skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I suppose the argument is that while the robot itself might not have run over anyone, it might have caused someone else on the road to do it.

And I repeat, that's a contrived enough scenario that I think you need to come to the table with numbers and evidence if you want to make it. Counting crashes has been The Way Transportation Safety Has Been Done for the better part of a century now and you don't just change methodology midstream because you're afraid of the Robot Overlord in the driver's seat.

Science always has a place at the table. Ludditism does not.
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Okay then, how about "at least 3 languages with each at least a few thousand devs using them supports it"

And my example is not "if". There is no if. Maybe there is "if" being used in the underlying functions? Again, eventually everything is machine code, but then every discussion about PLs is meaningless...
Still doesn't seem to add up. Consider someone that causes accidents at a rate of £20k/yr, and whose insurance is £4k/y. Either they're insanely wealthy and are paying the repair costs themselves via deductibles, or the insurance companies are losing money.
The only explanation I have heard that makes sense is: The [flagged] tag only appears after a certain threshold amount of user-flags, however each user-flag contributes to the down-weight of the story.

So if the [flagged] threshold is 10 user-flags, then 9 people can flag the article, burying it, and then only at the next user-flag, [flagged] shows up in the title.

Of course, nobody but HN staff truly knows if this is how it works.
> Best they can do is to follow developer's instructions to build a binary artefact and upload it somewhere. May be codify those instructions into a (hopefully) repeatable script like PKGBUILD.

I don't understand; isn't this exactly what maintainers do? They write a recipe (be it a PKGBUILD or something else) that builds (maybe after applying a few patches) a package that they then distribute.

Whether you use Arch or Debian, you trust that the maintainers don't inject malware into the binaries they ship. And you trust that the maintainers trust the packages they distribute. Most likely you don't personally check the PKGBUILD and the upstream project.
> John Gruber can be thoughtful and form his own opinion while still being an Apple shill.

Cannot parse. Maybe using the word "shill" is putting too fine a point in it?
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Almost every organization (private or public) was blindsided by LLM, right? That’s… just the nature of a big new idea.
There was an era when car owners were expected to be their own mechanics.

When that started going away, I wonder if the people who lamented the loss ever got hit with "I assume you fractionate your own petroleum".

"Deepest level" in GP presumably refers to the deepest level of the existing source code.
Ask HN: A profile that keeps opening pull requests with AI-generated code?
If you look at this person’s profile, you’ll see they open multiple pull requests on random repositories, in various programming languages.

For example, they submitted two completely nonsensical and non-functional pull requests to one of my projects, and it’s extremely annoying.

How is GitHub planning to deal with this kind of AI-generated spam?

These are likely profiles trying to inflate their contribution history, possibly to use it when applying for jobs.

Unfortunately, GitHub doesn’t give me the option to delete these pull requests, so they’ll stay there forever unless I migrate my code to another platform.

Profile https://github.com/wonderinglostsoul44
I don't know about you, but as I have grown older video games in general have just become less appealing. However I can see the same glee in younger coworkers eyes when talking about games today.

In 2005 I could play a game for 12 hours straight and then hardly be able to sleep I would be so excited about playing it the next day.

Today, even for a game like BG3 that is objectively an incredible game, I can do maybe 2 hours every few days and feel fulfilled.

I don't think this an outlying example either. Most of my friends are now the same way, and frankly when you login to play games online, it's not exactly overflowing with the 35-40yr olds who saturated servers 20 years ago.
There's already like a half dozen such "marketplaces" and they all ultimately point to open source repos. If the goal was to lock people in, they did a bad job of it.
Why is it that lazy people are kicking out the motivated? I thought you had to be motivated to move up in the world? Or to understand and interpret law? Or to not take complete trite from a 20 yo MBA who just see numbers instead of lives?
I'm reading "I can go into why another time." like "I don't have time" personally, not like "I am not allowed to say".
The main complaint seem to be the minimisation of Turing's homosexuality and the focus instead on Joan Clarke. There's also a whole list of historical inaccuracies listed on Wikipedia[0], including changing the name of the Enigma breaking machine from "Victory" to "Christopher" and stating that Turning invented "The Computer".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_Game#Historical_...
Shareholders in the 70s made a lot of money. They'll be OK to rinse and repeat that history.
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I really do wonder if playing a game like Dungeons and Dragons with complete strangers could reduce loneliness. It’s obvious that playing it with friends could. It’s also obvious that other types of social interaction could.

But what about the specific interaction of playing a roleplaying game with total strangers? It’s a different kind of interaction than other social interactions.

It might even make somebody more lonely. Imagine the misfortune of trying Dungeons and Dragons to get less lonely and you join a hostile group that is antagonistic to you because they feel you are new to the game and don’t understand it as well as they do.

