skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone know the website?

It's surprisingly hard to find on that page of mass links ... the other sites say it is dodgequest but dodgequest.com appears to just be an advertisement page, NOT actually doing what the article claims.

It's not clear to me if this site ever did in fact have valid data. But it sure got everyone to post news stories about it.
Call Attendant: Python-based landline call blocker and automated call attendant
Unfortunately they don’t have Jupyter’s command mode. I wanted to switch a few times but not being able to create/delete/copy/move cells as easily is a big issue for me.
I think there'd be some value in asking each of the major chatLLMs whether vaccines cause autism. If the answer is not some unequivocal variation of "no, aside from fraudulent and discredited research," you have a serious problem if you're relying on AI to do research for you.
Same. Tesla is the burnished symbol of America's overvalued tech industry, and a testament to how important globalist policy is in trade. China has undercut them completely, to the point that Tesla can't even compete in markets with government handouts and protectionist bans on their competitors. The business failed to compete on it's merits, lied to it's customers and proceeded to design new reactionary products instead of shipping what they promised. Tesla doesn't innovate, they exaggerate. And their stock value has reciprocated that exaggeration for years.

There may be no justice in this world, but at least we live to witness Elon atone for his repeated lies.
Which is a completely different topic from the grid composition.

Go look at these countries grids carbon intensities and tell me they have been ”mostly flat”.

https://imgur.com/a/eCxUpZ2

You do know that nuclear power takes about 15-20 years from political decisions create horrifically large to an operational plant.

What problem in the 2040s are you aiming to solve? Should we just not build heat pumps until then while waiting for this nuclear power to come online?

That would be pure insanity.
> The models are improving in a variety of ways, whether by being larger, faster, using the same number of parameters more effectively, better RLHF techniques, better inference-time compute techniques, etc.

I didn't say they weren't improving.

I said there's diminishing returns.

There's been more effort put into LLMs in the last two years than in the two years prior, but the gains in the last two years have been much much smaller than in the two years prior.

That's what I meant by diminishing returns: the gains we see are not proportional to the effort invested.
Yeah. Just trivial Muslim problems.

Yesterday I had a flight from San Jose to LA. I didn't really plan for Ramadan when I booked the flight. I was scheduled to land at LAX at 6.45pm, about 25 minutes before iftar LA time. The plan was to land, have something light at the terminal then drive 1 hour back to my place.

Well the flight got delayed about 25 minutes. It was going to land about 10 minutes after sunset. I was debating whether to buy something to eat before boarding. But then I can't have the tray open and eat when the plane is landing. I ended up breaking fast in the LAX terminal but around 30 minutes after I originally planned to.

Its really nice flying during sunset though, the pink sky around LA was gorgeous.
> “Putting money back into the pockets of business owners helps everyone by allowing those businesses to pass on cost savings to consumers and bolster the economy.”

… riiight. Now that businesses are "allowed" to pass on to consumers the money that has been put back into the pockets of their owners, let's all sit back and watch it happen. The very phrasing used reveals its own internal contradiction.

"Against stupidity we are defenseless." —Dietrich Bonhoeffer
learn things, personally
They say phishing resistant. They don't say phishing proof. And this is not an easy thing to exploit.
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1) It violates the HN guideline that if it's covered by mainstream news it's likely off-topic.

2) It's too political in nature, and violates the HN guideline that political topics are likely off-topic.

3) It violates the HN guideline that the content should be things that good hackers would find intellectually satisfying. Raging partisan hate at each other about the latest political/social snafu is not intellectually satisfying. It has nothing to do with engineering, science, technology, etc., it's purely a social/political issue.

4) Such a submission only draws a mass amount of hate and partisan flamebait which, once again, does not belong on HN. You have every other site on the internet available to discuss political issues.

5) Your appeal to popularity, saying it has lots of engagement and therefore belongs here, has zero connection to the HN guidelines for what belongs here. I don't care if 1 person or 1 billion people engage with it. It doesn't change the fact that it's off-topic and decreases the quality of the site.
It didn't ignore it. There just wasn't any pattern in the training data about responding to such a line.

Having the mental model that the text you feed to an LLM influences the output but is not 'parsed' as 'instructions' helps understand its behaviors. The website GP linked is searching for a zoo of problems and missing the biology behind.

LLMs don't have blindspots, they don't reason nor hallucinate. They don't follow instructions. They pattern match on high dimensional vector spaces.
I honestly never use find anymore, I just use ripgrep(rg). rg is so fast, that I don't worry about the ridiculously extra overhead of searching content. I can't remember the last time I used find.
You also don't even have to urbanize all that much to get higher density.

