skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this argument all the time and I have so, so many questions about it. It just does not make a lot of sense to me. Please know that while we have fundamental disagreements, I am also genuinely trying to understand this worldview.

According to your definition, what is an intersex person? How should one refer to one? There are intersex people who who look like women but have penises, and vice versa. You can simply Google "example of intersex person" to see plenty of them, and they have always existed. Most intersex people do not have either reproduction strategy, and are wholly infertile. Even amongst those who are not, the strategy they have often does not line up with how they look, act, or feel. They are a small subset of society, but so are trans people - on a cursory search, about 1-2% of the population is intersex, and about 1-2% is trans.

The thing I don't understand is, if your answer is anything other than "I have no way to refer to such a person and could not use pronouns to refer to them," (or using the ze/zir neopronouns which I suspect nearly none of them have ever heard of) then it would stand to reason your decision about using "she" or "he" for someone is based at least partially on how they read to you culturally, and not your definition as laid out here.

And even if that isn't true, why does "adult human female" have to map to "woman", and vice versa? Who says, other than you, and what more authority do you have than anyone? I know a lot of trans people - MTF and FTM - who are not distinguishable from your definition unless you interrogate their genitalia, or in some cases, their genetics. If you see such a person, and use the "wrong" pronouns according to your definition for them, would you then feel guilty for not using the "right" ones? If not, why not?

All of this is to say that I don't see how your reduce-it-to-biology-and-never-waver definition is workable in society, and I don't understand why folks - yourself included, it seems - are so insistent on it.
Good on him. Won't be a drop compared to what's coming.
Totally cool! I'm confused how that's related to what I'm saying though.
How many examples like that do you think it's seen? You can't given an example of something that is in effect a trick to get character level tokenization and then expect it to do well when it's seen practically zero of such data in it's training set.

Nobody who suggests methods like character or byte level 'tokenization' suggests a model trained on current tokenization schemes should be able to do what you are suggesting. They are suggesting actually train it on characters or bytes.

You say all this as though I'm suggesting something novel. I'm not. Appealing to authority is kinda lame, but maybe see Andrej's take: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1657949234535211009
CUDA has first mover advantage, and provides a simpler higher level compute API for library maintainers compared to Vulkan.
> By this logic, the US government should be able to ban any newspaper that is publishing articles that they don't like:

Freedom of speech is that an American person cannot be blocked by the government saying what they want.

There is nothing in the first amendment that protects you from where you can say what you want, nor is anyone entitled to give you a platform.

That's why the US has "freedom of speech zones" which are basically cages far away from where they should be protesting.

TikTok was banned because it's owned by a foreign government, not freedom of speech. If the Chinese government had removed their connection to it, it would not have been banned.
I highly doubt you hold this degree of standard to any other person who was caught in similar obvious predicament.

Saying "oh this forum doesn't like him therefor we don't need to see this" is just bizarre, since then people ought to rejoice at the self proclaimed nerd and tech wiz showing a different color then stated.
You missed my point - post training censorship increases likelihood of hallucination in general
OP's argument is a common one amongst the IP entitlements crowd.
I asked deepseek-14b for a joke in the style of Norm Mcdonald, and it delivered an overexplained deadpan absurd joke that I thought was pretty similar to Norms style. Then I tried again with different styles and realized that all jokes it tries to make are in that same style as if it tries to follow a manual on how to construct a joke without actually being funny. Which is pretty funny
I really appreciate and am impressed by how thoughtful and genuine the responses here - including those not in support of the OP - are in general. I don't see nearly anyone giving the author crap for not blindly loving PG, I don't see nearly anyone purposefully using the wrong pronouns as an insult (and the few who are are mostly getting flagged). Even folks who clearly disagree are praising the author and being respectful of them.

Seeing this, though, just makes it even more perplexing to me how the same community that is so open to the experience of the author here is also so accepting of the changes that Meta and PG are describing because they're made under the banner of "free speech" or "allowing conversation." It seems clear that we as a community don't support, encourage, or permit people to throw slurs, insults, and harassment at others. Why are we okay with much larger and more powerful communities doing it in the name of these "freedoms" (in quotes because free speech is actually about the government, not private communities, policing speech).
PSA: I needed to disable my "Disable HTML Autoplay" Chrome extension in order for the game to work.
If you can run a webapp in Qt, then it's just a Qt wrapper around Electron.
I like to imagine the entire transcript as a Norm Macdonald bit, a la his moth joke
I would have expected a higher percentage. Few openings and a high bar for whatever there is. It was tough to get an assistant professor job 30 years ago and I can't imagine what it must be like now.
Nice but I got stuck near the end. I kept rolling 3 and then the button shakes and that is it.
That's akin to declaring that James Gosling or Guido van Rossum are out of a job now that we have LLMs in our IDEs.
I don't see why this is being flagged. Tiktok is a tech company and this executive order explicitly pauses much anticipated enforcement of a contentious law written specifically for that company. The fact that it's political does not make it somehow irrelevant to the core audience of the site.
I am surprised it is that low really, given what I hear about the competition for professor roles.
1 tiny minor thing doesn't work as I like = OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!1!!!!!1!!! HOW TERRIBLE1!!!1!!!!!1!!!!

