MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mountainriver | 2025-09-27 14:41:51+00:00
This is a deeply untrue statement echoed by a lot of people unfortunately.

There was a post the other day on HN where a dev spent $2k doing RL on an open model and beat the frontier models on Web Voyager.

Research is packed with examples like this yet we keep hearing from the community that training doesn’t work.

Then consider voice/vision modalities where context engineering doesn’t work well at all. I just spent 2 years on the computer use problem and can tell you with absolute certainty that context won’t get you there (we tried and tried). The only thing that meaningfully moved the needle was RL.

I really wish this idea that only big labs can train models would die. It’s really hurting the ecosystem at this point.
by conartist6 | 2025-09-27 14:42:23+00:00
Also from the perspective of engineering, if I wanted to DIY an accurate corner reflector cheap then I'd use the property of returning laser beams to their origin over distance to do it. Make a jig to hold the three mirrors, make sure they can be fixed to the jig firmly and glue them up. Test the ability to return a laser over distance. Calculate (somehow...?) the error in the jig, adjust it, rinse and repeat.
by r721 | 2025-09-27 14:42:35+00:00
Process Monitor is invaluable for investigating cases like that - at least one can look at what Windows is actually doing at that moment of freezing:

>Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon ...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/pro...
by throwaway_7274 | 2025-09-27 14:43:11+00:00
Yeah, absolutely, the sheer number of moving parts is related to this. There's TeX-the-language, there's LaTeX-the-format (a big layer of macros and conventions), the different LaTeX standards (LaTeX2ε, LaTeX3, whatever, I don't know the ins and outs). Then there's the implementation: all the different engines (pdftex, XeTeX, LuaTex), then there are the distributions, then there are build systems and wrapper scripts to handle all the mysterious compilation-cycle incantations that depend on all the other stuff (latexmk, etc.).

All these layers and alternatives have proliferated partly because of age and the necessity of new solutions to new problems. I also think they're partly coping with fundamental limitations, design decisions that seemed like (or very much were!) a good idea in 1978, that sort of thing.
by maghfoor | 2025-09-27 14:43:16+00:00
For me personally I did try a lot of these habit trackers and notetaking systems and none of them quite worked for me so I just decided to build something that's very specific to how I like things. I didn't just build a habit tracker or whatever just for the sake of building another one, I built one that specifically suits my needs.

Usually what happens is a lot of other people in the world also feel the same way as me and if they like how I have approached the app then they would download it and use it and I think that's how you get a lot of different types of habit trackers coming up all the time
by drweevil | 2025-09-27 14:43:20+00:00
I too have Spain to thank for being a 'Premature Anti-Fascist'. My mother lived through that war as a teen girl. She lost her father, an uncle, and a brother to Franco, all retribution after the war ended. I've no time for fascists whining about their 1A rights. They don't mean well.

Thanks jdblair for posting this.
by avar | 2025-09-27 14:43:44+00:00
Some of us enjoy fixing things like these over and above the hypothetically fungible billable hour, and whether you can substitute some time in an evening with a billable hour or three is highly dependent on your employment situation.

But in this case the relevant cost under discussion isn't that of a replacement vacuum cleaner, but what value you assign to your house not burning down due to a crappy 18650 cell, or the anxiety of worrying that that'll happen.
by Jackson__ | 2025-09-27 14:43:53+00:00
I just bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab recently. Of course I was well aware of the death of the 3.5mm headphone port, but as I plugged in my 3.5mm to usb-c adapter I was greeted with a new message: "Analog USB C Audio Unsupported.". I tried a pair of regular off-brand usb-c headphones too, which too resulted in the same, with no audio output.

How this is not behavior deserving of some kind of EU fine is a complete mystery to me.
by MrScruff | 2025-09-27 14:43:54+00:00
What I've tend to find is that although almost everyone listens to some form of music, the average person tends to like things which are squarely in the middle of the gaussian curve, and that are inherently very predictable as though the creator had chosen the most stastically likely outcome for every creative decision they made while creating it. Similar trends with almost anything creative, cinema, literature, food etc.

This is basically what all the Suno creations sound like to me, which is to say they definitely have a market, but that market isn't for people who have a more than average interest in music.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-27 14:44:04+00:00
The same reason why owning a business is less of a commodity than electricity.

It's the ultimate monopoly. Anyone with more compute will ultimately be able to out perform any business you could invent ultimately locking you out of competition.

The owners of compute will make a killing and can set whatever price they like. But if the owner is someone like say amazon, then what actually stops them from using their massive compute army they already own to enter the most lucrative businesses for compute slowly dominating everything?
by accrual | 2025-09-27 14:44:29+00:00
> My take is that the right workflow for people is quite varied.

