MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by logicprog | 2026-02-23 21:50:39+00:00
Thanks for the response!

> it'd be nice to see that effort routed into creating new data-efficient RL algorithms or something that pick up all the slack that distillation is currently carrying

It seems to me like they're already doing that. Some of the most fun I've had actually is reading their papers on the different R.L. environments, especially Egentic ones they set up and the various new algorithms they use to do RL and training in general. Combine that with how much they are innovating with attention mechanisms and I feel like distillation doesn't seem to be really replacing research into these means as just supplementing it — and maybe even making it possible in the first place, because otherwise it would be simply too expensive to get a reasonably intelligent model to experiment with!

> But now that people are actually using LLMs as agents to _do things_, and interact with the open web, and interact with their personal data and sensitive information, the safety and security concerns make a lot more sense to me.

Ah, I see what you mean. Can you point me to any benchmarks or research on how good various models are out of waiting social engineering and prompt injection attacks? That would be extremely interesting to me. Fundamentally, though, I don't think that's really a soluble problem either, and the right approach is to surround an agent with a sufficiently good harness to prevent that. Perhaps with an approach like this:

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/25/dual-llm-pattern/

Or this, which builds on it with more verifiable machinery, if you're less bitter-lesson pilled (like me):

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/11/camel/

> That is, it's less about what's right and wrong by conventional wisdom, and more about what consequences are downstream of various incentives.

Ahhh, I see. Yeah, that could be negative. That's worth thinking about.
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by cesncn | 2026-02-23 21:50:53+00:00
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What any ASO tool gives you are just algorithmically estimations. I have tried many and I can say they are not consistent at all. And they likely over-complicate things in their solutions where over-complication does not necessarily create a better solution.

WHY SELF-HOSTED?
I wanted to provide this as free. If I hosted the whole thing at a site, I suspect that abuse would be one of the things I would need to deal with, and it would also come with lots of infrastructure costs. And users would share their data suspecting how the hack this is possible for free of charge. Hosting locally is extremely easy, can be done in less than 2 minutes.

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git clone https://github.com/respectlytics/respectaso.git
cd respectaso
docker compose up -d

License: AGPL-3.0. Built with Django + SQLite + Tailwind.
by merb | 2026-02-23 21:52:00+00:00
Your take is also a bad one. No what asml builds is not American technology. Why asml succeeded is because they got tons of company’s and people to help them advance the technology of the chip industry. Yes it wouldn’t be possible without the Americans. But it would also not be possible without the Europeans, the Koreans, etc… what asml did was basically ask the technology leaders in each field to build their best product so that they can take their parts and assembly this awesome piece of technology.
by jibal | 2026-02-23 21:52:09+00:00
2 of you folks died from COVID for each 1 of us.

> My comment is simply calling out the liberticide episode we attended rather quietly.

Intellectually dishonest polemics. The mandates were not "ridiculous", nor were they "ordoned non democratically by a senile" ... that doesn't even get the timeline right--Trump was President. As for whether he was senile ...
by kneel25 | 2026-02-23 21:52:31+00:00
Well a material difference is we don’t input/output in tokens I guess. We have a concept of gaps and limits to knowledge, we have factors like ego, preservation, ambition that go into our thoughts where LLM just has raw data. Understanding the implication of a code change is having an idea of a desired structure, some idea of where you want to head to and how that meshes together. LLM has zero of any of that. Just because it can copy the output of the result of those factors I mention doesn’t mean they operate the same.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-23 21:52:35+00:00
As a parent of young children, this is your entire problem:

> the terms of engagement are, I can block it however I want from the network side, and if he can get around it, he can watch.

You're treating this as a technical problem, not a parental rules problem. Your own rules say he's allowed to watch!

You have to set the expectations and enforce it as a parent.
by margalabargala | 2026-02-23 21:52:36+00:00
This is a personal preference and not some universal axiom.