That could be a bad experience that would increase loneliness
I grant that the term has become commonplace and very catchy and no one has been able to supplant it with a better descriptive

I still hold that there is good reason to be concerned with researchers claiming to objectively evaluate a silicon based sentience and jumping the gun a bit (imo) by writing articles about LLMs which "dream" and "hallucinate" when the behaviour is a consequence of essentially a non-linear regression model that does not yet show clear signs of the high order emotion/reasoning/awareness/intention

Many who research LLMs avoid these terms in their publications for good reason (again imo)
That doesn't sound like a fair appraisal of university research at all. How much do we rely on day to day that came out of MIT alone? A lot of innovation does come from industry, but certain other innovation is impossible with a corporation breathing down your neck to increase next quarter's profits.
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> nature is very efficient by design, so it would be quite hard to even come close to this efficiency.

Do you think that the evolutionary goal for animals is "make the most edible mass possible"?

> All the anti-meat anti-animals' thing is just a new kind of religion that is based on the morals of a few alternative types who want to appear more virtuous than anyone else, in a desperate attempt at faux competition (race to the bottom).

What an incredibly shallow reading of an idea that has been around for thousands of years. Clearly a strawman to avoid engaging with important questions.
...i just use both atuin and fzf.fish [1] and bind them both to another key.

[1] https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish/
Another example https://github.com/MythScara/PrismaGodot/pulls
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>is there any good collection or list of people who have rejected technologies when introduced?

Sounds hard to curate. Do you have a specific threshold of notoriety in mind? There could be tons of average people doing this and no good way to find out about it.
Training dogs prepared me for wrangling LLMs
Are these tracks high enough quality not to sound like shit on a club system? Legit question - it’s why I purchase 320 kbps mp3s via Beatport.

Also, does this mean the tracks are licensed for public performance? So I can get paid $500 a gig and put on these tracks and not need to be at an ASCAP paying venue or liable for the rights?

These things matter, especially in such a bullshit “you only bought a license” music world where often they don’t tell you about the license itself (not the consumer’s fault, only really interests musicians and copyright geeks like me).
I could be totally wrong (please correct me if so), but IMO there are two things happening that weren't totally discussed.

1) My understanding is that most the "researchers" and even students at ATI have a main role at a home institution. Really the question should be something more like "did ATI funding help advance UK research generally?" not "was ATI able to claim its own successes?"

2) Nobody has really mentioned how PhDs are a little different in the UK. E.g. you propose a topic -> research for three years -> receive PhD. In the US its more like research for 2+ years -> find a promising area -> do groundbreaking work over 1+ years -> receive PhD. In other words, its significantly easier to change your research direction in the US, of course its easier to miss out on things like the LLM explosion.
The article was light on details. From what I can gather, the core idea[1] relies on the fact that the fusion reaction releases lots of fast neutrons. In a traditional fusion reactor they are stopped by a so-called blanket surrounding the reactor, and in turn heat the blanket. This is how you get power out of the thing.

For a hybrid reactor, you make the blanket out of uranium. The fusion-based neutrons can then trigger fission in the blanket, causing a lot of additional heating.

Found this[2] article from a few years back which goes a bit into the pros and cons of fusion-fission hybrids, in the context of another company pursuing a hybrid reactor design.

One positive aspect is that you can "burn" non-fissile uranium isotopes, so there's no need for the expensive enrichment process that a traditional fusion reactor requires. And, since fusion is not a self-sustaining process, using a non-critical blanket material means there's no chance of a run-away process.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion%E2%80%93fission...

[2]: https://www.power-technology.com/features/featurefusion-fiss...
Learning programming languages is not right use of time.

Code generation makes programming language obsolete. I'm not saying AI based code generation. Code is a string.

Programming language moves space from one place to another.

The value of a place changes over time.

This is alternate technique to solve it
Dial-a-Song felt like magic back when I was younger, thanks for the nostalgia hit!
Thank you for clarifying! There is a open source cache adapter but it does not support NextJS 15 at the moment.
Reading this post feels like nightmare and why should Vercel work for others? They are kind enough to notify others about incoming changes.

OpenNext, AWS Amplify, Cloudflare, Netlify can deploy next.js and the customers has no problem.
Is it a contagious phenomenon, or is it just a situation where some people being lonely is highly correlated with other people being lonely? It makes intuitive sense that as more people are isolated, the pool of possible social interactions available to other people is proportionally reduced.
Most job postings say something like bs saves you 5 years on the job experience though. And not a lot of jobs out there that are truly entry level zero experience or relevance required. Even programming, like good luck getting a job today without any years already on the job or a degree. Its not 2005 anymore.
Are you saying or asking?
> Sorry if you're having a car crash every 6 months or less, you shouldn't have a license.

