skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They probably don’t. They’re very different. LLM’s seem to be based on pragmatic, mathematical techniques developed over time to produce patterns from data.

There’s at least three fields in this:

1. Machine learning using non-neurological techniques (most stuff). These use a combination of statistical algorithms stitched together with hyperparameter tweaking. Also, usually global optimization by heavy methods like backpropagation.

2. “Brain-inspired” or “biologically accurate”algorithms that try to imitate the brain. They sometimes include evidence their behavior matches experimental observations of brain behavior. Many of these use complex neurons, spiking nets, and/or local learning (Hebbian).

(Note: There is some work on hybrids such as integrating hippocampus-like memory or doing limited backpropagation on Hebbian-like architectures.)

3. Computational neuroscience which aims to make biologically-accurate models at various levels of granularity. Their goal is to understand brain function. A common reason is diagnosing and treating neurological disorders.

Making an LLM like the brain would require use of brain-inspired components, multiple systems specialized for certain tasks, memory integrated into all of them, and a brain-like model for reinforcement. Imitating God’s complex design is simply much more difficult than combining proven algorithms that work well enough. ;)

That said, I keep collecting work on both efficient ML and brain-inspired ML. I think some combination of the techniques might have high impact later. I think the lower, training costs of some brain-inspired methods, especially Hebbian learning, justify more experimentation by small teams with small, GPU budgets. Might find something cost-effective in that research. We need more of it on common platforms, too, like HughingFace libraries and cheap VM’s.
Why attack people when you can exploit their data to make money. This is some growth "hacking" to make a list of sales leads.
I am hyper negative on all things crypto but I actually like this. People living with hyperinflation are being screwed by their governments and this gives them a chance to keep what they earn.

Hopefully you find a way to balance ease of use and availability with legal controls. The disaster situation is someone puts their savings in, government blocks you, and that person can’t get their savings out.
There's no way to prevent all theft short of closing the store. You need to find a balance between preventing theft and allowing people to shop.

IMO the tendency of CVS to lock products up in cabinets has pushed a lot of their customers away.
I feel like I just got initiated into something
No, unfortunately not. If your history is strictly linear, you could probably hack together something relatively simple on top of git rev-list. But git bisect does all sorts of magic to deal with merge commits and other funny situations, and generalizing that to an n-sect would take a fair bit of work.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLmAq0epfrI

FWIW, a correction is required here. Oil-modding a F91W will NOT make it a dive watch replacement as the video creator claims several times.

A dive watch is designed to be operated at that depth while the weak o-rings around the pushers on the F91W will give up when you use the buttons. Oil modding on it holds up during a dive as long as you'll never push the buttons, so it's more of a neat party trick for show than anything to daily drive.
Without an account, sync is not possible.
Yeah I sent an application on a whim because I've spent a lot of time in FP land professionally and otherwise, I figured "what the heck, maybe they'll see value in that," and I was surprised to actually get a response but it was dismissive and borderline insulting..."there's nothing relevant here" talking about my resume is the thing I remember the most.

It was probably the first and only time I would have rather have been ghosted lol
There is a pathway for every possible configuration. It doesn’t dictate whether a configuration is optimal. Maybe the laryngeal nerve isn’t that bad. But that doesn’t guarantee all anatomy and physiology optimal
I suspect that the issue here is that either the VP was insecure or that the engineer said it in an accusatory way (or both).

In all likelihood, the engineer meant "that approach/idea/decision has risks we should consider." The VP likely heard "you are suggesting something wrong/dangerous/ignorant."

A nuance here is that the engineer probably implied that "(We should be) careful (in our consideration)" and the VP perceived "(You need to be) careful (and you don't seem to be)"
> Even Kipling is better than the article gives him credit for "You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!"

No, Kipling was still super racist, even if you can cherry-pick one quote out of his oeuvre and ignore "White-Man's Burden" and like everything else about him.

I think you place too much importance on your thinking she places a lot of importance on one line/paragraph out of a much larger essay.

> Three British authors!

Yes, and the article is from a magazine in the UK, from the London Review of Books? Why would she not focus on British authors then?
I have a list of games i have been wanting to make for ages. I was a game dev in the 80s, but got into b2b DOS, Windows and then Web dev to make for more consistent money. I guess if I ever do, I would do it for myself and if others like it, fine, if not, fine.
It's still never higher than income tax, which is what the parent comment was comparing to.
It absolutely is and it absolutely should be. Secondary market is very real and some cards in certain products are expensive there. Something like the "The One Ring" one out of one unique card in MTG is clearly a type of lottery. That card had expected secondary market value in hundreds of thousands if not millions.

