skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real answer is probably somewhere between the two. There is value in AI - and the versions that will come up in the future will be better. However it isn't nearly as valuable as the advocates say either. I've given up on the current rounds, but I'm still going to keep watching for when they get better. They might or might not get enough better before I retire (I'm likely older than you), but there are a lot of things they can do better. I have no idea how hard those things are.
This does not sound like an egregious limiting factor at all.
I think treating partial goals as bonuses is a good thing. Any goal that can be seen as a fun bonus challenge becomes more psychologically rewarding than if it's treated as a requirement?

At least I find that works when motivating myself. I didn't expect that I would finish this big skirace this year. But having it as a bonus goal made it very rewarding when I actually did finish it.
Going to read this in depth. I have been on and off trying to find a way to distinguish between in focus, motion blur (camera shake) and out of focus. Motion blur is surprisingly tricky to distinguish using a computer from the others. I can glance at a 2D Fft plot and tell, but the computer - not yet.
On the flip side Twitter is one form of social media I have never been attracted to.

Impossible to have deep conversations due to character limits, promotes really ephemeral discourse which taps into the everything-is-super-urgent FOMO dark pattern, and has so much low effort content to sift through due to its encouragement of brevity.
> for each entity have a separate class to provide the database access

Let me correct you: for each entity that needs database access. This is why I'm talking about layers here: sometimes entities are never persisted directly, but only as "parts" or "relations" of other entities; in other cases you might have a very complex persistence implementation (e.g. some entities are stored in a RDB, while others in a filesystem) and there is no clear mapping.

I recommend you to approach this from the perspective of each domain entity individually; "persistability" is essentially just another property which might or might not apply in each case.
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"Anyone?, anyone?" - https://youtu.be/uhiCFdWeQfA

"Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Ac...
(Denim head) Anecdata - buying Levis from Amazon (or any other store), pick up at least a couple of pairs in the same size. It's likely different people/factories making them, but often you'll find variation in size/denim even when the labelling in the same. One pair of 32/32 might feel 'off' and the next is the best pair you've ever owned. Completely agree with going 'smaller' brand if you want consistency though (and that's a whole different world).

But better tip - (if you're not looking for 'smart' denim) buy from eBay. Only buy pairs where everything has been measured properly (waist, inside leg, rise, etc) so you can get close to what you know you fits. You can find 20+ year old Levis for less than $20 - the denim is heavier, the quality is good and they have that perfect 'broken in' feel that makes the jeans feel like your best friend. Plus you can afford to try a few pairs to find ones you love.
This is what Kafka’s Metamorphosis is about.

Most everyone only ever talks about parts 1-2, probably because that’s the beetle stuff. Everyone in his household is miserable and depressed and he is killing himself working hard to try to carry that burden for his family, just barely holding everything together, to the point it breaks him and he transforms.

Part 3 is his slow death and then a quick denouement takes place after dies, and it’s about how happy and healthy everyone else is after he’s stopped making himself ill trying to give them something they clearly are happier without.
Please explain how what I am saying is wrong?
Thag entirely depends on the implementation details of the access controls to that data and if the police need a warrant to access that data.
All of these anecdotal stories about "LLM" failures need to go into more detail about what model, prompt, and scaffolding was used. It makes a huge difference. Were they using Deep Research, which searches for relevant articles and brings facts from them into the report? Or did they type a few sentences into ChatGPT Free and blindly take it on faith?

LLMs are _tools_, not oracles. They require thought and skill to use, and not every LLM is fungible with every other one, just like flathead, Phillips, and hex-head screwdrivers aren't freely interchangeable.
The Mean-Ing of Loss Functions
They were all intended as disposable? That would likely be news to the authors and musicians behind those works.
And no cod psychology about how to live a better life, either!
I personally agree, but there has to be a time frame allowed...

e.g. cameras at an intersection that had an accident: It probably would take 'a day or two' at least for such a request to get to the camera operators to request they send a copy.

I'd also personally prefer speed cameras that are not point-in-time records. This just encourages police to put them where they know people are more likely to violate the law, like at the bottom of hills, where there's not really a danger, but it generates more revenue.

