skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chinese models get a lot of hype online, they cheat on benchmarks by using benchmark data in training, they definitely train on other models outputs that forbid training and in normal use their performance seem way below OpenAI and Anthropic.

The CCP set a goal and their AI engineer will do anything they can to reach it, but the end product doesn't look impressive enough.
I'm terrified of opening a paren andforgetting to close it! How terrifying to find a tagged paren that cannot be closed!

"please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming" <plaintext>s
The vast majority of code in the world is the former though
iOS Media Center Progress Jank
There are differing levels of abstraction when considering copyright.
I think non-x86/non-PC-compatible home computers did remain relevant for a bit longer in Europe and Japan than in the US but by 1992 the writing must have been on the wall.
California went a record 98 days with 10 hours of electricity from renewables
In my experience, AI isn't very good at debugging AI-generated code. If it fails to make the right insight, it loops continuously until it's completely off the rails. I'm surprised your friend hasn't fully gotten stuck with this, as it seems like a huge risk for his startup.
Over engineered cars are pushing technicians away
An interesting video from an auto tech and below text was in the comments that I thought some engineers might appreciate.

It wasn't engine work, but I worked on a friends Hyundai Elantra that had the bights for the head lights stop working. The car had less than 10k miles on it. Come to find out, all new Elantras use a lens on a servo to adjust the focal point of the light to simulate just having an extra bulb in the head lamp assembly. The servo hooks onto a gear that is made out of ABS with no fiberglass reinforcement so the gear melts half the time after prolonged usage if you commute a long way on back roads at night. Oh by the way, this is one of the only parts not covered on their warranties. I replaced the entire assembly twice for her ($400) before just giving up. I ended up drilling a hole in to the assembly, gluing the lens in place and adding a new fuse and wire lead. Then I ended up having to 3d print an attaching assembly to hold a new light that would serve for brights. I had to figure out how the heck to rewire the servo circuit to trigger a relay instead which was an entire other rabbit hole. The lights have never had a problem minus the occasional bulb replacement since and its been 60k+ miles now. But seriously, why do modern engineers try to reinvent the wheel for everything?? I don't even work on cars for a living. I work in software engineering and I see the same thing happening. The same programs need more RAM, more CPU resources just to do the same thing that it did 10 years ago. What does windows 7 do that windows 10 doesn't? Why does the same web page need 60MBs to load when it only need 1-3MB 10 years ago. All this bad engineering is going to catch up to us at some point. It really worries me to be honest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op1D7zWwQA8
I still use my steam link all the time. I have it fiber back hauled to the computer that it runs off of. I'm thinking of buying a couple more. Give one to my kid and one put on a projector so I don't have to keep moving it back and forth.

Also, I think the device you're looking for is a deck because you can plug that into a television and use a wireless remote with it.

The steam link is the best remote display device I've ever used. No frame drops or artifacting, even on scenes that make the 3090 chug. It forwards controllers to the PC.

Now, the software, "big picture mode" and otherwise using a controller for PC input aren't the greatest, but you gotta figure it's me and like 2 other people still using this.

BTW airscreen/miracaat/screen mirroring/"wireless display" all suck. If your TV has smart bullt in that supports miracast, that in my limited experience is the second lowest latency, then firetv devices, and then roku and everything else. Roku only usable for presentation or digital signage, unless first party built in.

No idea why.
> Do they not appreciate some help to document their code?

How does an LLM help there? What the code does should be obvious by looking at it, WHY it was written that way is the interesting question. Answering it often requires more context and domain knowledge.

> Do they never need to write or quickly understand scripts or code in one of the 100's of languages/stacks they're not too familiar with that they might encounter in the wild?

I'd rather take the time to do it myself because if I'm not familiar with a language/stack I won't be able to spot mistakes made by the LLM as easily.

> How to get out of yet another git mess?

Learn to solve the git issue and apply the knowledge in the future so you don't rely on yet another tool.

