skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asking a question is very contextual. I don't ask a lawyer house engineering problems, nor my doctor how to bake cake. That means If I'm asking someone at a bar, I'm already prepare to deal with the fact that the person is maybe drunk, probably won't know,... And more often than not, I won't even ask the question unless dire needs. Because it's the most inefficient way to get an informed answer.

I wouldn't bat an eye if people were taking code suggestions, then review it and edit it to make it correct. But from what I see, it's pretty a direct push to production if they got it to compile, which is different from correct.
Thanks, I checked out Tripo. It produced some absolutely laughable trees for me, but a pretty decent looking barstool. Refused to rig it for me for some reason, though.

I'd say it'll take them some years to finish figuring out 3D, it's a good stretch beyond 2D image generation.
This article does a great job of taking the worst possible form of the opposition's argument. An $80k big fat stupid American truck can be acquired that is extremely robust when it comes to running into shit, for instance. If you opt into low profile tires on a 5500lb work truck, that reflects on your preferences and inexperience, not what these things are actually capable of.
My view is that it will be some time before they can as well because of the success in the software domain - not because LLM's aren't capable as a tech but because data owners and practitioners in other domains will resist the change. From the SWE experience, news reports, financial magazines, etc many are preparing accordingly, even if it is a subconscious thing. People don't like change, and don't want to be threatened when it is them at risk - no one wants what happened to artists and now SWE's to happen to their profession. They are happy for other professions to "democratize/commoditize" as long as it isn't them - after all this increases their purchasing power. Don't open source knowledge/products, don't let AI near your vertical domain, continue to command a premium for as long as you can - I've heard variations of this in many AI conversations. Much easier in oligopoly and monopoly like domains and/or domains where knowledge was known to be a moat even when mixed with software as you have more trust competitors won't do the same.

For many industries/people work is a means to earn, not something to be passionate in for its own sake. Its a means to provide for other things in life you are actually passionate about (e.g. family, lifestyle, etc). In the end AI may get your job eventually but if it gets you much later vs other industries/domains you win from a capital perspective as other goods get cheaper and you still command your pre-AI scarcity premium. This makes it easier for them to acquire more assets from the early disrupted industries and shield them from eventual AI taking over.

I'm seeing this directly in software. Less new frameworks/libraries/etc outside the AI domain being published IMO, more apprehension from companies to open source their work and/or expose what they do, etc. Attracting talent is also no longer as strong of a reason to showcase what you do to prospective employees - economic conditions and/or AI make that less necessary as well.
1923 Germany wasn't fascist either. 1933 Germany, for what it's worth, liked a lot of things about 1923 America. Nazi eugenics grew from American ideas.
Tariffs and Labor Shortages Will Thwart Housing Production
IShowSpeed praised by Chinese government as streams go viral
> Secularism is the principle of seeking to conduct human affairs based on naturalistic considerations, uninvolved with religion. It is most commonly thought of as the separation of religion from civil affairs and the state and may be broadened to a similar position seeking to remove or to minimize the role of religion in any public sphere.

That's the introduction from Wikipedia, which matches my understanding of the definition. It's not synonymous with atheism. However, given its stated mission of minimizing religion, it seems like it would be relatively unconcerned if atheism were to be treated more favorably.
No, non-fungi single celled organisms have existed at all times that fungi have existed on earth.
The actual argument would be people voting with their wallets and moving away from the Apple ecosystem, but this something impossible at least in the USA due to these bullshit "blue bubbles"
I think you know the answer to this.

It's chilling to think that collective action is just something we do after we have been punched in the face. Unfortunately, we are also so rational, so this will not count as a punch in the face. It should, but it won't.
Super- or subhuman intelligence can be identified in the pre-Mason–Dixon line era.
Trapping Images in Feedback Loops
Institutions should not be treated differently because they are or aren't associated with a recognized religion.

