skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In fairness to the 99.99% they don't even know what a bootloader is

True. And awareness and education is very important for useful discourse.

> if they understood the situation and the risks many of them would also favor an open option.

Raising my hand as one of those people who knows what a bootloader is and also doesn't currently care about an open option. Maybe at some time in the future I will again, but for now it is very far down on my list of concerns.

I suspect whether or not AI is useful/high-quality/"good"/etc is just not important to most poeple at the moment. If they are laid off from their jobs in the future and replaced with an AI, I suspect they'll start caring more.

But in the general case, I've found "caring ahead-of-time" (for want of a better phrase) is a very hard thing to encourage, despite the fact that it's one of the most effective things you can do if you direct it at the "right" avenues (i.e. those that will affect you directly in the future).
Accusations of racism have been bandied about with such reckless abandon that they've lost all meaning without specifics and hard evidence of context.

Employers are prohibited from discriminating by statute which can't be amended by executive order. The executive order in question was regarding the use of affirmative action.
I have 30-40 Slack apps or bots at work that spam me about pointless things. I can't block or filter their messages.
If everyone in the company gets a “consider resigning” email, though? Probably some mayhem.

https://www.opm.gov/fork

> Below is the email that was sent to federal employees on January 28, 2025 presenting a deferred resignation offer. If you did not respond to that email and wish to accept the deferred resignation offer, you may do so by following these steps.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-administration-offeri...

> The White House expects up to 10% of federal employees to quit in September in a program meant to end work-from-home practices, senior administration officials told CBS News.
Yes, but for some reason it seems to perform worse there.

Perhaps whatever algorithms Cursor uses to prepare the context it feeds the model are a good fit for Claude but not so much for the others (?). It's a random guess, but whatever the reason, there's a weird worsening of performance vs pure chat.
> the experience from that is that DWARF is way too complicated

The representation and the compression are far too intertwined :(
Something is wrong with the tax law if this is an accounting trick that only a few companies can use this effectively, which I suspect it is. I also suspect that the CEO of Tesla supposedly being placed in charge of federal agencies will somehow reduce that future tax bill. Corporate tax doesn't have to be a thing, but if it is, it needs to be applied fairly.
Also just sharing credentials for anything like this says you don't actually know tech or cyber security. It's like putting your 7 year old in charge of the military because he knows more about tanks than you. These shared creds will likely end in ransomware attacks on this office and any others it can network with. I hope when the government falls there are some places in the world where the economy doesn't fail. RN it doesn't feel like this is going to end well.
I did an EE degree and the sophmore firmware course used an 8 bit PIC (or a motorola 6800 a few years before). About a third of the semester was entirely in PIC assembly, then C, then advanced stuff in C. I think your idea is pretty viable, and sounds more fun than the comp arch class offered.
You are saying essentially that the authority in question was incredibly mismanaged and incapable if its staff would perform worse in their critical functions just because of some personnel changes at the top a few days prior.
> Younger generations don't have the same cultural context so they just see stoners as chill people that smoke instead of drink.

I think some people, even in younger generations, don't know what 'chill' really means. They see it as laziness, because the idea of not 'producing value' every waking moment actually scares them. That fear is the driving force of their lives. They don't have the imagination/empathy/experience to see past it; and judge people (including themselves!) through that lens.

It's deeply unfulfilling, I'm sure, and not just for boomers.
The Matrix Cookbook was one of the most useful texts I had in the late 2000s during my PhD for computing update rules for loss functions. With autograd now widely employed, I don't think it is as fundamental as it was.

Given that, what additional value is The Tensor Cookbook providing such that it is worth learning an entirely new notation (for me)? It would probably require long term usage to really benefit from these visual depictions.
You asked:

>How much in taxes should you pay on a loss?
Anything that has a completely useless error message qualifies.
Please do not use ambiguous error messages in your code!

Very old examples that live in my head, rent-free:

Error - Error.

Something is wrong.
That's a fun, simple test! I tried a few models, and mistral-nemo gets it every time, even when run locally without any system prompt! https://build.nvidia.com/nv-mistralai/mistral-nemo-12b-instr...
Realistically how can we keep our money safe?
Can AI help create better startups?
Trump and his brethren are out for blood after the 34 felonies and the assassination attempt. Hope the attempt at 'rule of law' (and sentence of basically nothing) for rarely prosecuted paperwork crimes was worth it because it's looking like the most costly prosecution in US history in terms of after effects.
To be precise, the NATO target is 5% of GDP. The US spends 13.3% of its budget on defense, but only 3.4% of GDP.
Ubuntu works fine on the Dell XPS 15 9500 laptop I use for work. It came preinstalled with Windows, but I shrank the partition so I can dual boot. (Having all data encrypted-at-rest was a requirement which made things a little trickier.)