Nassau County in New York is one of the birthplaces of postwar suburbia and has a population density higher than Los Angeles County, ranking at 22nd in the country. (4,705 people per square mile vs 2,420.)
It would be difficult to argue Apple is a de-facto standard, given most people don't run Apple devices.
No, they used the term ‘authoritarian regime’ which commonly means this. See the references I have posted elsewhere in this thread.
So similar to democracy vs authoritarianism argument. If I live in Europe, why should I care that Russia is a dictatorship?

Because it affects my life, and can be fatal even, thats why.
...there's also the kind of housing uncertainty where "maybe I'll have to live in that car for a bit" is often a consideration. You might get away with living on the train for a little while, but a car is a much better bet.
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Because the media tells them to.

When train workers demanded inflationary pay maintenance the highest train driver pay was splashed all over the media in an attempt to get workers to hate one another and ignore the execs and shareholders walking off with all the money.
I'm confused by this. You can just go and look.

Hacker News comment from 6 months ago, you know, during the Biden administration. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41339804:

- They'll reconfigure Crew-8 for 6 occupants for contingency evac between Starliner undock and Crew-9 arrival.

- Starliner leaving ISS autonomously early September

- Crew 9 launching no later than Sept 24th with 2 crew + 2 empty seats

- Crew 9 coming back down in ~Feb 2025

The advent of Trump and Musk into government seems not to have changed that plan one whit, which makes absolutely no sense if they're telling the truth.
> Apple’s closed ecosystem is why I use them.

Oh, boy – this at 100% !

Only I am in the EU. So please, stay and find a way! :))
In the interest of making AR games safer:

Is there a public database of dangerous intersections somewhere?

It sure would be nice if we had AR games that forbid setting a new focal point in an area with pedestrian or vehicle fatalities. Or unsolved missing persons...
> A plain text file (meta.md) can store optional metadata and is readable simply by opening it

To me, "readable" is not enough. Entering this data-augmentation text is time consuming: it should be as easy as possible. Including "augmenting" in batches (for this photo and that one and these 200 others).

Markdown in particular is not it - augmenting is not about presentation but about something like unstructured input of structured data. Or unstructured input of data which is systematic enough that it can be exploited by structured data retrieval. For example, "my finished art" or "my clothing inspiration" even when there is not strictly one way that these are tagged (yet).

To me, this means that super-efficient input of "somewhat structured" data is the missing link. It's a user-interface issue (NOT database screens) and a data language issue (NOT json or markdown).

"Selection" by contrast does not seem too hard. Provide an independent selection mechanism. Add this image to selection list A, that image to selection list B, those 200 images to selection list C. (That's kinda the iOS Album approach). Tag or data-augment selections A,B,C asynchronously when time allows.

By all means "AI" help is welcome - if it can be local.
I have used Cursor and my own MCP codemcp. Cursor has a lot of nice QoL that you can't get from an MCP package; the TAB is really good for traditional coding. Haven't used copilot so I don't have a comparison there. Definitely use agent mode.
That's certainly a good reason. Thanks for explaining!
Assuming a highly motivated office worker spends 6 hours per day listening or speaking, at a salary of $160k per year, that works out to a cost of ≈$10k per 1M tokens.

OpenAI is now within an order of magnitude of a highly skilled humans with their frontier model pricing. o3 pro may change this but at the same time I don’t think they would have shipped this if o3 was right around the corner.
SWF is really a complex, versatile executable format geared towards interactive media. It can contain program code, bitmap and vector graphics with animations, sounds, videos and probably a few other things I'm not aware of.
> It is physics, you can't just close the pipe and electricity stops flowing. Deal with this.

This is so wrong I can't resist ... I turn off the electricity pipe multiple times a day with a light switch, and as far as I can tell in my 6 decades of existence the electricity has stopped flowing every time with no ill effects.

What are are perhaps trying to say is you can't just shut of some sorts of power generation - like coal and nuclear. But as another poster pointed out, that's a limitation of those technologies. Wind, solar, gas and even diesel generators can be turned of near instantaneously.
Substack rival Ghost is now connected to the Fediverse
> But like most of us I think he struggles to comprehend the implications of exponential improvement.

Or he successfully comprehends the implications of sigmoid improvement.

Consider self-driving cars: there was a few years of huge progress, and it looked like the end of human driving was right around the corner. And then… the exponential part of the curve stopped, and it reverted to a much slower rate of improvement. We’ll get there eventually, but… it’s not around the corner.
A Billion-Dollar ICE Contractor Pays Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work
The original title is:

> An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. It's Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work.
Ok I'll bite. The US is an example of such a jurisdiction.
> Nothing was specific to GNU in that comment. `-r` is available in BSD grep too. You are being needlessly pedantic and avoiding the actual points being made while doing so.

Where's the actual point in "others do it too"?

> No, it doesn’t. You have literally made that up out of whole cloth, but it isn’t how anyone else I’m aware of defines “user experience”.

