skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You keep mentioning moore’s law, but that specifically applied to the amount of transistors on a die, not the rate of general technological advancement.

Regardless, I don’t see any change in this pattern. We’re advancing faster than ever before, just like always.

We’ve been doing statistical analysis and prediction for years now. It’s just getting better faster, like always.

I don’t see this big change in the rate of advancement. There’s just a lot more media buzz around it right now causing a bubble.

There was a big visible jump in text generation capabilities a few years ago (which was preceded by about 6 years of incremental NLP advances) and since then we’ve seen paced, year over year advances in that field.

As a medical layman, I imagine that alpha fold may really push the rate of pharmaceutical advances.

But I see no indication for a general jump in the rate of rate of technological advancement.
Yahoo, AOL, Alta Vista (others too) all were search engines on the web before Google's Sept 1998 existence.
My opinion is the only reliable way to lose weight (other than ozempic) is to eat in such a way that regulates satiety such that you don't feel hungry when losing weight.

Intermittent fasting + lower carb + whole foods can do this. But the trick is satiety in any one person is regulated by multiple processes. I doubt there's a one size fits all and probably the problem gets harder the more satiety is dysregulated.

But I think any approach aimed at undereating in the sense of being hungry is not likely what people who lose weight successfully are doing. Or at least those who avoid rebounds. You'd instead want to find something that is highly satiating and satisfying and that also can't be overeaten.

Example: almonds may be high satiety by some technical definition. But is is very very possible to eat past hunger with them.

In my own experience it is very difficult to eat too much steak. I find it delicious but simply couldn't past a certain point. Others have reported similar results by adding lots of potatoes.

I don't guarantee success by targeting satiety but I think it's worth trying rather than calories or weight directly. At some level you need to roughly figure out macronutrients to know where you can err but anytime I've lost weight it's been by focussing on type of food rather than amount. But strictly so.

Re potatoes: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/07/12/lose-10-6-pounds-in...
I guess what I’m asking is, as innocent as those things you’ve listed are, are they really pursuits of a sound heart? Your first three suggestions can be named after you, for example (if you catch my drift here as a critique of the ego).

As in, you know those prices can’t be looked at without … I don’t know how else to spin it, it’s impossible to do without being greedy.
No, it shouldn't be that hard to understand braces means a block. Why would 'begin'/'end' be easier? Just teach that { = begin, and } = end.

Alternatively use a different language that is simpler but will translate back to JS, like coffeescript or something like that, maybe there's a python equivalent.
Ask HN: List of OSS SE Project Marvels?
Like in construction building field, we have 8 marvels what're equivalence (to you) for OSS SE projects ?
I could settle for a switch at the bottom to disable all lights, and in return the manufacturer is allowed to add as many as they like
The answers are only 18 minutes old. Give it time.
Yes, for non-work things I find it vaguely useful. My workflow is to first google search, often see Stack Overflow answers, and then move on to an LLM or actual documentation if I don't get anything through search.

I do it this way around because I can search far faster than I can write out reasonable english sentences that head-off bad LLM responses.

Sometimes when I'm confident enough that the LLM will be able to give me the "right answer" faster than search I'll do it first, but that's mostly when I have something I can copy/paste in.
> you would have never seen such a move from Obama

you forgot Chelsea Manning; so I stopped reading there
In Turkish, numbers don’t affect plurality: 0 apple, 1 apple, 2 apple. But you still say “I ate all the apples” in plural.
I remember reading Atwood's blog around the time he launched it, and from his writing, he seemed genuine in his desire to build a tool that would help developers write code. This was also right in the middle of the original gamification craze, so of course internet points lol
I love your concrete examples!

Thanks for sharing the pointer to your wasm engine. Is that part of a course you teach, or something born out of an auto-didactic pursuit?
You should expect that LLMs mimick the political realities of the countries where they were developed, based on what they consider as appropriate training data. There is no way to have a human-like model without suffering from human-like biases.
I make and sell soap. The soap contains an ingredient that anyone can use to make bombs. Some people buy my soap only for that purpose. I know because they literally tell me how they use my soap. I can remove that ingredient but I would loose a lot of sales.

The police finds my soap in the lab of someone who blew up a building. Some people died. Was it my fault, knowing how it was being used? Did I do anything illegal? Unethical? Immoral?
IMO Go is full of stuff like this where they do something different than most similar languages for questionable gains. `iota` instead of enums, implicit interfaces, full strings in imports (not talking about URLS here but them having string literal syntax), capitalization as visibility control come to mind immediately, and I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting. Not all of these are actively harmful, but for a language that touts "simplicity" as one of its core values, I've always found it odd how many different wheels Go felt the need to reinvent without any obvious benefit over the existing ones.
At a sniff test it would make sense.

Trading computational complexity for space.
Such an incredible game.

