skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, you don’t have to necessarily use water. You can use alcohol, ammonia or something else with a different boiling point.
That's one signal, but it's surprising how many established companies that appear to still be going concerns also don't reply to emails even when I literally ask about buying something. And I'm not talking about my own little consumer purchases, I mean emails from my work account to vendors with the potential for significant ongoing revenue. Strange.
One word that explains why the world feels 'deeply off' for so many people
Qq where did this hydrogen come from for the 50-50 mix?

From a quick reading above it looks like it came from cracking fossil fuels rather than electrolysis which is understandable but I think that should be made clear to everyone. It’s really just another way to ship fossil fuels in that sense. Burns slightly cleaner on your stove is the only real advantage here.
Thank god for those apps. Screw regulators.
Yeah yeah, I've heard all of this a million times. Yet, I open up Claude and it keeps forgetting to not give me React code after I remind it multiple times to not give me React code. It still randomly drops all context of the conversation at some point and enters a loop where it regurgitates the same answers it already gave me. It still gets basic facts wrong, even when the reference/factsheet is provided to it a sentence ago. The code the juniors and mediors are shitting out with the help of LLMs is all dogwater that doesn't pass the sniff test, and the worst part is they themselves can't explain half the lines they're shoveling.

I suspect the next refrain is gonna be along the lines of me using it wrong, or using the wrong model, or the wrong prompt, or this or that. At the end of the day, if even after arduously trying to use it pretty much daily I still find all the models so far useless for real work, then no amount of fanboyism is going to convince me to disregard the reality of it as I experience it.

I can write the most insanely in-depth prompt on the planet (wasting 10 minutes of my time in the process), and 9 times out of 10 the reply I get is barely any more coherent than a single sentence along the lines of "Give me X" would've given me back.

> it is better than Wikipedia for explaining RFCs or academic papers.

I dread the future we're creating where people are relying on LLMs to parse RFCs or papers.

> Anyone who refers to LLMs as “stochastic parrots” has made their choice and is not interested in understand what areas can benefit and what areas cannot.

You're arguing with a strawman as I haven't used the word stochastic or parrot anywhere in the comment you're replying to or have implied anything of the sort about LLMs, and I'm even saying that I don't think it's completely useless, just not nearly as useful as the hype would lead one to imagine. Did you perhaps put my comment through an LLM and thus were arguing against imaginary points that I never made?
Depends on your definition of reasoning. Creating valid chains of thought? Yes. Sentient? No.
The thing to look for would be the way that making long firm fraud easy to prosecute would lead to companies being accountable for things they don’t want to be accountable for.
> I really really really just want

The word just is doing a lot of work here.

E.g., you want graphics acceleration.

That means you want work done in Mesa so that the GPU in question is better supported than it currently is.

But you also want Firefox's Webrender changed to allow using the GPU in question under Linux, by default. Otherwise the browsing experience is laggy as hell for everything other than HN. That means lots of testing in Firefox, and somehow convincing them not to blacklist your GPU under Linux. (Which I'm guessing takes time since changes in Mesa don't hit every major distro all at once.)

And you also need video acceleration to work out of the box. Otherwise you're going to be trying various flag combos just to get your phone from getting hot while watching a video. And then your browsing experience probably gets laggy again.

And then you're going to need to rinse and repeat that entire process to get the baseband to work with nearly any carrier, at least in the U.S. They probably aren't going to support using that baseband on something that isn't an android phone. You'll need some reliable way around that. Is this an open research question? I don't know.

Once you have those done, try to figure out why playing music to a bluetooth speaker over this device sometimes changes the pitch of the audio! Oops, another unexpected rabbit hole.

I declare by fiat all of the above problems have been solved.

Oh no, I forgot about battery life.

Now I've got a summer project to figure out why suspend sometimes-- but not always-- freezes my phone.

After that I need to figure out the signal path between baseband and Linux to figure out why getting a call sometimes-- but not always-- wakes the phone so it rings reliably.

