skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels like a disaster waiting to happen -- like what happens if (when?) Let's Encrypt suffers a significant outage and sites can't refresh certificates? Do we just tolerate a significant portion of the Internet being down or broken due to expired certificates? And for what tradeoff? A very small amount of extra security? Is this because certificate revocation is a harder problem to solve / implement at Internet scale?
I'm not proud of it, but my #1 "Oh shit" git operation is to just delete my local repo, reclone, and reapply the changes. Works really well for me 95% of the time. The rest I ask dev ops guy to help.
I know. My mind is blown. I was convinced they wouldn't be able to resist the temptation to name it something stupid.
I used Inertia years ago, pretty sure vite wasn't a thing at the time. You can try to blame me if you want, I don't mind, there's a chance hot-reloading would have been possible with more time commitment. At the time, there was only one (unofficial) Django app for Inertia support and it required some fiddling and enhancements to even get working. Ultimately I think I just have solutions to the problems it solves that I prefer and won't be looking back.

It's worse because the frontend people working on the app all had experience with the React stuff you mention but none of the special Django or Inertia stuff we had to do to make it work. Also it was much easier to find glue code online for those solutions at the time.
Not unless your samizdat is processed by automated systems with little insight or oversight, which is the case with documents on SharePoint and corporate LLM deployments.
Well, true, in the sense that refusing consent is the default.
My hot take is that Git isn't nearly as hard as the endless blogs pretend.
Well, if the idiot herd could be taught not to stand there with the fridge door open, staring at the products, this would probably never have happened.

I still see this routinely. Even when the freezer door is glass, a customer is standing there with the door open staring at the ice cream selection.

All that said, the whole "ad industry" aspect is ubiquitous across the entire economy at this point. With all the negative comments this story received here, you would think there would be a general rejection of ads taking over every aspect of product UI, but apparently connecting those dots is out of the question.

Just another indicator of the end of the american era...
> I’m not sure if anyone could ever “get” one of his movies completely beyond the experience and the narrative.

The plots of his movies are often more concrete than people expect. I'm not saying a movie like Mulholland Drive is easy to follow, but it does have a legible plot. Feel free to read the wiki or something if you are not sure who some character is or what they are doing.

If you are just letting the experience wash over you, you may be missing some plot points that are not meant to be mysterious.

Obviously his movies are weird and not entirely legible, but don't assume everything in them is meant to be inscrutable.
Do believe that's evidence that Fisher changed his mind on eugenics? Why do you bring that up?
Using AI Agents to Disrupt Streaming by Asking the Big Questions About Content
And don't forget the amazing workaround Zimmerman of PGP fame came up with - the source code in printed form was protected 1A speech, so it was published, distributed, and then scanned and OCR'd outside the US - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...
I'm not triggered by crypto/web3 - I think there are a lot of good use-cases. I'm trying to explain to you that the README and website introducing your product/framework/platform (whichever it is, I'm still not sure):

1) Doesn't explain to the target market (developers) why they should use your product

2) Throws up a bunch of red flags to developers who actually bother to read it all, namely that your business model seems to be either/both of selling devleoper support (is that why there aren't any good developer docs?), or locking developers into a token with no published tokenomics or even a contract address (as you noted, the token doesn't exist!). Anyone with any experience in crypto knows that there is risk adopting an ERC20 token, you *need* to address the risk points (eg the potential for rugpull, available liquidity) if you want anyone to take you seriously.

My point is, this is why you are getting no traction from developers. People aren't ignoring your completely free awesome code because of apathy, it's because you're not doing a good job showing them any benefits to using your product. Your marketing needs work.

Also, you should really consider if you actually have a product that fits your market. It sucks to spend a lot of time developing a product that the market doesn't want, but you might be in that position. If so, no amount of marketing will help you.

Ironically, I went to the effort to parse through all your docs because I wanted to help you understand why your Show HN failed, but now I kind of feel like I wasted my time, making it harder for me to care in the same way for the next person in a similar position.

Anyhow, take the critique or not -- I wish you luck either way!
Separate from my other reply to this comment: withdrawing consent and refusing consent are two different things. If it's difficult for someone who previously granted consent to subsequently find the screen where they need to click the reject button, that's not legally compliant.
So: You have no measure of performance and go off vibes. You have no scientific basis and go off vibes. You pretend this is all logical and common sense but it's really all just vibes.

You could end up performing way better firing half of your teams. And what about your managers? How is an underperforming manager in the higher positions ever fired?

I get that measuring performance is incredibly difficult, but dressing it up as if 5-10% of people are underperformers anyway is just so tantamount to how baseless and incompetent most businesses are run these days. Especially in software.
Not trying to defend the choice of `git checkout` over `git switch` (and `git restore`) but they were introduced in v2.23 of Git [0], which was released about 5 years ago [1]. If you take a look at their help pages, they still include a warning that says

> THIS COMMAND IS EXPERIMENTAL. THE BEHAVIOR MAY CHANGE.

