skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, they’re saying that wisdom is something “out there” and our job is to learn it and access it. This implies different people have different levels of access to “the eternal wisdom”, and by extension, one can learn more wisdom.
It strikes me that you might well be out of touch with how we are talking about American tax dollars being wasted on very questionable foreign expenditures.
I believe Gentoo supports multiple init systems, but it's definitely a challenge no matter what.
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.“

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
In other news: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/30/google-issues-voluntary-ex...
Suchir Balaji on AGI: In the long run, only the fundamentals matter (2024)
Rejecting “reward is enough” / RL is the bottleneck:

> It is this pursuit of novelty that separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom, equally as much as it is our intelligence. Intelligence and the pursuit of novelty go hand in hand: it's impossible to pursue novelty without intelligence, and having intelligence without pursuing novelty is pointless -- it's just walking into the corner of a maze... humans follow their own interests and creativity in a way that's unexplained by the direct maximization of the utilitarian reward that evolution hard-coded into us.

> How can we formalize this? .. Informally speaking, the novelty reward is the rate of change of our ability to compress our past observations at a particular time. Understanding is compression, so it is the rate of change of our understanding of the world, with respect to time. The total amount of novelty reward will then correspond to the total increase of our understanding of the world over our initial predictions.

Memorial: https://x.com/yush_g/status/1885121418209484850

I knew Suchir for 8 years. He was one of the sharpest people I’d ever met, and a rare example of a true first principles, independent thinker. From the start, he was entirely self taught... seeing how incredible he had become purely from self teaching inspired me to work on open sourcing courses at top universities, specifically for helping young and self motivated people like him... It's a rare privilege that I treasure, to have had the chance to know Suchir, and to be inspired by someone who stands up for what they believe in, no matter what the status quo is.
Very insightful. Consider there are many "recreational imitators" who mimic how specific (famous) people speak. They are not violating copyright, they are just imitating a way of speaking.
The argument is that the LLM itself is essentially like a complex lossy archive of its entire training set. It's like an mp3 of all of the songs on Spotify, in some sense (of course, using all text on the internet instead of all songs on Spotify). This is the sense in which it is considered to be a copy of all of this.
Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann is required reading if you're in this space.

I can't recommend it highly enough.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications...
My car has limits the government puts on it - it has to shut off it's engine to reduce fuel consumption to hit a government mandate.

My shower doesn't use as much water as I'd like, as the government mandates a flow restrictor.

Why not printers?
Ask HN: Job market for custom OS/RTOS programmers/designers in Europe?
How does it look? Where in Europe is the most job opportunities in your opinion?
Gentoo is fun and does indeed give you the choice but…
What do you mean? Afaik the type system does not affect run time speed, it’s just static analysis
> Systemd is the last init linux will have, and increases the barrier to port software to other unix-likes.

Why would you write portable software that has a dependency on an init system?

> systemd-networkd is one of the most common causes of failure for my desktop

What is objectively worse than buggy networking in systemd is having 26 different incompatible ways to configure networking in Linux.

It is easier to settle on one method (like literally every other OS) and fix the bugs than continually come up with newer, equally buggy and broken, ways of doing it.
The grapes are sour because their moat is crumbling.

What was supposed to be a model, training, and data moat - is now reduced to operational cost, which they are not terribly efficient for.

OpenAI has been on a journey to burn as much $ as possible to get as far ahead on those three moats, to the point where decreasing TCO for them on inference was not even relevant - "who cares if you save me 20% of costs when I can raise on a 150b pre money value?".

Well, with their moats disappearing, they will have no choice but to compete on inference cost like everyone else.
So straight forward and intuitive. I totally would not get a call from a family member attempting to do this and be stuck on the phone for the next hour.
Every time I have any interaction with my bank accounts online, they seem to see it as an opportunity to try to cram paperless statements down my throat. Evidently they learned from the software industry that there's no such thing as "no", just "ask again later".

Whatever spin they put on it (ecology typically) it's about them wanting to save 70 cents a month on postage. The fact they keep trying to slip it under my radar shows a disrespect for me as a customer.

More seriously, I could see it breaking the workflow of people who traditionally used the arrival of the statement as a trigger for other things (maybe they ONLY check their statement for fraudulent transactions once a month, or send off bills when they recieve it), and having it suddenly disappear breaks their workflow.

