skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't matter how useful it is, there will always be naysayers who can't see it, or who refuse to see it.

That's okay.

It's not my responsibility to convince or convert them.

I prefer to just let them be and not engage.
Sub-Saharan Africans are extremely genetically diverse but a sample of ~100 Black Americans is unlikely to have any Khoekhoe or Twa representation.

Anyway it’s possible that the model can pick up on other cues as well; if you had some X-rays from a hospital in Portland, Oregon and some from a hospital in Montgomery, Alabama and some quirk of the machine in Montgomery left artifacts that a model could pick up on, the presence of those artifacts would be quite correlated with race.
It is usually clear that 2-3 thingies means a range of thingies, but I seem to remember there being situations where it could also have been a minus sign. Perhaps it was with placeholders, where 10-N could be either one. Problem is, iirc, the real minus sign is longer than the hyphen, looking like an en dash (the one meant for ranges) and so it defeats the purpose... hence I totally use hyphens as minus signs, but en dashes for ranges, which makes sense in my head because a range has a certain span/length whereas a minus sign is just a little mark to indicate that something is negative. I see lots of people/software use en dashes for ranges but the existence of a real minus sign is, from my perspective, mostly just noted in typographic resources, so I think this reflects most people's usages (for the people that care for these details)

I do like that the em dash is as long as it feels that broken-off thoughts should be

Not everything has to be functional, sometimes things can also just look nice for the sake of it
Been looking for a windows replacement and probably will just stick to some linux distro. I had hoped Apple was better…
Good summary, thanks for pointing it out!
The Whimsical Investor
I agree and I have to tell newer users all the time the wiki is very valuable regardless of if you use arch or not btw
The last thing I want is extremely private or sensitive documents being given to some cloud service for training data.

No thanks. Just authenticate the parties and record their agreement.
But they do look at bones and near-bone tissues, which can still have variance based on ethnicity and gender. For a really brute-force example, just think about how we use the shape of the pelvis and some other bones to identify the gender of skeletal remains of a person. If you had a data set of pelvic xrays that only included males, your data set would imply that female pelvic bones are massively malformed despite being perfectly normal for that gender.
That rationalization ignores a lot of confounding evidence, such as other search engines being able to deliver great results and adequately keep the SEO garbage out.
It would be fine if it were sold that way, but there is so much hype. We're told that it's going to replace all of us and put us all out our jobs. They set the expectations so high. Like remember OpenAI showing a video of it doing your taxes for you? Predictions that super-intelligent AI is going to radically transform society faster than we can keep up? I think that's where most of the backlash is coming from.
Legally I don't think DocuSign will attest to anything. I wouldn't trust that for anything significant. It's only good when everyone is going in good faith. If there is a serious dispute you need lawyers.
I found that interesting too. Not a Kagi customer yet but I always feel the need when googling to be able to blacklist SEO spammers, and that would include Pinterest as an image SEO spammer.

But blocking political sites you don't agree with? I don't get it, it's not like they are polluting my search results.
foxnews.com is near the top of the block list.

Of course, Fox News has made the legal argument that people shouldn't believe what they say (https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-...), so it's not surprising that people paying for a service to look for actual information would block them.
Hrm. Dunno exactly. Probably give them the option to join the Kurdish Republic of Free Rojava, minus the Barsani-Clan. Otherwise give them the nukes they always wanted. Shining (b)right over their heads. Like the cleanest zoroastrian purification possible.
Far from just programming too. They're useful for so many things. I use it for quickly coming up with shell scripts (or even complex piped commands (or if I'm being honest even simple commands since it's easier than skimming the man page)). But I also use it to bounce ideas off of when negotiating contracts. Or to give me a spoiler-free reminder of a plot point I'd forgotten in a book or TV series. Or to explain legal or taxation issues (which I of course verify, but it points me in the right direction). Or any number of other things.

As the parent says, while far from perfect, they're an incredible aid in so many areas. When used well, they help you produce not just faster but also better results. The only trick really is that you need to treat it as a (very knowledgeable but overconfident) collaborator rather than an oracle.
Any thoughts on this Note talking website?
Ask HN: How do you know if a framework is worth sticking with?
What tools/frameworks do you think will stay relevant in the future?

To avoid this question becoming a contested topic, I would like to clarify I got this question while looking at livescript's syntax, wondering why it never took off and became a dead language. Then wasted time at reading online discussions on why elm is no longer active anymore, and the split of ReScript from ReasonML, I learned about how people who get used to functional programming based languages always feel like all other languages are cavemen/primitive compared to its beauty. BASIC was a beginners learning tool to begin with, but why did pascal stopped being actively used?