Granted, it has been in there for basically as long as the command(s) existed [2] and after 5 years perhaps it might be time to no longer call it experimental.

Still, it does seem like `git checkout` might be a bit more backwards compatible (and also reflective of the time when this website was originally created).

[0] https://github.com/git/git/blob/757161efcca150a9a96b312d9e78...

[1] https://github.com/git/git/releases/tag/v2.23.0

[2] https://github.com/git/git/commit/4e43b7ff1ea4b6f16b93a432b6...
The comics at the beginning hahaha :D
For bugs that don't cause crashes the effect is the same regardless of how you architect the system.
> The disconnect between git's beautiful internal model of blobs, a tree of commits, and pointers to commits, and the command line interface is so wild

Something I heard somewhere that stuck with me: git is less less of a Version Control System, and more of a toolkit for assembling your own flavor of one.
Git manages pretty much everything by using the `.git` folder created by `git init` and there is (as far as I am aware) nothing stopping you from going into that .git folder and running init again there to start using git to manage the internal state of your repository. At least... that is what I assumed the joke was.
We will see what happens!
isn't this basically Twitter, FB and even Linkedin (laymen complaining about how they can't find jobs or get ghosted), as well as community/help forums for specific products? Of course, there's no central forum for sharing pains, but people tend to complain in the platform where they're most likely to get a response...
Recuremail: Newsletter from Your Email Client
It had WiFi, which was rare in mobile phones back then (carriers wouldn’t generally allow it)
Oh! Thanks for reminding me why his face is so familiar.

(I’m not someone who knows anything about film…)
Yeah but most of the optical drives that support this have trays or are top loading. It’s a little more counterintuitive to have a postbox-style drive (I don’t know what they’re actually called) that supports different sized discs.
This article appears to be arguing that we should learn every aspect of every skill. It has always been useful to have a survey of the past in every field but as more advanced understandings and tools come in it isn't practical, or even possible, to learn everything from the basics up. Do you need to learn how to mine and refine metal in order to work with a CNC machine? How about every aspect of farming in order to be a great chef? A survey of techniques helps and some individuals will deep-dive into various things, but to it is clear that moving forward means focusing on current techniques more than old ones.
That's not so bad. My wife has imposed a "one in, one out' policy on cars. And I don't have space for any more cars. But I can afford an XJR! Maybe if I knock through the living room wall...
Git is a technology that was invented to simplify things that ended up getting so complex over time that an entire industry started up around it to try to make it simple again.

See also: Docker. Probably lots of others.
I've mentioned it before, but this book is amazing in the way it covers both the theory in detail, as well as the implementation.

There's often a lot of details that matter when implementing something efficiently and well which the theory either hides or is a result of our hardware limitations like floating point numbers.

Almost all other programming books I've read cover either the theory in detail and gloss over the implementation details, or goes into a lot of implementation stuff but only cover the easy parts and doesn't give you a good indication of how to deal with the advanced stuff.

So, any other books out there that you've read that is like PBR?
Just think about it, a conscious being deciding what a life should be. There is certainly a bias towards how we were made.
https://archive.is/Iqaka
Well, no, it seems your distinction is what is pedantic, as you are differentiating between discovery calls and sales calls when most would call them one and the same. This in my opinion undermines the point of your article.
Hey I worked with the person who made this! She did a fun presentation for our company.
Credit to the families for spending so much time and energy to get the appropriate attention on this case. However, I wonder if too much time has passed. If there was foul play, wouldn’t the criminals involved have had enough time to clean up their tracks?

> The SFPD and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner have withheld the full incident report and autopsy findings. The delay in releasing these documents, which typically must be completed within 90 days to maintain accreditation, has added to the controversy. Forty-three days after Balaji’s death, the investigation remains unresolved.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42717586
The guy seems like kinda a dick. But here's what Wikipedia says Fisher is known for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Fisher

Fisher's exact test;
Fisher's inequality;
Fisher's principle;
Fisher's geometric model;
Fisher's Iris data set;
Fisher's linear discriminant;
Fisher's equation;
Fisher information;
Fisher's method;
Fisherian runaway;
Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection;
Fisher's noncentral hypergeometric distribution;
Fisher's z-distribution;
Fisher transformation;
Fisher consistency;
F-distribution;
F-test;
Fisher–Tippett distribution;
Fisher–Tippett–Gnedenko theorem;
Fisher–Yates shuffle;
Fisher–Race blood group system;
Behrens–Fisher problem;
Cornish–Fisher expansion;
von Mises–Fisher distribution;
family allowance;
Wright–Fisher model;
Ancillary statistic;
Fiducial inference;
Intraclass correlation;
Infinitesimal model;
Inverse probability;
Lady tasting tea;
Null hypothesis;
Maximum likelihood estimation;
Neutral theory of molecular evolution;
Particulate inheritance;
p-value;
Random effects model;
Relative species abundance;
Reproductive value;
Sexy son hypothesis;
Sufficient statistic;
Analysis of variance;
Variance

