skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking forward to its release. But hopefully it will show its "thinking" process.
When the current president immediately blames the brown people for an air disaster, all I can tell you is, we're not there yet.
I was thinking the same. The author makes a great point when it comes to a portfolio, but most of the work I do is for corporate clients for example. They value efficiency and ease of use (I.e. predictability) of a ui/ux solution over any creative outlet. I don't think I should start doing more of that.. I'll be out of a job pretty fast
Love the poetry in the comment prose! Endeavour so much needed in the industry. It can only come out of the joy of coding, how else could it be born...
> SPARQL guarantees no such composability.

SPARQL has a CONSTRUCT clause which gives you RDF as your query output. Isn't that compositional enough?
n=17 (7 older adults). Fairly useless, IMO.

Having said that, I believe it's been very well documented that touch screens in cars are less usable than the button equivalents, and likely affect driving safety. The only new thing in this study is that it's just worse for older people. (Not that younger people are not impacted).
Hmmmm, we had two cheap quartz wristwatches with a drift of +/- 15 seconds per month, and they were allowed to run for 5 years, drifting in opposite directions, we might expect a difference between them of 0.5 hours.

So having two of these detectors going wonky with "just" a 4-hour difference doesn't seem too far outside the capabilities of some kind of "replace me" timer circuit.

Obviously it could also be Invisible Evil Gas Traces, and the impact of being wrong is severe, so I wouldn't blithely dismiss the alarms as planned obsolescence either.
Is it same as the case + solution in this video w Forstall?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiuVggWNqSA&t=2490s
We need a name for this tactic. I see it from right-leaning folk all the time.

1. Alter the rules so the thing is under threat

2. Intervene to protect it from the harm you initiated

3. Now you're encumbered by one fewer rule, and you're a known protector of the thing

Executive Heist? Tyrant's Gambit? The Ol' Feudal Switcheroo?

My local school district did it with school days just this year. On the books they're now "online learning days" but thanks to the largesse of the very people who took them away, we can have them still... as a gift.
I get the same problem when I work in the garden digging a lot. The skin gets thick and dry and touch screens start behaving strange. Not that I can't use them, but like the centre of the tap has an offset.
Can you offer any other possible explanations than "unconscious bias" that would lead to different outcomes?

"Unconscious bias" is sociological dark matter. It is a kludge used to prop up otherwise ineffective social theories.
The fact is currently software is going to be more complex every day and in some cases designing it to being easy to use and friendly is even harder than the software logic itself.
The article is talking about considering AI agents as a new type of users and optimize our software for them. I guess any time soon many users are doing their day to day tasks through these agents.
i think a big part of it is that their audience isn't just other gamedevs, it includes gamers

those gamers often have strong emotional attachments to games/characters that very few people have for google sheets

studios get crazy backlash for nerfs and other changes, so i can see not wanting to attach your name and face to that. in the other direction, i wouldn't want a horde of gamers using my words as evidence that my employer is dogshit, unless that was the goal of my message
2025 GitHub Copilot vulnerabilities – technical overview
Congress not only _could_ control rents nationally, congress _has_ controlled rents nationally [1] and those controls survived the review of the court.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Price_Control_Act_of...
my 70-something parents both struggle and have to resort - not without disappointment and sadness - to capacitive pens
This is also interesting: "Customers will be able to use distilled flavors of the DeepSeek R1 model to run locally on their Copilot+ PCs."

This is news, because Microsoft seems happy to not be tied to OpenAI so heavily.

This could also safe a huge amount of money for their Office 365 Copilot initiative.

I figure Microsoft started analyzing these models ASAP in their labs to catch up with OpenAI, Google, Anthropic etc.

By also hosting this model, they will help normalize the use of them from which they immensely benefit.
FAANG becomes Voltron
It’s rarely that black and white; moreover, what defines whether is it legal or not is the lawsuit itself. If Apple believes it was not defended appropriately, it would make sense to join suit.
We just built a £5B sewage tunnel bigger than the Elizabeth line[1] across London, it's hard to see why there should still be discharges into the Thames.

The other problem is that much of our system was built before it was recognised that it's better to have separate sewage and surface water systems. (Oddly enough, the word sewage originally referred to surface water drainage, not excrement).

[1] The Elizabeth line is our newest and widest metro line. The new tunnel at 7m diameter is larger, although technically since it only goes in one direction it's only bigger than half the Elizabeth line - it being the general consensus that sewage does not need to make a return journey.
Exemplify?
Because it is.

It's amusing how much Democrats bitch and moan when Republicans finally put an end to their racist policies.

First time was with Abraham Lincoln. Now this.

