MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Art9681 | 2025-07-08 02:54:35+00:00
Any modern MacBook can run those tests 100x faster than the crappy cloud runners most companies use. You can also configure runners that run locally and get the benefit of those speed gains. So all of this is really a business and technical problem that is solved for those who want to solve it. It can be solved very cheap, or it can be solved very expensive. Regardless, it's precisely those types of efficiency gains that motivate companies to finally do something about it.

And if not, then enjoy being paid waiting for CI to go green. Maybe it's a reminder to go take a break.

It will be worse when the process is super optimized and the expectation changes. So now instead of those 2 PRs that went to prod today because everyone knows CI takes forever, you'll be expected to push 8 because in our super optimized pipeline it only takes seconds. No excuses. Now the bottleneck is you.
by YZF | 2025-07-08 02:55:40+00:00
I haven't done firmware in more than a decade but back when I did asserting was a no-no. You can't crash. Let's say I have a machine and I'm in the process of moving some actuators crashing might mean I destroyed the machine. That can't be better then letting things that can keep going going even if there's some unexpected condition. Physical safety is typically there by design and doesn't rely on software (there are some exceptions/processes for safety critical software).

So what to do:

- Extensive use of things like state machines where you can convince yourself that you are handling all possible inputs at every possible state.

- Clean/clear/simple code.

- Code reviews.

- Test the heck of your software before you ship it. Automated testing and manual testing.

Never fails isn't possible. Mechanical systems also fail. Electronics also fail. Software can be pretty reliable and either way you can't really tell what to do if there's an unexpected condition. Expected errors should be handled (let's say you try to move an actuator and it doesn't move, or you have a position error on your servo). Firmware can be designed to not run out of memory (so that failure mode can be eliminated by design).

What's to guarantee you won't be just rebooting in a loop if you reboot? That said, I guess if you have analyzed things well enough and that's your preferred recovery then fair enough. But how much state does software for an inverter have that can't just be handled by code?
by jaek | 2025-07-08 02:55:57+00:00
Sadly it seems like this is indicative of a broader trend in Public Broadcast in the west. In Australia we've seen similar internal criticism of the ABC of an anti-palestinian bias in reporting[1].

It's deeply concerning that these publicly funded media outlets are being co-opted and manipulated by a foreign power.

[1]https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/26/australias-abc-staf...
by zmgsabst | 2025-07-08 02:57:51+00:00
That’s not my point, nor close to what I said.

My point is that their models are fitted tensors/probability distributions, often retuned to fit new data (eg, the epicyclic nature of collider correction terms) — the same as fitting a DNN would be.

Their inability to describe what is happening is precisely the same as in the DNN case.
by HaZeust | 2025-07-08 02:58:03+00:00
>"HFT is a fascinating intersection of finance/C++/JVM for competitive super-nerds. It happens to add liquidity to the market, as far as I understand. I am not demonizing it in any way."

>"The argument over whether it sets or follows stock prices is mostly philosophical at this point."

Sure, I respect that!
by wtvanhest | 2025-07-08 02:58:11+00:00
I don’t think these probabilities are correct. Every parent is told not to feed their under 1 year olds honey, many times.

In an extreme example… only 20 parents fed their kids honey and 20 kids contracted botulism.

That would be a 100% risk. Obviously in real life it’s not 100% of kids, but still could be a meaningful percentage and likely higher than 1 in 50,000 for babies that eat honey.
by krackers | 2025-07-08 02:58:25+00:00
interesting, I thought one of the whole points of o3 was mixed multimodal reasoning (e.g. everyone doing those geoguesser challenges). But maybe that's just a parlor trick and it's not actually implemented that way. I wonder when they're going to extend chain-of-thought to work with image tokens, seems like that'd help for solving spatial challenges like this.
by tzs | 2025-07-08 02:59:33+00:00
I'm familiar with that. We see that shortly after a split the edges of the two sides of the split match, as we would expect. As they separate water fills the gap so those matching edges and now also matching coastlines.

Those two edges will continue to match as they get farther and farther apart. The coastlines will always match if the coastline stays at the elevation of the edge.