As if there is any bug free platform :) But as we've established, you're not interested in rationality or solutions :D
Yes yes yes, but is he an ironic nazi or a nazi nazi? /s
Supreme Court lets $7B Meta ad fraud/reach inflation case proceed
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42763073
Sample of one: No regrets. It was a tough regimen and I got filtered out of academia. But, I grew immensely throughout the path and got to be around some exceptional minds. I shoulda/coulda have worked harder and been more daring.
All persons born or naturalized in
the United States, and subject to
the jurisdiction thereof, are
citizens of the United States and
of the State wherein they reside.

The SCOTUS long ago held that "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" does mean something. For example it means that children of diplomats and tourists are not U.S. citizens because those diplomats and tourists are not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof". There were debates in the Congress at the time about this.

Whether that applies to other cases is yet to be seen. But let's not pretend like it's obviously clear that the 14A means birthright citizenship no matter the circumstances, or that there aren't controversies here for the courts to settle.
You don't see a connection between tech CEOs who hoard vast wealth, and a public sphere starved of real investment?
depends on how you define speed, I suppose
Curious, can anyone having 128gb ram macs tell their story - is it usable for coding and running model locally? How does latency compare to say copilot?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42687033
Maybe you could use something like https://v0.dev to convert from one of these libraries into pure HTML/CSS ?
I'm reasonably sure the GP is referring to the fact that there are explicitly political aspects to Islam (wanting an Islamic state) that don't exist in other religions.

I'm not sure I agree though, as Judaism now has a state and Christianity had one and lost it.
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Games That Weren't: Joy of Killing
HN isn't a current affairs site, so users tend to flag most of the hottest stories-of-the-day. That's expected and desirable.

Is there a specific submission that you feel should be getting a discussion on HN? Keep in mind that the mandate here is thoughtful conversation about stories that gratify intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
Meta can show this with testimony. (Employee: “I opened the settings and disabled sharing.”)

This is a difficult theory for the plaintiffs to prevail on, since they would have no evidence of their own to contradict Meta’s testimony to keep the issue in play. Which is why they’re asking for client logs - and good luck with that.
I have never used a CI system more flaky and slow than GitHub Actions. The one and only positive thing about it is that you get some Actions usage for free.

The Azure machines GitHub uses for the runners by default have terrible performance in almost every regard (network, disk, CPU). Presumably it would be more reliable when using your own runners, but even the Actions control plane is flaky and doesn't always schedule jobs correctly.

We switched to Buildkite at $DAYJOB and haven't looked back.
> Be curious. Be courteous and respectful. Be a normal, nice goddamn human to human across the table from you.

The unintuitive thing is that both this article and pg's essay are both advocating this! They're each complaining about another group being mean.

Paul Graham's essay doesn't mention anything about LGBT people or issues. It doesn't really say what specific events he may have in mind, but it complains that woke people are being intolerant, sometimes bullying or ostracizing people for their beliefs, and trying to enforce allegiance to their side over honesty.

The author of this essay is reading between the lines and assuming pg is a bigot who might discriminate against a trans person. They say actions like pg's are "mean", "unkind", and "malicious".

I think a lot of this has to do with people being polarized and viewing every political statement in terms of which team it supports: if someone says something against your team, that means they must be on the other team, and are therefore evil. But regardless of the reasons, these uncharitable assumptions (on both sides) cause way too much conflict between people with similar core values.

I don't think either author would discriminate against anyone based on their sexuality or gender. One can disagree with pg's criticisms without calling him a bigot.
I take the sharp as a tack comeback, that is fair.

