skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Meta Permits Its A.I. Models to Be Used for U.S. Military Purposes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42048009
This one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0789F4Z2M

The $122 price is about what I paid for it. Dunno when they have ever actually sold it for $350.
Assuming the US - are they legal to ride on roads or pavements? In the UK they are not.
If I were actually smart I'd use something like Idris or Coq. But it's just software development, not rocket surgery. I'm good with being dumb.
You respond with the equivalent of "well maybe you're not an intellectual".

That isn't what they said. They said that the PhD, by itself, isn't sufficient evidence of intellectualism.

Which is a perfectly natural reaction to have to anyone who, like the commenter being responded to, holds up their PhD as a defense of their intellectual prowess.
Show HN: TuringMind AI deeply understands your codebase
Luxe Neo bidet attachment - easy to tee into supply, fits under toilet seat,
options for rear/male only, or both rear/front male/female separate spray nozzles.
The product design is really thoughtful and thanks for sharing your story – Cannot wait to try this see you and see how you iterate on this!
It's an initial :p
It's not really about eliding zeros, though. It's kind of a cursed thing:

x -> x3.x2.x1.x0
x.y -> x.y2.y1.y0
x.y.z -> x. y.z1.z0
x.y.z.w -> x. y. z. w

Where x0 is the 8 least significant bits of x, x1 is the next 8 higher bits, and so on.

The "zeros" happen when the last number is smaller than 256 (or 65536, etc.), but it doesn't have to be. For example 10.258 is a valid way to write an IPv4 address, it's the same as 10.0.1.2.
id watch a youtube of this
I non-ironically dream for the day that a modern computer is as snappy booting as my old Commodore 128, as fast to reset, and as responsive to all keystrokes.
> Yesterday's stock market bounce after the election of Donald Trump has added billions to the pockets of the tech elite, although apparently Mark Zuckerberg failed to cash in.

I know Mark is trying to play nice but I just don't see a world where Meta gets along with this administration, Maybe if they can stay out of the news, but liberal movements better not go viral on instagram/threads or he's screwed. I think Mark is trying to be more firm about a libertarian approach to governance, and the administration is too fundamentally socially conservative, and I imagine it will be painful, because facebook is likely the size it is because of it's hands off approach. Any attempt to regulate Meta could probably dramatically impact it's userbase.
One of my personal favorite reasons to yell at the sky is the legions of managers who style themselves as "leaders", who show up to provide exactly zero leadership (at best), and actively derail projects led by anyone other than them.
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/finance/how-the-trump-whale-correctly-ca...
Anthropic and AI alignment research isn't about making AI that are DnD-style "good alignment", but making AI that have outcomes that are aligned with the goals that the designers intended for them. The chatbot AI model and goals are not the same model and goals for a defense AI.

The goals for a chatbot assistant are to be useful, correct, and not insult people. The goals for a defense AI are to extract correct features, provide useful guidance, and not kill the wrong people. If you are working in defense you already have a belief that your work is morally correct: most of those justifications are either that your work will kill bad people more effectively, and so save friendly lives, or will pick who to kill most correctly, and so save innocent lives. Having an AI that is better aligned towards those goals are better.

You may disagree that working in defense is ever morally justified! But Palantir dont't share those beliefs, and want to do as good of a job as they can, and so want the most aligned AI model they can.
> come to think of it, I'm surprised that you find translator data to be more sensitive (worth sticking behind a gatekeeper) than user logins. Must have been a lot of work to develop this intellectual property. There is no Cloudflare check on the login page.

