skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think about it this way: if a French tourist gets a severe toxinfection while eating in a seedy restaurant in some corner of the USA, would the French state, or even the family of the person, sue the US government for failing to enforce health codes / not having good enough health codes? Would you seriously imagine that trial happening and being successful?

Conversely, say the same person got equally badly sick while visiting a friend who works in a US government lab that researches and deals with live viruses. Wouldn't you feel the US government has a higher chance of losing a suit on this?
LLM certainly does write perfectly grammatical and idiomatic English (I haven't tried enough other languages to know if this is true for, say, Japanese, too). But regular people all have their own idiosyncratic styles - words and turns of phrases they like using more than others, preferred sentence structures and lengths, different levels of politeness, deference and assertiveness, etc.

LLM output to me usually sounds very sanitised style-wise (not just content-wise), some sort of lowest-common-denominator language, which is probably why it sounds so corporate-y. I guess you can influence the style by clever prompt engineering, but I doubt you'd get a very unique style this way.
I think the usual theory for SARS-1 is spillover from bats to other non-human animals outside Guangzhou. The virus was then brought to Guangzhou by wildlife traffickers, like in the live infected civet cats found in markets there. A similar conduit is possible for SARS-CoV-2, but we still haven't found that proximal host.

I don't think spillover of SARS-1 from bats in Guangzhou is commonly proposed. If you've seen it (and didn't just include that option for completeness), then I'd appreciate the reference.

I agree that unexpected things sometimes happen. Nobody expected spillover in Wuhan pre-pandemic though, and the WIV absolutely wasn't situated based on any such expectation.
Sad but likely true.
Unless you encode ownership into the type system, and then you kind of have the best of both worlds: you don't have functions mutating things unexpectedly or by accident, but you can explicitly opt into mutation when it would be beneficial. To opt into mutation requires you to have exclusive control over data (i.e. nowhere else in your program will mutate this code at the same time), which avoids issues where different threads are trying to change the same data at the same time.
I like in the image in the article, PNG is expanded to kinda represent Australia and new Zealand is forgotten entirely.
Some that i am looking into; these are "practical" books which do not focus on the theory/algorithms but given that they are available (library/models/whatever), how to build your apps using them;

1) Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications by Chip Huyen.

2) AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models by Chip Huyen (this is a very recent book).

3) Generative Deep Learning: Teaching Machines To Paint, Write, Compose, and Play by David Foster.

4) Building LLMs for Production: Enhancing LLM Abilities and Reliability with Prompting, Fine-Tuning, and RAG by Bouchard & Peters.
scrollbar-width: none; - looks like decision to hide scrollbar was intended by author. Shame.
> Whole book is English

Amusingly, I think this phrase illustrates your point. To the best of my knowledge, a native speaker (which I'm not) would always say "The whole book is (in?) English", leaving off articles seems to be very common for Slavic people (since I believe you don't really have them in your languages).
> It seems fairly clear to me that a lot of people are much more concerned about finding someone to blame for the last pandemic than about preparing for or preventing the next pandemic.

That's why avian flu was allowed ro spread to cows in 16 states.
Ah yes, the SQL injection cycle begins anew. A solved vulnerability for decades, only for the new generation of junior devs to ignore wisdom of the old generation again and introduce it anew.

Don't ever do this. Query builders exist to sanitize inputs in a failsafe manner. SQL has so many pitfalls that tools like sqlmap [1] exist for a reason. You will never be able to catch all encoding schemes in a regex approach to filter unsanitized input.

The examples in the blog can be exploited with a simple id set to "1 or 1=1;--" and is literally the very first web exploitation technique that is taught in highschool-level CTFs.

sqlx can mitigate a lot of problems at compile time, but sanitization is completely ignored in the post, and should at least be mentioned. If you recommend to juniors that they don't need a query builder, tell them at least why they existed in the first place.

[1] https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap
No. OpenAI never developed this method of reasoning through RL. If they had, they would have announced it.
Have experiences and feelings. Have personal knowledge of something.

Be able to express language with a training/knowledge/etc corpus of far smaller size.
This doesn't seemed to have affected pythons growth and popularity.
Constraints drive creativity. The US imposed constraints on China and they got creative.
Raw speed these days means concurrent processing, so those two are more and more often the same case. The whole "rewrite it in Rust" trend is a very clear example of the benefits of easier correctness of concurrent programming - Rust programs end up being faster than other alternatives even though on paper C has better "raw speed" (e.g. no bounds checking).
You can't post like this here and I've banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Maybe start a company that trains LLMs to convert timestamps in a way that is only 0.1% wrong
same, this is the most interesting development of our time may be of humankind, and it's not that news is just repeating: there is significant progress almost every week (recently R1 and byte latent tokenization)
I am a proof of that.

