skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that degrees can be filters, but I question what "filter" they represent in modern contexts. From my experiences, the modern degree is little more than a gatekeeping credential to demonstrate you either took on substantial student debt (and thus likely to take lower pay or more precarious employment) or come from a wealthy background (stronger social networks for other rich folks/Capital types; a "pedigree", in other words, a la a caste system).

You're 100% right that a modern American High School Diploma does not reflect any degree of basic competency, because standards were constantly refined downward to promote graduation at all costs; I argue college degrees (and many technology certifications) are much the same, providing little more than a demonstration of taking on debt and rote memorization capabilities, rather than being a functional worker.

So if that's the case, and they're not of practical value as credentials anymore, it could be argued there's no harm in opening fundamental/foundational courses in skills to the entire populace, paid for through taxpayer money and restricted to State/Public non-profit Institutions. If we're really concerned about costs, we could implement caps on consumption unless part of a degree program to ensure those taking the advanced courses for employment prospects are given priority over those seeking non-professional growth. There's a lot of wiggle room to be had, if we're serious about opening this up.
CNN-based OCR also have "hallucinations" and Transformers aren't that much different in that respect. This is a problem solved with domain specific post-processing.
> Speaking as a layperson, I assume that being a 30-something living in New York who had $80,000 in savings and checking alone -- which she explicitly states in her article -- would be enough to qualify for a no-hold-up same day $50k withdrawal from a New York bank. Is that not the case?

I'm no banking expert, but I'm pretty sure no-hold same day withdrawals of that size need much more than that. I wouldn't be surprised if her family has contracted with Bank of America for private banking and family office services, which is usually economical around the $10M assets under management mark (wikipedia says 50M[1] but I've seen lower numbers cited in FatFIRE). In which case the savings and checking figure is essentially nominal, as the wealth is there, but tied up for estate planning (read: tax minimization) purposes; if someone needs money, family offices can set up credit lines. I imagine in that scenario they're basically paying themselves interest.

In any case I doubt any bank is willing to publicly state what the thresholds are in a way anyone could cite, for fear of scammers using that info against them or their clients.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_office
That's a fair point. I was thinking in my own context and not that of the Bangladeshi worker.
I recently started using cursor for my side business and it's been amazing so far. I found that it works best for simple questions where I would normally go to stack overflow and for "drudge work".

One example of "drudge work" is that I'm currently refactoring all strings in the app. Before cursor, it would take me upwards of an hour to refactor the strings in a complex component but now I can just shove all that into cursor and have it do it for me.

For simple questions it sometimes works great and other times just falls apart. In one scenario I asked it why my sequelize query didn't return the data I expected and it immediately gave me a fix. But in another scenario I asked it how to refactor out a "forwardRef" in a component and it just kept recommending that I leave the code as is.
Bcvi – run vi over a 'back-channel' (2010)
Russia definitely wants to freeze the conflict... They're producing more weapons than Europe yet unable to make major breakthroughs, pausing, rebuilding (without sanctions) and then trying over will definitely yield more territory than what they're currently doing.
"Yes" but if a human could do it "AI" should be able to do it too.
in Argentina some people call facebook marketplace the "deep web", not sure if it has that reputation in other countries. Lots of stolen things being sold and also scams
As someone who has had a home built, and nearly all my friends and acquaintances report the same thing, having a 1% error on information in this business would mean not a 10x but a 50x improvement over the current practice in the field.

If nobody is supervising building documents all the time during the process, every house would be a pile of rubbish. And even when you do stuff stills creeps in and has to be redone, often more than once.
Show HN: tprompter – an OpenSource CLI Toolkit for Interaction with AI
Hi everyone,
I'm excited to introduce you to a CLI-first toolkit I've been writing for myself, but it started growing, and I decided to make it opensource.

The primary purpose is to automate a routine like:
- unit test generation
- commit messages
- changelogs
- commands like "how to unzip this zip in shell" or "run docker node container in interactive mode shell mount npm pack file to root ./tprompter-1.2.0.tgz"
- even "ask suggest a good hackernews title for project based on the provided README" works :)

It has two modes: prompt generation and direct integration with AI API.
E.g., `tprompter ask run node docker mount /home to ./ export port 123456` or `tprompter agent commit_message` will return LLM response right in the terminal (and render md!).

But `tprompter generate unit_tests --after=chatgpt` will generate a prompt with embedded source code and open ChatGPT page with the generated prompt. So, the second is a good thing if you don't want to create API keys or want to leverage the latest features of ChatGPT, but the first one will allow you not to go to a browser.

If case you are interested, I would encourage you to check the repo's README; there are a dozen examples and fancy gifs. That's the reason why I put the "toolkit" in the title; there are different ways to do things.