This is just a simple anti-bot measure so we do not get hammered by them to death (kagi does not have an infinite treasure chest). It is not needed for search, because you can not use search for free anyway.
Ukraine is my pet war. Nobody cares about either it or Gaza outside a narrow slice of the already-tiny minority that pay attention to foreign affairs. In fact, one of the worst ways to get positive attention for a foreign-policy item is to complain about how it isn’t getting attention—that’s stuff you use to rile up the base.
rt linux is not appropriate for many hard realtime requirements

i have seen some try and fail in an effort to save $perceived_value
I'm trying to get insights into the kind of problems AI copilots are still unable to solve.
Nvidia GH200 Grace CPU vs. AMD EPYC 9005 Turin CPU Performance
Thanks for the tip, I’m seeing them for $99 right now. Any color you want, assuming you want stainless steel.
> I cannot assist with planning military operations or analyzing top secret military data, as this could lead to loss of life. I aim to help prevent harm, not cause it.

- Claude, before selling out to Defense
Oof. I don't do well with spiky blood sugar, so Mountain Dew is just out for me.

I have tried the Miralax/Dulcolax route for prep, though, and it made my heart rate get all weird. I felt like I was going to pass out.

Now I request Gavilyte-C by name lol
I have one of those but don't use it that often. I tend to cook burgers which work better on the grill. While I could cook sausage with it it's easier to do it on the grill to get a char. I do like it for chicken and stake though.
I think a whole lot of the money that was spent on the conservative side just didn't go through the campaign and was spent through many other channels, especially on alternative media figures.
I did click on it and got nothing. It appeared to 'pick up' and then immediately 'put down' the notebook. Guess I wasn't holding my mouth right..
Normatively speaking, it shouldn't be headline-news when someone affirms that they'll do their regular job for the American people and follow the regular law.
I hear it loud and clear. We're certainly in the early days of this initiative, but as things progress I'll make sure to bring up source code licensing as a community concern.
Got it, thanks for sharing it! We'll try to look into DBT-3 and the indexes it creates to test with SF10
If you’re just starting out, then sure.

But if you cook a lot of rice, it’s a noticeable step up in both quality and consistency. They are extremely common in Japan afaik.
> My gut tells me to do stupid shit all the time

Does it? Can you provide some examples?

My intuition rarely lets me down. Perhaps you don't have enough experience in the areas where you are trying to listen to your gut?

I'm sure if I was trying to apply my intuition to an area I didn't understand at all it would let me down.

That is different from listening to my intuition in a field I have been working in for almost two decades.
Are there any examples of apps that bluesky's 13 million users can login to?
I've never tried a cooling electric blanket. My wife has struggled w insomnia for a long time, and the eightsleep tracking was almost as much a draw as the cooling.
Using social media as a teenager is why I think teenagers shouldnt be allowed to now. It was not a healthy experience.
OneNote has some predictive text gubbins now.
> any company that actually cared about AI "safety" or "alignment", or had any belief that we are on the threshold of AGI, should steadfastly refuse to let it be used in any sort of military or intelligence context

Then they should promptly exit the space and go into, I don’t know, gardening.

Economics will force them to anyway. Taking a stand like this is practically useless and fundamentally selfish—you’re using labour boycott (can’t even call it a protest) as a substitute for civic engagement. And it’s naïve—AI is being pursued by multiple militaries. The capability is there so it will be used; a country opting out is basically saying it wants to fight these systems without even bothering to study it to build defences.
Just to add a less personal response, we are discussing possible reasons for why the decline. Not sure how 'suck it up buttercup' and 'be the change' adds to that analysis. I don't know any other situations that's a useful response. It's the equiv of 'Women just need to suck it up and deal with the tech bro boys club if they want to be represented in tech' when talking about why women are underrepresented it tech.
And presumably the energy efficiency of a dedicated translator compared to a generic language system, assuming they didn't build this on top of a GPT. The blog post doesn't say but I'm assuming (perhaps that's no longer accurate) that it's prohibitively expensive for a small team without huge funding to build such a model as a side project
NeetCode: "This video will change your mind about the AI hype"
Here's a UK study that concludes:

"Advising patients with ears blocked by wax to try bulb syringing before irrigation is effective and acceptable, and could significantly reduce the use of NHS resources."

So I feel they are a safe method of self treatment.
Under $1000:

Air fryer, I use it for cooking sausages, tenders, salmon, mini pizzas for the kids. Quicker than the oven and doesn't make the kitchen hot.

