skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this really true? Something that can be supported by clear evidence? I’ve seen this trotted out many times, but it seems like there are interesting Apache projects:

https://airflow.apache.org/

https://iceberg.apache.org/

https://kafka.apache.org/

https://superset.apache.org/
Fair point, I edited my answer to be less dismissive of the paper.

Thanks for the considerate feedback.
What do you mean?

There's a tourist experiencing this scenario probably every minute.
It’s short sighted to say Europe should spend more on defence. Europe is now going to move away from US weapons and develop its own systems.

That’s a net loss for American defence companies and jobs in the USA. For the US military, costs per unit will go up, because they aren’t mass producing these systems at the same scale.

Trump didn’t just step back from an alliance that existed for 80 years, he also burnt the bridge by destroying trust.

For Europe, it’s probably a good thing to kickstart a new economic recovery, e.g. German automakers can switch to tanks and IFVs.
The internet should be free, open and uncensored. Parents should then have the obligation of looking after their children.

Yes, that means not buying a smartphone and give it to your 3 year old.

I think, slowly, the world is starting to realize this.
It's fascinating how today's Internet is comparable to millions of street corners, each with some person incomprehensibly ranting about something...
I think this is moving the goalposts.

My claim was not "these C libraries perfectly avoid UB by dynamically checking every invariant that could lead to UB if broken." Clearly they do not, as you have demonstrated. (Neither does unsafe Rust).

My claim was that in cases where a (low-level, high quality) C library does check an invariant in a release build, it will generally report failure of that invariant as an explicit error code rather than by crashing the process.

To falsify that, you would need to find places where these libraries call abort() or exit() in response to an internal inconsistency, in a release build. I think you are unlikely to find examples of that in these libraries. (After a bit of searching, I see that libavcodec has a few abort()s, but uses AVERROR_BUG an order of magnitude more often).

I agree with you that Rust's "safe by default" is important. I am advocating that Rust can be a powerful tool to provide C-like behavior (no crash on inconsistency) with greater safety (checking all relevant inconsistencies by default). In cases where C-like behavior is desired, that's a really appealing proposition.

Upthread it seemed like you were objecting to the idea of ever reporting internal inconsistencies as recoverable errors. You argued that creating and documenting error codes for this is not common or practical:

> I'd love to see the API docs for them. "This error value is impossible and this library will never return it. If it does, then there is a bug in the library. Since there are no known bugs related to this invariant violation, this cannot happen."

That is exactly what SQLITE_INTERNAL and AVERROR_BUG are.
I disliked Google ever since they started their "Do No Evil" PR campaign. For as long as I remember I was the extreme rare few on internet against them.

And I also disliked Chrome. Especially the direction of the web they are using Chrome to push forward.

And I also disliked Electron.

But I am against DOJ forcing Google to sell off Chrome. Especially when most of Chrome is open sourced. I think this is just plain wrong. Why dont we force Apple to open source macOS? Microsoft to Open Source Windows? Or Selling off Office. SpaceX to sell its Engine?
A couple publications posted stories that anti Trump searches were hidden after Tiktok came back online but anti Biden ones were not.

https://www.ibtimes.com/anti-trump-searches-appear-hidden-ti...
They forgot the circumstances that led to Brave being founded in the first place - Brendan Eichs opposition to gay rights, and active funding of political campaigns to that end, which was why he got pushed out of Mozilla and started his own browser.
Yes, there are tutorials on how to do that. Takes only around 5 minutes apparently!
The problem as I see it is that the diopter system only has a limited number of different profiles. So if you fall in between a diopter (need more than a 2.5 but less than a 2.75, say) the lenses won't be perfect and you'll have eyestrain.

Presbyopia hit me about 10 years ago. Some people I know use all-day contacts for distance vision then wear glasses on top for computer use and reading. I'm considering it.
"It's not ok" is a value judgement. I am not implying that a death penalty means bad things never happen. I support death penalty because I value an orderly and safe society more.

