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Advanced Find still works for me. Outlook classic for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2501 Build 16.0.18429.20132) 64-bit. Shift-Ctrl-F
I have a youtube channel with a playlist of coding with AI, where I show what I do with it (a small part, actually, but representative enough I hope). This is is the first video of the series I believe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pLlet9Jrzc&list=PLrEMgOSrS_...

And here, Redis bugfixing with Claude Sonnet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCIZflYEpEk&list=PLrEMgOSrS_...
> WTF are you talking about?

> get the fuck out of here

> You are pissing on anyone

Whoa—swipes like this will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. Please don't post any more of this. Your comment would have been just fine without it. (Well, that and the "little baby bitches".)

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, that would be good. I don't want to ban you and we've had to ask you this before.
Not sure if sarcasm or some type of counterfactual history?

It does not matter how we ended up here, but we have an obligation to select for the least bad outcome.
To his supporters, Trump looked strong.
I have a dozen or so very random prompts I feed into every new model that are based on things I’m very knowledgeable and passionate about, and compare the outputs. A couple are directly coding related, a couple are “write a few paragraphs explaining <technical thing>”, and the rest are purely about non-computer hobbies, etc.

I’ve found it way more useful for me personally than any of the “formal” tests, as I don’t really care how it scores on random tests but instead very much do care how well it does my day to day things.

It’s like listening to someone in the media talk about a topic you’re passionate about, and you pick up on all the little bits and pieces that aren’t right. It’s a gut feel and very unscientific but it works.
When Google announced, that they've build a browser and a new JavaScript engine, it was clear that this would be the angle of attack against Microsoft. Back then, Microsoft had like 95% market share. There was now way around writing windows programs. So Google put millions of work hours into the idea of building a new platform for apps, the "web Browser".
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We (Americans) can’t be relied on. Yeah most Americans are still supportive of Europe but our political system produces whipsaw foreign policy. The end result of all this is America is weakened on the global stage as our allies lose faith in us and start working around us. Why should Europeans boycott China, sanction Iran, support Israel, isolate Cuba, intervene in another Iraq? These are American priorities, not European ones.
This guy always finds a way to claim victory for his AI pessimism. In a few years: "AI's Nobel Prizes aren't even in the top 10, just like I predicted"
The developers of u-block explain in pretty great detail why this is not opt.

I would encourage you to read their explanation.
Surely any distinction bewtween ledgers is just as dumb at this point. Who gives a damn how the traits are passed down if that these traits are passed down is still a true statement of fact?
Freedom to promote Nazism and to promote the rehabilitation of Nazis isn't welcomed in Europe.

Yes, it might theoretically make Europe less free, and now you have the Twitter guy being a member of the US administration doing Nazi salutes and promoting far right parties.

Suddenly Hitler was a victim. Like the disregard for the thousands of young men lost on the D day and to the war, to reach this freedom you're preaching.

Yet that doesn't seem to leave any sour taste, go figure.

But I have to ask, why you want the freedom for people to be able to promote Nazism?
Musk is not a world leader.
That is absolutely a possibility, but not a certainty, and a very dangerous gamble to make. That said, Europe probably does need its own nuclear deterrent and its own anti-ballistic missile defense.
> Maybe he should remember from what country his parents came and what happened to the billionaires there.

I get you don't like the policy (assuming it is even the official policy.) How's this related to having an excited team working on an important project? Are you suggesting there is something wrong with people who work hard on a mission they believe in? How does this tie fates of Russian billionaires in any shape or form? Are Gemini googlers revolting?
> They keep underestimating Zelenski but he was certainly prepared for this confrontation.

The Trump-gang seems to underestimate everyone and everything. I still don't know whether they mean all this excessive behavior for real, or if this is an elusive ploy to divert from something else. Trumps seems to operate by selling big to gain small, but I can't really understand yet what his real long-term goal seems.

But at this point it seems other politicians around the world have got an understanding of him and his behavior and started playing along. I'm curious if Zelenskiy did the same, he certainly gained more from this than if he had been avoided it from the beginning.
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It isn't dumb so much as desperate. Their preference is to supply troops with trucks, but they have lost a huge number of trucks and use many of those remaining as troop transports on the front line which also speaks of desperation.
In the full video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhquAWlke2o), at 38:15 you can see the press ask a question that Trump (and then Vance) are responding to, directly prior to where your video begins.

Trump and Vance are directing their answers at the reporter. Vance's reply does not criticize Zelensky at all.

Then Zelensky interjects to directly confront Vance about his answer. That was the moment when it became argumentative.

Don't get me wrong, I understand the righteous fury that Zelensky feels. His country was invaded. But I think it was a blunder to pick a fight over Vance's answer.
*optimal

For instance it doesn't block youtube ads. Arguably the single most important reason people have ublock.
Becoming? This may sound like a trope and a canard, but indeed this very publication, The Economist is partially owned and controlled by the Rothschild dynasty.
What did we replace "legacy" ATACMS with we could use in a war today? PrSM?