Really, the government shouldn't be in the business of recognizing religions at all.
Anthropic may soon launch Claude 3.7 Sonnet with 500K token context window
China built AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Many are unused
This is the correct approach.
Also see: https://ezyang.github.io/ai-blindspots/
Sure, but printing forms doesn't require a word processor. You have to be creating things...
And every tutorial you could find on how to use PHP with a database was a tutorial on how to add SQL injection to your site.
Isn't this more a product of the hype though? At worst you're describing a product marketing mistake, not some fundamental shortcoming of the tech. As you say "chat" isn't a use case, it's a language-based interface. The use case is language prediction, not an encyclopedic storage and recall of facts and specific quotes. If you are trying to get specific facts out of an LLM, you'd better be using it as an interface that accesses some other persistent knowledge store, which has been incorporated into all the major 'chat' products by now.
> And people are like, "Wah, it can't write code like a Senior engineer with 20 years of experience!"

Except this isn't true. The code quality varies dramatically depending on what you're doing, the length of the chat/context, etc. It's an incredible productivity booster, but even earlier today, I wasted time debugging hallucinated code because the LLM mixed up methods in a library.

The problem isn't so much that it's not an amazing technology, it's how it's being sold. The people who stand to benefit are speaking as though they've invented a god and are scaring the crap out of people making them think everyone will be techno-serfs in a few years. That's incredibly careless, especially when as a technical person, you understand how the underlying system works and know, definitively, that these things aren't "intelligent" the way they're being sold.

Like the startups of the 2010s, everyone is rushing, lying, and huffing hopium deluding themselves that we're minutes away from the singularity.
Any half-decent VDP will have a safe harbour clause. Otherwise ot isn't a true VDP but rather just contact details.
The problem with en and em dash is that

1) they are too hard to type.

2) using them without surrounding thin space or hairspace breaks the horizontal rhythm and draws unnecessary attention to the punctuation; but thin and hair spaces are equally hard to type

3) Most people write markdown with mono space fonts, making these dashes and spaces indistinguishable.
What's not true? That Sweden or UK receive less solar radiation than Greece, especially in December? That building a huge transmission line from there (or, better yet, from Sahara) would be a very hard and expensive undertaking? That having enough batteries to sustain, say, 2 days of baseload supply, when it's cloudy and not windy, is hugely expensive, and has never been tried because of that?

Well, nuclear is also expensive, but it's partly regulation, partly nuclear being bespoke in many cases, while solar panels currently enjoy enormous economy of scale.

I all for nuclear, for the record.
This is why there is a race on for Greenland. (And Svalbard?)

Ice melting in the Arctic is not a linear process. There will most likely be ice free summers in the Arctic within most people here's lifetime.
Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots
FireScale: Benchmark from Firebolt, simulates real-world production workloads
The results show Firebolt delivering: 8x better price-performance than Snowflake, 18x better than Redshift, and 90x better than BigQuery. Near-linear concurrency scaling, achieving low latency of 120 milliseconds with a throughput of 2500 QPS
I just checked the first two, Apple and Amazon, and they're trading 28% and 23% higher than they were 3 years ago. Annualized returns from the SP 500 have been a little over 10%. Some of that comes from dividends, but Apple and Amazon give out extremely little in the way of dividends.

I'm not going to check all of the companies, but at least looking at the first two, I'm not really seeing anything out of the ordinary.
There is lying and there is being incompetent.
> All life on Earth is classified within three domains — bacteria, archaea and eukarya — with eukarya containing all multicellular organisms

Single cell eukaryotes also exist. Is it strictly true that there are no multicellular prokaryotes (what they call bacteria) or archaea? No exceptions at all?
> "The entire American political establishment has been on a worrying slide to authoritarianism for most of my life.

Not like this one. The free speech censorship now is hugely worrying, not to mention the recent inhumane treatment to people for things like a denied Visa. It's pretty bad. I'm not sure people are paying enough attention.
More relevant than ever in the age of LLM’s
Not the first, not just random, all things start with a few and then may grow
> what about every university should get subsidies per student's head-count and let the universities decide what for the money is used?