The project's core idea is to use the CLI possibilities, pipes, autosuggestions, fancy response rendering, integration with ChatGPT page, and so on. To be complex but provide simplicity, like Systemd.

There are predefined agents (or templates) like "commit_message" or "summary", but if you want to make your own, there is a templating engine with a catalog.

I would really appreciate any ideas or suggestions. You might contribute now if you want; there are no github actions, but I will check your code by myself at the first stage :)
When AI Writes the Code, What Do Programmers Do?
Submit the pages via the API.
Like others nearby, I’d like to see something more specific.

I’m willing to believe that in some silos (like relatively high-cadence seismographs) there might be some censoring. For example, it’s believable that siting of permanent stations is nudged away from some sensitive areas. Also, more believable in the past (say, 1980s) than the present.

Related, I’m sure that some sensors aren’t allowed to be flown over some areas (e.g., certain military bases) in the US.

However, you are claiming a broad based program of censoring US scientific data - gathered by the government or by government contractors. Like you, I’ve worked in this space for a long time. But I have not seen what you describe.

I wonder if we are working under different definitions of “censor” (see military base remark above)?

For people’s reference, the US-sponsored seismograph network is under EarthScope (https://www.earthscope.org/gsn/).

Your remarks caught my notice because I have personally worked with GNSS (lower cadence than seismograph) data, and personally know people who placed the sensors, wrote the data assimilation algorithms it uses, and set up the data pipeline. This data is not censored. (Although, famously, it was, before GPS was opened up.) I’m trying to find a way to rectify these two viewpoints.
You are absolutely right, engaging GOP on these topics plays into their hands, and this is the Democratic party's key mistake.
Hey, thanks for talking about OMSCS :)
Ask HN: What do you think about "vibe coding"?
Seeing this phrase being used more and more often everywhere. Curious what HNers think about this “movement” (if we could call it that).

For those of you not familiar with what “vibe coding” is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding
The bad idea of the Orion is that it requires a continuous train of nuclear explosions from the surface up to the ionosphere with a payload the weight of an aircraft carrier.

I was thinking much smaller payloads that could better withstand the acceleration - this is essentially a canon.
In my case, 2000 euro's
Sure, but the person I responded to asserted it had to do with communism, so that’s the context I was replying to.
I think if you let your imagination wander and you end up seeing the scale of potential we have and what we could really achieve, stuff like paying for rent and groceries starts to feel archaic and wasteful, or as some kind of artificial constraint holding us back as a species.
I suppose in my head, when the phrase "stumbled upon" is used, it would imply that someone was solving a problem that they weren't intending to solve, or via a method that they weren't intending. A hypothetical headline might be "Food scientist stumbles upon cure for cancer while refining process for fish oil": the scientist wasn't trying to solve the problem of cancer, they were trying to solve the problem of extending fish oil shelf-life, and incidentally found the former.

But you would find it strange if the article said, "Oncologist stumbles upon cure for cancer while testing new colon cancer treatment." Because in that case, the scientist is seemingly doing what he set out to do--it was not unintentional.

It seems like the 4chan poster knew enough about mathematics to recognize the stated problem as a mathematical problem and write a proof for it. That already demonstrates a degree of specialty and intention that makes "stumble upon" seem dismissive, to me. The fact that they didn't know they were solving a a more general, already-known problem is irrelevant, IMO. It would almost be like denying them credit because they didn't fill out the paperwork correctly.
(short fiction, 2020)
It's not a new thing, it's always been a popular choice in the enthusiast community.

What's nice is finally the market is catching up with the manual (again).

It used to be the performance choice.

When the automatics/twin clutches got good in the 2000/2010 era, a lot of performance cars preferred the faster/easier transmission, and the people spending new-car money on performance cars opted for it (or were forced into it).

As with many things, the new-car-money people aren't a cross section of the enthusiast community, they have different preferences. Some want the latest tech, some want their expensive purchase to be easy to drive every day, etc.

But the used market has always valued the manual more highly than the new car market, and the lower-and-lower take rate of the manual in new cars means the values of the manual are stronger than ever. However, I can't remember a time when an automatic or twin clutch pulled more $ on the used market.
NASA still working to restore contact with Lunar Trailblazer – SpaceNews
Large Models Aren't Physical Reasoners
You think Nissan is alone in this? You could have mentioned Nissan terrible CVT's or grenade prone variable compression engine but you stated something that in widely done in the auto industry now as being their issue when it the grand scheme of things doesnt even register.
I'd assume there's a lot of people here who are rich. And the ones who are honest with themselves probably have enough capacity for self-reflection that they aren't rich because they've worked for it.