That's a pretty long list of achievements.
No, TITANS introduces a new "learning memory" model that is actually trained at test-time based on the input to help remember the right bits from the input to improve how the separate sequence-to-sequence model generates tokens. This is far different from in-context learning, which simply relies on the autoregressive operation of the transformer model to feed output back into input.

The memory works by tracking two kinds of "surprise" - immediate surprise (how unexpected is the current token?) and accumulated surprise (what patterns of unexpected things have we been seeing?). It uses this to decide what's worth remembering and what can be forgotten. What's clever is they formulated this as a gradient descent problem that can run efficiently in parallel despite being inherently sequential.

The really interesting part is how it integrates with the main model - they tried three approaches but the most effective was using the memory as additional context tokens alongside the input. This lets the attention mechanism figure out for itself when to use the memory versus the immediate context. And because the memory tokens are injected both at test-time and during training, the memory model and main model are trained together despite the memory model being unfrozen for each inference.

In practice, this lets them handle sequences over 2M tokens long while outperforming traditional transformers, even matching GPT-4 on some long-context reasoning tasks with far fewer parameters. It's a neat example of combining classical ideas about online learning with modern deep learning architectures.

The code isn't released yet, but the paper suggests the implementation is relatively straightforward since it builds on standard gradient descent mechanics. It'll be interesting to see if this approach influences the next generation of open source LLMs. I'm sure we will see implementations very soon even though it may take some time for open source models to be trained using this new architecture.

I'm very excited to know whether Gemini 2.0 1206 Experimental is using this new architecture. I suspect it is.
That's not a restriction, nobody's preventing Nintendo from bringing those games to the platform. I don't currently have pasta at my place, but that's because neither me nor my partner have bought any, not because it's banned from the house.
NJ Transit is also at NYP and they do not do any sort of pre-boarding ticket check.
This feels like déjà vu from the crypto wars (1990s). If that experience helps, it is impossible to repress knowledge without violence, and it motivates more people to hack the system. Good times ahead "PGP released its source code as a book to get around US export law" <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7885238>
If you don't have the original input, how would you determine the prompt that was used to generate the output?
Thanks for this, now I've got a nice movie night plan.
I remember back when people were ditching RSS for twitter and I thought it was insane. Looks like I was right!
OpenAI-realtime-agents: agentic patterns built on top of the Realtime API
> So I would suggest this pushes the question back yet further, why do we (still?) think he was brilliant?

Because he (mostly single-handedly) invented modern statistics.

Gelman comes down pretty hard on Fisher here but he doesn't question his brilliance.
Awww We knew the day would come. What a legend of a man and artist. A recent living Dali, but far more underappreciated (even by those who loved him and didn't quite understand what his art was saying). I only hope to see more like him.
yeah exactly, tiktok is, in some ways, too big too fail. someone is going to want to pay for access to American data. i expect the US arm of the business to be sold to one of the other big tech companies in the near future.
This paper was written by a very small team at Google. It strikes me as similar in that regard to the original transformers paper. If this technique scales well, Google is no doubt already exploiting it for their next generation models -- and I think there are signs that Gemini 2.0 models already exploit this.
there are other email providers, you know. the choices are not "do it all myself" and "be Google's product."
> The DVLA dataset and the computations that are run on it can be studied and replicated in 3 months by a competent team. From there it can be improved.

Such an HN comment. Made me lol. Think funnier!
This is big news.
Something clicked for me when I read your comment: the most amazing thing about Apple is that despite their corporate immensity, they still continue to ship generation after generation of cool products that compete and sell on their own merits. You don't have to be a fanboy to appreciate that.

Almost no other tech company that I can think of has been able to resist bureaucratic ossification. (Perhaps Adobe - to an extent?)
I made the pilgrimage to Snoqualmie and North Bend multiple times. David Lynch has always been my inspiration.
Eraserhead is borderline unwatchable. I love David Lynch, sort of, but without telling people that they're about to sit down and watch an hour-and-a-half of what is effectively an unwatchable piece of avant-garde cinema, then they're not going to be able to appreciate it.