In the form I would accept, it would be used on people convicted of heinous crimes, some of which will be innocent, with the effect that fewer heinous crimes occur.
They didn't criticize Apple, they said they wouldn't trust them with their keys because of the UK's request.
No. It is responding to regulation.
Honey and similar extensions are just monitoring every activity in the browser. I would have been surprised even if these were moderately successful but never expected them to be sold for billions. I would never have thought people would happily let themselves be monitored like this for deals when everything is on Amazon already
Also, Hogfather is another one. The Hogfather is a god, essentially Discworld's Santa Claus, and the whole story is about a plot to kill him off.
Great Unconformity protection efforts stalled, but advocates hopeful
One of the marvelous things about Discworld is that although it is absurd, it is one of those logical abstractions of technology I've seen. For example he describes in an incredibly lifelike way the clacks system (basically a kind of internet) and it's many properties - the network effects of internet infrastructure, it's used in commerce, the importance of information, the "hackers" who manipulate it, etc. Discworld is almost really hard scifi sometimes.
> I believe that Tolkien's depictions of Mordor and the Shire, came from his own personal experiences in the trenches of WWI

Yes, and the general impinging of mechanisation and automation on rural life.
Yeah, if someone I trust makes a recommendation I would much rather follow the link and get the right one than risk getting some scam.

I hate when people say "I recommend Bubble App" and I need to search for it, I'm always worried that I get some other app with the same or similar name.
MailChimp is owned by Intuit who is a massive lobbyist responsible keeping the tax code complicated along with HR Block and I'm sure had a hand in getting IRS Free File killed since they have been trying to do so for years.

So no, I would not call them a good company.
500?

You mean 1,000+, right? :)
> Especially when the downsides of being wrong are nill.

The question is: are the downsides of being wrong because of an LLM actually nil?

While this is a story of a harmless contest, I think it represents something much bigger and perhaps far less harmless.
That's two different discussions.

Your original comment was suggesting that people who haven't found a use-case that works for them just haven't looked hard enough, despite how inescapable the topic and tools are.

Some hypothetical person that believes nobody might have a personally effective use case is a different one than what you seemed to be writing about, and completely unrelated to what I was writing about.

To be fair, the distinction gets muddy in both directions because some people invest their egos into/against this kind of thing and can't just accept differences as they are. But at that point, with those people, you're just stuck in the same class of endless flamewar debate as emacs vs vim or Xbox vs Playstation and there's really no point in giving time or attention to that.
Ask HN: What are you giving up for Lent?
I do actually read a lot about LLM interpretability, and this is my own conclusion (should've phrased it like "they don't seem to have"). I do actually consider this an open question, so I'm a bit confused as to why you think this way - perhaps due to my phrasing (I just had a very long flight), but know that is not the case and I always doubt things. In fact I said after the text you quoted that the question is actually quite open (mentioning reasoning models, but to be honest, it's not exclusive to them, just more apparent in some ways).

I might also clarify (here and probably in my article when I have the time to do so). LLMs "do" build internal models in the sense that, at the same time:

- They organize knowledge by domain in a unified network

- They're capable of generalization (already mentioned and acknowledged at the very beginning of the article)

However these models, while they share parallels with human cognition, lack substance and can't replicate (yet) the deep integrated cognitive model of humans. That is where current interpretability research is at, and probably SOTA LLMs too. My own opinion and speculation is that autoregressive models will never get to a satisfying approximation level of the human-level cognition since humans' thinking process seems to be more than autoregressive components, aligning with current psychology. But that doesn't mean architectures won't evolve.

Do not misunderstand that because I said they're pattern matching machines, that they will be unable to properly "think". In fact, the line between pattern matching and thinking is actually quite blurry.
I have nothing physical to show for the memories I made playing online games with friends. Almost none of the forums I used to post on exist anymore. I have nothing to show for nearly everything I did in life.