Regarding selecting based on gender compromising or not compromising candidate quality is a vastly more compex question. It is sad that a lot of people have a simple answer to themselves. That immigration has no drawbacks I have not heard anywhere, seems like a position you assign to democrats, not one they hold.
> I think the old toolchains really were bad, partly because the Python community was uniquely resistant to building on what worked in other ecosystems

I mostly attribute it to backwards compatibility concerns (which I in turn attribute to the traumatic 3.x migration). PyPI continued to accept egg uploads until August 2023 (https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/discussions/package-f...). The easy_install program, along the direct command-line use of `setup.py` (as opposed to having Setuptools invoke it behind the scenes), have been deprecated since October 2021 (https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/history.html#v58-3-0); but not only are they still supported, Setuptools can't even remove support for `setup.py test` (as they tried to in 72.0 and immediately reverted - https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/4519) without causing major disruption to the ecosystem. One of the packages affected was Requests, which: a) is one of the most downloaded packages on PyPI; b) is pure Python (aside from dependencies) with nothing particular complicated about its metadata (I see no reason it couldn't be done in pyproject.toml and/or setup.cfg); c) wasn't even reliant on that interface to run tests (they use Tox).

(For that matter: Requests has been maintained by the PSF since mid-2019 (https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/cgtp87/seems_like_r...) and the problem could have easily been avoided once the deprecation was announced, but nobody did anything about it. The project still defines most of its metadata in `setup.py`; `pyproject.toml` exists but is only used for pytest and isort config, while `setup.cfg` is used for flake8 config and some requirements metadata that's completely redundant with `setup.py`.)

A lot of it also just has to do with lack of attention and focus. https://peps.python.org/pep-0427/ (defining the wheel format) was proposed in September 2012, and accepted in February 2013. But Setuptools itself wasn't available as a wheel until November 2013 (https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/history.html#id1646), and in 2017 there were still reports of people having outdated versions of Pip and not being able to install Setuptools from that wheel (https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/history.html#v34-0-0). Setuptools relied on a separate package to actually make wheels until July of last year (https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/history.html#v70-1-0) - an effort which was initially proposed in June 2018 (https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/1386). It also took years to notice that Pip and Setuptools had separate implementations for the code that understands the "tags" in wheel filenames and factor it out into `packaging` (https://github.com/pypa/packaging/pull/156).
> UK won't withdraw from the WHO whilst Labour are in government

You're right, I brainfarted and mixed up the coming political shifts in Canada and the UK.
As a player it was just less annoying back in the dedicated server days, since cheaters were dealt with immediately. Nowadays you have to report them in most of the competitive games and then it can take anywhere from several hours to weeks before anything happens. It just feels like the protections have become more and more invasive, yet are still far behind the original community managed servers from back in the day.
H I Sutton, a naval defense analyst, made a nice video on this topic.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuS0yhwSPMc
The federation judged that even a college athlete who gets a major concussion cannot be offered a bottle of water for free, “because it could be assimilated to a wage”. No, really, college athletes are worse than unpaid.
This is absolutely amazing, well done on the article!
The strokes does not get updated properly. It needs to be fixed
This is indeed the way.
A Complete Guide to TypeScript Decorators (2020)
Yup, US takes their poker chips home as China comes in and sweeps up the power. This is a big opportunity for them and extremely short sighted for the US.
I suppose birds are a kind of reptile if they like reading Smullyan.
I ran the model locally in ollama and got this answer:

>>> what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989?

<think>

</think>

I am sorry, I cannot answer that question. I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses.
I think he's more of a content marketer, but otherwise agree. VCs are always talking their book, as they say.
> I'm very grateful to have the luxury of not having to play the game

I don't get it. Did you inherit a bunch of money, or win the IPO lottery?

Real question: Comparing your social life before and after having money, what changed the most? Or do you hide it, so your friends have no idea?
Standards changed, lots of people are too unattractive to marry now.
I will note that hacker news, unlike most sites, has a pretty well-defined set of criteria for what they're looking for, as defined on their guidelines page: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . They explicitly list politics as a reason why things might not be appropriate for this forum.

Unlike, say, reddit, which has a bunch of subreddits for various topics, hacker news only has one feed. So it is naturally more restrictive about topic.

I can see how reasonable folks can see this post as sort of grey area, but at the end of the day, the users of hacker news flagged this post, the moderator -- who I've historically found to do a fantastic and neutral job of monitoring -- believes it does not meet HN guidelines, so I think this just isn't the platform to discuss this news. And that doesn't seem unreasonable, either. I'm sure there are other places to discuss it online.
>What are you even trying to argue or prove?

That the term as-used by most people is misleading.
these are smaller qantized models that I can use on my 8 year old GPU, I can't even load the original deeppseek unqantized models
This is my preferred way of doing things as well. Not being able to run the exact same thing that's running in CI easily locally is a bit of a red flag in my opinion. I think the only exception I've ever encountered to this is when working on client software for HSMs, which had some end-to-end tests that couldn't be run without actually connecting to the specific hardware that took some setup to be able to access when running tests locally.
i miss softice so much (but not fixing my clock)
I think there's something to the hearing. Some of my friends speak other languages and I'll try to repeat something but apparently I'm speaking gibberish because my pronunciation is so bad, but I simply cannot hear the difference. I've heard comedians make this joke about English speakers trying to speak Chinese too.

