MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by retinaros | 2025-07-21 19:22:40+00:00
they are politically motivated. french gov wants a far-left researcher to investigate the algorithm. this guy was also famous for building a “leaveX” movement in france and there was a debate on the ties with CNRS and on wether they used public funding to campaign against X.

“ French authorities have requested access to X’s recommendation algorithm and real-time data about all user posts on the platform in order for several “experts” to analyze the data and purportedly “uncover the truth” about the operation of the X platform. One of those “experts” is David Chavalarias, who spearheads the “Escape X” campaign. Formerly known as “HelloQuitteX”, the campaign is dedicated to encouraging X users to leave the platform. A second “expert,” Maziyar Panahi, has previously participated in research projects with David Chavalarias that demonstrate open hostility towards X.”
by em-bee | 2025-07-21 19:22:48+00:00
you are right, yes, the eggs from big producers are not fertilized. i forgot about that detail. but depending on where you are there is a good chance that you can get fertilized eggs as well, or can't be certain that they are not fertilized. nevertheless it does change the equation, because it would be possible to ensure that only unfertilized eggs are consumed. thank you for the correction.
by pseudosavant | 2025-07-21 19:22:55+00:00
Between his career, and serving in our lay ministry church, my Dad (indirectly) taught me that I wanted to be around with my kids (unlike him). I definitely don't have the career drive he had. I'm also certainly A LOT happier than he has ever been, and I have a great relationship with my kids.

There aren't a lot of people I meet, that are meaningfully more successful in their career than me, that don't usually make sacrifices I'm unwilling to make for their work/life harmony.
by BizarroLand | 2025-07-21 19:22:58+00:00
This is a great way to tell me you think your viewers are stupid and worthless by default.

I use adblockers on everything. I also spend between $300-$3000/month on purchases made online personally and tens of thousands a month professionally.

However, I never spend money on sites that advertise to me. If you force my seeing ads before I can see your site, I leave and spend my and my companies money elsewhere.
by madaxe_again | 2025-07-21 19:23:39+00:00
With a shorter rig you could use slide-out armatures - double or triple your area when you’re parked up, plus get a nice awning to chill out under. Victron stuff if you’re talking about the electronics is all marine rated and commonly used in vehicles.

This sort of thing:

https://censohardware.com/slide-rails-for-solar-panels/
by pilooch | 2025-07-21 19:24:05+00:00
Some colleagues and myself did implemented exactly this six months ago for a French gov agency.

It's open source and available here: https://github.com/jolibrain/colette

It's not our primary business so it's just lying there and we don't advertise much, but it works, somehow and with some tweaks to get it really efficient.

The true genius though is that the whole thing can be made fully differentiable, unlocking the ability to finetune the viz rag on targeted datasets.

The layout model can also be customized for fine grained document understanding.
by tobyhinloopen | 2025-07-21 19:24:07+00:00
This is something I've done as well - I wanted to scan all invoices that came into my mail so I just exported ALL ATTACHMENTS from my mailbox and used a script to upload them one by one, forcing a tool call to extract "is invoice: yes / no" and a bunch of invoice line, company name, date, invoice number, etc fields.

It had a surprisingly high hit rate. It took over 3 hours of LLM calls but who cares - It was completely hands-off. I then compared the invoices to my bank statements (aka I asked an LLM to do it) and it just missed a few invoices that weren't included as attachments (like those "click to download" mails). It did a pretty poor job matching invoices to bank statements (like "oh this invoice is a few dollars off but i'm sure its this statement") so I'm afraid I still need an accountant for a while.

"What did it cost"? I don't know. I used a cheap-ish model, Claude 3.7 I think.
by omh1280 | 2025-07-21 19:24:32+00:00
Great read!

Python asyncio can really screw up your runtime performance if you use it poorly. And it's _really_ easy to use poorly.

Consider a FastAPI server using asyncio instead of threading. _Any_ time you drop down into a synchrononous API, you better be sure that you're not doing anything slow. For example, encoding or decoding JSON in Python actually grabs the GIL depending on what library you're using, and then you have no hope of releasing control back to asyncio.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-21 19:25:14+00:00
> real problem with fusion power is that even if they figure it out, it still won't be cost competitive with solar and wind

This is difficult to say when comparing an emerging technology with an established technology in an emerging economy.

Based on every historical prior, it would be surprising if there weren't diminishing returns to solar and wind. And I wouldn't underestimate the degree to which power is, in part, fashion. Today we value emissions. Tomorrow it may be preserving and expanding wild spaces.

On a practical level, fusion research doesn't compete with solar and wind deployment. Pursuing both is optimal.
by getnormality | 2025-07-21 19:25:29+00:00
We're told that formal verification tools like Lean are not used to solve the actual IMO problems, but are they used in training the model to solve the problems?