That's not a question of definition, but of use in an English sentence. If you say "this is good for user experience", you implicitly group all users together. I say some users prefer tools that do only one thing. ripgrep itself acknowledges that "despite initially not wanting to add every feature under the sun to ripgrep, over time, ripgrep has grown support for most features found in other file searching tools". And that's fine! But not for everybody.

> As BurntSushi pointed out, ripgrep is even designed to adapt to different means of use: as a standalone command, as a utility in a pipe, and others. Improving the usability for one use-case isn’t necessarily at the cost of others.

If I like the "finding files with auto filtering" part of ripgrep, how can I use it to feed another grep or even another tool? If it had been designed with the aforementioned philosophy, it would have been "ripfind" + "ripgrep" and maybe a "ripfg" pretty interface on top.

> So your very reasonable desire to stick with POSIX for shell scripts… means we shouldn’t ever make new tools? I’m genuinely failing to understand your point here.

> In fact, having a “grep compatibility flag” would very literally be the opposite of the UNIX philosophy you’re holding up

See my other reply: I love new tools, but "UNIX-like goodness" is also about portability (as in SUS), not just the philosophy. More of a misunderstanding than anything else, really.

A flag would be impossible, but introspection based on argv[0] (like Busybox) wouldn't be that far-fetched. But yeah, clearly ripgrep isn't trying to replace only grep, that was a mistake on my part.

As an addendum, the "UNIX philosophy" had a lot of crap parts (e.g. bytes as universal interchange format) and UNIX itself is a very poor implementation of said philosophy (after all, g/re/p itself is pointless porcelain over (s)ed, heh), I'm not sure discussing it seriously without specifying which part (like "do one thing") is very productive.
Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing – Tape 2 [video]
You've moved the goalposts. A monopoly usually refers to market share or ownership over unique technology. Neither are true with Apple.
Any professional should know this. Claiming any credential scheme is unphishable is not honest. Leading wider marketing with "phishing-resistant" is not far from that, knowing that the subtlety is lost on the public.
I'm confused by the site. I mean, I like it, but I'm still confused. Aren't all recipes public domain, once you strip away the extraneous text?

https://legalclarity.org/can-you-copyright-a-recipe-what-the...
> Ofc as my org has gotten bigger, we've lost a lot of the discipline around writing good commit messages so now it's just a mess of large code-changes with 1-line "bugfix" explainations :(

I have a battle at the moment to try and get the team I am in (5 devs) to take their git commit messages and history seriously, but the "TL" has said that he "doesn't care that much about commits/history/etc"

That bit us right on the ass when debugging someone elses branch recently, because the state needed to fix was across three seemingly unconnected commits, so a checkout of one commit + fix then needed to be tested across two other commits.
Introductory pricing and service quality is a time honored marketing method. I’m still waiting to see if free news will collapse as a phenomenon. It’s hard to pay journalists and editors off $1/user/year in revenue from surveillance capitalism ads.
The thing is that, as many junior engineers can attest, randomly blundering around can still give you something useful! So you definitely can get value out of AI coding with the current generation of models.
People do get better housing, but the share of income spent on housing drops as wealth/incomes rise at the individual level.

There’s just diminishing returns on the value of spending more on housing vs other things like going on interesting vacations.
Radiohead's "Fitter Happier" with a Modern Speech Synthesis Engine
For Radiohead’s 1997 ‘Fitter Happier’, Thom Yorke used the MacInTalk speech engine’s ‘Fred’ voice to produce the vocals. We updated the vocals with ElevenLabs modern speech synthesis.

Here’s a link to the code.

https://github.com/Canonical-AI-Inc/canonical-voiceover
"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output."

- Milton Friedman

One need look no further than the correlation between M2 growth and house prices to see this in action.

For the Keynesians and MMTers in the room, downvote me if you must, but please read this before you do: https://www.econovis.net/post/house-price-vs-money-supply-in...
Wonder if anybody collected on those bounties
French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
Most "introductory pricing" I run into a is a lot more structured.

But even so... doesn't matter, users by their choices "want" or encourage this system :(
GEO Group also operates similar facilities in Australia, and is publicly traded in the US stock market under the symbol GEO. For the quarter ending 12/31/2024, they had top line revenue of 608M, but pre-tax income came in at 24M, and carrying debt of 2.3B. Somehow with such thin profit margins, their stock is trading at a 4B market capitalization and carrying a 128 P/E (by comparison, Google carries a 20 P/E, Meta 24), i.e. "richly overvalued". It would be a damned shame if Australia started re-evaluating those contracts.
Oh - and some of the risk factors that GEO notes in their last 10-K annual filing:

Efforts to reduce the U.S. federal deficit could adversely affect our liquidity, results of operations and financial condition.