> Build a proof of concept in an hour that would've taken you days?

I question the premise.

> A refresher on how to set up x toolchain to get started asap (the nr 1 hardest thing in programming :p) etc etc.

How often do you do that? I think it's worth spending the time to do it yourself so you get an understanding of what exactly you're doing there. When you're done you can document the process and come back to it next time.
If you have to spend significant amount of time thinking things through how do you know the output from AI is correct and covers all details?
I know that I'll get a lot of hate and downvotes for this comment.

I want to say that I have all the respect and admiration for these Chinese people, their ingenuity and their way of doing innovation even if they achieve this through technological theft and circumventing embargoes imposed by US (we all know how GPUs find their way into their hands).

We are living a time with a multi-faceted war between the US, China, EU, Russia and others. One of the battlegrounds is AI supremacy. This war (as any war) isn’t about ethics; it’s about survival, and anything goes.

Finally, as someone from Europe, I confess that here is well known that the "US innovates while EU regulates" and that's a shame IMO. I have the impression that EU is doing everything possible to keep us, European citizens, behind, just mere spectators in this tech war. We are already irrelevant, niche players.
Unable to read the article. Totally distracted by the sword cursor and the emojis but nice idea xD
I wonder what this codebase will look like after a year or so of doing this.
I played with OpenHands for a few days (using gpt-4o since I already had an OpenAI account). I found it to be decent at writing new code, but then it had a hard time making changes when there was a lot of repetitive code (in a TypeScript / React project that I had it create with vite).

One of the interesting things about OpenHands is that you can see what the AI is doing in the terminal window where you launched it. Since it can't really load the whole codebase into its context window, it does a lot of greping files, showing 10 lines on either side of the match, and then doing a search and replace based on this. This is pretty similar to what a human might do: attempt to identify the relevant function and change it.

I think I might have better luck with a simpler project, e.g. a Sinatra or Flask app where each route is relatively self-contained. I might give it or Cursor another try in the future when the tech has progressed a bit.
And that's the "magic" that makes it so snappy and fast to load. I built a web-based game just like that and I am confident that my choice not to use any of the "modern web dev stack" is the reason I managed to hit my 60 FPS performance target on an iPhone 6s in 2024.
Reminds me of happy memories of traveling ca.2001 with an ebook on my visor edge
yeah yeah i got that too after a while, which is also why i like non mainstream programming languages, after a while you're tired writing more versions of the same routines/procedures/methods that won't help you find better solutions
How do you pause the display so that you can actually read the links?
The French winemaker whose wines are illegal in his home country
Super Mario – Redneck Bros. (Official Music Video)
Western AI models seem balanced if you are team democrats.
For anyone else they're completely unbalanced.

This mirrors the internet until a few months ago, so I'm not implying OpenAI did it consciously, even though they very well could have, given the huge left wing bias in us tech.
You will never look at Super Mario the same way again.
Why didn't China not allow WHO to inspect the origin of the virus?
Preprocessing for RAG (my experience after building 20 agents)
How much memory do you have? I'm trying to figure out which is the best model to run on 48GB (unified memory).
Papers, please.
> a lot of people who hand coded assembler on 68k processors regard the ISA as especially elegant, powerful and fun to develop for. In many ways I think of it as peak CISC, thanks to its orthogonal instruction set and wildly flexible addressing modes.

I definitely agree...but I'd say Motorola really got carried away with those wildly flexible addressing modes. Which lead them into implementation, power draw, and gate-delay hells by the late 1980's and the 68040. The future was ever-rising transistor counts and clock speeds - and their 68k architecture just couldn't go there.
It’s a good analogy because to rename Ukraine’s capital city after its conqueror would be a gigantic “fuck you” to the people of Ukraine, rubbing salt into the fresh wounds of their conquest, which is exactly what North Vietnam did to the South.