To me if we are going to regulate loot boxes, trading cards should be regulated as well. Or at least minors should be banned from buying them.
When I was a lad, I spent some time in front of a mirror trying to teach myself to move my eyebrows independently, like Spock. I eventually succeeded, but in the process I also learned how to move my ears. One downside is that these ear muscles began to involuntarily try to help. For instance, if I am looking down while wearing glasses, my ears contract to grip the glasses so they don't fall off, and after a while these seldom used muscles ache from the effort.
Please answer this question, the response is phrased like a yes without explicitly saying it.
Note that loading (maliciously crafted) bytecode is generally not safe in Lua; sandboxing can be escaped in more ways than what's possible when loading plaintext sourcecode, and there are no full mitigations for this currently as far as I know (and would probably be highly interpreter/version sensitive anyway)-- the only "real" mitigation strategy is to just not `load` bytecode at all.

But this is probably a non-issue for a lot of usecases.

See e.g.

https://gist.github.com/corsix/6575486

https://www.corsix.org/content/malicious-luajit-bytecode
> What requirements does it impose?

Numerous kernel features, reliance generally on it by itself and by third party programs (running ceph w/ openrc is hard bc it assumes systemd is present). I’m buying the full car when I use it, when what I really want is a kit that I can optimize for purpose. Honestly though, this close integration is worth it. My main OS build at the moment is pretty much just systemd and podman on top of linux.

> Also, feel free to "rob that feeling back" by learning how systemd works

I really want to! I just don’t know any good resources that can help get me familiar with all it’s doing for me in the background. All I know about it is what I have gleaned from tutorials, I don’t yet feel I know what’s possible with it yet.
Actually, looking at more of the sheets I'm coming to the conclusion that I don't understand how they're measuring things here, so I dunno what's going on honestly.
It is exceedingly popular in the general case hence why every slime-ball seeking to surveil people so that their pet issue can be enforced with an iron fist reframes it as freedom to dump toxic waste, drive 200mph in a school zone or print counterfeit dollars, etc.
Same here, I hear a rumbling. I do occasionally use this to block or lower very loud (potentially hearing-damaging) sounds if there are no other means available.
It is the basic like trading agreement, customs and border checks, simple things that you do when you trade.

The problem is absolutely no one inside the government, politicians or civil servant has any idea about trading. This makes drafting any decent, workable agreement and procedure near impossible. And that is ignoring all the politics involves, both internal and external.

Having said that, all that expectation may be a tall order. I have known little to zero government that actually execute well. Singapore being perhaps the only one. US Government does well comparatively speaking, partly because they are well paid, only let down are the politics.
It’s not a bundle of blood. It’s a frayed and distorted red cross. You can read her artist statement on her website.
You say careful, and their ego probably hears you calling them careless. Careless is typically an avoided behavior so this hurts them. They view themselves as careful and wise. You think they're dumb. (Not necessarily a syllogism, but the ego is weird)

I'm possibly paraphrasing and simplifying too much but "How to Win Friends and influence People" mentions being very cautious about correcting people, more so correcting them publically, even when you are correct.
Fighting chemical fires has a very long history.

This sounds like armchair firefighting and not a good argument for locating this facility in Morro Bay.
> BS, as a non-white kid growing up in 70s and 80s Britain I never felt this. The author thinks people can only identify with characters like themselves, which is condescending.

Indeed.

I know there has been criticism of Watership Down for gender roles that would apparently make it unappealing to girls - missing the point that Adams originally made it up for his two daughters who loved it so much they forced him to write it down. Also as far as identifying goes, the characters are RABBITS.

And the railway children, a story also mentioned in the article, has that scene where the children steal some coal from the railway yard that the family otherwise wouldn't have been able to afford to keep their home warm in winter.
Show HN: LightCombatManager 3.0 – A simple combat manager for d20-based RPGs
Hi HN,

almost two years ago, I presented LightCombatManager (or LCM) to you [0]. Since then, I've added countless new features and other improvements.

In short, LCM is a tool to manage combats for all sorts of d20-based role playing games. Via a simple and intuitive dialog, characters can be easily created and added to a combat table. The combat table can then be edited in all sorts of ways - dragging and dropping rows if characters move their initiative, deleting entries for killed characters or enemies, apply status effects... many convenience features such as undoing changes, shortcuts and context menu entries are also supported.

LCM supports many different d20-based RPG systems, for example DnD 3.0E/3.5E/5E or the Pathfinder games. It runs on all major desktop platforms, which are Linux, Windows and MacOS.

Since my first post, I've added many more use- and powerful features, such as an enhanced status effects display, storing characters as templates so they can be added into a combat even faster, the ability to add multiple characters (for example minions) at once, a nice new toolbar and logging widget showing the most recent actions done, custom icons and many more things.