The only weirdness I've encountered is some crashing in some lid-open-or-closed software, probably because I tried to make sure it wouldn't sleep just because I wanted to carry it to a conference room.
fwiw I read hacker news through RSS only, top 10 items every day using https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/

Something similar would be great
You have to understand that phrase in the context of the tripartite system of government. We do not have a system of “legal supremacy,” where the lawyers overseeing compliance with the law are effectively a fourth branch of government above all the other branches. The framers were very concerned about the “who watches the watchers” situation.
They were asking about private citizens, not corporations. Your wife isn't a corporation, is she?
Hopefully they also charge my government a 25% tariff for the humanitarian aid delivered by the plane a US resident damaged. /s Good grief. That must be expensive to fix.
It's sad that papers in this area are so standardized in format though. Some of the classic papers break every convention and are written in very idiosyncratic ways. I want to read papers that can be enjoyed slowly and that change my life, not papers where I get trained to read them quickly in a certain way and that have prescribed sections and predictable figures. Life is too short for this rote work.
Events, Logging, and Compliance
I really want to see how apps created this way scale to large codebases. I’m very skeptical they don’t turn into spaghetti messes.

Coding is basically just about the most precise way to encapsulate a problem as a solution possible. Taking a loose English description and expanding it into piles of code is always going to be pretty leaky no matter how much these models spit out working code.

In my experience you have to pay a lot of attention to every single line these things write because they’ll often change stuff or more often make wrong assumptions that you didn’t articulate. And in my experience they never ask you questions unless you specifically prompt them to (and keep reminding them to), which means they are doing a hell of a lot of design and implementation that unless carefully looked over will ultimately be wrong.

It really reminds me a bit of when Ruby on Rails came out and the blogosphere was full of gushing “I’ve never been more productive in my life” posts. And then you find out they were basically writing a TODO app and their previous development experience was doing enterprise Java for some massive non-tech company. Of course RoR will be a breath of fresh air for those people.

Don’t get me wrong I use cursor as my daily driver but I am starting to find the limits for what these things can do. And the idea of having two of these LLM’s taking some paragraph long feature description and somehow chatting with each other to create a scalable bit of code that fits into a large or growing codebase… well I find that kind of impossible. Sure the code compiles and conforms to whatever best practices are out there but there will be absolutely no constancy across the app—especially at the UX level. These things simply cannot hold that kind of complexity in their head and even if they could part of a developers job is to translate loose English into code. And there is much, much, much, much more to that than simply writing code.
> The oldest cars from America go to other cheaper markets replacing the cars in use there.

Why are you assuming other cars are being replaced? Those other markets are not at saturation. What is being replaced could very well be a bicycle.
> and immigrants (many of whom without which Germany would be in further crisis).

Unlike many other countries, Denmark tracked statistics based on immigration status and origin, and found non-Western immigrants to be economically a net-negative:

https://inquisitivebird.xyz/p/the-effects-of-immigration-in-... (includes link to official Danish govt. report)
I would add one more: the address you are dereferencing could be non-zero, it could be an offset from 0 because the code is accessing a field in a structure or method in a class. That offset can be quite large, so if you see an error accessing address 0x420, it's probably because you do have a null pointer and are trying to access a field. As a bonus, the offending offset may give you a hint as to which field and therefore where in your code the bad dereferencing is happening.
> uncited

The actual motion is linked from TFA. I should have been clearer that I was referring to that.

It's worth reading the bits TFA extracts in the context of the motion, both for the supplied historical context and for clarity on the actual position taken.
I would not say that Reagan, who famously developed Alzheimer’s while in office, was notable for his health. But he was already fairly old when he took office.
An inequitable outcome is not proof of bias or discrimination. Ask a group of high school kids to solve a quadratic equation, and there won't be an equitable distribution of correct answers.

Unconscious biases can be eliminated through anonymization or adopting objective evaluation criteria. E.g. having an orchestra audition behind a veil is a way to eliminate bias. By contrast, setting quotas on the number of each gender or race achieves equity, but it does so through explicit discrimination.

Some DEI policies act like a veil. Others work like the latter. The recent executive orders ban the latter, not the former.
I am pretty sure that even without social media, I would face similar challenges in other aspects of life. Growing up in an era without the internet did not prevent my brother from engaging in all sorts of outrageous, and even illegal, antics. The defining characteristic of social media, however, is its unparalleled provision of convenient access to anxiety.
Higher resolution version:

https://www.inquirer.com/resizer/v2/6OXRZY6NOJD3VBA7FMNIIKCI...
Oracle has until Monday to respond to the JavaScript trademark dispute
If they don't, they risk default judgement.
I'd agree, if there was no head of the agency for many months, confusion and lack of direction would drift down and be disruptive. But 8 days after he left? That's equivalent to a vacation, and, as you noted, people manage just fine.

