MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hhimanshu | 2025-04-17 07:18:17+00:00
I am wondering how libraries like DSPY [0] fits in your factor-2 [1]

As I was reading, I saw mention of BAML > (the above example uses BAML to generate the prompt ...

Personally, in my experience hand-writing prompts for extracting structured information from unstructured data has never been easy. With DSPY, my experience has been quite good so far.

As you have used raw prompt from BAML, what do you think of using the raw prompts from DSPY [2]?

[0] https://dspy.ai/

[1] https://github.com/humanlayer/12-factor-agents/blob/main/con...

[2] https://dspy.ai/tutorials/observability/#using-inspect_histo...
Running an AI model training workload on K8s
by kevalshah90 | 2025-04-17 07:20:52+00:00
For AI Training job, how do you setup a k8s cluster configuration? Is AI Training generally in a single region cluster? How are # of nodes determine? What is the scaling, affinity, scheduling policy like for pods? Is there a lot of variability in the workload and there is a need to evict or throttle pod resources? How are pods scheduled?
by n4r9 | 2025-04-17 07:26:14+00:00
Are you talking about Abdulrahman Anwar al-Awlaki?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Aw...

Obama approved a policy of targeted killing, which killed an American bystander when targeting an Egyptian citizen. That's very different to "ordered an extra judicial killing".
by delichon | 2025-04-17 07:26:32+00:00
> ...it is plausible that epigenetic memory could also play a role in many other contexts, including addictive diseases. Recent advancements in targeted epigenetic editing global remodelling of the epigenome provide promising new approaches.

"Darn, I think I've contracted some alcoholism. Could you order me another bottle of the reset pills?"
by zozbot234 | 2025-04-17 07:28:20+00:00
A lot of the complexity here is just hidden in Haskell's runtime, which implements async processing based on green threads, besides other features such as GC. Though to be fair, the software transactional memory (STM) featureset is quite unique to Haskell since it relies on the availability of pure functions to ensure correctness. It's kind of hard to imagine a full equivalent to it in other well-known languages.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-04-17 07:28:26+00:00
It is continuously frustrating to me to see the arrogant dismissiveness which people in charge of such technical groups display towards the real world usage of their systems. It's some classic ivory tower "we know better than you" stuff, and it needs to stop. In the real world, things are messy and don't conform to the tidy ideas that the Chrome team at Google has. But there's nothing forcing them to wake up and face reality, so they keep making things harder and harder for the rest of us in their pursuit of dogmatic goals.
by jabiko | 2025-04-17 07:29:11+00:00
But what would be the value of such a certificate over a self-signed one? For example, if the ACME Router Corp uses this special CA to issue a certificate for acmerouter.local and then preloads it on all of its routers, it will sooner or later be extracted by someone.

So in a way, a certificate the device generates and self-signs would actually be better, since at least the private key stays on the device and isn’t shared.
by gsf_emergency | 2025-04-17 07:29:21+00:00
How about the slightly easier* Poker? OpenAI seem to be mildly interested

https://xcancel.com/polynoamial?lang=en

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09159

(To be fair, re (card) games: I'm also only interested in seeing Cyborg-on-Cyborg action. Lee vs a-G almost qualified :)
by delusional | 2025-04-17 07:29:47+00:00
Anybody that doesn't acknowledge this as a base truth of these systems should not be listened to. It's not intelligence, it's statistics.

The AI doesn't reason in any real way. It's calculating the probability of the next word appearing in the training set conditioned on the context that came before, and in cases where there are multiple likely candidates it's picking one at random.

To the extent you want to claim intelligence from these systems, it's actually present in the training data. The intelligence is not emergent, it's encoded by humans in the training data. The weaker that signal is to the noise of random internet garbage, the more likely the AI will be to pick a random choice that's not True.
by ManBeardPc | 2025-04-17 07:30:46+00:00
Don't try to lose weight fast. Don't do a diet for a limited amount of time. Change your eating habits to something you can live with permanently. Avoid sugar in drinks, it's so easy to get a lot of calories without feeling full. Sugar in general will give you hunger attacks. For me personally I feel best if I have a big part of calories coming from protein, followed by less carbs and some fat. But removing sugar from drinks alone lost me 30kg, without changing any other habits. Better for the general health as well.