I write in word to correct my text when I use my pc. Additionally, it's a better editor than the one supplied for commenting...
Ok but that leaves the rest of the world to China.
SigNoz (YC W21) Is hiring back end engineers to build open-source Datadog
The boundary between his North and South
roughly follows the Roman Fosse Way from Lincoln to Exeter.

The 'ditch' (fosse) and road marked the border
of the initial phase of the Roman invasion after 43 AD.
It was a military road for rapid deployment of forces
from the legionary bases to defend border incursions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fosse_Way

Apart from the Fosse Way, almost all other major Roman roads
fanned out from London. This structure is still visible in the
numbering scheme of roads today:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_road_numbering_s...

The natural routes for roads also influenced railways,
so the boundaries of the original private railway companies
(GWR, LNER, LMS, SR), and the regions of the current
unified rail system, follow the same structure:

https://www.railwaygazette.com/network-rail-regions-take-ove...
Interesting insight/possibility. I did see some capacity glitches with my Cursor recently. Overall, I like Anthropic (and ChatGPT); hopefully they continue to succeed.
I think the perspective is diametrically opposite to what you’re suggesting. It’s saying things that human do are not singular or sacrosanct. It’s a full acceptance that humanity will be surpassed.
There are two categories of things that should be simple in a desktop:

1. Common tasks. These should be simple because you do them a lot. Browsing the file system, launching applications, using a password manager, sharing data over networks, and making backups - these are all tasks that should be common and should be simple for anyone to do.

2. Important tasks. These should be simple because they are necessary, even if they're not common. Installing software, connecting to new networks, adjusting displays, enabling full-disk encryption, running system updates - these should be simple so that anyone can do them when needed, with as little difficulty or friction as possible. (Admin privileges may come in to play for some of these, of course.)

If any of these tasks are not simple, there are a lot of users who simply won't do them. And that's bad for all of us.
Inference is not where the majority of this CAPEX is used. And even if, monetization will no doubt discourage developers from dispensing the secret sauce to user controlled devices. So I posit that data centres inference is safe for a good while.
There's only 6 ai posts on the front page right now, out of 30 and 2 or 3 are becasue the deepseek model is a hot topic right now. Tbh that doesn't seem very overwhelming?
Seems like politicians do turn down that kind of offer on a regular and constant basis, where it comes to northern England.
Clearly AI at it's current state can't replace humans. Everyone on the face of the earth knows this.

What people are generally hyped about is the trendline into the future. Look at the progress of all of AI up till now. LLMs are a precursor to an AGI that exists in the future.
I've seen many devs extrapolate this thinking too far into sending only the most simple queries and doing all of the record filtering on the application end. This isn't what I think you're saying -- just piggybacking to try and explain further.

The key thing here is to understand that you want the minimal correct query for what you need, not to avoid "making the database work".

The given example is silly because there's additional parameters that must be either NULL or have a value before the query is sent to the DB.
You shouldn't send queries like:

SELECT \* FROM users
WHERE id = 1234
AND (NULL IS NULL OR username = NULL)
AND (NULL IS NULL OR age > NULL)
AND (NULL IS NULL OR age < NULL)

But you should absolutely send:

SELECT \* FROM users
WHERE id = 1234
AND age > 18
AND age < 35
I didn’t even notice the typos when reading it... I did notice how well the text flows, how easy it is to read.

I (not a native speaker either) probably don’t make that many grammatical errors, but I envy their ability to just write. I can’t do that, I struggle with every word in long form writing.

These small errors are easily addressed with a final pass in e.g. DeepL Writer.
Canvas is stealthily hiding, as it has no content to display.
And you don’t need the original game to play this, it appears?
Absolutely. Truly innovative research and projects are always fascinating to me. But even generalized to AI/ML, I can’t think of anything more recent than GANs (2015), Transformers (2017), and maybe AlphaFold 2 (2021)…

Just my personal taste though; I don’t mean to knock LLMs.
If we're talking about fantasy airport extensions, it might be good to have at least one decent international airport in Yorkshire rather than expanding MAN and/or BHX. Failing that, you would need to significantly improve the transport infrastructure around those airports to make other parts of the North easier to reach. Fast, reliable (!) train services for example. Car hire services suited to business people not just holidaymakers, i.e. reception desks in the same building as the terminal and cars you can drive away from just outside - not waiting an hour for a half an hour bus to where the car hire places are in a different village.
I think they mean simple in the sense of minimized complexity, rather than dumbed down.
I was confused at first why no sonic boom but: Similar to a moving walkway at an airport, where your walking speed remains the same, but your overall speed increases because the walkway is moving. Ground speed is > 800 but airspeed is not.
It would be useful if HTML content was not minified and have some comments added about each element besides them.
you should get triple points if you get your cat to hold the button
We continue to sell software with licenses that don't expire after 20+ years. If you want updates after 12 months, then you 'renew' for an additional 12 months of updates.
No, I left the industry.
When A.I. Passes This Test, Look Out
That was an incredibly interesting read, thank you for sharing!
That's how it works in most scientific fields. If you want more granularity, you check the order of the authors. Sometimes, they explaine in the paper who did what.
A core issue here is that absorption of peaks requires inefficiencies.

