skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stores seem to have dialed down some of the sensitivity. I don't know the last time I've run into a complaint because I used my own bag or something else that affects weight. One of my regular grocery stores doesn't have self-checkout. The other one has both and I'll wait for a cashier if I have a lot of items, especially produce. But if I have a handful of barcoded items I'll use self-checkout unless there is a cashier's lane with literally no wait.
*Dropbox Paper
Bot getting out of control
Quantum Odyssey – a game about quantum circuits now in Early Access
Facebook should bad pdfs and all discussions about them. PDFs are a cyber security threat.
Where can I apply? :)
Drinking pasta water is another thing that becomes totally appealing during calorie deficit.
Free global trade, when US prints the currency used in those trades, results in the globe being robbed by US. That's what "US trade deficit" means. It's how much US extracted from other countries by use of freshly printed paper. That's the secret fuel of US dominance of last seven decades. Trump's messing with global trade is going to accelerate dethroning US as a global hegemon.
Just give me five days of remote work—that’s all I ask. My job doesn’t require me to add to the traffic, yet there are middle managers rallying for RTO to maintain their relevance.
Wow, nice achievement! It's funny to see the amount of community effort around vscode to make it behave like vim.

I've never got to like oil.vim. Tried, but it doesn't stick.

I guess, partly because it doesn't solve a real problem for me: commandline (bash, zsh) with gnutools is good enough.

But mostly because doing stuff to files, for me, is more about the actions (commands, events) and less about the end result. With oil, it feels a bit like I describe the state I want in a text file (in a DSL) but my head keeps translating that from the actions I'd need to take. Probably just 30+ years of commandline thinking worn into my brain too deep.
From watching Severance, the closest parallel to me for a company I ever actually worked for is Disney. Disneyland performer was one of my first jobs, and the orientation is a lot like Lumon's. Video history of the company's reach and achievements. Tremendence reverence for the founder. Disneyland has a statue of Walt holding hands with Mickey at the junction between Main Street and Fantasyland and Main Street itself is a reproduction of Walt's hometown as it was when he was a kid.

And there is absolutely a cult of devoted followers. Even I personally had literal groupies from this job. There were women annual pass holders who'd be there every day to watch me and try to become friends with me. The memorabilia auctions were among the most insane things I've ever seen. Comers from everywhere in the world paying tens if not hundreds of thousands for the slightest piece of something authentic the same way someone will drop a cool mil for a baseball signed by Babe Ruth. There were people who collected annually released pins who'd been doing it for 70 years.

For the fans, it starts in childhood, too. The relationship is so deep that Disney fanatics love the company more than they love their own friends and family sometimes. Even for me, my very first favorite film was The Sword in the Stone, the Disney cartoon from the 60s about King Arthur. I don't even remember it, but my mom tells me I was rewatching it like teenage girls of the 90s rewatched Titanic when I was 4 years old. Disney imprinted itself into me before I even formed permanent memories.

They had global reach, too. Disney perfected this kind of thing way before Apple did.

There is another element to Lumon that I don't think Apple has, too. That's the company town. They own almost everything. Virtually everyone works there or is related to someone who does. Disney kind of had this with the City of Anaheim for a long time, but the city has probably outgrown it at this point. But at one point, they owned most of the land, employed most of the people. Disney owned both of Anaheim's pro sports franchises at one point. One of them was even named after a Disney movie! They had deals with the city to restrict airspace visible from within the park and never to build anything that could be seen to preserve the illusion that you're in an entirely self-contained world separate from the real world. Cal State Fullerton was called "Cal State Disney" at one point because so many of the students were employed there.
It says 4.25 TPS in the first para.
Just like how Linux and Python started out and crashed and burned and nobody ever uses them any more lol

Mate, what are you actually on about?
CDC data are disappearing
Dishwashers and washing machines don't eliminate cleaning all dishes/kitchen stuff and clothes but, realistically, they cut down on them a lot.
I don't think that person was specifically offering advice. And I don't think the article was asking for any.

it's interesting info regardless.
Proponents pretend like 4 day work weeks don’t reduce output with all sorts of dubious motivated reasoning.

A lot of it is “we can be more efficient” and therefore we don’t need to work as many hours, overlooking the obvious fact that if everyone can be 20% more efficient then logical thing to do is downside headcount by 20%, not keep 100% of the workforce at 80% of capacity.
Well, I read this, now I am sure: as of today, deepseek handling of LLMs is the less wrong, and by far.
There's even bogus "But it's encrypted" crypto in the new software I'm working with in my day job this year 2025. There are so many other "must fix" user visible problems that I actually forgot to mention "Also the cryptography is nonsense, either fix it or remove it" on the one hour review meeting last week, but I should add that.

