MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by oersted | 2025-04-08 17:39:46+00:00
From the DeepSeek paper, they did try but found that the model would learn to cheat the judge. It doesn't seem to be impossible, but probably a serious challenge.

> We do not apply the outcome or process neural reward model in developing DeepSeek-R1-Zero, because we find that the neural reward model may suffer from reward hacking in the large-scale reinforcement learning process, and retraining the reward model needs additional training resources and it complicates the whole training pipeline.
by fedsocpuppet | 2025-04-08 17:39:59+00:00
Did they actually tell you that? I highly doubt it. You've created a preconception that I guarantee is not accurate at all. You have multiple people here saying it's bullshit, and we're not lying or trolling or anything like that. I replied somewhere else but I want to reiterate - why would you even want approval from people who dehumanize others on the basis of TC? It's like being upset Martin Shkreli doesn't want to be your friend. I really hope you'll believe me
by _bin_ | 2025-04-08 17:40:10+00:00
My compromise here is invisible words in the PDF. I pack it with every freaking keyword I can think of because I have absolutely no issues with lying to a robot and don't feel the need to a respect a hiring process where they can't be bothered to so much as read my resume. Funny enough I often get offers after that even when I don't have some specific technology.

That said, my personal ethics don't let me lie to an actual person.
by bpodgursky | 2025-04-08 17:40:13+00:00
OK, so what you really mean by "remove the subsidy" is "tax oil companies seven trillion dollars a year"? That may be a challenge for an industry that sold $2 trillion in the US last year, but if we're making up numbers, it'll work out.

But the larger issue is that this is driven by international emissions, so whatever the US does is essentially irrelevant to that outcome.
by root_axis | 2025-04-08 17:40:32+00:00
It's not a big deal. Llama 4 feels like a flop because the expectations are really high based on their previous releases and the sense of momentum in the ecosystem because of DeepSeek. At the end of the day, LLama 4 didn't meet the elevated expectations, but they're fine. They'll continue to improve and iterate and maybe the next one will be more hype worthy, or maybe expectations will be readjusted as the specter of diminishing returns continues to creep in.
by wrboyce | 2025-04-08 17:40:56+00:00
Again, I have to disagree - which I suppose reinforces the whole subjectivity angle. I was positive that Zaphod’s two heads were side-by-side to the extent that it pissed me off a fair bit in the most recent movie adaption (among, let’s face it, plenty of other candidates).

I don’t know if the “layout” of the heads is mentioned or not in the books - I’d have to go back and check - but it’s often quite jarring when a book becomes a movie and doesn’t match my inner vision (and how incredibly unthoughtful of them, to boot).
by luqtas | 2025-04-08 17:41:21+00:00
most places i visited (remote rural places like districts of > 300 people up to big cities) have a rechargeable card system where you can buy at any terminal

some buses in the surburbs of big cities only accept cards nowadays and you can recharge it online in 3 minutes (ofc if you are a citizen... brazilian goverment websites is a huge UX pile of shit; police, mail etc.)
by belthesar | 2025-04-08 17:41:47+00:00
This seems like a polished, limited in scope version of what xbar[1] and SwiftBar[2] does. Personally, I love using the menu bar as the place for at-a-glance information. I currently use SwiftBar to provide status indicators for my audio devices with some hacky scripts I wrote to talk to my mixer.

[1] https://xbarapp.com/

[2] https://swiftbar.app/
by Teever | 2025-04-08 17:41:51+00:00
The west coast is in for a rude awakening when they realize that they can't win a war against china with code, and they don't have jobs because they don't have chips to run their advertising code on anymore because China took Taiwan.

Manufacturing is what builds up strong economies and it's what saves lives by preventing wars as long as possible and minimizes casualties on your side in war by fielding troops with more/better equipment.
by datameta | 2025-04-08 17:42:10+00:00
Location: NYC Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No [Technologies] Programming: C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Kotlin, Dart Embedded Systems: PowerPC, ESP32, STM32, Altera MAX10, Lattice iCE40UP5k ML: TensorFlow Lite, PyTorch, ONNX, OpenCV, MATLAB IoT: BLE, WiFi, MQTT, LoRa Digital Logic: VHDL, Verilog Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18mjB1tIH5s-ZmiET_smUxbMo3FaiC637aW_us8P0U5I/edit?usp=drivesdk Email: dm@datameta.info

Hi, I'm an embedded systems engineer with experience in software, hardware, IoT, and machine learning. Seeking innovative roles from ultra-low power remote applications to mid-range edge compute, up to HPC.