Nothing ever changes.
> Since apparently there's no point in testing them for "aptitude"

That's a weird conclusion, but I don't have the data you're looking at. What out-of-the-box testing have you tried?
Serials in Microfilm (SIM) collection (2018)
Thank you for sharing this retrospectively hilarious story.
This is far too soon after R1 to be a reaction. They were training this model before R1. If they stopped censoring the reasoning steps or (Yud forbid) open sourced it, that would be competition really working. But they won't.
> Well, in other parts of the world you have people talking about progress and how to advance the human species while in the EU we have people talking about how to regulate every minute detail of human life. You can't get any more telling than that.

This is a kind of strange take. Do you think conference topics are mutually exclusive? I assure you no other conferences on a multitude of interesting subjects were harmed in the making of a one-day AI Act conference.

You're not really providing any concrete examples of GDPR failing, so there's not much there to respond to. I've used the right to erasure and right of access successfully and automatically opt out of trackers when browsing, which for me is a benefit.
...graphical debugging using too many visualizations of the Hilbert curve
aider found that with R1, the best performance was to use R1 to think through the solution, and use claude to implement the solution. I suspect that, in the near term, we'll need combinations of reasoning models and instruction-following coding models for excellent code output.

My experience is that most of the models focused on reasoning improvements has been that they tend to be a bit worse at following specific instructions. It is also notable that a lot of 3rd party fine-tunes of Llamas and others gain in knowledge based benchmarks while reducing instruction following scores.

I wonder why that seems to be some sort of continuum?
That also apply to the Multilingual tests they do. I wonder if the overall gain against Base GPT-4o is there. What even strange is that they spent about three pages talking about how hard they worked on making sure that the model doesn't answer questions about nuclear weapons or anything that seems unsafe in this regard. Which is funny because they even said that they do this although they didn't train on classified information and the knowledge it contains is from unclassified information.

Nuclear development is state actors game. If they want to do it they wouldn't need LLM to answer the questions. And most of the work is actually building the program and acquiring materials ..etc. And do all of these development while not make themselves detected by the world (which is impossible task).

But they spent less time and explanation on more important parts like coding performance.
I highly highly doubt that DOJ succeeds in convincing the Court to force Google to divest Chrome. That wasn’t really part of the trial, which focused on Google’s contracts to make its search engine the default on other platforms.

However, if DOJ does succeed then yes this case could make it easier in the future to force Microsoft to divest Bing if Bing ever gained a monopoly in search. As a comparison, the original Microsoft antitrust case precedent is very important to this search case. That’s why the government sued in this district (the same district they sued Microsoft in decades ago).
> I think a lot of these products aren’t monetized because they’re actually bad businesses or failed venture

Gmail, for example, would be a fabulous standalone business with a normal (subscription) business model like other premium email services. I would love to run that spinoff.

YouTube: fabulous standalone company. Would love to be working there when they IPO. I’m sure there are more.

The business units that can’t survive except for “platform charity” should shutdown, go open source, sell their assets, etc. and the developers should move on to found new startups.

These big mega-platforms have sucked most of the oxygen out of the tech industry and it’s in the best interest of everyone except their major shareholders to break them up.
DeepSeek Is a Rorschach Test Revealing Each's AI Hopes and Fears
The Tensor Cookbook (2024)
We should NOT have touch screen interfaces in cars. Full stop. If the driver has to divert their gaze from the road to operate e.g. the heating/AC[0], that is a failure of UX sufficiently egregious to keep the car off the road. It is not a toy, it is not a fashion statement, it is a thousand pound chunk of steel that will indiscriminately kill and maim if not operated with care and diligence.

[0] This is the complaint I have with my wife's Honda Civic. If I want to do something as simple as turn on the fan but turn off the AC, it means navigating into a sub menu and correctly hitting one of several choices on a touch screen.
Every programming-related subreddit is stuffed to the gills with content that's mostly relatable to freshman CS students, and it all gets upvoted to the top. I agree, it's infuriating.

If I have see one more meme about missing semicolons...
I don't think that's a fair assessment. I'm not anywhere near as high on LLMs as many, but Google and Meta's moonshot side projects and insane investments into infrastructure have given us Waymo, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Kubernetes, React, MapReduce, http2, the entire Go programming language, V8, all of Facebook's investments into improving PHP and OCaml.

We can quibble over how valuable each of these things individually is, but it's not just toys. It's foundational tooling used all over the place that the larger community pretty just got for free. They've also been some of the biggest contributors to the Linux kernel.

To be fair, I don't know that we needed Google et al for this. We used to get this kind of thing from DARPA and university researchers, but Google and Facebook and friends made so much money from ads that they hired away all the best researchers so they no longer work at universities, at the same time government was hollowing out funding for basic research.