I've made one of these goofs myself when I was much younger (32 byte tokens, attacker can snap them into two 16-byte values, replace either half from another token and that "works" meaning the attacker can take "Becky is an Admin" and "Jimmy is a Customer" glue "y is an Admin" to "Jimm" and make "Jimmy is an Admin") which got caught by someone more experienced before it shipped to end users, but yeah, don't do that.
What Happened to Decades? [video]
We both know he won't
That billions of dollars is being spent on AI? That's a wild claim?
1M Lazygit downloads, one embarrassment at a time
Wow, that is really cool. What an amazing passion project and what an incredible resource!

Zooming in you can see the titles, the barcode and hovering get a book cover and details. Incredible, everything you could want!

Some improvement ideas: checkbox to hide the floating white panel at top left, and the thing at top right. Because I really like to "immerse" in these visualizations, those floaters lift you out of that experience to some extent, limiting fun and functionality for me a bit.
Honest mistake. Some people think HN is just a series of short tweets and haven’t realized they are links yet!
It's dramatically useful for millions of people who are now much more productive than they were 3 years ago, including the programmers who have 10x'd their output.

Your superiority complex is nothing new... anytime new technology emerges, there's an old crochety class that thinks it's a fad. It's always people arrogant enough to believe they know the world better than everybody else.

And no, billions of people aren't spending money on tech purely because of FOMO. That's just nonsense.
Jesus. I have experienced nausea only a couple of times and it was miserable. cannot imagine the suffering these outliers go through.
I don't know what the point of your rant was. Nobody is talking about AGI. Even if the technology never evolves again, it's still dramatically useful to the tune of billions and billions of dollars being spent on it.
The data about who "owns" shares in US companies is stored digitally in the US.

The holding company in the other country holds the shares. They are in fact the ones who own the stock. I see no contradiction here.

Similar situation with the Dollar. That's why Russia can't just sell their Dollars to other countries.

At what price? I assume this is referring to the Moscow exchange deciding to shut down its own dollar trading, which is (1) self imposed and (2) very different from what you just said, because Russian holders can certainly still trade US dollars directly with each other.

I'm nearly positive a buyer exists who would be willing to trade at, say, 1 US dollar per 0.1 Chinese yuan, even if it meant they had to drive a truck into and out of Anatolia to move the physical bills. China and Russia are trade partners, but s/China/India, Kazakhstan, wherever you want - the point remains the same. Indeed, if Russian citizens are not rushing to sell their dollars for whatever they can get them for, it must be because they foresee some future where they might have actual value, which seems at odds with the claim that Russia is permanently and magically banned from ever using their US dollars again.

[T]he US might not want to send stuff to Europe when Europe has nothing to send back.

Yes, that's how free trade works. Congratulations. Yes, if you don't have anything your partner wants the trade won't taken, and you'll have to make do on your own.

This seems extremely contrived. First, you're imagining US-Europe trade slows to a trickle. Second, you're imagining that not one single Euro country decides to reverse course on their bad economic choices when it notices this. Third, you're imagining that Norway is still holding onto their enormous US assets in this situation instead of liquidating them as soon as they see people riding the horse and buggy to work again.
I'd pay for a 100x faster TypeScript parser / compiler with full AST access like https://ts-morph.com/ (that uses `tsc` under the hood, iirc). For just the typechecking part, no (I don't know if you can write a typechecker without going to AST, though).
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Unless your strictly monitored, 5 day work from home can become work when you feel like but respond quickly during office hours as long as you get things done, which is fine by me and my employer as long as the get things done and respond during office hours actually happens
>Any suggestions on building a low-power desktop that still yields decent performance?

You don't for now. The bottleneck is mem throughput. That's why people using CPU for LLM are running xeon-ish/epyc setups...lots of mem channels.

The APU class gear along the lines of Halo Strix is probably the path closest to lower power but it's not going to do 500gb of ram and still doesn't have enough throughput for big models
> In Ruby, every object that is instantiated is represented internally by basically three things:

> * A table of instance values

> * A pointer to the class of the object, used for method lookup

> * A pointer to a unique class for that instance, called the “singleton class” of the object, also used for method lookup

I don't think this is accurate. The source code shows a generic `RObject` [0] contains flags, a pointer to a class (named `klass`), and instance variables. An `RClass` [1] contains flags, `klass`, `super` and a table of methods.

In both cases there is only a single pointer to a class that's used for method lookup.

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> Ruby will look in the singleton class for the specific user instance first, and will only look for an instance method of the class if there is no matching method in the singleton class.

This is true, but it implies that Ruby does two separate lookups. The way it actually works is more elegant.

An object's `klass` points to its singleton class, and method lookup happens only on that class and its superclasses. The second lookup implied above happens implicitly, because the class of the object is an ancestor of the singleton class.

Specifically, for `class C`, its `klass` points to the singleton class `<< C`, whose ancestors are `<< Object`, `<< BasicObject`, `Class`, `Module`, `Object` and `BasicObject`.