Living under a tyrant at least tends to provide predictability and stability of a sort. The kind of violence that exists in a lawless society tends not to exist. State sanctioned violence, sure, but that's more often than not targeted.

Basically, given the choice of Somalia or North Korea, there will be a diversity of opinions as to which someone prefers. I'm not saying I prefer one to the other, just that "Somalia" is not an objectively correct choice.
by hiciu | 2026-02-23 21:52:41+00:00
Yes we are still talking about attestation from the government for the specific privilege part.

You get your document with fields like "can drive", "is over 18" and so on. It's valid for some time; physical ID is valid for like 10 years and then you have to get a new document, this digital one is valid for lets say 30 days and if it expires you get a new one.

Then you present only those fields you want, when you want, without anyone talking to the government at all. All the other party needs to check is "is the document valid" and "do presented fields match the document". Like checking a tls certificate for a given domain name or purpose.

Strictly speaking there is no "routing through the government" of any information. The government just "issues a certificate" valid for X days without knowledge with whom, how or when you are using it.
by DennisP | 2026-02-23 21:52:46+00:00
Sensor fusion seems like it'd be a big problem when you're handcoding lots of C++, and way less of a problem when all the sensors are just feeding into one big neural network, as Tesla and probably others are doing now. The training process takes care of it from there.

One of Udacity's first courses was on self-driving, taught by Sebastian Thrun who later cofounded Waymo. He went through some Bayesian math that takes a collection of lidar points, where each point contributes to a probabilistic assessment of what's really going on. It's fine if different points seem to contradict each other, because you're looking for the most likely scenario that could produce that combined sensor data. Transformers can do the same sort of thing, and even with different sensor types it's still the same sort of problem.
by Brian_K_White | 2026-02-23 21:52:53+00:00
Unfortunately trunas core is dead now.

zVault is a fork that is effortless to migrate in-place, but pointless because it has had no updates since the fork, it's no different from just continuing to run the derelict final version of truenas core.

That just leaves xigmanas which I have not tried yet, but looks like a simpler more pure nas without the jails or vm manager, which people have told me can be filled by bastille.

Or really, I'm thinking rather than even xigmanas it probably makes more sense to just use plain freebsd and never get stuck like this again.

The host is stuck at 13.3. 13.3 went fully EOL December 2024. The pkg repos don't even supply packages for that any more. I have a bunch of services that run in jails, and currently I can just barely squeak by by "illegally" updating the jails to 13.5. It's not officially supported by upstream freebsd but I seem to be getting away with it for now. But even 13.5 is not going to last much longer. Then what?

So really the FreeNAS ui was nice an all, but not so nice as to be worth being stuck like this now. I probably should have just skipped it and just used plain freebsd which would never have had any such problem.

So maybe assuming zvault continues to not update when I finally need to move some jail past 13.5, maybe the next move is not even to xigmanas but just plain freebsd.
by tinfoilhatter | 2026-02-23 21:53:20+00:00
It's most definitely a serious comment from a serious person. Politicians have been stomping on Ukraine's constitution since it was established, but suddenly it's sacrosanct because it has a clause preventing elections from being held during wartime. How convenient!

You only consider my comments unmitigated botfarm horseshit, because you don't like what I'm saying. How exactly aren't slavs being genocided in Ukraine presently? Please explain? No sane president sacrifices an entire generation of working-class men and Russia and Ukraine have both done this. Both countries are run by psycopaths - but you ignore events leading up to the conflict that began in 2013 so you can paint the narrative that one side is good and the other is bad. Talk about unmitigated horseshit.
by szmarczak | 2026-02-23 21:53:47+00:00
See my other comment [1]. There's dozen of failed products. That one AppGyver product is from 15 years ago. Since then, he hasn't created any other product. The motorcycle however is real. The battery may also be. The issue with Solid State Batteries is that it's almost impossible to scale them.

