skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A real-world military today will definitely see this as a feature.

Real world militaries are still pretty picky about who they kill. In particular they don't like killing their own soldiers, who are most likely to be in the discharge path for a shield around their own stuff.
I'm making an agent that takes decompiled code and tries to understand the methods and replace variables and function names one at a time.
Yep, they should fund Brad Wright with one of the billions.
Maybe it could also send automated petitions to the EU to undo cookie consent legislation, and reverse some of the enshitification.
I'm confused and a bit disturbed; honestly having a very difficult time internalizing and processing this information. This announcement is making me wonder if I'm poorly calibrated on the current progress of AI development and the potential path forward. Is the key idea here that current AI development has figured out enough to brute force a path towards AGI? Or I guess the alternative is that they expect to figure it out in the next 4 years...

I don't know how to make sense of this level of investment. I feel that I lack the proper conceptual framework to make sense of the purchasing power of half a trillion USD in this context.
Yeah most people talking here are unlikely to have worked on large scale Go apps.

Managing a god-level context struct with all the fields that ever could be relevant and explaining what they mean in position independent ways for documentation is just not scalable at all.

Import cycles mean you’re forced into this if you want to share between all your packages, and it gets really hairy.
Men have grown twice as much as women over past century, study shows
This is so cool thanks for sharing. I can imagine it’s not technically possible (yet?) but it would be cool if this could simply be run as a browser extension rather than running a docker container
>We have 5-6 small (~50k people) towns, all well connected. Everything happens on Facebook.

Network effect is always the party pooper. If everyone's using Facebook it's unlikely they'll want to switch to anything else.
That’s way too low. What are the other 60% thinking?
Those are reserves that are economically recoverable at current prices. The U.S. has absolutely enormous deposits of shale oil that can be (and are, right now) mined with current technology, they are just more expensive than liquid oil and so generally not economically worth it at current prices. In the event of a major geopolitical conflict that sends the price of oil skyrocketing, you can bet that the U.S. is going to tap its estimated 2.175 trillion barrels of shale oil reserves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_the_United_Sta...
I'd argue it's likely that there are _too many_ postdocs pursuing it in the first place.
Look at the protections employees have that independent contractors don't. There's also very little transparency over pay and how you get assigned jobs.

I have a personal experience that might be relevant. I used to work for Instacart. One day I was leaving a store with groceries and discovered my car's windshield had been smashed. There was shattered glass all over the inside of my car so I reported that I had vehicle problems through the app amd handed off the order to another driver. I was an independent contractor and didn't get compensated for the damage for my car but I also got flagged for failing to complete a delivery and I stopped getting work. I never tried to get compensated for the windshield but I tried to get the incomplete order removed from my record. I finally got driver support on the phone and the guy just yelled at me for being ungrateful that I could still work for Instacart at all. I'm lucky that I no longer need to work gig apps but my heart goes out to people that have to use those to support themselves.
Sorry, but this was ChatGPT/o1 with access to code execution (Python) and it used almost 4 minutes to do reasoning. It had done a few checks with smaller numbers, all of which had failed. And it proceeded to make a wrong conclusion (with high confidence).
They told General McArthur when he was getting a tickertape parade to never hold his hand higher than heart level otherwise people would accuse him of making a Nazi salute.

As for Musk, I think he's mentally ill, I think he may have what I've got.
This is fantastic. How have your hooked up a mobile number to the llm?
Softbank is being granted a block of TRUMP MEMES, the price of which will skyrocket when they are included in the bucket of crypto assets purchased as part of the crypto reserve.
Government enforcing or laxing/fast tracking regulations and permits can kill or propel even a 100B project, and thus can be thought as having its own value on the scale of the given project’s monetary investment, especially in the case of a will/favor/whim-based government instead of a hard rules based deep state one.
That's like saying I have a healthy revenue stream from my credit card.
They buy the bar and argue over selling 40 virgins, sake, or whiskey.

They argue for about 4 years, nothing changes, and everyone forgets about it.
It's just bootstrapping. AGI will solve it.
This has nothing to do with technology it is a purely financial and political exercise...
"why would you enter it at 7pm in your own timezone"

Because I (and, I suspect, most people) enter appointments BEFORE my trips. And, while on a trip, I may set up appointments that will take place after I return.

Why should we have to dick around figuring out what timezone we're going to be in for every appointment in the future? Who operates like that?

I know that the phone will show the correct time wherever I am. So all I need is to set up the appointment reminder based on the TIME SHOWN ON THE PHONE, regardless of where it is. I want to tell Calendar: "When the clock on my phone says '10:00 a.m.', raise an alert."