Going to the gym helped me immensely. Not so much in losing weight directly but in feeling better and fresher.
by pmontra | 2025-04-17 07:31:51+00:00
If I'd have to spend my career developing and attending to a single product, a set of libraries would be all I need. I can fill in the blanks and connect them and write and maintain any missing pieces.

However I work for customers, many different projects, and I'm more than happy to work with Ruby on Rails, that enforces a common structure to every project, lets me predict where files are and what they do, etc. The advantage is in all the time not spent on learning from scratch every single project. I can start working on the very first day. Even Django, which is mostly anarchy compared to Rails, is better than complete anarchy with every single project using different tools and having a different architecture.

Furthermore projects started with Sinatra and Flask and similar tools quickly evolve into something as complex as Rails and Django, with tons of home made fragile code. There is never the time to make them robust, because nobody is working full time on those projects for years. Basically frameworks allow developers to multitask among projects which is great for consultants and also for customers, because they don't have to pay for the extra developers.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-04-17 07:32:26+00:00
From the BBC coverage:

> Kennedy has also alarmed some over his hiring of David Geier, who has been described by some as a conspiracy theorist, to research vaccines and autism, and on Thursday Democrats in the US House of Representatives wrote to HHS "to express our urgent concern" over the selection of "a biased and discredited individual".

> Geier is a leading vaccine sceptic who was fined by the state of Maryland for practicing medicine without a medical degree or licence and prescribing dangerous treatments to autistic children.

I think it was this guy, or his dad who was also a kook doctor, that was giving puberty blockers to autistic kids without their parents' knowledge or consent, which is a wild coincidence given other recent culture war controversies about that medication.
by habinero | 2025-04-17 07:32:47+00:00
You don't know what the "diversity criteria" even is. Neither does the parent article. You assume you do and therefore it is bad because something something woke. That's not being condescending, that's just true.

As I said, the entire DEI thing smacks of hysteria and paranoia. Frankly, DEI programs do very little, in general.

I have seen a lot of guys overvalue their skills and undervalue others and then blame "DEI" instead of their own mediocrity.
by paulpauper | 2025-04-17 07:33:10+00:00
The more you research/learn about obesity, the worse it is, much like smoking. One of the most depressing stats is that dieting does not get easier with time. The probability of eventually regaining all the weight eventually converges to 100%. Even if you're successful for 2 years, people still regain by year 4, 5, etc. The body never resists trying to regain the weight. GLP-1 drugs are the best hope yet.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-04-17 07:34:09+00:00
From the BBC coverage:

> Kennedy has also alarmed some over his hiring of David Geier, who has been described by some as a conspiracy theorist, to research vaccines and autism, and on Thursday Democrats in the US House of Representatives wrote to HHS "to express our urgent concern" over the selection of "a biased and discredited individual".

> Geier is a leading vaccine sceptic who was fined by the state of Maryland for practicing medicine without a medical degree or licence and prescribing dangerous treatments to autistic children.

I think it was this guy, or his dad who was also a kook doctor, that was giving puberty blockers to autistic kids without their parents' knowledge or consent, which is a wild coincidence given other recent culture war controversies about that medication.
by Voice_of_Void | 2025-04-17 07:34:14+00:00
This article proposes that the most sophisticated AI systems may not be those optimized for rapid content generation, but those capable of meaningful silence. We examine both the technical challenges of building systems that know when not to respond (e.g., developing unconventional reward functions for reinforcement learning that value appropriate silence) and the cultural/neurobiological foundations of listening. The piece includes examples of 2025's experimental "listening AI" systems from Google Research, MIT Media Lab, and startups like EmpathicAI.
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-17 07:34:40+00:00
Cyncicsm is the belief that you don't think there is anything worth fighting for. Cynicism is an admission that you prefer to submit than fight. Most of the world looked at Ukraine and cynically said that Zelenskyy would flee and Ukrainians would not fight because they themselves would not be willing to fight. Few people have values they would consider dying for. Few people would put themselves at risk for another person. Few people would be willing to die building a better world that they won't get to experience. Yet Ukrainians are fighting for western values right now. They are fighting for a government in which they are a person and not a thing. They are fighting for a government that does not treat them arbitrarily. They are fighting for them and their children to have a future.