But as sea level changes the elevation of the coastline should change. For example, suppose sea level rose 300 meters. I don't think there is enough water available for that currently. 200 meters looks like it might be the maximum. But suppose that when Earth was receiving a lot of water from comet bombardment long ago that had been a bit heavier and so we did have enough for 300 meters.

Looking at topographic maps of the east side of South America and the west side of Africa it looks like 300 meters of sea level rise would reshape those coasts in vastly different ways and they would no longer be anywhere the edges of the split and would not match each other.

I couldn't find a good topographic map of the ocean floor to see how much of a sea level drop would be needed to make the coasts no longer match.

What I'm wondering then is if there is something that makes it so the topography of each continent and the limits of possible sea level variation make it so the coastlines long after a split when the two parts are far apart will still be close enough to where the original edges are that the coastlines will keep matching? Or is it just an accident that it has worked out that way on Earth?
by tomhow | 2025-07-08 02:59:36+00:00
Woah! You can't comment like this on Hacker News, no matter who you're replying to or what it's about.

If posts are unfit for HN or if you think someone is posting too much, flag them and email us, and there are things we can do.

It's never ok to personally attack someone like this on HN. If we want others to do better we have to hold ourselves to a high standard too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by arp242 | 2025-07-08 03:00:26+00:00
Yes, I agree – I've defended Alien 3 several times over the years. It does trail off a bit in the second half or so, where it sort of devolves in to a "run from alien creature"-type film, which is a bit of a shame.

A major problem, as I understand it, were studio execs insisting on repeating the previous films because that's what made money, apparently not understanding that "more of the same" was not necessarily going to be the same success, and that "bastardised film that leave everyone equally unhappy" also isn't. To be fair, perhaps they were too busy stealing money with creative accounting or raping scores of women.

And I suppose this is also a big problem in general: no one can make a "Jurassic Park" film without approval of a certain type of Hollywood exec, not for a long time anyway (everyone reading this will be dead). Even something remotely similar would almost certainly invite a costly lawsuit.

Come to think of it, this is probably also why feathered dinosaurs are such a taboo in Hollywood: "oh no, we might frighten the audience if we show them something unexpected, and that might result in less ticket sales!"
by garfij | 2025-07-08 03:01:08+00:00
Probably less sensible than you think. How many terms would they need to do this over? How many terms would they need to do it for _at once_? How many tokens would that add to every prompt that comes in?

Let alone that dynamically modifying the base system prompt would likely break their entire caching mechanism given that caching is based on longest prefix, and I can't imagine that the model's system prompt is somehow excluded from this.
by Jtsummers | 2025-07-08 03:03:04+00:00
What's the context of your question? Did I say otherwise?

Some languages (what's being discussed here) give you arbitrary precision integers, like Lean. So the proof in the blog applies to Lean and any issues with things like -INT_MIN not existing isn't a factor in the proof. That's what's being discussed. The proof for C or Ada or something else with fixed-width integers will be different (and the algorithm, likely) to account for that difference and any other relevant differences.
by tareqak | 2025-07-08 03:04:06+00:00
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Jones

> Owen Jones (born 8 August 1984)[2] is a left-wing British newspaper columnist, commentator, journalist, author and political activist.[3][4][5][6]

> He writes a column for The Guardian and contributes to the New Statesman, Tribune, and The National[7] and was previously a columnist for The Independent. He has two weekly web series, The Owen Jones Show and The Owen Jones Podcast.
by sherdil2022 | 2025-07-08 03:04:10+00:00
I wonder why there is no discussion on this article. The AI genie is out of the bottle and it is not going to go back in. The Pandora’s Box is open.

However, the article talks about how this AI tech is currently coming about and asks whether a fear-driven AI advocacy is visionary or merely another symptom of capitalist hubris.
by hliyan | 2025-07-08 03:07:09+00:00
I'm starting to realize, very belatedly in life, that we suffer from an end-of-history illusion in politics and political economy. I used to think we live in a golden age because a hundred years ago, democracy broadly replaced monarchies, market economies replaced feudalism and other coercive systems, and with it went many of the old, indirect mechanisms of subjugating large populations (e.g. moral imperatives through the Church, legitimization of rule through concepts such as the divine right of kings, control of education etc).

