MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by govideo | 2025-07-11 21:45:48+00:00
ML first, then Bio and Data. Of course, interconnectedness runs high (eg just read about ML for non-random missingness in med records) and that data is the foundational bottleneck/need across the board.

Interesting anecdote abt Stanford doctors annotating QA question!

Each of your comments get my mind going... I'm going to think about them more and may ping you on other channels, per your profile. Thanks!
by troupo | 2025-07-11 21:45:59+00:00
I would also assume that in vast majority of cases people don't set temperature to zero even with API calls.

And even if you do set it to zero, you never know what changes to the layers and layers of wrappers and system prompts you will run into on any given day resulting in "on this day we crash for certain input, and on other days we don't": https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/03/the-curious-case-of-chat...
by rickcarlino | 2025-07-11 21:47:18+00:00
Please make text-to-speech work exactly like a music player. No reader app has accomplished this. With a media player:

* You have a play button to begin listening, you don't need to create a playlist.

* You go to the next item in the queue with forward/next (not 30 seconds ahead).

* You listen with the screen off.

Extra points if you can add quality of life improvements like "archive-after-play" and make text to speech available for all articles rather than just some of them. Pocket was unstable and would crash or refuse to play. Instapaper has a confusing "playlist" UI. Omnivore was overly focused on long form content (I don't want to stop my run or use my phone while driving so that I can open my phone to skip to the next 3 minute blog article in the queue).
by pizlonator | 2025-07-11 21:49:17+00:00
No, it's not that precise.

Valgrind is based on tagging whether a memory location is live or not. So, it would not just fail the intra-object OOB test, it would also fail the "out of bounds but in bounds" case: https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge/blob/delug...
by barbazoo | 2025-07-11 21:49:34+00:00
> OpenAI’s deal to buy Windsurf is off, and Google will instead hire Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, cofounder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf’s R&D employees and bring them onto the Google DeepMind team, Google and Windsurf announced Friday.

> Mohan and the Windsurf employees will focus on agentic coding efforts at Google DeepMind and work largely on Gemini. Google will not have any control over nor a stake in Windsurf, but it will take a non-exclusive license to some of Windsurf’s technology.

Sounds to me like they're "hiring" them like one "hires" a consultant?
by consumer451 | 2025-07-11 21:49:41+00:00
I did not see this coming. Wow. The game of thrones in SV.

I wonder what happened with the OpenAI deal. Anyone have any guesses? My first guess is "Look at Claude Code, we can do this ourselves." But, I am likely thinking too simply.

edit: does this mean that Windsurf and its users will stop being iced-out by Anthropic? Or, is this the end of Windsurf?
by ddahlen | 2025-07-11 21:50:12+00:00
I wrote a custom implementation of the Radau integrator, its been heavily modified. I have a lot of additional physics, it supports the non-gravitational models that JPL Horizons defaults to, so diurnal yarkovsky at least. I've been using it to study dust and small object dynamics, as they get pushed around by the sun a lot.

It does an OK job for impactors, but the integrator is tuned heavily for performance, and the tolerance defaults are not great for impactors.

I match jpl horizons for apophis to a few km, they have a lot more intense earth gravitational model then I care to implement, and by default I only include the 5 heaviest main belt asteroids, they have many more. That was the sweet spot for accuracy vs speed for me, overall accuracy goal is less than a few km over a decade.

The goal is to be able to handle the huge influx of new asteroids that the catalog will have due to LSST and eventually NEO Surveyor (which I worked on for 3 years). Most systems I know have been throwing hardware at the problem, I tried to make fast and efficient enough software that we can use it on a laptop for 5-10 million asteroids.
by taeric | 2025-07-11 21:50:40+00:00
There are studies where they compared the same vehicles that show it has reduced the numbers. They can go into the actual calculations for how they got that, if you want to see it.

