skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did my PhD (mapping and studying the physics of caves in the ice on an antarctic volcano) purely for fun, and it was awesome.

I hope you have a similarly rewarding experience. You will encounter unfair systems and unscrupulous people, and it will be frustrating. The data will be confusing as hell. My only advice is stay true to yourself. Maybe look into some of the new trends that could fix academia -- pre-registration, open access with public comment periods, reproducible code, etc. For inspiration, I cheer for crusaders like Data Colada who are trying to save the academic system.
No. The other approach is to talk about it. Not make things more extreme. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis

This is the only effective way to end racism and hate. The problem is that you pool too many people together as "racist" which eliminates the power of the word and sends them into a position of "I'll be hated by the left no matter what I do so I'll go full on".

This strategy has objectively not worked. More Latinos voted for Trump in this election even though his rhetoric got MUCH worse. He wants to deport 18M people and revoke citizenship. Yet, they still voted for him in much larger numbers. Women whose rights were denied voted for him. Why?

You can say they're all stupid and indeed there are quite a lot of those. But the fact is that saying to a person that he, all his friends, family and community are evil and racist doesn't bring that person to your side. It pushes them further down that bad path. It might be satisfying to confront a person in a "good vs. evil" scenario, but that doesn't fix the problem and makes everything worse.
My comment from 2 months ago saying:

>FBI should go after OpenAI and Sam Altman the same way they went after Aaron Swartz.

Should now be expanded to:

FBI should go after OpenAI, Sam Altman and Meta the same way they went after Aaron Swartz.
The problem is that China is very weak right now. If they tank their economy and seize Taiwan… they’ll be much worse off.

The threatened trump tariffs are bad but nearly as bad as what’s being done to Russia For example
They’ve also removed Python (Python 2), Perl, Ruby.

I think they mostly just let users install these things themselves, which makes sense, because then we don’t have outdated versions baked into the operating system.
Is that a satire or parody site? Definitely feels like it.
> to make claims about how suitable women are to tech jobs.

? How many % women are employed at Microsoft, Google or Apple ? Are the women to blame that Windows, Android and iOS are crap ?
> he's the bigger man (relatively speaking) by engaging in artful trolling

No, being immature does not make you “the bigger man.”
Show HN: AiLert – Open-Source AI Newsletter Engine in Python
- Aggregates 150+ AI sources (arXiv, GitHub, news)
- Async content processing
- AWS DynamoDB backend
- Customizable templates
Thank you, Matt! Loved your guide when I started my own PhD in ye olden days, and I've shown it to a lot of people since then.
HMD is jut a random company that bought the Nokia brand. They are entirely different companies AFAIK.
Yeah I understand that, for example, pirating copyrighted works for free is still illegal and can amount to damages for the copyright holder.

Idk, just rubs me the wrong way when there are companies making money on the exact same product sourced the exact same way right now, as Meta chooses to make it free and gets sued. Seems like we should be logical enough to conclude if they get sued, every similar company should be investigated and fined (if wrongdoing was found) as well.
I've heard the same about Dark Matter, and that was previously my amateur mental model. This was naive; in practice it confidently refers to CDM (cold dark matter), which is matter that interacts gravitationally, but not electromagnetically, with normal matter.
For a nice tower or woofer box, building your own is usually way cheaper than buying new but rarely significantly cheaper than scavenging or second-hand purchases. There are tons of designs, but in general just build based off the specs of your drivers and the area you'll be placing them and you'll be alright. For specialized types like electrostats, building your own is pretty much the only way to go unless you're ready to drop 10-20k on commercial offerings.
Artists having been imitating the works of others for thousands of years. Why is it so controversial to have an AI do the same?
Multithreading seems to work just fine with OpenBlas. It is also sometimes possible to wrap the underlying state machines from C/C++ code and then making it multithreaded in the Julia side.
maybe even add reflection and the ability to check for the type of a value - but that is probably too much to ask for.
I really hope this trend doesn't grow or return, especially to places like super markets.
I guess the zuck would download a car...

Will be interesting to see where this lands, because all outcomes seem to have significant secondary effects.
The antitrust one is most relevant as the new party in power would be gleeful to see it broken up but otherwise disagrees with the concept of antitrust
Show HN: I made an app to challenge anxious thoughts with AI
I had really bad health anxiety the last 2 years that severely impacted my quality of life. I started using Claude for support and was surprised by how much it helped. I realised how much potential there is for LLMs to provide an objective perspective on stressful thoughts - so I built an app that helps you form a habit around this to reduce long term anxiety.

You vent what's on your mind and an LLM will evaluate your thoughts objectively (heavily leaning on CBT techniques), to help you maintain a more balanced perspective.

