skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're protesting an oppressive regime then it's likely most privacy respecting methods are illegal.
New Bid for TikTok from Perplexity AI
Which unicorns?
Let's say we choose 1900 as the cutoff date. That means during training the model is only able to access material written before 1900. It would have a good knowledge about everything discovered in the 19th century and before. There's a great deal of mathematics, physics and chemistry available then. What if now we engage a discussion with that LLM on something discovered after 1900? Say transmutation and nuclear weapons, or general relativity, or the ZFC set theory.
Interesting approach. Since I've converted entirely to nushell, I'm using zoxide to solve this navigation friction. https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

The only thing I'm missing from zsh is path aware auto completion... supposedly this works if you enable the sqlite history for nushell but iirc it was buggy.
This is excellent, though modern cameras (let’s be real, phones) tagging photos with timestamps and geolocation obviates a few of the recommendations.
Xilinx uses a microblaze for their DDR memory controller calibration as well. Initially they didn't, and I guess the calibration wouldn't always work. Software allows much more complicated algorithms for calibration than hard coded RTL state machines. I've used soft CPU's to act as the interface between hardware and user, usually over a UART.
Not a dig at you but I laughed a bit when reading it.

"it's not hard, just pay someone to do it for you"

I get the sentiment though. I've spent countless of hours trying to read up on digitizing our VHS collection while the proper thing would've been to just have a company do it for me. The main concern for me though is that they might just run the most basic settings and I'm telling myself that doing it myself will allow me to future proof the format a bit better.
Hopefully you seldom broke wind while you were there.
I actually think changing history will be harder in the future as it requires alignment across models.
Product pages on Amazon now have AI review summaries.

I like it in theory, but the cynical part of me is suspicious they're somehow using it to skew things positive.
I think Evolve/Synapse and the fog surrounding the responsible parties, along with complete radio silence on persons responsible (almost as if newsmedia has been given a gag order) has completely kneecapped bank competition for a half-decade at least.

If it takes experts to explain how Evolve/Synapse happened, why it couldnt happen to another "Fintech bank", and how to tell if you are at risk...then there is no point even venturing past Chase/BoA/Citi/your local bank.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/fed-penalizes-evolv...
I’ve been trying to build an open source clone of render for the past year, that is portable across basically all cloud providers that offer managed kubernetes, (which is basically everyone)

Render is an improvement on pricing from Heroku but is still massively more expensive than raw VPS instances such as the ones you can buy on digital ocean, and it’s much less flexible.

https://canine.sh
> If you honestly get hung up that LibreOffice doesn’t look like it was developed by Apple within the last 5 years then you are ultimately being disingenuous

Disingenuous? More like realistic.

I mean this ultimately boils down to “is inconsistent with the design of the rest of the computing experience.” People who care about good, consistent design and can afford to pay for it are Apple’s core market.
You are well within your rights to use the handicapped stall. It’s an accommodation not a reservation.
Microsoft making questionable decisions lately, the official RDP client on Mac was renamed to "Windows App" some weeks ago. It's hard to come up with a worse name, Windows App is what I name any software product that runs natively on Windows.

RIP all the helpdesk employees who have to explain this to end users
> I just feel some of the arguments smell similar to concerns levelled at the earliest compiler developers about the perils of abstraction

Like you, I am a sucker for abstraction (often to my detriment). I just don’t see any resemblance between an LLM layer and abstraction, aside from that they both introduce complexity. I guess that abstraction superficially ”hides” its inner workings but this is a misnomer, it’s never actually hidden, it’s only claimed that you don’t need to look behind the curtain (but you can, and then you can see exactly what’s going on).

> I'm optimistic this problem will be resolved in the mid-term

Which one? Stability? Assume you can get open source models running locally and with no floating point non-determinism. Now you have some narrow sense local stability, yes. For exactly the same version of the LLM compiler and same input (all prompt history), you can reproduce the result. But this is not enough. If you roll a new version of the compiler (meaning new training data or algorithm), all previous responses are invalidated. So how would you maintain backwards compatibility?

With abstractions OTOH (like say C++), you don’t check in the generated assembly or binary. It’s enough to check in the C++ code, the rest is derived directly. When C++ releases their new foot-machinegun feature, you simply update your compiler and your old code works.

My point is that LLMs are not engineering products. They are closer to organic in the sense they act in the moment, and by necessity they are non-stable with respect to small variations in input and training. I heard this good quote from this researcher at anthropic who claimed we don't program the (neural) networks, we ”grow” them.
"Crypto is one of the great filters" is a hilarious take.
> Rewards for going beyond -- money, security, autonomy

Yeah, I agree with this, but really it comes down to money. With enough money, the other two won't matter so much. An MBA that can hold labor costs down one year might get a significant bonus, and get the corporate jet to take on vacation to Hawaii.

