skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't wait to live the good life of the 80/90s again with that our parents enjoyed with 5 hours flights to New York.

More technology advances please so we can break through this zeitgeist of human pessimism and introspection.

Onwards and upwards!
sure, but we shouldn't have to do that if we don't want to. it shouldn't be "mandatory"
Awesome to see! Just got my launch.app link summarizing many links!

https://launch.store.app/launcher/bettoredge

Summarizes from
Twitter at x.com/bettoredge
App at https://app.bettoredge.com
Website at https://bettoredge.com

Can't wait to get more added soon.
Poland court change got partially reverted. The US just has an incredibly weak implementation of democracy.
I will concede that my tone was not as welcoming or polite as it should be and could rightly be considered combative, so please accept my apologies.

> call_direct_and_indirect(IndirectCallTarget, Input, Result) :-
call_direct(Input, Intermediate), % first-class call
call(IndirectCallTarget, Intermediate, Result). % second-class call

I see we are at an unfortunate impasse. I assert what you are calling a "second-class call" is usually considered "first-class". I will leave the definition here for readers to decide for themselves. I rest my case and wish you a good day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_function

> Higher-order functions: passing functions as arguments

Further information: Higher-order function
In languages where functions are first-class citizens, functions can be passed
as arguments to other functions in the same way as other values (a function
taking another function as argument is called a higher-order function). In the
language Haskell:

map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b]
map f [] = []
map f (x:xs) = f x : map f xs
Depends what is inside.

Every security mechanism is breakable with enough budget
Add more supply (sun and wind), what’s the problem?
Why is this news? 2FA is quite basic is it not?
Scott Manley posted an interesting video including some interviews and technical details on XB-1 (as well as some time in the XB-1 simulator near the end of the video).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITGgRhjcHAM
Yeah but if there is no requirement/barrier of entry to do a job; it becomes, pretty much by definition, a minimum wage job.

Is this the great future the AI promises? Almost everyone working for minimum wage while a few tech oligarch rules over all?
French language video without any subtitles whatsoever.
I'm downloading it now and will report back.

(I've been using the 32B and while it could always be better, I'm not unhappy with it)
A bit closer for me, but how will the local community help, if the war is coming?

I considered switzerland for this reason. (Also I like mountains)
Sorry, mate, but it sounds like one.

Such lectures are better to conduct somewhere in ultra-luxury resorts, (flying in private jet of course), to decide what "plebs" are allowed to.

Just a couple examples of hypocrisy.
1. COP28 in Dubai (2023): The 28th UN Climate Change Conference saw approximately 644 private flights associated with the event, resulting in around 4,800 tonnes of CO₂ emissions.

2. World Economic Forum in Davos (2022): During this annual meeting, 1,040 private jets flew in and out of airports serving Davos, leading to a significant increase in emissions compared to previous years.

3. COP29 in Baku (2024): The 29th UN Climate Change Conference in Baku experienced a notable rise in private jet arrivals, with 65 private jets landing in the week leading up to the event, doubling the number from the previous year.
Why a Race to Artificial Superintelligence Is Self-Defeating [pdf]
At 99% the speed of light it will take the traveler less than three years, while 20 years passes on earth. If they then turn around they will return to earth, they will arrive aged 6 years while 40 years have passed on earth. You can come back younger than your children.
The Concorde was in fact able to supercruise. (As someone else pointed out)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercruise#Aircraft_with_supe...
this is not a good change.
The broadcast signals could in principle be recorded onto some manner of magnetic tape, then read back off that tape and rebroadcast a few hours later at whichever time is ideal for different parts of the world.
The point is that normal mode doesn't.
He also said "I believe both those things".
I know who he is, I stand by my statement that the proposal is ill-advised.
This is a cool visualization! I didn't know ABC did this sort of stuff
Interesting, I don't have that, only one scroll bar. I use on Firefox. Do you force some different font or font size on all websites perhaps?
I disagree, I don't really need "conversational chat responses", I need multimodal

ChatGPT is the king of the multimodal experience still. Anthropic is a distant second, only because it lets you upload images from the clipboard and responds to them, but it can't do anything else like generate images - sometimes it will do a flowchat which is kind of cool, GPT won't do that - but will it speak to you, have tones, listen to you? no.