Rather than "we've got a shinier app" or a new way to insert a chatbot between you and the services you want to perform, a disruptor bank should be going all-in in customer service. If you want statements, you'll get them. No dark patterns or "we changed this setting because you gave us the vaguest hint of consent." First contact on the customer service hotline is straight to a human being. Nothing that requires a custom app-- everything online should work on any device with a browser, and 2FA should be a standalone token provided at the bank's expense. (Aside from providing a simpler UI, it's one more hurdle in turning "stolen phone" into "account compromise")

All the large national banks are interchangeable for a consumer-- they all pay dreck interest, and their primary selling feature is "you might find a no-fee ATM while travelling." But they'd be very suited to the customer-service pivot because they already have the in-person footprint that allows for handling the "I'm in over my head and want to go down and talk with an actual person to get sorted out" scenarios.
Groups helping Americans find abortion pills report Instagram 'shadow-banning'
Right, you cannot copyright such output, is now clear(er).

But what about the other direction, can distributing such AI generated content VIOLATE somebody else's copyright?

If output of AI cannot be copyrighted, can it violate copyright?
But.... nothing. Gentoo is awesome. I have free KoolAid.
> a GitHub Action utilizing our SDK to upload latest releases

Cool. So the tar would be uploaded to the hub and from there the user can manage deployments. Or maybe even create draft? deployments from the gh action and the user would only have to confirm/approve before shipping to clients.

> Do you have an exact upgrade case in mind?

Yeah, some apps could get quite complicated due to <reasons> and a single `docker compose up` for deployment won't cut it. For example, user may need to do a backup before deployment or some post deployment steps like db migrations. These steps may depend on which app version you are updating from, so even though they can be handled from within the app some logic/state is needed to determine when to execute them.

The ability to specify pre-deploy, post-deploy and a custom deploy command (not just docker compose up) would be helpful.

> A deployment can either be managed by the vendor or by the customer.

But not both? Can't the customer invite the vendor back to allow them to perform such actions when necessary?

The customer portal is a good idea, the ux needs a little polish I think. Make it super easy to see if there's a new app version, a button to install it, and perhaps real time feedback/progress. Some customers would also appreciate the ability to export a list of app deployments with logs for auditing.
So you’re worried that LLMs have stopped scaling even though the biggest breakthrough from DeepSeek is scaling RF learning without humans?
What? Go back to Reddit please
Fixed link: https://web.archive.org/web/20100805234134/http://www.thehen...
I needed this. Thanks. Obsessing if I should continue going with .NET/Angular which I started using and learning at my day job.

Or invest all my time learning React/Node stuff.
This wasn't a buggy update. It was announced ahead of time via email, including compensation options.
> To be blunt, I was using Fedora when systemd was coming out, I know how it works intimately because it was constantly broken

This was Fedora 15, in 2011. I would say using this as a baseline qualifies as living in the past?
And why should people do that over just using paypal?
I'm asking for specific 'Great Books' and yet no one gives me specifics.
Again, you are not saying anything new at all with this wall of text. You can claim any competency you want but that has to be evaluated and judged by the Interviewer's (and his team's) standards. This is the key; since your opinion of yourself does not count for that much, you provide all the info. you can to the Interviewer so they can pick up on it and dig deeper on all aspects (coding, designing, requirements specification, system architecture etc.) as needed.

Also a lot of words/phrases you have used above are general platitudes. By themselves they mean nothing unless you can tie them to a specific usecase/experience from your CV which should contain the details. Both the "Forest" i.e. big picture/business need/overall system/architecture/etc. details and "The Trees" i.e. languages/tools/libraries/frameworks/techniques/etc. matter.

You have to deal with Reality even if it is broken but you can do it differently than the norm (but stand out on the positive side) and get excellent results. To paraphrase a wellknown saying; "It is no measure of health to be adjusted to a profoundly sick [recruiting process]".

> The last thing I want to do is discuss how cool it was programming in Fortran in the 90s. ... But that was a distraction from the narrative I was trying to convey. My single focus at an interview is to demonstrate that I have both the soft and hard skills that make me fit for the role.

This depends on what i am interviewing you for. As pointed out above, my requirements/needs trump your view/opinions of the role.

As an example, my very first job was implementing a Personnel Information System using Cobol85 on a Cyberdata mainframe. Using Structured Analysis and Design methods (this was before OO became mainstream) I implemented a RDBMS inspired design using ISAM files and also a UI using ansi escape codes. So even though i do not remember much of the Cobol language itself i remember the design which is still useful today. Hence i can demonstrate knowledge of Relational Theory/RDBMSes as needed. This is only possible if it were listed in the CV in the first place.

> Not really, the latter sounds like the fluffy “I work well with people”.

