skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's crazy to me that anybody thinks that these models will end up with AGI. AGI is such a different concept from what is happening right now which is pure probabilistic sampling of words that anybody with a half a brain who doesn't drink the Kool-Aid can easily identify.

I remember all the hype open ai had done before the release of chat GPT-2 or something where they were so afraid, ooh so afraid to release this stuff and now it's a non-issue. it's all just marketing gimmicks.
This is utterly puzzling to me.

I just don't understand how you sit on the museums side of the trial on this, without seriously questioning your own position and conceding immediately.

They were basically arguing that they are entitled to hide those scan artifacts to better protect their gift shop?! How can they even reconcile those arguments with preserving the artists legacy/serving the common good?

I'm also surprised at how nonchalantly the french supreme (!!) court seems to cope with the museum just ignoring their two month deadline for three months in the new trial... Is there no equivalent to "contempt of court" in french law? Is this typical?

My conclusion is that there is either pure stubbornness or some weird, jealous hoarding mentality happening on the museums side, because I have no other explanation why they would fight so hard for their position seemingly against all reason.
Yes, the US government does propaganda. Is that news to you?
Yeah, the market size is a general fact I picked up.
Kaggle Competition: Creative Uses of Gemini Long Context
> This seems comically evil for no apparent reason.

Gervais Principle
Back in the day when I ran a lot, and got hangovers from time to time, I found that a hard four-mile run would break a hangover. I would not smell good at the end of the run, and I would still be tired, but I would feel a lot better.

Now I don't run or drink as much.
Doctests are tests they are not part of a release build. Also I don't believe there is a supported way to access code in doctests from the outside.

So (sadly?) no literate programming
Which thought leader is telling you to use AI or get fired?
Soon we'll be trying to telegraph just how much of a cultural phenomenon this show was, and come off like Abe.
Building the STRONGEST land-based crane [video]
> should have its own UI kit rendered directly on GPU. That's lot of work however.

It's more like that's the minimum that's expected.
Code that helped end Apartheid
Right, thanks. So from 160 bits down to 70 bits of entropy (there is also fancy syllables and bad words to take into account).
Maybe I misunderstand your comment, but seems like you're misunderstanding the contents of the article/the point?

They're doing a duplicate of the state not because it's required in the language or whatever, but because they want to predict something without affecting the actual state. The only way of doing that is running the actual code against a new state duplicate from the existing, actual state.

Not sure what the language has to do with it, you'd have to do the same in any language, explicitly or implicitly.
Your “what if” scenarios are changing the situation in material ways. This case sounds pretty straightforward: they were told the rules, chose not to follow them, and are unlikely to get anywhere legally unless they can demonstrate that management knew and approved of their actions.
If you're on something like RDS, major version upgrades are pretty easy with Blue Green deployments. You can do it with just seconds of downtime and pretty low risk because it uses replication under the hood and handles the cutover for you.
Thanks, she is. She's officially in remission.

We regularly take a multi-day drive to her parents, and on one I noticed she had to use the bathroom a lot more frequently than usual. Another friend lost his wife a couple years ago to pancreatic cancer, that started with some lower back pain. The moral of the story: Don't ignore changes you notice in your body.
Ask HN: Is it possible to build an AI to bring humanity back from extinction?
Maybe the development of artificial wombs would be a first step in this direction?
I don’t really want to repeat what I already wrote, but just to sum this up again: yes, the mere label of atheist doesn’t imply a specific belief system. But in actual practice, in the real world and not merely in definitions, it tends to indicate certain groupings of beliefs.

In other words, the definitional concept of atheist doesn’t imply a specific belief set (except in the choice of using such a word to define oneself), but the sociological definition definitely does. If we looked at various communities calling themselves atheists, they certainly have beliefs in common.
About the man: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Law_Olmsted
Cringey LinkedIn Posts Are Getting Dragged on Fast-Growing Subreddit
I think people give more credit to Solid that it is deserved. What had they accomplished? Signals? It wasn't created or made popular by it. Solid is known by less than 1% of developers if much.
The vaccine is effective for several decades, and hep b can spread through bodily fluids not just needles. Exposure to another kid with hep b could spread to your brothers kid.
Out of curiosity, in which university did you study for your degree?

I did my MSc in Sussex Uni which was one of the centers in the UK where logic programming was developed, but when I got there in 2014 there was no trace of that history. From conversations with professors and past students it seems that Sussex tried to ram Prolog hard down students' throats and that caused a furious backlash so that nobody wanted to hear about it anymore after the '90s to early 2000's.
ESET denies it was compromised as Israeli orgs targeted with ESET-branded wipers
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/tsa-fails-tests-latest-underco...

