skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may as well use exception handlers if you're going to go there.

func foo() (final int, err error) {
defer func() {
if e, ok := recover().(failure); ok {
err = e
} else {
panic(e)
}
}()
first := getFirst()
doWith(first)
final = doFinally()
return
}

encoding/json does it. It's okay if you understand the tradeoffs.

But look at what you could have wrote:

func foo() (int, error) {
first, err := getFirst()
if err != nil {
return 0, ErrFirst
}

err = doWith(first)
if err != nil {
return 0, ErrDo
}

final, err := doFinally()
if err != nil {
return 0, ErrFinally
}

return final, nil
}

This one is actually quite nice to read, unlike the others, and provides a better experience for the caller too – which is arguably more important than all other attributes.
That's possible, but the problem is his take on Apple's customer unfriendly policies is not nuanced at all.
> I know that the core of the article is about millimeter thick inner panes

Yes, those are new. That's what the article is about. Your opening snark makes no sense in the context of the article, which you yourself admit, but you were so eager to feel superior that you posted it anyway.

Corning is an American company, by the way. Feel free to explain how that makes us stupid and backwards.
Mostly aiming to share my anecdote about being too close to a problem for others to learn from, and to pitch - to validate the security thesis.
> if restaurants started making you cook your own food. Why even bother to go?

Ever been to a Korean steak house?

;)

You pay a fair penny to cook your own food.
s/artillery shells/canon fodder/
> I like writing code and figuring stuff out, that's why I chose a career in software development in the first place.

That's not why I got into software development. I got into it to make money. I think most people in Silicon Valley these days are the same mentality. How else could you tolerate the level of abuse you experience in the workplace and how little time you get to really dig on that particular aspect of the job?

This is a website that is catered to YC/Silicon Valley. My perspective is going to be common here.
> You cannot release this life saving technology because it has a 'disparate impact' on group B relative to group A.

Who is preventing you in this imagined scenario?

There are drugs that are more effective on certain groups of people than others. BiDil, for example, is an FDA approved drug marketed to a single racial-ethnic group, African Americans, in the treatment of congestive heart failure. As long as the risks are understood there can be accommodations made ("this AI tool is for males only" etc). However such limitations and restrictions are rarely mentioned or understood by AI hype people.
Precedent was set long ago that saving money is more important than Constitutional rights in the US. The Trial Tax has long been imposed and sentences greatly extended on Americans' who dared exercise their constitutional rights. And no one cared.

https://www.nacdl.org/Media/TrialPenaltyScourgeofAmericanCri...
That would be cool, being able to generate stem cells with your own DNA dynamically later in life would be cooler (please pardon my elementary biology approach to this, I know that is an an Everest sized mountain to climb)
If you used all that knowledge to disdain others instead of learning from them, then you have learnt nothing.

“Yes but I’m right and they’re wrong” — When you’re 49% of the population, it doesn’t matter.
Thanks for taking the time to write up such a detailed response.
Best career arc. That's what work is supposed to be.
No. That's not how it works.

It's contraindication. So you're in a race to the bottom in a busy hospital or clinic. Where people throw group A in a line to look at what the AI says, and doctors and nurses actually look at people in group B. Because you're trying to move patients through the enterprise.

The AI is never even given a chance to fail group B. But now you've got another problem with the optics.
I clicked the frogs, but nothing happened. Am I doing it wrong or is it broken?
This thing about eating slowly that they mention is something I've begun to think is worth it. I've noticed that the stomach is more relaxed and happier if one chews carefully and lets the eating take some time.
I think there's approximately 0 voters that are NIMBY because they want to prop up their housing values by restricting supply. They are NIMBY because they like the way things are where they live and want them to stay the same.
Does it replace Kabuki in non priviledged CI builds? Can one exchange lower / independent layers like with nix container builds?
Yes, OpenAI recently introduced GPT-4o, and many users have noticed differences in its reasoning, response style, and overall feel compared to previous versions. Some say it feels faster and more conversational, while others feel it occasionally simplifies things too much or changes its approach unexpectedly. These differences likely stem from optimizations in efficiency, response balance, and alignment with real-time interaction goals.
Do LLMs dream of electric sheep while matmuling the context window?
Go's choice of multiple return values was the simpler option
Article and papers looks good. Video seems misleading, since I can use optimization pressure and local minima to explain the model behaviour. No "thinking" required, which the video claims is proven.
It's working for me, might be a regional issue.
Are these big national-brand window companies that provide "lifetime warranty" just cashing in today and hoping for the best (bankruptcy) exit strategy later when all their installs from this generation fail in a couple decades?

