skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem is the disconnect between learning vs passing. The goal of writing a book report is supposed to be to develop your brain and improve some skills. But society cannot simply give away knowledge without some kind of testing, so there must be an exam. And you have curricula where students are "required" to take a list of classes. Not all students are deeply excited every class on that list (or their teacher, or textbook) so some students are in some classes purely to tick a checkbox. That means to them, whatever skill is taught there is useless, so they'll happily use the LLM and cheat in other ways.

First part of the problem is we need to stop cookie cutter course lists. Forcing people to take a course they don't care about is a futile ability. Back in the day it was easy to do it, but now it has gotten harder due to LLMs and reliance on exams as a compliance tool. Yes, this will make it harder to say someone has a degree in X. Instead you will have to handle a bit more nuance and discuss what specific topics they studied.

Second part is we need to dial down the credentialism. Treating third party exam grades as an indicator of ability is no longer feasible in the LLM world. The only viable way is to have a extremely controlled exam environment, but that greatly restricts what sort of things you can examine. A lot of knowledge is relevant on a timescale of days or longer, not a few hours, and you can't detain people for days just for an exam grade.

Both of this are challenging for sure but I don't think it's impossible. The programming industry has dealt with this for decades. When someone has a degree in CS or related area, it doesn't mean all that much in practice, and the GPA in that degree is also a weak indicator. Instead, the industry found other ways to directly evaluate ability. Sure, they're not perfect, but not exactly hopeless I would say.
I personally find ctrl-r does everything I want it to do, though I'm working with UUIDs a lot of the time which makes things easier I'm sure.
This is true in general but only until it gets false.

For instance, Elixir supports compilation targeting GPUs (within exactly the same language, not a fork).

Most languages do not allow that (and for most it would be fairly hard to implement).
Speaking only for myself, I think Europeans, in general (and most people in this thread) have no real sense for how violent the US really is, how much more crime we have than Europe, how many of our violent offenders serve no serious time, or how many times the modal US prisoner has been previously arrested or convicted of a crime.

The typical US prisoner 1) did their crime; 2) did many other crimes besides the one they're in prison for; 3) is very likely to commit additional crimes upon their release.

Small, homogenous European countries have absolutely no idea how to solve our crime problem and their criticisms reflect an irritating combination of ignorance and arrogance.
I wonder if its possible that an adversary added the reporter to the chat by controlling a compromised phone.
We humans love quantifiability. Since you used the word "measure", do you believe the measurement you're aspiring for is quantifiable?

I currently assert that it's not, but I would also say that trying to follow your suggestion is better than our current approach of measuring everything by money.
That explanation makes sense to me, but I'd still consider it accurate to say that the U.S. is behind in this regard since credit cards are pretty ubiquitous in most of those countries as well.
"Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?" - Malone, Kevin
There are so many points to consider here im not sure i can address them all.

- Airplanes dont have wings like birds but can fly. and in some ways are superior to birds. (some ways not)

- Human brains may be doing some analogue of sample augmentation which gives you some multiple more equivalent samples of data to train on per real input state of environment. This is done for ml too.

- Whether that input data is text, or embodied is sort of irrelevant to cognition in general, but may be necessary for solving problems in a particular domain. (text only vs sight vs blind)
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Article says this skull fragment is possibly Homo Erectus.

This says they left Africa within in that time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_erectus

This has further details on human evolution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human#Evolution

This covers in more detail the time modern humans migrated from Africa:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_moder...
Additionally:

* Use the minus sign /−/ (U+2212) when formatting numbers, because the default hyphen-minus /-/ (U+2D) just looks wrong: "It is −1 °C vs. -1 °C." Moreover, the correct minus has the same width as plus (− vs. +).

* Rare, but use the figure dash /‒/ (U+2012) or figure space / / (U+2007) if you need a placeholder character that is the same width as a single digit. For example, "Guess the PIN: 1‒34."
This actually makes sense because the versioning is so confusing they could be releasing a lesser/lightweight model for all we know.
Set Expectations or Set Up Failure
Discredited anti-vaccine advocate will lead CDC study on vaccines and autism
Knocking people into the ocean and throwing them a live preserver only if they ask for it is a hell of a way to prove that you're evil.
If you're buying clothes a year apart, they're likely using a different supplier using different grades of fabric, differently calibrated machines, so the clothes won't feel or fit the same.
How is it fundamental? You can do all the physics without reference to it. It is a consequence of the equations, not a premise.

Edit: It is not actually a complete consequence, because cause and effect imply a directonality that the equations do not have, being time-symmetric. At the same time, this directionality or asymmetry has no derivable consequences for the practical physics, meaning having the asymmetry doesn't add anything. This is one of the conceptual troubles that introducing "causality" here brings.
That monkey paw gambit might make sense at first.