I remember looking for a 3d renderer in 2018 or 2019 for a one off project, picked threejs but there was an overwhelming amount of choice of things to use, apart from unity engine and unreal most of those frameworks or engines are no longer even used anywhere (atleast in public repos), documentations take you to sold out domains (a github repo of docs could keep the tools usable atleast for tinkerers).

The kind of heights things like coffeescript and jquery were at one point compared to others is not even close to what we have now, which is good thing that we can design our things in a way that feels suitable to us, but If I have to port something that I wished to be something big, perhaps a decade long project, then it feels like a bad tooling choice from the start.

For my learning project, Alpine.js was great, but any typing mistake anywhere would break the whole thing without clear feedback, console.log was my only friend. Svelte's component based system felt brilliant but vite kept showing blank page every 3-4 minutes with no errors anywhere, I had to keep guessing the mistakes, and rerun pnpm run dev too many times. I see that as a vite problem, although would need to test more with other things. So my question isn't about vite (I am yet to understand that error), it's about gathering some general opinions on how does one pick a stack (language/ framework/ tooling) for longetivity?

For those who have worked in the field for some time, what signs do you look for to see if a framework has staying power?
This is why, whenever I can, I call RLHF/DPO "sequence level calibration" instead of "alignment tuning".

Some precursors to RLHF:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00045
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.16804
You must be careful with many of these failure mode “mitigations”. Even a read after write from physical disk doesn’t necessarily guarantee that the data is hardened on the media. With SAS drives you may be able to also set the FUA and DPO bits to ensure the drive isn’t returning data from cache, but I’m not confident on how it can be performed on SATA drives. By default the drives will just return what’s in cache. Even the dual write scenario can have some unexpected failure modes. The article should also have covered data protection mechanisms such as T-10 DIF/DIX, which protect against certain data addressing corruptions in parts of the stack. Ultimately it’s a hard problem, and very few software developers are considering all the failure modes. Some of these failure modes are only seen when running against millions of drives, and onto if you have protection at a higher layer can you figure out what actually happened.
You might want to test for mold as well
I hear you, I'm tired of getting people that don't care to care. It's the people that should know how cool this stuff is and don't - they frustrate me!
sign-lee makes more sense.
The difference is agency.

Let's say I'm a business owner and I'm frustrated with the current state of the on-call system. I have options.

I can try negotiating with my clients to lessen the load in some way. Obviously this isn't always possible but it often is. I once had a freelance project that required 24 hours of on-call after a release. I negotiated release days that were convenient for me (never Fri/Sat/Sun). One time the client pushed back, I pushed back harder, and I won. In order for my push back to work I ensured that I had enough negotiating strength to do that which I planned for ahead of time.

I can upgrade my systems. For example if my current paging system is insufficient I can choose to pay $10/month more for another system that makes my life easier. I can set aside time to refactor my alerts code to make my life easier and I don't need to justify it to anyone but myself.

I can straight up refuse to do on-call and deal with the consequences to my business. Freelancer developers do this all of the time. We choose which client work to do and not to do. We can make these choices arbitrarily. Sometimes it's seasonal. Sometimes it's just based on vibes. Doesn't matter; it's our company.

Meanwhile the average on-call engineer at a large company has none of these freedoms. The underlying systems are chosen for them and they just have to deal with it.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489698
There's a couple "left leaning" media sources in the boost list and 3 "right leaning" in the lower list. There's none going to the other way for sources and their generally acknowledged "lean".

I interpret that as a skew.
It's definitely a tech that's here to stay, unlike block chain/nfts

But I mirror the confusion why people are still bullish on it.
The current valuation for it is because the market thinks that it's able to write code like a senior engineer and have AGI, because that's how they're marketed by the LLM providers.

I'm not even certain if they'll be ubiquitous after the venture capital investments are gone and the service needs to actually be priced without losing money, because they're (at least currently) mostly pretty expensive to run.
I'm just glad I have something that can write logic in any unix shell script for me. It's the right combination of thing I don't have to do often, thing that doesn't fit my mental model, thing that works differently based on the platform, and thing I just can't be bothered to master.
Yeah, it won't do your taxes for you, but it can sure help you do them yourself. Probably won't put you out of your job either, but it might help you accomplish more. Of course, one result of people accomplishing more in less time is that you need fewer people to do the same amount of work - so some jobs could be lost. But it's also possible that for the most part instead, more will be accomplished overall.
My friend worked for Amazon in India (software). He was often on 24x7 "on calls", which is touted as "good" here (because how else will you "learn"), during his 3rd or 4th week. By third night he was vomiting and had to visit the doctor. His manager called and had asked whether he had brought his laptop with him. His mother forced him to resign next day (he is from an extremely rich kind of family though). It is common here in most companies and among famous MNCs it is especially known in Amazon and Uber in India.

What shocks more is these are the companies that can "follow the sun" w/o breaking a drop of fucking sweat!