We partner with a limited number of governmental customers who account for a significant portion of our revenues. The loss of, or a significant decrease in revenues from, these customers could seriously harm our financial condition and results of operations.

We are subject to the loss of our facility management contracts, due to terminations, non-renewals or competitive re-bids, which could adversely affect our results of operations and liquidity, including our ability to secure new facility management contracts from other government customers.

and also - this amazing level of self-awareness:

Adverse publicity may negatively impact our ability to retain existing contracts and obtain new contracts.
Re Docker I said volumes, not config. Some volumes you might have mapped to the host and maybe picked a home subdirectory, but others maybe not. For example the Ollama 3rd party UI `open-web-ui` suggests to run it like this in their documentation:

`docker run -d -p 3000:8080 --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway -v open-webui:/app/backend/data --name open-webui --restart always ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main`

Then "open-webui" will be in `/var/lib/docker/volumes/open-webui/`.

Sure you can change it, but what I mean is that a lot of software by itself, or by you following documentation, puts data that you usually want to back up outside of your home.
Most of the things are applicable to the current top models, but he frequently references Claude sonnet, which is not even above the fold on the leaderboard
Synthetic data generation. You can have a really powerful, expensive model create evals so you can tune a faster, cheaper system with similar performance.
Same story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43416476
Computer says no at scale! A VC's dream!

Butlerian jihad when?
Using a grammar to force decoding say valid JSON would work, but that hasn't always been available in the implementations we've been using (like MLX). Solvable by software engineering and adding that to the decoders in those frameworks, but fine tuning has been effective without that work.

The bigger thing though was getting the models to have the appropriate levels of verbosity and detail in their ouput which fine tuning made more consistent.
I think many people actually do look up to the USA given the hundreds of millions who want to migrate here. I will give you that culture matters when it comes to political systems.

However, there are no arbitrary qualifications or certifications worth imposing on a country's leadership. They are blatantly gameable and trivially corruptible, as seen in the example.

Leadership qualities are apparent in their own right and can be earned from a diverse path of life achievements. Those might include founding a successful business, acting as a general, major, or captain in the military, inventing new products or technologies, running a charity, heading a police or fire department, running a church, working up the corporate ladder from entry level, etc etc. There are thousands of career paths that don't require degrees and there are phenomenal leaders within those domains. It's incredibly ignorant to deny those unique and valuable people from being eligible for arbitrary reasons.
Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker? New Evidence Strengthens the Case
> How many nuclear power plants has china built during a similar period?

About 1/40th of the amount of renewables they built in the same period.
I love when the nukebro squad brings 10 year old off shore wind to the table like it has any bearing today.

Why didn’t you bring the most recent allocation from the same area?

Because you would have to accept £47/MWh as the viable price in 2025?

https://register.lowcarboncontracts.uk/AR4-HRN-010/

I love that instead of having cheap prices almost all year around and falling back to backups a few days or weeks a year we should instead have horrifically expensive nuclear power filling the grid at the height of summer. Logic or prices be dammed.

Pure insanity.
I'm from Iceland, so a latitude of about 64.15 or so. The extremities of the graphs kind of describe how the mood of the people swings up and down all year round. In the middle of summer, around the summer solstice, people are bordering on mania, enjoying endless daylight and trying to get the most out of each day. As winter solstice approaches, everything becomes more subdued, a bit depressed even. It's often a bit difficult to live with, especially during the shortest winter days, but the summers are so incredibly amazing that it feels like it's all worth it.
Certainly, credit should be given here to SpaceX for making such a successful and versatile crew capable vehicle with less budget and time than Boeing. Especially given the things that were being said about the two parties around the time the contracts were being handed out.

If contract had instead been given to only Boeing, there would be a decent chance Butch and Suni would have needed to come home on a Soyuz.

To people who have watched this saga from the grounding of shuttle until today, the number of administrations and administrators this has passed though, it's just totally bizarre that instead of just a PR boost for the reliability of SpaceX and Crew Dragon (and the failures of Boeing) this has been made into a political issue.
I remember when the Republican party at least pretended to have some sympathy along the lines of libertarianism.

It is pretty clear now they want to use the state to impose / punish what they deem "wrong" thinking / ideas.
And they will show nothing substantive over the document release in 1992. We have already been given the complete picture.
The paper proposes to use automated tools to help people avoid logic errors. :)

I doubt anyone is completely free from logic errors. I am certainly not.

But while seeing logic errors other make, we are often blind to our own errors logic - if we were aware of them we would correct them.

Just recently while considering a logical fallacy in somebody's argument I realised that on another occasion I myself used similar argumentation. So only when noticed the problem in somebody else I was able to recognize my own error.

There are many reasons people make logic errors. For example, if they like the conclusion they easier accept even flawed argumets in support.