Technical stack:
- Flutter (to release cross-platform)
- OpenAI API
- Local storage for privacy
- Custom prompt engineering to maintain quality and consistency in therapeutic approach (this has been the biggest challenge, and accounting for edge cases where the user has gone through something stressful that needs processing (e.g. a death) rather than reframing)

We just launched on ProductHunt today if you like to support: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/reset-3

Would love any thoughts and feedback.
Ah, good to point out, yeah.

The 'no resale' clause is pretty common for asset packs, but unlike Kenney these definitely aren't CC0.
Ask HN: Examples of applications that are using o1 style reasoning models
Garry Tan previously described o1 as a huge deal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv9bKyQgoHo

2 months later, I am wondering what applications have popped up that were not possible with the previous generation of models?
It's not just a collection, it's the collection. It contains almost every scientific book ever printed, for one thing.

Frankly, it's a massive boon to researchers. It's like a top-tier research university library at your fingertips, and usually more convenient than the real thing.
There are attempts to address that like LISP https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9300.html
it seems that you didn't read past the first sentence of the comment.

>The bad loans were subsidized by the public at large, and that is a good example of socialism in practice.
For me, general intelligence from a computer will be achieved when it knows when it's wrong. You may say that humans also struggle with this, and I'd agree - but I think there's a difference between general intelligence and consciousness, as you said.
For data structures, an invariant is something that must hold true at the end of all its public APIs. For example a doubly-linked list may have to break invariants around its pointers while in the middle of a splice or insert. But at the end of those public routines they must all be valid and conformant to the type’s requirements.
This is why we have a flat "we won't fill in your forms" rule and only take card payments. We've lost some clients because of it sure, but we're a small team so it's fine.

I think being up front about what you will and won't do really helps. They still ask for procurement forms and stuff but we can at least deny it and set an expectation.

https://help.timetastic.co.uk/hc/en-us/articles/115003288769...
This applies here too: See my comment above; most cosmologists are confident (And/or focus most work on) Cold Dark Matter, e.g. in an ellipsoidal halo around galaxies. I am not making a qualitative judgement, but dark matter is not used in cosmology papers as a placeholder.
It is funny to see a tip prompt when ordering, before you've any idea how good or bad the service and food will be
There's this [0]. But also o1/o3 is that acknowledgment. They're hitting the limits of scaling up models, so they've started scaling compute [1]. That is showing some promise, but it's nowhere near the rate of growth they were hitting while next gen models were buildable.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-gpt5-orion-delays-639e769...

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/ai-scaling-laws-are-showin...
> no updates for 10 years because it just works!

Maybe I’m crazy, but that is what I like from Lisp
No they should go million times harder after them given that they built billion dollar businesses on top of this - but maybe that’s tue exact reason why they don’t?
Thanks for spreading the word. I hadn’t heard of Aider before and I’m now going to give it a try today.
That was my first thought too, though wiki suggests that at least a portion of Aaron's sentence wasn't about piracy but unauthorized access. i.e. "hacking"

So not a direct analog
If I had a monopoly on sugar and traded in silver and healthcare, I would still have a monopoly on sugar.
There is definitely lots of evidence in these companies internally that they ignored the fact that adding copyrighted works into the model might be legally grey. I hope someone steps up and whistle blows or shares the evidence from all the major AI companies. I think the most recent OpenAI whistleblower died before he could testify
She said what everyone has been saying for weeks. The wording is also clearly her opinion, nothing hidden there. She also included Mullenweg's post so everyone can read the source.

Are you saying that journalists can never share an opinion? Also, are you trying to argue Mullenweg is only looking bad because of journalists? His own actions and words seem to be doing a pretty good job on their own.
I don't view Big Tech as being against copyright. They simply hold a position that they will not pay for something unless forced to ("make me" - a very common position for the powerful to hold).

In fact, I'd argue that Big Tech is pro copyright, because once they force the copyright holder to negotiate, the cost is irrelevant to them and they build a moat around that access.

For example, Google stole Reddit content for Gemini until Reddit was forced to the table, and now Google has a seemingly exclusive agreement around Reddit data for AI purposes.
>Thank you Aaron for so much, for RSS, for Markdown, for Creative Commons and more.

Didn't he also create the internet?
I would download a car
@lapcat yeah, he argued in the markets or where ever.

I think I was mixing him up with Aristotle, e.g. https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/caves-...

who had some cave school or something.

but there was some jokingness, yah. But I'm not anti-intellectual, which wasn't a joke.

I wasn't making any point about his students or wealth. Education then, as now, is the plaything of the wealthy and wealthy nations.
Its author is quitting his job to work on it full time: https://jank-lang.org/blog/2025-01-10-i-quit-my-job/
This problem will be eaten by OpenAI et al. the same way the careful prompting strategies used in 2022/2023 were eaten. In a few years we will have context lengths of 10M+ or online fine tuning, combined with agents that can proactively call APIs and navigate your desktop environment.