In November 2023, the Army delivered the first four Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM) as an early operational capability (EOC). The Army shot two PrSM EOC missiles at a maritime target in June 2024. Between November 2023 and August 2024, the Army executed three production qualification test (PQT) events. The Army intends to complete a limited user test (LUT) with the fifth PQT test event in 1QFY25 and the remaining four planned PQT test events by 3QFY25.

https://www.dote.osd.mil/Portals/97/pub/reports/FY2024/army/...
um: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-sol_moyenne_port%C3%A9e
>No, they're shutting down activities intended to gather intelligence o

Also we don't know if they are, we know they said so. Which may be counterintelligence. If you were an enemy would you believe that? No

If I'm playing poker and my opponent tells me he has aces, I ignore it, what my opponent/enemy says gives me no information.

If my opponent says he has aces, and a friend tells him not to say that or whatever. I ignore that as well. He is not in the hand.
If you're given a button to click, your browser has successfully passed the environment integrity checks and you have not been flagged as a bot.

You'll be flagged as a bot if your browser configuration has something "weird" (e.g. webrtc is disabled to reduce your attack surface) and you will be completely unable to access any site behind cloudflare with the anti-bot options turned on. You'll get an infinite redirect loop, not a button to click.
Absolutely, she shouls pay! Also EU should suspend(or tax 100%) pensions and all social benefits to sponsor the war! If that is not enough, confiscate private companies and private properties!

I was saying that for years, since the war started! People thought it is some kind of joke. But that was the only way to win!
That is a very expansive understanding of democracy that would, for example, imply that indiscriminately targeting civilians in a war is justifiable.
European nations, in contrast to the Americas, have been fighting bloody wars between them constantly forever.

After WW2 the EU was formed with the goal of stopping the bloodshed. Germans and French became friends!

Europe outsourced their defense to the USA, and instead they started paying NATO and buying defense equipment from US companies.

Yet they stood by the USA in all their fair or unfair endeavors in the Middle East.

The first time that the EU called for actual help, the US seems aligned with Russia.

Things don’t look good.
Do OpenAPI Swagger docs count? That seems to be the route a ton of the ecosystem takes.

trpc, ts-rest, and express-zod-api all explicitly build on zod and can do validation + Swagger UI generation.

hono looks like it doesn't do that by default, but single-source-of-truth validation + Swagger UI are available as middleware via `@hono/zod-openapi`.
Selective chemical looping combustion of acetylene in ethylene-rich streams
original title uses "...awesome (but broken) song..."
It really depends on how much it actually costs for a task though. 10x more of almost nothing isn't important.
It's unfortunate it is named 4.5 -- it is next generation scale, and it's a 1.0 of next-generation scale.

Sonnet is on its 3rd iteration, i.e. has considerably more post-training, most notably, reasoning via reinforcement learning.
Received an unexplained package? It could be a brushing scam
These super large models seem better at keeping track of unsaid nuance. I wonder if that can still be distilled into smaller models or if there is a minimum size for a minimum level of nuance even given infinite training.
> Hard to argue with that, but do we now use a handful of epigenetic markers generated using a cheek swab sample to decide who gets “healthcare access, special lodging, sanitation, and nutrition”?

If you're speaking from an american perspective, this hand-wringing is unnecessary: we leave our own citizens exposed on the street. If we were capable of making decisions about who deserves xyz in the first place we wouldn't be living in such an obvious shithole to begin with. Maybe we should set our standards much lower if we aim for research to actually benefit humans.
OpenAI is no longer relevant. DeepSeek was the last nail in ClosedAI's coffin.
I like it. I signed up for when it's available. Good luck!
Ask HN: Provide me ideas to code up for a school task that I have to do
I have to code up an app for a school project following this project description:

Find problem to solve that client has or propose to create a product that you believe will be useful to others.

Solution must:
• Security - more than one user, pages and site locked unless logged in
• Validation - existence, type, range
• Complex Code (User defined Linear Search/Binary Search and QuickSort/Selection Sort)
• Data entry
• Data Deletion
• Data Editing
• Data Storage - more than one data file
• Data Retrieval
• Data Searching
• Data Sorting
• Object Oriented Programming Feature

Think - What data do I need to collect to work out the requirements of the solution
Q&A tends to be "chunky" and asynchronous in its communication model.

This comes from a reaction to the previous model of forums where it was smaller bits of data spread across multiple comments or posts. I recall going through forums in the days before Stack Overflow, trying to find out how to solve a problem. https://xkcd.com/979/ was very real.

Stack Overflow (and its siblings) was an attempt to change this to a "one spot that has all the information".