From what I understand it usually works better to pay for results rather than effort.
And that is still accurate today. Information always contains a bias from the narrators perspective. Having multiple sources allows one to triangulate the accuracy of information. Making people use one source of information would allow the business to control the entire narrative. Its just more of a business around people and sentiments than being bullish on science.
The eternal debate between minimalism and the ornate.

There's room for both: when presentation matters I use them; when it doesn't, I don't.
Apple delivered on Steve Jobs' vision of an "appliance computer".

You might not want one though.
To be honest, I'm not sure if I understand what is actually claimed here (it seems that they trained the model on their own, and claim that the problem is in the dataset?) but isn't the more sensible explanation that human doctors were overdiagnosing them?
I still do, and I maintain that it’s easier to read text with double spaces after periods.
Is it? Seems like a lost art these days. Modern politicians hardly put in any effort making up convincing and subtle lies anymore..
ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode?
A few months ago I was browsing book spines in a Japanese library/store. I see something with 存在の耐えられない軽さ. Sonzai no taerarenai ... W00T? Is that Kundera's book, The Unbearable Lightness of Being? Yep.
> the software just runs on the constantly updated operating systems and platforms

Don't forget that VMs exists.

I don't mind paying the upgrade price when I need the newer version, but that should be an informed decision. These day, subscriptions are actual gatekeepers to features where when you cancel it, you lose access to the software "pro" features.
I'll see if i can dig it up, it was from a real life meeting which I have tossed the printed notes from a while back in disgust.
Tongue in cheek comment about large countries with already under replacement TFR needing to limit emissions when western countries with net immigration are typically elevating consumption of each immigrant to western standards which is equivalent to multiple per capita emissions of world average.
I'm a software developer: https://github.com/simonw

I very much doubt you spend 80% of your working time actively typing code into a computer.

My other activities include:

- Researching code. This is a LOT of my time - reading my own code, reading other code, reading through documentation, searching for useful libraries to use, evaluating if those libraries are any good.

- Exploratory coding in things like Jupyter notebooks, Firefox developer tools etc. I guess you could call this "coding time", but I don't consider it part of that 10% I mentioned earlier.

- Talking to people about the code I'm about to write (or the code I've just written).

- Filing issues, or updating issues with comments.

- Writing documentation for my code.

- Straight up thinking about code. I do a lot of that while walking the dog.

- Staying up-to-date on what's new in my industry.

- Arguing with people about whether or not LLMs are useful on Hacker News.
I often wish there was a date attached to the articles there. I get that a wiki format is ever evolving and as a result there isn’t necessarily a meaningful date that could be added. However, unlike an article about Jupiter, carbon fiber or WW2 on Wikipedia, the date for when a guide was written about Power Management on Linux is very relevant. I often find myself trying to sort of deduce that from the history page, then I fail then I have to go look up if that information is in fact the most recent.
I’m quitting my job with nothing lined up because our oncall is such a piece of shit. House arrest every 5 weeks with no compensation. If it wasn’t for this I would just quiet quit but there’s no way I can make it through another shift without getting fired. Fuck oncall and anyone who has such little respect they think it’s ok
For data going further back, we have deep antarctic ice sheet, ice core samples of atmospheric co2:

https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/publication/ice-cores-an...

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-do-we-know-how-much-co2-...

At about 1:50 in the video linked above, when it zooms out, notice the citations to the ice cores.
> I imagine we're talking about it as an extra resource rather than trusting it
> as final in a life or death decision.

I'd like to think so. Trust is also one of those non-concrete terms that have different meanings to different people. I'd like to think that doctors use their own judgement to include the output from their trained models, I just wonder how long it is till they become the default judgement when humans get lazy.
Kagi's days are probably not numbered because of web devs (web devs are not going away any time soon, even with advancements in LLMs) but rather because of the indexes they use, or rather don't use.