And in the open source side, this area has been stagnant for like 18 months. There is no cohesive multimodal experience yet. Just a couple vision models with chat capabilities and pretty pathetic GUIs to support them. You have to still do everything yourself there.

There is a huge utility for me, and many others that dont know it yet, if we could just load a couple models at once that work together seamlessly in a single seamless GUI like how ChatGPT works.
Even as a kid, I was always concerned with the engines. Were they forced to work? What if one of them decides not to? Are they imprisoned on the tracks? Can't they be given tires or other mechanism so they can export what's not reachable via the tracks?

My mom always thought these questions were very disconcerting.
My point is that LMM is a tool, and we should never attribute any sort of blame to our tools. The blame should always be with the humans.
Every provider / system is different. My wife is a physician who works urgent care shifts over the weekend to serve patients as described above. These are in addition to her M-Friday routine. She is part of the Kaiser system. This is systemwide for Kaiser, so my wife’s weekend engagement isn’t a one-off.
There are two things. First, deepseek v3 and r1 are both amazing models.

Second, the fact that deepseek was able to pull this off with such modest resources is an indication that there is no moat, and you might wake up tomorrow and find an even better model from a company you have never heard of.
That's awesome! Are the multiple CCDs because you're taking photos in separate colors or something?
There is tons of concrete evidence, you’re just ignorant of it. Start with Stanley Miller’s seminal 1953 paper “Production of Amino Acids Under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions” and go from there. There’s been a lot of work on the topic since then, several of which have made it to the HN front page.
Charming? His vocal fry is unbearable to listen to. Worse than nails on a chalkboard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTJZpO3bTpg

TSMC management thought he was an absolute clown when he asked for $7 Trillion. They call him "Podcasting Bro".

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tsmc-rejects-podcasting-bro-s...

He turned OpenAI into ClosedAI. He is a lying greedy sociopath.

It's possible (or at least I hope) he will fade into irrelevancy within the next few years, replaced with a less delusional and less insufferable CEO.
When I see Slack as a support channel I almost certainly won't use the support, and I'm less likely to use the product.

At least I can organize and search emails by default, and it's relatively private.

It's annoying having to anonymize my issues for my employer so I can publicly request support.
And no way to change your password when it's compromised?
If I had what OpenAI has I could imagine how to make it profitable tomorrow, because I could do that is why they HAVE to make it free without an account, to prevent anyone new from meaningfully entering the $0 to $20mth segment, If you look at their business strategy, it's top notch, anchor pricing on the $200, $20 sweet spot, probably costs them on average $5/mth to server the $20/mth customers, Take your $50m a year marketing budget and use it to buy servers, run a highly optimized "good enough" model that is basically just wikipedia in chatbot and you don't need to spend a dime on marketing if you don't want to, amazing top of funnel to the rest of your product line. They know what they are doing I suspect, they just need time to pull a platform together, and they have a long head start on that. Basically all of this reaction is to my mind, effectively presuming that "OpenAI" is a current gen chatbot? one would presume it's going to be a lot wider and deeper than that, and given what DeepSeek is pointing to, one with incredible unit economics over time.
Yes, this is really weird story, because what he actually said seems like the most banal possible thing for a tech executive to say about the prospect of competition.
The code had tests, which is the real-world check against bad code, both AI and human written.
Lets start our search for helium-based life forms immediately!

Or maybe we start with what we know (carbon-based), and keep our minds open to other possibilities. Like we do now.
>A conspicuous share of the show’s megafans are on the autism spectrum
My prediction: scams that target this are going to massively increase.