You seem to be asking why you don't see this directly in the data, with a number going down. But you do realize the the number of drivers and miles driven have both increased in that timeframe, right? Such that, if the safety had remained the same, the number of incidents would have gone up. Pretty much by definition, that means a number remaining the same means something kept it from growing.
by OJFord | 2025-07-11 21:51:17+00:00
And @dead commenter, yes I'm well aware it's botanically a rhizome, just like ginger. Colloquially, even culinarily, that's not common and it's not particularly helpful to say, many people not knowing what it is, and it's certainly not an important distinction to make here.

I also know tomatoes are fruits, but in the comment section on the importance of eating fruits it would hardly be helpful to give as an example 'yes it's very important to eat plenty of fruit, such as tomato' - it's needlessly confusing when 'apple' would suffice.
by ggreer | 2025-07-11 21:51:25+00:00
The only affected models were 737s with the 766AT613-3D fuel control switch. The bulletin recommended that other models be inspected and any defects reported. It's unclear if any 787s were discovered to have the issue. Also the preliminary report mentions that the switches were replaced in 2019 and 2023, after the 2018 bulletin.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-11 21:51:50+00:00
George Carlin did a whole set on the futile bullshit of euphemisms. More often than not, they are used either to sound trendy, cool, intelligent, sensitive, or virtuous through the very large accomplishment of using different words.

Also, what about the black people who don't have an opinion of or attachment with Africa? This treats a group as unified hivemind bloc and assigns a label on them without asking for their individual consent.
by the_af | 2025-07-11 21:52:53+00:00
> My snobby hot-take is that if you can't travel this way you shouldn't do recreational international travel at all

That's a bad take, because it means if you're not rich or a hippie backpacker without attachments, you cannot do international travel.

What's worse, many of these issues affect local tourism within your own country as well (ruining places for the locals, lots of tourist traps sprouting, etc).

So effectively the advice becomes "stay at home, don't vacation, or if you do vacation stay at some prepackaged place".

Which I frankly disagree with.
by ben_w | 2025-07-11 21:52:56+00:00
One of the bigger other sources of emissions is transport; transport requires some of the electricity is condensed into a portable form regardless of the specifics — batteries, hydrogen, chunks of purified metal to burn, whatever — and that condensation means it doesn't get any extra novel benefit from expensive-but-consistent nuclear over cheap-but-predictably-intermittent renewables.

The scale is such that if we imagine a future with fully electrified cars, the batteries in those cars are more than enough to load-balance the current uses of the grid, and still are enough for the current uses of the grid when those batteries have been removed from the vehicles due to capacity wear making them no longer useful in a vehicle.

The best time for more nuclear power was the 90s, the second best was 10 years ago; unless you have a cunning plan you've already shown to an investor about how to roll out reactors much much faster, I wouldn't hold your breath on them.
by osigurdson | 2025-07-11 21:53:06+00:00
Right but some number of humans can collectively decided to change literally anything about Bitcoin. It isn't some fundamental constant of nature. The question really is who are the humans that could actually decide this, what are their incentives, what would make them decide to change it? If only you and I are running the original Bitcoin code then it isn't really Bitcoin. "Real" Bitcoin is a function of human decisions and has fundamentally very little to do with the code. Purchasing Bitcoin is simply a decision to trust this group of humans.
by PaulKeeble | 2025-07-11 21:53:15+00:00
The Sony playstation 3 was another example where it let you run Linux and then people found a way to use the hardware to its fullest (the coprocessors were locked in Linux) and Sony pulled support. Took some court cases but customers got partial refunds then too. HP also lost a lawsuit on blocking ink jet cartridges too.

I think this law needs to move to basic consumer protection and under the protection of a quango and they have a lot of companies to go after now.
by btdmaster | 2025-07-11 21:53:19+00:00
There is a cool solution for this: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Jellyfish042/UncheatableEval

This doesn't work for instruction-tuned models, but it's an interesting alternative approach that doesn't need a complicated (and thus gameable) evaluation function or human interaction. Instead, predict the next word with data newer than the training set.
by iLemming | 2025-07-11 21:53:24+00:00
There weren't any true "wars" to begin with. The entire thing is just absurd. These ideas are not even in competition, it's like arguing whether a piano or sheet music is "better".