We know from Google's 2024 IMO work that they have a way to translate natural language proofs to formally verifiable ones. It seems like a natural next step would be to leverage this for RLVR in training/fine-tuning. During training, any piece of reasoning generated by the math LLM could be translated, verified, and assigned an appropriate reward, making the reward signal much denser.

Reward for a fully correct proof of a given IMO problem would still be hard to come by, but you could at least discourage the model from doing wrong or indecipherable things. That plus tons of compute might be enough to solve IMO problems.

In fact it probably would be, right? We already know from AlphaProof that by translating LLM output back and forth between formal Lean proofs, you can search the space of reasoning moves efficiently enough to solve IMO-class problems. Maybe you can cut out the middleman by teaching the LLM via RLVR to mimic formal reasoning, and that gets you roughly the same efficiency and ability to solve hard problems.
by AlphaEsponjosus | 2025-07-21 19:25:38+00:00
Thats not the same. In this case, a machine made a descision that was against its intructions. If a machine make decisions by itself, no one knows avout the process. A team of humans makimg decisions, benefits from multiple point of views, despite the manager being the one that aproves what is implemented or decides the course ofnthe proyect.

Humans make mistakes, and they are critical too (crowdstrike), but letting machines decide, and build, and everything, just let humans out of the processes, and with the current state of "AI", thats just dumb.
by mdaniel | 2025-07-21 19:25:42+00:00
I didn't recognize that expression, so to save other's the search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(franchise)#The_Butlerian...

> As explained in Dune, the Butlerian Jihad is a conflict taking place over 11,000 years in the future[7] (and over 10,000 years before the events of Dune), which results in the total destruction of virtually all forms of "computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots".

and thus if you use "luddites" to describe people who push back against LLMs being the second coming, and further suggest that those folks want all computers thrown in the trash, then you are deeply unserious and I have fed the troll
by mcv | 2025-07-21 19:26:11+00:00
Is your argument that what Strong Towns and NJB are doing is somehow invalid because they're not also doing something completely different? Raising awareness is also a very important role. Sure, maybe 5 friends can get you elected to a local office, but first you need to convince those 5 friends. You need to get people to care.

Of course organizing is important, but so is awareness, and that's certainly what NJB is all about (I'm less familiar with Strong Towns). And organizing is especially unimportant to NJB, because he already lives in a country where this stuff is better organized than he'd ever been able to come up with. He's just spreading the good word and showing the contrast with North America. And he's very effective at that.

The witty snarky videos about organizing are better made by people who know more about organizing. If you think they're not emphasizing the thing you think is most necessary, why aren't you out there doing that?
by Bjartr | 2025-07-21 19:26:37+00:00
One of the tools it has is to create new tools from python code

create_tool(tool_name, description, python_code, parameters)

Create a new tool that can execute Python code.

The tool becomes immediately available for use. Tools can call other tools and return different formats based on context (formatted for direct calls, raw data for tool-to-tool calls).
by darknavi | 2025-07-21 19:26:40+00:00
> Off-topic, but why is these no scrollbar on the transcript in firefox? I smacked my keyboard and now I've lost my position and it's going to be a pain to find it again.

I see a scrollbar in Firefox on Windows but it's quite small due to the article length + comments at the bottom. Maybe 5% of the height of the whole scroll bar.
by sershe | 2025-07-21 19:27:14+00:00
When I was growing up we had an old Soviet fridge at our dacha. It was at least 30 years old (maybe more, it's age was definitely compared to my mother's on multiple occasions) and it was working 3 months out of a year in unheated uninsulated room in up to 90 degree heat, while sitting idle thru Russian winter.

The only issue with it was that the door didn't close too well. My more conscientious family would bend down to push it gently, whereas I would just kick it. It took me less time to quit smoking than to quit kicking fridges every time I close the door. I think I was still kicking fridges in the US in 2010 after last seeing that one in 2000. It was also small and didn't have any features other than producing some amount of cold air. But it worked! It still works for all I know.

If most hand wringing in this thread is to be taken at face value this is what we should pivot to :)
by colechristensen | 2025-07-21 19:27:28+00:00
Solar is still cheaper than anything else is in Germany. Deutsche Bank thinks so [1]

There's no "moving goalposts" possible. Without any morality, preventing future costs, or any such way of adjusting the "real" costs... solar is just cheaper, and by a large margin which is only expected to grow. Yes you need storage and methods to move power east and west, solar is still cheaper. The greediest, most short sighted, heartless monster would still invest in solar before anything else because it makes them the most money.

https://www.dbresearch.de/PROD/RPS_DE-PROD/PROD0000000000528...
by jajko | 2025-07-21 19:27:39+00:00
How do you know, having some superpowers? Since when has US mandate to overthrow democratically elected government because its not leaning towards direction CIA wants? Saddam was also heavily supported by CIA and whole US government for example. And few other merry folks.