The guy changes the industry he's in as often to match what's currently popular.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129369
by 7777777phil | 2026-02-23 21:53:58+00:00
Odd strategy (I guess at this point nothing really is with Musk / Tesla). They already complied and removed the marketing language. Suing to reverse the ruling after you've conceded the remedy only makes sense if you care about the precedent, not this specific case.

If "false advertising" stays on the record it becomes exhibit A in every future lawsuit involving FSD crashes. That's probably what this is actually about.
by carshodev | 2026-02-23 21:54:04+00:00
Although it was originally intended to be cash it actually now is used as a "store of wealth" It allows people to build up wealth and be able to preserve it from government intervention and inflation. If you have stocks the ownerhsip and registration is controlled by a government and can be taken at any time from you.

Look at china where if you have a large company and take a stand against the government all your equity will be wiped out and you will be either imprisoned or banished to another country.

Cash in a government bank account is the same way, you can wake up one day and all your assets will be seized, your credit cards will stop working.

Bitcoin works because you can technically have your wealth memorized. You can memorize a string of charcters that allow you to bring money with you no matter where you go. NO government or other human can steal it from you (except through torture) but you can also easily not memorize it and instead distribute the keys throughout the world in opposing countries meaning even if you are attacked by one country you still have some wealth kept in another.

A store of wealth is what bitcion allows. True freedom from governments stealing your money because you have ideas which they do not agree with.

This in my mind is the main usage of bitcoin.

Other coins like stablecoins, or the btc lightning network have high value because they make transactions much cheaper as traditional banking systems are complex, error prone, and costly.
by lorenzohess | 2026-02-23 21:54:22+00:00
Looks great for a prototype. Has any modeling, simulation, or analysis been done of its off-road performance, i.e. mobility, GO/NOGO, motive efficiency, maneuverability on deformable terrain? This is critical for agricultural applications.

Has any stress analysis been done on the frame? Looks to me like it could use a couple more triangles to reinforce those rectangles.

Have you designed a skid-steering controller for it? Off-road skid steering can be quite variable obviously depending on terrain properties.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-23 21:55:32+00:00
Who is making money from selling tools and libraries and compilers? All of those are supported by BigCorp and given away for free.

And who needs an abstraction layer like a framework?

I’m not a web dev at all for instance and haven’t done web development in a decade. I was able to create a relatively feature filled internal web tool in less than a day using Codex-CLI. It didn’t use any frameworks just raw HTML.
by ndesaulniers | 2026-02-23 21:55:36+00:00
I took a look at the schematics for the two fuse boxes in my 2023 Chevrolet and _could not tell which/if any_ fuse was dedicated to a cellular modem.

This was in regards to:
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/...
by mikestorrent | 2026-02-23 21:55:45+00:00
> The American Revolution was rare in that it didn't need to happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_of_Rebellion

Interestingly y'all Americans pay much more tax now than you did to England back in the day. Turns out King George was right, and it was just about changing who the tax was paid to.
by pizlonator | 2026-02-23 21:55:46+00:00
This might end up being the forcing function (quoting myself from another reply in this discussion):

> It can't be that replacing 20 C/C++ shared objects with 20 Rust shared objects results in 20 copies of the Rust standard library and other dependencies that those Rust libraries pull in. But, today, that is what happens. For some situations, this is too much of a memory usage regression to be tolerable.

If memory was cheap, then maybe you could say, "who cares".

Unfortunately memory isn't cheap these days
by tptacek | 2026-02-23 21:56:00+00:00
I think the money is a red herring here.

In Oak Park, Illinois, we ran into a rhyming version of this problem: the only control we had about what technology OPPD deployed was a spending limit ($15K, if I'm remembering right), above which they had to ask the board for an appropriation. Our pilot deployment of Flock cameras easily went underneath that limit.

I'm not reflexively anti-ALPR camera. I don't like them, but I do local politics and know what my neighbors think, and a pretty significant chunk of my neighbors --- in what is likely one of the top 10 bluest municipalities in the United States (we're the most progressive in Chicagoland, which is saying something) --- want these cameras as a response to violent crime.