These are all hard things. The idea that motivated rando open source devs can roll up their sleeves and solve phone usability is laughable.
I never tried the $200 a month subscription but it just solved a problem for me that neither o1 or claude was able to solve and did it for free. I like everything about it better.

All I can think is
"Wait, this is completely insane!"
They hang the man and flog the woman

That steal the goose from off the common,

But let the greater villain loose

That steals the common from the goose.

The law demands that we atone

When we take things we do not own

But leaves the lords and ladies fine

Who take things that are yours and mine.

The poor and wretched don’t escape

If they conspire the law to break;

This must be so but they endure

Those who conspire to make the law.

The law locks up the man or woman

Who steals the goose from off the common’

And geese will still a common lack

Till they go and steal it back.

English nursery rhyme, circa 1700.
Reviving a Dead Audio Format: The Return of ZZM
It might give your writing some unintentional changes to what is emphasized.

In text it might feel like the author is holding back a full caps lock rant.
So should every one who owns stock in a company - including mutual funds go to jail?
For lots of problems the boring answer is: because there is no easy solution. For me as a software developer, I can imagine a lawyer asking "but why are there so many bugs in applications?".

Would we be able to have a world in which there are almost no bugs? Yes, definitely. Would that be a better world?... I tend to say no. Because we trade more bugs for faster development. Because not all bugs are critical. Because some requirements are not completely consistent. And other reasons.

I imagine it's the same with the law. That is not to say there are no improvements to be made, but unless multiple people with lots of experience in the field come and say "this would be better with no side effects" I would be cautious.
That's like saying "you can tell this is an Aspen by the way it is". The idea is that we should have control over those laws dude. We didn't just spawn in a video game and are forced to deal with it. "Cause that's what Dad says" isn't how it's supposed to be.
Yeah, the subheadline, and I should have quoted it.
It doesn't take too much compute, the networking is the key.

I've run Moonlight on a bunch of things from my TV, crappy old Android TV box, phone, tablet, laptop, desktop, ROG Ally; don't recall if I ever tried a Pi, but I might give it a go.

My advice is, whatever you use, make sure it has wired ethernet for a consistent experience. That said, a more powerful device on the receiving end (Moonlight) with good high-speed wifi should also work fine, but almost always try to keep the PC end (Sunshine) hard-wired.
What apps do you recommend with p2p messaging?
Well, any shift from "not able to do X" to "possibly able to do X sometimes" is at least exponential. 0.0001% is at least exponentially greater than 0%.
That's pretty funny coming from someone attempting to manipulate people who have read the comments but not the linked article, or the original reporting that is linked to in said article.

You left out all four companies feeding data to PotatoTrac, all four companies announcing raising their prices by the same amount at exactly the same time, executives shifting which company they work for like it's a merry-go-round, the four companies communicating extensively between each other in a way not even remotely natural for competitors, the companies demanding suppliers not take on other customers, restaurant distributors forcibly bundling fries with other foods so that restaurants have to sell them, and so on.

Oh, and multiple anti-trust lawsuits: https://fortune.com/2024/11/22/potato-cartel-price-fixing-la...

Also left out that other mega-food companies have been caught doing the same thing...
HN’s parser stripped away the final dot in the link. Working direct link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handspring,_Inc%2e
Bundle web browser with your operating system.

Bundle operating system with CPU.

But, both lost in the end, despite abusing monopoly and government intervention did not really help.
I think that demonstrates how far we are from reasoning and from true self-reflection. If either were happening it would know that it has the capability to multiply four numbers in nanoseconds and know that it doesn't even matter the order it multiplies them. The first reasoning step, I have 4 numbers to multiply, should be the only one necessary.
I'm excited about ATProto and I'm also suspicious, because they could eventually try to turn away from federation. Although so far, they seem to be moving in the other way, as they keep developing and launching more stuff that makes the services more decentralized, not less.

