skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the PISA comparison in this context is flawed. To compare any statistics, we must control for other variables, otherwise any conclusion about causal effects and relationships could be deeply wrong. In the education context, the most important variables are the economic background of the households, the active involvement of the parents in the education of the children, the amount of time spending on the subjects (both in class and at home), the curriculum and methods of teaching.

Finland has only 5 millions population and a relatively high median income, the teacher:students ratio is much higher and the percentage of intact families are higher. Therefore, if we want to compare, we have to select better districts in the US, where the teacher:students ratio is similar high then see what the PISA scores will say. Only then, and looking deeper into the curriculum and teaching method, we can say whether homework is beneficent or not.
Free/cheap street parking exists in Manhattan. A lot of it.
Too much personal preference with PPD. When I upgraded to a 32" monitor from a 27" one i didn't push my display through my wall, it sat in the same position.
Really? You’re keeping track of which slide Jane Doe has switched Carousel X to on the server?
> I think it's revealing how limited the LLMs were in algorithmically optimizing this problem vs approaches like "add some parallelism" or "use numpy", for which they were quite decent in Python and somewhat less decent in Rust. It's surprising to me that unless I prompted it overly-specifically, GPT 4o didn't suggest using a faster rand implementation, as that was a pretty effective, easy step.

As a human performing optimization one of the steps might be to generate a list of candidate optimizations. After that you might explore each idea in parallel. By using the LLM iteratively, you're side stepping that approach and constraining the LLM to instead picking a certain optimization first and then build on that. So one cure might be to adjust your prompt and iteration strategy to take into account that there are multiple candidate solutions rather than just one. This leads to more of an agentic / chain approach than a completions approach to the task though.

The other missing part of this is that each time you optimize the code (even if it's a failure), you learn something more about the optimization. Again this context seems missing when the LLM looks at the code (unless that history is provided in CoPilot completions automatically - it probably depends on what approach you're taking there).

I wonder if there are any AI tools out there doing context + planning + history + RAG + test + evaluation + tool use + feedback approaches. I've seen various tools do 2-3 of those. It's not a stretch to think that we might eventually see tools that start to emulate more of the developer inner loops.
Raise them up to a steer if you don't need breeding stock and use / sell them as a bull if you do.
Absolutely. I was surprised both in the scale of spam attempts in certain scenarios and how quickly it died with different mitigation measures. It's a challenging thing to blog about because some of the heuristics can be fixed. To be super vague, when you have a certain amount of data about a user if metadata A should be correlated to metadata B and it isn't, that bumps the score. It's not enough on it's own if there are legitimate reasons it doesn't have to be correlated.

I'm always happy to chat through some of the details individually.
The Governor General appoints a caretaker government with (ostensibly) limited powers until the party in power or the leading coalition select the next PM and create a new government.
GeForce Now App Coming Soon to Steam Deck [video]
I'd love to work at Google and I'm a really well rounded full stack dev/great problem solver but I don't see how I can get anyone's attention at Google without a CS degree and being 15 years younger. Do you think you'd get the job if you applied now?
What will these prices be if Trump tariffs go into effect?
Thanks for sharing; I am most intrigued by the sales pitch. But the website is downright ugly.

This is a better presentation by the same folks.
https://matrixprofile.org/
I can have a whole human like conversation with chatGPT via their app on the same iPhone where Siri still is total horse-poo. I have iPhone 15 Pro and running 18.3 .... Siri is so pathetic.

I chat with GPT (especially in the car) to get things done; assistant and a knowledgebase. Siri makes me have nerd rage (lol) trying to use her the same.

If GPT came out with an AI Phone Apple would be out of my life. I want an AI Phone where on the lock screen I see a facetime like call with my AI Assistant (can skin how they look to be whoever). They do everything for me via voice, text, hand gestures, facial expressions and etc. It would be less icon focus and way more AI focused of a UX.
Is this going to make up for the lack of VRAM in the new consumer GPUs?
The war is squarely against H1-B abuses such as for Amazon factory floor workers, code monkeys, or Cognizant content moderators hired by Mega/Facebook/Instagram.