But when my old friends and I are together, we still laugh about stories we tell about Halo 2 and the gaming we did together back then. The same way we still tell stories about that weird kid in 2nd grade and the trips we went on.

Isn't that where the memories exist, and isn't that what that matters?

I think what matters is fulfillment. That is the axe which splits how you should and shouldn't spend your time.

That said, I sheepishly only read the AI blurb at the top.
> I would never have thought people would happily let themselves be monitored like this

Enter Facebook and Google.
Another example of why Tesla rage is childish.
New fear unlocked: cloudflare
Design Principle: Minimize Dependencies
Why not both? LLMs are hilarious when they aren't trying to be funny. They are pretty bad at jokes normally, but when LLMs hallucinate more than normal it has the right amount of absurdity to be funny.
How does it maintain connection as it moves fast/rolls/tumbles?
I know it's not the point but fun fact we've had big billboards advertising a specific OnlyFans account in a few cities in Portugal, with matching picture (not full nudity).
Question. What modern browser gets containers right?

(Firefox was almost there, but the containers don't sync over multiple devices.)
No, they don’t read your mail either.

It gets collected and tallied by an intern who probably isn’t even paid. The tally is then reported for the day to an actual staffer who may or may not bother mentioning it to the rep that day.
I didn't follow up the stabilization process very closely, but I believe you're wrong. What you're describing is what used to be asm! and is now llvm_asm!. The current stable asm! syntax actually parses its own assembly instead of passing it through to the backend unchanged. This was done explicitly to allow for non-llvm backends to work, and for alternative front-ends to be able to be compatible. I saw multiple statements on this thread about alternative compilers or backends causing trouble here, and that's just not the case given the design was delayed for ages until those issues could be addressed.

Given that not all platforms that are supported by rust have currently support for asm!, I believe your last paragraph does still apply.

https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/2873-inline-asm.html
None of those exhibit the same sort of outsized influence that chrome does on global web standards. The app store duopoly might come close but still not to the same extent.

Being open source has nothing to do with it. Of course selling it off won't necessarily accomplish the desired result since at the end of the day it isn't the legal ownership per se that results in the influence.
How was it clearly doing that? I always assumed Honey's model was to sell detailed shopping information of users.
They were still getting coupons. Thus, for 99 percent of users, it wasnt a scam; It was just another crappy product.

To anyone with a modicum of business savvy, it's not remotely surprising. You literally (don't) get what you literally (don't) pay for.
Where is "here"?

You are still exhibiting that harmful attitude. I know plenty of British people who are not so daft - most of them in fact, so I don't believe your supposition that it is a common attitude. And even if it was, that's never a justification.
Clojure has doc and source functions. For example:

user=> (doc clojure.core)
-------------------------
clojure.core
Fundamental library of the Clojure language

user=> (doc +)
-------------------------
clojure.core/+
([] [x] [x y] [x y & more])
Returns the sum of nums. (+) returns 0. Does not auto-promote
longs, will throw on overflow. See also: +'

user=> (source +)
(defn +
"Returns the sum of nums. (+) returns 0. Does not auto-promote
longs, will throw on overflow. See also: +'"
{:inline (nary-inline 'add 'unchecked_add)
:inline-arities >1?
:added "1.2"}
([] 0)
([x] (cast Number x))
([x y] (. clojure.lang.Numbers (add x y)))
([x y & more]
(reduce1 + (+ x y) more)))
PDF - 1993, JPEG - 1992, ZIP - 1989.

We're already 1/3 of the way there.
Its funny because "its different with [insert framework]" is also said about every new framework ever.
Still ZFS for stability ?? Pull the power plug while writing and you know what your stability is worth in reality. I would say say ZFS is for verify as long as you have a usv in front of your server otherwise with a poweroutage you should have a good backup and be able to do a full restore.
I got lost in the article, but how did the UK intelligence got wind on the spies?
I think your comment just goes to show we all have different tastes - I love Moist, and his chain-smoking girlfriend.