But I do believe you have to run a legit process to get them deployed.

OPPD was surprised when, after attempting to graduate their pilot to a broader deployment, a minor fracas erupted at the board. I'm on Oak Park's information systems commission and, with the help of a trustee and after talking to the Board president, got "what the hell do we do about the cameras" assigned to my commission. In conjunction with our police oversight commission (but, really, just us on the nerd commission), we:

* Got General Orders put in place for Flock usage that limited it exclusively to violent crime.

* Set up a monthly usage report regime that allowed the Village to get effectiveness metrics that prevented further rollout and ultimately got the cameras shut down.

* Presented to the board and got enacted an ACLU CCOPS ordinance, which requires board approval for anything broadly construed as "surveillance technology" for policing, whether you spend $1, $100,000, or $0 on it.

Especially if you're in a suburb, where the most important units of governance are responsive to like 15,000-50,000 people, this stuff is all pretty doable if you engage in local politics. It's much trickier if you're within the city limits of a major metro (we're adjacent to Chicago, and by rights should be a part of it), but still.
by carshodev | 2026-02-23 21:56:04+00:00
This is incorrect, bitcoin is slower and more expensive, but bitcoin should not be used as cash, coins like stablecoins which direclty track US dollars or altcoins with lower fees should be used, the lightning network also is useful for transactions.

Bitcoin CAN be used as a store of wealth and the slowness actually makes it better as the slowness is part of the same process that makes it safer, harder to hack/takeover, and gives it value.

You should not look at all crypto as one thing.
by hinkley | 2026-02-23 21:56:12+00:00
The speech that worked (mostly) on the children in my life involved the concept of 'cannot unsee', which they seemed to understand. There are some parallels to gun safety here because there are things that even the adults in your life try not to do and it seems perfectly reasonable to expect the same from children.

In fact being held to a standard that adults hold themselves to is frequently seen as a rite of passage. I'm a big girl now and I put on my big girl pants to prove it.
by SiempreViernes | 2026-02-23 21:56:35+00:00
> we didnt have any of these guards in the 90s and early 2000s and everybody turned out just fine

One of the most highly valued tech companies of today makes a software that sometimes talks its user's into killing themselves. Some guy put "uwu notices bulge" on a bullet casing and shot Charlie Kirk: things turned out fine indeed.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-23 21:56:47+00:00
You haven't presented a single "countervailing evidence", or even a claim of one. You can't sue a police department if there is precedent that ruled they have the right to do that thing, so what are you expecting other than lawsuits? I mentioned already that they don't document these things. Lawsuits settled the matter, and I won't repeat for the 3rd time all the other corroborating evidence I mentioned.

I agree that evidence in general is significant, countervailing or not. I already changed my mind and conceded based on evidence that a lot of this is speculative, and exaggerations might exist. I'm more than open and receptive to evidence to support that high-iq or doing well on cognitive tests does not affect hiring in a negative way at all. but if empirical evidence to that effect existed, it would have settled our debate much sooner.
by szmarczak | 2026-02-23 21:57:17+00:00
You have no idea how scams work, do you? Visit this website [1] by the CEO and tell me it's not a scam. Tell me there exists some magical algorithm, where I give you my money and you promise me to 2x it and give it back. Please do tell me that.

[1] https://www.definancetechnologies.com/
by giobox | 2026-02-23 21:57:40+00:00
> Quite the opposite, I’m actually okay having slightly less range if it means my car won’t spontaneously combust.

Modern LFP LiIon (LiFePO4) batteries are pretty damn safe now, and is also the dominant chemistry in new EV batteries and energy storage systems. The fire risk is nothing like what it was, arguably your wish has already been granted.