Emacs veterans simply rejected the entire concept of modality, without even trying to understand what it is about. Emacs is inherently a modal editor. Key-chords are stateful, Transient menus (i.e. Magit) are modals, completion is a modal, isearch, dired, calc, C-u (universal argument), recursive editing — these are all modals. What the idea of vim-motions offers is a universal, simplified, structured language to deal with modality, that's all.

Vim users on the other hand keep saying "there's no such thing as vim-mode". And to a certain degree they are right — no vim plugin outside of vim/neovim implements all the features — IdeaVim, VSCode vim plugins, Sublime, etc. - all of them are full of holes and glaring deficiencies. With one notable exception — Evil-mode in Emacs. It is so wonderfully implemented, you wouldn't even notice that it is a plugin, an afterthought. It really does feel like a baked-in, native feature of the editor.

There are no "wars" in our industry — pretty much only misunderstanding, misinterpretation and misuse of certain ideas. It's not even technological — who knows, maybe it's not even sociotechnological. People simply like talking past each other, defending different values without acknowledging they're optimizing for different things.

It's not Vim's, Emacs' or VSCode's fault that we suffer from identity investment - we spend hundreds of hours using one so it becomes our identity. We suffer from simplification impulse — we just love binary choices, we constantly have the nagging "which is better?" question, even when it makes little sense. We're predisposed to tribal belonging — having a common enemy creates in-group cohesion.

But real, experienced craftspeople... they just use whatever works best for them in a given context. That's what we all should strive for — discover old and new ideas, study them, identify good ones, borrow them, shelve the bad ones (who knows, maybe in a different context they may still prove useful). Most importantly, use whatever makes you and your teammates happy. It's far more important than being more productive or being decisively right. If thy stupid thing works, perhaps it ain't that stupid?
Show HN: Made an app for streamers to overlay live Telemetry for Bambu printers
by JoeOfTexas | 2025-07-11 21:55:13+00:00
It works for my P1S, but could use help testing on other printers.

I would love some help from a designer to make the stream overlay look sleek.

If you don't have Python setup, no worries, I made a zip file that has a Windows app.exe to run the app.

In the /static folder is the html/css/js files that let you customize the look and feel. The python app runs a webserver with websockets to share the live telemetry data from printer to browser.
by kassner | 2025-07-11 21:55:50+00:00
At my deathbed, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to forgive our industry for that. I grew up in the 3rd world where resources where extremely expensive, so my early career was all about doing the most with the resources I had. It was a skill that I had honed so well and now it feels useless and unappreciated. With higher interest rates we see a small degree of it again, but I’m doubtful that hiring managers without that experience will be able to identify it on the wild to pick me.
by protimewaster | 2025-07-11 21:56:04+00:00
> Handling file integrity in hardware is a big step up.

Is there any evidence that Apple actually has better hardware data integrity than anyone else, though? They make claims in the article linked a few posts back, but AFAIK SSDs in general make use of error correcting codes, not just Apple's SSDs.

That article also points out how even multi-million dollar arrays are known to return bad data, and previous Apple SSD devices have been known to do the same.

I agree that the state of default filesystems is bad, but I'm not convinced that Apple's hardware solution is anything more than them saying, "Trust me, bro."
by the_af | 2025-07-11 21:56:05+00:00
So is the advice "do not visit Japan, learn about it from books and the internet"? Or just pretend it doesn't exist? Maybe do the same with all other countries?

The Japanese in turn do a lot of tourism abroad, to the point the "Japanese tourist" is as much a stereotype as the American one. Should they stay put and not leave their home towns?
by rglullis | 2025-07-11 21:56:08+00:00
Yeah, I am familiar with Chris. He is the one that developed a popular application for someone else's platform (Reddit) and was rewarded by it by getting the CEO accusing him of extortion attempts.

