MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by psb217 | 2025-06-02 18:55:05+00:00
One challenge with this line of argument is that the base model assigns non-zero probability to all possible sequences if we ignore truncation due to numerical precision. So, in a sense you could say any performance improvement is due to shifting probability mass towards good reasoning behaviors and away from bad ones that were already present in the base model.

I agree with your general point though. Ie, we need more thorough empirical investigation of how reasoning behavior evolves during RL training starting from the base model. And, current RL training results seem more like "amplifying existing good behavior" than "inducing emergent good behavior".
by TFYS | 2025-06-02 18:55:08+00:00
It does, at least according to the statistics and research we have. Labor share of income has been decreasing during the last few decades. The reason is also simple: without strong interference from governments, markets have a tendency to concentrate and form monopolies. Winners are rewarded with more advantages over their competitors, and over time one or two winners will emerge and get large enough that it's near impossible to compete with them, even if the competitors can resist the urge to get rich quick by selling the business to the dominant players.

Capital also has a much easier time organizing politically than the poor masses, so over time the government will also introduce policies that benefit capital over labor, as we can very clearly see.
by somethingsome | 2025-06-02 18:55:18+00:00
I find that gradient are really badly handled usually in svg softwares, I hope this can improve it.

In inkscape you can make only a one direction gradient, never a gradient with more than 2 points, I don't know if it is a limitation of the format itself.

Also when you have multiple gradients in one file, the software becomes extremely slow. And they don't mix correctly when overlapped with transparency.

It seems a low hanging fruit to optimize that, but I guess there is little traction
by jmclnx | 2025-06-02 18:55:23+00:00
>How to secure IoT devices

Do not buy them and avoid built in ones at all costs.

Maybe at some point newer ones can be secured, but I doubt it.

Nevermind thousands have already be installed. People cannot be bothered to update their phones or computers, those updates are rather easy. Who will be bothered to update their IOTs ? Plus 2038 is coming quickly, good luck to people who have 32bit IOTs. Do 64bit IOTs even exist ?

>it’s up to system integrators, who are responsible for the security of an overall service interconnecting IoT devices, to require the features from their suppliers, and to coordinate features inside the device with external resilience and monitoring mechanisms

So we give integrators access to our devices ? How is that security ? Also what if these integrator's company is purchased or goes out of business ?
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by kens | 2025-06-02 18:55:55+00:00
And if you're in high school, join a First Robotics team. (In First Robotics, teams build a moderately large robot that can zip around a field, grabbing things and shooting balls for instance. It's like a competitive sport but with robots competing. The robots are controlled by drivers, but can also act autonomously for more points. The task is different each year, with sub-tasks of varying levels of difficulty, so teams with widely different skill levels can take part: some robots are very simple while others are amazingly complicated. It's a great way for high schoolers to learn engineering skills, anything from programming to mechanical engineering.)
by renjimen | 2025-06-02 18:56:12+00:00
The imbalance between content and consumers on the internet is huge and just getting larger with AI. My advice having just started creative writing: Don't publish on the internet. Share with family, friends and colleagues if you want. Heck, even share with an LLM. But, if even a small part of why you create is for internet points with random strangers, then you're not going to get as much meaning out of it and you'll end up disappointed (even when you do get some internet points).
by quechimba | 2025-06-02 18:56:19+00:00
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by fellowniusmonk | 2025-06-02 18:56:44+00:00
Should the people who created the data set that was required for training reap the rewards or be laid off permanently? That is the real world scenario that is already playing out and will continue to ramp. That's the world we are currently living in.

If commercial generative Ai groups that design the algo that relies on that data are heavily reliant on open publishing and open source and depended on and iterated on those things to create what they have created do they deserve to capture all the products value?

Some things are inevitable products of new mediums and regulatory environments (regulation is just cultural byproducts of a nations citizenry) wasn't wikipedia always going to exist? Wasn't Craigslist? Wasn't IMDB? Weren't social media networks?

What amount of profits should a group who scrapes all their core data from other people be morally obligated to hoard for themselves?

If a small number of people profit off this and replace the very people whose data they scraped so that those people lose their jobs and homes and any financial security they have and deaths of despair skyrocket...

Does this seem morally good or just?

What is the dividing line?