But it seems we've only replaced those mechanisms with more refined versions (manufacturing consent through mass media, surveillance and indirect indentured servitude through student debt, rent and health insurance).

We probably have another century of socioeconomic and political evolution to go before we reach a decent end state.
by dcrazy | 2025-07-08 03:07:35+00:00
I think gennarro is reacting to the very SEO-friendly organization of the article. Every content farm produces articles with this kind of flow, often with Wikipedia-style tables of contents at the beginning. But they do it because it’s very similar to the structure an actually informative article would take! So we can’t tell for sure whether the author adopted an SEO-friendly structure for her informative and original content, or if her content just happens to be a good model of the style that content farms have chosen to imitate.
by maxglute | 2025-07-08 03:08:15+00:00
Snowden leaks -> NSA operation shotgiant infiltrated Huawei network for years. PRC ministers around then been quoted saying US had thoroughly infiltrated PRC networks. I'm pretty sure it was admitted as much in PLA Science of Military Strategy in 2010s. PRC just doesn't like publicizing how compromised they were until recently, now cybersecurity firms like QH360 regularly report on US cyber infiltration efforts.

James Mulvenon, leading expert on PRC cyber who was one of the loudest sirens 10 years ago also basically said there was mutual offensive attacks - something like "We hack them, they hack us". The distinction Americans and Mulvenon like to make back then was PRC civil military fusion = PRC can economically weaponize hacking, i.e. PRC can pass hacked blueprints to companies XYZ to develop vs US can't because NSA can't pick winners. Which is fair (unless it comes to stuff like Airbus vs Boeing or other strategic industries). But that's just sour grapes for admitting that PRC has a better system for industrial espionage.

Anecdotal, in PRC in the mid 90s, had dinner where diasphora Chinese at western telco was complaining about how PRC started hacking their networks, someone else at dinner worked for domestic telco (trying to poach), and used to technician in PLA sigint unit, complained about how US penetrated most of Chinese networks and lamenting how they were w decades behind in cyber.
by Liquix | 2025-07-08 03:08:33+00:00
since key players realized decades ago how much sway news outlets hold over public opinion, a vast amount of them have been co-opted to spread propaganda [0]. at least a dozen countries and probably more (including Israel) are tapped directly into the five/fourteen eyes [1][2] intelligence network, countries which share "raw sigint" [3] with each other and strategically disseminate international propaganda to the alliance's benefit.

watching or reading publications from any of these nation's news outlets is intended and virtually guaranteed to paint them all as the "good guys", and any other countries as "bad guys". just like BBC is doing here. this is not a conspiracy, it's all fairly well documented.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement#9_Eyes,_14_Eye...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-...
by WalterBright | 2025-07-08 03:08:58+00:00
Remember "48 Hours" with Eddy Murphy and Nick Nolte, that was a huge unexpected hit? The studio decided to do a sequel, "Another 48 Hours". Murphy and Nolte went on Jay Leno to promote it. They said that they analyzed everything in the original movie to see what worked and what didn't. Then they amped up everything that worked in the sequel.

You can guess the rest. The sequel bombed.
by ggm | 2025-07-08 03:10:24+00:00
Does not appear to mention "the land that time forgot" (1974) with the inimitable Doug McClure, not his eponymous cartoon alternate Troy, who we all remember from his fine educational films such as "Dinosaurs: not a good addition to a shaving Foam cannister"

The screenplay was Michael Moorcock, the original is Edgar Rice Burroughs 1918. I watched this at least 3 times in a tiny one-man cinema (Jaggers) in pembroke on holiday

It's craptacular, but I loved it as a smallish child. Has everything: submarines, forgotten land, buxom heroine, grenades..

Stephen Baxter, Evolution (2002) hypothesises social intelligent carnivore Dinosaurs herding herbivores, but since they use only organics to make their whips and tools, no remains exist in deep time. Would make a whimsical film, if not a good one.