Then, after realizing that Reddit's management was just using him as a scapegoat and to justify the API closing off, what does he do? He could've used his influence to get people out of Reddit and porting Apollo to some other alternative, he went on to spend a good part of an year working on, you guessed it, an YouTube client for Apple's Vision Pro.

Sorry, but a sibling comment has it right: Chris does not suffer from Stockholm Syndrome. It's full-on Battered Wife Syndrome.
by IshKebab | 2025-07-11 21:57:16+00:00
In the summer, yes. Winter... I'm in the UK and my entire roof is solar panels (6.5 kW). I get about 35 kWh a day typically in the summer which is plenty (don't have an electric car or heat pump so usage is 10-15 kWh).

In the winter though... In February there were 7 days where the average we produced was about 2 kWh/day, so I need about 5 times more roof areas and £50k. And that's without a heat pump.

Fortunately we have wind... But even so it's hard to see how we can get away from gas completely without either a lot of nuclear or some crazy changes to the market.
by abeppu | 2025-07-11 21:57:44+00:00
The article makes clear that the initiative, though announced by USAID with other partners, was funded primarily by philanthropy.

> The money – most of it from Open Philanthropy – will go to more than a dozen countries from Indonesia and Uganda to Ghana and Peru.

From other sources, I think the US _financial_ commitment was actually pretty minimal ($4M). But if USAID had been providing important governance, administration or coordination, withdrawing its involvement could still destabilize an effort that otherwise could have been impactful.

https://healthpolicy-watch.news/us-government-commits-4-mill...

"Blame" is a loaded word. But is it really so strange to you to think that the richest and most powerful country might have some role to play in international problems that arise from comparative poverty? And that the country with the largest military in the world also should be held to a high standard in how it uses that tremendous force?

If we were just some average-sized middle-income country, then no one would expect that we should play a disproportionate role in helping things at an international level, or that the use of our military is more criticized than any other. But we're big and rich and powerful and we've had some military presence in other continents pretty much continuously since WWII, and we shouldn't expect to be able to act with impunity.
by refulgentis | 2025-07-11 21:58:22+00:00
^ vouch

Also boo on Google for not being open and honest about this.

I'm sure the lawyers believe in minimizes...something?...by not going officially on the record that the reason is there's a heightened risk of fire. All corpospeak, the original was: "Pixel 4a will receive an automatic software update to Android 13 that introduces new battery management features to improve the stability of the battery. This update will reduce your battery’s runtime and charging performance.", and I presume this one isn't better.

Then again, that "forget about Nvidia" blog last week with the extremely poorly designed melting connector that they don't cop to is probably worse.
by metadat | 2025-07-11 21:58:22+00:00
It's another Character.ai situation [0]. Unfortunate for any employees who aren't founders or researchers, as they don't get any payout or a nice new job from this exit structure. In fact they lose their whole time invested at the company.

What a harsh time to work for an AI startup as a rank and file employee! I wonder how the founders justify going along with it inside their mind.

[0] Character.ai CEO Noam Shazeer Returns to Google https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41141112 - 11 months ago (87 comments)

Edit: Thank you @jonny_eh for the clarification. I can't imagine it feels awesome being a leftover but at least you vested out. "Take the money and leave" is still a bit raw when the founders and researchers are now getting the initial payout + generous Google RSU's.
by crystal_revenge | 2025-07-11 21:58:29+00:00
A good chunk of Ng's work these days seems to be around AI Fund [0] which he explicitly mentioned in the video, in the first 5 seconds, involves co-founding these startups and being in the weeds with the initial development.

Additionally, he does engage pretty closely with the teams behind the content of his deeplearning.ai lectures and does make sure he has a deep understanding of the products these companies are highlighting.

He certainly is a businessman, but that doesn't exlcudethe possibility that he remains highly knowledgeable about this space.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-07-11 21:58:34+00:00
What does the low probability have to do with it?

If you had asked Galileo's contemporaries about the probability that he'd find moons orbiting Jupiter, they'd have put it at zero, and they turned out to be wrong.

Einstein's work was also in flagrant disregard of the established scientific sensibilities of the time.