At least admit a fuckup and don't try to macho-out of this sin of your fathers. Decent folks would be at least ashamed of their mistakes and apologize (I know that's for decent nations to pick up, but its nice to lay clean moral actions and then watch reality divert because of blahs).
by ike2792 | 2025-07-21 19:27:43+00:00
Article II of the U.S. Constitution vests the entire executive power to the President, so technically it is the President who is responsible for following and implementing the laws that Congress has passed. Since recent Congresses (going back to at least the 70s and somewhat even to the 1930s) have written laws somewhat vaguely to give the executive branch a lot of discretion, there is a lot of legal uncertainty as to what actions are allowed in this discretion. This is why so many of Trump's executive actions are working their way through the courts as it isn't immediately clear what he's allowed to do with his executive authority vs where he is stepping on Congress's toes. For example, it is an open legal question whether the President and executive agencies are required to spend every dollar allocated by Congress or if they can decide they've already spent enough to meet the Congressional intent of the spending and can decide to not spend anymore.
by jerf | 2025-07-21 19:27:53+00:00
Mixed. There are some substantial wind farms in the middle of the state and on the lakes, especially on the northern part of the thumb. I'm not sure how they compare in general but they're pretty big when you're driving through them. Here's some info on that: https://thumbwind.com/michigan-wind-farm-map/#h-the-great-la...

And since their google maps embed seems to be broken, a direct link to that: https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=11HL-d8V1MCxM01uEwpn...

Where I live isn't that great though.
by rscho | 2025-07-21 19:27:57+00:00
The RX bay over here is like 150m^2, serves 6 MRI rooms, has nooks and corners and doubles as the patient waiting bay. Having the tech busy elsewhere while putting people under or waking them up is not a rarity. I agree the security is better for hybrid rooms, as they have their own separate control rooms and techs won't leave when the machine is running. I don't think I'm being dramatic, but you sure seem to have a cozy job if you're allowed to constantly sit around in the control room while anesthesia is under way.
by guptadeepak | 2025-07-21 19:27:57+00:00
I explore how systematically applying de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats method offers a balanced, multi-perspective analysis of personal data security.

Key insights: (1) Data breaches are frequent—3,200+ in 2024 alone—so technical controls (encryption, MFA, credential management) are essential but insufficient (2) Emotional and behavioral factors like security fatigue and user frustration undermine even robust technical systems (3) Creative models such as decentralized identity and privacy-preserving analytics (e.g., differential privacy) show promise but face adoption and UX hurdles.

Has anyone here seen effective ways to bridge these human-technical divides in real-world orgs?
by vlovich123 | 2025-07-21 19:28:04+00:00
I don’t think variance is relevant to this application which is essentially a search function. As long as they find the answer 1/100, it doesn’t matter if it took them 100 tries - that’s just a cost optimization problem here.

That being said, I think variance implicitly improves in this context because this is the same as poll averaging that Nate Silver does - as long as the models are truly independent this averaging technique works as an improved result across the board (ie average and variance). However, if the models start converging with datasets and techniques this will degrade to become worse just as with polling with pollster herding and other problems the industry creates for themselves.
by immibis | 2025-07-21 19:28:35+00:00
Uh, that was the past term. Have you also paid attention to the current term?

The current supreme court (which was also the supreme court past term) has a very consistent pattern of taking away power from Democrats and granting power to Republicans. Since the president is a Republican, they've been consistently granting power to the president; since the last president was a Democrat, they were consistently taking away his power. You can watch the pattern continue in 2029.

They ruled the president has unlimited power to do anything at all, without punishment, if it can be justified as a presidential duty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States - during the last term, but in relation to Trump.

Very soon after Trump took power, they ruled that courts cannot challenge the constitutionality of Trump's orders: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a884_8n59.pdf?...

Notice all of these sorts of decisions are always 6-3: the 6 conservative justices forming a voting bloc in support of expanding Trump's power (specifically Trump, not just any president), and all 3 non-conservative ones voting against.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-07-21 19:28:38+00:00
The real issues come when you work hard and just get exploited.

That's what's really missing here. Someone who got lucky in life and had their hard work rewarded is telling others that hard work pays. In fact for this author in his field it pays off 100x+ whatever it pays for others.

For a salary of a few million a year i too would be willing to work some 12+hour days... for a while. I'd even post a few articles on how hard work is great and rewarding.
by pessimizer | 2025-07-21 19:28:46+00:00
The President is chosen during an election for this very job. We can't discard democracy in order to save it if sovereignty is meant to be popular. We're not lucky like theocracies or kingdoms, where everything boils down to expert sages or raw power; the vote is the only thing that justifies our country. The only thing that makes people from the US a nation is their commitment to popular rule, one which inspired the world.