There's a lot of hard working talented, and well-compensated people here. But that alone doesn't make you rich, merely well-off. What makes you truly rich is investing your wealth in stocks, real estate, or being in the right place in the right time, which is the difference between the guy who built the core systems at a successful startup, and the guy who owns a significant stake of it (which might be one and the same).

But being rich isn't earned in the sense that you work hard for it, you might need savvy, connections, luck, and need to fight others for money, but I'm sure most honest rich people wouldn't describe themselves as their money being the result of their hard work.

And this is for self-made people. People who inherited wealth are even less responsible for their success.
I agree 100%. There is a balance you want enough savings for 'a rainy day' and also enjoy the rest of your life. retirement is only part of enjoping your life.

the important point is don't get so lost in saving money that you don't enjoy now.
Don't need french /fr in the url. That is the one.
Sometimes magazines change management/ownership/other. On the outside they look similar but they lose that 'something' that made them interesting to read. For example For me this happened with both Dr. Dobbs and MSJ (renamed to MSDN). Both had large management changes and became very quickly something else. Not nearly as engaging or interesting. I realized I had not looked at either in a year. Skimmed them for anything I wanted to read and found nothing. I dropped the sub.
I can just speak for me, obviously, but yes, that is what's happening. But it's not someone, it is more like me explaining / telling it to myself.
Depending on the complexity this can be more or less verbal - the more complex, the less verbal I would say.
One data point showing that Pike's views can be and sometimes are controverted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uM6z7RnReE&t=18m
In your own context, if everyone is paid less, worked more and then eventually out of a job, there will be no one left to buy stuff from Billionaires. A concept Henry Ford understood really well, but Wall Street doesn’t.
Also meta serves me scam ads (ad for Decathlon offer, points to Decathlon fake website and when you click to pay, redirects to possibly a genuine car parts website that has it's card processing page highjacked) and they also refuse to remove it.

That's how you keep the stock price up I guess.
Even if you can see that it's probably not going to be fine, the future could become not-fine in so many different directions that it may be impossible to prepare for all of them at once. After the catastrophe arrives, it will be too late to prepare, but before it begins, it may also be too early to know how to prepare. In the meantime, "it's not clear what, if anything, I can reasonably do" results in behavior indistinguishable from "it'll be fine."
From my testing so far, it seems it's super fast and responded synchronously. But it decided that the entire page is an image and returned `![img-0.jpeg](img-0.jpeg)` with coordinates in the metadata for the image, which is the entire page.

Our tool, doctly.ai is much slower and async, but much more accurate and gets you the content itself as an markdown.
https://jonathanwhitmore.com/posts/2024-09-10-MathAcademy-af...
Congrats to Mistral for yet again releasing another closed source thing that costs more than running an open source equivalent:

https://github.com/DS4SD/docling
Maybe don't use custom properties in shorthand properties – Manuel Matuzovic
How about AlertOps? Is it a suitable alternative?
> With 4 out of 5 people keeping their flats, “Housing First” is effective in the long

80% of people get out of homelessness on their own, seems like basically the same rate. How are they certain the initiative had any bearing on the long-term outcome? That's the part I'm not understanding. It doesn't seem to suggest it leads to a difference in rates.
I think that's a major reason it IS a capable car. It shifts faster, plus all form of autos are better at holding boost between shifts.
The pricing of all these AI models is so opaque.
Can’t they hire someone with common sense who realizes that $x/token is absurd!!!

Totally brain-dead. Like pricing a car by the number of o-rings in the engine.
Kubernetes End-to-End Testing Using Testcontainers and Python
"Succinct data structure" does have a very strict definition which probably answers some of your questions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succinct_data_structure. It's all about being close to the theoretical minimum.

> Am I paying 30% overhead for this particular index or that wavelet matrix?

Nope! That would not fit the definition. That would be a "compact data structure" according to this definition.
> Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

-- Abelson & Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

I think a lot about this whenever I hear blanket statements about software performance. A program should be optimized for its performance on whichever piece of hardware it executes on with the highest cost / hour.
95+% of the time that piece of hardware is yours or your coworker's brain.
Better get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding Apple's ECC patents on LPDDR ECC or you will have to make a leap of faith that your database on their chips won't wind up cruddy in a Bad Way. All we have now are assumptions and educated guesses about what they may be doing. It's also going to be an issue with AMD 395+ and nVidia+MediaTek GB10 (but I would assume NO ECC on those SoCs, based on their history).