The majority of people I know are not planning on having kids. There’s a huge percentage of my generation who are the last of their family and will have nobody to manage their estate when they start declining cognitively. There’s going to be a big opportunity for scammers and even legit businesses to vacuum up all of their wealth.
Those are pretty short flights though. My kids get antsy when the flight is 7+ hours. I agree though that short (<6h) flights are no issue.
+1 on Bluesky, either that or Mastodon, so odd to still have to use a highly political and controversial platform like Musk’s Twitter to follow people and projects like these.

Relying on Twitter is a liability, not a feature :/
Bigger fish have a lot more than $10 million, though...
strange, since mine is read only be default. I always have to click the edit button on the detail view to make any modifications.
The plane looks so small on the runway, I thought how could it possibly hold 64-80 passengers.

Hint: it's because the XB-1 is a one-third scale model of their fully fledged Overture.
Light collection. You want to observe one point for a really long time so you get a really good understanding of where the light is coming from, the properties of that light, and its behavioural patterns.

A lot of the detection is statistics around signals, so the better (read more thorough and coherent) your data (observations of changes in light), the more confidence you can have in your conclusions around what's causing the changes (planets with different atmospheres, different positions, different sizes and compositions etc...).
Good shout on Enpass, I was considering moving to self-hosted Bitwarden but Enpass looks like a better product anyway.
You can barely buy a good car for that.
nope.

commercial and private jets generally cap out around mach 0.9

i am very rusty on the economics and details of supersonic commercial flight, but the general gist as i recall is:

- going much faster scales up the cost of flying at a rate that's hard to justify for how much time it saves. there is less case in the 2000s for "having to be in london in 3 hours from NY" than there previously was, too.

- noise restrictions and such limit the usefulness of planes that are set up to fly that fast as people don't like being underneath constant sonic booms, so the routes that supersonic passenger flights were relegated to are mostly over water.

it is just way cheaper and easier to fly subsonic, and if you're on a private jet anyway it's not like you're uncomfortable while traveling.
The LA River Kayaker on a "Re-Naturalization" Mission
"In the habitable zone".

I believe we have some of those, too, but very few. Another one is still a bit of a big deal.
deepseek fine-tuned qwen32b with data generated by deepseek671b
I was assuming the end goal was to make supersonic flight way cheaper than it was for Concorde?
I'm wondering how much of my repulsion to AI is Sam Altman himself. Recently I've been trying to be more open-minded with using LLMs in my workflows and have found some minor performance gains here and there. However the hype around AI is frankly embarrassing.
Thanks for the explanation and contribution! Very much appreciated :-)
Beautiful! https://launch.app/bettoredge
I’m pointing out an extreme lack of self awareness that because you don’t use LinkedIn no one does. Every single non solicited outreach I’ve had has come from LinkedIn - including from most of the major BigTech companies (where I worked until the year before last) and the job I have now.

I’ve had 8 jobs since I’ve had a LinkedIn profile in 2012. Three have come from reaching out to companies on LinkedIn and 2 from companies reaching out to me. I
Sure. But in our society that “trustworthy end-of-life management service” is going to realize that it can achieve better returns by abusing seniors’ finances (or else lookalike services will pop up.) This is the pattern with most debt management companies: they take vulnerable people and upsell them on high-interest consolidation loans.

You either need strong societal values that can stop this (and a business structure that keeps reasonable people in control) or a government that legislates to stop it. We currently have neither in the US, which is one of the reasons we’re in this jam.
I don’t know if it is okey ,but probably someone can delete this post if it isn’t :)

We as an software development agency used Pivotal for 15 years and we were really sad to hear that they are shutting it down ,so we decided to create something similar. If there are other developers that really liked Pivotal feel free to try our tool it is still in beta ,but we would really like some feedback from Pivotal users.

Sorry if this is inappropriate
Show HN: Keep yourself accountable on your indie projects
Hey HN!