I’m amazed what the Atari 2600 was capable of with 2 player sprites, 2 missile sprites, a ball sprite, 128 bytes of memory, no buffer, and a 1.19 MHz CPU.

Because of what talented developers (like David Crane) could deliver, the console had an incredible 15 year lifespan (longer than the NES).
o1 has a parameter that affects how long it's willing to think for, whereas o1-preview did not

It's likely o1-preview was permanently pinned at max thinking, and o1 is not
Do you have a source for that condition? How does that work for Biden pardoning Fauci for crimes that havent been revealed yet?
(Perceived) space efficiency. Many of the things still utilizing deciseconds did so before the turn of the century.
I would be very interested if someone is aware of any small/tiny models to perform OCR, so the app can translate pictures as well
Make that the victory condition. Secret ending after N hours of inactivity. You lose when you sign in next, though.
Partisan caricature is not a reliable starting point for logical inference or deduction. To answer your question - on the campaign trail he attended a convention of libertarian organizers and promised them that if he won he would free Ross, and has followed through on that promise today.
What was the model? What kind of performance did you get out of it?

Could you share a link to your project, if it is public?
Instead of worrying about how hard it is to give away their money effectively these billionaires should be working to fix a political system created specifically to funnel money to billionaires. Without fixing the actual problem giving away money is just virtue signalling.
But my oh my, it was so much better than experts exchange.
It is equally childish to compare the engineering of our modern water and plumbing systems with the automated generation of virtual textured polygons.

People don't get tired of good clean water because we NEED it to survive.

But oh, another virtual world entirely thought up by a machine? Throw it on the pile. We're going to get bored of it, and it will quickly become not incredible.
If the app has a backend, aren't we still talking about modifying two distinct apps (React + backend app) vs a single one?

Obviously unless the team has committed to React SSR + React backend (is this common?)
Cat and Mouse – ESEA Anti-Cheat 23 October 2018 (2018)
> well-documented facts that can be trivially found on Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is far from being an unbiased source for some of its parts since most of its "facts" come from the newspaper industry which is certainly not neutral on certain topics.
> that specifically applied to the amount of transistors on a die, not the rate of general technological advancement.

Sure. But you can look at things like GDP growth rates and see the same thing.

> I don’t see this big change in the rate of advancement. There’s just a lot more media buzz around it right now causing a bubble.

Maybe. I'm just trying to give a sense of what the concept of a "weak singularity" is. I don't have a view on whether we're actually going to have one or not.
Are you replying to the wrong comment? :)
> Do you find that it actually generates varied and diverse stories? Or does it just fall into the same 3 grooves?

> Last week I tried to get an LLM (one of the recent Llama models running through Groq, it was 70B I believe) to produce randomly generated prompts in a variety of styles and it kept producing cyberpunk scifi stuff.

100% relevant: "Someday" <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_(short_story)> by Isaac Asimov, 1956
What's the connection here to microwaves? I don't get it.
Jack Dorsey talk at FOSDEM 2025 may lead to protest
No no no, my friend. Ulbricht was not a lowly drug trafficker (also, incidentally, not black or latino). He was an _entrepreneur_ who built a _marketplace_ that would bring together buyers and sellers, cutting out the middleman, and driving _efficiency_! Basically trustedhousesitters.com, just for illegal drugs instead of pets ;)
The main reason all the subs made this change today is because of the elon nazi salute, not the fact that twitter is hostile to unauthenticated user agents.
Related: The Engineer Guy’s
“The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can” on YouTube
https://youtu.be/hUhisi2FBuw
DPR is free!! I'm very happy for him and hope he makes good on this second lease on life.
Tell him your accounting department can only issue paper checks. Get his name and address "for the check" or course. Also your accounting department can't issue any check with out an invoice, so he needs to give you a detailed invoice.

Then you can out him or take up legal action, or send some goons over to his house for that matter.

If you really want to have some fun tell him you're happy to pay him but he must become and Approved Vendor first ... and boy thats a process but you want paid right? This is the only way accounting will pay anybody. Sorry :)
With that one, it was hard to tell how much the story was just about a rename vs. how much was about substantive changes. I've belatedly turned off the flags though.
Yeah. There’s been a little bit of a puritanical pursuit back out of SPA on HN (it might actually be isolated to here honestly, almost like a local band that plays in the neighborhood), but it’s an emotional over correction (imho) to the exhausting JS climate.

Nevertheless, the facts on the ground are the facts on the ground.
Whenever it’s about cans I can only recommend this video from the engineer guy [1]. He makes no videos anymore sadly.

https://youtu.be/hUhisi2FBuw
How about Hotwire Native?

https://native.hotwired.dev

https://pragprog.com/titles/jmnative/hotwire-native-for-rail...
People die when they take drugs all the time, whether brought online or not.