On the Maidan revolution of Ukraine:

The Maidan was a revolt against произвол (pronounced: preez-vol), an idea of arbitrariness tinged with tyranny, helplessness in the face of power, the feeling that the powers that be can do whatever they want to you, and you are helpless, that you are being treated as a plaything, as a thing and not as a human being, as an object and not as a subject, and the Maidan became a revolt against произвол, it became an insistence on being treated as a person and not as a thing, as a subject not as an object, and they began to call themselves on the Maidan the revolution of dignity. The Making of Modern Ukraine: Maidan and Self-Understanding, Guest Lecturer: Marci Shore -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg_CLI3xY58&list=PLh9mgdi4rN...

In November 2013 Ukraine was expected to sign a long-anticipated association agreement with the European Union. At the eleventh hour, on 21 November 2013, Yanukovych refused.

The disappointment was especially crushing for students, who felt as if their future had vanished; Europe would be closed to them. That evening a thirty-two-year-old Ukrainian journalist from Kabul named Mustafa Nayyem wrote in Russian on his Facebook page:

Come on, let’s get serious. Who is ready to go out to the Maidan by midnight tonight? ‘Likes’ don’t count.

That night Ukrainians—overwhelming students—came to the Maidan—and stayed. They held hands and shouted, “Ukraine is Europe!” At 4 am on 30 November 2013 Yanukovych sent his riot police to the Maidan to beat the students. The violence against peaceful protestors was a shock. Yanukovych, it seems, was counting on the shock to shake parents into pulling their kids off the streets. That was when something remarkable happened: instead of pulling their kids off the streets, the parents joined them there. It was a historic Aufhebung of Oedipal rebellion. Now there were close to a million people on the streets of Kyiv, and they were shouting, “We will not permit you to beat our children!” Ukraine's Maidan Revolution --https://snyder.substack.com/p/ukraines-maidan-revolution

I showed up to the first protest of my entire life on April 5th. This Saturday, April 19th, everyone here should show up, too.

Upvotes don't count.
by wruza | 2025-04-17 07:35:38+00:00
You can't upload much of what's rarely downloaded. The usual way to help the network is to download something popular that you don't need and to seed it. This removes some strain from big seeders and helps them seed other things you don't have.

But personally I believe you're not obliged to anything in torrents, especially with adsl. We got you covered with our multi-hundred u/d ratios. Everyone participating honestly and comfortably is enough, even if that means no upload. Just don't turn it off out of unnecessary principle after downloading.
by wfn | 2025-04-17 07:35:47+00:00
This could not have come at a better time for me, thank you!

I've been tinkering with an idea for an audiovisual sandbox[1] (like vvvv[2] but much simpler of course, barebones).

Idea is to have a way to insert LM (or some simple locally run neural net) "nodes" which are given specific tasks and whose output is expected to be very constrained. Hence your example:

"question -> answer: float"

Is very attractive here. Of course, some questions in my case would be quite abstract, but anyway. Also, multistage pipelines are also very interesting.