You have failed the test. This only shows you have no business evaluating any resume for a C++ developer. It is actually an advanced expertise which most good interviewers understand and appreciate and design teams need.
Better to make it law and enforce the law than to trust large companies to do anything ethical.
Unfortunate that you mentioned Brave invalidating your previous two suggestions!
it was more about how my muscle memory has evolved, that I know how it works and the benfits of it- not that I think systemd is the same as it was back then; clearly not as I mentioned things that are <5 years old.
Apple did not “do this”. Apple ole didn’t ruin a perfectly good phone with an update. The throttling they did on phones with old batteries kept them from shutting off completely.
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If you think the majority of crypto is in crime, then I can't help you.

Think of it this way - 500 years from now, will societies still be using paper/polymer notes along with silver/tin/brass alloys for coins, or will they be 100% by then? If digital, would you want sovereign control over your assets via open source solutions, or would you be happy that the government with its closed source systems, made by backchannel private no-contest contracts, controls your ability to pay and get paid?
Why not toilet control - if you have not enough fiber in your ... the electronic money you have on the bank account won't be able to buy you more meat, suggesting vege instead.

But where is the limit of freedom? Where is the border we should stop before or fight for it somehow?
I was getting pretty hyped about the potential for GRPO in my own projects until you said 20 minutes for a single training step with batch size 1! Is that likely to improve?
Just wanted to share an anecdote. When I first checked out this book from the library I couldn’t even get through the first math concept - mathematical induction.

It’s famously a brief intro before the rest of the book, but more math than most everyone learned.

Years later I came back after graduate school etc, and yeah chapter 0 is kind of basic material the reader should know :)
Maybe you should read more widely than articles written in 2018.
This is a great submission but it's too soon after https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877430 (and maybe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42884133 too). We tend to downweight follow-up submissions (see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... for lots of past explanation).

If you want to wait long enough for the hivemind caches to clear (everything old is new again!), you'd be welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and we can send a repost invite so it will end up in the SCP (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308).
You paid a great opportunity cost. You could have been using something good for a year, rather than something designed to prey on your mind.

Every time you made a mistake, you lost a heart. Every time you lost your hearts, you were forced to watch an ad. That's great for Duolingo. You, on the other hand, spent a year being punished for making mistakes, which is the worst pathway one can possibly set up in a language learners' mind. I'm sure you can click on the words for 'Is the elephant under the chair?' very competently in the app now, but I'd be curious to see whether you've been Pavlovian-conditioned to fear making mistakes, and the impact that may have on your productive capacity in spontaneous language interaction contexts.

But hey, your brain is fungible, and VCs gotta get paid. That $14 billion valuation comes from somewhere.
Not all use cases related to time are too complex to just use the existing javascript Date
My dad and I both bought a 4a (5G) at the same time, ours both died within a week of each other. With mine at least I know the issue was that it just stopped charging entirely, no cable plugged in would fix it.

Unfortunately, the 5G variation doesn't appear to be part of this program.
I believe it is not firmware. Because of many reasons, one would be issuing firmware release for every machine would be impossible. It is probably lying so low in the hardware layer, one cannot simply remove or alter it without desoldering etc.
This is Facebook, where people regularly post something in group A and think they posted it in group B, and then complain that their post was "deleted" or "censored".
> yes if AI assisted a human creative process, no if not

Fair enough but does that help settle the other question, which is whether weights are considered derivative works of any material used in the training?
Motivated by respect?! While working in Adtech?
You realize that not only can you buy non Apple headphones, Apple sells Bluetooth headphones with the same integration that the AirPods have for $70?
> Complexity

> We present a polynomial-time algorithm achieving an approximation ratio below √2 for MVC, providing strong evidence that P = NP by efficiently solving a computationally hard problem with near-optimal solutions.

> This result contradicts the Unique Games Conjecture, suggesting that many optimization problems may admit better solutions, revolutionizing theoretical computer science.

Some context: The Unique Games Conjecture (UGC) is a very central unsolved problem in theoretical computer science (TCS), it's open since 2002. It conjectures that, for a series of standard optimization problems including minimum vertex cover, the best known approximation factor (how close you can guarantee to get to optimality with a poly time algorithm) is actually the best possible approximation factor. To disprove the conjecture, one needs a better approximation algorithm for one of those problems. Such an algorithm could be used to solve (to optimality, and in poly time) another set of problems, which are widely believed to be NP-hard. This would not prove P=NP (to be clear: the above quote is not claiming that), but it is true it would revolutionize TCS.

The thing is: this is TCS and theoretical complexity. You cannot disprove UGC with just code. You need a mathematical proof. This is not an indictment of the code which may be very good. But such an enormous claim would require pretty intense scrutiny before it would be accepted as true.
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> Why would you write portable software that has a dependency on an init system?

Ask the GNOME project.

> What is objectively worse than buggy networking in systemd is having 26 different incompatible ways to configure networking in Linux.