On the other hand if you're not management and you save the company $6million per year, well, good luck seeing a bonus from that. I'm sure it will go to the MBA's above you, including the private jet vacation to Hawaii.
A gigging musician I know, who is involved in many projects, including leading an on again, off again BiG BanD, recently had another aquaintence, play a recording to him of the soul song that this person had "written" with ai help.
I am struggling with comming to terms with the idea of artificial music.
Some people like it, so it will stay around,
and I cant begrudge them, at least for now, as ai will probably end up spawning new generas ,that would likely not come into bieng without it, which I suspect, the whole point will be inflicting there "art" on anyone they can.
This artificial art, has no back story, no sweat, no triumph, and will never have a voice or style it's own, it's only and explisitly derivitive, but there are those who are in some strange way comforted by that, a bieger shade of ecru, free from angst and any possibility of it showing anybody up.
Though all in all, I think it's, orrible, right nasty, and I imagine that it will end up banned
like a lot of other artificial things, that prove to be bad, for everybody they touch.

edit:synthetic creativity
iPadOS’s Safari user agent identifies itself as macOS, that’s why. Prior to iPadOS it did contain the string iPad; that was removed. So it can’t tell if it’s an iPad or a Mac with a small vertical screen, although a human would consider the former more likely.
I think that there is a reasonable argument that half the population don't fit in today's plane seats. Also, it isn't always weight related. My BMI is low 20s and I'm quite tall. I can't put my legs together, as the seat in front is too close.
I hate flying.
The first two are stop motion, but not claymation. The third is claymation, but I'm hard pressed to call it "beautiful". Striking, to be sure, but also conspicuously ugly.

At this point Aardman is also doing a lot of non clay stop motion, but it's still the core of their work.
But cutting a few of them doesn’t mean the transactions don’t happen, they’re just slightly delayed, so you can’t count the full value of those transactions as a loss.

To adapt the old saying, the internet interprets cut cables as unreachable intermediate nodes and routes around them.
I think its actually better if AI slop realizes the dead internet theory. That will be the only thing that forces us to evolve and re-build the internet embodying the early visions of what it was supposed to be. The internet is already filled with SEO trash, AI slop would be a marginal upgrade actually but unfortunately it still insidiously poisons the reliability of information.
Chinese spies are also ramping up their activities here in our end, I believe we got a tip from US intelligence.

https://therecord.media/philippines-arrests-chinese-nationa-...
> That's not an option though. The option uber gives is "maybe 25, maybe not, you'll find out on the day".

It's 25 when it's 25. Which you can still have a preference for when the alternative is 10, or the alternative is "40 hours but your hours are 9PM to 1AM and then 5AM to 9AM".

> That's still "how do we keep uber in business".

Uber is still in business when they require you to work split shifts in the wee hours. We're trying to save drivers and riders from the consequences of foolish rules.

> There are alternatives like good quality overprovisioned public transport which can take most of those customers.

Overprovisioned public transport is just Uber with lower efficiency. You have a municipal bus with zero or one passengers instead of a smaller private car with one passenger or avoid the trip because you know before you start that no one is going there.

> It can also deal with peak situations like events.

Ten thousand people exit the stadium at the same time and each want to go to a different destination, thousands of which are single family homes in the suburbs.

> It's a sunk cost fallacy to think of uber as some kind of last resort employer that can ignore the rules.

The assumption is that Uber is bad, but Uber is better than taxi medallion cartels or private cars that then have to be parked in the city instead of picking up a different fare going in the opposite direction.
It is really going to come down to how much they can reduce the sonic boom. Supposedly their aircraft will produce more of a rumble like distant thunder rather than a bang. If its at a level that's agreeable to both regulators and the public, that would open up all the overland routes the Concord could never do. If they can combine that with higher production numbers with a corresponding drop in unit, operating, and maintenance costs, they _may_ have a valid business model.

Looking at how many people rent (or own) business jets with five figure+ price tags per flight, I think there's definitely a market for premium tickets, especially if you can do say LAX to Heathrow in ~5 hours instead of 10.5 hours.
Wifi might be the best innovation.
Trump issuing 'emergency 25% tariffs' against Colombia,going up to 50% in a week
It's not all words, they seized the ship and are taking it back to a Swedish port.