I have no reason to believe this got any better since then. So they accidentally caught a bunch of dudes who don’t read the fine print. Any determined adversary would have no issue at all bringing guns or explosives onboard whether or not I “remove my shoes and put my laptop in the bin”. It’s only a matter of time. Don’t like it? Stop funding genocide in the Middle East.
More like, avoid extreme legislation by extreme inept politicians.
I think this is a really good take. It all boils down to "if it ain't broke don't fix it."

No matter how easy it is, it takes more effort and thought to do an upgrade than it does to not do an upgrade at all, and for most users the upside is basically invisible if it exists at all.
> I got a lovely hand made board from Canada.

If anyone is interested Eddycrest [0] makes beautiful high quality boards also available with custom graphics. They are a very small family business producing great sewing furniture and game boards!

disclaimer: the business is near and dear to my heart as my brother is one of the carpenters/jack of all trades there.

[0] https://eddycrestco.com/collections/all-crokinole
If you're thinking about 10 different things in quick succession spontaneously flipping between each without control, your brain can't deliver sustained anticipatory reward for the one thing you actually should be working towards. The brain doesn't magically "know" what is important, presence in consciousness is what determines importance and reward allocation. Normal brains are able to fixate without tremendous effort.

My whole life I could barely sustain a conversation with someone because the moment they started speaking I'd reflexively begin thinking about something else. But when I tried Adderall I could actually have genuine conversations with people, hearing them and thinking about what they were saying and then responding, doing this repeatedly for many minutes. It felt like a superpower.
Assuming it is genocidal. You classic genocide is rounding up people and killing them all, eg the Nazis on the jews. Israel's approach has been to let the Gazans get on with things with their population growing from 1.1m in 2000 to 2.04m in 2024 then being attacked and and killing 0.04m fighting back to get their hostages. If they are doing a genocide I'm not sure they are doing it right.
Both databases are owned by the same company. Wonder if it's something inherent to the company which has keep that limitation going?
The Hopium Wars: The AGI Entente Delusion
Singapore's police is omnipresent, powerful and "less corrupted" than its Indian counterpart.

It also seems to me that everyone in multi-ethnic Singapore tries hard to avoid any provocation, maybe because it wreak havoc during the 1960's.

Not that I appreciate a high population density or large population... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kohr#The_Breakdown_of_...
My CTO (C level is automatically a Thought Leader)
The person starting their response as “No problem …” is our main character with all the answers.
What you call an ugly bumper sticker is credit where it is due, but also an important recruitment mechanism for new mappers, which improves the map. The /copyright page is our biggest landing page on the website, even above the base / page. Attribution is also a requirement of many proprietary map providers.
I don't care who they send, prairie dogs and squirrels are different and deserve different emojis!
Your terms of employment matter more than a EULA, and at the pay scale in question they can be expected to be literate or hire a lawyer. I’d be quite surprised if they weren’t given clear instructions the first time they used the system at a company big enough to have had lawsuits before.

“Incredibly good” is a value judgement we don’t have evidence to assess but I don’t think you could support that claim here in any case: people who break ethics rules on small things are pretty likely to break them on big things. No mstter what else they’re bringing to the table, that’s a risk.
Tech Billionaires Became the GOP's New Donor Class
*They just FYI.
The fact that someone entered software engineering through either building things with Arduino or through a coding boot-camp does not indicate what is their potential when it comes to software engineering.

I've seen people who are really great at combining "recipes" off the web for anything (including hobby electronics and programming), but never really get to the bottom of things or develop clear understanding of how things work and tie together.

I imagine you'd only get more out of that kid toying with Arduino because of persistence ("few years"), and not because of the type of things they did, but I ultimately believe you'll have similar chances of developing a great software engineer out of any of them in general.
Show HN: Most Efficient Batch API for Open-Source and Custom Models
Hey HN,

If you tried running open-source models like Llama 3.1 70B or 405B, you might have noticed that it gets very expensive. The reason looks obvious enough that you might have stopped even before trying it!
- GPUs are very expensive to buy or rent
- Running the most performing LLMs need 4, 8 or even 16 top of the line Nvidia GPUs
- And that won’t get you anywhere near the level of VRAM needed to batch enough to get a decent throughput and efficiency

Some have even questioned if open-source LLM providers are not doing some shenanigans to provide the prices they offer. VC funded bait-and-switch? Unclear quantization? Even the most well funded LLM inference startups, with the best inference optimization teams in the world have got into controversy about this.

At EXXA, we wanted to make affordable the best open-source LLMs in all their FP16 glory.

