skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% agree. I still can't believe it didn't become a long running product that everyone uses.

I've never been a console/controller gamer, but I remember the first time I saw it - it was an early fake, that looked and felt very similar to the end product but inside it just had a metal weight and no actual electronics, and it seemed like such an exciting product, it was genuinely hard to keep that secret...

(And come to think of it, I think I misremembered when writing my last comment - I might be wrong, but I think the Alienware Alpha that launched with Windows actually shipped with an Xbox controller, and the steam controller was only available once the proper Steam Machine version was out. Not 100% sure, maybe we just needed the Xbox controllers for the press sessions before launch...)
> The received wisdom is, of course, to lean on the DB as much as possible, put all the business logic in SQL because of course the DB is much more efficient. I myself have always been a big proponent of it.

This is not received wisdom at all and the one edict I have when leading a project is no stored procedures for any OLTP functionality.

Stored Procs make everything about your standard DevOps and SDLC process harder - branching, blue green deployments and rolling back deployments.
There were plenty of ways to get paid on the internet before stripe. On paper it didn’t look like they were doing anything new. They just did it better.

Airbnb… idk. Who wants to rent their house out to total strangers? I wouldn’t. I wouldn’t have thought it would take off like it did.
We've had "reasoning" machines for a long time - I learned chess playing against a computer in the 1980's.

But we don't have reasoning that can be applied generally in the open world yet. Or at least I haven't seen it.

In terms of society it should be easy to track if this is true or not. Healthcare and elder care settings will be a very early canary of this because there is huge pressure for improvement and change in these. General reasoning machines will make a very significant, clear and early impact here. I have seen note taking apps for nurses - but not much else so far.
Yes. An option to pay should be the same regardless of data sharing.
There's not really such a thing as a concrete "date of death" in many cases, and very rarely will there be a public one -- I'm familiar with a few names on this list that never actually made a formal public announcement and kept the website running for months to well over a year after everyone was laid off

The methodology of the aggregator might have been as simple as "ping every YC company's listed website, check the response" with some light hand curation, which suggests that the number presented is just a lower bound on the number of dead YC startups
Fair warning, the LessWrong people have a lot of very strange ideas. Even more than HN.
> Then they give it a relatively small number of problems to solve (8k). They use a simple reinforcement learning loop where the only goal is to get the problem right. They don’t care how the model got the right answer, just that it’s correct.

I guess it only works if you select problems that are within reach of the model in the first place (but not too easy), so that there can actually be a positive feedback loop, right?
> I was sitting here wondering how anyone has only two to begin with.

They might have zero for that matter since they might have a wife and 2.5 kids and living parents and the necessary number of close friends but be emotionally closed off to all of those. Does that explain things for you?
Yes! thank you, a big yes. This is not just HN for me, it's every online platform youtube, LinkedIn, twitter(yeah not x elon shitface). I've just lost interest in tech talks all together because of overwhelming LLM and AI takes and topics.
I don't have any intuition here and am in no way qualified, but my read of the paper was that GRPO was mainly an optimization to reduce cost & GPUs when training (by skipping the need to keep another copy of the LLM in memory as the value network), but otherwise any RL algorithm should have worked? I mean it seems R1 uses outcome rewards only and GRPO doesn't do anything special to alleviate reward sparsity, so it feels like it shouldn't affect viability too much.

Also on the note of RL optimizers, if anyone here is familiar with this space can they comment on how the recently introduced PRIME [1] compares to PPO directly? Their description is confusing since the "implicit PRM" they introduce which is trained alongside the policy network seems no different from the value network of PPO.

[1] https://github.com/PRIME-RL/PRIME
Depends on where in the globe one were and in my demoscene circles PCs only took off as interesting after Windows 95, folks using MS-DOS or Windows 3.x were mostly due to their parents family computer.
At the very least, we hopefully learned not to subsidize and encourage gain of function research at labs that were already known pre-Covid to have poor hygiene and containment practices.
Where Amiga and Atari were still calling the shots among European demoscene.
The question/argument was well defined by parent-grandparent posts: people reason as LLMs, including a suggestion that people discussing here are not being self-conscious of said similarity (i.e. people parroting/regurgitating). You can check it above.

I won't continue with these discussions as I feel people are being just obtuse about this and it is becoming more emotional than rational.
> As for the rest, I suggest you take that red pill out of your mouth.

Talking about men opening up, but only if the problem is them. I suggest you the same. Stop hating men for no reason.
Not to my knowledge. How exactly do you think it works?
Coronavirus lab leaks in China also had precedent. What's your point?