Raquel Welsh stared in one (1 million years bc, 1965) which is mostly memorable for her fur bikini. They had some scaling issues with their anachronistic creatures too. Typical Hollywood: it's a remake of one from the 1940s.

The best Dinosaur movie is the quest for fire (1981) which doesn't have any because it's about Neanderthals, not Dinosaurs and made by French-Canadians from a Belgian novel.
by rtkwe | 2025-07-08 03:11:13+00:00
That's not enough to get people to actually use Monero though given it's got 1/10th the transaction volume of BTC and that's just counting the directly on chain transactions for BTC not those happening on the lightning network. Being off most of the exchanges also makes it difficult for most people to consider using since it's disconnected from the normal market precisely because it's impossible to do KYC to the satisfaction of regulators.
by sporkland | 2025-07-08 03:11:17+00:00
I find having a therapist for an hour each week and then using chatgpt or gemini for specific scenarios that pop up providing some context from my understanding in therapy as well as telling it to be brutally honest with me and don't mirror or trying to make me feel better leads to some pretty useful insights into my psyche off cycle from therapy.

Please note this is after at least a decade of therapy and couples therapy so I've got a solid base of self insight that I'm working from.
by YZF | 2025-07-08 03:11:33+00:00
The BBC having 21,000 employees (5500 journalists). Only 100 signed.

From my perspective the BBC is extremely anti-Israeli but for some people this is obviously not good enough. They want the BBC to champion their cause. Naturally people supporting the anti-Israeli cause who only get anti-Israeli content will feel that the BBC is "pro" Israel. Nothing could be farther from the truth and Pro-Israeli media looks nothing like the BBC.

This is from 2006:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/our_work/governors_archive/im...

"We were appointed by the Governors to assess whether the BBC's coverage of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict meets the required standards of impartiality."

...

"apart from individual lapses, sometimes of tone, language or attitude, there was little to suggest systematic or deliberate bias; on the contrary there was evidence, in the programming and in other ways, of a commitment to be fair, accurate and impartial;"

...

"these shortcomings include:"

...

"Equally in the months preceding the Palestinian elections there was little hard questioning of their leaders"

...

This has been a big criticism of the BBC which is still not addressed:

"The term "terrorism" should accordingly be used in respect of relevant events since it is the most accurate expression for actions which involve violence against randomly selected civilians with the intention of causing terror for ideological, including political or religious, objectives, whether perpetrated by state or non-state agencies."
by tareqak | 2025-07-08 03:11:37+00:00
From the article

> The only other BBC documentary which focused on the apocalyptic plight of the Palestinian people in Gaza was taken down as a result of a hysterical pro-Israel campaign - because the father of the child narrator’s son had a junior technocratic position in the Hamas administration. Irrelevant, given the narrator’s words were written for him by the documentary producers.
by ryantgtg | 2025-07-08 03:12:41+00:00
In many cases the people responsible are not in fact punished. This is about enforcing laws that are intended for save lives in the face of the breakdown of the social contract. I would expect these Higher IQ/cognitive speed people you speak of to be excellent drivers, and to have the wherewithal to look toward Europe, which has had ATE cameras in place for a while.
by zdw | 2025-07-08 03:12:59+00:00
The best thing about old computers is they're so damn simple, and there are a ton of projects out there to enhance them - for $50 you can get a BlueSCSI which gives you hard drive/optical/network emulation on many machines.

Also, new tools are way more capable and cheap - all you need to fix an old computer with a sub-50mhz bus clock is a multimeter/scope, soldering iron, and other bits, which can easily be purchased new for $200.
by garfij | 2025-07-08 03:13:47+00:00
We've done varying forms of this to differing degrees of success at work.

Dynamic, on-the-fly generation & execution is definitely fascinating to watch in a sandbox, but is far to scary (from a compliance/security/sanity perspective) without spending a lot more time on guardrails.

We do however take note of hallucinated tool calls and have had it suggest an implementation we start with and have several such tools in production now.