I think it's healthy to be skeptical and suspicious about it, I am too. But I won't let that stop me from at least playing around with it and see where they go. Maybe one day they take the wrong turn, maybe not. They haven't so far, and I tend to wait to judge stuff based on what has happened rather than what could happen in the future.
I am not a lawyer.

You just don't even want to be at the "proving intent" stage.

If you had a function/service that just automatically wiped your device at intervals, regardless of where you were and what you were doing, that might be more defensible than wiping manually.

Best is if your device can't be locked and doesn't have any evidence of anything at all.
Is El Capitan really ideal arch for AI? It’s massively parallel of course.
Given how hard Microsoft is leaning into AI, and how important Office 365 is, the Copilot for 365 is shockingly bad.
literally just clicked it and it worked lol?
Copying, Technique and Taste
The people on the board are rarely the largest shareholder. In the case of both Google and Facebook, the board doesn’t really have too much control at all since the founders hold the majority of voting power.
I agree with all of your data points. NVIDIA was lucky that AMD didn't do any of that stuff and sat out of the professional GPU market when it actually had significant advantages it could have employed.
Live demo of AI as a creative partner [video]
I agree the concept doesn't seem to be proving out in the real world, but there's an obvious use case for car owners who can't charge an EV at home. If you don't have home charging for whatever reason, doing from a gasoline car to an EV is a nontrivial convenience downgrade when it comes to "refueling". Fast charging has helped somewhat, but it's still considerably slower than refueling a gas car and still not great for the battery to do it all the time. Hydrogen in theory solves that problem by replicating the gas car experience for those drivers. At this point though it does seem more likely that the home charging problem will be solved for more people before hydrogen cars become practical for the same user base.

What's interesting to me is thinking about why this is the case, and it I think it comes down to relatively low pressure for drivers to switch away from gas cars. For drivers who can charge an EV at home, that's actually a big convenience upgrade and so drives EV sales. But for drivers who can't charge an EV at home, there's very little practical reason to switch away from a gas car. I'm sure some of them care about the environmental benefits of doing so, but that's probably not a sufficient motivator to switch on its own given how big of a purchase a car is.
What kind of evidence would you need to see to no longer view corporations in this light?
You can't express more semantics without more syntax. So the "clean" JS is not burdened by the extra semantics that C++ must account for.
Isn't it as easy to fake the sign up number as it is to fake the active users number? What makes one harder to fake than the other?
This is partly what left me to leave a job. Coworkers would send me their AI slop expecting me to review it. Management didn’t care as it checked the box. The deluge of information and ease to create it is what’s made me far more sympathetic to regulation.
What is and isnt a crime is defined by who owns the press and power of the land

In any modern Democracy, it would be illegal to kick families out of their home and then rent the home out to wealthy westerners, yet that is literally what AirBNB allows, see Amnesty International take:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2020/12/airb...
How safe is Bluetooth really? Cities has scanners used to track devices for monitoring road congestion, malls have scanners to measure foot traffic. I have to believe that anyone with access to stingray type of device can track Bluetooth as well.
Didn't he rename the existing city of Byzantium?
> Maintenance is the primary reason I am not buying an electric

This is a real problem that will hopefully soften with scale. EVs should be fundamentally cheaper to maintain than ICE or hydrogen cars.
But what consequences will a really large company face for such a prominent disaster? They got what they wanted, which is an excuse to force everyone into paying for new AI products through price increases forced into enterprise contract renewals. It is the same thing that Google just did with Google Workspace or Google Apps or whatever their office suite is called now, where everyone is forced to pay for their new Gemini AI features even if they don’t want it.