I have lost too many interviews just because I clearly asked for this, I always do, and I am doing it even now while I have been without a job after taking a year gap (which makes getting calls already difficult esp. with this AI and vibe onslaught). I am not giving up on this. I personally have never agreed to this which has caused lots of confrontations and stress(!!); a major source of my burnout WITHOUT ever doing the 24x7 on-call - so by just fighting it and keeping it away from me alone I was burnt out to the bits. It took me finally seeking medical advice to realise I was burnt out.

I hope this is not sounding like dramatic but even now when I have been resting, travelling for a year the mere mention of words like Splunk, VictorOps (same as Splunk iirc), PagerDuty give me minor trigger attack kinda sensation - make me very agitated.

But this is so common here. So common that it is considered one of the realities, truths. Yet, I have never understood, how, how can one agree to this? How? Is it some kind of social (if not racial) slave mentality? Is it some kind of grand coercion that they have no escape from? Or maybe it's just generation after generation subjecting the next generation to what they were subjected to while the stakeholders in the richer countries (because that is the structure) demand of this implicitly as they are stopped by health and safety laws from subjecting their underlings in their own developed home nations maybe.
Apple has gone from
Company I loved to the one I hate! They are the new Microsoft! They have hired a bunch of idiots in their security team who are driving their user base insane! They can completely lock you out of all your devices with no recourse! I am starting to move away from this pathetic company”s products!
I mean, it's been like 3 years. 3 years after the web came out was barely anything. 3 years after the first GPU was cool, but not that cool. The past three years in LLMs? Insane.

Things could stall out and we'll have bumps and delays ... I hope. If this thing progresses at the same pace, or speeds up, well ... reality will change.

Or not. Even as they are, we can build some cool stuff with them.
They: sips coffee loudly

"Ahhhhh!"

Me: dead
There are legitimate concerns to have in regards to LLMs, it's not all a sea of roses.
I get the same message for products that just don't have am affordable delivery route. It's not the right message for this IMO
This author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udo_Ulfkotte ?

With books available via amazon and reviewed on Good Reads? Material can be unpopular and not sell well for many reasons other than state conspiracy to suppress.
Akamai Delivers Infrastructure Support to Ensure Uninterrupted Linux Kernel Dev
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Just FYI to the article, more recent versions of CF are available as part of swift-corelibs-foundation.
With some LEDs, and especially the warm whites, I get this feeling of „artificiality“, for lack of a better word. Like the surroundings are somehow fabricated. It’s an interesting idea to mix and match those with other light sources, I‘m going to try that.
As with many non profits and charities, if you did a detailed look at the revenue of many museums and performing arts centers (Kennedy Center in WA DC for instance), their funding sources are diverse and various.

But there's a few noteworthy ones like the Smithsonian where I would take a wild guess that the federal government might be 65% or more of their operating budget on an annual basis, giving the government a very large lever of influence.

For those which are a 501(c)3 you can go find their annual IRS tax filings and make an attempt at breaking down their different incoming revenue streams.
My advice is to add Mozilla's apt repo for Firefox by following the handy guide on their website. It's pretty short and easy (copy and paste).
you ain't gonna like the truth but there are differences between the races and during med school they try to say it ain't so but once you start seeing patients there's differences in musculature/skin, all sorts. and if you have a good attending they tactfully tell you and you go 'was it in a study?' and nope nobody wants to publish it. and no i'm talking just stuff like scabies or diabetes.
This was referenced in the article.
Yes, but 'Dont Tread on Me' is only about the government. When we're talking about capitalists, it's 'Tread on Me harder, daddy'.
Yeah, sure, and for most people it’s a fair enough proxy. But if it has to be boiled down to exactly one of “M” or “F”, then “birth sex” must not be the deciding factor. If it must be a single criteria, it should be current hormone levels, artificial or not. And, since most trans people who actually transition and live as their preferred gender identity are on hormones, “gender identity” is a good proxy for 99.99% of the population, including the set of people for who “birth genitalia” is also a good proxy. But ideally, it doesn’t get simplified this much in the first place. And of course, it doesn’t, in practice, because most people actually form a relationship with their doctor, and they treat holistically, based on individual factors, and not simply whether the medical record says M or F.

But, if we must over generalize, “gender identity” really is the most useful proxy, in fact, and it also happily happens to be quite inclusive too.

Of course this conversation started from a transphobic viewpoint, which doesn’t actually care about any of these distinctions anyways, regardless of the merit, it’s just someone being triggered about someone respecting someone else’s gender identity.
how much time do I need to devote to see anything but garbage?

For reference, I program systems code in C/C++ in a large, proprietary codebase.

My experiences with OpenAI(a year ago or more), and more recently, Cursor, Grok-v3 and Deepseek-r1, were all failures. The later two started out OK and got worse over time.

