skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For most people AI is stuck at GPT 4 and other on par performance wise models. Anecdotally as well, many people that I know that have tried it found it mildly useful, but experience what coders and other tech workers experienced two years or so ago. Lots of hallucinations, lack of context, knowledge, etc. If you went back to those models you would at best feel like it is just a occasional code helper as well; at best an autocomplete or rather.

A lot of the reasoning model improvements of late are in domains where RL, RLHF and other techniques can be both used and verified with data and training; in particular coding and math as "easy targets" either due to their determinism or domain knowledge of the implementers. Hence it has been quite disruptive to those industries (e.g. AI people know and do a lot of software). I've heard a lot of comments in my circles from other people saying they don't want AI to have the data/context/etc in order to protect their company/job/etc (i.e. their economic moat/value). They look at coding and don't want that to be them - if coding is that hard and it can get automated like that imagine my job.
mlekoszek answered very well, so I won’t duplicate their comment but I will note that I used to work with a bunch of neuroscientists and a number of grad students were recruited by tech companies specifically to use their knowledge of human behaviour and addition to boost “engagement” and revenue. There was some talk about ethics but even back then people knew those companies meant it about as much as big tobacco had.
Do those still have a habit of snapping without any prior warning?

Having said that, the chrome moly top tube on my road bike broke without warning. Granted I did get hit by a cop car doing 80kph in a 50kph zone. Strained a thumb too.
Funny anecdote. I use to be afraid of searching for something in the city I lived in by putting the name of the city after it.

https://www.cityofcumming.net/
Arrow shafts: $5-10 for a ~30”-long, high-precision high-modulus carbon tube.
When you are dealing with documents with different structures, how to do the document chunking efficiently without losing important metadata?
Like neither one.

RPC and REST are architectural patterns/philosophies, not protocols.

SOAP and HTTP are protocols, like MCP.
Granted, there is usually a rechargeable alternative to any product using non replaceable batteries. Or one can use rechargeable AA/AAA/etc. that recoup their cost within a few charges.

For the consumer rechargeable always makes sense, but I think there's an incentive for stores to not push those products - why sell rechargeable flashlights when you can sell ones that gobble alkaline cells and get your customers coming back for batteries?? Is there any way to avoid this problem besides regulation?
It likely consumes next to no power: a proper switching MOSFET has negligible resistance when open, and has a very high gate resistance, so the photo cell does not have to produce any significant current. Possibly the current-limiting resistor in the power supply of the LED circuit dissipates more than the trigger circuit.
Isn’t that all of us? Electric cars are a huge part of saving the planet for human habitability
Given the numerous crazy possible pasts, presents, futures and conspiracies spoken of in this conversation alone, should any one of the potential outcomes vented here (they do seem to be ventings, indeed of a gaseous nature) should come true I will be amazed. Reminds me of an old joke...

Q. What is time for? "Time is nature's way to keep everything from happening all at once".

Attributed to John Archibald Wheeler.

Yet reading here, one might conclude that all things bad are occurring as we speak!
Agree, but philosophy aside having essentially ChatGPT plugins that integrate with external services would still be useful for the ChatGPT user.

It will probably be like Slack integrations, but for your AI chat instead.

Example: An MCP for Gmail, so the LLM can check and send email in addition to just generating it.

That's what I think it will end up being. You are right that the developer is still narrowly using the LLM for generative language tasks while most of the other stuff is regular software dev.
With 25 years experience, the other thing is environments vary a lot, even within a single company. Things can be dysfunctional for lots of reasons, sometimes due to individual incompetence at various points in the hierarchy, or just systemic/cultural issues that no one has the vision or influence to identify and fix. When you're young and inexperienced, but technically brilliant, it's easy to miss the forest for the trees of what's really going on on the human side of things of any large group effort.

One of the things I value the most about working at startups in my early career is that it allows relatively "junior" folks more exposure to the big picture, and thus stay grounded in reality and not swayed by all the random narratives that are floated around in the corporate world. No matter how smart you are, or how honest and well intentioned the intent of the speaker, it takes experience to be able to parse through these and understand when and how they are relevant to your individual work. I see a lot of folks over the last 15 years who got hired into big tech during boom times, never got anywhere near the critical path of the business, and were exposed to all manner dysfunction by ambitious but incompetent social climbers who swelled the ranks of anything with the whiff of success. In these types of environment, people who just want to do good software engineering work can easily get swept into various dead end buckets of learned helpless, rest-and-vest, burnout, etc.
officer she told me she was 4 billion years old
Germany has purchased many Typhoons.
we are working on a platform https://yeet.cx that lets you audit github actions pretty easily.

you just activate some probes and write SQL queries to sift through the information.
Are you running vision tasks? Works just fine in ollama as an LLM but the vision component is unimplemented.
Nothing good last forever. Not saying things won't eventually improve, but hey, maybe they won't?