And I don’t know for others, but we’re a bootstrapped team of 3, so the subsidizing part isn’t an option :D

I won’t tell you we found the magical solution for all use cases… But we found one for batch overnight jobs! Think things like:
- Synthetic data generation
- Data pre-processing (e.g. contextual retrieval for RAG enhancement, knowledge graph)
- or new models evaluation

Why overnight? Because it gives us time to:
- Get GPU for a high discount (30-70%) as they would otherwise sit idle in cloud providers data centers
- Heavily optimize inference for maximum throughput instead of minimum latency

Today, our batch inference API is live for Llama 3.1 8B & 70B FP16 with output under 24h. We offer the lowest price per token in the market! 60% cheaper than fireworks or Together AI. Without any hard rate limits and with prompt caching available.

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What do you think of our approach? Are you willing to wait for super cheap prices for AI inference?
GPT-4o is a fan of Monty Python's O.o
When you find yourself competing with AWS, Azure, or GCP (2019)
Quite the opposite

> these new passwords have 71 bits of entropy, up from the 69 from the previous format.
Private Equity Firm Permira Acquires Squarespace for $7.2B
> So fluoridated water is mass medication because the alternatives are bottled or expensive, not pumped into the house, and salt is non-mass medication even though its “natural”-marketed alternatives are more expensive too

Correct. You already get most of your salt intake from salt-containing foods. In most cases there is zero need to add salt to your food. You can get a 3lbs box of kosher salt for less than $4. Assuming the maximum recommended daily salt intake of 6g, if you get half of that via added salt, that's less than $0.01 / day.

Alternatives are widely available at no significant burden, so it is not mass medication.

> Or is it mass medication in the grains case because the FDA requires folic acid to be added?

Debatable because grain-free diets are possible. But I would indeed consider this a form of mass medication because it is mandatory to add it. In fact, for a long time my country explicitly forbade adding it to grains! These days it is allowed here, but of course optional.

My position is incredibly simple, actually: don't require adding random stuff to food which doesn't need to be there! It is my body, the government doesn't get to decide what I do with it. It is irrelevant whether that is helpful (like fluoridated water and folic acid almost certainly are) or harmful, they should not have that power in the first place.
I think this is a perfect explanation about why zoom calls are so exhausting. You're having to pay closer attention to more things than you would in person. Attention isn't discrete -- it's dividable, and zoom calls call for that division more so than other scenarios.
I think they were afraid to release because of all the racist stuff it'd say…
Although there may be uses for such a modified loss, based on the tone of the writeup it feels like this was an unintended bug in their training code. Training llms with variable max sequence length on different GPU is a recipe for inefficient training anyways, so careful optimizion of MFU at scale, or fixed max sequence length per batch, would have avoided this “bug”.
Really cool! This would be a nice integration with Obsidian if you had an open / textual format (and possibly open-source it!)
EIW – ESET Israel Wiper – used in active attacks targeting Israeli orgs
There's a third way here so rather than:

* Interpolate between the previous state and the new state by the remaining time which leaves the action delayed in the past.

* Simulate an extra variable delta tick with the extra issues you can get from going off cadence.

You can simulate a temporary tick a full fixed tick ahead and then interpolate between the current tick and the future tick. Typically the cost of ticking a new frame doesn't depend hugely on the length of time it's simulating so the cost is largely the same as the method presented. This has some advantages in terms of keeping the time delta consistent, meaning you don't need to worry about it throughout the simulation code.
Thoughts on Learning: AI's Plateau, Expertise Access, and the Lost Art of Asking
One of the many things I love about Mongodb is the upgrade process. Shutdown server, delete old exes, copy new ones and start server. Done

Any needed updates to databases are done by the new exe, automatically.
Obviously backup everything before you do the upgrade.
I've never had one fail.
Laptop Vendor Malibal Suggests Not Supporting Coreboot
Why should you do so? What’s the advantage or would you say it’s even necessary?
I know at least one person who says they would have rather stuck it out in retrospect.
Fully random: 62^18 in that format, or about 107 bits of entropy.

Their approach: ~71 bits per the article (I counted ~73 bits but I’m not using their exact algorithm)

I’d say it’s not too bad. With a good password hashing algorithm you’re looking at nearly 2^100 operations to bruteforce their passwords, which isn’t going to be feasible anytime soon. (Even with a crappy hash algorithm it’s still going to be over 2^80 operations).

And, in this case, that entropy trade off means the passwords are easier to remember and type in, making it more likely for humans to actually use those passwords.
Although I agree(stuff bought with tax money should go to tax payers), you do realize that many people don't see it that way. Especially when their career rely on withholding the stuff in question.

Another example: if people have access to 3D scans, then they might come to the museum anymore because they can make a virtual tour... (I doubt of that, but well, it's an example)

But, of course, as a tax payer, I wanted these 3D scans (somebody voted for that at some point). So now the pandora's box is open.

The problem, I guess, is that a museum is not there to be profitable. Unfortunately, "modern management" crept in there and now they have to be somehow profitable or at least make an effort to be so. And so, information withholding is a way to achieve that goal.