You’re just doing the typical HN thing of responding to an analogy by pointing out differences that are irrelevant to the point of the analogy.
> I recently left Debian again and use Void, with Opensuse on a separate drive [...], I gave serious consideration to Chimera before settling on Void [...]

Have you tried to write down your goals/expectations? It seems like you're throwing distros at the wall to just see what sticks. I don't care for apt vs xbps or systemd vs openrc. My own goals are simple:

- I want a "UNIX workstation", overall decent for software development, need to run complex proprietary software (Logic, Compressor, Photoshop...), interface with niche hardware, develop for iOS, and occasionally play games: macOS

- I want to play a couple of games that won't run on Mac/Linux/BSD: Windows

- I want a simple system that I can understand and actually enjoy using: OpenBSD, Alpine

> purposes of maintaining some competency and familiarity with systemd

You can also just use a VM or a homelab box. No need to care for your personal device, as long as it fulfils your stated goals.

> why openbsd rather than freebsd?

I think OpenBSD is to FreeBSD what FreeBSD is to Linux, and then some more. I'd say these are its most distinguishing features (compared to almost every other OS):

- User-friendly - assuming you have some experience with the command line, can follow prompts, read documentation, etc.

- Excellent documentation, check out the FAQ: <https://www.openbsd.org/faq/>; manpages: <https://man.openbsd.org>; etc. Even compared even to the FreeBSD handbook, which (while a step up from most Linux distros) isn't quite on the same level.

- Secure by default: it is the upstream project for OpenSSH, LibreSSL, PF (notably forked into macOS and FreeBSD), and some others; also: privilege separation, W^X memory, (K)ASLR, doas, signify, pledge, unveil, kernel/libc random relinking, syscall origin verification, etc. Best part, you get all of that for free and you don't even notice. There's no "hardening guide".

- Truly self-hosting - the base system has everything you'd require to comfortably develop the base system, including X11, clang, mg (an Emacs clone - if you're not a vi fan), tmux, etc. You will probably install packages anyway, to get your preferred tools, but the base system will still be there.

- Innovative, not just technologically but culturally: cvsweb was the first of its kind - the source code, including all commits, could be anonymously browsed via the web, in (IIRC) 1996; most contemporary projects would just occasionally throw tarballs over the fence.

- Simplicity. It is not just the manpages or the source code; OpenBSD meticulously rips out or refuses to accept complex systems (sudo, gpg, seccomp) and instead introduces simpler interfaces (doas, signify, pledge)

I wish I could live in a world where this is all I need, but unfortunately, OpenBSD brands itself as a "research OS", and doesn't provide any accommodations such as binary compatibility between releases, Linux syscall emulation (which FreeBSD does), and so on. Even vmd(8) is a recent addition.
If you read the article, he explains that there are multiple scaling paths now, whereas before it was just parameter scaling. I think it's reasonable to estimate faster progress as a result of that observation.

I like that the HN crowd wants to believe AI is hype (as do I), but it's starting to look like wishful thinking. What is useful to consider is that once we do get AGI, the entirety of society will be upended. Not just programming jobs or other niches, but everything all at once. As such, it's pointless to resist the reality that AGI is a near term possibility.

It would be wise from a fulfillment perspective to make shorter term plans and make sure to get the most out of each day, rather than make 30-40 year plans by sacrificing your daily tranquility. We could be entering a very dark era for humanity, from which there is no escape. There is also a small chance that we could get the tech utopia our billionaire overlords constantly harp on about, but I wouldn't bet on it.
a unicycle with autonomous locomotion ...
Maybe someone will build a gen-AI Colosseum where AI slaves endlessly compete for supremacy on our meaningless tasks.
Go to the gaming machine and upgrade it to > home or edu version if needed. Enable remote desktop with auth on your network for that machine. As long as Windows is booted and able to be logged in to on the gaming machine you can go on your other machine:

Win+R mstsc.exe and put in the gaming machine's name or IP and follow the instructions, checking all "remember this" boxes (there's 2, three if you count the certificate).