But the war on some drugs are a failure, but also impossible to change due to stupid people, so Silk Road and crypto was a means to work around this, while lowering crime and turning it into an iterated prisoners dilemma so that quality etc could stay high.
Damn you beat me by a hair
I'm sorry but can people please stop naming their papers "X is all you need"? It's super annoying.
I would use the term "reading" than "scrolling" though. Scrolling implies that you don't really care much about anything and just mindlessly consume content.
My prediction is a Apple loses to Open AI who releases a H.E.R. (like the movie) like phone. She is seen on your lock screen a la a Facetime call UI/UX and she can be skinned to look like whoever; i.e. a deceased loved one.

She interfaces with AI Agents of companies, organizations, friends, family, etc to get things done for you (or to learn from..what's my friends bday his agent tells yours) automagically and she is like a friend. Always there for you at your beckon call like in the movie H.E.R.

Zuckerberg's glasses that can not take selfies will only be complimentary to our AI phones.

That's just my guess and desire as fervent GPT user, as well a Meta Ray Ban wearer (can't take selfies with glasses).
Please NO! That would be like Pascal. At uni I wrote keyboard macros to type the begin and end for me.
Purchase^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Bankroll campaigns for one or more representatives in Congress.
I wasn't implying that either Ulbricht or Madoff's sentences were unjust.
Gerat. Larry gets cash thrown at his AI surveillance dystopia.
I knew nature was creative and complex, but these two examples took it up a notch

> As a result of changes in the social role, a fish (blue-headed wrasse) can progress rapidly through these phenotypes. Upon the disappearance of a terminal-phase male, the behavior of the largest female in the group converts to male-like behavior in minutes and the fish shows full gonadal changes in days.

> In litter-bearing mammals such as mice, rats, gerbils, and pigs, each pup shares the uterus with several others, some of which are of a different sex. Significant differences among females occur if the fetus is located between two males or with a male on one side or with no male on either side.
What is your definition of slop?
If you don’t like the title, wait till you see this acronym:
„… we introduce the
Tensor ProducT ATTenTion Transformer (T6), a new model architecture…“
I'm not sure "No Social Security Cuts" should count, because (1) he did try to cut it in his proposed 2020 budget, (2) he did nothing to try to address the shortfall that is expected in the social security trust fund around 2033, and (3) he said that if he was reelected in 2020 he would get rid of the payroll tax, which would have moved the depletion of the trust fund up to around 2026.
Ross Ulbricht on X: https://x.com/realrossu
Can you elaborate on how any sort of backdoor could be hidden in the model weights?

It's a technical possibility to hide something in the code, but that would be a bit silly since there's not that much of it here. It's not technically possible to hide a backdoor in a set of numbers that are solely used as the operands to trivial mathematical operations, so I'm very curious about what sort of hidden backdoor you think is here.
Attempting to hire a hitman who turns out to be an FBI agent is still a crime, and likely not entrapment in the legal sense.
> not the fact that twitter is hostile to unauthenticated user agents.

Yep, Twitter has had aggressive authentication gating for almost 2yrs now and HN frequently has Twitter links
Creating an the next buildspace – genesis accelerator
Thanks, I tried their front-page but it seemed to demand an account before any browsing or searching.
>it's not like there's a chain of provenance, and there's no particular guarantee that whatever grade of pure drugs was sold on Silk Road is the same purity that ended up in peoples' bodies.

The fact that the majority of listings on the site were for personal use quantities suggests that the majority of sales were to end users rather than traffickers.

It's hard to dispute that this saved lives and I would speculate that it saved many lives.

>That doesn't mean that large sales weren't made, or that those weren't in fact a significant portion of the site's revenue.

Nobody made any claim that large sales weren't made, of course they were.
> If I applied for the Luxembourg visa before my trip, I would run the risk of not getting my passport back in time

Certainly in 2025 we can collectively come up with a better solution, where passports could be granted permissions electronically and the actual document would act only as international identification.
both at work and my personal emails have been at good unread counts for the past decade (at most double digits on hectic times or vacation). at first i would use a lot of filters at work (especially for the automated reporting mails made by apps and ci/cd pipelines, but also for types of senders, etc.).

lately i am down to just a combination of using flags and a limited set of filters for only my personal email. i have attacked the problem at the source, just like the OP. switched away from email reporting wherever possible and unsubscribed to as many email communications for non-essential things.

from personal experience, it is hard to find certain emails even when you neatly organize into hundreds of folders, because mobile apps only cache the first few emails anyways. so when you really need to find something, you might as well end up searching by text. just keep going through the emails and delete the ones which already has the same information elsewhere (like those reminder emails). email threads also make things neat, and has reduced the visual clutter when using a mail app.
Oof, that's tough. I'm over here on a blue card, and I found that the initial application and dealing with department of immigration was actually really streamlined. Everything is very manual and personal over here, but there are a large number of public servants that are very welcoming and happy to help out.
That 5T figure was including chip manufacturing. Duplicating TSMC isn't feasible. No surprise.
I am an ML scientist, my company and several others are using IREE to deploy our models to edge devices. It is the most promising technology in this area.