If this concentration of wealth is so extreme it destabilizes the very culture and people that birthed it, do we just consider the family losing their homes to be this kind of hilarious ironic thing and fuck 'em the losers?

I think UBI and Paid Re-Skilling needs to be talked about now, I think the mechanisms and evaluations for rolling out UBI and Paid Re-Skilling should be discussed now.

It seems very likely thay paid re-skilling will only exist in the transition and isn't the final state of LLM much less AGI.

Unless we do this in earnest we are effectively committing to cultural decohesion and chasing down the misfortunate "Redundant" with murderbots and culling the now irrelevant laid off to stop unrest.
by klabb3 | 2025-06-02 18:57:01+00:00
> What are some notable uses of P2P these days?

Im using it for Payload[1] in for LAN and WAN transfers (if possible). Reduce operational costs (especially if you run on public clouds and have to pay extortion rates for egress) and also you must use it to capitalize on latency/throughput in LAN. Moving data from A->server->B means your need multiple servers on the edge, which means you kinda need to depend on mega-corps. If your destination is closer it’s easier for your application infra. I’d like to reverse the question, why send all data through another machine in the cloud if you don’t need to?

That said, p2p being flaky and bad is real. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy, because middlebox engineers say ”let’s add these layers of garbage and nobody will notice unless they use p2p but its so bad who uses it anyway”. Well, yeah. It’s worse because of you! Philosophically, I also think p2p is a necessary precondition to a decentralized internet without tiers (ie client and server separation).

Anyway, rant aside, you have to currently have a relay backup if you need availability. P2P will fail often even with the smartest hole punching algorithms. This makes things more complicated, because you need a hybrid solution. However, it’s not as complicated as WebRTC, that thing is an overengineered mess. It works, but I don’t like the complexity it brings.

[1]: https://payload.app/
by kstrauser | 2025-06-02 18:58:12+00:00
No, it's just not speaking idiomatically. The term "open source", with or without caps, has a commonly understood meaning that's widely used. Whatever the individual words mean in the dictionary, together they have a well defined meaning. Applying it to other situations that contradict that meaning just adds confusion.

As an example, you could describe a spinning disk hard drive as "RAM" because it's a memory device you can randomly access. That would meet the dictionary definitions of "random", "access", and "memory". And yet, everyone would be annoyed with you for doing so. "I have 16TB of RAM in my computer!" "No you don't, Kebab. Stop saying that!"
by deepsquirrelnet | 2025-06-02 18:58:14+00:00
In some other experiments, I’ve noticed that SFT can be very rigid and hard to generalize from, and later found this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17161

Also I wanted to start from the instruct model, and wasn’t certain if it would be a good idea to do continued pretraining over top of it. Otherwise I’d need to create an instruct dataset for which the passages from the IPJ would be the answer… that also seemed a bit unnatural.

Perhaps there’s still some viable pathways in there, but I decided to see how the stupid simple thing worked out first and just go directly to RL. I think supervised fine tuning is feasible, but it’s not entirely straightforward what to train on and how much data to use if you want to follow up with RL.
by drdaeman | 2025-06-02 18:58:19+00:00
While I can imagine some edge cases where this approach can be meaningful, isn't that generally counterproductive?

Not only one has to be actively aware about all the behaviors they don't document (which is surely not an easy task for any large project), they have to spend a non-negligible amount of time adding randomness to it in a way that would still allow all the internal use cases to work cohesively. This means you spend less time on doing something actually useful.

Instead of randomizing, it should be sufficient to just figure out the semantics for clearly communicating what's the public APIs and stable, and what's internal and subject to change at whim. And maybe slap a big fat warning "if something is not documented - it's internal, and $deity help you if you depend on it, for we make no guarantees except that it'll break on some fine day and that day won't be so fine anymore". Then it's not your problem.
by turtlebits | 2025-06-02 18:58:29+00:00
Having built a couple of smaller structures, I don't see why these can't be done today. Ignoring the current trend of building for curb appeal instead of practicality, you can build a house using standard size materials (8/10/12/16 foot). Even studs come in 92 5/8" to accomodate for top/bottom plates in 8 foot walls.
by cldcntrl | 2025-06-02 18:59:10+00:00
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by hommelix | 2025-06-02 18:59:11+00:00
> As for the electrical engineering, is the one with most pitfalls and the most expensive. A wrong voltage will release the magical smoke and is another 30$ for a board. Tread carefully.