I've also did tons of work for the infrastructure behind the code. LCM now supports MacOS, Qt6 and a few C++20-based features. Additional CI was also added for all three major platforms.

For the future, even more features are planned, such as storing custom status effects.

If you want to tryout LCM, check the most recent releases under [1]. If you want to build it yourself, you need Qt6 or Qt5, Catch2 and CMake. On Ubuntu, the following command will install all dependencies at once:

sudo apt install qt6-base-dev libqt6svg6 libqt6svg6-dev catch2 uncrustify cmake

Then, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository [2].

2. Open a terminal and cd into the repository dir.

3. Hit

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34949396

[1] https://github.com/MaxFleur/LightCombatManager/releases

[2] https://github.com/MaxFleur/LightCombatManager
Cool, i like the colour scheme. It's kinder to my eyes.
Well, locality and the global nature of pre-training methods. The brain mostly uses local learning (Hebbian learning) which requires less, data movement. AI firms putting as much money into making that scale as they did on backpropagation might drop costs a lot.
GDP isn't the only measure of a country's success. European countries surpass the United States in many metrics relating to the actual wellbeing of their citizens.
Hey dang have you noticed you have a bit of a nazi problem on your hands recently. Or is that not really a "problem" from YC's perspective these days.
That's absolutely real. It sounds like you are describing the Tensor tympani muscle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle

In modern cars when the vehicle detects an impending collision it floods the cabin with pink noise to trigger a reflexive contraction of this muscle to protect the passenger's hearing from the even louder sounds of the collision and the airbags.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/pink-noise-says-prepare-for-impact
People are not holding on to it like it's written in stone like it's a biblical text? That's pretty funny.

My argument is that it's old, doesn't really apply well to the modern world. You say you can simply change it if you want to but your system doesn't really allow for that anymore. You have multiple 9/11 in dead schoolchildren and you still don't care.

What it does is putting guns in everyday situations, a road rage incident that ends in deaths rather than some bruises. Since there's no room for any exceptions to this right state lawmakers cannot make any laws that excludes people that should not be able to buy guns either.
Motion sickness accessibility in video games
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/unlimited-hangout-bias/
Upwards of $24k USD when you factor in buyer's premium for a recent one. (Not confirmed to be fake but an example of another prototype card)

This is probably near the high watermark of cost because it's one of the earliest versions but a signed one might bump it up even higher.

https://goldin.co/item/1995-pokemon-alpha-prototype-25-pikac...

https://goldin.co/buy/?search=pokemon%20prototype&sort=Highe...

As for the article, it's posted to a niche specific community site, they're naturally going to explain less because the readers already have the context. These cards are expensive and sought after and there's a plausibly massive number of fakes out there.
Thanks for clarifying your reason for renaming the title.

The explanation for the original title is this plot from our publication in ICLR 2025: https://toponets.github.io/webpage_assets/FigureEfficiencyNa...

You can find more details on the website: https://toponets.github.io (see section: "Toponets deliver sparse, parameter-efficient language models")

We find out that inducing topographic structure in the weights of GPTs made them compressible (during inference) without losing out on performance.

I encourage you to revert the name if you find it justified after looking into the evidence I've shown here. Thanks.
Love the effort but I would love an “akka.rs” to eventually make its way into the Rust ecosystem.
Because there are far, far simpler ways to figure out what a hospital wants, or what a patient needs to deal with their health needs. I'm going to bet that the completely legal practice of building a profile off of what a person has installed on their phone and their web searches is more effective than collecting their vitals and turning that into sales leads. You could just ask the health system what they need. That's what leads to a lot of our product initiatives.

It almost makes me wonder if there's a component in the hardware or software that's shared with other devices manufactured in China that are better attack vectors and they just tossed it into this one because, hey, it works.
Libertarianism is bunk because of this. It's not about freedom, it's about your freedom and no one else's.

Libertarians say they are anti regulation, but I ask them if I can murder them to steal their property.

Apparently they are all in favor of that regulation.

Similar to anti gun control people. Ok, I'm your neighbor, can I arm myself with chemical and biological weapons? Or a conventional bomb that will definitely destroy the entire block?

Hm, funny, they are in favor of some gun control.
Financial derivatives like a call option have a value derived from a stock (which is a real thing that gives real world legal claims on actual assets/profits). So it’s still not like a crypto coin.

