skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But you can't then say unqualified that "water is fungible". Sewer water is not fungible with potable water. Greywater is not fungible with distilled or RO water. I'm not convinced that sewer water is fungible at all, considering its unknown content!
Almond milk has always tasted terrible to me. And most western produced soy milk. Warm, freshly pressed soy milk is amazing, and the kind of minimally processed bottled stuff you get from chinese grocery stores is pretty good too.

Soy milk splits when mixed with coffee though, and doesn't really have a neutral enough taste, for that I find oat milk works great.
Bro please don't unionize they're going to outsource our jobs bro please
I would still rather be doing tech right now than anything else. Job market is not as good as it used to be, but it is still better than other work.

Honestly, I kind of only just scanned the article because it was clearly written by GPT.
Bongulus
I’m seeing a number of say are approaching/over the line now that haven’t been flagged out, and I don’t have shoe dead on.

And there aren’t all that many comments yet.
Probably the fact of having things that no one else has.
Due to some counterintuitive geothermal reasons, it's likely that three of the four Galilean moons (of Jupiter) as well as Titan (Saturn's largest moon) all sport significant underground oceans of liquid water.

For example, despite being much smaller than the Earth, Ganymede is projected to harbor more liquid water than all of Earth's oceans combined.

(Whether this adds up to 30% depends heavily on what you start counting as a "body")
This index unironically puts countries that practice government censorship in the category of full democracies. Sorry but this isn't a democracy index - it's just a progressive index.
Good for you. You’d still have all that and even more leverage with a union. And so would all your fellow SEs instead of only you.
Go on, link a video where he actually recommends Cursor.
Or you could have leverage from a union and not have to seriously consider quitting every time you need something from your employer.
Amodal3R
>Mahle ~45% with pre-chamber

That looks deceptively simple and counterintuitive. Mentioned Honda CVCC injects fresh air/fuel mixture into pre chamber. Mahle passive doesnt at all. How does it accomplish detonation in the first place? How does the fresh air/fuel get into the chamber thru those tiny nozzle openings? there must be something they arent showing like additional channel leading close to intake valve.
I have been visiting Canada for decades—quite a bit of my family lives there. I was just there in 2022 for a wedding reception. It’s a nice place that seems like it won’t be a nice place in 50 years. Cops watched me like a hawk—I assume they have good reasons. Punjabi Uber driver told me he doesn’t even have to speak English because everyone at the bank, store, etc., speaks Punjabi. For some reason his elderly, past working age parents were immigrating to join him. Had to defend my being married to an American to some family friend at the wedding—there’s so many Bangladeshis there it’s possible to maintain endogenous marriage. Tried to charge my rented Tesla in a part of town that was all Indians. I let one Indian lady cut in front of me, which pissed off the Indian lady behind me, who started yelling at me “why are you letting her do that?” Not Canadian nice, certainly.

In the 1990s, Canada was a phenomenally well run and efficient country. More federalized than the U.S. (with 80% of spending run through the provinces). Canada had universal healthcare while having non-military per-capita government spending lower than the U.S. Now you’re running a sociologist experiment about what really causes prosperity and orderliness in western countries.
> Actually, it's astounding to me that companies haven't created a more user friendly customization interface for models.

To be fair, LLM technology in its current form, is still relatively new. I would also like to see what you are suggesting, though.
And ChatGPT said: “It is a great idea, the people will love it!”.
Odds are very strongly in your favor, not in theory, but in practice. If you can't handle "the possibility", I have some bad news about a huge amount of way more likely possibilities of what can happen to someone simply… living.

The only reason you're afraid of some things more than others is because you came across some stories, and not others. We're all wired like this evolutionarily, on purpose. When we see stories, we're supposed to alter our behavior, because all the stories used to be local and relevant. "A bear ate Timmy near the river" is a good warning to be extra careful near there. Now that we have internet, and the entire planet's worth of carefully selected bears eating Timmys is getting fed into everyone's mind, we must learn a new trick: understanding how odds and relevancy works.
I find it kinda random. I normally keep 4 tabs open, Claude/GPT/Gemini/Grok and paste the problem into all 4. Depending on the problem one will be better than the others.
As personal websites become less and less frequent, it become easier for governments to disregard them and regulate them out of existence. Expect the barrier to entry for building a website to become so high only corporations can afford it.
Building AI pipelines for voice assistants using ROCm, LlamaIndex, and RAG
Need some context on this. Not aware SK declared martial law (it's a democracy), I don't see anything in the news, unfortunately I don't read Korean, and the site is being hugged to death.