I’m excited to share JustLog, a platform I created to help indie devs (like me) share project updates, engage users, and stay motivated through gamification and social interactions.

Why did I build this?
As an indie dev, I often struggled to share updates and stay accountable. JustLog helps me track my journey, share progress with users, and stay motivated with achievements and a leaderboard. It’s also great for sharing system updates with clients in a fun, engaging way.

With JustLog, you can write updates in Markdown, customize your page with a custom domain and your own logo, earn achievements, and track progress on the leaderboard.

Who’s it for?
Indie devs, makers, and game devs who want a lightweight, fun way to share updates and grow their projects.

I’d love your thoughts!

Would these features solve a problem for you?
If you're an indie dev, what keeps you from sharing regular updates?
Do you see any creative use cases for JustLog beyond indie projects?
I actually had some pretty impressive results (and a few duds). I think we've lost sight of how amazing something like this actually is. I can run this on my low-end GPU in a web browser and it doesn't even tax it, yet it's creating incredible images out of thin air based on a text description I wrote.

Just three years ago this would have been world-changing.
But Deepseek took some huge and hugely expensive models that others had paid $Ms to train (well those who didn't already only the hardware mostly used investor cloud credits, but still) and distilled them, rather than training from scratch?
I don’t know if you’re a vim user, but what makes people like vim is that once you master it, it’s not about typing and deleting characters. It’s about text manipulation, but live instead of typing an awk or sed script. It’s like when driving a car, you don’t think about each steps like watching the speedometer, verifying the exact pressure on the gas and brakes, and the angle of the steering wheel. You just have a global awareness and just drive it where you want to go.

It’s the same with Vim. I want something done and it is. I can barely remind how I did it, because it does not matter. Something like duplicate the current function, change the name of the parameter and update the query as well as some symbols, can be done quickly as soon as the plan to do so appears. And it’s mostly in automatic mode.
Might as well tell the folks at SpaceX to not land on the moon because it we already "knew" we could do it because it has been already been done before.

This sort of pessimism to dismiss this achievement is exactly how to lose and stay comfortable.

Ladies and gentlemen, dismiss the above take.
I'm aware of the Miller-Urey experiment.

It's only one piece of the puzzle, and we're aided significantly in it by knowing what the results are supposed to look like.
A Green AI Methodology Based on Persistent Homology for Compressing Bert
Awesome, love to see it!
Is your first claim in the R1 paper? I didn't see it when I looked
> I like bitwarden, but there are a lot of weird things that make me want to move or find a self-hosted solution.

You can selfhost Bitwarden. There is also an alternative server named vaultwarden.
It's great that recovery codes exist, but the security model can't rely on them. Unused email accounts get deleted, yubikeys get lost or reset, relatives lose documents, passports get renewed, house fires and car accidents happen, time passes, etc.

Any critical procedure needs to be exercised regularly to ensure it's still working. Normal people don't do that with recovery codes.
I'm dealing with this right now as a staff engineer. We are being asked to "bake in AI" into our product, without any idea what it means or what the end goal is.
Would 0600 be even safer then?
Completely agree! Felt like such a refresh right up until the suggestions to follow on the Musk platform – it’s basically the same as suggesting to follow on Truth Social nowadays, only that Musk has more money than Trump could ever dream off
Sounds like the Team Fortress 2 "Meet the Spy" PIN

"1-1-1-uh-1!"
I'm sure they have cameras that could trace things back to you.

In my mother tongue there's a saying that that roughly translates to "The lock on the door isn't there to keep you out. It's there to communicate that you're not wanted there."

But this is coming from a culture that's rather communal where shared property is often the default.
Actually 2112 is slightly elevated in the other reddit heatmap someone linked that you can zoom in on.
But folders are now stuffed into a small dropdown, leaving All Items as an unorganized mess.