Kagi is fairly good at ranking results and essentially making do with what they have, but in my experience it does not seem very good at all for searching for anything particularly obscure. It's like how DuckDuckGo uses Bing - nearly useless if you're not searching popular sites (like Wikipedia, MDN, etc.)
> The exact list is up for debate, and currently undergoing change.

My strong impression is that even the roots of the tree are debated, with competing models that often change.

> The four-kingdom system should have died out decades ago

First, hopefully not! :) Second, I think it's used because it's the last stable model. Third, it's a model that the public can understand - theres no point in even trying to use "Archaeplastida, Excavata, SAR supergroup, Amoebozoa, and Opisthokonta" unless you are an expert in phylogenics or evolution. Who can understand and remember that?
The Jailbreak Bible
EU looks to hit Big Tech in crackdown on US services exports
> Many American school districts are funded by property taxes

This is a red herring. Local taxes are not the only source of funding, and state / federal finding is deliberately allocated in a way that makes up the difference. Or iirc often more than makes up the difference.
And then there are viruses, which don't show up on the tree of life at all because there's no consensus that they even constitute "life."
When your model of the world is build on the relative probabilities of the next opaque apparently-arbitrary number in context of prior opaque apparently-arbitrary numbers, it must be nearly impossible to tell the difference between “there are several plausible ways to proceed, many of which the user will find useful or informative, and I should pick one” and “I don’t know”. Attempting to adjust to allow for the latter probably tends to make the things output “I don’t know” all the time, even when the output they’d have otherwise produced would have been good.
The whole point of what we are discussing is to define the protocol to require unambiguous errors instead of lax undefined behaviour. If every parser rejects errors instead of trying to work around them in their own special way, errors are surfaced in the first browser you test with because it won’t be trying to compensate for the error in ways you might not be aware of.
Power Mac G5 systems sold in 2006 were abandoned by Snow Leopard in 2009.

Apple could conceivably abandon intel Mac Pro systems sold in 2023 by releasing an Apple Silicon-only macOS in 2026, but three years still seems a bit aggressive.
Linux Drivers 1 – Hardware Considerations and Setup
Is this a legitimate institute? The linked article offers many statistics and even financial figures but cites no sources or studies. There is a “TOLL FREE” (capitalized) phone number in the website footer, and the comments are full of prostitution ads.
It's the Germans who are showing leadership in Europe. The French and Swedish have most nuclear, but not because of green policies. Just historical. Germany have had the "Energiewende", which everybody in the world should marvel at - but not enough know about. It's shat on, and public opinion even in Europe has been shaped against it. But it really is an 'energy turnaround'. It is leadership by taking unilateral action in the face of our common enemy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energiewende
Possibly https://github.com/freedomofpress/webcat? (I also made one, a long time ago: https://github.com/twiss/hcs-checker-firefox.)

There is also an effort to build this into browsers directly, which we (Proton) are involved with:

https://github.com/twiss/source-code-transparency (old initial proposal)

https://github.com/beurdouche/explainers/blob/main/waict-exp... (more recent proposal)

https://github.com/beurdouche/w3c-waict/blob/main/waict.bs (very early draft specification)
OP highlights application problems, and RAG specifically. But that is not an LLM problem.