RDP won't let you play games but it is functionally identical to sitting at the machine itself.
Sure, but ... what about the question I posed?
> It’s not better than o1.

I thought that too before I used it to do real work.
I use AI (Sonnet) to write relatively complex SQL queries, but that always need a review before implementation. It's sometimes brillant, and at the same time can suggest wrapping a single, atomic query in a transaction, for no reason. Just asking "why?" will result in profuse apologies and thank yous, but it never explains what caused the mistake in the first place.

Trusting an AI to code an app from start to finish seems crazy to me but hey... if some people can pull it off, good for them I guess.
For the case of this incident unfortunately yes it lies with the people stepping off the page and doing something the designer never intended.

That being said yes. Lots of lessons to be learned including, why did you build a system that allows them to do this?

Cause is easy to attribute, identifying who was irresponsible and blame less so. In this case it was caused by the operators.
They absolutely understood the terms of the loan. I think they do it anyway because: (1) everyone else is doing it and they don’t have a good alternative (2) career optimism. If you end up becoming a lawyer/consultant/accountant or otherwise have a good corporate job, in the medium-term your student loan debt doesn’t really have a significant impact on your life.

It’s really only a problem if you (1) choose a private college and don’t stay in-state, (2) get a degree which doesn’t have a lot of practical value, and (3) then want to pursue a low-paying field or get a not-useful graduate degree. For example, a friend of mine did her undergrad in art history, master’s in museum studies, and works for a non-profit. She’s not rich but she’s able to survive reasonably comfortably. She’s not dumb or financially illiterate, and she knew what she was getting in for.
> O1 pro is still better

I thought that too until I actually used it extensively. o1-pro is great and I am not planning to cancel my subscription, but deepseek is figuring things out that tend to stump o1-pro or lead it to get confused/forgetful.
Hi, I wanted to try this, but account creation doesn't work for me. With GitHub it gives me "invalid auth code" and with email PW it gives me this, even though my password fulfills all these and I tried many different ones

"Password

Password Strength: Very Strong

Password must contain at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, one number, and one special character"

Edit: Now I received an email that redirects to "http://localhost:3000/"
https://archive.md/ayoEv

I wonder what HN's view is on the recent nazi salute of Elon ? All the relevant threads seem to become flagged very quickly. I think it would be a very interesting discussion, especially here.
2025: Agency Gained and Lost
Except Ukraine is a sovereign nation - much like Russia (which in today’s form does not hold any reasonable claim to Kyiv) - and renaming either nations capital city to satisfy some man’s thirst for legacy would be equally vulgar. The analogy holds pretty well, from where I’m standing.
The images are almost good but still in the uncanny valley. The code is almost good but full of bad practices and hidden bugs and undefined behavior. Since most AI grifters are neither coders nor artists, all they can do is produce more more more capitalism-style.
Worst based on what, exactly?
I thought your point was that non-collectors alphabetize.
Ah, I see. You phrased it in a misleading way. And once mislead, non-reasoning models can't/won't back up once they're down the wrong path.

Slight improvement:

"make ssh-keygen output decrypted version of a private key to another file . Use chain reasoning, think carefully to make sure the answer is correct. Summarize the correct commands at the end."

This improved the odds for me of getting the right answer in the format you were looking for in GPT-4o and Claude.

These things aren't magic oracles, they're tools.
That suggests this is part of a coordinated misinformation campaign. What the DOJ argued in court that Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924 because it was understood that the 14th amendment passed in 1868 didn’t extend to Indians. That argument has no implications for Indian citizenship—it’s about the source of that citizenship.[1]

A prominent Obama DOJ administration official is repeating the same line on X, further suggesting there’s coordination going on.