But you aren't learning that they're pedophiles or violent or that they'll harm you or that you can't trust them to watch your kids or make moves on your wife or poison your dog or burgle your house or can't be a good friend or reliable neighbor.

You're learning things that really have no impact except to make you dislike them.

It might not seem like it since we love to forage for this kind of info on social media, but you only lose from that transaction.
Life is always a prisoner's dilemma. The real societal "choice" is which equilibrium we pick. There are only two, and one of them is significantly better. The problem, of course, is that indicidual defectors gain advantage in the cooperate-cooperate equilibrium. If they aren't dealt with quickly and meaningfully, then society quickly devolves into the other equilibrium. So really the "choice" is distributed across institutional leadership as a combination of rules and enforcement. It can tolerate some unethical choices, but not many, and not over a long period of time. I wish leaders would understand (or care about) the "environmental damage" their unethical decisions do to society at large.

Personally, I blame Citizens United for doing the most damage. Because of that horrendous decision, our information space has been flooded with paid-for advocacy and sophistry of the most pernicious sort. It's like we live in an always-on disgusting court battle between two cynical, unethical lawyers willing to say or do anything to "get" the other side. There isn't sufficient reputational damage attached to this behavior, and the result is an increasingly cynical, unethical public convinced that's the only reality there is. It is utterly tragic what we have lost in so short a time.
A bullet-point list of ways you screwed up communicates something entirely different than a long form email filled with flowery "fluff" (as the author puts it).

In fact, if the author feels confident in this theory, I suggest they replace the blog post with this AI-generated bullet-point summary I just made...
Certified randomness using a trapped-ion quantum processor
thank you for explaination, but days ago, I submitted two articles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43435258

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43435222

discussion sections disappeared in a short time, while older submitions don't have this issue

so i guess there're other rules for judging which is discussable and which is not
From a technical standpoint, this is incredible. A few years ago, computers had problems creating grammatically correct sentences. Producing a consistent narrative like this was science fiction.

From an artistic standpoint, the result is... I'd say: incredibly mediocre, with some glaring errors in between. This does not mean that an average person could produce a similar chapter. Gemini can clearly produce better prose than the vast majority of people. However, the vast majority of people does not publish books. Gemini would have to be on par with the best professional writers, and it clearly isn't. Why would you read this when there is no shortage of great books out there? It's the same with music, movies, paintings, etc. There is more great art than you could ever consume in your lifetime. All LLMs/GenAI do in art is pollute everything with their incredible mediocrity. For art (and artists), these are sad times.
Everyone is missing the point. Fine, maybe the math is off and it took 3 days instead of 2.

The issue is that Cursor tends to be demoed for incredibly small, green, and simple projects.

Most of us are working on codebases with at least over 10 million lines. I would love an AI agent that can massive infrastructure migrations with only a bit of oversight. Didn’t Shopify do something like that recently?

I think this is still an area that needs a lot of work.
I had also tried that but some repos still get fairly big and all I wanted was the code not the .git since I am not a proper developer. To your point they can still be quite large.

cd /dev/shm/block && git clone -j4 --depth=1 --branch=master https://github.com/firehol/blocklist-ipsets.git

du --max-depth 1 -hc
24M ./ipip_country
4.0M ./ipdeny_country
9.6M ./ip2location_country
6.9M ./geolite2_country
25M ./.git
140M .
140M total

It's not awful but I currently keep up to date copies of about 300 git repos and if I keep all the big ones it can add up to several GB of data I do not need. For now I just clone to a ramdisk and whack the .git directory for several of the big ones before I rsync back to disk. I probably lose some interesting history doing that.
A suburb is outside of the city in low density housing, typically not within walking distance of anything. That reveals plenty for a lot of purposes, and if you want to critique something more specific than that you should use a word that people will recognize as being more specific than that.

Clearly the author of TFA believed that this was the definition of suburb, because they were clearly thinking of a space where people could in fact just hang out in front of their houses and meet neighbors. So for the purpose of this conversation, this definition of suburb is the only one that makes sense.
I used SpinningUp as one of my main sources for my thesis. I also wrote some downloadable-and-runnable blog posts here:
https://avandekleut.github.io/ppo/
Did you read the entire post?

>Some people doubt that computers will stay relevant after a civilizational collapse. I mostly agree. The drastic simplification of our society will mean that we have a lot less information to manage. We'll be a lot more busy with more pressing activities than processing data.

>However, the goal of Collapse OS is not to save computing, but electronics. Managing electricity will stay immensely useful.