Providing all context will be little more than copying and pasting everything, or just letting the agent do its thing.

Super careful or complicated setups to filter and manage context probably won't be needed.
LLMs use about 1000X the resources of the most poorly designed WP site. The best thing that the WP Sustainability Team can do is retask itself to higher impact problems.
No, it's ARIN that's badly managed.

Capital One would never get a /16 in RIPE.
This is a phone with a limited version of Android (Android Go) and only 2GB of RAM which isn't enough. It has a slow CPU, it lacks 5G connectivity which is more and more important just to have good reception. It comes with at most 2 years of security updates. It has 32GB of storage which quickly fill up if you take pictures every now and then.

If you can afford it, get something like the Samsung A52 5G with 7 years of updates and 6GB or 8GB of RAM. If that's too expensive, get one from the list when it's on sale: https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=umtsover&v=e&hloc=uk&sort=p&bl1...

These are recently released phones with 6GB RAM or more and Android 14+ starting at £99. 6GB of RAM means you can use your phone for a couple of years without it getting super slow.
Hacker hijacks and repairs Beesat-1 satellites from the ground
Emacs provides far more than just editing. Helps a lot with reading and VC (magit). Just magit would IMHO justify Emacs.
They made the "mistake" of being honest in their initial papers about what the dataset used is.

Everyone, including them, quickly changed their tune though. Now dataset is confidential trade secrets lol
I doubt that "land use" is a big issue in one of the least densely populated countries on earth. Surely one could find a place for an industrial site that is not within 5 km of the world's prime telescope site. Using the existing infrastructure probably makes it slightly cheaper though.
I suppose it's easier to reach a deal with a company that is selling/renting out their model instead of giving it away for free, so they went against them first?

Both from a budget at FB point of view, because probably they allocate a smaller budget to training than OpenAI does, so they can't be as generous, as it's not a core part of their business. And probably also from a point of view of the publishers, they probably don't like it either: with OpenAI they can do limited time deals, but with Llama the license allows redistribution so once it's published and a lot of business activity has been established on top of it, one can't come back and renegotiate, after say 10 years.

It's in the best interest of big copyright to not have open(-ish) models in the ecosystem, they want entities they can seek rents from.
Another way to phrase that: it allows Americans to focus on jobs where they add most value, leading to a higher standard of living for both Indians and Americans. You should read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage (and so should Trump)
There was a magic period of time after electric-powered washing machines became ubiquitous, but before the market adjusted to women entering the labor force, when you could sustain a home on a single income, and women (and then men, too!) actually had a choice between staying at home to care for house & kids, and having a career. Alas, now the choice is gone, and everyone has to have a job. Sucks for the kids, as now both parents need to go to work, whether they want it or not.
They're probably not also people who don't answer their phone, preferring either to have a voice message or nothing (because it isn't important) then.

I do the same as commenter up-thread, my voicemail inbox is empty. Sometimes I let a call ring out and then listen to the message immediately, I just don't want to have to deal with it synchronously. Then if it's 'I have a number of opportunities that seem like a great fit for you' I can just delete it and move on with my day, not have to try to say no-bye politely before hanging up, for example.

Someone with a full inbox is more likely someone who does the opposite - they'll never listen to their messages because they want to talk to someone, you'd have to call them back anyway so no harm it's full. (Or they'd call you from the missed call, not because they heard your message.)
I’m sorry for assuming that you were (though you could have mentioned this in your reply). Most of the large AI companies relevant to our discussion are based in the US.
I don't understand your comment. This is about a lawsuit which shows that Zuckerberg OK'd the downloading and use of LibGen data. The case exists at least since mid-2023 and was in discovery phase until 13. Dec 2024. Shortly before the deadline Meta provided this new information, because they had to.
Except it wasn't fully isolated then or now. Then people would use their solitary efforts to find a mate. Now they do it to find a mate, sometimes more indirectly by broadcasting their efforts and accomplishments online instead of at the bar, school, church, club, etc.

Perhaps one could argue the men going their own way movement has coalesced or even grown. But that's harder to quantify.
No, it really wouldnt be. Dont be so sensitive.

And honestly I agree with your broader point that everyone gets a pass to hate on "western" (the way your using means the englishing speaking first world) culture, but is very sensitive and careful about insulting other cultures. I just dont think this is an example of that
Meta makes their models free to most users (not all – there's a "large commercial use" exemption!), and I do appreciate that practically.

Still, they don't publish their detailed training methodology, which must have immense value for them internally. Even if they choose to never exercise the "large user exemption" in their current license, they can decide to license Llama 4 under restrictive terms (or not release weights at all – better start using Meta products if you want to gain access!) whenever it's convenient for them to do so.