The Chinese market is mandating this year that EV batteries prevent fire or explosion for a minimum of 2hrs after a cell enters thermal runaway, and LFP is the main driver to achieve it.
by josephg | 2026-02-23 21:57:55+00:00
This may be a bit too pedantic, but I consider interface {} to be a way to do polymorphism via type classes. Interface defines an open class of types which implement some interface.

Sum types are a type definition defining something as A or B. Not “anything that quacks like a duck”. But concretely “one of this or one of that”. This enables different syntax, like the match expression to be used, in which you exhaustively list all the variants. The compiler doesn’t need to heap allocate enums because it knows the maximum size of a single value. The compiler and programmer can take advantage of the knowledge that there’s a closed set of values the type can hold. It’s not an open type class.

Result and Option are quite beautiful as sum types. But they’re horrible as type classes. Try implementing them using interface{} in Go. It’s not the same.
by albatross79 | 2026-02-23 21:58:05+00:00
> If there is no inside to a box, then knowing everything about how the box interacts with things outside the box, is pretty much everything there is to know about the box, yeah.

Yeah, that's kind of a biggie. And kind of the point. It's not just some box somewhere, it's the thing we've been trying to figure out since the beginning. If physics can't tell us the fundamental nature of the universe, then what is it doing?
by rkagerer | 2026-02-23 21:58:07+00:00
Sounds like a smart kid, is part of you secretly proud of him for his tenacity?

Is it impractical to keep an eye on what he's doing on his computer, i.e. physically checking in on him from time to time?

How about holding him responsible for his own behavior, to develop respect for the rules you impose? Is it just hopeless, and if so how come? Is it impossible for him to understand why you don't want him watching certain content or why he should care about being worthy of your trust?

I'm not judging here, I'm genuinely curious.
by tptacek | 2026-02-23 21:58:30+00:00
I think the money is a red herring here. ALPR firms can come up with any number of different pilot/licensing/financing programs to keep deployments under purchasing thresholds for police departments.

The issue is that Las Vegas, like most major metros, doesn't appear to have ordinances preventing their police department from deploying cameras without the consent of the city council. That's fixable! There's model ordinances for this.
by mothballed | 2026-02-23 21:58:31+00:00
As a note on Somalia: Somalia outside the state-like entities (Somaliland, Puntland, Al-Shaabab caliphate, and FGS / federally controlled somalia) is governed by xeer law.

It's actually not lawless, it just uses a decentralized legal system that is poorly understood by westerners. They've had better outcomes under this system than under democratic government of FGS, which led to all or nothing tribalism influences coming into office.
by K0balt | 2026-02-23 21:58:35+00:00
Unfortunately, studies undertaken by MIT over a decade ago show that when it comes to law writing and passing, voters have no statistically measurable input at the federal level. (Since citizens united)

It’s all just identity politics. I will say that Trump has proven the exception to this rule, enacting a whole lot of policy that circumvents the law and has real effects. (And is likely mostly unconstitutional if actually put to the test)

So while locally, voting can be powerful, it’s mostly bread and circuses at the federal level since regulatory capture is bipartisan.
by zarzavat | 2026-02-23 21:59:22+00:00
Honestly I find writing Rust more fun than writing Python. Python just doesn't scale, any non-trivial quantity of it has a habit of turning into spaghetti however hard I try to be disciplined.

Rust, although annoying at a micro scale, does at least enforce some structure on your code, although like Kling I miss OO.

AI has made Rust approachable to a new audience of programmers who didn't want to dedicate their life to learning the ins and outs of the language. Especially for C++ developers who already learned the ins and outs of a hyper complex programming language and don't want to go through that a second time.
by hasheddan | 2026-02-23 21:59:29+00:00
Hey Arjun and Sid! I am CTO at Golioth[0], a connected device cloud platform. Just wanted to say congrats on the launch, and wish y’all the best of luck! There is lots of complexity to be addressed, and it is always great to see more folks building in this space. Happy to compare notes any time!

[0] https://golioth.io/