Not installers, but companies like Pella, Window World, et al.
100 year old windows were designed for easy maintenance and repair.
Are the double hung windows? If they are, you can make sure to have storm windows on which effectively work as a double pane window. If this new glass were available, you could replace every pane in your window without removing a nail.
I'd like to use this tool as a breakpoint into a container. e.g.

dagger Dockerfile L4

and it pops open a shell at that point. Then I don't need new syntax.
It's a tiny school district - 3200 people in the town. I'd guess it's much easier to cook fresh on that scale vs one of the suburban/urban mega-districts? Either way, it is nice to see some places still value nutritious meals for kids.
Most of that will be remixes too. I guess I’m not talking about wedding DJs but raves and festivals.
wait, I reopened the link in a new tab and it's suddenly working; not sure what's up with that.
Standard USDA school breakfast fare includes French toast sticks cooked in an oven in their individually wrapped plastic pouch.
why do you think evolution is a random search?
I thought evolutionary pressures, and the mechanisms like epigenetics make it something different than a random search.
They release an update that it's recovering.

https://isdown.app/status/reddit/incidents/375447-degraded-p...
It will probably take a long time still. Might mot even be on our generation.

Maybe if research gets more investment we could get there faster
Fast-MCP a Ruby Implementation of the Model Context Protocol
Suppose I have a generic array-like collection containing a type a and I want to write a map function to take it to a collection of type b.

In Haskell this is something like map :: (a->b) -> C a -> C b

Can you share what that would like in Go with type classes?
A surprisingly high number of medical studies will not include women because the study doesn't want to account for "outliers" like pregnancy and menstrual cycles[0]. This is bound to have effects on LLM answers for women.

[0] https://www.northwell.edu/katz-institute-for-womens-health/a...
Finally, a positive form of Streisand Effect!!!
Elden Ring by _itself_ destroys the whole point.

If someone is wrong, say so? I said "this just isn't true"

That doesn't count?
The way we're thinking about breaking changes
Stated positions do not erase decade-old associations, which are fully exploited by Republicans in a media system that is largely theirs.

I'd say stated policy positions don't matter period. Nobody reads policy documents, it's all vibes.
They work closely with producers tho and there’s a lot of trade inbetween.
We should assume people will use tools in the manner that they have been sold those tools yes.
>Sex assigned at birth is in many situations important medical information

Which is not gender identity. As a result of being trans there may be things like hormone levels that are different than what you'd expect based on biological sex, which is why I say hormone levels are important, but how you identify is in fact irrelevant.
Correct - they do bad work quickly which requires 2x the time on repairs
I think you estimate what a single person with a gun can do.

* assassinate the president of Japan

* assassinate health care CEO

* nearly assassinate the soon to be president
I feel like they're around for decades? Gorilla glass is absolutely no necessity to enable 3 or 4 panes. ChatGPT (sry, I'm becoming lazy) agrees that they're available since the 1980s. In the US adoption became more widespread in the 2000s. Here in Europe/Germany they became more popular in the 1990s already. This matches how I remember it.

When we replaced our 1980s double glazed windows with triple glazed a few years ago, I could have easily gotten four-pane insulated windows as well, except for the roof-installed windows. Drawbacks of multi-pane are the increased weight and them being more opaque.

(Yes, we also insulated the walls and can control humidity - just in case someone wants to point out that the window replacement alone can cause moisture/mold damage to our house :))
Great city. Shame about the province

Let's Go Oilers.
Third:

I have my own property because I don't want to share it with someone else. If I wanted to share, I'd rent a room or get a townhouse or some other form of housing where sharing space is common.

Fourth:

Building an ADU is actually very expensive and the payback time is quite long. You have to dig for sewage and water, pour a foundation, and so forth. If doing it at a high level, it's going to be as intensive as building a house... It's just smaller. Most people are not handy at all and therefore will need to hire out every bit of it... Which is very expensive.
See: Vinge’s “programmer-archeologists” in A Deepness in the Sky.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_archaeology
Women have been astronauts for years. There are two in the International Space Station right now.
It’s not as involuntary as I made it sound. I think if he decided not to share the meat then he would have problems with the rest of the tribe.
They were arguably never placed in fact never placed in the culture. There are 24 hours in a day. In what culture does one spend most of those hours?

Imagine if those same people would have been adopted as newborns, by a rural family on a farm in Belgium, France or Germany.

This isn't inherent to Europe, nor to any particular background. I live in Korea. Most Western immigrants here spend most of their time not inside the culture. They both work and relax outside of the dominant culture. If they have children here, and raise them similarly, those children will also have different values. But if they put their child in environments where everyone else is from the dominant culture, for >8 hours per day ever since kindergarten, then that's the values they'll take on.

It all does come down to culture. For what it's worth, I'm originally from Europe, and very familiar with the phenomenon you're talking about.

Someone else here rightly mentioned the internet as changing this somewhat, which has some truth in it - it does affect the probability distribution. But by and large, it still holds.
LLMs don't and cannot want things. Human beings also like it when the future is mostly like the past. They just call that "predictability."