That model works, but it is a high maintenance approach. Trying to move from a back and forth of information that can only be understood in its entirety across a conversation to become one that more closely resembles a Wikipedia page (that hides all of the work of Talk:Something). The key thing is it takes a lot of work to maintain that Q&A format.

And yet, users often don't know what they want. They want that forum model with interaction and step by step hand holding by someone who knows the answer. Stack Overflow was intentionally designed to make that approach difficult in an attempt to make the Q&A the easier solution on the site.

ChatGPT provides the users who want the step by step hand holding an infinitely patient thing behind the screen that doesn't embarrass them in public and is confident that it knows the answer to their problem.

Stack Overflow and Quora and other Q&A forums are the abomination. People want Perlmonks https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=11164039 and /r/JavaHelp where its interacting with another and small steps rather than Q&A.

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The future of "well, if people stop using the sites that is generating the information that is being used to train the models that people are using to get information" ... that becomes an interesting problem.

I am reminded of Accelerando ( https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler... ) and the digital civilizations being various forms of scams and the currency is things that can think new ideas.

The currency is new material that is to be sold. The information gets locked behind some measures to try to make scraping impractical and then sold off wholesale. Humans still talk and answer questions. There are new posts on Reddit about how to solve problems even while ChatGPT is out there. And Reddit is presumably trying to make harvesting the content within its walls something that others have to pay for to get at for training.
Chaitin's constant is uncomputable because of its construction, not because it is "effectively random". Pi is also "effectively random".
> The Mathpix mobile app has support for reading two column PDFs as a single column.

Mathpix is what gave the best results when I tried a whole bunch of OCR solutions on technical PDFs (multi-column with diagrams, figures and equations). It is brilliant.

> You can't run it locally, though, right?

Unfortunately, no. Which is a shame because I also have confidential documents to OCR and there is no way I put them on someone else’s cloud.
This does not account for what can happen in Russia itself. There's this widespread belief that Russia is stable, no matter what.

If that were true, why would Putin take such extreme care for the elites in Moscow and St Petersburg? What is he afraid of? We don't need to know exactly what, but we can conclude he probably has a good reason.

Russia is not stable. The economy is creaking. Unsound, favourable loans are being made to corrupt companies who pocket as much cash as they dare while they deliver as little they can, Soviet style. Something is gonna give eventually, probably to the sound of drones over Moscow becoming the new normal.
Show HN: a Rust library for creating hierarchical state machines
I've come to prefer modeling state machines with nested states, but implementing them by hand requires a large amount of error-prone boilerplate that obscures the important logic of the state machine.

I found that the existing offerings in the Rust ecosystem - while inspiring - lacked a number of features that I was looking for, so I spent the last few months building moku.

Feedback is welcome!
Yes. I see this as a battle against authoritarianism, which is always worth fighting.
You can't attack another user like this here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Nearly same situation here. I recently used it to for travel logistics for a trip to Japan for some local things that didn't have online booking.

From a bit of Googling, Viber may be a reasonable alternative. They're owned by a reasonably non-shady/non-fly-by-night operation (Rakuten), have a desktop app, and let you buy credit without a subscription: https://account.viber.com/en/rates-index

Happy to hear about experiences with alternatives.
AOL was a walled proprietary internet prison. It was basically the first step into the dystopian Ad-filled proprietary world we have now
so if I understand correctly, you remask some tokens that were previously unmasked?
I finished testing that solution earlier and it is what we'll initially implement, until a better solution is available. Note for anyone testing, the C# project created a file with CR/LF line endings, and it does not open as a draft in classic Outlook ("Old Outlook"). Changing the file to end with LF only solved the issue and works with classic and New Outlook.
It's amazing how of these solutions exist.

Such a hard problem that we create for ourselves.
Why would you not expect diminishing returns? Surely that’s the default position of all AI non-experts?
I wish I knew how to respond to such ridiculously bad faith comments like this.

Ukraine has no leverage to bring to any peace negotiations. The only possible way to get peace is for Ukraine to roll over and get annexed by Russia.

You're arguing for the Bad Guys to win.
The concept of a business can only exist within the context of a myriad of laws (property law, contract law, etc) all of which require violent enforcement or the threat thereof, ie reduction in personal liberty.
You said "I assume much more countries secretly have nukes".

I claim that beyond the open secret that is Israel, the number of countries controlling a right-now detonatable nuclear weapon who are not on the Wikipedia list of "countries with nukes" is less than 5.
All the opposition had to say was "I'll end wokeism and immigration and will also [popular policy Trump is against]" and they could have easily won themselves
Yep, I left Ukraine 3 years ago when I was 16.
I've absolutely experienced situations like this where the system is maxed out and ssh becomes barely usable.