The ones that MAGA are apparently okay with are the Einstein Visa (US O-1 or US EB-1 visa).

Article is poorly researched and a general misquote of Elon Musk.
let me save everyone's time of writing each recommendation individually - by linking https://www.incrementaldb.com/ where all the games are listed together
People acting like web dev was "simple" never fail to baffle me.

Remember Flash? Java Applet? ActiveX? Adding interactivity to web pages has always been abominable work.
What are you talking about? It will have overwhelmingly strongly positive effects, while also raising revenue to fund stuff like more transit. Congestion charging is great and every city should do it!
I finished the game. Got to level 32 and bought the upgrade Go to the Ocean for 2,000,000 stimulation. The audio chilled out and it went to the credits.
Finally a real ARM workstation from Nvidia! This will be much faster than Apple's offerings for AI work. And at $3000 it is much cheaper than any Mac with 128 GB RAM.
I don't think commies want capitalism?
Same with Android, at least newer versions.
It’s not a tax.
Check this comment where you can find multiple versions of this pdf:

"I've seen this scan, what seems like a better digitized version of the same text, and this more formal-looking document, but they all refer to the essay in retrospect"

[Programming as Theory Building - Peter Naur](https://gist.github.com/onlurking/fc5c81d18cfce9ff81bc968a7f...)
Nvidia literally markets H100 as a "GPU" (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/h100/) even though it wasn't built for graphics and I doubt there's a single person or company using one to render any kind of graphics. GPU is just a recognizable term for the product category, and will keep being used.
Had to identify an unknown microcontroller earlier today and was thinking, "Surely there's a tool for this?!"

HN did not disappoint! This aptly-named utility definitely beats trial and error uploading. Next time I'll give it a try.
"Be a property owner and not a renter on the Internet"

<https://den.dev/blog/be-a-property-owner-not-a-renter-on-the...>

HN discussion: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlcDHlK_RoY>

If you keep working on Maggie's Farm, you'll keep encountering Maggie's rules.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie%27s_Farm>

Rely on YouTube for distribution, for now, but build a home base (or bases) elsewhere which you can fall back on.
I feel this is bigger than the 5x series GPUs. Given the craze around AI/LLMs, this can also potentially eat into Apple’s slice of the enthusiast AI dev segment once the M4 Max/Ultra Mac minis are released. I sure wished I held some Nvidia stocks, they seem to be doing everything right in the last few years!
Just curious, how does your company host its email? Documents? Files?
Are there no federal police or laws that are applicable? Is there no federal funding that goes to the province that can be used as leverage?

Those would be my starting place.
I just want to see some proper competition in the high end GPU market, not Nvidia launching absurdly priced 5090s.
Definitely. Any kind of unique check (another example is just a uniquely named version of a classic hidden honeypot field like https://dev.to/felipperegazio/how-to-create-a-simple-honeypo...) is usually enough on it's own until you're a higher value target.
Pedestrians outside of cars don't have agency to prevent injury to themselves from cars.
got laggy for me, but I got frustrated by cacophony before that
That didnt take long after AMD announcment
You can also run Llama 405B and the latest (huge) DeepSeek on your own hardware and get LLMs that trade blows with Claude and ChatGPT, while being fully isolated and offline if needed.
This doesn't seem like a valid Show HN, but without the prefix, it's an interesting post.

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

> Off topic: blog posts

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Are you telling me its crazy that a scientist accidentally caught an undocumented strain of the virus and spread it? Why would there need to be a cover up if they can't even find patient zero. And even if there was a cover up, both the US and China have massive incentives to cover it up.
what device has both zoom tapping and apple's ctrl button?
I use my 3090 on a 4K TV and still don't see a need, although a lot of that is being bored with most big budget games so I don't have many carrots to push me to upgrade.

Turn down a few showcase features and games still look great and run well with none or light DLSS. UE5 Lumen/ray tracing are the only things I feel limited on and until consoles can run them they'll be optional.