What I haven't done is asked "AI" to whip up a more standard application. I have some ideas(an ncurses frontend to p4 written in python similar to tig, for instance), but haven't gotten around to it.

I want this stuff to work, but so far it hasn't. Now I don't think "programming" a computer in english is a very good idea anyway, but I want a competent AI assistant to pair program with. To the degree that people are getting results, to me it seems they are leveraging very high-level APIs/libraries of code which are not written by AI and solving well-solved, "common" problems(simple games, simple web or phone apps). Sort of like how people gloss over the heavy lifting done by language itself when they praise the results from LLMs in other fields.

I know it eventually will work. I just don't know when. I also get annoyed by the hype of folks who think they can become software engineers because they can talk to an LLM. Most of my job isn't programming. Most of my job is thinking about what the solution should be, talking to other people like me in meetings, understanding what customers really want beyond what they are saying, and tracking what I'm doing in various forms(which is something I really do want AI to help me with).

Vibe coding is aptly named because it's sort of the VB6 of the modern era. Holy cow! I wrote a Windows GUI App!!!. It's letting non-programmers and semi-programmers(the "I write glue code in Python to munge data and API ins/outs" crowd) create usable things. Cool! So did spreadsheets. So did Hypercard. Andrej tweeting that he made a phone app was kinda cool but also kinda sad. If this is what the hundreds of billions spent on AI(and my bank account thanks you for that) delivers then the bubble is going to pop soon.
Is this meaning to grep for a double hyphen from standard in, or to mark the start of positional arguments and then grep for a hyphen? If you want both, it should be:

$ python -m this | grep -- -- -

Which is just beautiful

(Your example causes the last hyphen to be grepped for, which happens to only match doubled-up ones because single ones don't occur in that text. The quotes/apostrophes do nothing because they're parsed by (ba)sh and so only the hyphens are passed to grep, not the quotes. The last hyphen can be omitted because reading from stdin is the default if neither filenames nor recursion options are passed.)
> It looks like www.noteux.com closed the connection.

If I could get to the site I'd offer some thoughts ...
Linux power management is pretty good. The problem is that defaults favor desktop and server performance. On a MacBook Air 11, my custom Linux setup and Mac OS had the same battery autonomy, despite Safari being much more energy efficient.

The real problem is that, just like the grandparent post pointed out, Apple's software quality has been declining. The Tiger to Snow Leopard epoch was incredible. Apps were simple, skeumorphic, and robust.

Right now, the whole system feels a lot less coherent and robustness has declined. IMHO, there are not so many extra features worth adding. They should focus on making all software robust and secure. Robustness should come from better languages that are safe by construction. Apple can afford to invest on this due to their vertical integration.
They're not even trying not to sound Russian. And by Russian I mean Soviet Russian.
Snow Leopard was released while Steve Jobs was on medical leave. It was driven (as far as I can recall) by Bertrand Serlet. Rumour has it that Steve was furious about the "no new features" marketing when he returned from his medical leave.
Are Tesla owners a protected class?
I think publishers all want the next GTA V, where the solo game is a gateway into the multiplayer cash cow. Unfortunately this generally means design choices that detract from solo play. Also, a multiplayer game that people keep playing for years means a lot of mind share, which means merchandise, movies & TV shows.
> I mean, I can ask for obscure things with subtle nuance where I misspell words and mess up my question and it figures it out.

If you're lucky it figures it out. If you aren't, it makes stuff up in a way that seems almost purposefully calculated to fool you into assuming that it's figured everything out. That's the real problem with LLM's: they fundamentally cannot be trusted because they're just a glorified autocomplete; they don't come with any inbuilt sense of when they might be getting things wrong.
I gave up on it because of this and installed Raycast which seems a lot more reliable. I used Spotlight effectively as my launcher for apps/settings, and have the Dock completely hidden and Spotlight set to hide everything else. But when it can't even do that consistently, I have no idea how!
Word of the day is : wrongthink.

Wrongthink is doubleplusungood.

Don’t wrongthink.
Sharding is such a pain and no company should have to endure that.
Thanks for the great questions! I've been responding to this thread for the last few hours and I'm about to need to run, so I hope you'll forgive me redirecting you to some of the other answers I've given.

On whether the model is looking ahead, please see this comment which discusses the fact that there's both behavioral evidence, and also (more crucially) direct mechanistic evidence -- we can literally make an attribution graph and see an astronomer feature trigger "an"!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497010

And also this comment, also on the mechanism underlying the model saying "an":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43499671

On the question of whether this constitutes planning, please see this other question, which links it to the more sophisticated "poetry planning" example from our paper:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497760
Are you sure about that? Look for the trashcan symbol on the upper-right of the context menu.

I agree that having "more options" to begin with was a jarring experience coming from windows 10 though.
I feel like I haven't seen a pinterest link for ages, and I use google.