Still, I think a lot of people treat being a dev as more of an identity than a career. Those with such identities will have a harder time adjusting.

Personally, I like to create and build things. I will try to continue to do so, if not as a dev, then as some other profession.
QWQ 32B q4 OR deepseek-r1-qwen-32b for reasoning, Qwen2.5 Coder 32B q4 (pair with QWQ 32B) for coding
Big Bang Theory is a bunch of really solid observations and hypotheses mixed with a bunch of open questions, even about the fundamental nature of forces.

It was only 30 years ago that we discovered what we call now dark energy. And it turns out that within that short time frame we have multiple ways of measuring the amount of it, and those methods agree. There is more dark energy than dark matter, and that the visible matter is even a small fraction of the dark matter. But even with this discovery of the acceleration of expansion of the universe, the core big bang theory holds.

There are many alternatives to the predominant and not-yet-accepted-as-true Lambda-Cold Dark Matter model of physics, such as Timescapes, but none of them have enough evidence behind them to be considered serious alternatives at the moment.

Things like the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation theoretical predictions, that are visualized in the spacing of galaxies, are literally mind blowing to me. Theoretical physics predicted how matter would behave when it's so hot and dense that none of it can even form atoms, and it predicts the structure of all sorts of things, even the variability we observe in the cosmic microwave background.

TL;DR The depth and consistency of observation that point to a big bang are stunning. But we still have so much we don't know about the particulars, and the fundamental forces.
https://medium.com/@elmo92/gemma-3-a-27b-multimodal-llm-bett...

> It comes in sizes from 1 billion to 27 billion parameters (to be precise: 1B, 4B, 12B, 27B), with the 27B version notably competing with much larger models, such as those with 400B or 600B parameters by LLama and DeepSeek.
The scheme can just mean "plan". For the first "difference", ~nobody studies the terms of how social security operates before starting to pay into it. Would you say that if I run a ponzi scheme but put a bit of fine print somewhere the investor will not read when joining, admitting it is in fact a ponzi scheme, it is suddenly not a ponzi scheme? I can even make it audited to warn the investors when it runs out of money decades later, no recourse though! Still a ponzi scheme.

For the 2nd one, indeed, that is a material difference. Of course, that makes it worse than just a regular ponzi scheme! In the above example, if I somehow read the disclaimer and refuse to participate, the ponzi scheme operator now points a gun at me and forces me!

And of course, this "material difference" only makes a real difference as long as demographics are favorable.

So yeah, it's a thinly-disguised ponzi, combined with forced labor.
People can want things, so there's the possibility that your friends are being honest.

LLMS cannot desire, and in fact are so devoid of interiority that they are not even lying when they say that they do.
Not sure why this would get downvoted?

Appreciate the advice! Glad to know my plan is sane :)
'Spacecraft Speedometer' is a new way to track satellites
Ah now it makes sense why some of my colleagues were judging hackathons like crazy. TBH the number of O-1s being handed out is a joke. People 2 years out of college are getting O-1s for being able to call chatgpt APIs. I mean given the number of reviews I do on a regular basis for academic journals I guess I would qualify.
I love this, yes the crime of getting a loan with stolen or fake credentials used to be called "bank fraud" and it was the bank's problem.

Now it's called "identity theft" and they've convinced many of us it's our problem. So much that people pay the banks to buy "identity theft protection"!
I don't argue with your point regarding how many engineers have their PE. I don't have mine.

My point is that accreditation boards and trade unions can help set standard minimums of what an engineer (or trades person) will know going into a job. Of course employers can ignore them, but in general those standards help bring consistent expectations to a given trade.
I just read about llm bots ddosing websites and i guess more of that is coming soon. Big money is bettin on AI eatin the web and the small fishes pay for the bandwidth.
Were you raised on formula by chance?
Likely high, other posters say the operating temperature is higher than a traditional gasoline engine, and NOx is formed when N and O2 from the atmosphere are heated. I wouldn't expect exhaust treatment on an F1 engine.
The most common reason the simple income level of a region changes is that increasing housing costs push lower income people out, meaning the simple income level is only measuring those who remain.
Oh nice! Do you have a GitHub or something for the kernel?
You asked if react-router team sold courses, they sold consulting services. Seems like a conflict of interest to sell consulting on a tool you built while introducing breaking changes (but hey if you need quick help throw us a few dozen grand).

I guess that's fine for you but it's very smarmy IMO.
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I've never taken a gap year, but all I will say is that there is also a risk to remaining in one's comfort.
Which ones? Could you link to them?
Yeah I got confused there for a second based on your original message, but I'm glad to know my understanding initially was correct.
We're not talking about performance terminations here.
X11 pop under ads were a thing around at least 2001

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=88041&page=1

As were punch the monkey and similar banner ads

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1360466/i-refuse-to-pu...