I agree. I've been tempted lately to write my own local todo + notes + calendar app that fits the way I think about tasks and time. Kind of like developing a software glove for ones mental model. It's no wonder there are so many "gloves" in this space, everyone's model is unique.
by danabramov | 2025-09-27 14:45:25+00:00
>The author is talking about owning a domain and how having that domain gives you ownership over your data

I've actually tried to separate the two in the article although it might be subtle (because I didn't want to make it confusing).

Owning a domain means you own your handle. Not data. In atproto, a domain is just a handle — you can swap it out without breaking links. (This relies on a centralized auditable repository which is currently being moved out of Bluesky as a separate independent entity. If you don't want to rely on that, yes, you'd have to tie your identity to the domain.)

Owning "data" is not related to owning the domain per se. It has to do with the fact that you can point your identity at a different physical server over time without breaking links. So your hosting doesn't have any real leverage over you. That's what I mean by meaningful ownership.

I've sort of conflated domains and persistent identity in the article to simplify the picture a bit. Your identity is not tied to a domain, but a domain serves as a bidirectionally verified user-friendly alias for it. If you lose control over the domain, you can tie a different one to the same identity later. This doesn't break links between records or functionality.
by mickeyp | 2025-09-27 14:45:57+00:00
Yeesh. "Those darn 40+-something millennials and their differing tastes!"

Rock 'died' because it's been around for 50 years; were the favourite of boomers who ensured it always had air-time; and now they're out to pasture and other music styles reign. My dad was a pro drummer in the 70s and hated everything that wasn't rock or metal. He was incapable of appreciating anything else. Or so he said.

As a kid of the 90s, I could never quite find music that fit me. Sure, I liked some rock and roll, pop, and so on --- but when I was first introduced to techno (Antiloop - Believe, to be specific) at a LAN party I knew I'd found my home: techno and then trance.

But good luck finding Antiloop or the nascent trance on MTV or commercial radio in the 90s. The people who ran those things didn't like it, know about it, listen to it, or felt it had commercial value. So I had to learn about it from randos at a LAN party.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-27 14:46:21+00:00
> knowing nothing about this specfic domain

Then your comment isn't actually contributing anything.

And the 80/20 rule doesn't have anything to do with this.

The idea that the baseline value for any statistic at all in the world is 20% is not how anything works.

The 80/20 rule is an informal observation that you get 80% of profits from 20% of customers, or can draw 80% of conclusions from 20% of data. It doesn't say anything about the baseline rate of any arbitrary statistic.
by willis936 | 2025-09-27 14:46:34+00:00
I don't speak for all consumers, but at least I prefer a company that puts on a good show of garnering trust even if the UX is eroding. Apple's security and privacy measures all make sense. They do still require some measure of trust, but they are not overtly saying "pay us annual subscriptions so that we can monitor all activity on your personal computing device". That's a business model that erodes customer base faster than execs can snap out of their reality distortion fields. I wouldn't want to be an MS shareholder right now, but I wouldn't mind owning Apple.
by jijijijij | 2025-09-27 14:46:50+00:00
I think we're also witnessing influence a meta level deeper, where accelerationists' stochastic terrorism ideologically seeks social rift and chaos, directly. Individual acts won't be explainable by a grand conspiracy, but rather I presume these communities are fed and pushed to birth random acts of terror with ambiguous or misleading messaging.

Quite frankly, I think too many cooks are benefiting from outrage and disarray. Look at the Charlie Kirk case, where "respectable" reports of "transgender ideology" inscribed on bullet casings spread immediately, although that's been a complete fabrication, which was later redacted. How vile a thing to do, for any supposedly journalistic platform. That's not bots, it's people who are to blame. I don't even think, it's much instructed, but rather sociopathic individuals/groups seeing opportunity for a minuscule gain, even if it's destroying the social fabric in the process.
by mothballed | 2025-09-27 14:46:55+00:00
POTUS has no power to defy the constitution if the opinions requires unconstitutional activity. I.e. if congress passes a laws that says "no guns" and SCOTUS says "yes that's what the 2A says" the president has to ignore it because the 10th amendment blocks him from having the power to enforce it.

Nowhere in the constitution would it give him the ability to ignore the constitution if the other 2 branches violate it. You are inventing new dictatorial rights for POTUS.
by cowboylowrez | 2025-09-27 14:47:10+00:00
right now, the line for me is "who makes the riffs". Once that line is blurred and users can inject really appealing whatever it is that humans contribute into actual realized audio tracks, thats when we'll see the first "AI using superstar" numbers on spotify. I don't know where training data is on the legal radar, but I'm also betting that AI winning on this front is likely given how much politics loves AI.
by mindcrime | 2025-09-27 14:47:39+00:00
It was certainly one of the first, and for the most part I think it's generally regarded as the first "real" high level language. But there are a number of other languages that were developed at approximately the same time where you could probably quibble a bit about exactly which one came first. COBOL[1], for example, and some of the predecessors to COBOL, like FLOW-MATIC[2] and ARITH-MATIC[3]. Also, as PaulHoule mentions, there was LISP[4], and then there was IPL[5] which LISP descended from. COMIT[6] also dates back to that general era.