[1]: loose set of bulletpoints brainstorming the idea if curious, not organised: https://kfs.mkj.lt/#audiovisllm (click to expand description)

[2]: https://vvvv.org/
by soraminazuki | 2025-04-17 07:36:31+00:00
By moving away from streaming services, you can once again own what you bought and paid for. Algorithmic playlists are nothing, nothing at all compared to the loss of ability to use your own player, edit your files, back them up, or not be nickel-and-dimed to get around artificial restrictions. Not to mention that with streaming services, music can be taken away from you after the purchase.
by atoav | 2025-04-17 07:38:51+00:00
As an electrical engineer it is absolutely amazing how much LLMs suck at describing electrical circuits. It is somewhat ok with natural language, which works for the simplest circuits. For more complex stuff Chatgpt (regardless of model) seems to default to absolutely nonsensical ASCII circuit diagrams, you can ask it to list each part with each terminal and describe the connections to other parts and terminals and it will fail spectacularly with missing parts, missing terminals, parts no one ever heard of, short circuits, dangling nodes with no use..

If tou ask it to draw a schematic thigns somehow get even worse.

But what it is good at is proposing ideas. So if you want to do a thing that could be solved by using a Gilbert cell, the chances it might mention a Gilbert Cell are realistically there.

But I am already having students coming by with LLM slob circuits asking why the don't work..
by delusional | 2025-04-17 07:39:13+00:00
A couple of years of this LLM AI hype train has blinded people to what was actually surprising about LLMs. The surprise wasn't that you could make a language model and it wasn't that a language model could generate text. Those are both rather pedestrian observations, and their implementations are trivial. The surprise of LLMs was that contemporary hardware could scale this far and that an un-curated training set turns out to contain a statistically significant amount of truth. Deep learning was interesting because we didn't expect that amount of computation to be feasible at this time in human history, not because nobody had ever thought of it before.

The surprise of the LLM AI was that they were somewhat truthful at all.
by paulpauper | 2025-04-17 07:39:28+00:00
metabolism is orthogonal . It's possible to have a fast metabolism and still be obese if you're eating at a surplus. But it's also possible people with faster metabolisms may be more successful at weight loss if already obese. So a 300-lbs person who eats 10,000 calories/day to be weight stable will find it easier to lose weight compared to to a 300 lbs person who is stable at 4,000 cal/day. This can also explain how some people lose tons of weight on GLP-1 drugs, whereas others lose less. The guy eating 10,000 calories/day will lose much more weight more rapidly owning to having a much bigger metabolic furnace, as soon as he restricts eating and his body is no longer getting 10,000 calories/day. Unfortunately, there are no studies that investigate the link, if any, with metabolism and dieting success.
by delichon | 2025-04-17 07:39:49+00:00
Yes, unfortunately. I was a world class yo-yo dieter, bouncing over 100 pounds four times, with many many lesser yos. This is, officially, a type of bulimia. I binge and diet instead of vomit. After more than five decades of that I found stability via sufficient protein, but I've lost my previous knack for losing weight. So now I'm stuck right in the middle of one of my previous yo-yos. It's better here than at the top though.
by redbell | 2025-04-17 07:40:04+00:00
> The whole point of paying for MarkMonitor is that they're an expensive service for valuable domains

A while ago and, out of curiosity, I did a Whois Lookup to see what big tech companies are using as their domain registrar and found that Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Tesla, Netflix and Shopify are all using MarkMonitor. On the other hand Apple uses "Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE", Meta (and its children) uses RegistrarSafe and Nvidia uses SafeNames.
by shmeeed | 2025-04-17 07:40:33+00:00
I'm just armchair musing here, and I'm definitely no expert on sound waves, but I wonder if they considered the fact that most airliners have more than one engine. Could the effect also be the superposition of multiple engine sounds?

Those have a fixed spatial distance, too, and the effect would (I suppose) change with the lateral angle to the listener during the fly-by. This theory should be pretty easy to falsify, because then the effect would not occur if the plane's path went exactly overhead.
by thinkingemote | 2025-04-17 07:40:40+00:00
> Is there a lawsuit brewing about harm done by the trump administration to kids of white, non immigrants, conservative, affluent, christian, devouts, mainstream and influencial Americans ?

Interesting. In effect I think you are asking how the opposition should appeal to the supporters.