When was the great age of the web that wasn’t inundated with ads and SEO?

It was really easy on old school search engines like Altavista.
Been using elevenlab reader, but these are much better!
If you set your rent at 30% and months, maybe years go by and no one applies, what do you do?
I was chained by malicious CBP officers, and much worse, and not only that I am in debt for it. Maybe it influenced me. The very thought of this happening to benign tourists makes me upset. I don't think anyone should be in a good mood reading this.
> When I tried to buy a Honda Fit the dealer didn't have any new ones available -- supposedly the factory that made them washed out in a flood but they had 50+ SUVs sitting in a row made in the same factory that nobody wanted to buy, so I settled for a used one at a new car price that had only been on the lot for about 18 hours.

And this is why they play this game. You bought what they wanted you to buy. Instead you should have just said "no thanks" and started to walk out. Suddenly a Fit would have been available on some other lot and they could get it to you tomorrow.
If you want to add in another bash trick called Parameter Expansion[0] you can parse out the filename automatically with the special variable $_. Something like:

> wget https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.18/releases/x86_64/alpine-minirootfs-3.18.4-x86_64.tar.gz && tar xzf ${_##*/}

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Shell-Par...
He forgot the neo when he called the times a liberal institution.
The problem with saying "market power" is that it implicitly condones that those with money are correct since they have influence over the market.

Workers can't influence markets like the billionaire class, that's why they need to be heavily regulated with social protections enshrined in law.
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For traditional lightbulbs, a PWM signal actually makes the light noticeably dimmer, and has a very simmilar effect to simply reducing the current. This is because the mechanism for them is heating up the filement, which happens on a much slower time scale then the PWM duty cycle.

In practice, traditional dimmers are not quite PWM as they do not generate a square wave. Instead they generate a sin wave with portions of each cycle clamped to 0.

LEDs already need driver circutry to condition the relativly high AC voltage into a stable lower voltage DC. Dimmable LEDs create a stable DC power supply from the chopped up AC power, then use the width of the active portions of the AC as a signal to drive their own dimmer logic.
I read it on my TV, and it was pretty nice.
This is a great question, and I dont understand why it was downvoted.
Super Mario Land, 1 and 2. Dr. Mario.

Game Boy games tended to be limited due to space constraints.
Why are North Korean hackers such good crypto-thieves?
https://archive.ph/csJ8V
AI or Nah? Let’s Settle This.
"If the client has a User-Agent that does not contain "Mozilla", the client is allowed through."

So if an LLM bot can identity the Anubis Pow check, it can just update its user agent and it passes without needing to complete the pow?
My instinct is that it would be cheaper overall to buy API credits when needed, compared with buying a top-of-the-line GPU which sits idle for most of the day. That also opens up access to larger models.
`g` still has to make `foo`, the new handle for `file` disappear.

I guess the question is around. If the File library can implement `fn CloseFile(f: File) -> ()`, why can't I implement `fn g(f: File) -> ()`?

At least I should be able to do so using `File::CloseFile` underneath, but what guarantees that only the module defining a type can define sinks for it?

I guess this is an implicit restriction that isn't talked in depth. It should be fine to add sources and sinks to a linear type, but only if they are implemented through the module's own sources and sinks.
Only when this thread got sidetracked. The article and comment that started this thread are about tech industry unions. I can fully appreciate the role unions played by improving working conditions in the past and still come to the conclusion that I wouldn't want them for (most) tech industry workers now.
No. Most carbon frames come with a lifetime warranty at this point. And a subculture has germinated devoted exclusively to Chinese-brand frames.
What's with the $5/5 gallon reference in the article? I thought that seemed expensive.
The age-old “invention versus innovation” semantic tail chasing.

Some people think applying old concepts to new areas counts as invention, some don’t. Debating the point isn’t useful because there’s no objective truth to get to.
If you really to keep arguing this...

California's FAIR plan is not a subsidy because it is not trying to lower the price of a good or service. It is rather a safety net program for those who cannot access private insurance (another policy failure caused by price controls). It's really as simple as that and I don't see why you're having so much trouble understanding it.

>This already is, and is only going to become more so, an existential problem for insurers, throughout very large swaths of the west.

Other western states are doing fine, probably because they do more controlled burns, so seasonal fires don't become conflagrations. That, as well as an insurance market where the state doesn't suppress price signals makes fires a non-issue for 99% of people. Also, since more and more people are living in urban areas I would expect fewer fatalities in the future, not more.
Agreed, it covers a remarkable amount of ground in kind of far-out (to me) computer science topics in an accessible way; I love teaching and have to say, the exposition is excellent. These guys seem really young too, very impressive.