It seems all the gains are brute forcing these features with upscaling & frame generation which I'm not a fan of anyway.

Maybe a 7090 at this rate for me.
Good, I was hit by a car in NYC while on a bike and it caused a fracture. If this reduces congestion, then I support it because I could have easily died. However, this was accompanied by hikes in public transit pricing. I don't think transit officials are acting in good faith when it comes to their moral arguments and just want to justify raising taxes for the poor.
These vram amounts are fucking depressing,

was expecting 32/24/24/16 not 32/16/16/12 like wtf
I think the enthusiast side of things is a negligible part of the market.

That said, enthusiasts do help drive a lot of the improvements to the tech stack so if they start using this, it’ll entrench NVIDIA even more.
As the author notes, Windows 95 was remarkable for the iterative process that Microsoft’s UI folks undertook. They published an article in the ACM [1] on how they completely discarded the previous approach of designing from first principles in a vacuum in favor of rapid iteration and frequent usability testing. This let them abandon their fear of changing too much—in fact, the article directly addresses the evolution of taskbar icons from the version shown in your linked screenshots to what eventually shipped.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/238386.238611
From the size and pricing ($3000) alone, it's safe to conclude it has less raw FLOPs than a 5090. Since it uses LPDDR5X, almost certainly less memory bandwidth too (5090 @ 1.8 TB/s, M4 Max w/ 128GB LPDDR5X @ 546 GB/s). Basically the only advantage is how much VRAM it packs in a small form factor, and presumably greater power efficiency at its smaller scale.

The only thing it really competes with is the Mac Studio for LocalLlama-type enthusiasts and devs. It isn't cheap enough to dent the used market, nor powerful enough to stand in for bigger cards.
> I'm surprised it does actually work very well.

probably you got lucky with having correct browser or smth...
What did AMD announce?
I think there is a much simpler explanation behind this: training data.

Llms have had truck load of training on normal code than a super optimized ones.

That's why you will see it struggle with nginx configs. And on newer technology where there is less amount of data available.
Oh my god.

It even has a low mantissa FMA.
You know what’s more unsafe in than the subway in NYC? Walking across a road in NYC.

You sound like you don’t live in the area.
anything in grafana is inherently not exportable to any code though which is rather annoying cuz their UI really sucks
You're basically right about the relative nature of IQ scores, but you're wrong about the comparison being drawn.

To impute the effect of lead, you look at a bunch of people, measure the amount of lead in their blood, measure their IQs, and see how much of a difference there is between people with a lot of lead and people with less or none.

Modern poor people who live in crummy areas where there's still a little bit of lead are about as stupid, relative to the leadless elite, as poor people from decades past who lived in crummy areas which, at the time, had a lot more lead than they do now.

It seems like a safe assumption that the effect of lead on people with negligible lead levels has stayed constant over the decades at indistinguishable-from-zero.

But for lead to explain the gap between the lead-haves and the lead-have-nots, its effect must have increased dramatically over that same period. That gap hasn't changed. But lead levels have plummeted.
there's always prophet. forecast the next value and look at the difference
Apple destroyed evidence in anticipation of litigation

The Court granted plaintiff's motion for sanctions

Apple asked the Court to redact the specifics of what data it collects through Siri (see, e.g., page 8)

The data collected includes at least thirty-five data fields, according to the plaintiffs

Why Apple wanted this disclosure sealed from public scrutiny is left as a question for the reader
Mmm i think my wallet Is safe since i only play SNES and old dos games.
I thought the war on talent was choosing the ticket with all the rich guys who can't help but fail up? Looking at Trump's lawsuits and bankruptcies you can't say he's a talented businessman.
The externality is already "priced in" to the traffic. People who can wait in traffic or can't afford not to wait in traffic do so, and people who want to skip out can as well.