The goal of these companies is to increase revenue and profit. They are achieving that, so for them this isn’t a disaster. They are doing that through illegal bundling, and preventing anyone else from competing for the same revenue fairly. To me that is the real disaster, because it is undermining the startup ecosystem.
great question, i think rather than smaller inputs, you should be able to have as much context as needed in. Its more aboue smaller outputs, that are well typed and allow you to control workflow via standard coding mechanics. Therefore getting the best of both worlds, llms power of understanding unstructured info (which python sucks at) and being able to control things which python is great at.
Not the person you’re replying to, but my interpretation is that Europe is destined to be a consumer of AI, not a producer. As a consumer, you want a multitude of suppliers because fewer suppliers means slower progress and higher prices.
What. Are you advocating for monopolies? Obviously there is a point where people stop buying essentials. The point of capitalism is to deliver goods as cheaply as possible. If toothpaste costs $60 I would still buy it because I need toothpaste. But that extra money now goes to someone who isn’t producing, they are mooching. It’s a welfare check to a billionaire. In a monopoly pricing is fixed at maximum profit, which could make goods 10x or 100x for things with relatively inelastic demand.
Contrast that to how individuals get the hammer put down on them by the justice system if they so much as fart in the wrong room.

The thing is though - in America people are corporations except of course no one will teach you that. Open an single-person LLC and boom - you are now corporation. Have a rental, move it under LLC, own a car, LLC… now you are corporation (with limited to no liability) :)
thats a bad rng, reroll

consensus seems to be that the api is uncensored but the webapp is.
The premise would be better supported if it could be shown that if we could 10x the speed at which matrix multiplication is performed conferred a linear or better increase in performance post GPT-4. As it stands that would just seem to give us current results faster, not better results
most of those models aren’t r1
Which is an excellent reason to buy a Toyota EV. Hybrids are the most complicated cars and should be the worst for maintenance, but they consistently come out on top of rankings because a large portion of the non-plugin hybrids are Toyota's. Conversely PHEV's are on the bottom because a large portion of them are from Stellantis.

Imagine a Prius minus most of the bits that need maintenance and wear out. That car would last forever and should sell like hotcakes. But Toyota would rather sell you a hydrogen lemon than an EV.
Many seems to think he is some sort of Car Steve Jobs.

Him being a nutty rightwinger doing nazi salutes should put at least some off.

I've heard so many people kinda denying to themself what Musk is. Like some sort of cope.
Almost too many steps to remember here. Would it be possible for an app to prompt you to do all this? An app can bring up settings to allow your camera access, why not to quickly change those other settings?
Life extension isn’t happening for minimum 30 years, if ever. Hopefully, maybe it won’t be this bad by then???
Show HN: AI-powered Chinese name generator
I've developed a tool that leverages AI to generate elegant Chinese names based on English names. Simply enter your English name to receive a culturally resonant Chinese name complete with a corresponding explanation, pronunciation guide, and an exquisite calligraphy card showcasing your new name.
"hacking" is bad and c pointers are too difficult for children*, so while "tank man in square" may not come up regularly during a hack sesh, there are coding problems that ChatGPT won't answer is you ask it the "wrong" way. like calling something a hack sesh and it picking up that you're trying to do the immoral act of "hacking". phrasing a request as "write me a chrome extension to scrape pictures off my ex girlfriend's Instagram profile" will get you a refusal for being unethical, but being a halfway intelligent human and getting it to write the code to do that just by figuring out how to phrase it in an acceptable manner is just stupid wasted time.
I've almost always found keys on the keyboards to fail before the trackpoint. The one exception I've had is a bluetooth trackpoint keyboard that someone sat on.

Go check out videos of new computers users from the 90s, mice absolutely have a learning curve. (I say from the 90s because today many people likely grew up with them).

Sure you already know the mouse, so good for you. As a comfortable user of both trackpoint and mice, I'd rather use the trackpoint for almost all uses. The few things I'd prefer a mouse to trackpoint I'd also prefer something else to the mouse (e.g. 3d orientation I prefer use a spaceball like device to mouse, and for drawing I'd prefer a stylus to mouse).
No, abusing monopoly and government intervention didn't allow them to keep their monopoly forever. That is not the same as "did not help."