My latest roles have been in full-stack edge AI R&D, memory controller firmware dev, and chip bring-up/testing. I'm passionate about modular synthesis and tinkering with all sorts of circuits and DSP. Currently upskilling in analog PCB design and refining my abilities in FPGA development. Also WIP on a 3D-printed robot arm to practice control systems and actuation.
by ldoughty | 2025-04-08 17:42:19+00:00
Can you elaborate how there's no possible way to use this technology without actively harming artists?

If a classroom of 14 year olds are making a game in their computer science class, and they use AI to make placeholder images... Was a real artist harmed?

The teacher certainly cant afford to pay artists to provide content for all the students games, and most students can't afford to hire an artist either.. they perhaps can't even legally do it, if the artist requires a contract... they are underage in most countries to sign a contract.

This technology gives the kids a lot more freedom than a pre-packaged asset library, and can encourage more engagement with the course content, leading to more people interested in creative-employing pursuits.

So, I think this technology can create a new generation of creative individuals, and statements about the blanket harm need to be qualified.
by nickzelei | 2025-04-08 17:42:41+00:00
I've had issues with tailscale dns for a while where I'll wake my mac up and the dns will just not work until I disable tailscale. I can then re-enable it and everything continues to work.

I logged a bug about it and the latest versions this seems to have gone away. I also moved away from the mac store variant and into the standalone. Not sure if that helped either.
by tudorgirba | 2025-04-08 17:43:05+00:00
Great to hear that you find Moldable Development meaningful. And it's even more interesting that you can find tools around to tackle your contextual analyses.

ggplot and Grammar of Graphics are very interesting indeed. With GT we have some support, but we focused so far on creating the underlying graphical stack first, one in which everything (including the editor and visualizations) is represented in a single rendering tree. This graphical stack already offers the possibility to create various kinds of graphs. The Grammar of Graphics is of interest for us, and we'll likely look at it in more depth in the near future, because it allows us to define graphs declaratively and serialize them across network.

What kind of analyses do you do? Only for data, or also for systems?

Also, if you have a chance, I would be interested in what you think about the distinction we make between defined and dynamic exploration towards the end of this chapter: https://medium.com/feenk/rewilding-software-engineering-a360...
by specialp | 2025-04-08 17:43:06+00:00
There are plenty of enterprises that will pay them to run their services and provide better integrations while allowing open source users to continue. Now people will get upset because some of these things will be for those customers only but it is very hard to keep developing these things and give them out for free. Partially open source still allows those to extend the work they give to the community and they will probably still continue to have a free tier to get more enterprise customers in the end.
by throwanem | 2025-04-08 17:43:09+00:00
Some wasps are about as clever as birds in some ways, especially with respect to socially adaptive forms of intelligence in social species, such as the ~1Kya selective sweep that resulted in members of the P. fuscatus species group developing the ability to distinguish individual conspecifics by their unique facial features. That's pretty impressive for about a hundred and fifty thousand neurons, and larger and more highly social vespid wasps (yellowjackets and hornets, vs. the 'paper wasps' of Polistinae), metabolically able to support larger brains, do better still.

Their brains also aren't structured similarly to ours in a gross sense, although the so-called "mushroom bodies" do appear to serve similar purposes to our cortical "gray matter," and if I recall correctly, there is some sense that connectome complexity scales proportionately with complexity of behavior, though I'm not sure how well this has actually been studied.

On a similar note, though their primary eyes aren't constructed at all like ours, they do nonetheless exhibit a "foveal" area of highest detail and resolution, in the regions of their eyes where it does them the most good - namely, ahead and below, the latter aiding in manipulation with palps, mandibles, and the front pair of legs. That's not quite the same as a brain per se, of course, but it does also point to the adaptive constraints under which evolution has occurred: as flyers who construct their own nests and who regularly must travel long distances to find all the resources a colony needs - or, as peripatetic mammals who came up grazing as much or more as hunting and use tools - good eyesight, memory, and dexterity are all very valuable, and thus it isn't a great surprise when such species that become successful on a cosmopolitan scale show extensive development of these traits. The infrastructure on which the trait is built may be independently of interest, but not being able to understand how such a small infrastructure gives rise to such global traits isn't an excuse for ignoring the exhibition of the traits.

In light of all that - plus the anecdotes that such a close and friendly interest in wasps would tend to yield - I've tended to think of intelligence in this sense, or capacity for same, as sort of "holographic" in concept: if you make a hologram on film and then cut it in half, what you get is not two halves of a hologram, but two complete holograms, each with lower resolution than the parent. I think brains scale the same way, such that what you get with a much smaller brain is not so much less breadth as less depth.