Chat is such a “leaky” abstraction for LLMs

I think most people share the same negative experience as they only interact with LLMs through the chat UI by OpenAI and Anthropic. The real magic moment for me was still the autocompletion moment from the gh copilot.
I think it's a sign of the times that it is not as obviously recognisable as sarcasm anymore :/
> low in general, then you are less confident about that datum

It’s very rarely clear or explicit enough when that’s the case. Which makes sense considering that the LLMs themselves do not know the actual probabilities
Obligatory perspective: for just the next four years! Don't have a cow.
There are better separators included in ASCII, but not used as often: 28 File Separator, 29 Group Separator, 30 Record Separator and 31 Unit Separator.
Vulnerability-Lookup 2.7.0 Released
A more recent post of the author's on tariffs: https://www.thefp.com/p/why-tariffs-are-good

focuses on China and not all the other tariffs
Yes, makes perfect sense. I know when I want my horse to go faster, I don't entice it with more carrots, I just try to find better sticks to beat it with.
I have a coworker with a mechanical keyboard, and I find myself irrationally upset at him throughout the day. No one else seems to mind.
My friend who had a mutually beneficial relationship with me started being a total douche and I cut his ass loose after spending way too much time trying to figure out what’s wrong and how I can help him back to his normal self. —- Canada, anthropomorphized
see my thread here. the last posts from me are what I've been using.
> But for getting pointed in the right direction about things that have been obscured by the desktop environments, and then left largely undocumented nowadays, the Arch Linux wiki usually points me in the right direction.

Even as an Arch user, probably at least 80% of my usage of the Arch Wiki is just going through "Troubleshooting" list of previously seen issues and solutions for whatever thing I'm dealing with. I don't go in expecting that everything will work exactly the same for me, but over the years I've ended up with quite a few headaches solved by pasting the right line in the right conf from one of those sections.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/pilots-signal...
I never tried the pre-SP XP, but even SP1 wasn't too terrible compared to what it was competing against (there was a lot of perfectly-usable 95/98/ME still around with their lack of privilege separation, and 2K was mostly better only if comparing at the same amount of RAM but XP machines were newer and often had more).

For me, service packs were largely a question of "do we want to tie up the phone line for however many hours just because Microsoft wants to rearrange a UI layout?"
The Road Ahead for JSZip
The «People's Communes» and the Development of Capitalism in China (1959)
The «Communes» campaign has posed a fundamental problem for the Marxist interpretation of the development from a semi-feudal economy to a capitalist economy. First of all, we need to grasp clearly that in China, as in every other country with a feudal or semi-feudal economy, the historical problem is that of creating a capitalist economy, since it is impossible to skip a whole stage of economic development. Only when the material bases are created – and the creation of these bases is the task of capitalism, in this case of state capitalism – will Chinese society, and for it the new revolutionary class created by industrialisation, i.e. the proletariat, be mature enough to raise the problem of the socialist management of its economy.
There's a Colors menu in Gimp 3. But it's destructive and only for the selected layer, not the special layer type you get in Photoshop.
These people need an multimodal AI assistant that does geometrically correctly OCR of the page s screenshot and then determines the appropriate number of spaces and sizes for the spaces to accurately right-align the text.
> My original reply was to someone who thought proofs are all unit valued

That is the danger if you get too married to the idea of proofs as programs, and think about it like a programmer, not a mathematician.

Listen, if thinking about proofs as programs helps you, great! Personally, I never found it helpful, and it never helped me solve anything.
It would be nice to have some kind of "confidence level" annotation.
Read a few more lines further:

> Secularism is not necessarily antithetical to religion, but may be compatible with it.

Generally applied to civil affairs means that it is not inherently interested in minimizing religion in personal lives.
> Single cell eukaryotes also exist.

Yes, "with eukarya containing all multicellular organisms" does not mean "all eukarya are multicellular organisms" it means "multicellular organisms are a subset of eukarya".

> Is it strictly true that there are no multicellular prokaryotes (what they call bacteria) or archaea?

First off, "prokaryotes (what they call bacteria)" is incorrect. Both archaea and bacteria, in the three-domain model referenced in the article, are prokaryotes.

Second, correct, everything understood as a multicellular organism -- as distinct from colonies of unicellular organisms -- is composed of cells with nuclei, classified in eukarya in the three-domain model.

(There is a newer proposed two-domain model which disposes with Eukarya as a top-level domain, folding it under Archaea; in that model, clearly, there are multicellular Archaea.)