We could get this thing from real public sources if we made the public investments, but I don't know that the political will or taxpayer willingness exists to do that now. We need to get it from somewhere.
The suit really is back this time? For an alteration at least.

https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
You are mischaracterizing my comment, what I said was true. Most distributed systems work (now) has a link back to Berkeley distributed systems labs. Someone wanted context about Hydro (Joe Hellerstein).

I am not going to make every contextualizing comment an authoritative bibliography , you of all people could have added that w/o being snarky and starting this whole subthread.
> The Graphics Codex

Light gray and light blue on white.
Good to know openai knows the frustration of trying to argue with their RL based models as well.
I haven't tried UScope yet (I shall), but I don't agree with you about GDB. I don't find it especially buggy unless doing niche things like non-stop debugging -- I guess you may well have a different experience though.

I think the UI is much maligned unfairly. It has a few quirks, but ever used git? For the most part it's fairly consistent and well thought through.

By terrible API you mean the Python? I admit it can be a bit verbose, but gives me what I find I need.

What features do you most miss? My experience is that most people use like 1% of the features, so not sure adding more will make a big difference to most people.
Craziness. Strong work!
I keep a cheap stylus in the car in winter.
Fixed lifetime suggests ionization rather than optical sensor? If so yeah, they have a specific lifetime, it's just physics. There's an Americium-241 source, a tiny, tiny amount of radioctive material in a sensor which is decaying constantly, and once it has decayed a certain amount too bad, buy a new smoke detector.

There are arguments for or against both types, but ultimately "Make sure you replace it every ten years" doesn't feel like a huge problem. If you really can't do that, then the optical sensors don't have this property - they will still need new batteries, but of course you can just swap those out on a schedule when it suits you, they're typically a cheap household 9volt battery (yes even for a mains smoke alarm, fires don't magically stop when the power goes out)
Honestly it's the only logical conclusion.

Otherwise the terms of the deal are terrible for Google
Because, I reckon—as indicated by the downvotes and some comments—that at any appeal to human self-determination or a cultural/social redress of modern ideals that meddles in the reach of technological utopia runs contrary to the spirit of a significant portion of this community.

And my giving thanks wasn’t tendered in jest.
These guys write really great papers!

We implemented a simplified version of their ring index for our data space (https://github.com/triblespace/tribles-rust/blob/master/src/...), and it's a really simple and cool idea once you wrap your head around it. Funnily enough, we build this even before the paper was officially published, because we found a preprint on one of the authors blogs. The idea itself was published by them before but their new paper made this a lot easier to understand. (burrows wheeler transforms vs. stable column sorting).

It's really too bad that the whole linked-data space is completely gunked up with RDF.

Ps: If anyone plans on implementing their ring index, using 0 based offsets makes the formulas much more streamlined, their paper uses 1 based indexing and they have to +/-1 all over the place.
QuorumOS: A minimal, deterministic OS for verifiable execution in TEEs
I'm taking a run at a Cloudflare based tech stack, looks promising so far
Disagree completely. I think by and large Go is a work of genius, the product of lifetimes of deep insight on programming languages and software development.

There are some "design-by-committee" weirdnesses, but if you squint a bit it's perfect.
depends on the gang. the older gangs refuse to accept non-natives, so the newer gangs enroaching on their turf do.
Isn't the "ban the Apple-Google iOS search deal" just one of several proposed remedies, with the most significant one being a Google breakup? Certainly seems like that one would affect Google more than Apple. Or am I confused and the Google breakup thing is a proposed remedy in a separate case?
I'm personally kind of anti-NFT myself, but I have to admit I do like the generative art NFT scene, especially back when Hic Et Nunc was around and people were selling fun little things they made for the equivalent of $5 of TEZ.

To me the thing I hated most about NFTs was the unbridled greed and opportunism, people trying to get rich quick by making bad pixel art or stealing other people's art as their own, so it was really refreshing to see a community of people making things fun things and selling them for dirt cheap, and seeing other people buy said things simply because it was kind of fun.
The more professional discussions seem to be on the forums for Unreal Engine or Unity, where people are struggling with obscure issues inside those monster packages.

(I'm trying to do 3D stuff in Rust. The number of people who do hard 3D stuff in Rust seems to be very small, which is frustrating. There are many obscure bugs in the graphics stack and not enough people to exercise the stack, find the bugs, and get them fixed.
3D game dev in Rust is below critical mass. Retro-looking 2D is doing fine. But most 2D Rust work could be done in HTML/CSS/Javascript, or could have been done in Flash.

About half of my time goes into graphics stack problems. This is not fun.)
While I much prefer physical buttons, I do think gestures could be made to work.
Sysvinit was brittle as hell. It was bad at preventing races (hence no parallelization), in part because it couldn't give guarantees on which services had started when, and if they started at all.