There's only one Discworld book I don't like, and it is unseen academicals - the football one - I struggled to finish that, and it's the only one I've read only a single time. Every other discworld book I've read numerous times over the past 20+ years.
I think by “universal” we mean rights which can be conferred to another regardless of place or person. So I do think some rights are universal, but everything a society may call a right is not a universal right—having clean water and clean air, having medicine/healthcare, ability to commit suicide, freedom to sexual congress are not universal rights because they are things a person wants, but not things which prevent that person’s molestation, per se.

Universal rights have the quality of preventing personal molestation from another. The way I think it’s best to think of someone(s) molesting another is direct interference in their life. But for animals with higher-level cognition, not getting killed or molested is a bit more complex, which is why these types of animals (who resolve their differences through speech) need group-level effects to safeguard their personal safety, like freedom to religion, freedom to speech, and freedom to bear arms, freedom to privacy, and so on.

It’s a tough question, what right is universal and why, and it’s easy enough to draw justifications for why lack of sexual congress may be mentally molesting, and therefore an individual should be guaranteed means to procreation. But the problem with guaranteeing sexual congress for everyone is that it puts undue burden on the provider of such rights. There’s so inherent social or personal benefit in giving someone the right to procreate. But someone trying to procreate should not be actively prevented because doing so would impinge upon their freedom to privacy, at least that’s how I think about it.
Avocados could use this.
Not likely unfortunately thanks to Mozilla, which in all its wisdom, dropped embedding support from Gecko. This means it effectively cannot be hosted outside of Firefox/Seamonkey and forks thereof. This is contrasted by WebKit, which is largely UI toolkit agnostic and can be dropped in just about anywhere.

Funny thing, Epiphany (now known as GNOME Web) was originally built around Gecko, but when Mozilla axed embedding, the project had no choice except to switch web engines and so it’s now built around WebKit instead.
Interesting concept! I have some ideas on what this can expand into. Contact me if interested.
>Yes, that means not buying a smartphone and give it to your 3 year old.

Agreed.

>I think, slowly, the world is starting to realize this.

Unlikely. You'd be surprised at the proportion of parents that want to outsource parenting to the govt.
> אַ שפּראַך איז אַ דיאַלעקט מיט אַן אַרמיי און פֿלאָט

> a shprakh iz a dyalekt mit an armey un flot

> A language is a dialect with an army and navy

I studied linguistics + Persian as my primary language, but also took Arabic and Kurdish (Sorani) and a bunch of smaller, extinct languages (e.g. Middle Persian, Parthian). I'm a native speaker of Polish so approaching Arabic from the perspective of having learned PL/FA first was quite fun:

We had one exercise where we were given two different pieces of text to translate - the same joke in Moroccan and Iraqi dialects. If you showed them to me without much context there's no way I'd assume they belong to the same language.

But this is an extreme example of course (and my Arabic was terrible then, now non-existent)
I love Postgres and use it a lot but not for analytics.
Your understanding is incorrect. Applications (games) written for older gaming consoles all had to ship some native code, and were even typically entirely native code. These consoles were also typically not x86 or x86-64 based, so for a PC-targeting emulator to run applications written for these platforms, they do need to have recompiler or interpreter facilities.

They also do not necessarily need to hook and replicate syscalls, provided the user provides a dump of the system software (they just run the system software and make it load the game - the original syscall codes are then ran).

This extends even to the graphics hardware side once programmable shaders became a thing.
today more than 2 billion people say the Nicene Creed or Apostles' Creed or the Orthodox Symbol of Faith regularly. Non-trinitarians are found how often? From an analytic point of view what you say is valid. Regarding the sociology of Christianity, the overwhelming majority of practicing Christians use that construct.
This story summarizes one of my biggest concerns/frustrations with the rise of these LLM tools.