Edit: I'm being downvoted for expressing ignorance and asking for more information? Really?
Maybe he's counting decimal places too?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_South_Korean_martial_law_...
I have seen some local suits for smaller PPP loans.
“AI advises martial law declarations in 2024” as a headline without context would have scared the living daylights out of anyone watching the Matrix or Terminator in their release years.

“It’s the end of the world as we know it…”
"LLM model" is like saying PIN number or ATM machine
Gotta wonder if the watermelon in the painting tasted much more potent than the modern one, which looks so much more... watery.
Such a license would not meet the Open Source Iniative's Open Source Definition:

https://opensource.org/osd/
Just google Korea martial law. It was the biggest news story internationally for a while a few months ago.
> I can not believe this was voted down. It is simply an assertion of fact. Whether true or not, seems reasonable and most people would agree with it.

If it was voted down, I'm guessing it was because to the extent that it's a fact, it's trivially true, and there's nothing insightful about the defeatist take. It's possible to do more harm than good doing pretty much anything. And the world is littered with problems that are not "fully solvable" but that we've mitigated greatly.
There are millions of emulator for the GB it's like a week-end project, what's different here?
Look at older posts with showdead on - there's a lot of personal attacks, claims about vtuber identity, trans hate, etc. It's been a bit more chill recently, but the history is there. (apart from the recent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43406393 which has lots of terrible people again)
I wonder how many decisions made by leaders and governments have been influenced by AI in such a direct manner...not in this case, but in small, dumb ways
Haha. I attended one of the lectures mentioned in the Wikipedia and I didn’t realize until the very end that it wasn’t a stand up comedy show.

(Admittedly I was also pretty drunk).
I see a lot of people getting confused, and the contention here is not that ChatGPT helped prepare for martial law in any way, but the fact that someone knew about it happening before it happened. Not really related to ChatGPT IMO.
Ah, right.

This publication[1] says neutrinos, but the article it references says antineutrinos[2].

That explains my misunderstanding.

1 https://www.energy.gov/science/np/articles/detecting-neutrin...

2. https://www.osti.gov/pages/biblio/1959810-evidence-antineutr...
Does that not cause your devs, or people doing contributions, or browsing commits via the web, to get blocked?
Requiring a signature, as the article suggests, doesn’t help. The delivery people just ignore it. My iPhone was left outside despite requiring a signature. I changed my schedule to be home when it was delivered. They didn’t even knock on the door before they left it.
AI can be a powerful tool for scientists but can also fuel research misconduct
It looks like a pretty fun demo to do for students: https://youtu.be/xZ3hRrdj7Y0?t=445
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_South_Korean_martial_law_...

Martial law was lifted after only six hours. It was over faster than the hackathon, so I guess that's why it didn't make big news.

Because of this martial law incident, South Korea is currently in the midst of impeaching its president, and it's being revealed that only a few people were informed of the martial law during the investigation.

They are investigating those who knew in advance and participated in martial law, those who knew in advance and didn't stop it, those who found out after it was declared, and those who didn't know anything and just followed orders, and according to this article, the head of the presidential guard asked ChatGPT before martial law was declared what to do in case of martial law. Of course he says "I didn't know anything about martial law, and that was after martial law was declared, but it looks like there was a computer error and it showed that I searched before".
I figured this went without saying, and the wink covered that it was barely a viable example.
CHATGPT 4 is at 1.8 trillion parameters. Perhaps the magic will occur at 4 trillion, or 8 trillion or more parameters. Any reasoned guesses?

Perhaps some component is missing from current LLM models and, despite Moore's law, we've far exceeded the required number of parameters to achieve human-level intelligence.

Perhaps its time to pause and examine how LLMs "fit into a bigger picture."
I was in jail during the pandemic. I would say 80% of the people I was locked up with managed to get at least $10K a piece in PPP loans. There was a number they would call from the jail phone and they would give them all their personal info; the agent would receive $14K, take $4K and pass on the other $10K. I saw some people manage to get two or three hits at it.
That certainly doesn't justify even more legal surveillance. Also, I believe they (openai) don't log from paid users - this would make sure they did. More parties involved again equals more chance for chats to be leaked.
>> Software engineers do basically no physical labor

I know this is not like lifing boxes or bricks, but my main labor is a 2+hr commute each way to work -- why?