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

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOW-MATIC

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARITH-MATIC

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Processing_Languag...

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMIT
by lotu | 2025-09-27 14:49:18+00:00
I disagree while, there is an Linux icon that would fit in here. This is not it. It might be a starting point, I don't think the design works. despite how simple the windows and apple logos they represent thousands of hours of work by the best graphic artists.

I'm not one of the best graphic artists but I'll give it a shot. First the default version feels vaguely ominous. To me it feels like someone robbing a bank or the logo on stormtroopers murdering civilians, this is obviously horrible. I think this is due to the sharp angles and the eyes without an attached mouth.

The other options improve the scary problem but add complexity that moves it away from the simple universal recognizable logo we are trying to make. On that note the default version is still too complex. Maybe you could move to more of a silhouette, though I think that would fail in recognizably.

Perhaps part of the problem is a penguin is just not so omnipresent in our lives as windows and apples are. Redhat does achieve this with a very simple instantly recognizable logo, I think that could work. Ubuntu also does well with it's logo thought it has gone full abstract, it's distinct and works well.

If you want to see more google image search for "logos"
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-27 14:49:25+00:00
Every time I've investigated an issue like this, it was something outside of explorer. Most of the time some kind of plugin that I didn't want (PDF readers, Tortoise SVN/Git, document preview handlers, you name it), mapped network drives not responding, or file system corruption that went by seemingly unnoticed.

At some point I started Autoruns and just disabled every DLL that didn't come from Microsoft and that I didn't strictly need. It sped up Windows immensely, and I went back enabling maybe one or two of those DLLs at a later point because it broke functionality.

I could've saved weeks of my life if Microsoft had just added a little popup that says "7zip.dll is adding 24% extra time to opening right click menus, disable it Y/N" every time a badly programmed plugin slowed down my shell.
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-09-27 14:49:51+00:00
Unfortunately I was probably what most people would think is a model person in terms of activity. I used a standing desk or sitting with no backrest to maintain upright posture - I exercised all the time, did yoga with my wife, competed in powerlifting, did plenty of walking/cardio, rucking etc. I played guitar regularly and had since I was like 12 and had bouldering as a hobby so finger strength didn't seem to be an issue.

I did physical therapy for months and the issue basically came down to my nerves being the issue. I was diagnosed with Cubital Tunnel Syndrome in both elbows and also a torn TFCC tear in one hand causing pressure on the ulnar nerve in my wrists when the wrist was flexed even a little or in what was called ulnar deviation (wrist extended outwards/away from your body). I was told the most likely cause was as simple as the way I slept - with my elbows bent and potentially exacerbated due to excessive heavy gripping combined with my bone structure in my elbow simply not being very kind on me.

I've since recovered from the elbow surgeries and they are evaluating wrist surgery as well, I still sometimes have issues with my fingers going numb in the wrong position - but trust me, I went to all kinds of doctors trying to figure this out since practically every hobby I had required using my hands/fingers. Unfortunately it just seems like I was unlucky. But having keyboards that allow my hands to be in more natural positions at the very least has allowed me to continue working.
by MrScruff | 2025-09-27 14:50:35+00:00
Yeah personally I don't give a toss about the person who created the music and their backstory or stage performance.

However I do care that the person who created the music made hundreds of micro decisions during the creation of the piece such that it is coherent, has personality and structure towards the goal of satisfying that individuals sense of aesthetics. Unsurprisingly this is not something you get from current AI generated music.
by layer8 | 2025-09-27 14:52:13+00:00
This particular example actually doesn’t show that. The misbehavior is caused by a bug in the original game, which was initially hidden only by pure chance, and was already fixed 20 years ago in updated releases of the game, and can be fixed in any version by adding the missing parameters in a plain-text asset (or running the existing patcher add-on).

I agree in the general case, but this particular case isn’t a good argument for it.
by mindslight | 2025-09-27 14:52:13+00:00
Republican politicians and influencers frame everything as an "attack" by the "woke" and "radical left". It makes for a great preemptive distraction when they're actually responsible for most of those things. Bland gray/beige color schemes get decided in board rooms full of uninspiring executive-class types who can't think of anything but trying to cargo cult their way into making the Line go up.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-27 14:52:20+00:00
I'd say we are getting pretty close to the "now or never" point of AGI.

We are pretty close to the limits of fabrication for transistors. Barring radically different manufacturing and/or ASIC development the performance we have today will be the performance available in 10 years (I predict we'll maybe 2x compute performance in 10 years).