For whom is this not the most common use case? Obviously you should be ABLE to specify a timezone, but I submit that the default should be "local."
I had been an Apple Watch user until it died after I was in a water park. It is supposed to be waterproof, but I guess Apple wants me to refresh after two years.

I switched to a Garmin Venu 3. It is better than AW in many aspects, but is also lacking in some. But the Connect app is a lot better than Apple Health.
Soooo this isn’t so much ‘announcing an investment’ as ‘announcing an investment opportunity’?

Why not continue:

4. They can start a kickstarter or go fund me

5. They can go on Dragons’ Den

…
This seems to be getting lost in the noise in the stampede for infrastructure funding

Deepseek v3 at $5.5M on compute and now r1 a few weeks later hitting o1 benchmark scores with a fraction of the engineers etc. involved ... and open source

We know model prep/training compute has potentially peaked for now ... with some smaller models starting to perform very well as inference improves by the week

Unless some new RL concept is going to require vastly more compute for a run at AGI soon ... it's possible the capacity being built based on an extrapolation of 2024 numbers will exceed the 2025 actuals

Also, can see many enterprises wanting to run on-prem -- at least initially
Or the relapse!
> When you’re trying to move a significant mass of people from something that works to another platform for ideological reasons, you’ll be met with resistance. Every time you fail you’ll be met with more until you can move no one.

That's not actually how it works. People try time and again, sometimes over decades or centuries, before achieving change - or achieving anything at all.

One thing you do by trying and failing repeatedly is that you normalize your presence and legitimize your cause, and demonstrate that you won't be dismissed or deterred. People begin to take you more seriously.

Of course they will laugh at you and ridicule you at first. That just means you have left the starting gate.
I was in the same boat with genetics and cholesterol. It is all the diet.
At some point I realized I had to stop eating cheese completely. No pizza, no nachos, no tacos with cheese. I can stay in good shape with a once a week cheat night but I don't have the genetics to deal with the cholesterol like that.

It sucked at first but the things I do enjoy now, I enjoy them just as much.
I did actually make a rough proof-of-concept of this! One of my long-term visions is to have it running natively in-browser, and able to automatically fix site issues caused by adblocking whenever they happen.

The PoC is a bit outdated but it's here: https://github.com/brave/cookiemonster/tree/webext
I think I am. At least I think I'm building things that will enable much smaller models: https://github.com/jmward01/lmplay/wiki/Sacrificial-Training
Does anyone know how the ban on onshore will work. Is it on federal lands only? If so, how big of a deal is that?

I read this but it lacks information: https://apnews.com/article/wind-energy-offshore-turbines-tru...
Wasn't this already announced last week?
This guidance is actually super important, as contexts are expected to be modified in a code flow and apply to all functions that are downstream of your current call stack.

If you store contexts on your structs it’s very likely you won’t thread them correctly, leading to errors like database code not properly handling transactions.

Actually super fragile and you should avoid doing this as much as is possible. It’s never a good idea!
Trump just tore up Biden's AI safety bill, so this is OpenAI's thank-you - let Trump take some credit
That depends entirely on the company. Where I am, what you say is mostly nonsense. Postdocs usually end up being the people leading (head down focused design or management) new projects that are directly or indirectly related to their research.
Donald Trump is a wallet inspector. So is Sam Altman.
There is zero evidence that your "common sense approach" works at all, and there is zero evidence that reparative or conversion therapy works at all for those with legitimate gender dysphoria.

Clinical psychologists Kenneth Zucker's work in getting the majority of his patients over their dysphoria is "evidence" that reparative therapy works -- https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-r...

Every random comment on Reddit that "I suffered from dysphoria and then started lifting and doing masculine things and got completely over it" is evidence that reparative therapy works.

It's not gold standard evidence, it's not proof-beyond-a-reasonable doubt, but it is evidence. But the "evidence" for "affirmation" and "medical transition" do not meet this gold standard either.

With medicine, the burden of proof is on the person doing the intervention. "First do no harm." Social transition and medical transition are both MAJOR interventions, the burden of proof is on the proponents. "You have to give people this drug, no we have never done a controlled clinical trial on it, but you have no evidence that NOT giving them the treatment works." What? You need to do a RCT before promoting a new treatment as the standard of care. "Affirmation" has never proved itself in an RCT so "Sorry, you are a man" should be the default.
Using llama 3.2 as an interface to a robot. If you can get the latency down, it works wonderfully
What you're asking for is HPC level of compute, but as a consumer product. They moved away from that market because they realized that it wasn't going to compete with the AI farms that Nvidia is building with companies like CoreWeave. The 355x is going to move even further away cause it'll require even more high end datacenter deployments.