I'll revise my earlier statement. It has nothing to do with the staffing of the agency's head. Yes, if there were not enough traffic controllers, that's indeed a staffing problem. But if the former head of the agency let that go on, putting air safety at risk, then he deserved to be fired.
It really isn’t. What did the Biden administration threaten them with?
It seems like the the first response must get chosen a majority of the time just to account for friction
Last author here. I agree that states already have little incentive to effectively represent their citizens. But they could have even less!

What would it look like to face these issues but more directly? Ending capitalism and competition?
I've slammed headfirst into this wall of infuriating frustration dozens of times. Just trying to find a particular kind of LED bulb that has the feature of being dimmable. Any attempt at searching for that term returns all of the bulbs which helpfully mention "Not Dimmable". And there's no way to exclude that string.

It's maddening because Amazon used to have a modern, reasonably capable search function. You could require terms. You could exclude terms. Terms could be phrases. I'm sure they still have all these capabilities, they've just decided to intentionally disable them because their A/B testing indicated that breaking their search would return a fractional percent more revenue by shoveling more unrelated results in front customers. It must work on someone but it's never worked even once on me, because I KNOW what I need and I'm only going to buy exactly that - if I can fucking find it.

I'd actually be okay to let Amazon annoy the NPCs who just clickety-click and buy whatever random shiny shit they shovel in front of them, IF they'd just add something for us technically-minded, engineering type people who are looking for one precise thing only. They can even hide it behind an arcane interface like REGEX. That'll keep the rabble out! :-)
I have nothing to do with this event, but what do you gain from misrepresenting this?
They also gave:

30 mins on the state of the libp2p project

30 mins on ipfs network measurements

1hr on optimizing libp2p for mobile

30 mins on an end-to-end encrypted mesh network chat service

20 mins on an ipfs DHT performance improvement

30 mins on the QUIC transport protocol

30 mins on hole punching in libp2p

30 mins on libp2p in the browser, which included discussion on WebRTC which you explicitly said was the kind of thing that wouldn't be covered (https://p2p.paris/en/talks/libp2p-browsers-future/)

Yes there's also some crypto stuff there (both crypto-currency stuff like bitcoin security, but also general cryptography stuff like zk proofs and post-quantum cryptography), but I struggle to understand why people react so negatively to legitimately interesting research because it happens to be coming from the cryptocurrency space.
Adding unwanted features, bolting on an AI assistant, changing to a subscription model, and even automating away employees can all be explained by the following iron rule: C-level leadership lives in abject terror of the numbers not going up anymore. Even if a product is perfect, and everyone who needs it owns it, and it needs no improvement, they must still find a way make the numbers go up. Always. So, they'll grab hold of any trend which, in their panic, seems like it might be a possible life preserver.
Easiest way to deal with hospital staff spamming "this person needs an IOP".
Oh, and there needs to be some sort of declarative, rules-based DWARF checker.
Preferably one that doesn't only work on complete files (or collections of files) but also handles snippets.

If it's fast and can work on snippets before they are even written to disk, we can probably catch many compiler bugs.
Where did you see this footage?
I can't see how Musk could possibly improve the FAA. He'll gut it and deflect blame.
We’ll see soon enough, no use debating now. But I’d put money on them not showing any examples that might get them caught up in a media frenzy regarding whether they’re x-ist or anti-x-ic or anything of the sort, regardless of what the underlying ground truth in their specific questions might be.

You’ll note even on this platform, generally regarded as open and pseudo-anonymous, only a single relevant example has been put forward.
Why not let ChatGPT decide the naming? Surely it will be replacing humans at this task any day now?
No, I eventually left because money, I needed to save for a house.
Most of the staff were locals, so already had own/inherited property to live in. After FAANG it was new to work with mostly locals, way more stories about the surroundings.
It is disingenuous, yet also accurate.

HN mostly agrees:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32964519

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42569926

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42122686
Completely agree lol, why the downvotes?
I wrote my first blogpost
Nowadays, UB is used pretty much as a license to make optimizer go brrrr. But back in the day, I think it was used to allow implementations wiggle room on whether a particular construct was erroneous or not -- in contrast to other specifications like "it is an error" (always erroneous) or "implementation-defined behavior" (always legitimate; compiler must emit something sensible, exactly what is not specified). In the null pointer case, it makes sense for kernel-mode code to potentially indirect to address 0 (or 0xffffffff, or whatever your architecture designates as null), while user-space code can be reasonably considered never to legitimately access that address because the virtual memory never maps it as a valid address. So accessing null is an error in one case and perfectly cromulent in the other. So the standard shrugs its shoulders and says "it's undefined".
That would be illegal. They do delete accounts and data.
"What do you meam "download the model and trrain it yourself"?"