At this point Systemd its unit files are in a really nice place, to the point where Systemd can often guarantee correctness now.
Will Scaling Reasoning Models Like O3 and R1 Unlock Superhuman Reasoning?
> Have you considered that your outrage (justified or not) may be damaging to your own well being?

Yes. I've considered that and decided it isn't.

> do you also get angry about the use of the words coke, hoover, sellotape, etc?

No.
This is not something a serious person says
> I started using Linux because I liked stability.

> I believe that part of the problem is that it is written in C,

You know the Linux kernel, and probably most of your userspace, are also written in C? Why do you say systemd is a disaster solely based on its use of the C language but seem to be believe the rest of "Linux" is stable despite also using C?

I mean, there could be some argument here about everything systemd does actually being harder than a kernel's job... but you didn't say that.

I'm on the C-hate bandwagon as much as anyone else, but it doesn't make sense. I have mixed feelings about systemd though.
Also worse than o1-mini on agentic tasks (page 29), big drop from 39% -> 27%
I think touchscreens are great in cars as long as they aren't used to replace physical controls. I bought a new Ford Maverick last year and it follows this guidance well. I can still do all the important stuff like skip tracks, tune the radio, change volume, all from both the steering wheel and a cluster of physical knobs and buttons below the touchscreen.

The touchscreen is useful for less common and more intricate tasks like GPS navigation.
Sure, during the 2018 election, candidates, parties, PACs, and outsiders combined spent about $5 billion – $2.5 billion on Democrats, $2 billion on Republicans, and $0.5 billion on third parties. And although that sounds like a lot of money to you or me, on the national scale, it’s puny. The US almond industry earns $12 billion per year. Americans spent about 2.5x as much on almonds as on candidates last year.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/18/too-much-dark-money-in...
It would be lovely if the 6th Amendment ("speedy and public trial") also applied to non-criminal proceedings.
I had GI surgery, and afterwards, I had an "Ileus" (intestines don't move food through), which is apparently a low probability side effect. I was utterly miserable for a week, with horrible nausea and vomiting. Even water. If my wife had not made me go back to the hospital, I'd probably have died from dehydration.

I cannot imagine living with nausea for months or years.
I think I probably agree on general principle, but everything's a tradeoff. Do this and you end up with what gets perceived (and potentially actually is) a "deep state" of entrenched bureaucrats that are not accountable to voters, even though they pursue real policy goals that are separate from partisan campaign considerations.
The iPhone has settings for physical button click speed for this reason. It's not just the elderly, but really any sort of motor difficulty. It takes a lot of force!
> Or it might mean that the product really doesn't deserve to exist as a consumer product.

Why?

If a product or experience is used by people, and enjoyed, and could not be monetized directly, why should it not exist?

I think of Alexa/Google Assistant/Siri as representative examples. Some set of execs decided to fund these voice assistants - now used by millions - and they obviously don’t make money. Would customers be better off if they were jettisoned to drown on their own?

I just don’t see why it’s wrong that businesses have these silly side projects. We seem to have competition even amongst the subsidized vanity projects.

Again, I think a breakup wouldn’t be bad overall, but I don’t think this is the thing missing in the industry.
Packaged food optimization as an industrial, scientific process only really became a thing after WWII. Before that the effects were insignificant at the population level.
I am a big proponent of fasts so I'm biased, but how is a weekly injection better than a free fast that you do once a year?
Conventional. So sounds like not much?
Things like this are pretty much why I don't answer my front door anymore unless I'm expecting someone. Too many ads.
It always made me happy to hack nearby the Neo4j page cache "Muninn", because it meant I'd pass by Chris Vest's poem and giant ascii Raven: https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/blob/release/5.26.0/community...
OK. It seems that the key is the femtosecond capability in the lasers. Even if the pulses are relatively far apart compared to the target frequencies for the comb, if those pulses are super crisp, that will drive energy into that frequency band?
As someone that has built production systems with Oxigraph (and a bit less with Jena), I'd recommend Oxigraph over Jena any day. Especially if you have you are working with a Rust-based tech stack.

You can save so much time and headache based on less operational complexity and the architectural options it opens up. If you only reinvest part of that into building a framework for versioning/backups, etc. you'll have a much better overall package.
Now do Pac-Man.
Glad I wasn't the first to think it. But I'm more disappointed that this is coming from Proton. Wiz did their research and published it without politics. Proton couldn't help themselves.

iirc in the first months of openai fame, wasn't it leaking conversations across users?
For anyone else who worries about encountering disingenuous and duplicitous people in intellectual circles, remember that intellectuals don’t require religious adherence to their way of thinking. You can tell the difference between passionate intellectuals versus sociopaths by noticing how they treat you if you disagree with them. Sociopaths, or some mentally-ill people, will seek to dominate you, and don’t care about your personhood or individuality, or your right to disagree.
Rehooks: Hook Distribution Reimagined