There was no evidence for a zoonotic origin other than it was possible.

There was little evidence for a lab leak other than it was possible, but at least there was some.
Where does the money go ? Especially for startups dead 6 months after investing
Purely rationally it may be.

But lots of fun being had in our Slack by people putting emojis in the right order, to make pictograms etc

All forms of communication is "abused", such abuse is part of being human, that is how languages have evolved..
Not by the spec. Some implementations may preserve the order, but the JSON spec doesn’t guarantee that, so you cannot rely on it.
`take 50` of all `users` records in random order and after filter the result with username and id? I hope it's the right answer and prql authors are sane.
But how exactly does it emerge, what did they do to make that happen vs previous trainings
They bought up all of the salt mines that supply road salt, and manipulate inventories to create shortages in winter.
It is fair to say that all of it is racketiering.
With the end goal of forcing the federal goverment to bail out the municipalites that cant afford the impossible prices.
The proffits are astronomical, which is why the banks hire phd mathemeticians and physists to do the differential equasions required to disguise the transactions and payments, given to legislators and the judiciary, that they look away.
> If SARS-Cov-2 was from a lab, what about the original SARS?

And MERS. It’s not like coronaviruses causing epidemics were very surprising at the time.
I'm onehundertpercent pissed off with YC:

* The modal win for a founder is $0.00

* PG makes big talk about winner's average returns... Yayyyyy..... However YC gets preferential shares; YC is not aligned with the common shareholders (founders; builders). YC builds a story that they support creators however YC doesn't sit on the same table-side as creators.

* I actually believe YC is worthwhile, but I wonder if Ize just been brainwashed?

(reëdited for clarity)
Wifi is not “obscure”.
We were talking about the UK. Since Brexit immigration policy has shifted to favouring highly skilled workers, especially skills in short supply, over cheap labour.

There are definitely people here who think like that, and we do still import cheap labour for some things (difficult low paying jobs), that British people “will not do” ( which means ”will not do for minimum wage”) but in general we have had what the govt and central bank call “wage inflation”.

We are also talking about the north of England and non-EU immigrants strongly prefer certain areas, tilted to the South. Where I live I see few non-white faces.
> Who cares?

Well, I do, and I'm sure plenty of people that use LLMs care about getting answers that are mostly correct. I'd rather have censorship with no answer provided by the LLM than some state-approved answer, like O1 does in your case.
The bad weather places you mention have largely uniform bad weather, which is not true of England - the south east is noticeably warmer and drier than the north west.

Weather is of course only a contributing factor, just like the historical influences.
A strong reminder that you'd have to yank ActiveRecord from my cold, dead hands.
The table on that page makes it look like all three of these are very similar, with schema evolution and partition evolution being the key differences. Is that really it?

I’d also love to see a good comparison between “regular” Iceberg and AWS’s new S3 Tables.
I'm in my 40s, and not working in any AI tech. Seeing it absorb everything and being hyped over the moon makes me understand the folks 20 years my senior around the .com bubble. We are the dinosaurs now.
It's certainly a real term. The context is often student athletes that intentionally didn't play their sport for a season (called redshirting) to maintain their 4-year eligibility so that they can stay for a fifth year and compete in their sport.
Overnight the sex-worker industry shut down in a lot of countries, meaning escorts/prostitutes suddenly had no customers and income.

Early on the "retired" sex workers were the initial largest group of signups. Once in-person work became available again some people preferred to stay online-only, while others dropped out and went back to what they had done in the past.

It's only comparatively recently that "normal" people are signing up, usually due to the lure of "big income, no effort" which is clearly false. I wonder if there needs to be some kind of income disclosure on these sites/apps:

* The average user earns $52.7 / month

Like the various MLM companies are forced to do. Sure some people earn millions, but they're few and far between and they're not working alone.

Anyway for better or worse the whole industry is a little bit fascinating, and terrible. No surprise there I guess.
I didn't have time to dig into the details of the models, but that makes sense I guess.

I tried the Qwen 7B variant and it was indeed much better than the base Qwen 7B model at various math word problems.
I think you're referring to this paper (or other similar analyses):

https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(24)00901-2.pdf

It found that viral RNA and DNA from potential zoonotic hosts (palm civets, raccoon dogs) occurred together in some samples from the Huanan Seafood Market. But there's no question that infected humans were present there, and nothing in their study can distinguish an infected palm civet from a healthy palm civet near an infected human.