And in any case, no one is arguing conglomerated companies have no vulnerabilities or never lose.

I'm saying they have advantages, which is obviously true by the fact that conglomerated companies tend to dominate their sectors.
Apologies. Very easy to misinterpret peoples intent, even on a good day.
Quantum Prolog has this feature where you can query against a dynamic database, not just the global default database; ie. where in regular Prolog (and in Quantum Prolog as well of course since it's full ISO) you query

p(a).
p(b).
?- p(X)

you can instead query

KB = [ p(a), p(b) ],
KB ?- p(X)

introducing a clause-list as first parameter to "?-".

In the description [1], this is used to avoid destructive database manipulation via assertz/retract builtins, and thus to allow much more complex combinatorial planning problems and action post-conditions to be solved/optimized without resorting to ad-hoc hacks. But you can also use this for mere convenience in large knowledge graphs, and a technique very similar to it, albeit implemented in Prolog itself and not provided with native speed, has been used as a historic extension to Prolog DCG parsing (cf. definite-clause translation grammars by Dahl et al).

[1]: https://quantumprolog.sgml.net/container-planning-demo/part2...
The screenshot you're asking for will be indistinguishable from any GNOME desktop screenshot you find on GNOME's website. Before giving advice it would be worth understanding the subject matter. It's a new OS, not a new desktop shell.
What exactly do you mean by "good at Prolog"?
This got 8.9B allocated in 2008... The government should be banned from mega projects sucking up my tax payer dollars.
that would be like 75%+ of the entire military budget
I can think of at least one YC startup -- one that was relatively high-profile, for a hot minute, at least in the developer space -- that just shut down, period, that doesn't seem to be on the list, because I worked there. One extra irony point for its absence: it was basically across the street from Y Combinator's office in Mountain View at the time. :)
As multiple of these articles acknowledge, any attempt to debunk shoplifting information from official crime data is on shaky ground, because most thefts are not reported to law enforcement. The guy who strolls out of Target with a bag full of shampoo isn’t in the crime data unless some store employee sees it happen and decides it’s worth calling the police to make a report about. I don’t think this is something where the cops would know better than retailers.
did you ever try a TrackPoint, with a HARD inverted dome, and mouse buttons under the space bar? Much faster for me than a mouse any day of the week.
If you haven't been following his work, the entire channel is worth checking out. Lots of interesting robotics projects!

https://www.youtube.com/@jamesbruton/videos
> Backtracking assumes depth-first search, which isn't strictly needed as you could explore all possible options in parallel in a breadth-first manner

You could in theory, but it'd be massively/prohibitively more expensive - exploring a whole tree just to end up using a single branch. It'd be like trying to have a computer play chess by evaluating EVERY branching position out to some fixed depth, rather than using MCTS to prune away unpromising lines.

Not only that, but reasoning in general (of which LLM-based reasoning is only a limited case) isn't just about search - it can also require exploration and acquisition of new knowledge if you run into an impasse that your past experience can't handle. If AI systems hope to achieve human-level AGI, they will need to change to support continuous learning and exploration as a part of reasoning, which naturally means more of a depth-first approach (continue until you hit an impasse) with backtracking.

You can say that hallucination is due to gaps in the training set, but of course humans don't have that problem because we know what we know, and have episodic memories of when/where/how we learned things. LLMs have none of that.
Usually, the words 'astroturfing' and 'propaganda' aren't reserved for describing the marketing strategies of valuable products/ideologies. Maybe reconsider your terminology.
> The structural changes are painful but necessary.

One thing that is amazing, is how quickly Milei was able to make these changes. I’m guessing Argentinian law allows the president a lot of power to make changes quickly. By comparison, efforts to make the government more efficient in America will probably fail because they will be bogged down in lawsuits and obstruction.
for ML, it has always been this way. HN is too tech hostile and less good discussion

that said this is like the third r1 thread here