I don't really have a clear formulation of the concept, or not yet at least, but hopefully you can see at least a vague outline of what I'm reaching for. Or that I do, at least! Maybe we could think of it as the anthropic principle shorn of human chauvinism, if you like.
by TechDebtDevin | 2025-04-08 17:43:27+00:00
I've been meaning to practice some data visualization tasks... If anybody knows any cool datasets they'd recommend that aren't your run of the mill kaggle consumer data or whatever. I'm particularly interested in bioinformatics/genetics data but not really sure of where to look (and have almost no background, just personally interested in comp-bio).. If anyone could recommend cool and open esoteric data/possible projects, that would be awesome.
by timewizard | 2025-04-08 17:44:21+00:00
> the issue is that our government in particular is incompetent

Our federal government is huge and our state governments are small. Precisely the opposite of how the founders configured it. This is part of the problem.

The states need to band together and develop a cooperative solution and then push it upwards to the federal level.

This is a lot easier than centralized planning and management of an entity the size and scope of the US. We have a lot of offshore territories and two states. This complicates things more than people care to admit.
by spaceywilly | 2025-04-08 17:44:24+00:00
I agree. I think of it like a car engine. You can push it up to a certain RPM and it will keep making more and more power. Above that RPM, the engine starts to produce less power and eventually blows a gasket.

I think the performance-based management worked for a while because there were some gains to be had by pushing people harder. However, they’ve gone past that and are now pushing people too hard and getting worse results. Every machine has its operating limits and an area where it operates most efficiently. A company is no different.
by embwbam | 2025-04-08 17:44:25+00:00
Evolution doesn't care at all if we get to the top of the food chain. I think that we, as the dominant species on the earth, mistakenly assume that we are the most evolved since we are in charge. Which is more evolutionarily successful, the human or the wheat plant?

If another mass extinction occurs, we are toast (See "The Ends of the Earth"). Relatively minor ecological changes may even destroy us. Sapience has not yet proven to grant any long-term advantage.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-08 17:45:09+00:00
Copyright isn't a property right. Property rights are rivalrous. If you own a sandwich and a thousand other people want to eat your sandwich, only one person can, so property rights exist to define who gets to choose who gets to eat the sandwich. Writings and discoveries are non-rivalrous. To quote the first head of the US Patent Office:

> He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

The term "intellectual property" is an attempt to conflate these things, to justify net-destructive money grabs like retroactive copyright term extensions, because traditional property rights don't expire but copyrights explicitly and intentionally do.
by ignoramous | 2025-04-08 17:45:37+00:00
When we started Tailscale in 2019, we weren't even sure we wanted to be a venture-backed company. We just wanted to fix networking. Or, more specifically, make networking disappear — reduce the number of times anyone had to think about NAT traversal or VPN configurations ever again.

Isn't logtail what got Avery et al started?

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/tree/main/logtail

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190216 / https://archive.vn/xlsA1
by codingwagie | 2025-04-08 17:45:38+00:00
The truth is that the vast majority of FAANG engineers making high six figures are only good at deterministic work. They cant produce new things, and so meta and google are struggling to compete when actual merit matters, and they cant just brute force the solutions. Inside these companies, the massive tech systems built, are actually generally terrible, but they pile on legions of engineers to fix the problems.

This is the culture of META hurting them, they are paying "AI VPs" millions of dollars to go to status meetings to get dates for when these models will be done. Meanwhile, deepseek r1 has a flat hierarchy with engineers that actually understand low level computing

Its making a mockery of big tech, and is why startups exist. Big company employees rise the ranks by building skill sets other than producing true economic value
by Tainnor | 2025-04-08 17:45:57+00:00
> The NIH & FDA largely swept this under the rug and refused to investigate or fund adequate investigation.

Did all the other governments in the world that approved the covid vaccines collude with the NIH and FDA or is there maybe another reason that (almost?) all countries approved at least some of the vaccines?

> has seriously harmed people's faith in the government

which government out of the 195+ different ones that we have in the world? is there a chance that a pandemic and subsequent global health crisis is something that's a little bit bigger than the partisan politics of a single country?
by wlkr | 2025-04-08 17:46:03+00:00
Funny seeing this here with your comment, as I was exploring using ECharts for a project recently to work exactly with HTMX from a Clojure backend. I eventually settled on Chart.js as I found that for my use case, I wanted the charts to more easily fit their dynamically sized container, which isn’t quite as simple with ECharts and Vega. I also didn't need particularly complex plots. Nevertheless, this is a nice project! There remain some open challenges with web-based visualisation libraries more generally around responsive design and accessibility, but we’ve come a long way.
by _bin_ | 2025-04-08 17:46:12+00:00
What projection suggests GDP growth will be even with the increase in debt? FRED data suggests the opposite is happening: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S

Debt growth is massively outpacing growth in GDP. You're right that it's less of an issue if we grow quickly and effectively keep leverage the same but that's not what's happening.