The confident incorrectness they breed is a problem.

The impact in online social spaces is already increasingly obvious.
Note, this is about layout as in "desktop publishing", not VLSI circuits.
the point is that the service that honey provides doesn't seem to warrant selling your entire browsing activity. At least facebook and google provide a means of communication that is difficult, sometimes impossible, to provide elsewhere on the internet
Im more of the opinion that even with world wide nuclear fallout, dangerous viruses, runaway climate change and just about anything else I can think of it’ll still be safer to have colonies on Earth than on Mars. The Marian low density atmosphere alone is enough to kill people. It’s much closer to a vacuum than it is to Earths atmospheric density at which point you might as well build the colony on the moon.

It is much easier to build a long term viable bunker without rocketing the construction materials. If we are to take the extraordinarily optimistic goal of $100kg at face value the price of building anything substantial on Mars is prohibitive. To have a truly independent colony it would require a substantial number of factories.
Real time means a user can load a web page and see a query results without significant wait. So less than a few seconds.
Sure, but I mean why so suddenly? This has been out a while...
No, it's not.

Also "Null" is a perfectly pronounceable and fine name. A brief search reveals several people with that name on Facebook, so it's clearly not abnormal, nor impossible to design a name field to handle it.
but we dont want some of that "things on top" by Google.
The inherent misconception of the author is about “seriousness”. His hypothesis is that taking Discworld serious is “good”, while taking LOTR as serious is “bad”.

No, it’s really about taking either universe at face value, which is the problem. And with Discworld, its overt absurdity and humor forces you to think about it more deeply.

LOTR doesn’t make an effort to explain what it is about. But knowing just a little about history and the author goes a long way.
> To someone living in Ukraine, it probably feels like a much closer fit.

You may be right, but is it a better fit? Is there any hope left when you face overwhelming hordes of evil orcs that cannot be negotiated or reasoned with, especially when there's no convenient ring to throw in a volcano?

The black-and-white starkness of LotR is what makes it unfit for use as an analogy to the real world! There is very rarely ever a situation in which Good vs Evil is a correct or useful framing, even if it may be a comforting and inspiring story to tell ourselves.
Many of the cultural references are to other fantasy books and comics from the 1980s, so they're increasingly lost on current readers.

I generally recommend starting with Wyrd Sisters, since many people are familiar with Macbeth.
“The more seriously you take Discworld, the smarter you get about Roundworld.”

Love that.

I love LoTR too. I would never feel the need to pick one OR the other. It’s not about WHICH. Much better to love BOTH. AND is the correct operator to place between these two great sets of works.

I think an under appreciated subset of Discworld is the Tiffany Aching series. If you really want to see Pratchett’s notions of “good morality” on display, these model it the best IMO.
"Lords & Ladies", and then expand out in both/all directions.

Horrible elves, Granny at her best (and Nanny), Magrat the killer queen, Morris dancing, stupid wizzards and lots of other stuff - what's not to like?

Probably just because it's my fave. But you can read them and enjoy in any order.
I’ve wondered the opposite, having spent 6 months in a hot South American country, the heat in tropical countries can feel oppressive and take all your energy away.
It can 10x certain tasks. If you're making an interface to a library for a DSL and have documentation for the library, Claude 3.7 will very accurately fill that out for you extremely quickly.

There are a lot of tasks that follow a pretty predictable but not automatable pattern that LLMs do a great job at, but that you couldn't leverage macros or other powerful editor tools to complete. Getting good at LLMs can greatly increase your productivity. But unless your job is just gluing well-defined interfaces together, spinning up demos, or writing documentation for existing code, you won't get 10x. 2x is very realistic for most programming jobs, though. Some tasks would potentially be below 1x, especially low level, novel, thorny logic. I'd never use it for developing new cryptographic primitives or a novel compression codec, for instance.
> on book 2

All the books were written over span of 30+ years and they changed over the time during this.
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