We need firemen and their equipment to be idle 99% of the time to be most effective during the 1% we really need them.

An MBA looking at this will see
"great potential" for optimization.

We saw something similar during COVID. If the system is optimized for 99% of the time it won’t work well in times of crisis.
The related thing is that many of the reddit and tinder accounts promoting these girls are done entirely by marketing agencies.
Did you read the paper? What do you think based on the methodology and details in the paper?

btw, I think this is a net major benefit for the US startup ecosystem -- from new model developers to applications.

Edit: Stevvo - Thanks for your info.
Show HN: New Social Music Sharing and Discovery App
I've recently released the beta version of my app, Solance, to the App Store and Google Play Store. The app is aimed at people who want to share and discover new music to add to their playlists, however, it's a bit different as this app isn't based off algorithms finding music for you, it's based on see what your friends listen to. Within the app you will have your main Solance feed (similar to Instagram) where songs from your friends will appear in a post-like format which includes 4 songs at a time. In this feed you can listen to previews of the songs, interact with others by liking and/or commenting on the songs, and also saving the song directly to your Spotify.

You will also get a Solance profile showing the music you recently listened to and your top artists. You can search for users to see who would have a music taste that you would like to see more of.

The app is in beta at the moment and purely has core functionality only as we are just trying to get feedback to see what features to move forward with. It would be awesome if you guys could download and give the app a try and leave some feedback! The website is https://solance.app.

If you need some Solance usernames to start off and get a feel for the app before inviting any friends, feel free to add users dan & ryan :)
Website link: https://solance.app
>In general, these kinds of conspiracy theories just collapse when you start pulling the threads.

You think it's a conspiracy theory that Obama banned GoF research? OK, it was through an OSTP directive working with the NIH rather than an EO, but that's splitting hairs. It also wasn't banned, but only subject to a higher degree of scrutiny.

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/10/17/doing-d...
I've literally never heard or read that. So I would say no.
Part of the issue with the UK being bad at manufacturing was (ok it’s a cliche but I’ll say it anyway) that Thatcherism in not wanting to deal with the unions and the social powers they represent, defeated socialism by destroying the work and replacing industry with nothing. There’s no reason the UK couldn’t manufacture ships or precision engineering or steel - it was set up for exactly that. But doing so involves negotiating with unionised power, who vote Labour, and it was a quicker solution to merely destroy and keep destroying social cohesion and the unions around it – “there’s no such thing as society” – by destroying and defunding the work. The London-based finance powers also lost interest in funding industrial production and its workers alongside when moving money around and corruption can be done from the office in London without having to negotiate with union bosses and their insistence for a bigger piece of the pie (that they’re baking).

If you look at somewhere like South Korea, who 60 years ago had no major engineering or shipbuilding, the UK could be leagues ahead of them. The difference is that the South Koreans had the appetite and impetus to do it, whereas in the UK the government and finance planners had the exact opposite impetus.
IMO the reason Apple doesn't provide this level of hardware documentation is because modern Macs don't have comparable expansion capabilities. The kind that expose system buses on connectors that users are supposed to plug cards into, and third-party developers to interact directly with hardware to make those cards work. On a modern Mac, you've got USB and Thunderbolt that you can interact with from a userspace program.

Though I'm not denying that some of the newer macOS APIs are very poorly documented. As in, you know you've stumbled upon the cool shit when you end up on one of those old pages with a blue gradient in the header that says "Apple documentation archive".
Spoiler: Hill House Home's Nap Dress, whatever that is.
Of all the things to try electrify, I wouldn't even have considered anything related to fires here. I don't know anything, so maybe this could be great. There is no planet b, after all.

Will these be as bottom heavy as cars? If so, maybe replacing fleets with these will mean our governments don't have to worry about installing the roll protection that would have saved a bunch of fireys from being crushed to death the last catastrophic bushfires we had!

Sarcasm about how we treat our fireys (and ambos!) like garbage aside (it wasn't these kinds of vehicles rolling on people, for the record) I won't own an EV while I live in regional Australia because (I can't afford one,) the reliability of ICEs and ease of quickly refuelling and transporting extra fuel with me (...a fire risk) in an ICE can be the difference between getting out alive and not. Also none of this "won't move, need updates!" rubbish. I'd hope that wouldn't be a problem for vehicles like this, but who knows? Manufacturers also don't seem to offer a car that can reliably get me to the nearest major city and back without having to be recharged when the battery is brand new. Minutes matter in fires.