I'd want speed cameras that are miles apart... and the determination that you get a speeding ticket is that you traveled several miles at high speed.
MCP Servers as an Encouraging Parent
Funny—I'm the exact opposite. The extra spaces distract my eyes. To each their own! :)
Speaking from experience, Helldivers 2 and Monster Hunter Wilds both ran better on Linux from day one before any special fixes and still do - I'm not sure what "original design and battled testing" is worth or good for if the underlying Kernel and/or OS is a mess.
Yes, they can, however I don't believe this is quite as straightforward as just looking up the data for a particular vehicle on your police computer. Looking up the ANPR data on a vehicle is only marginally more complex than looking up a person's driving license details or similar. My understanding is that in order to do a reverse geofence request, or look up a specific device, it's a lot more complicated, and these days you're only going to get cell site information rather than precise GPS data (as was possible by asking Google in the past).
Yeah, trying to get people to take Em vs En vs Hyphen seriously is a fool's errand. Only typography nerds would take it seriously and there just aren't enough of them to make a difference. I'd guess that the vast majority of people have never even heard of these distinctions.
It will depend on exactly what you mean by 'planning ahead', but I think the fact that features which rhyme with a word appear before the model is trying to predict the word which needs to rhyme is good evidence the model is planning at least a little bit ahead: the model activations are not all just related to the next token.

(And I think it's relatively obvious that the models do this to some degree: it's very hard to write any language at all without 'thinking ahead' at least a little bit in some form, due to the way human language is structured. If models didn't do this and only considered the next token alone they would paint themselves into a corner within a single sentence. Early LLMs like GPT-2 were still pretty bad at this, they were plausible over short windows but there was no consistency to a longer piece of text. Whether this is some high-level abstracted 'train of thought', and how cohesive it is between different forms of it, is a different question. Indeed from the section of jailbreaking it looks like it's often caught out by conflicting goals from different areas of the network which aren't resolved in some logical fashion)
> Real programming is on a totally different scale than what you're describing.

How "real" are we talking?

When I think of "real programming" I think of flight control software for commercial airplanes and, I can assure you, 1 month != 5,000 LoC in that space.
That's a result of the market your dad is in. Vast numbers of renters and landlords are just ordinary people with no/not dealing with drug or social problems.
I'm married to an editor and friends with an editor at work. They both use em dashes appropriately—even with informal writing. I've now learned the keyboard shortcut just to confuse people in the age of AI slop.
> I have wondered if even when buying from what looks like an official amazon brand store, you can still get product from multiple suppliers/locations, including some that have counterfeits? Anyone know if this is feasible?

Yes, it's called inventory commingling, there are plenty explanations online. The TL;DR is that if two sellers claim to have the same item, amazon will ship the item from the closest warehouse rather than from the seller you bought from.
> Would 0.01% of users be willing to pay 10000x that amount?

Apparently so, since Signal broke even last year.
I think preserving nuclear industry is a decent justification on its own.

Especially the whole steam turbine/generator tech is a huge synergy for them (because all their coal plants need basically the same), and gutting suppliers by scaling back nuclear ambitions could have highly detrimental side-effects there.

Coal power is still the back-bone of their grid, and provides basically all the dispatchability (for now).

I think the big incoming challenge for renewables will be surpassing the 70%-ish percent mark (of produced electricity), because at that point intermittency is gonna become much more challenging (it's an easy problem as long as you can just down-regulate existing plants-- buffering with batteries is significantly more expensive, and they don't have a lot of gas either, which works pretty well for this).

I'm pretty confident that battery progress is gonna keep pace, and other countries are already way further in the switch to renewables anyway; China will be able to get free lessions there (e.g. Germany).
Someday, you will find out how unconcerned the universe is about your life of privledge, because new regimes can spring up out of nowhere and vote you out of having a vote, and decide your new govt for you and the rules for your citizenship of this Earth, and maybe they don't care about your money or what you think is or is not fair.

You are as necessary as that old lion, enjoying his pride, the day before the new lions come to town.

"Enjoy." --Daniel Tosh
Nintendo reinvents digital games as swappable, lendable Virtual Game Cards
Eh, I still do things like that. In fact, I just published an entire free platform for people interested in Stoic philosophy. It has free texts, exercises, a journal, and much more.

The thing is, though... people don't care. It currently has 15 users. And I've published it in a few groups with thousands of users... but nobody cared to click the link. Reddit and other communities absolutely refuse to allow you to share anything, even if it's a free product.

I can see why people just say F it, and start running ads and go the way of monetization.
>A large part of why modern jetliners are so safe is exactly because of flight control augmentations like this - both Boeing and Airbus have been implementing these for decades and they have made flying much safer. Your suggestion that any system like MCAS is always unsafe (or that Boeing was somehow doing something wrong by adding it) is totally wrong.

The common person often doesn't realize this at all. Every modern plane is flying itself essentially, with hints from the pilot on what to actually do.

>MCAS failing was not an unrecoverable error [2]

Also this is frustrating, especially in the case of the second crash where every max pilot knew the procedure (including the one that crashed), they even performed the procedure but then disabled it a minute later. Both the NTSB and the BEA (French equivalent) agreed pilot error/CRM played a role in the second.
FYI you can go to wa.me/<phone-number> on your browser to start a WhatsApp conversation without having to create a new contact.
If you’re working on your own you may not need dagger.