"Linux has 26 different incompatible ways to configure networking. Systemd solves this problem by introducing a 27th way that's buggier than most of the others"???
NordVPN can't indemnify you against the cops executing a search warrant at your house, and perp walking you out in front of your neighbours because a NordVPN user used your exit node to download child abuse material.
Courts have ruled that compilation does not remove originality—the binary is still a transformation of an original, copyrighted work (the source code).
Sometimes it helps to be second.
Here's a rather trivial example of using PTX: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/parallel-thread-execution/#spec...

For various micro-bench reasons I wanted to use a global clock instead of an SM-local one, and I believe this was needed.
Also note that even CUDA has "lower level"-like operations, e.g. warp primitives. PTX itself is super easy to embed in it like asm.
What I learned from the article was that Zoroastrians see Fire as sacred. It brings to my mind that the Martians in "Stranger in Strange Land" held Water as sacred. Holy Water, yes that is a commmon notion. Just my random thought.
HN headline is misleading - it reduces battery life for some 4a users, not all 4a users, and anybody that is affected (and they have a procedure to verify whether you're affected) can get a free battery replacement, fixing the problem, or alternatively, cash.
> I don't have to provide proof. Kinda lazy that you're all not out there looking for the proof yourself

Ironically, this attitude is quite Trumpian. I hope you're just pretending to cover the laziness of your argument.
FYI - if you're like me, you just looked at the page thinking it had some links to 3blue1brown videos. Not obvious that those are thumbnails link to interactive video apps. Very cool.
I remember a pretty big class action lawsuit against Phillip Morris and "Big Tobacco"?

The BP Oil Spill class action?

The Anderson Family class action against GM?

The VW emissions scandal?

Enron Securities fraud case?

WorldCom accounting fraud case?

Fen-Phen diet drug settlement?

Bank of America Countrywide Mortgage fraud case?
How many caches and how many databases? I’ve got more than I’d like of either and making sure the right things are happening at the right time is not as trivial as you make it sound.
Seems strange to comparing resource saving to spyware? Potato potatoes I guess.
Pretty nifty, except that it also detects "winks" as "blinks".
40 GB is not simple sloppiness when it comes to a simple screensaver. I would encourage you to explore other solutions than to just blame it on some historical precedent you've experienced. However true it may be. It's just not likely given the criteria.
Local ones yes. International connections were a lot less nice.
There's a lot of "come on just let me have my hyperbole, man" begging on the internet lately. And yes, it needs to be beaten back with truth and logic. I don't understand the mentality of people who think any amount of hyperbole is acceptable, because the effect it has on public perception is very serious. People get their news from Facebook. Should they? Probably not. But if we let people have their fun little "maybe X.... I'm going to go ahead and say DEFINITELY X" clout-chasing moment then we're allowing a lot of people to be deceived.
> There's nothing special about an LLM, there's no learning

The model is 100-500x smaller than its training set. That is something hinting at learning, as direct storage is impossible.
Yes, wrong I think.

People's performance varies from day to day, and if doing the test just once, then some people will pass it because of good luck shape that day, although another day they would have failed.

When constantly predictable high performance is important, it makes sense to do the test on a bunch of different occasions, and look at the overall result (like, lowest, median and average scores). And it'd be ok to do a bit worse on one occasion, as long as you were always above the minimum.

Rather than in effect randomly picking just one test result.

Looking at the results from many tests, reduces false negatives, but also false positives.

(And of course if studying and practice matters, getting to re-take the test some years later: yes of course, but possibly the test should then be a little bit longer.)
Recently I began rewatching episodes of Max Headroom. That shit was like Black Mirror for an 80s audience. My favorite episode concerns a mindlessly insipid gameshow, "Whacketts", that has interlaced with it a hidden signal that looks like rapidly changing hexadecimal numbers, and gets people addicted to the show like a drug. Sounds far-fetched, right? Except we live in the era of Cocomelon and Skibidi Toilet.
Air quality map of Kigali, Rwanda
How was this not a buggy update?
Did you not know about the free hearts you get if you watch more ads?

More seriously, I think you’re taking this way too seriously. I’m happy I learned some words and phrases in Portuguese. I can recognize half of the things I see in the wild in Portuguese. That’s good enough for me.

I don’t have PTSD from an angry owl every time I try to learn a new word, but thank you for your concern
The Hollywood UIs these days seem more plausible than they used to. Someone might be manipulating files in a reasonable facsimile of Finder or Explorer, for instance.
>Everyone can have pride in their identity, it doesn’t need a state apparatus.

Well, you'd want to think so. But I wonder if all identities politics doesn't, in the end, trend towards fascism.
Spot on headline. OpenAI itself uses distillation to launder its own ill-gotten data.