It's also useful to spin up any completed agents and interrogate them about what tools they might have found useful during execution (or really any number of other post-process questionnaire you can think of).
by marcusverus | 2025-07-08 03:13:54+00:00
> Consistently taking away women rights, belittling them, ignoring their complaints, and making everyday life a needlessly complicated rat's nest of intricate nonsense tends to kill any desire to procreate.

This is totally detached from reality. Women in the West have more rights than elsewhere, but much lower fertility. Their fertility rates have halved over the last 50 years, even as we have reordered our societies entirely for their benefit.

> It would be extreme narcissistic selfishness to have kids as a retirement plan, I can't imagine anyone in the real world thinking that way.

Having kinds for economic reasons has been standard operating procedure for all of human history. Reality doesn't cease to be simply because you "can't imagine" it.
by mithro | 2025-07-08 03:14:05+00:00
Things like my https://wafer.space ($7k USD), TinyTapeout.com (<$200 USD) and ChipFoundry.io (~$15k USD) are making it much cheaper to do IC design.

There are a huge number of designs from Tiny Tapeout which are all public - see https://tinytapeout.com/runs/

The designs are still more in the MCU size, but you have to start somewhere!

The Google open MPW program also had 10 runs with 40 projects published at http://foss-eda-tools.googlesource.com/third_party/shuttle/ -- All the submissions had to be open source and there were 1000+ of those. I did try pitching to multiple Google Research groups that continuing the open MPW funding would grow the available designs which have been manufactured and that was useful for AI training but didn't get any bites.

The now defunct Efabless also ran a number of challenges in this space which got pretty good results, see https://efabless.com/challenges
by bigyabai | 2025-07-08 03:14:27+00:00
You leapt to at least 3 conclusions in only two sentences. That's talent.

1. "The world" is too broad of an audience to indict.

2. "Anywhere else" does not necessitate the endless support of a rogue state.

3. Israeli statehood is a Zionist matter with a highly mixed opinion among Jews (especially under the current Likud admin).
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-08 03:15:18+00:00
Old cars are even like that in performance. My son and I just bought a 1979 Ford Thunderbird which has a 5ℓ V8 engine but doesn't accelerate as well as a modern compact with a 1.5ℓ Inline 4.

It is simple though, it doesn't have a lot of complex parts to repair.
by jivings | 2025-07-08 03:15:23+00:00
I'm having the same problem (and had a rant about it on X a few weeks ago [1]).

We get ~50% of traffic from ChatGPT now, unfortunately a large amount of the features it says we have are made up.

I really don't want to get into a state of ChatGPT-Driven-Development as I imagine that will be never ending!

[1]: https://x.com/JamesIvings/status/1929755402885124154
by arp242 | 2025-07-08 03:16:44+00:00
I watched it with my then-girlfriend when the first Jurassic World came out. She wanted to see that but had never seen the originals as she was ten years younger than me. Naturally, I made sure we watched the first three films first. She agreed the first film is by far the best, and that Jurassic World is a four-cup tea bag imitation at best.

I don't think it's the sort of film that will be heralded as a timeless classic 200 years from now, but it's exciting and generally just good fun.
by jdkee | 2025-07-08 03:17:59+00:00
There is certainly a nostalgia that I feel about tech from when I was 8 until 15 years old. This corresponded with Radio Shack 100-in-1 electronics kits, the Mattel Big Trak programmable vehicle, Mattel handheld electronic games, the Vectrex gaming system, the ZX-81 and the Commodore Amiga 500 computer. And I will throw in old Edmund Scientific catalogs for good measure. I was pre-Nintendo and Sega and certainly pre-Playstation and Xbox by a generation

I imagine the current crop of college students that I teach today will feel the same about Minecraft, Angry Birds and the original iPad when they reach their 40s or later.
by gus_massa | 2025-07-08 03:18:59+00:00
In Argentina everyone will understand you, but if you don't use "ito" then people may ask where are you from.

"ico" is used in many countries of Central America and Caribe. I asked someone from Colombia, so I'm sure about Colombia but I'm no sure about every other country.

Is "illo" used in Madrid? I think I heard it in movies or TV programs from Spain.