It may only be a few mm to the LPDDR5 arrays inside the SoC, but there are all sorts of environmental/thermal/power and RFi considerations, especially on tiny (3-5nm) nodes! Switch on the numerical control machine on the other side of the wall from your office and hope your data doesn't change.
VW is testing its robotaxis in snowy, icy Norway
It's ok, it happens. Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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There hasn’t been an instance where I couldn’t tell the difference
For hackers by hackers.
Well, you could look at the examples provided, any of various historical (and modern) class systems, great man theory, do a quick search (e.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/rainerzitelmann/2019/05/08/new-...), read self-help literature (e.g. rich dad, poor dad), and so on. It might be harder to find media where that narrative isn't either present or intentionally absent.

And just because something is present doesn't mean it's an intentional or complete narrative being promoted by the author. This is simply an idea that's virtually omnipresent in Western societies, like the acceptance of capitalism or the system of colors. Things that challenge these sorts of deeply assumed ideas often seem like attacks on society itself. If you want an author who intentionally addresses it, Ursula Guin has made it a big focus of her works (e.g. Omelas, the hainish cycle).
It's honestly kind of entertaining to read the posts on there where folks are talking about Cursor messing up their codebase and every comment is telling them to learn coding basics and start using git.

It will be really interesting how "vibe coding" will cause the field to evolve. My gut says that right now it's just non-technical folks that do it and programmer that do it for fun. But IMO this will creep into the industry and will eventually result in an even bigger junior/senior gap.
If only business people I work with would understand 100GB even transfer over the network is not going to return immediately results ;)
Anyone else remember https://burnallgifs.org?
I never thought I'd see the day where technology finally advanced far enough that we can edit a PDF.
Yeah, I'm still disappointed by that one. I was super excited by the LK99 stuff; I don't know if that was a "hoax", but it was definitely bad science that took the media by storm.

I think that the problem is that there's effectively an infinite amount of science and it changes and updates all the time, so it's impossible to be truly "caught up" with everything, and most studies are already in pretty specific niche subjects that require a lot of understanding on that niche subject. Most people doing science communication can't possibly learn it all, and most certainly aren't equipped to call out fraud of bad science in a paper, so they have to take the papers at their word.

I mean, before I dropped my PhD, I was studying formal methods in computer science. I got reasonably good with state machine models in Isabelle, so you'd think I'd be competent with "formal methods" as a concept, but not really. If I were try and read a paper on, I don't know, "Cubic Type Theory with Agda", I would have to do a lot of catching up, almost starting from scratch, and I think I'm probably better equipped than the average software engineer for that. Even if I got to a state of more-or-less understanding it, I would certainly not be equipped to call out bad science or math or fraud or anything like that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding
For general use this will be good.

But I bet that simple ML will lead to better OCRs when you are doing anything specialized, such as, medical documents, invoices etc.
It's not guessing if the form is known and you can read the information directly.

This is a common scenario at many banks. You can expect nearly perfect metadata for anything pushed into their document storage system within the last decade.
Creator of mcp-agent here, OP and I are going to be keeping these projects in sync, and build agent apps on top of these patterns. MCP is pretty new and people are adding lots of servers for different software services. I think the next step is exposing agents (i.e. compound AI workflows) themselves as MCP servers.

In addition to simple abstractions for declaring agents, fastagents has a really nice CLI utility, which can be useful for interaction with MCPs outside of Cursor and Claude Desktop, where they are most popular atm.
From listening to interviews, it seems like after completing a full undergrad's worth of math courses, they plan to expand to CS and math-adjacent fields (probably physics at least?).
It's the where that matters, there.

Having seen the other extremes, eg Westboro attacking mourning families, I'll take the UK's interpretation of freedom. It includes the idea that other people have a right to go about their business without busybodies with no standing getting in the way.

Edit: I also wouldn't claim the UK always gets it right, but sometimes balancing those ideas —rights to speech, privacy, and to exist unimpeded— isn't simple. Nasty artefacts like super-injunctions feel stifling, people arrested for online speech sometimes a little too far, but I'd still take it over many alternatives.
Exposing Russian EFF Impersonators: The Inside Story on Stealc and Pyramid C2
Myanmar scam centres: Thousands who have been freed are now stuck in camps
"There was a very popular thing the French did when things got out of hand. And they were not the only only to do it throughout the history."

People conveniently forget that the Terror soon turned against completely innocent victims and eventually led to establishment of an authoritarian military regime that set out to conquer entire Europe, creating vicious reactionary backlash from its enemies, which eventually stifled liberal thought and societal progress on the continent for two more generations.

I will take the English "let us have a non-violent gradual development" way anytime.

If Lavoisier could be guillotined because "the Republic does not need chemists", how much better do you think that programmers would fare in similar situations? There is plenty of people who resent them for just having bigger income than them. Once you run out of the rich, the mob and the guillotine will demand more victims, and neither will be particularly picky.