I suppose I'm just skeptical of full EVs for this in the first place, a bit ill-informed, and extremely distrustful of the powers that be when it comes to protecting our fireys and providing them with what they need, and of EV manufacturers. I'm curious, though. It's not like the problems I whinged about are not obvious ones. I'd like to know how those issues can be overcome.

Have a fire plan, people! Evacuate early!
R1 671B at Home – EPYC Inference Build Guide
Asahi Linux USB-c DisplayPort Alt Mode
Nah, this just means training isn’t the advantage. There’s plenty to be had by focusing on inference. It’s like saying apple is dead because back in 1987 there was a cheaper and faster PC offshore. I sure hope so otherwise this is a pretty big moment to question life goals.
> The brain is a neural net

No it isn't, neural networks aren't a network of neurons, they are just named after neurons but they are nothing alike. Neurons grow new connections etc and do a whole slew of different things that neural networks doesn't do.

The ability to grow new connections seems like an integral part to intelligence that neural networks can't replicate, at least not without changing them to something very different than they are today.
The biggest problem is every creator of ceasing privileges from others genuinely believes that he is excluded.

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller
There's nothing fun about that. They've been pressured into taking this step.
A useful measure of the centralization of a state is the ratio
of the size (population, economy) of the capital to the rest
of the country.

A large capital usually means workers and companies
cluster around the government to get work and contracts,
but also lobby and bribe to win such favors.

Highly centralized countries include UK, France and Thailand.

Centralized countries that have a strong geographical excuse
might include Egypt and Chile.
Most FPGAs have converged on 18 bit wide multiplier blocks. If you ask for a 64 bit multiplier, the router will automatically chain together four multiplier blocks and add them together in a single cycle, which is really going to hurt your maximum clock speed (fmax).

VexRiscv is aware of this unofficial standard, and asks for four 16x64 multiplies and adds the result together on the next cycle. This produces a much better fmax on FPGAs, but if you were targeting an ASIC, you would be better off asking for a 64-bit multiplier, or not trying for a single-cycle multiply.

Most modern CPUs tend to target a 3 cycle pipelined multiplication, which means 22-bit wide multipliers. Doing this on an FPGA each 22-bit multiplication would require two 18-bit multiplier blocks, for a total of six multipliers, wasting more resources.

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In general, "FPGA friendly" means optimizing your design to take advantage of the things which are cheap on FPGAs, like the 18-bit wide multipliers and the block ram. Such designs tend to run faster on FPGAs and use less resources, but it's wasteful to synthesize them to ASICs.
I'm not saying how advanced R1 is—in fact, it doesn't outperform O1 by much. What really surprised me is how it was built with pure RL without SFT, which I thought was impossible before. And it makes me wonder if human thoughts are synthesizable

I hope this is just a misunderstanding stemming from my incomplete knowledge
> his development process did not scale

I hope my development projects fail like Moolenaar's! Vim has been extraordinarily successful for decades, possibly the top 5 or 10 FOSS projects ever (?). Citing Vim as an example of development process failure is really incredible.
Obviously I don't know either way. But remember when saying "lab leak" god you banned from social media?

I don't think anybody ever explained why exactly it was "racist" to think that labs can leak in China just like has happened many times all around the world, but wet market theory and the dangers of the Chinese food customs is "not racist".

Does anybody know? There were many people online who more than went along with this. Why was it not the other way around?

Organisations I understand, they have whatever hidden motives. But normal people in the "lab leak theory is racist" mob, they never explained why it wasn't "wet market theory is racist" instead.
> Here is a cool SaaS

I think it's the most annoying one. We are spammed by Bootstrap/Tailwind-styled closed-source wrappers around the API currently hyped (with Google login, and pricing page, all the time).

We would be legitimately angry if we were flooded with "Here is some random ClosedSource.exe application, run it on your computer" because that would not improve anything, but for some reason web sites are OK.
You can't win this argument through logic less mere rhetoric. You need scientific evidence. Hint: There isn't.

Edit: Ok, let me be less harsh and play with your argument. Can an LLM have an acid/psilocybin/ketamine trip, distort its view of self and reality, then rewire some of its internal connections and come a little different based on the experience? I guess not, there are more examples and they all show that as far as we know LLMs are not minds/brains and viceversa even if they seem similar in a chat interface. (If you don't empathise with that example remove the drugs and change them for a near-death experience).

I strongly argue humans are not (just) LLMs, but I think we're far from getting evidence*. I think we will get to AGI before we know how the brain works and there is no dicotomy in that, if anything the tech is showing us that we can get at least some intelligence in other substrates.

*PS: fwiw ausence of evidence does not support any sides. I shouldn't remark that, but here we are.