You appear to be glitching. Are you functioning correctly?

8)
So are you saying is the FAA didn't have enough controllers to keep the skies safe, ultimately leading to this week's collision? That sounds like a very strong reason to fire whoever is the head of that agency.
I know small planes crash a lot, but I feel like small jets crashing is a bit more notable? Maybe just because there arent that many comparatively.
> LLM androids

They'll make you the perfect pizza with cheese that doesn't slide off because of the glue.

But seriously, I predict inadvisably-applied LLMs are going to eventually end up somewhere between the mistakes of Juicero and the mistakes of leaded gasoline.
Well, for now. But 2.1 is bleeding edge and like most stuff it eventually finds its way to Linux or FFmpeg.
That's funny, the quote exists, but it got the user wrong.
Open AI really needs to work on their naming conventions for these things.
Unpublished in English, perhaps.

There's a clip of Elon's dad saying that his caretaker had read the book to him, translating along the way, and so he'd known the name. It also coincides with an in-law's name, so he took that coincidence as a sign. But Errol really did say that the name came from the book.
There is nothing good that come from this. We are headed for disaster, especially if bird flu or something else starts spreading quickly enough.
Depends on if you're talking about the major airlines or just any charter flight ("Part 135"). Those crash much more frequently.
This is one of the most galling things you realize when you start doing business taxes. If individuals were able to deduct expenses necessary to earn income like businesses do, that would include most meals, full cost of housing (not just mortgage interest), most utilities, vehicles [0], etc. And there would be no "standard deduction" to clear, either.

[0] official IRS policy is that "commuting" expenses are not deductible, but practically you declare the principal place of business as your home, and then anywhere else you go is no longer commuting.
Underappreciated comment right there. The idea about selection vs creation was on my mind, but I wasn't able to put the idea into a solid form as you did there. Thanks.
Yeah my biggest problem with this is what is "value" - Sure there's the numbers on a spreadsheet kind of value that you can count and use, and our society is largely built around this (because it's easy and fairly accurate)

But there's also other kinds of value, ever had something sentimental that you couldn't pay someone to take? Things like family photos are practically valueless on a spreadsheet level but immensely valuable on an emotional level. How do you price having your family and friends around you as you pass?

You can still produce value without producing economic value - this was supposed to be the idea behind charities.
It's funny because I asked it to fix my script to show deepseek's chain of thoughts in the script but it refuses to answer hahaha
I believe you indeed can do this, but you need to recompile GrapheneOS. Which brings me to another one of the turn-offs of GrapheneOS: you also need to recompile GrapheneOS if you want to have root access.

I understand that it's for security, but compiling Android ROMs is generally painful and GrapheneOS is otherwise quite flexible is letting the user choose their own security/paranoia level.
> in your company

This is the point where you have made mistake in your assumption. Democratic countries are not private companies. (But even in your metaphor: this unelected individual is performing hostile take-over.)
I'll stop "thanking" Obama for the ACA when health premiums go back to something sensible. But honestly I liked everything else about him.
On GPU, the rejection sampling approach wouldn't come close to analytical one.
The situation in question is with respect to the government, which under the previous administration was imposing these requirements on government departments and contractors by executive order.

But there have also been attempts to interpret parts of the Civil Rights Act to prohibit "disparate impact" which would effectively require DEI because neutral hiring practices could otherwise result in disparities in outcome as a result of external factors.
I had something like this once.

I was in a car crash on a Sat. night and flew to Boston for work the next day. I got weird calls from out of state the following days telling me I had to call the impound lot who had my crashed car and fax a release form.

Wondering why I had to do this, I called the impound lot who explained that there was a shady company that would make off with your crashed car if they could talk you into releasing it, which then they could strongarm you into repairs with them or they would get the totaled vehicle if insurance went that way. That has got to be illegal, so I contacted the local PD and they simply did not care.

Shady people get rich in businesses where the police do not care. Anything car related seems to be filled with bad behavior.
> That year, I lost about thirty pounds due not having enough money for food. It was in this context that the lab’s principal investigator told me that his funding for my position was running out. Desperate for work, I applied for a job as a web producer and decided to learn to code. My thinking was that it was a stepping stone towards any sort of scientific career, and it would be possible without more formal education or debt. In hindsight, this was the right move, but at the time, it felt like the only move.

This reminded me of the summer when I accidentally landed my first programming gig at my friend's startup as a part-time web developer during university. I was running out of money for food as my research assistant role was unpaid and I asked around for some odd jobs in the city. As a non-CS major, all I had was data analysis skills in Python but my friend thought I was was good enough to help him out with his SaaS startup, and I ended up learning a lot on software engineering principles on that job.