Congestion pricing, like many fees and regulations, is a regressive tax, because the overhead seeps into all goods and services and it impacts the poor most of all and the rich not at all.
And before that: https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/8df1z7/after_...
The people paying the congestion fees are the rich that live in the suburbs and drive into the city.
Feels like data center AI HW demand peak is over now that these things are trickling down to consumers and they are diversifying customers. Also going lower than expected on gaming HW, seems like they have enough fab capacity.
I find it frustrating that after purchasing an item, the email notifications are endless. They include every minor update, like the delivery person stopping for a bagel. It feels like my phone is constantly bombarded with unnecessary information these days.
does epic also require a rootkit for anti cheat?

i’m only familiar with the valorant one since that’s the game my irl friends play that i won’t install because of
NJ needs to stop its commuter residents paying NY income tax, particularly those doing WFH more than half the year. They can boost NJT with that pile of money.
Nvidia releases a Linux desktop supercomputer that's better price/performance wise than anything Wintel is doing and their whole new software stack will only run on WSL2. They aren't porting to Win32. Wow, it may actually be the year of Linux on the Desktop.
I wish you and others had just considered the NDP platform which has always supported electoral reform (MMP) and cannabis legalization. Two planks the Liberals "stole" in order to win (and one which they then promptly threw away).

Mulcair was ahead in the polls first half of that election. Trudeau came out of third place to win with his lie about electoral reform and by refusing to answer the question about the religious discrimination laws being introduced in Quebec.

Things could have gone very differently. Mulcair was a much more competent politician than Trudeau, and the NDP platform was more balanced. Though it may have been a challenge for him to assemble a fully competent cabinet.
Wow. Who is proud to say they are Chinese after events like these?
The interesting part to me was that Nvidia claim the new 5070 will have 4090 level performance for a much lower price ($549). Less memory however.

If that holds up in the benchmarks, this is a nice jump for a generation. I agree with others that more memory would've been nice, but it's clear Nvidia are trying to segment their SKUs into AI and non-AI models and using RAM to do it.

That might not be such a bad outcome if it means gamers can actually buy GPUs without them being instantly bought by robots like the peak crypto mining era.
In 1930, the e Indiana Bell Telephone Company rotated an 11,000 ton functioning telephone exchange it had acquired merging with Central Union Telephone Company, whilst work continued inside, and with water, sewerage, gas, and electricity service continuing uninterrupted, 90 degrees.

The work was performed by the architectural firm of Vonnegut, Bohn & Mueller, co-founded by Bernard Vonnegut, father of the noted author Kurt.

<https://www.archdaily.com/973183/the-building-that-moved-how...>
Can you talk a little big about how you made the app? What was the source of data to convert the food to equivalent calories? What sort of technical and non-technical challenges did you run into during development?
The problem with snapshot tests is that they tend to fail when something is changed.

One property of good tests is that they only fail when something is broken.

Snapshot tests aren't really automated tests, because you have to manually check the outputs to see if failures are genuine. It's a reminder to do manual checking but it's still not an automated process.

> The best testing technique in the world can't save us from developer error.

Sure, but using a testing technique that increases developer error is unwise, and snapshot testing has done that every time I've seen it used, so I don't use it anymore.
Don't necessarily count Intel out.
It’s 3 extrapolated frames not interpolated. So would be reduced lag at the expense of greater pop-in.

There’s also the new reflex 2 which uses reprojection based on mouse motion to generate frames that should also help, but likely has the same drawback.
I actually thought it very subtle, considering it's usually thousands
US reports first human death related to bird flu
Yeah my expectation is this next leadership campaign will be half-assed and "fought" by people who know they will never be PM. Instead they'll expect 4-5 years of PP and somewhere in the middle another leadership campaign that they'll then try to win.

I do think Freeland is too tainted by Trudeau now to be a success. Very intelligent woman, but I think her political career is ending. (I should check back on this comment in 5 years)
Now I need to extrapolate this to explain why I am 10-30minutes late every time.
That claim is with a heavy asterisk of using DLSS4. Without DLSS4, it’s looking to be a 1.2-1.3x jump over the 4070.
This is amazing - great work!
Fantastic. That's step one, now fix the public transit, and make it safer and cleaner, so that people actually enjoy using it consistently rather than just needing to do so.