Actual traffic enforcement does not seem to produce this result. This woman is fairly famous on Reddit for her erratic driving, and was reported in 2019 as having been involved in 31 crashes since 2000: https://www.wral.com/story/lawyer-stayumbl-driver-a-victim-o...

She is still driving (with a new license plate after 2019): https://old.reddit.com/r/bullcity/comments/1ji3y82/jesusdos_...
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I think by "these services" they mean apps like Doordash, not delivery as a concept
I am actually working on such a thing, and I want to get it righr. This is like RSS or Atom or Jabber or XMPP wars. Or OpenGraph vs Twitter’s meta tags etc. I want interoperability which is cool, but I also want it to seamlessly interoperate with human roles and services.

What is the best way to connect with you? I would like to discuss ideas and protocols if you’re up for that.
Just stopping by to say that pastry/coffee shop lasted for something like 100 years in the East Village before closing about a decade ago. I remember dropping in from time to time at night with friends when I was in my early 20s and new to the city -- it was these spots that always made the city feel like magic, but unfortunately we've lost a ton of them.
> This attitude is just one of the many factors that led to ...

Thanks! Sounds like an interesting read. German manufacturing is in a really tough spot indeed. But, just to have a bit more nuance in the discussion. It's not all hopeless. Munro loves the new electric motor from VW [1]. And I'm personally also very impressed by multiple high quality open source projects that are made in Germany such as Typst and Forgejo.

[1]: https://youtu.be/qTilowhsX_w
How the American Medical Association Screws Doctors
I agree and as a result I have completely abandoned CSV.

I use the industry standard that everyone understands: ECMA-376, ISO/IEC 29500 aka .xlsx.

Nobody has any problems producing or ingesting .xlsx files. The only real problem is the confusion between numbers and numeric text that happens when people use excel manually. For machine to machine communication .xlsx has never failed me.
> My personal theory is that this is the result of an incompetent management class where no self corrections are happening.

Close. They're not incompetent; we just redefined competence.

It used to be that competence was a mix of a lot of distinct, but interdependent, qualities. The end result was synergy that allowed for people and organizations (including companies) to compete and move society forward.

In the 1970s, we started to allow a bunch of psychopaths (I'm saying this in the clinical sense) to redefine competence. Instead of this array of distinct qualities, they just defined it in terms of ability to create monetary value, particularly if that value was then transferred to shareholders. That was it.

We also switched to quarterly reporting for for-profit companies, shrinking the window to evaluate this new definition of competence to 90 days. Three months.

An end result of this was that you could simply do whatever made the most money in 90 days and be considered competent.

Jack Welch was the paragon of this. GE shareholders saw massive gains during the latter half of his tenure at the helm. This wasn't because of groundbreaking new products or services; quite the opposite: Jack realized that selling off divisions and cutting costs by any means necessary was a good way to make money in the 90 day period. Institutional knowledge and good business relationships in the market - two of the elements of the former definition of competence - were lost, while money - the sole element under which competence was judged in the new definition - went up.

You also had managers doing a lot of the avoidance of real management, like you speak of. Instead of betting on a new product or trying to enter a new market, they took a Six Sigma course, learned a bunch of jargon, and cut costs at the expense of business past the 90 day period.

If you do this enough (and we did, far beyond just GE), that expense is taken at the societal level. Existence extends beyond 90 days. You can't mortgage the future forever. It's now the future, the payment is due, and we have an empty account to draw from.

Theoretically, we could go back to a more in-depth evaluation of competence and reward its display over the long term. In practice, there are a bunch of people who got unfathomably wealthy off of the shift to the "new" competence, and now they're in charge and don't want to switch back, so we won't.
I think NextJS is still a decent framework to use, so long as you're not going into any of their RSC or other "full stack" features and use it with the "export" flag (which just generates HTML/CSS/JS that you can upload anywhere).

One thing that is very annoying is that their next/image component still does not support "export" and only works if you deploy to Vercel. Considering that Gatsby figured this out so early on is just shameful. Granted there are a couple of 3rd party packages that add proper image support like Gatsby had, it's still very annoying and quite frankly sad because we all know this is a business decision to keep folks locked into Vercel.
Its just people. People are the same everywhere, and are fundamentally unpredictable systems. How large groups behave does depends to a certain extent on context: by compared to others and your socio-economic situation. How they publicly expressed their values are entirely different from their behavior. This is to the dread of incumbent governments and pollsters.

