skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had to watch a movie on day one (or very early in the class) with pretty graphic scenes of shop injuries. Blood, fingers getting cut off, a guy speared in the stomach by a scrap of wood binding and then thrown from the table saw blade.
This is CSS, it's not dictating anything to the server, rather to the browser.
I'm expecting the end game will be a very substantial devaluation of the dollar. Lenders have helpfully lent the US government its own currency, so the debt can be inflated away. It will be hard to borrow again after that, but the GOP wouldn't mind making it hard for future US governments to borrow more money and thereby grow the government again.
This statement adds nothing to the conversation and doesn’t answer my questions. And in my experience, a person who can’t answer pointed questions usually understands the situation less than the ones who can.

I’m out.
Not sure about Rust, but Typescript allows you to have the default handling but still flag a compile error if a new field is added (the first is useful e.g. if a separate component is updated and starts sending new values).

https://stackoverflow.com/a/39419171/974188
good catch. it should be fixed now for users that have those settings turned on. much appreciated!
Those environmentalists have no power in the environmentalism movement. If you check every large enviro-corp they're all of the "preserving community" approach. Most of them oppose nuclear. And a near majority wind and solar. Some even geothermal.

Usually they fight for golf courses and so on alongside socialists. That is what environmentalism means in the US. It is like the words Democratic People's Republic. They're words. But they mean a different thing.
To say 3.7 is worse is completely insane.
Importantly #[non_exhaustive] applies to your users but not you. In the defining crate we can write exhaustive matches and those work - the rationale is that we defined this type, so we should know how to do this properly. Our users however must assume they don't know if it has been extended in a newer version.

#[non_exhaustive] is most popular for the variants of an enumeration but is permissible for published structure types (it means we promise these published fields will exist but maybe we will add more and thus change the size of the structure overall) and for the variants of a sum type (it means the inner details of that variant may change, you can pattern match it but we might add more fields and your matches must cope)
I'm fine with crypto for transactions, but I'm not fine with my government using our money to pick winners and losers, conflicts of interest, emoluments, or artificially propping up what are likely bubbles and pyramid schemes.
or go to jail :)
Yes, if you only count "federal government employees" https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES9091000001

But this neglects the millions of contractors and other positions that are also funded by government spending, which is harder to measure, and does change more over time.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-true-size-of-governme... (2020, but the article doesn't clarify if the 5m includes short-term census workers)
14kW is a lot. On our boat we can live off-grid with 860W of solar and a hydrogenerator for when we're under way. Last time we were connected to shore power was in December when we were in the Canaries...

Here's a short summary of our energy setup (and other notes on the Atlantic crossing)
https://lille-oe.de/2025-01-24/

Admittedly in the time since Canaries we've also burned some 10-15l of diesel for propulsion purposes. And we cook with an alcohol stove, not electric. But we do desalinate all our water with the solar we have.
Oh that is a really good point!
The latter class would have been called "Home Economics" ("HomeEc") back in the day.
I actually kind of like the "moonwalk"!
Very cool idea! Suggestion: add a trail of breadcrumbs that the figure tosses behind them and, when scrolling up, picks them back up again or kicks them off the screen.
> The moment you run LLM generated code, any hallucinated methods will be instantly obvious: you’ll get an error. You can fix that yourself or you can feed the error back into the LLM and watch it correct itself.

Interestingly though, this only works if there is an error. There are cases where you will not get an error; consider a loosely typed programming language like JS or Python, or simply any programming language when some of the API interface is unstructured, like using stringly-typed information (e.g. Go struct tags.) In some cases, this will just silently do nothing. In other cases, it might blow up at runtime, but that does still require you to hit the code path to trigger it, and maybe you don't have 100% test coverage.

So I'd argue hallucinations are not always safe, either. The scariest thing about LLMs in my mind is just the fact that they have completely different failure modes from humans, making it much harder to reason about exactly how "competent" they are: even humans are extremely difficult to compare with regards to competency, but when you throw in the alien behavior of LLMs, there's just no sense of it.

And btw, it is not true that feeding an error into an LLM will always result in it correcting the error. I've been using LLMs experimentally and even trying to guide it towards solving problems I know how to solve, sometimes it simply can't, and will just make a bigger and bigger mess. Due to the way LLMs confidently pretend to know the exact answer ahead of time, presumably due to the way they're trained, they will confidently do things that would make more sense to try and then undo when they don't work, like trying to mess with the linker order or add dependencies to a target to fix undefined reference errors (which are actually caused by e.g. ABI issues.) I still think LLMs are a useful programming tool, but we could use a bit more reality. If LLMs were as good as people sometimes imply, I'd expect an explosion in quality software to show up. (There are exceptions of course. I believe the first versions of Stirling PDF were GPT-generated so long ago.) I mean, machine-generated illustrations have flooded the Internet despite their shortcomings, but programming with AI assistance remains tricky and not yet the force multiplier it is often made out to be. I do not believe AI-assisted coding has hit its Stable Diffusion moment, if you will.