That change alone is pushing me to switch password managers.
It's not futile to try to get interest on a tiny bank balance and I explicitly said that it's not futile. (I said that the hypothetical $50 was 'worth having'.) The thing is that
people on low wages already have to think about money all the time. They will be reluctant to spend even more time thinking about it unless there's likely to be a big payoff. I think you are vastly overestimating how much money a typical American has lying around that has the potential to collect interest.

Also, the current interest rate on a Fidelity cash management account appears to be around 2.2%, not 5%.
Boom: America's answer to Concorde completes its first supersonic flight
It’s horrible. They also updated the iOS app and it’s buggy.
Altman is not an AI founder. He's a business owner and investor. He doesn't even have an undergrad degree! The actual AI founders are the ones building the tech, and OpenAI has chased many of them away.
Error patterns aren't type checked in Go. So you can forget to check an error, not notice, and ship a bug. It compounds with features like zero values and pointers-as-null to make these bugs either subtle or not subtle, but discoverable only at runtime.
To me, this isn't an endorsement.
They have less motivation to improve areas that are hindering those limited by 10 million.
And I think you're missing my point. If everyone is perfectly aligned and recognised what will be rewarded, no-one wants to do any other task.

I work in finance. We have a lot of regulatory requirements. Assume some boring regulatory requirement comes in that all of your agorithmic trading on electronic venues needs to stamp an algorithm id on each message to the venue (this was a real thing). Someone has to do a huge amount of boring work aligning everything to do this, and in the end, there is little visible value creation from this work, and you're not going to be rewarded for doing it (people weren't). But without it, your business will cease to function entirely.

The problem is the stakeholders controlling reward are far from perfect. They will judge this project against a project that tweaked the algorithms for better performance (as I already alluded to) and reward the latter, because it made dollar sign go up.

So basically you end up in a shark tank where developers are acting selfishly, desperately trying to get their name attached to the correct projects, and the loudest voices win.

The value of a quiet, but excellent developer, who writes correct code, doesn't introduce stupid complexity, makes the right decisions for the future, even if it takes longer, is very high. But that value isn't easily visible and I'd argue this is rife across the every industry that employs developers, not just big finance.
The argument has never changed the argument has always been the same.

LLMs do not think, they do not perform logic they are approximating thought. The reason why CoT works is because of the main feature of LLMs, they are extremely good at picking reasonable next tokens based on the context.

LLM are good and always have been good at three types of tasks:

- Closed form problems where the answer is in the prompt (CoT, Prompt Engineering, RAG)

- Recall from the training set as the Parameter space increases (15B -> 70B -> almost 1T now)

- Generalization and Zero shot tasks as a result of the first two (this is also what causes hallucinations which is a feature not a bug, we want the LLM to imitate thought not be a Q&A expert system from 1990)

If you keep being fooled by LLM thinking they are AGI after every impressive benchmark and everyone keeps telling you that in practice LLM are not good at tasks that are poorly defined, require niche knowledge, or require a special mental model that is on you.

I use LLM every day I speed up many tasks that would take 5-15 mins down to 10-120 seconds (worst case for re-prompts). Many times my tasks take longer than if I had done it myself because it’s not my work im just copying it. But overall I am more productive because of LLM.

Does LLM speeding up your work mean that LLM can replace Humans?

Personally I still don’t think LLM can replace Humans at the same level of quality because they are imitating thought not actually thinking. Now the question among the corporate overlords is will you reduce operating costs by XX% per year (wages) but reducing the quality of service for customers. The last 50 years have shown us the answer…
Overconfidence is it's own category of system vulnerability.
We absolutely know what it’s supposed to look like: monomers. Monomers that can form polymers.

The specific chemical details are irrelevant. We have no evidence of other monomers that could enable non-water based life.
Every single thing you said here falls apart at 'it costs on average $5/mth to serve the $20/mth customers'.
It's like when Gemini topped Chatbot Arena Leaderboard, and OpenAI released a model next day.