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agolio··on Vulnerability reports are not special anymore
Tangent point, I think more broadly this is a big piece of AI-cynicism in general- “x isn’t special anymore”.

It’s tough staying motivated on a craft when an AI is nearly as good as you. Chess players manage to do it at least.

agolio··on Auth.js is now part of Better Auth
That may be true but doesn't contradict the point of the parent commenter.

If Auth.js wanted to give up, that would be fine (although disappointing, since multiple options is always healthy, especially for something as critical as auth)

but this deal where they are "becoming part of BetterAuth" and recommending that new users use BetterAuth on the project README is concerning to me

agolio··on Title drops in movies
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

agolio··on I couldn't find a free, no-login, no-AI checklist app–so I built one
Notes (builtin to iOS)

Reminders (builtin to iOS)

agolio··on Show HN: AI assistant that makes you learn quickly by asking questions
Very cool! Definitely has growth potential...

Since you asked for feedback, maybe a user portal, with a document library would be the tips from the top of my head. Maybe with something to track learning over time. Though this would surely increase hosting costs.

agolio··on JustAsk – The $1 Experiment
Nice try, but it's been done.

eg. https://www.giveusadollar.com/

Though the first version I remember is now offline - from 1998:

https://web.archive.org/web/19980111063301/https://givemeado...

agolio··on Learning to Reason with LLMs
There was a hackernews post a few days ago, pointing to a reddit thread where some guys proved that the founder/s of relection AI were faking their model by just passing the input to Claude (Sonnet 3.5) and stripping the word "Claude" from the output, amongst other things. Then when they got caught they switched it to GPT 4-o.

After this, I will be very skeptical to anything they claim to achieve.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41484981

agolio··on We need to liberate the Postcode Address File
I am a bit surprised by how hard this article makes out the problem to be.

Crowdsourcing should make short work of the problem, with the right incentives, which the government will be able to offer.

Additionally private map providers (e.g. Google, Apple) must surely have this data (since they are able to route navigation to private addresses). Why not just negotiate with them?

agolio··on PyScript: An open source platform for Python in the browser
Cool site!

> Many businesses I work with use Tableau free versions, and just manually update the data

Why not just use e.g React/ Angular?

Or is it a question of needing python for the data analytics, and for server cost reasons not wanting it to be run on the server side?

agolio··on True Defamation [pdf]
I know nothing of Swedish law, but do these rulings not conflict with Section 11 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights?
agolio··on Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman
> It doesn't take much more than showing up and taking responsibility when no one else does.

Your argument aside, I am interested to hear you found it straightforward to run a successful non-profit.

Any tips for someone who is interested to enter that space?

agolio··on On a great interview question
Good point, though I guess the point of the disagreement is then for me that the question's "dictionary words" implies to me an english dictionary, rather than an abstract dictionary of words of potentially infinite length
agolio··on On a great interview question
> I then push them on this until they realize that any implementation of the dictionary lookup function of a string would be o(n) at best, and as such the total runtime of the solution is O(n²).

Is that true?

I am actually siding towards the candidates on this one

presumably it would be O(n_words_in_dictionary) for the dictionary check, which as the number of words in the dictionary is constant, would make the overall algorithm O(n) ...

agolio··on Bing Image Creator
Amazing, same as the chatGPT effect - seeing these images in papers is one thing. But having an interface where you can try it and realise that the paper examples weren't cherry-picked and the technology really is that good is something else.

First try https://www.bing.com/images/create/a-dog-driving-a-taxi/6419...

agolio··on ChatGPT's Chess Elo is 1400
Chessnetwork did a video about this a few weeks ago FYI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svlIYFpsWs0

Seems its strength is mostly in memorisation of the book openings. Still impressive nonetheless.

agolio··on The Hyperreal
Are you reading his works in French? If not, the criticism of the language doesn't hold up. I do agree with the recommendation though - enjoy his work.
agolio··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)
Looks great. Good work DDG!
agolio··on I broke a wine glass with my voice (2018) [video]
Seems you are right and I would have saved my criticism with that knowledge. Though I do think that information should have been in the submission title then.

Ah well, best wishes to her.

agolio··on I broke a wine glass with my voice (2018) [video]
I have nothing against the video, and I am all for making science exciting for the broader audience. I just am not sure why it is at the top of HN.
agolio··on Show HN: Historical HN Hiring Data
Very cool project.

A little feedback:

Something is off with the graph when I try to use multitouch gestures. May need to adjust the call in whichever javascript library to disable zoom if that is desired, or correct some parameter.

I might find it easier to read if there were fewer x major ticks, so one per year for instance.

But overall very nice. Simple and to-the-point data visualisation without bloat

agolio··on Amazon employees are fighting on Slack about returning to the office
Nothing really new in this piece of “news” then.
agolio··on The Most Cited AI Papers in 2022
Disagree, or can you name some recent AI developments outside of DL that are anywhere near as groundbreaking?
agolio··on The Most Cited AI Papers in 2022
In AI? No, the other stuff all happened in the 70s
agolio··on Show HN: TuringJest – Pretend to be an AI and spot the real one
For example, I have these questions when opening the interface

https://imgur.com/a/WeCGy2n

In addition the time seems to go negative and the game never ends in some cases?

https://i.imgur.com/2cEbcKo.png

I have been unable to connect with another player so can't comment on the game-playing experience

agolio··on Show HN: TuringJest – Pretend to be an AI and spot the real one
Can I respectfully advise to spend some time adding CSS, rules, and remove strings like "response goes here for debugging" then re-submit, maybe an admin could delete the thread with that understanding. As otherwise you won't be able to re-submit as per HN guidelines, which is a shame as the concept seems cool.

You have done the hard work and built the impressive networking/ API interactions, now go the last 10% and make it usable :)

agolio··on Pandas 2.0 and the Arrow revolution
I would also get rid of the .column accessor, it has the potential to collide with function members of the DataFrame so shouldn't have been added in the first place IMO
agolio··on Pandas 2.0 and the Arrow revolution
There's too many ways of doing the same thing (which I assume is already itself a relic of maintaining back-compatibility), there's inconsistencies within the API, there's "deprecated" stuff which isn't really deprecated, et cetera

  dataframe.column
vs

  dataframe['column']
as one example comes to mind but there is surely much more

I am of the philosophy of 'The Zen of Python'

  There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

Pandas is a powerful library, but when I have to use it in a workplace it usually gives me a feeling of dread, knowing I am soon to face various hacks and dataframes full of NaNs without them being handled properly, etc.
agolio··on Pandas 2.0 and the Arrow revolution
> As mentioned earlier, one of our top priorities is not breaking existing code or APIs

This is doomed then. Pandas API is already extremely bloated

agolio··on Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git
Perhaps explain to the person you are responding to why you disagree with them instead of making passive-aggressive jabs at their intellect
agolio··on Open source implementation for LLaMA-based ChatGPT
I'm as much a META hater as anyone - their policies have consistently disappointed me in almost every aspect of their business - but their stance on this LLaMA project I must say I am happy with and seems to mark a turn for the better.

If they follow through on their promise of making the weights available and share source code that is a big step in the right direction for democratising this technology

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