I'd definitely recommend watching the video before reading the blog post, ideally!
Maybe you can ask them domain-specific questions more relevant to the actual position you’re hiring them for? System design? Pair programming session? Debug a code sample? Present a solution for a home coding assignment?

Anyway, many companies are outsourcing phone screens now to services such as Karat, where Kiwi contractor engineers provide 24/7 interview availability. Yet those interviews cannot be transferred from company to prospective Karat-using company. So you get the worst of all worlds.
I think there's a similar trap when you're using it for feedback on an idea or to brainstorm features and it gives you effusive praise. That's not a paying customer or even a real person. Like those people you quickly learn aren't too useful for seeking out over feedback because they rave about everything just to be nice.
Where the reticle is worth patterning expensively because it gets used in so many subsequent exposures using light rather than electrons.
There’s so many news about anything “AI” at any given moment that there will never be a perfect moment.
One day at a beach I watched a wave crash in and saw the sand washing up in a blur. I scooped up some sand and examined it closely and it dawned on me: Close-up bitmaps of sand are a perfect source of randomness. It's easy to shuffle the sand and take another picture and by doing this repeatedly you can capture enormous random key for secure encryption. One machine does the work of composing the message and saved it onto a thumb drive. You take that out and put it into a machine that only encrypts. Then you take the cryptext onto another medium and load it into a machine that is connected to the internet and transmit. Hackers cannot reach the machine that does the work.
> These models should not exist. Ever. By any means. Do not pass Go. Go directly to jail.

Exactly. It's disturbing that this needs to be explained to people.
I just tested the "gpt-4o-mini-tts" model on several texts in Japanese, a particularly challenging language for TTS because many character combinations are read differently depending on the context. The produced speech was quite good, with natural intonation and pronunciation. There were, however, occasional glitches, such the word 現在 genzai “now, present” read with a pause between the syllables (gen ... zai) and the conjunction 而も read nadamo instead of the correct shikamo. There were also several places where the model skipped a word or two.

However, unlike some other TTS models offering Japanese support that have been discussed here recently [1], I think this new offering from OpenAI is good enough for language users. I certainly could have put it to good use when I was studying Japanese many years ago. But it’s not quite ready for public-facing applications such as commercial audiobooks.

That said, I really like the ability to instruct the model on how to read the text. In that regard, my tests in both English and Japanese went well.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42968893
I compare LLMs to a door with a slot where you put a piece of paper with a request on it and you get something back related to that request. If it's the same every time, great. But it might be different or completely wrong. You don't know what goes on behind the door and measuring the error rate tells you little predictive.
Kirby's Dream Land is pretty fun too (esp after watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBRt2D2YN44 which is where the creator talks about the concepts of the game)
Yes, people have brought up my contributions to Brave and LlamaIndex in interviews and it was a nice talking point to start from.

It doesn't guarantee you anything - you still have to describe what you did or how it's relevant.

In the case of LlamaIndex I made like a 2 character change to their TS repo then added some sentences to their README to reflect it. Where in the case of Brave I built entire features.

But, funnily, they only care about seeing that logo. It's as superficial as having a known logo on your LinkedIn IMO. And means about as much. Some jobs I've added a lot of value, others I felt like I did hardly anything, it was just meetings and process. Yet the logo is on everyone's profile just the same.

Idk, it helps. Go fix a typo xD

Oh and when you fix the typo, here's the hard part: Getting your PR merged. Hope you like brown nosing on Discord
It's a choice. Running local means personal safety and privacy. It could also mean easier compliance with any enterprise that doesn't want to share data.
CoreWeave IPO Is Said to Be Oversubscribed After First Day
Is it fair use if Claude makes google searches and then presents the results to its users ?
"Toyota Subsidiary" is not really shorter than "Hino Motors" is it?

Toyota isn't the main character in this story. The only relevance is dubious at best, since Toyota wasn't found liable by the court. The original title only included it to add context. The title used here seeks to imply that Toyota is the central figure.
Scientists program stem cells to mimic first days of embryonic development
Or optimistically, longer lifespans will extend life to points in the future where better treatments and outcomes may be possible?
It is paramount to a functioning society to have zero tolerance for nazis.
Did they tell you that?
All sorts of hobby aerospace stuff defaults to CF these days, with tubes, bar and sheet stock being so readily available.
Yeah. Classic capacity / utilization problem.
> multiple OSS alternatives out there

What does this mean?
It's also widely known to cause headaches. I swapped out all my PWM bulbs and couldn't be happier. More info here: https://flickeralliance.org/
you dont. But your eyes perceive brightness non-linear, which means to your eye, 80% of brightness is very close to 100%
The indieweb doesn't need to “take off”
Why the title edit? (Should be: Scientists program stem cells to mimic first days of embryonic development)
Dudeney's Dissection Is Optimal
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