All of that doesn't exactly scream "public good worthy of a copyright exemption" to me, in a world where libraries, retro computing/gaming archivists and others are still continuously harassed by copyright holders.
It's a placeholder in the sense that we don't know specifically what it is though, right? No cosmologist uses "matter" when they mean "protons" for example.
I have to wonder about incentives around the existing research though. There’s hundreds of billions of dollars being earned by social media companies and they have a strong incentive to tilt the research in their favor. There’s much less incentive to do the opposite. Anecdotally, the teachers I know seem to agree with Haidt in what they see day to day.
> I don't view Big Tech as being against copyright. They simply hold a position that they will not pay for something unless forced to

Yep, the contradiction between them feeling entitled to use anything they want for training, while simultaneously having license terms which forbid using the output of their models to train other models is pretty glaring. Information wants to flow freely but only in one direction apparently.
In the US at least, it is entirely possible to teach at a university without a PhD. Community colleges are full of instructors with masters's degrees, and tons of classes offered by major universities are taught by graduate students or adjunct faculty without doctorates.

Your job title probably won't be 'professor', but you'll be doing basically the same work as one.
When you run the Schwarzschild radius calculation for the universe (relating mass of a black hole to event horizon radius) you get a prediction that's close enough to the size of the universe and it's mass, so to me that's pretty good evidence our universe is an event horizon.

This means all 3D points in our space are on the horizon itself, and the time dimension is the normal vector to that "surface" (3D manifold). It explains why space is expanding, because Event Horizons always only expand (excluding considering Hawking evaporation of course, which happens too slowly to affect things)
> It's not realistic to make firm quantified predictions any more specific than what I have given.

Then do you actually know what you're talking about or are you handwaving? I'm not trying to be offensive but business plans can't be made based on a lack of predictions.

> We will likely see between 3 and 10000 times improvement in efficiency or IQ or speed of LLM reasoning in the next 5 years

That variance is too large to take you seriously, unfortunately. That's unfortunate because I was really hoping you had an actionable insight for this discussion. :(

If I, for instance, tell my wife I can improve our income by 3x or 1000x but I don't really know, there's no planning that can be done and I'll probably have to sleep on the couch until I figure out what the hell I'm doing.
I hate these type of exchanges that are happening more and more in HN. Passive aggressive comments and replies from both sides of an argument.

The "take comments meanings at their best value " keeps being eroded. And comments sections for these type of stories get full of them.

There's no value in GP asking "do you have proof that X goes twice a day to the toilet?" ... and of course the reply is as empty as the question.

The level of discourse is getting lower and lower.
Enterprise use cases for stablecoins are coming into focus
It sounds like it. What a piece of shit.
That's not surprising to me at all. Even in the 2000s there was a famous lawsuit about Google Books scanning books without approval and the proposed settlement was essentially allowing Google to sell scanned ebooks while giving copyright holders a cut[0]. At that time Google truly felt like don't-be-evil corporation, and lawyers for the copyright holders wanted to give Google all this data as long as Google pays the copyright holders. In the 2020s however I cannot imagine any Big Tech company to have that don't-be-evil spirit and I also cannot imagine them voluntarily paying anything to copyright holders.

[0]: https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/what-ever-happen...
The primary problem, my brother, is our valuing the world's resources in terms of money.
When working as the head of engineering at a start-up, I would get dragged into this process on the sales side. I would sit there cringing at all of the bonkers crap the Sales Engineer or Solutions Architect was spewing at the customer.

The senior technical person from the customer would ask me a couple hard questions and I would be pretty honest in my responses. Afterwards our Sales Success Customer Account Manager would be unhappy with me, but at least I wouldn't have to go to another one of those meetings for a while.

The deal would go ahead anyway because our management had convinced their management to make the purchase even though what we were offering didn't really meet their needs. They would only need to pay us if we actually delivered so they weren't taking a lot of risk, other than wasting their time, and we got to make a multi-million dollar "booking."

In the end I would either get along with their senior technical person pretty well because we could be honest with each other, or else they would despise me for being unable to deliver what my sales people had promised (Hi Sven!).
They may feel that way, but that seems emotional rather than rational. The choices for small-scale energy sources are: batteries with all their dirty mining, biofuels taking away lots of arable land from food/textile/etc production, or fuel cells which can still involve petrochemicals (but don't have to). There are no perfect options, and strapping enough solar panels or wind turbines to a vehicle (car, bus, train, airplane, etc) to make it drivable is just not even remotely feasible.

No doubt the petrochemical companies want to continue existing, but shifting the transportation infrastructure away from directly burning gasoline and natural gas is a net win even if in the short term there are still hydrocarbons involved. Going all in on electric vehicles only is not diversifying the solution space enough.