There is nothing worse than getting excited to see a famous director's debut film, thinking you're going to have a good time, and then getting Eraserhead.
Yeah it’s about that algorithms could radicalize the population or turn them against each other
Check out jujutsu or jj (same thing). It's its own VCS, but it uses git as a backend, so it works with GitHub and other git integrations
Exactly how many people are you married to anyways? ;-D
True I wish I could edit the headline. But to be fair, 99% of the time people are trying to donate used clothes and not a fresh , unopened stack of Hanes white t shirts.
Welcome to my favorite PubMed rabbit hole.

TL:DR; The way that most tobacco is produced causes it to contain Polonium-210. Can we at least agree that putting Polonium-210 into the human body is not great?

https://www.google.com/search?q=pubmed+tobacco+polonium
This is exactly why the LE IP certs will be limited to 6 days: this exact attack is possible today against any IP address cert, and such certs in general are allowed to have lifetimes up to 398 days. LE isn't comfortable with that situation, so IP certs will have the shortest feasible lifetimes.
They could, but there's nothing requiring them to do so.

AFAIK the only crypto company who have been hacked (and there are a lot) and returned funds as BTC and not in dollars is, ironically, Mt. Gox. Users got repaid in Bitcoin 10 years after the fact. FTX bagholders were compensated ~120% in "equivalent value" dollars. Lost crypto was not repaid.
It's not a debate. Everything's nature except for things changed by nurture (or abuse), which is everything as well, but to a greater or lesser extent.
This is such an important lesson!
And any article that does it is explicitly biased.
The more that people spend the more they want to talk to an actual human to make sure their product and psychological needs are taken care of, in terms of being comfortable with the sale mentally too.
The practical problem I see is that unless US AI labs have perfect security (against both cyber attacks and physical espionage), which they don’t, there is no way to prevent foreign intelligence agencies from just stealing the weights whenever they want.
GP's company is (at least in their eyes) not interested in selling per se - quoting:

>> That means the sales person as they're working is not incentivized to sell as much as possible, they're incentivized to figure out the (potential) client's needs, and how we can best meet them, irrespective of what they end up paying.

I don't know what the name for that other thing is, but it's indeed distinct from "selling" that salespeople do, which boils down to begging, cajoling, tricking or coercing you to buy their shit, no matter how useless or downright harmful to you is, because that's what commissions combined with competition incentivize. Not surprisingly, the bottom-feeder telemarketing sweatshops are where this model is present in its purest form - extreme competition, frequent bonuses for top performers, and quick firing for not being a top performer.

If I have a choice, I never want to "buy" whatever someone's "selling" - I only want to do the whatever is the "buying" equivalent for the not-selling thing I don't have the name for.

It's not a B2B-specific phenomenon either. The B2C equivalent of those salespeople are car salesmen (which have meme status at this point), telemarketers, and those people doing the Amway model, trying to sell some Tupperware knockoffs[0] or barely working vacuum cleaners or whatnot at 3-10x inflated prices, making you feel like you had a good time instead of having just been scammed.

--

[0] - Ironically, Tupperware was also sold in this model, but it at least wasn't shit.
Mandrake: The AI assistant you can only call or text
the freight companies lobbied for passenger travel to become the government's responsibility, IMO the american people were robbed of the value they were entitled to when the right of ways were granted to the railroads back in the 19th century, but in the 60s and 70s railroads were going bankrupt left and right, establishment of Amtrak was little more than a bailout for the railroads. The government could be asking a lot more of the railroads to run shorter trains so they could fit on their sidings and allow passengers to pass and remain on time. IME the #1 issue with Amtrak outside of north east corridor is most stations are served by long haul routes that cannot be relied upon to show up within 6 hours of their schedule, because any delay causes them to lose their slot and freight companies can tell Amtrak to pound sand, their trains are too long to pull over.
Dumb question, but if it’s super windy, does that make the photos brighter?
Chagpt, generate quote about history cycles and/or rhyme
Hey, yeah, this is a fun idea. I built a little toy llm-tdd loop as a Saturday morning side project a little while back: https://github.com/zephraph/llm-tdd.

This doesn't actually work out that well in practice though because the implementations the llm tended to generate were highly specific to pass the tests. There were several times it would cheat and just return hard coded strings that matched the expects of the tests. I'm sure better prompt engineering could help, but it was a fairly funny outcome.

Something I've found more valuable is generating the tests themselves. Obviously you don't wholesale rely on what's generated. Tests can have a certain activation energy just to figure out how to set up correctly (especially if you're in a new project). Having an LLM take a first pass at it and then ensuring it's well structured and testing important codepaths instead of implementation details makes it a lot faster to write tests.
This should be a built-in

git unshit

Or

git add --unshit -f ~HEAD^^

If you’re using git version <= 2.844.
Purely in the interest in pedantry, I think you might be thinking of Police Squad, not Police Academy? At least my Wikipedia-level knowledge seems to indicate that