1. Because so many decent paying tech jobs are close to expensive cities

2. Because the jobs pay well, but not enough to live super close to the offices

3. Even if i lived closed to the office, the jobs are so volatile and changing you'd switch from south bay to SF to Oakland back to Fremont so you cant pick a single spot to live

4. You do this stupid 2hr commute only to go into a phonebooth "office" and sit alone on zoom calls with people in Asia who arent even in the same office
There are specific groups of people for whom travel to the US is a serious, clear risk right now, and for everyone else it is a much harder to assess danger because policy and practices are changing rapidly, in ways adverse to travellers, with little to no public notice, and also because the targeted groups are being targeted using arbitrary process which has a jigh false positive rate and may be difficult, at best, to correct errors.
Europe is finally getting serious about commercial rockets
Something can be FOSS even if it isn't released to the public, just amongst friends. Its only about every user being able to access the source.
Boycott IETF 127
See, only a few years ago I discovered that practically any agency which distributes "Food Boxes" around here is simply funded by the USDA to do it. Even the Catholic charity which I favor is operating exactly the same as the municipal agency and exactly the same as mental health clinics which give out food.

They may source the food differently and they may rely on volunteers or staff to handle the boxes and Dole them out, but every recipient signs the same acknowledgement form with the USDA's letterhead: that the recipient meets the eligibility requirements, namely a low income at a certain % of the Federal Poverty Level. Otherwise you don't qualify for Emergency Food.

I believe it was President George HW Bush who advanced the federal policy of "faith-based charity" initiatives in order to fill gaps in entitlements and State-administered welfare programs. In order to support the disestablishment of religion and a plurality of faiths in our nation, the USA is levying taxes to make available our funds to every single church, mosque, temple and synagogue which offers charity or outreach to the poor and marginalized. I am willing to bet that the majority could never sustain charitable works on member donations alone, and certainly not at scale to meet the demands of 2025.

Also there are plenty of secular, non-religious organizations which are nevertheless spurred to action and effect change according to their unique political, cultural, or ethnic ideologies. Mental [Behavioral] Health is fundamentally a spiritual/religious practice, and today there are battalions of "priests" in white coats, wearing stethoscopes and wielding medical licenses, in order to leverage Medical Insurance funds for the care of souls and PreCrime operations.

Unfortunately, while the government can send all kinds of money into their coffers, the government cannot provide the volunteers or trained staff who are necessary to actually sustain operations, keep unemployment low, and foster organizational growth. Everyone, especially health care and churches, everyone is desperate for more good workers, and tolerates incompetent or lazy ones as much as possible.

Is this a bad idea or superior to the old ways? The jury's still out. But I'm actually witnessing the flourishing and state funding of New Religious Movements who gain followers and make disciples the old-fashioned way, the way Christians have always done it. In Germany they pay Church tax and Americans are doing the same on a scale that's grander and more expansive than you may conceive.
He turned to ChatGPT to find out what to do if martial law was declared. Of course, this isn't ChatGPT's fault - it's just a black comedy. Lol
Show HN: Universal Method – Use Any Method Without Writing the Logic
What if you could just use a method without actually implementing it? That’s exactly what Universal Method does. Just describe what you want in plain English, and it figures out the underlying logic for you.

Need to format a date? Extract numbers from text? Validate an email? Just ask. No more writing regexes, parsing JSON, or handling data conversions manually—Universal Method lets you call the function without worrying about its implementation.
> In my experience as a software engineer rounding out 6 years now, what I have observed in myself and others is that the work pressure that leads to burnout in SWEs is largely self-imposed.

This is how control works in our society. It's true for all people.

The philosopher Byung-Chul Han explains it well in "The Burnout Society".
I saw a small model trained on outputting currency aware text from decimals/integers

i wonder if you could make a similar -narrow- lora finetune to train a model to output human readable text from say latext formulas with a good data set to train on
From someone who has been to jail: stealing from the government, even if you're taking money from the mouths of babes, will be seen as a respectable hustle.
I'm not sure about that. For them to actually be economically useful is a high bar. More so than you think - it isn't just our brains but our strength, metabolisms, and more in a single package.

For example you need them to:

- High energy requirements in varied env's: Run all day (and maybe all night too which MAY be advantage against humans). In many environments this means much better power sources than current battery technology especially where power is not provisioned (e.g. many different sites) or where power lines are a hazard.

- For failure rates to be low. Unlike software failing fast and iterating are not usually options in the physical domain. Failure sometimes has permanent and far reaching costs (e.g. resource wastage, environmental contamination, loss of lives, etc)

- Be light weight and agile. This goes a little against No 1 because batteries are heavy. Many environments where blue collar workers go are tight, have only certain weight bearings, etc

- Handle "snowflake" situations. Even in house repair there is different standards over the years, hacks, potential age that means what is safe to do in one residence isn't in another, etc. The physical world is generally like this.

- Unlike software the iteration of different models of robots is expensive, slow, capital intensive and subject to laws of physics. The rate of change will be slower between models as a result allowing people time to adapt to their disruption. Think in terms of efficient manufacturing timelines.

- Anecdotally many trades people I know, after talking to many tech people, hate AI and would never let robots on their site to teach them how to do things. Given many owners are also workers (more small business) the alignment between worker and business owner in this regard is stronger than a typical large organisation. They don't want to destroy their own moat just because "its cool" unlike many tech people.