The problem is that all processes run with pretty much the same priority level, so there's no differentiation in the scheduler between interactive ssh sessions and other programs that are consuming all the CPU, and most of the time you only realize this fact far after the point where you can SSH in and renice the misbehaving processes.
> So if you want a better web experience with uBlock Origin, Firefox is your only choice

Too bad a lot of websites just don't work with Firefox. It seems web devs are not testing with Firefox anymore.
Broadly speaking, it’s because Putin is pissed that the Soviet Union fell (he lived through it as a KGB member in East Berlin), and Russia culturally originated around Kiev (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27), so he sees it as part of what should be the Russian empire. There are some important industries and resources in Ukraine, plus better access to the Black Sea. Ukraine’s orientation towards the EU and NATO is seen as an ideological and military threat. But the perceived humiliation of the fall of the Soviet Union, not being respected in the Western world, and trying to undo that and restore Russia’s glory, seems to be what is driving Putin the most.
> doesn't make you strong, it makes you weak.

Not really sure I care if the neighbors across the water think we look weak just because we don’t want to defend them because they don’t want to be strong.

And bear in mind that doesn’t mean that we are weak…
Trump speaks very, very plainly. He is certainly discursive. He most certainly goes back and forth on a few things, sometimes because he changes his mind other times because he is negotiating/trolling/etc.

But the main problem isn't that he needs "augors", it's that you have an entire media complex that is constantly misrepresenting what he says in the most negative possible light. People listen to what he says and then immediately apply a filter of the most negative interpretation possible. Or they outright lie.

Did Trump call white supremecists very fine people? Did he tell people to drink bleach? The list goes on...

Meanwhile, what was the main "instability" of trump's first 24 months? Ah, yes, the Russiagate hoax where any day now a smoking gun was coming. Hoax after hoax after hoax.

Re Obama's blissful years:

- Occupy wall st fades away, no real reform

- Stagnating economy

- Arab spring waffles

- Chinese aggression in Taiwan sea

- Putin annexes Crimea

- ISIS is born and terrorist attacks become a regular part of the news cycle

- Unprecedented union of DOJ w/ president (Eric Holder says "I'm Obama's wingman")

- IRS targeting conservatives

- Tan suit (lol)

Compare all that to Trump going into 2020 whereforeign policy wasn't even part of the debates.
That court found that the California Constitution protected the free speech in that case. Not the US Constitution, which wouldn't protect the free speech in that case
If I just go out of a cave since one year and someone ask me who was on tv last night, I will not invent a name and be convincing that it is the truth. Or invent that you are a famous book author about cooking chicken because it sounds well.

So AI hallucinations are nothing related to human confusion, or honest mistakes.
Agree. This graying out thing is a terrible design for contentious topics, and isn’t conducive to curious conversations.
>prohibition in the US

This is the kind of thing that only shows how casual and naive is your understanding of this.

The current drug cartel situation is an issue of an unprecedented scale, entire towns work solely on manufacturing and shipping drugs to other countries.

This is not a "oh yeah lol, we should smoke weed and be happy, government is bad", this is an actual war with hundreds of thousands of people, a myriad of different small factions, who also want to kill each other, with modern technology, weapons, who are also involved in all kinds of crime, all around the world.

No way this can be solved with your Ayahuasca trip and a cheesy speech that makes everyone cry and suddenly hug each other.

The world is not Disney and Star Wars, pal.
Brits wouldn't even die for Britain according to polls, even if it was for Ukraine.
That does seem to be home Americans feel now.

Bit I would like to point out that it took about 9 months for Biden's approval/disapproval rating to be around equal[1].

In contrast, it has taken Trump about 1 month to do the same[2].

[1] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/approval/joe-bide...

[2] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/approval/donald-t...
So did the US then huh?
But are they better than e.g. tricyclics, MAOIs? Placebo comparisons aren't very informative for patients when there are other existing drugs.
When you try to predict dictators' behavior usong geopolitical arguments, you make the same mistake as the people who didn't believe in the Russian invasion into Ukraine.
It's the internal politics that pushes dictators to attack. And China currently follows the Russia's curve exactly there.
You can fix the people-pleasing mode thing by simply adding the words "be critical" to your prompt.

As for 4.5... I've been playing around with it all day, and as far as I can tell it's objectively worse than o3-mini-high and Deepseek-R1. It's less imaginative, doesn't reason as well, doesn't code as well as o3-mini, doesn't write nearly as well as R1, its book and product recommendations are far more mainstream/normie, and all in all it's totally unimpressive.

Frankly, I don't know why OpenAI released it in this form, to people who already have access to o3-mini, o1-Pro, and Deep Research -- all of which are better tools.
IMO, JavaScript is fine for scripting. Same with Python, Lua, and others. Great for glue code or a small feature, when the bulk of the system is written is in a saner language with proper libraries.