I'm not sure how you stop this from happening besides build a record of handling these incidents with firmness, as opposed to acting like a wet noodle, as they did the first couple of times it happened.
They're pretty apologetic about it. Then they tell you a different wrong thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Jupiter
I don't like the design of Wayland at all, so it'll take a lot more than performance analytics to get me to switch. I think that one of the core issues in Linux is nothing is ever consolidated, only moved toward more fragmentation. Wayland had the opportunity to consolidate, but instead to not fix fragmentation (each app is responsible for drawing its own window borders) and introduce more (multiple compositors each with their own quirks and non-standard APIs)
Reminds me of the episode of IT Crowd where Roy pretends to be disabled.
The story certainly pulls at the heart strings, and it's amazing it was completed without casualty, but it also serves as a reminder of just what a cluster fuck of waste and danger a war actually is...
I'm not convinced it would be enough to incite that kind of change.
Message from Spooky23: says they like eating apples
This _is_ the rich controlling our government! Except it's more openly visible in this case than usual.

Going forward they'll have a good deal of say in the policies they care about, by donating and attending and show of loyalty.
Closest *identified* wild variant. The thing is it's made the jump before, making the jump again isn't astounding.

What's notable about the SCov2 variant is how well it spreads between humans. It probably has made the jump many times, it's just this time it figured out how to spread.
As someone who long was married to an abusive spouse, I'd offer that we spouses tend to view mistreatment as a workable, if difficult, part of a marriage. Our desire to put events behind us doesn't mean that the events didn't happen.
> It was designed to fix tearing issues, not latency issues.

Actually is was designed because the X11 codebase was bad and nobody wanted to work on it.
> I write books and print them out to edit with red pen. Need all of Word's print features.

The latter really doesn't follow from the former. All? Sounds like you need basic printing..
How is it that Trump is so timely at cutting medical resources right before the moment it is most needed? Or perhaps such outbreaks are more common than you'd expect and it's the equivalent of leaving a firewall down for a day?

And yeah, I'm aware a bigger factor in this freeze was hiding the very obvious Bird Flu pandemic. Can't hide the eggs getting more expensive though.
> A couple times a month?

Maybe that would be the case with a fuel cell due to lower energy density, I don't know.

It's certainly not the case with an efficient ICE car. My Mazda gets up to 1,200 km from a tank of diesel. The VW I had ~15 years ago got about 950km from a tank of unleaded.

Don't get me wrong, I understand that recharging a battery vehicle at home is convenient for day to day short journeys due to it's convenience via passiveness - but but a stop to get fuel is hardly comparable to the sort of delays you have with charging battery vehicles in the same scenario.
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Outsourcing video is generally a lot more expensive. Probably worth thinking seriously about how much you really want to do.
I also said this online. An interesting rebuttal came back: the new multi factor measures include BMI and it remains a simple diagnostic with understood contra indications which you can resolve with e.g. a survey or fitness test.

I still think the BMI is old, tired and misleading but I had to think about that. I improved my overall health and weight over the last 5 years and as usual for old fat men, the hard stuff to shift is round the belly. So I remain high on a BMI score, but belly fat is also considered "dangerous" so the simple truth might be I need to do more.
Something doesn't have to be new to be valuable (XKCD "Ten Thousand" et al). A revolution starts with inspiration.
it's not a hollow structure, it's space set aside in an otherwise normal commercial/residential tower. like extra banks of elevators. even if it weren't though, the weight of the building would far outweigh the weight of the blocks.
If you live in New Zealand, you learn to suffer. A (dubious) upside is that you rarely circle long - after 18+ hours in the air, you're coming down.
Interesting. So you were able to see these and reports last year and all the way through January 21st this year?

Because there's only been one reported car in 2025 in Kansas, I'd be surprised...
Why You're Seeing Rainbows in Car Windows
No, it needn't be.
If it were all so simple, they wouldn’t pay hedge fund analysts so much money…
Yoodio generative radio stations app – looking for testers
Thankfully this attitude didn't set in during the civil rights movements of the 60s! Or we might still have had separate white and black bathrooms.

If we keep following such advice we may again have special water fountains and schools for those other people.
To me, it's very interesting that you're only noticing now that it happens to be someone outside your Political Tribe who is in charge.

But anyway, agreed.
Wouldn't be too difficult. Poincaré/Lorentz/Hilbert were close to developing the same concepts behind special relativity around 1905 as well. If Einstein randomly died in 1904, I think relativity would have been discovered within the decade anyways, just by combining their knowledge.

Lorentz developed the Lorentz contraction independently of Einstein already, he was just hampered by the fact he adhered to the idea of the luminiferous ether as a medium for light propagation. I fully believe Hilbert+knowledge of tensors (Einstein didn't know the concept of tensors in 1905! [1]) would have developed general relativity as well.