Now whether it will or not, is another story. Seems like the odds aren't that bad, but I do question if the architectures we have today are really the ones that'll take us there. Either way, if it happens, I'll see you all at the unemployment line.
Supereruptions Might Not Trigger the Apocalypse, Just Decades of Chaos
Social Choice Theory begs to differ that we don't understand voting structure in great detail.
Does that math still check out if math works differently in other worlds?
I am not so sure. Code by one LLM can be reviewed by another. Puppeteer like solutions will exist pretty soon. "Given this change, can you confirm this spec".

Even better, this can carry on for a few iterations. And both LLMs can be:

1. Budgeted ("don't exceed X amount")

2. Improved (another LLM can improve their prompts)

and so on. I think we are fixating on how _we_ do things, not how this new world will do their _own_ thing. That to me is the real danger.
And probably emoluments too.
Real Engineering just realeased a video on a drilling company using megawatt masers to vaporize rock to reach the depths required. It’s promising, but still experimental.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b_EoZzE7KJ0
I use a hairdryer to start my old scsi disk drives. I wonder if it loosens the rubber enough for the head to move.
I think of hallucinations as instance where an LLM invents something that is entirely untrue - like a class or method that doesn't exist, or a fact about the world that's unnoticed true.

I guess you could call bugs in LLM code "hallucinations", but they feel like a slightly different thing to me.
How about "I struggled with git, so I read the very easily digestible and entirely free Pro Git book"
It really makes me wonder why humans never developed the ability to see UV light when so many other creatures in nature can.
I didn't have access to heavy machinery or welders until high school (14-18), but I was very fortunate to go to a high-school that taught most of the above while I was there in the late 2000s.

The "product design" class (which was really either woodworking or metalworking depending on which stream you ended up in) was definitely my favourite class, and I think the most useful for later life too.
That's the sucker view. It's only useful for transactions because it's too risky to hold.
I remember being a little kid learning Blender, rooting for it to become the industry standard. It's amazing to see how much the project has grown.
Do you have reduced motion/animations enabled on your browser and/or system settings? If you don't, it sounds like it would help you a lot, if you do then OP just updated the site to hide the animation based on that setting.
I think truly competent ai should be language agnostic in its output, whatever you need
Ahhh, Conner. My second computer (a 386sx-33) had a whopping two Conner IDE 120MB drives... until it didn't. I can remember the clicking as those drives would spin up... until one fine day the clicks died and POST threw an error wondering why my hard drive wasn't ready.... and then the drive began clicking again. One soft reset later and I was back in business, but even as a teen back then I knew that was a sign from PC-Hulud to immediately start pulling everything off. I had always assumed the problem was stiction of the read/write head w/r/t the platters. Neat.
I don’t think that’s true. Parents read to their kids, play sports with them, show them how to make art, etc. even if it’s taught in school.

I do wonder though if some personal finance, consumer research, etc. skills won’t be taught as readily thanks to the smartphone, though. Having paper forms or a checkbook out makes it easier to start a conversation
I don't know how the web does it. There are so many cool things being added. How do they keep the spec manageable? What if someone wanted to build a compliant web browser from the ground up?
I run multiple brands of browsers including firefox, but all of them use ublock origin. The day chrome hard bans it will be the day I uninstall it.
Talk to them about how they feel around men they don't know.
Democrats put up the only candidate likely to unify the party at that stage. I'm not defending a campaign which lost to Trump. But at some point we also have to blame ourselves and the voting population at large. As well as a media way too forgiving to Trump. How could they vote for something so self evidently self harmful.
"How Many Miles Does a Car Last?

The Bureau of Transportation indicates that the average age across the board for vehicles still on the road is just over 11 years according to Autotrader, and the average may be approaching 12 years. Standard cars in this day and age are expected to keep running up to 200,000 miles, while cars with electric engines are expected to last for up to 300,000 miles."

https://www.caranddriver.com/research/a32758625/how-many-mil...
BM25 in PostgreSQL
> When it comes to the various kinds of thought-processes that humans engage in (linguistic thinking, logic, math, etc) I agree that you can describe things in terms of functions that have definite inputs and outputs.

Function can mean inputs-outputs. But it can also mean system behaviors.

For instance, recurrence is a functional behavior, not a functional mapping.

Similarly, self-awareness is some kind of internal loop of information, not an input-output mapping. Specifically, an information loop regarding our own internal state.