The Executive was made to serve the country and the law, not Congress. Congress is meant to serve the country and make the law. The Judiciary is meant to serve the country and rule on the Executive's service to Congress's written law, when asked. At any time and for any reason, Congress can impeach the President, and refer his case to the courts if they think it appropriate.

If law (as regulation) is made from arbitrary agencies, denying people access to the courts when disputing that law is not helpful for democracy, it is anti-democratic, because it denies access to the judicial interpretation of Congress's intent. Congress, however, is free to make itself clear at any time, if it has the votes.

This all comes down to complaining about not having the votes. And in democracies, we shouldn't be sympathetic to people who don't have the votes.
by Animats | 2025-07-21 19:28:51+00:00
The great problem of intelligence is that collection will tell you capability but not intent. During a war, capabilities tend to be used. Finding out that the enemy has massed forces somewhere or has a new weapon indicates something is about to happen.

During peacetime, there's mostly unused capability, and preparations take place that don't result in actual conflict. Military assets are built and trained, but not being used. Intent may exist only in the mind of the leader and may change rapidly.

This often frustrates decision-makers, who want intelligence to tell them what's going to happen.
by falcor84 | 2025-07-21 19:29:00+00:00
Human accountants are notoriously non-deterministic too, and any sufficiently complex accounting process contains inaccuracies. The question then is always "are these inaccuracies material". I'm actually very impressed by TFA and it seems to me that if we get another order of magnitude improvement, it'll be around the accuracy of human accountants.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-07-21 19:29:15+00:00
It's a good question, and I can at least say something positive about every solution.

Ads let you make money long before you're big enough to compel subscriptions... but they basically make the least tech savvy people subsidize the rest of us which isn't fair.

Paywalls on everything seems fair, but it means that only some people will see things that everyone should read. Like a critical bit of investigative journalism.

Paywall + free articles per IP address (common solution) is almost good, but it requires every single content producer to polish the system, and IP address isn't the ideal fingerprint. Requiring everyone to quickly register (like Apple sign-in) seems decent, but once again now everyone has to polish this system. Though until you're big you could just use substack/wordpress/whatever.

Bundle subscriptions like Apple News is a decent solution—one of the few times I've paid for news—, but secures the domination for incumbents large enough to appear on Apple News. It doesn't answer the question for anyone else.

Microtransactions seem like they'd be a good way to throw some scraps to even tiny sites you visit once. But I think there's too much psychological overhead that isn't even worth the pennies. Like when you had to click the +1 Flattr button back in the day, even though it was a tiny donation, you'd still find yourself thinking if it was really worth it. Hmm I only read half the article, etc.
by mattlondon | 2025-07-21 19:29:23+00:00
There is only so much you can hustle, a lot is out of your control.

We all know people who have repeatedly been given plum projects that are a bit of a fait acompli - highly-visible, wanted, and easy to implement both technically and organizationally - and surprise surprise they get promo after promo for landing high-impact projects. Yet suddenly they arrive in some new team and their career progress grinds to a halt because there is not the same "low hanging fruit" and they can't just slam dunk everything they touch any more. All of a sudden they are left holding some doomed tarball and it is not so easy to look good any more because it's messy and hard and super-complicated and unpopular. They keep putting in the hours yet don't get anywhere.

TL;Dr You need to opportunity, and working more hours won't make those appear every time.

Yes you can try to weasel your way into "making" the opportunity, but then you start playing The Politics Game and that is a totally different kettle of fish.
by profsummergig | 2025-07-21 19:29:23+00:00
> There's plenty of Lithium in them there hills.

Good to hear!

Reason why I thought there was a shortage was because there was a major push to recover Li from old phones a few years back. I have 4-5 old unused phones lying around my house. (Mostly because there's old text messages in them that I'm hoarding.) I presume it's the same for others. And I was wondering whether there's enough Li for new phones.
by herval | 2025-07-21 19:29:38+00:00
I think it actually holds truer to it working better with a _lighter grip_. LLMs tend to conclude the wrong thing if you over-control them (more context is what makes them less and less reliable over time, as in those demos), and trying to force a model to execute A+B+C=D in sequence is way harder than giving it a bunch of tools to arrive to conclusion D
by smsm42 | 2025-07-21 19:29:43+00:00
> Further, calling the Commander in Chief its "adversary" is terrible framing

Terrible, but not an unusual one. There has been a lot of talk about CIA feuding with various presidents, starting from JFK at least. And it's not exactly a secret they do this:

> New Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump is “being really dumb” by taking on the intelligence community and its assessments on Russia’s cyber activities.

> “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.

And man was Schumer right about that.

> who are they working FOR?

The same all large bureaucracies work for - itself. Self-preservation and self-expansion.