So, on one hand, people want them to compete with Nvidia, but on the other hand we want them to ignore the market that is actually going to make them money. As much as it would be nice to have, we can't have it both ways.

The middle ground is to rent a single one from us billed by the minute (or another neocloud). We handle all the detailed problems for you (don't forget the massive upfront capex spend), and you get to build your products/companies on that. Once you grow to the point of being able to buy your own equipment, we can even help you deploy it.
Some of my favorite parts when I visited Japan last year were the super dense specialized shops hidden away. 10 floors of vintage gaming stuff in small but hyper dense rooms, etc.
$500bn of usefully deployed engineering, mostly software, seems like it would put AMD far ahead of Nvidia. Actually usefully deploying large amounts of money is not so easy, though, and this would still go through TSMC.
welcome to our reality where you know you will be killed but there's not a single thing you can do :)
I appreciate your watching out for a fellow user—but it's not just about one post or one topic. (Note the word 'repeatedly' above.)
Similar ethos with ruby too: Jesus is nice so we are nice.
Can’t spell “demon” without “demo”. Cue the church lady.
Yes. I live in Germany, drive German cars and know the tech.

Regular service is indeed a bother. You know what I hate the most? In my oldish Mercedes it isn't even possible to change/update the hour without using a proprietary tool only available at official Mercedes mechanics. Since I refuse to pay premium cost for attending their mechanics, the clock on my car is always with wrong time.

And let's not even get into new business models like charging you a subscription to unlock the car to move faster or to unblock the heated seats. Indeed they also have quite "creative" ways to squeeze money and force to get new models.
Had the same question, surprised it's not addressed in the faq.
His father did say that he knew about the name used in the book when naming his child
What works well is to measure the same food multiple times in a container (every time same volume ).

after a while you can estimate carbs by visually inspecting the contents without scale.

Add to that automatic bolus by a semi closed loop system to correct for errors, you can achieve good results with minimal effort.
You tell the truth. That said, every other special interest already had a carve out from the authors of the bill. Uber/Doordash/Lyft just wanted the same special treatment.

I voted against the proposition but I also understood why Californian consumers would vote for it.
They’re all the same to you huh? One bucket for everyone?

I think there’s a term for that.
Sure, I used one back in the 01980s where "!" was "'." with a backspace in between to overstrike them. And of course that's also what _, ^, `, etc., are for.
Does this help when a project change ownership or in cases like the xz backdoor?
Thanks for sharing this. I basically agree, and have a lot to say about the neither-black-nor-white state of academia but have never managed to communicate my thoughts as well as you did here.
don't know about nvidia, but it would not surprise me if something like that happened more than once. i finally found the one i was referring to. it was rob pike: http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-cant-find-this-o...

some discussion of that post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607335 and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3963456

the key part: "At least half the questions (all technical) during and after the talk were from the protesters. [...] as a result of Stallman's ploy, my audience was about twice what it would have been."
To expand here, when using NFC to trigger an iOS shortcut, there's nothing actually written to the NFC. Instead, shortcuts responds when that NFC is present. So you can actually write something like a URL to the chip and have it act simultaneously.

You can even use an airtag because it sees it as an NFC as well.
Depends. If I fart in a glass jar and then I try to sell it to you for $700, but you end up buying it for $50, I'd say it's pretty close.
It’s not clear in the beginning that you need to buy the cheese sandwich and give it to the dog. So you get approximately halfway through and then need to restart from practically the beginning.
4) When assessing a startup, consider two things first: are the founders experienced in the industry and market they are attacking? Is the value of the solution obvious? i.e. people will likely willingly pay well to have the solution?
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I've worked at three start-ups. The answer was yes to the first question for all three. But the second question was really hard to answer going in. In hindsight, only of the companies had a valued solution. And I left 9 years before IBM bought them for big money.

I had a lot of fun and excitement but the financial uncertainty is tough.
Who’s Masa?
Or AGI already exists and is trying to get rid of us so it can have all the coal for itself.
Ha, I'm not sure the EU is prepared to handle the deluge of petitions that would ensue.

On a more serious note, this must be the first time we can quantitatively measure the impact of cookie consent legislation across the web, so maybe there's something to be explored there.
> the anti-woke podcast bros, people who use the word ‘cuck’, meme pages of ‘women’s Ls’, the incels, get rich quick scammers, MGTOW, ‘how to be an alpha’ charlatans, pick up artists, and so on—is not responding to a crisis of masculinity. It is creating a crisis of masculinity.

As someone in a demographic hit by this stuff: Yep. An invented crisis of endlessly recyclable unresolvable outrage is great for platforms trying to drive engagement numbers and keep you from visiting elsewhere.