[1] Einstein actually had an idea for general relativity much before he actually figured it out, he literally just lacked the mathematical knowledge to formalize it. He had to learn tensors in order to develop the Einstein Field Equations https://www.quora.com/How-did-Einstein-get-the-idea-that-he-...
Not at all—reposts of this kind are welcome! The links are just there because some readers enjoy them.
Not sure if projects are related, but this also exists:

https://deat.tk/jazz2/
You and I are free to not buy it, but that doesn't mean Russia or b
Saudi's or China or Zuckerberg isn't going to buy a bunch to influence our president
Actually, we probably can never prove that. Could the animals have come to the market via the lab?

But I see no reason to suspect a leak from the hot part of the lab. While it's not impossible I see no non-political reason to think it did happen.
You might want to try caching to a file with mlx.

https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-examples/pull/956

edit: here's a quick example for qwen2.5-1M from a mlx dev

https://x.com/awnihannun/status/1883611098081099914
How can this possibly be America's largest TB outbreak in history? TB was killing thousands of people per year in America in the 1800s.
Would have been interesting if we did just throw a satellite at it to deflect it's course.

Then I remembered we're still probably decades from being able to do such things on demand.
*George Hotz is making posts online talking about how AMD isn’t helping him
Isn’t that still pulling from the same distribution with a larger standard deviation? I think the problem here is that it only covers a small part of the search space. I think the problem here is that generators are not using novel distributions. They’re still sampling from the same population (existing written works).
In the same way biologies don't own santient species, yes. Someoems gotta classify this stuff, though.
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The crucial word in the headline is "recorded". I doubt that record-keeping in the 1800s was as comprehensive as it is today.

Additionally, from the article:

> the CDC started monitoring TB in the US in the 1950s.
Maybe they want to collect data on people using copilot in order to train copilot to be better?
I been thinking an openscad->cura pipeline would be cool. This post is very similar and inspiring.

Imagine running a custom action or pipeline and getting a physical object pop out in the shed. Pretty awesome.

I also like the idea as git as the way to share and remix 3d printing instead of (as well as) the various STL sites.
The article states that they only started recording in the 1950s.
Big smell on this is rules 9/10/11.

These say that you will have to play a lawyering game.

The OP didn't have the time to immediately see that.
Mining crypto on H100s?
> She noted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started monitoring and reporting tuberculosis cases in the U.S. in the 1950s.
You will own nothing and like it.

Sadly, switching is the only form of protest we can do against such actions.
If you read the article, it appears they've only been keeping records in Kansas since the 50's. And I think the headline is wrong: it's the biggest in Kansas's records. I could be mistaken about that.
Watch Karpathy's 'Zero to Hero' videos on YouTube.

If you want a historical perspective, which is very worthwhile, start by reading about the mid-century work of McCullough and Pitts, and Minsky, Papert and their colleagues at MIT CSAIL after that.

There will be a dry spell after Minsky and Papert because of their conclusion that the OG neural-network topology that everyone was familiar with, the so-called "perceptron", was a dead end. That conclusion was premature to say the least, but in any event the hardware and training techniques weren't available to support any serious progress.

Adding hidden layers and nonlinear activation functions to the perceptron network seemed promising, in that they worked around some of Minsky's technical objections. The multi-layer perceptron was now a "universal approximator" capable of modeling any linear or nonlinear function. In retrospect that should have been considered a bigger deal than it was, but the MLP was still a PIA to train, and it didn't seem very useful at the scales achievable in hardware at the time. Anything a neural net could do, specialized code could usually do better and cheaper.

Then, in the circa-2010 timeframe, AlexNet dusted off some of the older ideas and used them to win image-recognition benchmark competitions, not by a small margin but by blowing everybody else into the weeds. That brought the multi-layer perceptron back into vogue, and almost everything that has happened since can be traced back to that work.

The Karpathy videos are the best intro to the MLP concept I've run across. Understanding the MLP is the key prereq if you want to understand current-gen AI from first principles.
At least it would generate all kinds of memes and conspiracy. Much more entertaining and productive then Copilot.
I just downgraded my O365 subscription to remove Copilot. I went to (web version) my account settings, subscriptions, manage, and canceled my sub, which then gave me the option to select a Classic edition without Outlook. It's the same price, which is hilariously stupid, but maybe the worst part is that it doesn't deactivate Copilot until the next billing cycle. So, whether you can't use Copilot for security and privacy reasons or you recognize that it is one of the most cataclysmic software failures in human history--I'm serious, compared to other "AI" platforms, its utility is nonexistent, and that's without addressing other issues with "AI" as a category--you're stuck with it until the next billing cycle.

What an absurd mess.
Weird. Where did it come from? It’s basically unheard of in the US.
Seeking feedback on MVP friend built
> It's reasonable to wonder how rents and home values doubled over a few years when the population didn't.

Is it a mystery? As I understand it, more people want to live in the same few places (where jobs are or are otherwise desirable). There are huge parts of the country where real estate is cheaper than ever.