I enjoyed reading "Exploring Beaglebone" by Derek Molloy a few years ago, because the book has sections "how to destroy your beaglebone" and "how to interface with electronics". The website seems broken. The book's ISBN is 978-1-118-93512-5. Some of the recommendations there (voltage clamping circuit on the 1.8 V analog inputs) can save your board.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-02 18:59:22+00:00
Not only that, "roots of trust" and locking users out of their devices is the thing that causes the IoS omnishambles. The foundational problem is that some company makes millions of devices and then goes out of business or otherwise stops supporting them, but because the users are locked out of the device, nobody else can do it either. Meanwhile people continue to use them because the device is still functional modulo the unpatched security vulnerabilities.

If anyone could straightforwardly install the latest DD-WRT or similar then it's solved, because then you don't have to replace the hardware to replace the software, and the manufacturer could even push a community firmware to the thing as their last act before discontinuing support.
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by bradlys | 2025-06-02 18:59:53+00:00
7/10 is by definition not average, lol. That’s about 2 standard deviation above average.

I’ve found many men have good success on the apps but the defining feature of all of them is that they’re physically attractive. They have no problems in real life either unless they have some form of social anxiety.

The men I find having the most trouble are just ugly and that’s all there is to it. Improve body composition or get surgery are about the only options left for such individuals.
by josh_cutler | 2025-06-02 19:00:13+00:00
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by gsablewskinunes | 2025-06-02 19:00:16+00:00
I am trying to get into a position of more value, just that. I am "aiming high", like I said if in one or two months nothing happens, let's try to get one here in Brazil! Thx for your time! I am thinking of trying some work-from-anywhere jobs in other countries like Indonesia or Vietnam! Changing career is kind of a weird thing to do!
by marssaxman | 2025-06-02 19:00:20+00:00
My wife and I spent a year in a coastal town not far from Beaufort, and the rising water was an everyday reality there. It's very much Trump country, so people don't really talk about "climate change", but no matter your politics you can't ignore the flooding you see with your own eyes. New houses there are all being built up on stilts, six or eight feet above the ground; building contractors are doing a busy trade lifting older houses in like fashion.

Our house had been flooded and repaired twice in the decade before we moved into it; the folks we sold it to are currently having it lifted.
by jsnell | 2025-06-02 19:00:29+00:00
Sure. Here's something I'd written on the subject that I'd left lying in my drafts folder for a month, but I've now published just for you :)

https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2025-06-02-llms-are-ch...

It has links to public sources on the pricing of both LLMs and search, and explains why the low inference prices can't be due the inference being subsidized. (And while there are other possible explanations, it includes a calculator for what the compound impact of all of those possible explanations could be.)
by juanpabloaj | 2025-06-02 19:00:44+00:00
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by itishappy | 2025-06-02 19:01:10+00:00
As somebody outside of the industry, what's the final output of this product? I don't see doors, so I'm assuming this tool is intended to be used to rough out shapes and costs collaboratively? I totally see the utility in having a collaborative tool at those early stages. How far does Arcol go? Can it spit out blueprints?

Also, being asked to login to view the demo vid is jarring. The play button signifies a video to me, if it's a demo I'd choose a different symbol (and put it somewhere other than the center of the video).
by njl | 2025-06-02 19:01:29+00:00
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by prmph | 2025-06-02 19:01:35+00:00
This is one of the best comments about the current AI hype.

The elite really don't see why the proletariat should be interested in, or enjoy the dignity of, actual skill and quality.

Hence the enshitification of everything, and now AI promises to commoditize everything into slop.

Sad because it is the very deoth of society that has birthe
by loumf | 2025-06-02 19:01:42+00:00
Here is the answer for Trello: each card and list has a field called “pos” which is a number. The initial values are spread out (e.g. 1000, 2000, 3000) and then when you move a card, it takes on the average of the two adjacent cards.

So, if I move the 3rd card to the 2nd position, its “pos” becomes 1500. This means it doesn’t have to constantly renumber the cards -- but, every once and a while, the server does reorder the “pos” fields for a whole list and send the new values down the socket.