Today's LLMs are mostly not very recurrent. So might be said to be becoming more intelligent (better responses to complex demands), but not necessarily more conscious. An input-output process has no ability to monitor itself, no matter how capable of generating outputs. Not even when its outputs involve symbols and reasoning about concepts like consciousness.

So I think it is fair to say intelligence and consciousness are different things. But I expect that both can enhance the other.

Meditation reveals a lot about consciousness. We choose to eliminate most thought, focusing instead on some simple experience like breathing, or a concept of "nothing".

Yet even with this radical reduction in general awareness, and our higher level thinking, we remain aware of our awareness of experience. We are not unconscious.

To me that basic self-awareness is what consciousness is. We have it, even when we are not being analytical about it. In meditation our mind is still looping information about its current state, from the state to our sensory experience of our state, even when the state has been reduced so much.

There is not nothing. We are not actually doing nothing. Our mental resting state is still a dynamic state we continue to actively process, that our neurons continue to give us feedback on, even when that processing has been simplified to simply letting that feedback of our state go by with no need to act on it in any way.

So consciousness is inherently at least self-awareness in terms of internal access to our own internal activity. And that we retain a memory of doing this minimal active or passive self-monitoring, even after we resume more complex activity.

My own view is that is all it is, with the addition of enough memory of the minimal loop, and a rich enough model of ourselves, to be able to consider that strange self-awareness looping state afterwards. Ask questions about its nature, etc.
Yup, solar panels are ridiculously cheap nowadays. In almost every case I've seen, the hardware to mount the panels has been more expensive than the panels themselves
> Your labor market isn't all that special.

It's the primary market underpinning capitalism. Otherwise it's just feudalism or slavery. So, I'd hope you believe it's special.

> The truth is that "a functioning market with high mobility" is just a myth.

There is absolutely no truth in what you just said. I'd have to ask what set of evidence did you examine to arrive at this conclusion?

> The ones with power under capitalism are the ones with capital

Yes. Wealth and capital give you an _advantage_. However it's not exclusive. It's why we recognize things like intellectual property and performance rights. It turns out there's /tons/ of sources of advantage in competition.

> You can try to level the playing field with laws, but that's incompatible with the "small government" folks.

The size of the government seems to have zero impact on it's willingness to enforce laws that are already on the books. Your thesis is thin and based on inherited cynicism. I cannot take it seriously.
I find it a bit surprising that I'm being called an "LLM fanboy" for writing an article with the title "Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes" where the bulk of the article is about how you can't trust LLMs not to make far more serious and hard-to-spot logic errors.
If something unexpected happens and your saw kicks a board back at you, you don't want to piss yourself as well as screaming
> I could write a book how recruitment and assessments could be changed to identify real gems.

What if the companies people really want to work at have already solved this issue and the legacy companies won’t figure out how to change before they die off…
That's not a concern of the people writing the spec, but Ladybird is making an admirable go of it. You can shed a lot of complexity by only focusing on the modern standards, and Ladybird has helped fix several bugs in the standards themselves.
Or nuclear stockpile maintenance, firefighters, or clean water. Who needs that shit anyhow when everyone has their own private firefighters, goons, and water filtration?

/s
Why did the author of this site feel compelled to hijack the browser's back button? That's an immediate turn-off. The site also has no explanation or rationale for use.
Archive: https://archive.is/2025.03.02-003524/https://www.bloomberg.c...
The loops are in standard order, with the yield value up front. Write the loops, surround with brackets, move the value up to the first line.
Thanks for creating this resource that helped so many people build programs for the web so long ago.
Yes, I do. Basically every possibly assistive option that can help me is turned on.
no! bring back the IceWeasel! (oh, apparently it still exists, but it's called IceCat now, which explains it's lack of popularity)
There is a setting "reduced motion" on many browsers and devices. It should disable Scroll Buddy if a user has this turned on. Hope that helps. Thank you to @jsheard for the suggestion
> Reduction of scope is required to decrease cost and waste

That doesn't follow at all. Plenty of cost and waste arises while carrying out things that are solidly within the scope of a federal government in the eyes of belief system but anarchism and other forms of extreme heterodoxy. To "provide for the common defense" is literally in the Constitution, yet the DoD is a black hole of funding, while soldiers eat powdered eggs on base.
Evidence: homeowners consistently and overwhelmingly vote for NIMBY policies in every jurisdiction around the world.

Counterclaim: I reject.
This sort of experience shows how broken the FOIA law is. If it’s in the public interest to make data available, it’s in the public interest to make it available to a person with imperfect understanding of the extreme details of government’s crappy IT systems.