One way would be as you suggest to angle the message towards their identity, their group affiliation. This would work for the groups you suggest but this would a) only strengthen group identities that are being targeted and b) weaken the oppositions beliefs in their own groups. The opposition views politics as groups of people with characteristics at fight with each other. The election showed that for supporters the hard identity groupings are, at best that softer than before and at worst don't actually exist in reality.

A more effective argument would lead to the opposition using the belief system of their target. For example "All people have equality and valuable personhood and illegal actions damage this inherent value". This is basically the classical liberal mindset based on Christian values. But this isn't really the mindset of those in opposition while they continue to view the world as being run by power between conflicting identity groups. They believe that people are not equal, that equity is more important, that people belong to groups with inherent characteristics of varying levels of power, and that to solve issues the power needs to move between groups.

In other words, yes, an appeal to the group identities of the supporters will probably work for some but it will strengthen their group identity (increased race-nationalism), and the supporters actually cover a much wider range than the identities you give. An alternative appeal to the values of the supporters would work much better but would lead to a weakening of the oppositions own beliefs. Looking at it from a religion lens: the opposition cannot use Christian appeals to morality while they reject Christianity.

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves." Enders Game
by hamburglar | 2025-04-17 07:41:08+00:00
I’ve actually put a decent amount of thought into this. I envision a raspberry pi sized device, with a simple front panel ui. This serves as your home CA. It bootstraps itself witha generated key and root cert and presents on the network using a self-issued cert signed by the bootstrapped CA. It also shows the root key fingerprint on the front panel. On your computer, you go to its web UI and accept the risk, but you also verify the fingerprint of the cert issuer against what’s displayed on the front panel. Once you do that, you can download and install your newly trusted root. Do this on all your machines that want to trust the CA. There’s your root of trust.

Now for issuing certs to devices like your router, there’s a registration process where the device generates a key and requests a cert from the CA, presenting its public key. It requests a cert with a local name like “router.local”. No cert is issued but the CA displays a message on its front panel asking if you want to associate router.local with the displayed pubkey fingerprint. Once you confirm, the device can obtain and auto renew the cert indefinitely using that same public key.

Now on your computer, you can hit local https endpoints by name and get TLS with no warnings. In an ideal world you’d get devices to adopt a little friendly UX for choosing their network name and showing the pubkey to the user, as well as discovering the CA (maybe integrate with dhcp), but to start off you’d definitely have to do some weird hacks.
by notTooFarGone | 2025-04-17 07:41:26+00:00
There are enough example where this is just a bogus scenario. There are a lot of IoT cases that fall apart anyway when the attacker is able to do a MITM attack.

For example if the MITM requires you to have physical access to the machine, you'd also have to cover the physical security first. As long as that is not the case who cares for some connection hijack. If the data you are actually communicating is in addition just not worth the encryption but has to be because of regulation you are just doing the dance without it being worth it.
by magicalhippo | 2025-04-17 07:41:29+00:00
A friend started growing vegetables, and I got some as a gift at the end of the season.

Just regular stuff like potatoes, carrots, celery root, parsnip and such.

Now when I got them I was very busy, so they sat in a cool and dark place for a couple of weeks before I had time to use them.

First thing I did was make a simple vegetable soup using only the vegetables I got from her, and it completely blew me away with the flavors.

I enjoy food and making food, and that soup was one of the best dishes I've ever tasted. Each spoonful was a feast.

I told my friend this, and she replied that she had noticed it right away herself, and like me was taken aback by how stark the difference was to what was in the grocercy stores.

I've made soups and stews with fresh and frozen vegetables, but nothing has come close to those homegrown ones.
by inglor_cz | 2025-04-17 07:41:33+00:00
The Hapsburg empire, in its various incarnations, existed for almost four hundred years (1526-1918), and most of the time, their troops were loyal, so the answer is yes?

But one has to be careful: while their military was diverse, it wasn't really made of immigrants. It was simply built out of very diverse local ethnicities that were settled in the same place for centuries. Which means, for example, that when the Kaiser fought against the Turks, everyone involved regardless of language had an incentive to fight, because their own homes and freedom were at stake.