If you’re working on a team often your shell scripts, python programs, and makes files are not always portable between local and CI, but even worse between your local machine and your colleagues local machine. This is where dagger shines because it lets you do all that stuff in a fully portable way.
This is also available as a private service:

> In just a few taps and clicks, the tool showed where a car had been seen throughout the U.S. A private investigator source had access to a powerful system used by their industry, repossession agents, and insurance companies. Armed with just a car’s plate number, the tool—fed by a network of private cameras spread across the country—provides users a list of all the times that car has been spotted.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/i-tracked-someone-with-licen...
In adults, certainly.

In things like the study in the article, and in young children in general, not really.
I'm not being disingenuous. It's not quite for fun, but sometimes I do read code to learn from it. Lots of stuff on github is just for portfolio purposes.

Your last sentence basically admits that the fundamental legal situation of code and prose, independent of usage, is the same. If your only possible interest in code is to "transform it in some way", that's your problem, not ours.
On the app details screen, scroll down past reviews to the "App support" section, and the address is under "About the developer".

This only shows in the Google Play app, not on the website.
Whoops. Hmm, I thought you could edit HN comments but obviously not.
we should remove all license plates.
I'm a volunteer court observer for DV court and some days it feels like half of the cases are someone misusing state surveillance tools to stalk or abuse women. The victims are almost always women. The abusers aren't always cops, probably a slight majority of them are other workers with access to these systems. I don't find out what happens to them afterwards but I never seem to hear about police getting fired for this.
Then don't make the 3rd party a for profit private company. Make it a new branch of the government. Make it part of the DoT or which ever company is responsible for collecting taxes in your locale. Intra agency operations would still be possible while removing direct access to LEOs. If you want your own information, pay your $25 type fees after proving who you are for printing/research/etc that are typical when requesting official gov't records. If you're another gov't agency, provide the warrant granting access to civilian records.
I've got mixed feelings about the flock cameras.

Twelve of them around a high density shopping center is perfectly reasonable.

Just one at the entrance of a neighborhood is severe overreach.

I don't mind the idea of building a surveillance state within certain parameterized boundaries, but once you are in a residential setting these things feel like military incursion. Homeowners can already opt-in to video doorbells, security cameras on their properties, etc.

Home Depot & law enforcement don't need a 500-mile diameter security perimeter around each retail store to catch the guy stealing Milwaukee products. The cameras in the parking lot and leading up to the freeway should give you enough room to play with unless you are vastly incompetent at basic police work.
> Small nudges and corrections, and we had something that worked. From there, I iterated and added more features to the outputs.

FWIW, I've seen people online refer to this as "vibe coding".
This is a really big deal, and perhaps the only big names who really care about Digital Goods that should act more like physical.

We should be able to do this with our Music, Movies, TV Shows etc.
I think the big problem here is conceptual. The JDK folks are looking at this akin to PGO when, IMHO, they should be looking at this as an AOT cache (yes, the flag names make this even more confusing). How do those two differ, you ask?

With PGO you do a lot of deliberate work to profile your application under different conditions and feed that information back to the compiler to make better branch/inlining decisions.
With a AOT cache, you do nothing up front, and the JVM should just dump a big cache to disk every time it exits just in case it gets stared again on the same host. In this case, training runs would just be a” run you did to create the cache". With that said, the big technical challenge right ow is that building the AOT cache is expensive hence performance impacting and cannot really be done alongside a live application - but that’s where I think the focus should be, making filling the aot cache something less intensive and automatic.

Another aspect this strategy would help with is “what to do with these big AOT cache files”, if the AOT cache really starts caching every compiled method, it will become essentially another so file possibly of a size greater than the original JAR it started off with. Keeping this is in a docker image will double the size of the image slowing down deployments. Alternatively, with the aot cache concept, you just need to ensure there is some form of persistent disk cache across your hosts. The same logic also significantly helps CLIs, where I dont’ want to ship a 100MB CLI + Jlink bundle and have to add another 50MB of aot cache in it - what I do want is every time the client uses my CLI the JVM keeps improving the AOT cache.
This is really good timing because I just naively bought one of those little green adapters for test for three apparently fruitless causes -- a mini disc recorder, a vt520 and a vt525. I now have some hidmans (hidmen?) on the way with some hope that I/we someone can figure out whats missing to get it working with the VT52{0,5}.
It’s telling that the lead into the article, and the very first substantive sub-heading, is focused on DEI. You have to get halfway through the article before you get to the administration’s efforts to defund climate science.