If you've paid attention, you've already seen the slowdown of compute development. A 3060 GPU isn't really significantly slower than a 5060 even though it's 5 years old now.
by neobrain | 2025-09-27 14:52:32+00:00
There's https://lingonaut.app/ , which is not open-source but at least open data. It's sort of like early-days duolingo with volunteer-driven courses. Some of the courses are surprisingly well thought out (if yet to be implemented to a usable extent), but quality will be mixed. I don't think they have an answer for proper pacing at the moment, but being a free product they're at least not incentivized to keep you repeating the same content indefinitely.

I'm getting a lot out of Anki with premade decks these days, combined with watching tons of video content.
by mountainriver | 2025-09-27 14:52:32+00:00
Thank you unsloth for the amazing work once again!

The new sleep mode in vLLM is really amazing, and it seems the community hasn’t quite wrapped their heads around how much more accessible this makes RL training.

I’m reading a lot of dismaying posts on this thread, pushing the idea that only big labs should be doing RL. This couldn’t be further from the truth, folks should try it for themselves and see the outcomes!
by wood_spirit | 2025-09-27 14:53:03+00:00
I imagine we know we have reached AGI when a technocrat stops sharing their AI. It goes from being something they can sell to something that they don’t want to share. Instead they ask it how they can dominate the world and be the first trillionaire and how they can stop anyone else acquiring an AGI etc.

This even works at a smaller not so general level: imagine that one of today’s popular code models improved to the point it is better (narrowly at programming) than a human. Suddenly the owner shouldn’t sell it to everyone: instead they should pivot and make software that outcompetes anything a human can make. So it doesn’t just replace humans making software but also replaces the programs that people made…
by avar | 2025-09-27 14:54:19+00:00
Neywiny's comment upthread isn't that you should use these without a BMS, but that the review is relatively less useful because it's stopping testing at a relatively high voltage. E.g. if you search for "panasonic_ncr18650b.pdf" you'll find that Panasonic's own datasheets use a cutoff of 2.5v.
by diath | 2025-09-27 14:54:19+00:00
How would an open operating system fix a bug caused by sloppy game developers? I don't think anyone would think "let's not optimize the (equivalent of) critical sections in our operating system so that we don't break GTA", unless you're suggesting providing 100s of different implementations of different parts of the operating system that people can choose from to run a specific game, which I don't think is viable either. Patching individual games is far easier and is actually viable, which is precisely what GOG (Good Old Games) successfully does on a significantly large scale.
by apitman | 2025-09-27 14:54:40+00:00
I'm working on something[0]. It actually supports Go, JS, and Rust (through the power of server-side WASM). Python and others are planned. It's unlikely to ever have all the features and polish of BetterAuth/OpenAuth, but I've been absolutely loving the DX for my projects that need auth.

[0]: https://github.com/lastlogin-net/decent-auth
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-27 14:56:12+00:00
Destroying a child's social life in the name of bringing them up to a standard of state defined literacy is worse than the illiteracy. Consider Rousseau's, "Emile; or On Education." I was called a, "failing student" in school because I was sneaking off to the library to read Kant and Hegel as a teenager. I once got suspended for asking my math teacher about Godel's Completeness Theorems because it was, "smart alec'y"

Please apply the golden rule to your assertions and think of unintended consequences.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-27 14:56:24+00:00
UBI would have to be taken from the owners of compute to ever be possibly enough to fund things. Those will be the people with the vast majority of the resources.

And with today's political environment, I see that as particularly unlikely to ever happen. Everyone says "UBI" as a solution, but I've yet to see even the hint of that being tried. In fact, the opposite seems to be happening in the US with SSI (which is UBI) being slowly defunded and made less accessible.
by Arubis | 2025-09-27 14:56:52+00:00
Depends on your perspective. If you’re into the ritual and interested in close, intensive listening, there’s a certain magic and immediacy to knowing you’re using a physically destructive playback mechanism—that this right now is the best this record will ever sound again.

As for myself, I have young kids and this sort of thing doesn’t make the cut these days, so I stream everything. It all feels background-y and I haven’t fallen in love with an album in years and years.
by zachmoore | 2025-09-27 14:58:09+00:00
If I were you guys I would prioritize adding a multi-user instance otherwise you get people who don't want to make their dataset public, they will download and leave the platform. From a acquisition strategy perspective you want people to become more familiar with being on your site vs exporting to their favorite editor. You probably have it on your roadmap but a main competitor for you in gonna be clay. People will export from your tool and import into clay.
by locusofself | 2025-09-27 14:58:59+00:00
My daughter wakes us up every morning smacking her tonie box (that's how you skip songs).

The figurines don't actually contain the music, they just have an NFC chip in them. The Tonie Box is connected to wifi and downloads the content.

The child doesn't really know any better though, it still gives them the physical experience without a screen.