IMO Ruby's whole object model, and in particular the design of this inheritance chain, is beautiful and underappreciated.

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> I’m not really sure why the Smalltalk solution wasn’t used

I think the way Ruby actually works is closer to the Smalltalk approach than the author realizes.

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[0] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/71f402c5d50919b0329d04704d...

[1] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/71f402c5d50919b0329d04704d...
You are a maddmann! No bot there, ask me a question a bot would not figure out bro ;)
Rebuttal, how do you implement interfaces in OOP languages in cases where you don't yet expect the object to exist, e.g. an interface with toString and fromString methods.
I don't trust a company that goes against its founding principles.

OpenAI is not publishing open source models. They should rename as ClosedAI.
4.25 is enough tps for a lot of use cases.
Bear with me, I'm serious. When you say "Typically when AI hits human capabilities they immediately overshoot and become superhuman", what AI are you thinking of?
Impressive presentation.

Note: The presentation reflects the contents of Anna's archive exclusively, rather than the entire ISBN catalog. There is a discernible bias towards a limited range of languages, due to Anna's collection bias to those languages. The sections marked in black represent the missing entries in the archive.
You can get 1t/s on a raspberry pi.

https://youtu.be/o1sN1lB76EA?si=i8ecEBjLdV0zewFQ
terminalcollective.org
That's still pretty slow, considering there's that "thinking" phase.
Wow, what a cool little project, congratulations on shipping!
https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1ieonxv/comment/ma9...
What I'm trying to say (which deviates from the initial question I've asked), is that biological brains (not just humans, plenty of animals as well) are able to not only use "random things" (whether they are physical or just in mind) as tools, but also use those tools to produce better tools.

Like, say, `vim` is a complex and polished tool. I routinely use it to solve various problems. Even if I would give LLM full keyboard & screen access, would be able to solve those problems for me? I don't think so. There is something missing here. You can say, see, there are various `tools` API-level integrations and such, but is there any real demonstration of "intelligent" use of those tools by AI? No, because it would be the AGI. Look, I'm not saying that AI would never be able to do that or that "we" are somehow special.

You, even if given something as crude as `ed` from '73 and assembler, would be able to write an OS, given time. LLMs can't even figure out `diff` format properly using so much time and energy that none of us would ever have.

You can also say, that brains do some kind of biological level RL driven by utility function `survive_and_reproduce_score(state)`, and it might be true. However given that we as humankind at current stage do not needed to excert great effort to survive and reproduce, at least in Western world, some of us still invent and build new tools. So _something_ is missing here. Question is what.
Pyramid structure discovered near Caral Peru
Classic LLM Jailbreak methods
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Midjourney are all branded as "AI".
The article covers the relevant material, and is independently verifiable by people with a mind.

The references support what is said, unlike other noise that clearly violates community guidelines in a number of different ways.
Don't get your point.

EDIT: especially because

1/ I don't see how the Church's teachings have been "invincible" over millennia. It evolved, if only by synods, that debated and settled dogmas (and what was true at one point, became not at some later one... so go figure). And outside of its sphere of influence, it's been shown (not always, but enough to question its whole authority) to be wrong or irrelevant - sexual and power abuse scandals are the most prominent and recent fruits of evil I can quote.

2/ claiming that God's is behind you, without any relevant and factual proof of it (and any verifiable claim from God saying that you indeed are acting in His Name), is the perfect excuse to do whatever you want, as no one would think of critiquing you. "Tradition" is of no help either here. That's the Achille's heel of hierarchical religions.
> 911 calls are mostly public information since they involve public services who all need to communicate with one another

What? No...
True, but 4.25 is the number we all want to know.
I have used a myriad of programming languages in production in my nearly 25 years of professional programming. There are things I love (almost never "hate") about most languages.

But the reason C# is one of my favourite languages to code in professionally is simply because of how easy it is to setup the environment and just get to work. Admittedly on Windows, but I've learned over the last 5 years it's a pretty simliar experience on Linux too. No messing with environment variables or paths; no header file wrangling; no macro shenanigans; no messing with virtual memory settings etc etc etc.

Yeah, I get it. Choice is nice. But when it comes to my job what's most important is that I can just get to work.
Based on breaches in systems like Okta and others, I don't think anyone knows how to do it 100% correctly.
The technical answer is layers and destructive edits, you could probably summarize this as compositing (i.e., combining different images together). I don't think there's necessarily even a correlation between pro vs. non-pro (I'm not remotely a pro, but run into limitations of the Lightroom-approach to editing [which is what you're talking about, editing that can't do destructive edits or non-adjustment layers] quickly). I think what it correlates with is whether you want to quickly edit lots of photos (Lightroom) or deeply edit a single photo without limitations (Photoshop).
This runs the 671B model in Q4 quantization at 3.5-4.25 TPS for $2K on a single socket Epyc server motherboard using 512GB of RAM.