Human data is bias. You literally cannot remove one from the other.

There are some people who want to erase humanity's will and replace it with an anthropomorphized algorithm. These people concern me.
Lua's stackful coroutines are awesome! The Lua C API even allows to pass a continuation function when calling a Lua function from C, so you can yield across the C-call boundary (e.g. a Lua function, calling a C function, calling a Lua function that yields). See also https://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#4.7
Why? There already is https://clip-os.org/en/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu and https://www.schleswig-holstein.de/DE/landesregierung/themen/... and probably several dozen more.

https://www.univention.com 's UCS comes to mind, too.
A ground invasion is an inevitability if you start bombing strategic installations.
I’m sure this is a topic you could write volumes on, but in the nature of “what is truth”.

It seems like during the campaign there was this basic question that people wrote authoritatively on trying to in a binary way say “this was his plan” vs “his plan was agenda 47”

I suspect this is just he crucial hard question in the age of misinformation, but like, there are times when I see certain opinions on social media, where I think “things are bad, but not that bad, but I see how they could become that bad.

You can rationalize any catastrophizing, but most catastrophe’s won’t come to be.

It’s sort of both unsolvable, and deeply responsible I think for much of the polarization in society.

By the way, this could be said about COVID and climate change and the national debt and the economy and every issue that people feel deeply about.
I might have been mistaken on that one, I'll fully admit. I am not sure if it was Głos Ameryki or Radio Wolna Europa - but my comment applies to both of them, anyway.
Would encourage anybody who has a historic home pre-1940s to keep their original windows and just restore them. Unless you get 4 and 6 pane windows, the energy savings are minimal.

Brent Hull is a good resource on historic windows and outlines the reasons to keep them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6mAmIrN5qY

Plus, the original windows look significantly better and will last longer.
It is true for everything that uses quoting, I didn't mean to imply otherwise.
I'd add that while I was already familiar with coroutines from a few different contexts and languages, I found this particular framing of them -- especially seeing them contrasted side by side with a state-machine -- enlightening and novel.
Depends on what your measure for normal is.

In Seattle, luckily a lot of SFHs with big lots are being turned into multiple townhomes.
Sysco dominates the commercial food service market across all tiers.

Hint for anyone running a small commercial kitchen and considering buying ingredients from Sysco: unless something has changed in the last 20 years or so (I doubt it), they will completely screw you over if you don’t negotiate pricing effectively. If a service like Instacart undercuts your commercial prices, you’re doing it wrong.
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status shows no issues. Seeing a few possibly related issues. Reddit for instance is hitting problems as well.
> Opinions generally do poorly here, for good reason. It is the junk food of content. It's easy and entertaining to read, especially if it agrees with our own notions so it's self-assuring, and if I think Apple are great I love to read opinions on why the EU are wrong with their DMA push, etc.

This perspective on opinions doesn't seem accurate to me, e.g., opinion pieces (especially favorable) on Emacs, Neovim, and Blender seem to do really well here. I also disagree with the junk food characterization, I think people taking a strong stance on why they like something is often really valuable.

> There is another comment that opines that they want to see more daringfireball content on HN. I mean, they could just visit his site, or they could just hit https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=daringfireball.net, but what they really seem to mean is that they want everyone else to see more content from DF.

For the record, I personally share things here when I think they're worth discussing, i.e., it isn't because I want people to see something, it's because I want them to talk about it.
Sure, but correlation is correlation. Ergo 'low income', as well as affections or causes of being 'low income' are valid diagnostic indicators.
While there are numerous neural network models, the ones I recall the details of are trained to generate the next word. There is no training them to hold some more abstract 'thought' as it is running. Simpler models don't have the possibility. The more complex models do retain knowledge between each pass and aren't entirely relying upon the input/output to be fed back into them, but that internal state is rarely what is targeted in training.

As for humans, part of our brain is trained to think only a few words in advanced. Maybe not exactly one, but only a small number. This is specifically trained based on our time listening and reading information presented in that linear fashion and is why garden path sentences throw us off. We can disengage that part of our brain, and we must when we want to process something like a garden path sentence, but that's part of the differences between a neural network that is working only as data passes through the weights and our mind which doesn't ever stop even as well sleep and external input is (mostly) cut off. An AI that runs constantly like that would seem a fundamentally different model than the current AI we use.
welp, that was short, but neat
I think it's a gradient. When I think about the "nightmare to live in", I think Soviet Union or North Korea. Those are the places who went all-in on redistribution.

Most western countries mostly respect individual freedom and property, taxes being an exception to that, somewhat limited and controlled. I see that as a necessary evil - something we can't fully avoid (at least, I can't figure out how we'd do that), but should try to minimize, to avoid sliding down the spectrum towards more and more evil versions of that.

