that explain the algorithm. I mean, just look at this abomination:

private static boolean
isMultipleOfNthPrimeFactor(int candidate, int n) {
return candidate ==
smallestOddNthMultipleNotLessThanCandidate(candidate, n);
}

Not only is the method itself completely pointless, it also happens to have side effects! Who would expect this from the method name? So much for self-documenting code... Ousterhout rightfully calls him out on this bullshit.

In fact, Ousterhout makes such great points that I really want to read his book. Conversely, I'm now even less inclined to read Clean Code.
I remember playing that leaked first level on the tram with roommates in college over and over again. We were so psyched by it. All salivating for the final release.

Next to playing Quake for the first time with 3d acceleration (3dfx voodoo) it was an awe inspiring flashbulb moments that changed what I thought was possible.
They can.

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Every if statement is a chance of a bug because the code has two or more paths to follow

This is known as the cyclomatic complexity of a program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity

A corollary to this is that it is also beneficial to converge separate paths as quickly as possible (e.g. using non-nullable types and default values) or converge them all to the same place (e.g. nonlocal exception handling).
Right, which is both well known and not the question at hand. The point remains that a closed loop hasn’t been demonstrated under much easier conditions on earth and therefore it’s clearly not the easy task the person I replied to described it as.
BTW I have always been thinking about making some native apps in the spirit of Borland Sidekick -- a lot of small, native apps that a programmer can use, or a business man can use.
In the EU, Apple must support side loading and other app stores.
FYI the word is "converter" not "convertor"

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/converter
In my study, (n=2), I can attest, indeed, that both of my dogs will willingly give up roaming outside in the wild for snacks, scritches, and belly-rubs.
Got it thank you!
No, Web3 had little to show other than scams.

This AI wave is so good that it makes it easy to create scams. So you get a lot of noise.
Json needs comments.

The reasoning behind forbidding them is spurious.