I can't speak for everybody, but the excitement that I get when I look through a telescope, or a microscope, or commune with any machine that can see something that I can't... it comes from the possibility that I'll see something impossible, something that invalidates the theories which previously governed what I'm likely to see. It's why we keep building better telescopes and bigger particle colliders--because we want to prove ourselves wrong.

It's fine to be a rationalist with an appreciation for existing theory, but it's not irrationality when others attempt to invalidate what you're protecting--thats where progress comes from. We wouldn't know as much as we do without the people who look for things that shouldn't be there on the basis of viewpoints outside of accepted theory.
by jiggawatts | 2025-07-11 21:58:43+00:00
The logic error in the article is that “both things can be true at once”: Figma could have worked on optimising their spend, but this might be just scratching at the surface. Similarly, they could have “looked at where the money is going” and simultaneously be unable to do anything about it other than sign a discount contract.

I don’t run a Minecraft server, I manage cloud resources at government departments. They all overspend, they all “tried” to fix it, and then they all gave up and signed a contract because that’s a simple “big bang” solution.
by const_cast | 2025-07-11 21:58:57+00:00
To be fair to us, Linus is wildly incompetent when it comes to operating systems and software as a whole.

His metric for "just works", like many users, is "works like Windows". Such a metric is inherently flawed because any piece of software will always come up second-best to Windows.

When he did his Linux experiment stuff, he approached everything with a Windows context. And, when things didn't work the same, he didn't sit back and say "hmm, is this new way of doing things better, or worse?". No, he immediately rejected it because it's not like Windows.

And look, I get it, it takes on the order of decades to learn an operating system inside and out. I still find Windows GUIs I've never seen before in my life. But the way he approaches software reviews is incredibly frustrating. He takes the most closed-minded mentality and then acts surprised when it doesn't work.
by rayiner | 2025-07-11 21:59:15+00:00
Yes. I lived there until I was five. Even at that age you learn not to see other people as human. You kind of have to—people do things like cut off kids’ hands to make them more effective at begging.[1] You walk through the street with amputees coming up to you.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jul/31/india.randeepr...
by jacksnipe | 2025-07-11 21:59:29+00:00
Sorry, but citation needed. Means testing might seem “obvious” from first principles, but from a policy point of view, it makes little to no sense.

The macroeconomic effects of welfare programs create a society that is better for everyone to live in. Reducing the issue to a matter of personal responsibility is a reframing that allows you to completely lose sight of the big picture, and create programs that are destined to fail by not reaching many of the people they need to.
by spenczar5 | 2025-07-11 22:00:23+00:00
That is very impressive - getting the nongravs is a lot of work.

Anything published on your integrator and its modifications?

One nice feature of ASSIST (from what I remember, its been a while) was that I could add in more perturbers and crank up the gravitational harmonics if I wanted to. It sounds like you support that too at least for perturbers?
by 999900000999 | 2025-07-11 22:00:24+00:00
>whereas LA existed as indigenous land, and as Mexico, before it was part of the US, and that attitude has allowed immigrants to set roots here and claim identity and belonging in a way that no other place does or has.

Your own comment references a time before California was even a part of Mexico.

A more recent example.

>When South Vietnam and Cambodia fell to communists in April 1975, Gov. Brown, who had just succeeded Ronald Reagan, fought the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees. In the process, Mr. Brown and other Democrats engaged in xenophobic rhetoric.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-jerry-brown-tried-to-keep-...

Not to mention 3 strikes and other tough on crime policies.

A fixed tax on housing which is the most unprogressive policy you can imagine.

Etc. This isn't to say LA is horrible , it's just not some unique magical place.
by alfalfasprout | 2025-07-11 22:01:02+00:00
The infra does become pretty complex to get a SOTA LLM trained. People assume it's as simple as loading up the architecture and a dataset + using something like Ray. There's a lot that goes into designing the dataset, the eval pipelines, the training approach, maximizing the use of your hardware, dealing with cross-node latency, recovering from errors, etc.

But it's good to have more and more players in this space.