Robot vacuum, I have a roborock, turns vacuuming into something thats done a couple of times a week, from once a month.

A good camera: a hobby of mine. I got a 10-year old Canon DSLR so it did get under 1000, but with extra lenses I've bought over time for different situations it's more than that.

Under 100:

Nasal rinse, I seem to constantly have sinus problems in the cooler months, this seems to help.
I am not afraid of rm -rf whole directory. I am afraid of other stuff that it can do to my machines. leak my ssh keys, cookies, persnal data, network devices, and making persistent modifications (malware) to my system. Or maybe inadvertently messing with my python version, or globally installing some library to mess up whole system.
I still remember being blown away by the single-floppy QNX demo that included a web browser. It was so fast.

I wish you guys the best. I can only imagine what a gordian knot it must be getting all the legal ducks in a row to actually open things up. Like others have mentioned, after two rug pulls, we're all wary, but there's so much to enjoy about QNX, I hope you manage to get traction with this.
Forgot to add the link:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2148238/
Under 100:

Guitar lessons. I've played guitar for nearly 30 years, but one year of focused lessons has seen me improve more than the past 15 years combined.

Under 1000:

Shark Hydrovac. We have hard floors throughout our house, this makes keeping them clean so much easier than the manual alternatives.

Whole home humidifier attached to our furnace duct work - huge increase in comfort in winter.
Anyone can get one if they pay enough and don't have any better prospects.

Not true at all (in terms of STEM degrees from legitimate schools).
> Hacker News is hostile to fission and defeatist (unable to contemplate innovation in fission technology) but this attitude will gradually change.

Lots of us like fission and think the fears are overestimated.

Nevertheless, the observation is that new developments in fission tend to result in the cost increasing, not decreasing.

And I say that as someone with a similar mindset regarding fusion, though for different reasons: you can pick aneutronic fusion reactions… but look at what weapons can proliferate with transmutation from the neutrons you can also choose, and ask which governments will turn them down.
I posted a picture in my original comment. Was it in the same ballpark? The difference with mine is that there are no nuts on the pipes next to the wall. It's one solid construction going from the sink through the toilet to the shower.
You get into the habit fairly quickly. I type organise rather than organize despite everyone around me not doing that, but it is legitimately difficult for me to do it the popular way.
an interesting aside: when asked about his inspirations Ecco's developer Ed Annunziata said, "No, I never took LSD, but I did read a lot from John C. Lilly". Lilly is known for his pioneering work in the fields of animal intelligence, ketamine psychotherapy, isolation tanks, and consciousness exploration.

The name "Ecco" is a reference to Lilly's ECCO (Earth Coincidence Control Office), a supernatural/extraterrestrial base which John posited existed on the other side of the moon to coordinate all earthly "coincidences". He was also one of the first to recognize how intelligent dolphins were and became obsessed with figuring out how to communicate with them, going as far as flooding half of his house in the Carribeans to cohabitate. This is just the tip of the iceberg. I'd highly recommend his autobiography The Center of the Cyclone if any of this is intriguing, he's a fascinating guy
I'm almost sure they did not find tune an LLM. They are using existing LLMs because fine tuning to best the SOTA models at translation is impractical unless you target very niche languages and even then it would be very hard to get a better dataset than what is already used for those models.

Probably all they are doing is like switching between some Qwen model (for Chinese) and large Llama or maybe OpenAI or Gemini.

So they just have a step (maybe also an LLM) to guess which model is best or needed for the input. Maybe something really short and simple just goes to a smaller simpler less expensive model.
Thanks for being one of our early users and dealing with our bugs! I love that we can fit into so many developers' workflows and support them where _they are_, as opposed to forcing them to use us for everything.
Eg the Business Source License and the Functional Source License makes it always available for non-commercial use
1. Air fryer. I no longer do oil fry at all at home. Oil/fat has so many calories in it, depending on your cooking style this switch can help you a lot. I do still use a bit for flavor, but thats it.