I think most western countries are nice to live in because they do comparatively good job at respecting people's freedom, property, and the right to keep the stuff they earn.

Advocating for more redistribution is taking steps away from that, in the direction people don't realize they don't want to go in.
In terms ofLinnaean taxonomy, and Chihuahuas and wolves are also the same species, in that they can reproduce fertile offspring. We instead differentiate them using the less objective subspecies classification. So it appears that with canines we're comfortable delineating subspecies, why not with humans?

I don't think we should, but your particular argument seems open to this critique.
Very cool implementation of a classic puzzle (with a surprise on the last level that I haven't seen before.)

Years ago I wrote some example Python to solve the same puzzle in another game (with spoilers for level 3):

https://sheep.horse/2011/11/jumping_frogs_-_using_python_to_...
Unix Magic
I don’t think that anyone minds immigration of highly educated people from advanced civilized countries that have aligned values and respect local cultures.

But illegal and legal immigrants from other countries mainly consume taxpayer resources and spread crime and violence.
Show HN: Research Pharma Markets with AI
No, I haven't, CyberDildonics!
That doesn’t explain the lack of movement among whites though. Moderate whites were 52% Clinton, 55% Biden, and 52% Harris. 2016 was a good economy and Obama was relatively popular. So among moderate whites, Harris didn’t do any worse than Clinton did despite the inflation under Biden. The 3 point swing from Biden could easily be explained by the fact that Biden had a long track record as being moderate, while Harris always has been liberal.

The bigger signal here is racial depolarization. Historically, moderate to conservative minorities tend to vote Democrat anyway, which leaves them as disproportionately the more conservative wing of the party. What you saw from 2016 to 2024 was significant racial depolarization—moderate to conservative blacks, hispanics, and asians voting more their ideology and less their race.
The lawful right of recourse is really the only fundamental human right we have. The first and foremost implicit contract we have with the state. To lawfully protect us.

Cutting through the customs of times, the fundamental axiom of all law is to protect one party (those “unculpable”) from violation by another party.

Various stages of philosophical evolution exist throughout humanity, ours purports a mechanism of statutes around problematic ideas.

There is this phrase, “the spirit of [the] law”. In paper law that means what the original declaration meant to those invoking it. By a “righteous rule of law”, it is to “protect the innocent from breach by will or neglect.”

Custom (“precedent”) establishes what that means. A continuum of persistence by popular intent is essential to ensure coherence for their time.

The myth is that a righteous rule of law may ever stand without vigilant competence among those who enjoy its luxury. It cannot be someone else’s problem forever.
I aggree that money or the ability to attain it is what modern society considers a success. However, the categories seem to be a reflection of the universal nature of the money that can buy any influence/right.

If we had a hyptothetical coloured currency where one kind could only be spent buying property, other necessities, some luxuries like travels. As long as the currencies could be enforced to not be interchangable the "dominance" becomes realative with respect to influence points one has collected.
What a great article, i always like how much Anthropic focuses on explainability, something vastly ignored by most. The multi-step reasoning section is especially good food for thought.
The dataset they used to train the model are chest xrays of known diseases. I'm having trouble understanding how that's relevant here. The key takeaway is that you can't treat all humans as a single group in this context, and variations in the biology across different groups of people may need to be taken into account within the training process. In other words, the model will need to be trained on this racial/gender data too in order to get better results when predicting the targeted diseases within these groups.

I think it's interesting to think about instead attaching generic information instead of group data, which would be blind to human bias and the messiness of our rough categorizations of subgroups.
Stuck on level 8. Any pointers?
Chinese Scientist Ostracized over Gene-Edited Babies Seeks Comeback
Your opinion. Win 7 was the best Windows UI, both in looks (Aero) and usability. It was abandoned primarily because Microsoft was trying to achieve some hybrid desktop/tablet/mobile UI that worked poorly for all form factors. Win 11+ (or whatever the next version is called) would be well-suited to return to an Aero-like UI.
US democracy is just better at managing perception and allowing controlled opposition. Dissent exists, but it’s channeled into ineffective political battles that don’t threaten the ruling structure. People think they have a say because they can vote, use twitter, get their guy in/out the whitehouse, but real systemic change is nearly impossible. Even now "doge is destroying everything the sky is failing" as they go back to scrolling.

China prevents dissent through suppression, while the U.S. redirects it into endless debates that never challenge the underlying system.

As a capitalism enjoyer this is good for me, these systems only exist to waste the time of "idealists" and reactionaries. The hands off approach used to be better, but with more technology population control becomes much cheaper, and now all the wasted time from arguing about politics and political decisions becomes a real cost center for the US.
Imagine if you had a strawman so full of straw, it was the most strawfilled man that ever existed.
https://archive.ph/Oa894
Nah.

It was more like one year away.

But one year away for the past 7 years.