I’d submit that using “science” as a human shield to protect DEI programs is a bad idea for “science.” Scientists dependent on public funding undermine their credibility on the issues within their distinct expertise when they yoke themselves to unrelated social issues and ideologies.
I am an emacs user. I meant moving from my ridiculously customized setup accumulated over 20 years to the Solo configuration.
I assume you're talking about SMS 2FA code. TOTP doesn't require any networking - it's just an HMAC of the current time using a preshared key. Whether or not SMS 2FA works with a VoIP number is a decision made by the 2FA provider. The most paranoid of them (usually banks IME) will not send 2FA codes to VoIP numbers - they require a for-real cellphone number provided by a cellular provider. There are some VoIP numbers that try to pretend to be this, but none of them are reliable, and AFAIK Whatsapp does not even try.
And how would you define intelligence then?
> We got rid of lead ...

We only claim we did. Meanwhile places like Trenton, Ohio exist and it's not alone. (Although at least all of the publicity Trenton has gotten has finally forced it to start fixing the problem [0]).

[0]: https://www.greatertrenton.org/2022/01/16/trenton-water-work...

> We got rid of ... asbestos

We only claim we did. Have you noticed and wondered why there's so many "sue your boss/government/friend/family if you've been exposed to asbestos" commercials? Anyway, don't just take my word for it [1].

[1]: https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/article/amphibole-asbes...

> We ... seriously tackled workplace accidents, injuries and deaths, and moved a lot of toxic industry off

The current political regime wants to rollback those same workplace protections.

That toxic industry moving off is obviously a bad thing for where it moved to. And while the Trump-initiated tariff war definitely has a lot of other downsides and effects, the one thing it might (in theory) do is bring manufacturing back to the U.S. -- but only in the long term (and only if other negative effects don't cause other problems to stop the trade war). So toxic industries might very well end up back here.

> > Regardless, I'm interested to see what the health of humanity looks like in the coming decades.

I'm not a betting man. But if I were, and given the current state of politics in the U.S. (and healthcare system in particular), I would bet against our health improving in general. USA life expectancy is already declining [2] [3]. COVID didn't help (a lot of older-aged people died earlier than expected which lead to a significant drop). There's more to it than just COVID though. A lot more.

[2] (2022): https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-life-expectancy-in-t...

[3] (2022): https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/life-expectancy-is-declini...

[4]: https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/newsroom/news-release...
I drove 50 miles, and avoided contacting the police so that they don't arrest me or beat me up.
Sorry for sounding ornery, but it's plainly obvious to every parent I've interacted with that most preschool kids have well developed categorization skills for their toys, coloring objects, etc.
Once we are aware of these neural pathways I see no reason there shouldn't be a watcher and influencer of the pathways. A bit like a dystopian mind watcher. Shape the brain.
> Estimated economic losses are 6-70% GDP of Burma.

6-70% holy crap what a range.
It's an interesting question, should you factor other people's consumption into your own environmental impact? I suppose you are enabling it although I doubt it would have any impact on the cruise industry if he shut up shop, clients would just select another agency to book through.
It’s similar to a builder pattern but not just a builder pattern because depending on the type you can indefinitely pipe context independent types.

So it’s a bit of a hybrid between bash and powershell.
I also found that confusing. My guess as to what they mean is that if someone makes changes, they are not obligated to share them with the world?

That is, they are against free and indiscriminate sharing, which would allow bad people to use their software.

They link directly to this Q&A in the OSI FAQ:

> Can I stop “evil people” from using my program?

> No. The Open Source Definition specifies that Open Source licenses may not discriminate against persons or groups. Giving everyone freedom means giving evil people freedom, too.
If any non-trivial ask of an LLM also requires the prompts/scaffolding to be listed, and independently verified, along with its output, their utility is severely diminished. They should be saving time not giving us extra homework.

Far better to just get these problems resolved.
I have found that the only requirement to be a manager is to be able to put monetary considerations above humanity.

He's one of those, but don't worry, all o'y'all, we ALL reap what we sow, for good or ill.

"Time will tell." --Bob Marley
To each their own: fully agreed, even though our tastes differ. I will mention one advantage of the spaces-around-dashes method: word wrap with default settings will break on the spaces around the dashes so that the entire word one, dash, word two combo doesn't end up pulled onto the next line as a whole unit. Whereas the advantage of the no-spaces method that you prefer is that word wrap will pull the entire word one, dash, word two combo onto the next line as a whole unit.

Why yes, I did list the opposite behavior as an advantage of each. Because that, too, is up to individual preference. :-)
Lookout for that stray dog
There's people that would be happy winning the lottery, and others that would be happier if they had worked for it.