I think thats a notable goal. We will conduct business with pen and paper but given that even in a collapse scenario there will be lots of remnants of the current era lying around might as well try and make use of it. Its one of the reason I really don't like the people collecting e-waste in bulk and then melting down the chips for tiny scraps of gold. So much effort went into making those chips there has got to be a better way to preserve these things for usage later.
That’s absolutely not true. Higher population density almost always increases land values and it certainly would increase the total value of the land that was subdivided.
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It's a little bit sad that people are wasting all these kWh of compute power to save a few seconds hassle (apparently) of communication. I don't know how to translate this in English, but LLM-driven emailing is a real "gas factory", an absurd level of complexity and effort (albeit hidden) for a trivial task.

Why not just adopt a more direct style of communication? Why fret so much over emails? You wouldn't leave an actually important e-mail to an LLM, I would hope not. And, if it's more casual (even in a work setting), just write as you usually do, the other person most likely knows you and doesn't give a shit.
to be fair, "thunk" is decades old

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunk
One criticism I have with elixir is the lack of typing (they are working on it now, but I have yet to use it). So yes, I think gleam would be nice. But when we started, it was not even version 0.1 (and I had not heard of it)

I suppose we can have a mixed language project, with erlang, elixir and gleam. Not sure about the practicality of it though
For this specific chat, what law were they breaking?

(I'm not defending the Trump administration's law-keeping in general. I'm asking about this specific set of communications.)
A prolog program, swipl (it takes less than a second to solve your puzzle)

N is number of turns of don't know answers.
the bad predicate means that the person can know its number at turn N.

bad(_,_,_,-1) :- !,false.
bad(_,A,A,0) :- !.
bad(A,_,A,0) :- !.
bad(A,A,_,0) :- !.
bad(B,C,A,N) :- D is abs(B-A),D<C,N1 is N-1, bad(B,D,A,N1),!.
bad(C,A,B,N) :- D is abs(B-A),D<C,N1 is N-1, bad(D,A,B,N1),!.
bad(A,B,C,N) :- D is abs(B-A),D<C,N1 is N-1, bad(A,B,D,N1),!.

solve(X,Y,Z) :- Y1 is X-1, between(1,Y1,Y),
between(0,2,N), Z is X-Y,bad(X,Y,Z,N).

?- solve(65,X,Y).
X = 26,
Y = 39 ;
X = 39,
Y = 26 .
I don't really like AI in IDE. I don't want them to think for me. Code completion and Intellisense is good enough.

That said, I think there are 3 items that are important:

- Quickly grasp a new framework or a new language. People might expect you to do so because of AI's help. 2 weeks might be the maximum, instead of the minimum. The same for juniors.

- Focus on the real important things. So instead of trying to memorize a shell script you are going to use a couple of times per year, maybe use the time to learn something more fundamental. You can also use AI to help you to bootstrap the learning. If you need something for interviews, spend a week to memorize them.

- Be willing to exclude AI from your thought process. If you rely AI on everything, including algorithms and designs, this might impact your understanding.
The last part was beautifully put; it'll definitely stick with me awhile.
I started using WebAssembly in earnest a few months ago to make a backend auth library that works in several different languages[0]. It's built on Extism[1], which abstracts away some of the interfacing complexity. It's been an awesome experience. Frequently feels like magic.

WASM is in an interesting place. The value has clearly been proved with a pretty minimal core spec. Now there's a big push to implement a much larger API surface for WASI and the Component Model. A lot of people in the community are concerned about this direction, or at least the way it's happening[2].

For my part, I hope WASM doesn't go the way of the rest of web browsers where it gets so complicated that only big tech is capable of making implementations and experimenting.

[0]: https://github.com/lastlogin-net/decent-auth

[1]: https://extism.org/

[2]: https://www.assemblyscript.org/standards-objections.html
I'll check them out. That would be handy as I'm dealing with a bunch of vendors. Thanks for the head's up!
Sand is a bunch of tiny bits of a variety of things - we usually don't say micro-silica, micro-quartz, micro-etc and just bundle it together and describe the group as sand (unless explicitly trying to talk about an individual piece).
Current AI is largely an attempt to use either memory or trial and error/probability as a substitute for logic and reason.

In other words, as soon as someone publishes all the answers to this new test, AI will produce a genius score. But this still won't mean it has "learned" much of anything.

Retrieving an existing answer is a database problem. Trial and error can be terribly inefficient. Neither of these demonstrate much in the way of real "intelligence".
Wow!! Nicely done! My nephew has an egg allergy, I’ll be sure to tell my sister about this.
I'm not sure. I really think he might be malicious. This looks more like malice because you don't have to be that smart to understanding the value of this program. I'm not sure the amount of stupidity required to be against this program is even possible. Therefore malice.

Maybe before the government closes the door, he buys the thing and privatizes it? In which case, greed. Gargantuan greed.
Line drying was not common in the 1990s (in the US) when the claim is underwear lasted. Washing machines have switch to low water use versions, so that might be a factor (I doubt it, but it the only other thing I can think of)
Rightfully they should answer the case at hand in the proper manner, the fact it may harm their reputation is due to their own actions. There is clearly a case to answer as to in the court, and the families of those lost deserve real answers and the truth, which they were not going to get hidden behind a plea deal. It was rather disgusting that the plea deal was ever on the table.