A different study by Jesse Bloom found that of all the animals present, viral RNA correlated most strongly with DNA from "catfish and largemouth bass":

https://academic.oup.com/ve/article/9/2/vead050/7249794

So were those the proximal hosts? Obviously not, since SARS-CoV-2 can't infect fish--the point is that this is all just noise. Live, unquestionably infected proximal hosts were found for both SARS-1 and MERS, within about a year of the first human cases. For SARS-CoV-2, we still have nothing beyond those tortured metagenomics.
> I do like to use the full HTML element set, and, with scoped CSS, to style the elements, rather than have loads of divs with loads of class attributes. It all looks so much neater, particularly if the unstyled CSS looks rather good.

From a discussion on HN a few days ago, I bookmarked this: https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css

For the most common types of front-end work one needs to do, classless CSS is enough.
This is super cool, personally:

uv run --python 3.12 --with label-studio label-studio

Made my life so much easier
The Tech Arsenal That Could Power Trump's Immigration Crackdown
I don't think a lot of founders actually write code, but I did, I just realized my startup was probably going to be illegal soon and also that it wasn't going to get the funding it needed. I just kept writing code for whoever wanted to pay. It's fairly lucrative.

Looking back, maybe I should have just done the illegal thing and gotten pardoned.
This is cool. But now I want a power bank with hot swappable batteries/modules. Or better yet a connector that you can attach multiple power banks to and it gives power if at least one non-empty powerbank is connected.
Salaries and rent, probably.
did it tell us that free will exists?
That is a really neat library! Can see myself using it quite a lot.
"It's funny reading these articles from people who haven't grew up poor, in the north, never seen a council estate, or the way of life". I didn't grow up poor, but I did grow up in the North, went to the local comprehensive, and have lived on plenty of council estates. When I lived in Manchester I went to Ashton plenty of times, it's not that different to Hull.
I'm American and I have heard "super senior" and seen it used in print. Go figure.
> There was a whole bunch of people who claimed LLMs can't reason at all and that everything is a regurgitation. I wonder what they have to say about this.

I don't see that as a refutation of the former actually: model trained to be stochastic parrots with next-token prediction as only learning target were indeed stochastic parrots and now we've moved to a completely different technology that features reinforcement learning in its training so it will go farther and farther from stochastic parrots and more and more towards “intelligence”.

If anything, the fact that the entire industry has now moved to RL instead of just cramming through trillions of tokens to make progress is a pretty strong acknowledgement that the “stochastic parrots” crowd was right.
This is not longer true. Try the most used search engines in the poll and you will likely find an alternative with less ad supported links and content.
xjmr
You don't need them until you do. And when you do, you might first think that you can just hack your way around this minor inconvenience.

Then you'll eventually learn why the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Can confirm that. Using both to connect to the same windows box and sunshine+moonlight is better latency wise for fast paced games. And for games bought from GoG unless you want to configure Steam to launch them :)

Steam streaming is more convenient if the game is on steam and it's turn based or something like that. Also if the (mac) box you're streaming to has multiple monitors, Steam will continue to show the game if you cmd-tab out of it, while moonlight will minimize from the start.
For anyone actually curious if it’s real it’s only sorta true. It’s common for the gov to cycle these pages for new administrations. Yea the page is gone, no it does not mean they take it back.
I do use it occasionally - mostly when Windows has thrown up some issue stopping Steam from working properly.

eg. I need to dismiss a dialog that is invisible over remote play, or it won't finish logging in until I close a "finish setting up your windows install" screen.
Bill H.R.238: AI Tech May Prescribe Drugs If FDA-Approved, State-Authorized
I don’t mean age as in age of empires, I mean age as in old guy with no social filter anymore age.

Most people around 60-70 usually become quite shameless and cringey in one way or another.

As for Gates, he was dragged through anti-trust at a time when there were no other tech billionaires to team up with. His tech did not give him global reach - he just made a lot of money on office cubicle software back then.

But generally, yes. Absolutely - guy throwing salute is a defining moment of zillionaire IDGAF. Anti-trust success or failure is going to become the defining turning point for millennial generation.
Yes there is now a latency to HN and its not always the first place to break tech news now...
As a teenager I would confide in my mom. Then sometimes she would just tell random people about it. Oh, I was not supposed to do that?

I vented my inter-personal frustration once to a friend and he dismissed it as just normal behavior on the part of the other person. The problem then is that the cat is out of the bag. It’s just left hanging there. Wishing it never got out.