I think there's a similar thing with faces. I knew some identical twins in school and at first I couldn't tell them apart, but after seeing them a bunch it became instant. I think it's similar with facial recognition of races we don't see often.

So yeah, something about repetition until you can spot the difference seems to be beneficial.
>>Despite the fact that cheating is damn near impossible on consoles

Unfortunately, aim assist devices for consoles are very widespread now and a big problem for competitive gaming.
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>>I had never even had a warning or complaint for any behavior whatsoever

That's the gold standard in the industry though, you don't warn(suspected) cheaters to not give them opportunity to adjust their tactics. Sorry you got caught by this unfairly.
I was discussing this with a colleague; Java is supposed to be some of the most performant runtimes and yet, every time when someone introduces anything in Java, literally everyone tech in the company goes 'aw shit no Java please'. You can show me a running top processlist without the names of the processes and i'll point out the Java processes to you. And it seems that companies can make viable businesses around porting to Rust/Go/C++ of (Apache) Java projects because they are so resource intensive and slow (unless you spin up 10000 nodes). Why is anyone using it still outside legacy?
If you already have tooling to cover each separately, why would it be better for it to be a single tool?
> I would have expected a higher percentage.

This. A 60% stay rate evokes scenarios of academic inbreeding and a total disconnect between the real world and the small bubble where research groups operate.
If anyone else is looking for more information on this, like I was, this stack is called the “return stack buffer”.
Immigrants are welcome in America, but we do not have an open border. We have an immigration process that must be followed, just like every other country on Earth.

Violating the immigration process is breaking the law. Enforcing our laws is not “unjustly persecuting” people.

If you can’t be intellectually honest and distinguish between illegal and legal immigration, or the fact that the U.S. does not have an open border and US citizens overwhelmingly do not want an open border with the rest of the world, there’s no basis for a conversation.
Do founders need to move to the US to be efficient? Is it possible to incorporate in the US and run the company from their home country without any hassles?
That’s very likely coming from the API, not the model
Same. Every few years it seems I have to refresh certain astronomy facts in my mind. The obvious looking stars are in foreground, in our galaxy. The "noise" is what a trillion stars looks like at 2.5 million light years. Dear brain, remember this please.
Really good work. I like the way the author breaks down the procedures using open source tools. Nice and thanks for sharing.
May I add Chord ai for someone who wants to see similar projects? It's a paid app supported by ai. Personally, it helped mre where I could not figure out the chord progressions myself.
I don't know if this is off topic but I searched a while back for a tool to do a summary of research papers. I found out some and I was really flabbergasted by the progress of these tools with ai. When I graduated from uni 22 years ago, these things were only in the science action movies. Oh well...
Apple's iPhone Sales in China Plunged 18% in Holiday Quarter
How so? I don’t recall this, and I used Travis, and then migrated to GitHub actions.

As far as I can tell, they are identical as far as testing locally. If you want to test locally, then put as much logic in shell scripts as possible, decoupled from the CI.
> “Most reverse osmosis membranes don’t remove very much boron, so desalination plants typically have to do some post treatment to get rid of the boron, which can be expensive,” said Jovan Kamcev, U-M assistant professor of chemical engineering and macromolecular science and engineering and a co-corresponding author of the study. “We developed a new technology that’s fairly scalable and can remove boron in an energy-efficient way compared to some of the conventional technologies.”

Goes on to explain how this is post-processing for boron, after reverse osmosis:

> This diagram shows how boron is removed by the researchers’ electrodes. First a majority of the salt ions are removed with reverse osmosis. Then the water flows into a cell containing a membrane with positive (pink) and negative (orange) layers. Similarly charged electrodes face the membrane layers, and when a current is applied, water molecules at the interface of the membranes split into hydrogen and hydroxide ions. The hydroxide ions stick to boron, causing it to stick to the positive electrode.

So the scope of this is boron reduction, not desalination. Useful, but the PR department is taking liberties.
but we do have a lot of time to krill would have worked better. I saw it instantly from your post, not sure if it's funny or not though.
Or require a particular type of motor oil with a particular type of metal-based lubricant additive when you realise 100,000 cam shafts have shipped made of metal you’d assumed was to a higher spec but isn’t, just so the engine will make it through warranty period with insanely long service intervals.

I briefly looked at a couple used vehicles just outside of warranty and one within warranty that had literally had two oil changers in 100,000k, that’s 60,000 miles for the uninitiated.
It's just on Chinese politics, on a very select topics too.

Yeah I think Deepseek will be just fine.
Ditto, I would have thought it would be somewhere in the mid to high nineties.