I greatly question what has gone so wrong at Boeing in recent years across so many areas.
That is exactly what GH Copilot does - if you're subscribed to it, it adds an AI conversation button to any Github repo you visit in the browser. There's no need to clone the repo. However it's not free obviously...
But why should I put my time into reading and thinking about your article if you didn't think it worth your time to actually think about and write it?

Hope the Next Big Thing (TM) is the Electric Monk.
> It feels like my AI agents are stuck somewhere circa ~2021. If I install newer packages or more recent versions, Claude will often revert to outdated packages/implementations that were popular four years ago.

My experience is the same, though the exact dates differ.

I assume LLMs gravitate toward solutions that are most represented in their training material. It's hard to keep them pulled toward newer versions without explicitly mentioning it all the time.
Mixpanel user here! Actually, a few weeks ago Mixpanel updated their pricing plan and now it is way more affordable. I assume that is related to the recent success of PostHog. Nevertheless, PostHog seems to be a super attractive alternative as it offers way more features: surveys, product tours, error tracking and more.
They're pretty clearly not using "the city" to refer to city but instead to a certain density threshold, so pointing out that city limits are arbitrary doesn't really help anything.
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There are plenty of YouTube videos that go into the subject thoroughly. I couldn't find the one I watched recently stating the notion that the gospels ever could have been totally anonymous is absurd. Nobody would take you seriously, reputation was everything in the ancient world. The people of the time knew exactly who wrote what, even if there weren't any direct titles on the actual manuscripts.
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> building a product becomes relevant only with the adoption of AI

Why?
prodigies are amazing, but I often wonder what they end up doing later in life when the intelligence gap between them and their peers converges to zero.
Weirdly, American Eagle, yes the teenager brand, makes really good boxer shorts.
This was found by the very same Rachel that's sounding the alarm here

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2014/03/02/sync/
As you indicated, have not had success using Firefox.

Maybe make it possible to optionally share a stand-alone mediaplayer window rather than a browser or an entire screen.
They should just sell one cpu.
So you say we don't need OOP because you can use this half-baked (non type-safe) way of implementing your favorite OOP feature yourself in your favorite touring-complete language? While omitting the key concept of virtual functions.
My response was to the question about defendants pleading out to a lesser charges to avoid felonies. But, I have pled several defendants to charges based on public urination, both guilty as charged (typically to avoid a Habitual Offender enhancement) and to misdemeanor charges. In my state, Obscenity (which public urination is considered) is not a registration requiring offense, but it is in several other states, like Texas for example.
Microsoft is barely even mentioned - a major defeat for Satya. During its entire existence Bing has been waiting for an inflection point. The inflection point came and Bing failed to take advantage of it. Perplexity is what the new Bing should have been. At this point it is fair to say Microsoft has squandered their AI advantage they got through early investment in OpenAI.
An addendum here that architectural firms and builders will still often spec out MMF for in-building fiber. You want to tell them "No, use SMF instead".

They will look at you funny and maybe even tell you "that's more expensive" because they haven't looked at price lists in over a decade. But they are wrong on all counts (unless you exist in a really whacky market). The only exception here is that some video, HVAC, etc systems require MMF to stay in warranty. In those cases, run both and use the MMF only for that junk.
Good example in this very discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43477003
True, but that's a lot more recent than US use of credit cards. Like, up till about 10 years ago most Irish consumers had non visa/mc debit cards and credit cards were rarer (mostly those Maestro debits).

I mean, the US should definitely improve their bank2bank stuff and implement FedNow (I think that's what it's called) but there's less pressure to do so as basically everyone has and accepts credit cards (not true in lots of Western Europe).
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I've been using Claude to help write a complex prototype for game dev. Overall it's been a big productivity boost. However as the project has grown Claude has gotten much worse. I'm nearing 15k lines and it's borderline more trouble than it's worth. Even when it was helpful, it needed a _lot_ of guidance from me. Almost more helpful as a "rubber ducky" and for the fact that it kept me from deadlocking on analysis. That said, discussing problems and solutions with Claude often does keep things moving and sometimes reveals unexpected solutions.

If Claude could write the code directly unsupervised, it would go wild and produce a ton of garbage. At least if the code it writes in the browser is any indication. It's not that it's all bad, but it's like a very eager junior dev -- potentially dangerous!

Imagining a codebase that is one or two orders of magnitude larger, I think Claude would be useless. Imagining a non-expert driving the process, I think Claude would generate a very rickety proof of concept then fall over. All that said, I wish I had this tool when developing my previous game. Especially for a green field project, it feels like having access to the internet versus pulling reference manuals -- a big force multiplier.
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