I had a woman colleague. She started venting about the work to the point that it felt like it was crossing into “emotional support”. I reciprocated a bit. Then I felt like she left me hanging a bit too much. But again: cat was out of the bag, no way to take it back now. I quit 1.5 years ago but I still feel annoyed by that.

I don’t have an emotionally rich interpersonal life so there isn’t many anecdotes.
No, there were dozens of examples during that North Atlantic campaign.

The U-boats would presumably have continued to rescue enemy military and civilian survivors throughout the war, if it hadn't been for the war crimes of the USAF which bombed the rescuers.
That's true for me too but usually my tabs and windows are managed one level higher, by the terminal emulator, or I'm opening vim with -o/-O to open a split window directly.
How do you know which version it is? I didn't see anything in that link.
How can I use Prolog to actually get something done, other than academic tasks?

Say I want to use it as a database query language, presumably that's not going to happen, right?
Yes, it has at least two distinct parts: consciousness and sub. First is visible to 'us', it's inner monologue or vision, or other senses. But we don't 'know' what happens in subconsciousness. The answer just pops up from nowhere. 'Reasoning' LLMs for now have the first part. The 'sub' part is questionable, depends how you look at latent space.
How many times can you fire one of those things before it melts?
Racism (if done in a “smart” way) is impossible to prove. Does that mean that we should then not try to detect it or speak up against it, simply because we will never be able to objectively back up our claims?

And if yes, then does that not strengthen even more the case (and benefits) for being a racist?

Also I believe it’s disingenuous to treat racism as such a concrete, objective term. Maybe they are preying on me (and other people like me, which there are objectively many) simply because I’m the weak link in the system? But if my weakness stems from me being an immigrant (because I have no safety net, no family around me or a shoulder to cry on, because I don’t know the system well enough and thus I’m more likely to accept injustice and stay quiet) is that “racism”? Or “prejudice”?
Democrats Drove Silicon Valley into Trump's Arms
No. Simple means being willing to make hard choices and say “no” when something’s inclusion doesn’t warrant the cognitive overhead it adds. Or effectively designing so that complexity is only exposed if you really need it.
In Britain the first high school graduation happens after 11th grade; attending sixth form is optional and is primarily done by students intending to study at University.
In these years you specialise in a couple of subjects relevant to your intended course of study, and for university you apply and are accepted for and study exclusively one subject from day 1.

So arguably the US equalivalent is the freshman year of college.
*Rich people in America

How much you “make” is a silly concept in many places in the world. “People with guns listening to you” is the real power.
The interaction is not with the person providing the sexual gratification, it's with a third party, that is what is so bizarre and difficult to understand for me.
Yes, Elon Musk is showing signs of being emotionally very immature.
Not true. Those countries have become a lot richer. The transformation in standards of living since the 80s has been spectacular in many countries. The biggest drag on that has been the profits being taken by the wealthy in those countries. The west does not have he position it used to. There are a lot of British workers working for Indian capitalists. China's manufacturing is mostly Chinese owned. In a lot of other places the forreign ownership is Asian, not western. The west no longer dominates the world although westerners have been slow to bting themselves to acknowledge this.
now I'm curious about the illegal thing
What kind of “consulting” are you trying to do? Are you trying to do strategic consulting in a field where you are an SME or are you looking to do staff augmentation?

What would you bring to the table to convince someone to hire you as a consultant knowing they have to work around your schedule? Why would they bother?
Show HN: Peace: Zero Stress Automation
Heya HN,

I've been working on this framework because it's always too easy to do dangerous things with the deployment tools I've worked with, and I tend to feel guilty when "I tried to fix things, but it replaced the server instead of renamed the existing one", or "there's so much information that I read none of it".

The framework handles the aesthetics and provides nice stuff that would never get prioritized at work, so that the next time we have to build a tool, the user experience is more advanced than "text, text everywhere".

The project scope just kept growing, so here's my write up and some demo clips of where I got to.

If nothing else, am sure you'll enjoy the concept.
I'm no neuroscientist, but I hung out with a few, so here are some bits I picked up from them. In biological brians:

- neurons have signal surpression (-ive activation) as well as propagation (+activation)

- neurons appear to process and propagation due to unknown internal mechanisms.

- there are complex sub structures within biological neural nets where the architecture is radically different from in other sections of the network, strongly in contrast to the homogenous structure of ANN's

- many different types of neurons with different properties and behaviors in terms of network formation and network activity are present in BNN's in contrast to ANN's

- BNN's learn during processing. ANN's are static after training.