People are most definitely buying stocks for the reason I mentioned. There’s a reason why the pension fund of the teachers of California, the pension fund of the teachers of Texas, and your 401k holds stocks. It’s not because they are collectibles with a lot of hype. It’s because they get a claim on future profits at (expected to be, on average, over the long run) a discount. Of course there are people who have no clue what they’re buying or why it works and just buy something… but that doesn’t mean the thing they’re buying doesn’t have a fundamental value connected to reality.
Because metrics don’t exist. If the only way you can move forward and know something is because someone conducted some sort of statistical experiment with data analysis on it then I don’t even know how you get up in the morning. Do you need science to prove that when you jump off the bed there’s a floor that your feet will land on?

No you don’t. You’re not an idiot. It’s common sense that allows you to do this and it’s common sense that will allow you to see that the entire world works the way I said it does above. You don’t need science for this. At least most people don’t. Maybe you’re different and you need science to do an analysis for you before you open any door to make sure reality still exists behind it.

> No you're not. You say Go (or a part of Go) is bad, which is vastly different. If you stuck to "I don't like it", you would not have gotten so much push back, but you insist in being right and everyone else is stupid and wrong.

You’re right. Let me rephrase what I meant. I’m commenting about what is fundamentally terrible about golang and if you disagree then you're wrong because the overwhelming majority of the world would disagree.
LinkAce 2.0
This is absolutely fine. But people who post on Reddit or gamedev.net or any other forum ultimately are also looking for external validation. If they weren't they would not be posting. But hey let's be honest, who wouldn't want to get at least some pats on the pack or some positive feedback, right? But sadly it's a dead end for 99% of people posting on any channel.

Tangentially related to this, in the -80s there was the video game crash and a bunch of games were even buried in the ground.

It's incredible to think about that today we're already way past that and essentially the cost of any game is about 0.
Of course that's not quite true, the market is bimodal where you have the games that cost nothing (because user's would not pay for them) and then the triple A level games.

Unfortunately in the former group creation of the games still costs something so now any studio with paid workers has to rely on secondary avenues for revenue since the user's aren't willing to pay up front to pay the game.

I'm really not sure if this is a healthy market anymore.
FWIW, NOAA and it's parent Department of Commerce is one of the rare instances of a federal entity standardizing on Google G Suite rather than Microsoft Office 365. Folks there would be seeing this spam in Gmail instead of Outlook (unless they're using a 3rd party email client). Headlines about APTs breaching Microsoft have been common in recent years, but I haven't heard anything remotely similar about Google.
You’re right, I can’t believe I actually failed to mental math that subtraction problem correctly!
No it's because color printers actually do use small amounts of color in the black parts of the image to make it look better. They act the same for all colors not just yellow.
Got mass banned for stating that a misunderstood comment was not to be seen in its negative light.

No thanks.
> Even strange then that William Tyndale was executed for his opposition to the church, largely through his translation work.

Nothing about translation work:

> In Tyndale's case, he was held in prison for a year and a half: his Roman Catholic inquisitor, Jacobus Latomus, gave him the opportunity to write a book stating his views; Latomus wrote a book in response to convince him of his errors; Tyndale wrote two in reply; Latomus wrote two further books in response to Tyndale. Latomus' three books were subsequently published as one volume: in these it can be seen that the discussion on heresy revolves around the contents of three other books Tyndale had written on topics like justification by faith, free will, the denial of the soul, and so on. Latomus makes no mention of Bible translation; indeed, it seems that in prison, Tyndale was allowed to continue making translations from the Hebrew.[40] Thomas Cromwell was involved in some intercession or plans such as extradition.[41]:220

> When Tyndale could not be convinced to abjure, he was handed over to the Brabantine secular arm and tried on charges of Lutheran heresy in 1536. The charges did not mention Bible translation, which was not illegal in the Netherlands.[40]: 317, 321

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyndale#Betrayal_and_d...
You should practice with https://tailwindcss.com/ and get really good with being able to re-create any design. Use chatgpt or claude for help. You should never be stuck. AI can always get you unstuck.

Then it's a matter of just grabbing their HTML as a starting point. Again, paste it into AI and ask for modifications. You can right click inspect element and copy the entire body tag to a new file.
weird comment, cvs still fills that niche of being local, open late, and literally dealing drugs
Ollama has the ability to pull models off Hugging Face as well:

https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/ollama
Network connectivity, functional diversity mix and human collective ideation
It already is, though granted the phrasing is usually, "It was sure nice of Xerox to provide all that free technology for Apple and Microsoft."

Only on HN is $1,000,000 in stock considered "free."
Abstraction, Encapsulation, and Information Hiding
Intel says Panther Lake is on track for 2H 2025 launch, Nova Lake in 2026
You don't need any infrastructure for llamafiles, you just download and run them (everywhere).