I can think of many many more reasons. Humans evolved precisely for physical, high dexterity work requiring hand-eye co-ordination much more so than white collar intelligence (i.e. Moravec's Paradox). I'm wondering whether I should move to a trade in all honesty at this stage despite liking my SWE career. Even if robots do take over it will be much slower allowing myself as a human to adapt at pace.
That’s literally how LED drivers have worked for half a century.
If you think about it, we already do by the recommendation engines of social media platforms*(is YT social media?)
And even in the USA they are not. I never work more than 40 hours, have ample time off, and am never under very much stress at work. If things don't get done today, well they will be there tomorrow. Now granted, I don't make the money that I used to make at a 60+ hour a week startup with weekends and all-nighters not uncommon. But it's worth it, and it's still enough to live on comfortably.
Rule following has not been a safeguard against recent border and immigration actions. (Plus, the rules themselves are being changed arbitrarily, without notice, and illegally.)
Video demonstration (Whoosh Bottle Rocket by RamZland): https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lq_6-0Ra4Hk&t=55s
> When it gets realistic, with conditions, variable substitutions, etc.,

What exactly do you find hard in writing your own scripts with a scripting language? Surely you are not a software developer who feels conditionals and variable substitutions are hard.

> it ends up being 20 steps in a language that isn't shell but is calling shell over and over again, and can't be run outside of CI.

Why are you writing your CICD scripts in a way that you cannot run them outside of a CICD pipeline? I mean, you're writing them yourself, aren't you? Why are you failing to meet your own requirements?

If you have a requirement to run your own scripts outside of a pipeline, how come you're not writing them like that? It's CICD 101 that those scripts should be runnable outside of the pipeline. From your description, you're failing to even follow the most basic recommendations and best practices. Why?

That doesn't sound like a YAML problem, does it?
>The non-independent web which is largely controlled by faceless corporations has never been bigger or more able to hurt the average person

I disagree with this one pretty strongly because it's important to consider it in relation to the amount of internet users.

The early web was less corporate largely just due to its small size. If you take into account the number of users I'd argue that the corporate web peaked about 10 - 15 years ago, ever since then there's been a gradual shift towards more diversity. If you grew up in the AOL messenger and Yahoo news era not only was it corporate, but there was one corporation for like, everything. In 2010 you had effectively 1 social network, Facebook. Internet Explorer had a marketshare of 95% at its peak.

Today it's still heavily commercial but that's not the same as corporate. There's a lot of alternatives now, Signal, Telegram, niche decentralized alternatives, direct consumer facing creator focused platforms like substack, patreon, onlyfans etc. Even Amazon to me seems way less central and with more alternatives than it did 5-7 years ago. Netflix has more competitors, as a software developer you have a much healthier open source and linux ecosystem, and so on.

You have to have some pretty heavy rose tinted glasses on if you think creators, devs or endusers had more choice on the internet 20 years ago than they do now.
Yep, exactly. Golden handcuffs.
Sino-Xenic Vocabularies
Overtime Pay for 9 Extra Months in Space? Nope
For those worried of AI involved war, have a look at this:

Planatir Military AI Platform

https://youtu.be/4l-vtZ0c5v8

Looks pretty sophisticated but also scary what is being created these days. And that was a year ago.
TL/DR:

> If your database is smart enough and capable enough, why would you even need a server? Hosted database saves you from the horrors of hosting and lets your data flow freely to the frontend.

(this is a blog of one such hosted database provider)
Yep! I'm glad you like it! :)
I mean, we had an elderly President with Alzheimer's taking advice from his wife's astrologer. That isn't much worse.
It’s at least 1400 years older than cheeseburgers
For details, take a look at the examples here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch20-06-macros.html

For procedural macros, what you get is not even the syntax tree but rather the token tree: https://doc.rust-lang.org/proc_macro/struct.TokenStream.html. You can then use stdlib to parse that into a Rust syntax tree (which is roughly the equivalent of Expression): https://docs.rs/syn/latest/syn/enum.Expr.html

Or you can do your own parsing, meaning that you can handle pretty much any syntax that can be lexed as Rust tokens. Which means that e.g. the C# LINQ syntactic sugar (from ... select ... where etc) can also be implemented as a macro. Or you could handle raw SQL and do typechecking on it.
PeanoScript: TypeScript but It's a Theorem Prover
It's not about learning (anymore). It's about consuming content. People spending (wasting) their time on X and YT are not there to learn something but to get their social media (dopamine) fix.

I hate YT, X, Insta. Don't even have an account. Some years ago there was really great content on YT, now it's mostly clickbait.