2. Zwift and a bluetooth bike trainer. I swear my fitness improves over winter and decreases over summer... inverse from what I was previously doing. Also, I live in Iowa (very flat and the only resistance comes from the everpresent wind) so it's a different style of riding.
I see, that makes sense!
I wonder where the pattern first comes from? I think I either came across it in Express (JS) or Ring (Clojure) first but surely it was first done somewhere else.
Android isn’t. Samsung heavily customizes Android, especially the user-facing portions.
Some Scientists Think
I had never heard of them, but FWIW their "simplysafe competitor" says it comes with phone service, so that one-stop-shopping may interest this audience https://www.ooma.com/home-security/diy-security-system/#:~:t...

ed: however, unlike Google Voice it does not appear this service supports SMS/MMS so it's for sure not a one-to-one replacement :(

It _seems_ that Asterisk supports SMS, but from the wording I can't tell if they mean only in Europe or what https://docs.asterisk.org/Configuration/Applications/Short-M...
Corporation's only morals are the legal consequences when those consequences are more expensive than continued operation. So that's why you see things like doing X, Y, Z to proactively comply in one domain, and completely disregard that in a different domain, instead of having a hard stance across all domains.
Engine News from the LaTeX Project
Under $100
- A portable neck cooling fan with semiconductor cooling pads on it

They sell these all over Amazon and similar places, but the best ones have both the moving air components and at least one little metal strip that rests on the back of your neck. That metal strip gets very chilly, so it makes hot weather so much more tolerable! Only downside is it's not great for long hair due to the fans potentially catching strands.
Bird flu infections undetected
Curious how this is going to play out over the next 18 months.
> Instead they’re destroying their country and their people to save the intellectual constructs of their borders and administration.

What's happening in the occupied territories is a cultural genocide along with the execution of activists. Everything culturally Ukrainian is stamped out and every time Russians are pushed back from a town, mass graves are uncovered.

To add to that, after a few years the men in the occupied territories are pressed into the Russian army and sent in meat wave attacks westward. For example, the towns in Eastern Donbass, that has been occupied since 2014, are nearly void of male population by now.
Yep, a few days of olive oil is generally recommended by GPs... I used to do this but now I self treat I don't really bother. But I guess it I'd have even more success if I did.
Seriously. I was shocked to learn that most synthetic bike chain lube is just straight liquid PFAS. And I'm guessing the biking industry is one that leans more left wing/protect the environment.
If they're all meant to look alike, you'd deploy the stack (or app, in CDK parlance) into your dev, staging, and prod accounts. You'd get the same results in each.
The Autocracy App (2018)
Plain text files are cheap and occupy basically 0 space. Whenever I have an overfull todo list - let's call it todo.txt - I copy it to a file named x.txt, and trim it down. Then when I finish that, I go back to whatever is left in todo.txt.

Now pretend that I cut and cut but can't bring myself to reduce x.txt to less than, say, 50 items, every one essential to complete by today. What do I do then? I copy x.txt to y.txt, and reduce x.txt to just what I plan to do for the next 4 hours. If that's still too long, I copy y.txt to z.txt, x.txt to y.txt, and reduce x.txt again. You could always start lower in the alphabet (a.txt) if you want more "space".

You get the idea. The point is, with text files, if it's got too much in it, create a backup version of that file and cut it down to size. Repeat as necessary until your todo list is manageably long.
https://archive.ph/zRu06
You're still only halfway there, as we discussed earlier.

Go calling convention is that you have to assume T is invalid, unless proven otherwise, because we know there are developers who have no business being developers that will screw you over if not careful. The Go style guide promotes documenting in a function comment that your function does return a valid T so that users don't have to guess about whether or not you are competent.

But the convention on the function authoring side is to always ensure T is valid. Just because others shouldn't be writing code does not mean you need to be among them.