As a society we have to choose: we keep museums so that everyone can enjoy art, or we think they have to be profitable first...
Why not just use real words with longer password instead? That'd be easier to type than these shorter "word-like" syllables
To be fair, 99% of linq usage is method chaining syntax, not query syntax
For me, the most useful part of LINQ is neither the IQueryable syntax tree based extension mechanism, nor the language integrated part (which I dislike), but simply the IEnumerable extensions. Originally known somewhat confusingly as linq to objects. Those allow me to write c# in functional style, keeping the code concise.

The post I submitted refers mostly to optimizations to those extension methods.

This clicked for me after having learned Haskell. It also shares some of Haskell's features/pitfalls, such as laziness.

There are pitfalls, sure, and honestly I wouldn't advise a team having no one somewhat experienced with basic functional idioms (including laziness) to use it. It can lead to obtuse and slow code if used indiscriminately. I try to lead by example myself.
I've used MySQL for almost 15 years, and reported dozens of bugs, a few of which were critical security issues.

My definition of "very unstable" has been very vague, so I'll clarify.

MySQL is stable software if a company uses a subset of features - the core ones, stable for a long time. Anything outside of that area, and either a company has very considerable engineering resources (that is, being able to work on the MySQL source, indeed like Uber, Google or Facebook), or it's suicide.

For starters, the MySQL development model has a habit of abandoning functionalities while not officially deprecating them, leaving them buggy.

MyISAM for example has been abandoned long ago, but not officially. Around 10/12 years ago, while it was still somewhat used, we experienced a bug where the tables were marked as crashed on clean shutdowns. Very nasty because it caused long recovery times on startup.

InnoDB fulltext indexes are the same. They have a broken workflow (they require maintenance, but some required maintenance functionalities are missing), and clearly MySQL has abandoned them, but not officially deprecated.

New functionalities have typically nasty bugs. The critical bugs I've mentioned were on simple operations related to relatively new, but not widespread, functionalities (MVIs, regular expressions, InnoDB FTIs, I think JSON, and can't remember the other(s)).

Worse, MySQL 8.0 has been a complete trainwreck, because the product managers decided to develop features/changes in patch versions, continuosly introducing breakages. So, maybe a functionality that has finally been stable for an year or more, suddenly breaks (in production, of course).

Heck, even something as simple as 'SHOW TRIGGERS' is currently buggy, just because triggers are not common in the userbase.

Given the domain you've mentioned (banking) you've probably been working with a conservative set of functionalities - which absolutely makes sense, but calling MySQL stable depends on whether one considers MySQL a small set of functionalities, or the whole set of them.
An important element of Rust's culture of safety, which is if anything more important than its safety technology which merely enables that culture to flourish, is as follows:

It is categorically the fault of that unsafe code when the bomb goes off. In a language like C++ it is very tempting for the person who planted the bomb to say "Oh, actually in paragraph sixteen of the documentation it does tell you about the bomb so it's not my fault" but nobody reads documentation, so Rust culturally requires that they mark the function unsafe, which is one last reminder to go read that documentation if you must use it.

Because this is a matter of culture not technology we can expect further refinement both in terms of what the rules are exactly and the needed technology to deliver that. Rust 1.82 which shipped yesterday adds unsafe extern (previously all the extern functions were unsafe, but er, maybe we should flag the whole block? This will become usual going foward) and unsafe attributes (the attributes which meddle with linking are not safe to just sprinkle on things for example, again this will become usual for those attributes)
Whenever I work in other languages/ecosystems LINQ is the one thing that I really miss. It's just such a nice capability to have available in the standard library. Beautifully designed given the constraints it had to work within.
Even if horse-battery-staple works mathematically people don't trust that it's "really random".

1password supports it as "memorable password".
No, PowerNap doesn't work like that.

When you close the lid, macOS directly sleeps, shutting down fans in ~10 seconds if you have them, reaching S3 (Suspend to RAM) state. Radios stay alive a little longer to keep any BT/Wireless connections to speed things up if you're just moving places, then they go dark as well.

If you enabled PowerNap on charging, your laptop will wake up briefly after some time (Every hour or so) after you plug it in, check mails if Apple Mail is open, check for any system updates, and sleep if there's none after fetching the mails (It'll download the updates if there are any, IIRC). If you have setup Time Machine, and the drive is available (locally or via network), PowerNap will wake the system and take a backup every 24 hours, making sure that your backups are always up to date.

Per factory settings, PowerNap on battery is off, so it'll sleep without any disturbance up to a month or so, and will hibernate when the battery is low.

So, yes, the laptop sleeps as soon as you close the lid. But wakes up periodically to make sure that everything is fetched and ready (if it's connected to power, by default).

BTW, There's an actual method called Power Nap involving short naps to recharge. It's not an Apple naming gimmick [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_nap
But that's not the relevant thing if we're talking about storing a best move per possible position.