Germany and Japan haven't focused super heavily on achieving a trade deficit. As you said, Germany has huge problems with her welfare state and Japan has huge demographic issues. I'm not saying we should achieve a trade balance by tariffing everything to death; I am saying we should focus on faster growth to get there and reduce our insane level of consumerism. I don't have an issue with a temporary trade deficit for growth-oriented reasons, but I have little save contempt for people ordering packages of chinesium temu crap.
by dfxm12 | 2025-04-08 17:46:16+00:00
whenever someone tries to faithfully deliver on some other artist's vision

"Trying" is not a meaningful bar to clear. Love or care doesn't matter, either. According to the article, the foundation says that the building is simply not built to Wright's spec, which is an objective measure.

The owners don't outright deny this, using a handful of of qualifiers in response: "true to Wright's plan, intent and spirit while also ensuring that the home would meet current building regulations."

Saying your house was designed by a famous architect, especially one the stature of Wright brings a value and prestige that is worth claiming, like any other brand. On the flip side, if you own the brand, it is worth protecting from knock offs.
by aborsy | 2025-04-08 17:46:18+00:00
This is not correct. Wireguard establishes a tunnel between peer A and B, and its simplicity stops there. Tailscale does tons of complex networking, filtering, nat traversal, DNS, file sharing, etc. Wireguard is a small part of the codebase today, which has grown a lot.

It’s a bit like saying Dropbox is just a GUI on top of TLS.
by oersted | 2025-04-08 17:46:22+00:00
> It appears the X account "Hammer Capital" was the first to share this false report, around 10:11 a.m. ET on Monday. The account has just over 1,100 followers, and it has a blue verification badge

> Dozens of other accounts with blue verification badges reshared it. Not long after, news organizations including Reuters and CNBC reported the unsubstantiated claim.

Read the article, the chain of events is more complex and more ridiculous, what a tragicomedy... Ad supported news media has become so dysfunctional, Reuters getting their news from X, what's the point?
by pmags | 2025-04-08 17:47:25+00:00
The National Science Foundation announced Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awards today. These awards directly fund graduate students across the natural sciences (math, physics, chemistry, biology), engineering, and social sciences.

The number of awards made in 2025 (1000 awards) is LESS THAN HALF the number made in 2024 (2036 awards).

NOTE: You'll have to choose the award year and download the excel spreadsheets at the link above to see the numbers yourself.

This is an example of what scientists mean when they point out the Trump administration is handicapping the national research infrastructure across all sciences.
by vjk800 | 2025-04-08 17:47:29+00:00
> Let’s be real: improving load times doesn’t directly impact the bottom line. Selling Shark Cards (GTA’s virtual currency) does. Companies optimize for metrics that show up on quarterly earnings calls, not for goodwill or user experience, until it’s too late.

I don't know... I quit playing GTA V once because of the horrendous load times. After I built a new computer, I finally finished the single player, even though the load times were still horrible. I also had a bug that randomly when I started the game, fps would be really slow and some of the textures didn't load.

The game was great, and maybe I would have gotten back to it to also play the multiplayer, but the fucking load times made starting up the game feel like a chore. I mostly play games when I have a little spare time in the middle of my work day, and I don't want to waste that spare time staring at loading screens or rebooting the game because of random bugs.
by _bin_ | 2025-04-08 17:47:37+00:00
I'm not really looking for "justice", I'm looking to uphold our interests. I don't particularly care if we raise more revenue than some other country does from our imports. I don't think tariffs are the best or only weapon to fix our problems. I do think they have a place, that selling off more and more of our country via trade deficit is unsustainable, and that our priorities as a nation are beyond screwed up.
by kazinator | 2025-04-08 17:49:27+00:00
> project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’

They are only applying to people known to police.

For anyone known to police who has killed twice already, you don't need any fancy algorithm: just short-circuit to "highly likely". They tried killing once, and it suited them well enough to do it again. People known to police only for petty or non-violent crimes like shoplifting or possession of dope can probably be filtered out. You need the algorithm for everything in between.