Do that and NYC will be a much, much nicer city to live in.
That's a great reply, thanks, and seems to align with the "pipes just get clogged up" concept I read some time ago.
Do they come with a mini nuclear reactor to power them?
Everyone has a level of abstraction they're comfortable with. I enjoy working in C++, and I tolerate working in Javascript for work. I wouldn't be good at writing assembly, and I would dread talking to chatbots to tell them what code to write. I enjoy solving problems, not describing them to chatbots.
There is no need to cast rays when you have divided the space into convex polygons. If you know all the vertices of a convex polygon and two of them form a visible wall, you can determine the texture column and height of the screen space wall column by means of interpolation. This is what the Doom engine does.

The PC version of Wolfenstein 3D used a more straight forward ray casting approach, but I think the SNES port was Id's first use of BSP.
The biggest nuisance aspect for me is when it is trying to do things that the LSP can do 100% correctly. Almost surely it is my tooling setup and the LLM is squashing LSP stuff. Seeing Copilot (or even Cursor) suggesting methods or parameters that don't exist is really annoying. Just stand down and let the LSP answer those basic questions, TYVM.
What we need is more diversity in the space. Something between the Jetson and this thing, at under $1000 that can run in a LAN to do LLM, STT, TTS, etc. would be an awesome (if niche) device to enable truly local / private AI scenarios for privacy-sensitive folks.
The real unintended consequence is that cities ultimately don’t like to run them. They’re effective, and thus the revenue the city is expecting disappears. In they end they become costs rather than revenue sources.
Leibniz Was a Genius for the Ages. Can We Give Him a Break?
* MegaGeometry (APIs to allow Nanite-like systems for raytracing) - super awesome, I'm super super excited to add this to my existing Nanite-like system, finally allows RT lighting with high density geometry

* Neural texture stuff - also super exciting, big advancement in rendering, I see this being used a lot (and helps to make up for the meh vram blackwell has)

* Neural material stuff - might be neat, Unreal strata materials will like this, but going to be a while until it gets a good amount of adoption

* Neural shader stuff in general - who knows, we'll see how it pans out

* DLSS upscaling/denoising improvements (all GPUs) - Great! More stable upscaling and denoising is very much welcome

* DLSS framegen and reflex improvements - bleh, ok I guess, reflex especially is going to be very niche

* Hardware itself - lower end a lot cheaper than I expected! Memory bandwidth and VRAM is meh, but the perf itself seems good, newer cores, better SER, good stuff for the most part!

Note that the material/texture/BVH/denoising stuff is all research papers nvidia and others have put out over the last few years, just finally getting production-ized. Neural textures and nanite-like RT is stuff I've been hyped for the past ~2 years.

I'm very tempted to upgrade my 3080 (that I bought used for $600 ~2 years ago) to a 5070 ti.
> Roman Empire’s use of lead lowered IQ levels across Europe, study finds

I'm not a fan of this phrasing. None of the findings had anything to do with measuring IQ levels in ancient Europe. They were about measuring historical levels of lead, which they then just plugged into modern models to presume some levels of cognitive effects.

A study that was actually able to measure cognitive disparities and correlate them with measured levels of lead would have been extremely interesting, but this is not that. Everything other than the measurements of historical lead levels seems to be fluff.

This would kind of be like saying "massive asteroid strike 100m years ago lead to cataclysmic tsunami, study finds" but then not showing any evidence of a tsunami, just evidence that it struck an ocean and the inference that that would have caused a tsunami. It might be a reasonable inference, it's just not as interesting as the title would make it seem.

Edit: I should qualify, I'm not trying to say that "they did the math"-style papers don't have value, just that the phrasing in how they are presented matters to me. If the phrasing was more like "Use of lead in Roman Empire would have lowered IQ levels across Europe, study finds" I would have no issue with it.
https://archive.ph/zlX4p