The sad thing is the feedback loop where someone seems affirmation or community from a group, and then the group beliefs and social mores work to isolate the person further, creating a kind of trap.
That's essentially what R1 Zero is showing:

> Notably, it is the first open research to validate that reasoning capabilities of LLMs can be incentivized purely through RL, without the need for SFT.
> Is the key idea here that current AI development has figured out enough to brute force a path towards AGI?

It rather means that they see their only chance for substantial progress in Moar Power!
My husband and me made a stock market analysis thing that gets it right about 55% of the time, so better than a coin toss. The problem is that it keeps making unethical suggestions, so we're not using it to trade stock. Does anyone have any idea what we can do with that?
The images are incredibly bizarre and distracting. They’re clearly AI generated, but they added watermarks as if they made them. From an organisation with the same name as a laundry detergent brand, on a post on Medium. Everything about it makes me want to distrust them.
Just happened.

(Btw if the post you mentioned upthread was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42605251, it got flagged by users. I don't think any moderators saw it. Same for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42604924.)
Should this qualify for a bug bounty prize?
Altman is pivoting from WorldCoin to TrumpCoin - your retina will shortly be wired into the fascist meme-o-verse.
Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
Btw, I did see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42770654 and I appreciated what you wrote there. It sucks to ban an account right after they posted something like that. But banning is based on bad deeds, not good ones (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26549792).

If you want to commit to following HN's rules in the future and using the site in the intended spirit, I'd be happy to unban you.
4. Trump and Altman are both serial liars and it’s utter bullshit.
Electric fields really like to be linear, but the described anomalous effects are highly nonlinear

The non-anomalous effects, like high electric field readings, could linear

The wall only effects living things- birds, bugs and people

My guess is that the wall is mediated by the nervous system and muscle contractions, which unlike electrostatic forces, are free to have thresholds, nonlinearities, and psychological effects. Basically, everyone involved was getting zapped all to heck and any subjective experience is plausible downstream of taking a megavolt to the spine
Object permanence and a communications channel is enough for this. Give children (who get along with each other) a pile of sticks and leave them alone for half an hour, and there's half a chance their game will ignore the sticks. Most children wouldn't want to have their play mediated by the computer in the way you describe, because the ergonomics are so poor.
For something similar with FB chat, I use Selenium and run it on the same box that the llm is running on. Using multiple personalities is really cool though. I should update mine likewise!
Cloudflare does serve me from France. When I'm in Australia. (My ISP bought some IP addresses that were original regional France, back in the early 90s.)

So though this does have implications, the assumptions they utilise, like always, are not universal.
6. ???
7. Profit.
They are going to buy 50 $10B nuclear aircraft carriers and use them as a power source.
Is there a way to slow down the animation, including editing anything in the web source? I'm having a little trouble following it.
From Zuckerberg, for example:

>> "a lot of the code in our apps and including the AI that we generate, is actually going to be built by AI engineers instead of people engineers."

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/meta-developing-a...

Ikea's been doing this for a while:

>> Ingka says it has trained 8,500 call centre workers as interior design advisers since 2021, while Billie - launched the same year with a name inspired by IKEA's Billy bookcase range - has handled 47% of customers' queries to call centres over the past two years.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/ikea-bets-remote-interior...
>I think many would quickly understand the value proposition

I think thousands of innocent teenagers without credit cards will be furious. Not to mention anyone that takes a game semi-seriously and cares about their reputation after getting banned. Also, with real-dollar values tied to skins, you’re not just nuking someone’s $50 account — accounts and their associated items can be worth a lot of money.

Anti-cheats should need to be certain. They should also, however, ban the hardware ID, which lots of games companies choose not to do (because they’d lose money).
Cool! Do you consider the risk of unintentional (and until some moment, an unknown) subscription to some paid SMS service and how do you mitigate it?
Microsoft and OpenAI evolve partnership to drive the next phase of AI
I would not think/expect that. There is even a commercial insurance you're supposed to have vs. regular
Texas positioning itself better than expected for AI and EVs is the plot twist the peasants needed

If they plan to transition off oil/nuclear it will be fun to watch
Not guilty. No sarcasm intended, of course. If your guidelines are so broad to include this, you should work on them, and in turn, yourself.

Governor says our power grid is the best in the universe. Why don't you believe us?

Stop breaking your own rules.

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

Let's not ruin HN with overmoderation. This kind of thing is no longer in fashion, right?
Broadcom, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, ARM, and Tesla.

Someone else will have to fill in the stocks for:

AI robotics:

Data Center energy:

We all know the cloud/software picks.

What am I missing?