If you starve a wealthy man for 2 weeks he will be ready to cannibalize. If you create a metric upon which you place a lot of economic-value, soooner or later it will get gamed and corrupted. If you remove checks and balances humans being unpredictable will turn on each other.

One can choose to ignore this fact, but at the cost of endless grief to oneself and those around.
Well, people are going to be targeted anyway. It's better to keep a trail of who is doing what, and that's the purpose of all those offensive cyber startups.

Do they make it easier for actors to perform those activities? Not sure. I was never shopping for 0-day exploits. And some argue it's similar to gun laws in US, if it's easier to buy firearms, someone is more likely to use it. I just don't buy this comparison.
hell yeah, best hobby.

there's something for everyone - worldbuilding, improv, fiction writing, encounter design, mythology, poetry, mapmaking, mini painting, powergaming. all on a regular schedule with friends and in-person.

though i wish more people tried at least one other TTRPG. Chasing Adventure is my personal favourite, but there's so much going on in the indie scene to recreate any aesthetic or genre you'd like.
When was the last time measures pushed heavily by bureaucrats with heavy government spending produced anything good?
I mainly use simple integrations:

- fetch, essentially curl any webpage or endpoint

- filesystem, read(and occasionally write) to local disk

- mcp-perplexity, so I can essentially have Claude sample from perplexity's various models and/or use it for web search. Somewhat superseded by Claude's own new web search capability, but perplexity's is generally better.
Heh, I think the Aero glass stuff feels pretty dated and has problems with readability. But Win7 is just so much smoother than 11 (or even 10), even though my brand new Win11 workstation is orders of magnitude more powerful than the decade-old hardware I run 7/10 on.

And especially graphics glitches. Like a half-opacity lock screen sometimes being drawn on top of everything for several seconds after unlocking.
>documentation is written solely to be written, not read. If it's your job to write reports, article, memos, whatever, and you deep down know that this isn't being read, then why not have to AI do it?

Medical records seems to be the opposite of this. Nurses document to report to doctors so they can diagnose and advise. That seems like the worst step to cut corners on. Accountants document reports for patient for prescriptions and diagnosis that can affect their lives. Heck, as a CYA you document records in case a law firm comes in demanding papers to read. Do they think lawyers don't care about this stuff?

Just because not everyone is gonna pour over ever word doesn't mean no one will.
That’s exactly why I was asking for sources.
It's unclear what you want, exactly. Look at the list of Games of the Year I shared. There are dozens of incredible games. Have you played the games I mentioned - BG3, Hades and It Takes Two? Hit games can be similar to previous hits. That's not a bad thing though. That's just successful innovations spreading.

What I suspect is the problem is that you also want them to be groundbreaking and innovative. This is an impossibly high bar to meet in a mature industry. There are some games that still meet this bar. Half Life Alyx is from 2020, ever played anything like it? Have you truly built all the possible contraptions in Tears of the Kingdom (2023)? Last of Us Part II (2020) is going to premiere on TV in a couple of weeks. How many older video games have a story that was shot so perfectly that they be translated shot for shot into a hit TV or movie?

Check out these two videos of a guy horsing around in Tears of the Kingdom - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpFXlkjAurc and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyQdn5bwF_Q. Look at how much fun he's having! Yes, it takes an incredible game to enable such creativity. But he's having fun because he wants to have fun.

If you're finding less joy in games than you used to, you should be open to the idea that it's not the games that are causing that effect.
What pendulum???
Writing a game for the Commodore Amiga (2019)
>you join a hostile group

Cleric of Tyr falls in with group of Drow
Update: I found https://www.bismuth.sh/ at https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ianbutler .
Study shows plants are more likely to be 'eavesdroppers' than altruists
> And my example is not "if". There is no if.

It doesn't literally include the keyword "if", but you've only rewritten an "if" statement in different syntax – and with worse syntax at that. It doesn't take things to a higher level.

But, again, I understand that this is probably not a good example on which to start from. We only ended up with it because it is a common snippet found elsewhere. How about you pick something that is a better demonstration?

> Again, eventually everything is machine code

Right, but we have higher level languages that enable expressing ideas beyond what the machine is directly capable of. The "if" statement itself is one such abstraction, albeit a fairly low-level one.
I wonder if "Filter messages from unknown senders" ( https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/block-filter-and-repo... ) skips any processing.

Also, I really thought there was an option to somehow restrict media in messages, but I can't seem to find docs for that.
The person you replied to is talking about the UK and Europe. I suspect that funding for research works differently at MIT and in the US generally.
This RFC maybe?

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt
In my experience dealing with Google support across ads, workspace and cloud, the self-service GUI has been preferable because the self-service GUI typically provides zero utility.