This [1] X thread runs the 671B model in the original Q8 at 6-8 TPS for $6K using a dual socket Epyc server motherboard using 768GB of RAM. I think this could be made cheaper by getting slower RAM but since this is RAM bandwidth limited that would likely reduce TPS. I’d be curious if this would just be a linear slowdown proportional to the RAM MHz or whether CAS latency plays into it as well.

[1] https://x.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106?s=46&t=5D...
Out of two people with chronic outbreaks of Herpes who I have taught to counter the adagio of any stress and equip the rest of the mind against unhealthy stress in general ( recurringly; I haven't found a way to hard-code such a root in adult minds ), only one applies my teaching and is affected 20+ times less by Herpes than before and per year in comparison to the other person. One is also a lot more consistent regarding his diet and eliminated any "impure" saucage like Salami, Mortadella et al as well as most cheeze.

In our family and their social circles, Alzheimers and Dementia are quite prevalent, but absent in any siblings who ate and drank (liquor) "more expensive" and less "impure" ( impurities introduced in all the steps of agri-/horticulture and (ultra-/processing) ).

Some stuck to the epithany that "this is not real meat" and "this is not real milk" when they arrived from the East, others didn't. Some noticed the effects of concentrates vs whole ingredients and others didn't.

IMO, focus on what happens to the nerves in body rather than brain when they are affected by anything "artificial" or "impure". Alzheimers , Dementia, Herpes and so on are the end of a long line of "stuff that happens".
I've been fortunate that my manager previously told me "if you're surprised at the performance review, I've failed at my job". That feels like the right approach - everyone should know their situation as soon as something starts going wrong, not suddenly at company-level layoffs.
It is not an statistical machine. I see it repeated constantly. It is not. A statistical machine could be a bayesian spam filter. The many layers and non linear functions between layers create complex functions that go well beyond what you can make with “just” statistics.
Ratzilla
Great question! I know a couple of startups that are using it, and I am also using it as an independent consultant. It's not optimal for every scenario, but you can't really fail with it. You'll just move slower (or work harder) if what you're developing doesn't align well with its ecosystem and ways of doing things.
I didn't appreciate the difficulty of the Fly to Book path calculation until I read the description!
I think you’re right - I must have used it in regular mode, then got GPT-4o to fill in the gaps. It can fully automate a lot of menial work, such as refactors and writing tests. Though I’ll add, I had a roughly 50% success with GPT-4o bug fixing in agent mode, which is pretty great in my experience. When it did work, it felt glorious - 100% hands-free operation!
In practice, you're going to test the next version of the compiler anyway if you want to be sure your code actually works. Agreements or not, compilers have bugs on a regular basis. From the point of view of a programmer, it doesn't matter if your code broke because you missed some fine point in the standard or because the compiler got it wrong, either way you're going to want to fix it or work around it.

In my experience, if you don't try to be excessively clever and just write straightforward C code, these issues almost never arise. Instead of wasting my time on the standard, I'd rather spend it validating the compilers I support and making sure my code works in the real world, not the one inhabited by the abstract machine of ISO C.
In Germany and particularly in the East, immigrants bring in 5.8% of the gross domestic product in value. Without immigrants, the economy would decline and with them, it actually grew.

https://www.iwkoeln.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Studien/Kurzber...

> found non-Western immigrants to be economically a net-negative:

Not really. Some non-Western countries do have positive contributions.
this has nothing to do with the full 671B and the ollama models are distilled qwen2.5
Some ppl “just need to press a button” so i’ve been told. I like httpie, but curl and wget could hardly be more mature tools.
Still surprised that the $3000 NVIDIA Digits doesn’t come up more often in that and also the gung-ho market cap discussion.

I was an AI sceptic until 6 months ago, but that’s probably going to be my dev setup from spring onwards - running DeepSeek on it locally, with a nice RAG to pull in local documentation and datasheets, plus a curl plugin.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/project-digits/
36 hours is the standard in my country- it's called progress. A century ago it was probably 80 hours for everyone over 12 lol.
What I've seen suggests that in absolute terms human intelligence is fairly low variability. Officially I refer to this chart [0]. Unofficially I'm usually thinking of AlphaGo as my reference. The Fan Hui version didn't look like it was as strong as the one that won against Lee Sedol, and that version was weak vs. what the AlphaGo team bought to bear a little later online. The sub- to super- human was remarkably fast.

Given the rate of improvement of Stable Diffusion (v1 was amazing in context that it just wasn't possible before, but before around SD v3 I didn't feel like it followed the prompt at all - then Flux happened) I'd expect to see an AI system pumping out Pride and Prejudice-level works by the minute some time this decade and I have no idea what the future of art will be but I imagine pretty impressive.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/test-scores-ai-capabiliti...