As Go promotes limiting use of third-party packages by convention, as a rule most of the functions you call are going to be your own. So most of the time you can be sure that T is valid, regardless of error state. Yes, sometimes you are forced to rely on the error, as we discussed already in earlier comments. Such is life.
> The front end bundler ecosystem has been a hot mess forever though.

The bundler situation wasn't ideal for a few years, but I've been really happy with esbuild lately. It's incredibly fast, has zero dependencies (besides the Golang sys module which is a de facto part of Go's extended standard library), and is much easier to configure than Webpack. I even heard DHH praise esbuild on The Changelog podcast recently, and he's a notable anti-build evangelist.
Oh and as this leaves me with ~ $500 of budget I'll include my active tip soldering iron (Aixun T3A T245, holy crap it's hot in 3 seconds), function generator (UNI-T UTG962E), a bunch of ESP32 dev boards and various PCBs I designed and ordered via JLCPCB.
NB. Nothing against Carville. He was/is interesting and entertaining. But the times they have been a-changin.
Have you compared gpt-4o to Kagi?

They might actually be the same thing in some cases.
I think it'll boil down to: "If you're really my friend, then what gift do you have for me today?"

Suitcases of bribe-cash aside, Zuckerberg/Meta will have a hard time balancing regular gifts with not alienating portions of the user-base.
More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.
Why?

Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyploidy :

> Autopolyploids possess at least three homologous chromosome sets, which can lead to high rates of multivalent pairing during meiosis (particularly in recently formed autopolyploids, also known as neopolyploids) and an associated decrease in fertility due to the production of aneuploid gametes.

Granted, there's an implication that meiosis won't split a cell into one monoploid gamete and one diploid gamete, but is more likely to divide chromosomes between gametes on a chromosome-by-chromosome basis. The implication is that the triploid organism would most likely evolve into a tetraploid organism, as described in the rest of the same paragraph:

> Natural or artificial selection for fertility can quickly stabilize meiosis in autopolyploids by restoring bivalent pairing during meiosis. Rapid adaptive evolution of the meiotic machinery, resulting in reduced levels of multivalents (and therefore stable autopolyploid meiosis) has been documented in Arabidopsis arenosa and Arabidopsis lyrata
Sega is delisting 60 classic games from Steam
> many people in this world seem to refuse to allow AI to insult (or offend) any person but would be okay if AI took part of killing them

Same reason we don’t excuse bad manners because someone is a soldier. It’s easy to be polite, and the damage is done at home. It’s harder to accept subordination to a foreign power that pursued an obvious military direction. And the damage of your own system will hopefully happen elsewhere.
> Your gut feelings want you to slam down McDonalds cheeseburgers one after another, day after day.

Are we talking about the same thing here? When the article is talking about gut feelings it is referring to intuition.

Your intuition is probably telling you eating McDonalds cheeseburgers day after day is a mistake even while the scales are telling you it is fine.
And what happens when the defense AI 'hallucinates' and suggests that somebody is a terrorist when they are not?
Can be. But it's like a long distance relationship. We already know from decades of offline phenomenon that constant physical connect is a must for a healthy, strong connection. Yes, some people have the discipline to make it work. Most don't.

And that's been my experience online. Lots of neat niche connections with people I'd never meet IRL. But you'd be surprised how quickly that connect can sever when that person leaves the community, even if you keep trying to reach out.

But i don't know, maybe this gen Z figured out something this boomer Millenial and other older generations couldn't. I'm open to being wrong.
ORT seems to have been developed in the mid 1960s, around the same time as Gatorade.

I wonder how much one informed the other.
Russian democracy did die with a grand take-over event, the 1993 coup, with literal tanks shooting at government buildings.

I'm shocked that you would use Russia as an example of a slowly dying democracy.
Relatably related: https://youtu.be/Yh9O9ETuF_0?t=119

(T.J. Miller driver's license photo routine)
What's the fundamental limitation to context size here? Why can't a model be fine-tuned per codebase, taking the entire code into context (and be continuously trained as it's updated)?

Forgive my naivety, I don't now anything about LLMs.
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