Not sure exactly what the fix is, but one idea is to have a state-wide ombudsman-like office for facilitating FOIA requests. Currently each agency usually has its own small FOIA office, which naturally protects its own turf. A centralized office could
1. …be independent of the agencies from which info is being requested, avoiding conflicts of interest in denying/delaying requests
2. …have commitments to confidentiality so agencies couldn’t justify withholding contextual info (“what’s a better way to ask this question?”) from the ombudsman
3. …afford building up more technical and legal expertise than any single agency-specific office.
From what I have read, which may or may not be accurate, the Crypto Reserve he is talking about is the seized assets they already have. I'm not sure how taxpayers will feel about the government adding to the reserve while running a huge deficit, and the economy teetering on a possible slowdown.
If your library processes data from another language, you'll probably need to deal with the possibility that the library returns open ended enums.

I believe I've also seen this declaration for generated bindings for a JSON API that promises backwards compatibility for calls and basic functionality at least. Future versions may include more options, but the code will still compile fine against the older API.

I don't think it's a great tool to use everywhere, but there are edge cases where Rust's demand for exhaustive matches conflicts with the non-Rust world, and that's where stuff like this becomes hard to avoid.
Conspiracy theory: this is a coordinated publicity stunt intended to demonstrate that wealthy individuals are better positioned to serve the American people by way of altruism (funded by business profit) than a large federal government (funded by taxes). No need to starve the beast: just slaughter it and present your alternative as an improvement.
Dingo: A Comprehensive Data Quality Evaluation Tool
Dingo offers a variety of built-in rules and model evaluation methods, while also supporting custom evaluation methods. It facilitates the automated detection of data quality issues in datasets. Feel free to try hf space demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/DataEval/dingo.

GitHub repository: https://github.com/DataEval/dingo.
> don't have a sense the scale of the field --- which is enormous

And has a massive impact on capital flows.

> A simpler way to address this problem: ignore it, unless you work in the field.

Then there's no reason to continue funding it or attempting to reason about it's output. Unless the field has a way to fund itself?
It seems the author has now implemented this. Now people like me just see a pointless page of lorem ipsum. I feel like demos can be exempted from filters like this, especially when you can only get to the demo via a clearly worded link.

The same code that disappeared the thing could add some text explaining that the page is disabled and why, in my case: Apple Menu > System Preferences > Accessibility > Display > Reduce motion (for other OS's see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...)

For me, this setting makes macOS snappier, by getting rid of the little animations in OS. If it weren't for this comment, I never would have known it affected websites. I've had the setting for years with no issues.
Loved the film and was so happy to see it win. First nomination for Latvia I believe.
The Cocaine Files
How does this scan a bunch of repos at once and let me see all the changes at a glance, and then drill down to individual files to either discard the changes (revert back to their committed state) or check them in?

All git add -p does is that last part from what I can tell. I'd still have to cd into each repo and run git status one by one (I've made changes to up to 10 repos before for one tweak), and then do a git add -p to the changes I do want, and a git stash to the changes I don't and then delete the stash.
This is awesome, thanks for sharing it. I love how creative/random it is, a real gem imo!
And completely worthless in the event of war with attacks on power grids electronics etc. Gold on the other hand, I could trade for food.
That's kind of surprising. Academy members are not required to watch all the nominees for Best Animated Feature before voting. In fact they are not require to watch any of them.

Several years ago I remember that after a year where the movie that won best animated was not the one that those in the animation industry overwhelming thought was sure to win some animation industry magazine survived Academy members asking which movie they voted for and why.

What they found was that a large number of the voters thought of animated movies as just for little kids and hadn't actually watched any of the nominees. They picked their vote by whatever they remembered children in their lives watching.

E.g., if they were parents of young children, they'd vote for whatever movie that their kids kept watching over and over. If they no longer had children at home they would ask grandkids or nieces or nephews "what cartoon did you like last year?" and vote for that.

Another factor was that a lot of these people would vote for the one they had heard the most about.

That gives Disney a big advantage. How the heck did Flow overcome that?

Inside Out 2 had a much wider theatrical release in the US, was widely advertised, made $650 million domestic, is the second highest grossing animated movie of all time so far worldwide, and streams on Disney+.

All that should contribute to making it likely that those large numbers of "vote even though they don't watch animated movies" Academy members would have heard of it.

Flow had a small US theatrical release at the end of the year. I didn't see any advertising for it. I'd expect a lot of Academy members hadn't heard of it.

As a guess, maybe Moana 2 is the movie that the kids are repeat streaming. That was not a nominee so maybe those "vote for what my kid watched" voters didn't vote this year and so we actually got a year where quality non-Disney movies had a chance?
This is funny and clever.

If I were a developer, I would make a version where, when the stick figure moves backward as you scroll up, it does the moonwalk.