Those academic publications are a sign that the people involved actually know what they’re doing, and are making sure their work holds up to scrutiny.
A statement about statements about X is not a statement about X and therefore doesn’t apply to itself.
Commutation is not considered during sentencing or mandatory minimums or anything like that. It's only an option for very popular cases and even then it's rare.
Would that it had been a public benefit corporation or nonprofit; maybe I would still be contributing today.
Oracle is trusted by large enterprises. So OpenAI wants to attach itself to Oracle's brand.
I certainly agree that EQIP should be funded!

But why are programs like this controversial, even though anything shaped like a farm subsidy is normally popular? It seems to me that things like your Central Valley analysis are precisely the reason. The Central Valley has been one of the nation's agricultural heartlands for a while, and for quite a few common food products represents 90%+ of domestic production. So if this "blaring siren" you describe is real, and we have to stop farming there, a realistic response plan would have to include an explanation of what all the farmers are going to do and where we'll get almonds and broccoli from.

Perhaps you know all this already, but a lot of people who advocate such policies don't seem to. This then feeds into skepticism about whether they're hearing the "blaring siren" correctly in the first place. Personally, I think nearly arbitrarily extreme water subsidies are worth it if that's what we need to keep olives and pomegranates and celery in stock at the grocery store.
Oracle is trusted by large enterprises, banks, governments. So OpenAI wants to attach itself to Oracle's brand.
A fairly tame start (i.e. not overtly against their own money-making interests) would be to support voting-reform to one of the many many options that are superior to plurality/first-past-the-post voting.

Insofar as regular-businesses like predictability, this would actually be good for them. Fewer dramatic changes from slim margins every election cycle.
I work in big tech in the US. In my usual daily life, I get to meet extremely intelligent and successful people from India. Ex-founders, Executives, engineers that have built large parts of the software we take for granted - each and every one of them maintains that every time they have to apply for a visa as an Indian passport holder, it's an absolutely humbling experience.

This is the burden we carry.
I'm not much of a Mac user but I'm guessing the parent comment wanted readonly user install path so accidental/malicious rm -rf only affects the user data and not the installed programs?

Nothing to do with exploits as part of homebrew etc .
My experience with LLMs has been different. I give it trash prompts and it gives me reasonable responses. I think it's figured out the space between what I type and what I want. That's great. Until we get an input which allows it to figure out the space between what I type and what I think. That doesn't even sound too bad, because now I can just think and it'll happen. I look forward to this future, sounds wonderfully efficient, which would finally give me the time to do that thing I really want to do but don't have the time right now because we're not efficient enough.

But no, my experience is different with regards to the ratio of quality of input versus output. I think we all do a subconscious ROI of whether typing that little extra will yield an output that's going to be that much better that it was worth the time and effort.

Or much more likely I'm just lazy.
I feel the comparison is really hard. Rails really is a framework that solves anything but the business logic for 80% of your app. React is really a library for rendering components and everything else is your decision to pick or build from scratch. E.g. Rails has opinions on how to build forms while React, a supposed frontend framework, doesn't have anything baked in specific to that. Sure the community has opinions about it but React doesn't like Rails does.
Why would Coinbase and Gemini and A16z care about an obviously shady person who reportedly tried to hire a person to kill someone? surely they could find a more legitimate hero to advance the legal crypto case? i mean, it's kind of like them - companies trying to do legit crypto - rallying today around SBF when they already have image problems from other exchanges?
> But on the other hand, if true, this is the kind of crazy situation that could also lead to new mathematics where regimes considered unstable are revealed to have surprising stable nodes.

I feel like if it was real, 3M would have immediately diverted a bunch of money into working out how to commercialize it, and we'd have evidence of that.
> Many interactions are not possible without JavaScript, but that doesn’t mean we should look to write more than we have to.

PREACH. And many site actions can be handle server-side without degrading the user experience.
Here is some of my code that works around not having timegm. It is detected in a configure script, so there's a #define symbol indicating whether it's available.

https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/time.c
I think the article fails to wonder sufficiently about gender differences in sexual education. In the milieu where my parents were brought up in, as well as presently in traditionally patriarchal cultures, a good deal of women weren't educated about periods and sex, not even by relatives. The men, on the other hand, received more "education"
I search it for things that are outside regular documentation.

However any contributions (answers, questions) are directly related to something I'm working on. There's no community (or certainty that your work will not be marked-as-duplicate) which would justify a more-general kind of helping-out.
Chatbox: Cross-platform desktop client for ChatGPT, Claude and other LLMs
I don't think I find any useful, recent answers