[1] Even in 1924, Indians themselves were divided about conferring US citizenship on Indians living on tribal lands because many saw it as a further diminishment of tribal sovereignty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Citizenship_Act (“One group who opposed the bill was the Onondaga Nation. They believed acceptance of this act was "treason" because the United States Senate was forcing citizenship on all Indians without their consent.”)
You can run Windows server headless too, and run individual applications over the RDP protocol, exactly like using an X server on a machine with a screen to run Xeyes on a headless machine.
I believe they are using 'exponential' as a colloquialism rather than a strict mathematical definition.

That aside, we would need to see some evidence of AI developments being bootstrapped by the previous SOTA model as key part of building the next model.

For now, it's still human researchers pushing the SOTA models forwards.

When people use the term exponential I feel that what they really mean is 'making something so _good_ that it can be used to make the N+1 iteration _more good_ than the last.
If the AI is able to type back out a duplicate of the training data, then I agree that's copyright infringement. If it just learns from the data like a human with normal memory reading a large amount of material, then I don't see it. That's normally the case. There have been experiments where someone managed to make an AI spit out near-copies, but it's not the default situation and seems preventable.

I do agree that we should encourage human creativity. But if AI isn't making copies, and the output of AI isn't awarded copyright (as is currently the case) then I think humans still have sufficient reward.
> bitemporal schemas are difficult with regard to cross-table references

Who needs more than one table ? >:)

More complex models can be built and stored separately. The great benefit of this method being that, once you're unhappy with your table model, you can trash it and rebuild it from scratch without regard for data migration.
I'm inclined to agree that websites should know when they're the target of a redirect but that has nothing to do with Referer! That header does not work the way so many seem to think it does. As I've laid out elsewhere in this thread, HTTP redirects do not show up in Referer under any circumstances. Right now, one site doesn't have to do anything to "hide" that it's part of a redirect chain, since there's no tracking of that chain to begin with.
But Anthropic is a French company isn’t that in the EU
I haven't used it, but you can try if it works for you. It has custom dev tools.

https://eruda.liriliri.io/
Look also to sudoku solvers in Z3:
[0] also papers such as "Evaluating SAT and SMT Solvers on Large-Scale
Sudoku Puzzles" [1].

[0] https://github.com/grencez/grencez.dev/blob/trunk/2015/z3-so...
[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.08569
defrauded
But anything heavy like Word, IE, Encarta, Visual Studio, etc. were definitely not.

At any given point, old applications are faster and current applications are slow, slowness being unevenly distributed: if you can pay extra for bigger memory and CPU, you get to use the fast lane.

Also consider that companies balance a number of factors: costs for themselves, time to market, features, what the competition offers. New, more powerful hardware is an opportunity for them to make sloppy software cheaper and first to launch.
No, a <dialog> element will be displayed at page load if it has the "open" attribute. There is no need for JS.

The usual handling is with the JS API, but it's possible to handle it with CSS only. For instance, display the modal window only if a checkbox is checked.
Multiple zoonosis events from close strains over a couple months from a local animal population strikes high on the probability scale.

Virtually simultaneous, in time and space, zoonosis events from different strains at the same place is still possible, but reaches much lower on the scale.
Shouldn't be too hard to implement. The only hurdle would be that you need the user to host or pay for the TTS and LLM usage. So you need to ask the users for API key or add some payment solution.
Incredibly fascinating to read through. I don’t follow jailbreaking closely so maybe the tricks you used are well-known (I’ve seen 1-2 of them before I think) but I really enjoyed seeing how you tricked it. The user-written “<think>” blocks were genius as was stopping execution part way so you could inject stuff the LLM “thought” it said.
some really in-depth coverage of debugging and troubleshooting tools, e.g. usage of RenderDoc, but not just fluffy introductions, but some really deep down guides.

and something similar for performance profiling also!
Why the `/s`?

That's neither more nor less comprehensible than what I often see in python's built-in DSL within list comprehensions.

At least the SQL variant has the excuse of being designed back when language design was still in its infancy. The madness in Python's list comprehensions and the ad hoc DSL in ruby has no such excuse.