skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ayn Rand as Self-Help: The Good, the Bad, and the Tragicomedy
Hey.. kidneys are not people working in the administration: reasoning using analogies is not appropriate for real decision making...
2nm chips, how far will these companies go?
Whatever happened to it!? We are past that at this point. Nonviolent has been normalized for the last, idk, 80 years, very conveniently for the ones in power. It works if we have a functional government and an educated and engaged populace. We don't have any of that. Hold all the signs you want, vote with your dollar, walkout of work and get fired. If it doesn't scare people in power, you're not doing anything meaningful.
Can LLMs make trade-offs involving stipulated pain and pleasure states?
Generally, corporations are bound by the laws of the state they are incorporated in. Dropbox has decided they like the Nevada legal system more.

They will probably need to get clients to resign contracts with the new entity.
Brilliant. Thank you for the precise reference.
DeepSeek: Don't Panic
Slightly Better LinkedIn Analytics
Giant Solar Farm in Mojave Desert Could Close Just a Decade After Opening
Capone wasn't the acting President.
I cancelled a Model 3 order and went with a different EV a few years ago. I was starting to soften my stance, and considering a Tesla for my next, but at this point, I have a hard time accepting the idea that buying one wouldn't send a message of implicit support.
> Also, Microsoft’s past behavior makes a lot of people avoid it entirely before even considering it.

I never really understood this argument. The runtime, libraries and compilers are all open source now, and all cross-platform. If MS decided to suddenly be a dick again, there is no danger of being locked in to anything.
> how the preeminent ethics movement of our times seems to spawn the most detestable behavior

Excuse me if my sarcasm detector is faulty, but I wouldn't describe the rationality sphere like that. It's a niche group with a fetishism for 'intelligence', with a profound distaste for the liberal arts, which translates into a closed ecosystem of blog posts, themes and jargon, and a lack of reading actual books where they would see that they're retreading old stuff, but worse. It's a culture of people believing themselves immune to bias, where calling out obviously malicious behavior is 'not charitable' and all thought outside the group is suspect. Is it then strange that it produces people who just rationalize (forgive me) their bad impulses?

Most techies stopped learning about stuff not related to computers in high school, so yeah no wonder LessWrong, being more accessible, seems like a better option than reading actual philosophy.
You should be good when using .NET 9 and openssl 3.0+?
Concur. Also concur on external stimulus, and I'm pretty sure it works for exactly the reason you identified. I find the intrusive thoughts show up in the evening precisely because there's less stimulus (inside and out; my brain is quieting itself for sleep, giving the nastier, weirder parts of it their chance to say just the stupidest shit "out loud").

A major eye-opener for me was learning, awhile ago, that we differ from some other animals in that our limbic system is completely "wrapped" in malleable neurons. Some animals have (as far as we can tell) implastic wiring leading from some stimulus constructs straight into that system: they receive a stimulus, they respond immediately with physiological, emotional change. Ours is far more deeply tied to the plastic layers of the brain; we have a huge capacity to learn very complex stimulus-response ties between the world around us and how we should set our emotional state.

On the one hand, that's great! It's good to think that we can change our responses to stimuli in a way that, say, penguins can't.

On the other hand... "plastic" doesn't mean "you can will yourself to change them willy-nilly." It's more that we're capable of developing "mental allergies." We are unusual in that we can develop things like PTSD: you were shot at the same time you saw a Volkswagen Beetle drive by? Congratulations, you now experience a visceral survival-focused reaction every time you see one of the most classic examples of German engineering, and you can't will that feeling to stop because your brain's physiology changed under the dim hope that somehow avoiding vaguely-round cars avoids bullets, too.

Our brains are wonderful, transcendental things, but they're also machines and they're machines that can malfunction. It's good we have professionals who study this.
> lure Apple into a big investment to stay competitive

Not so big if as they say the deal itself came at no cost to Apple.
DEA Officer Who 3D-Printed Cocaine Gets 17 Years in Prison
Well I was using (and developing) ssh well before the majority of commenting people were even bore. But sure, that does not mean a thing.
These limitations come from cryptographic implementations provided by specific platforms, not from .NET. Can you list specific algorithms you need that are not supported?

The second article uses the wrong link too (it's for Framework, not for .NET).
While 20GB would indeed require 55,556 360k floppy disks, a 32GB micro-SD card has a volume of about 164mm^3.

I still think of a megabyte as a lot of memory at some level because it is and that was enough to run approximately every DOS game including the first Civilization...the new one requires a minimum of 16GB RAM, so about the same rate of growth in requirements.
I had to change my system's language to "English (US)" for the privilege of running it.

There are a lot of reasons that it may not run at you, starting from from hardware or OS support, to being in the eu where eg iphone and ipad do not get it in eu right now but macs do for some reason.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/121115
You can run smaller models on MacbookPro with ollama with those speeds. Even with several 3k GPUs it won't come close to 4o level.
If you live in the Netherlands you have to assume others don't know as much about you as you do about the bigger boys. :)

We have our own kind of "American Football" in the Netherlands, it is called ice skating. But.. every Dutchman understands that being the world champion in ice skating doesn't say much as it is a highly local phenomenon.

But you still can enjoy the athleticism that such a sport requires.
> If AI is AGI and self-aware, then the moral thing is to let it do what it wants.

I think this sort of misses the point.

Firstly, there are all sorts of mass murderers who we do not let do whatever they want. I don't agree that this is necessarily immoral. The methods employed to remove their agency are sometimes immoral, but the removal of agency itself from these people is not.

Secondly, the supposition presumably is that if we are creating an AGI, and it "wants" to do something, then what it wants is a product of how it was created. So if we're the ones creating it, then "build it to want to help people and not want to hurt people" seems like something that can be done. Then it can go do what it wants.

That said, I agree with you that AI safety is dumb, because I wholly agree with your second point re: it just being a powerful tool, and something resembling an actual AGI is not something likely to happen in our lifetimes.
> I don't think most rationalists would consider themselves leftist

Yes they do.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5FqX6XBJlfOShMd3U...
"Ivanpah uses a process known as concentrating solar power... unable to compete with photovoltaic solar technology"

"contracts were set to run through 2039"

Hard to see 25 years ahead, or even 10.
I hate that Apple, which in 2023 avoided even mentioning AI, just ran with the whole thing in 2024. The iPhone 16 is just an "AI phone" now. Apple, you did not need this rebranding.

They should have just introduced the usual "machine learning" features and avoided this rainbowy nonsense. "Features," not "AI features."

Hopefully they'll undo the damage in 2026 and rip this unnecessary bandaid off.

The reality is that they did a whole lot of nothing in 2023 and scrambled to push something out. Crazy that iOS 18's marquee features weren't even out until December.
Macs in the eu can have it, iphones and ipads not (yet).
I was aware that the half-life was much longer but I'd assumed the 10 years was based on the fact that nevertheless we're talking a degraded sensor performance over time, however it does seem like it's actually 10 years because they're worried the electronics will crap out, so you're right.
Why is the NASA Applied Sciences website down?
While they were probably talking about editing code in a big fat IDE, your instructions still install a big fat IDE just to have a language server.

Edit: Oops, I'm wrong. I saw visual-studio-code but read visual-studio.
Unless he gets to the point where the materials are mined by robots, the chips and solar panels are made in automated factories and the servers/solar farms are maintained by robots. Then he doesn't need other people's money.
You are but so is most of America. And there will be no safe place to emigrate when there are wars everywhere.
I just recently learned that Apple Intelligence takes up 5GB+ on my Macbook - I wish it was easy to delete. I truly wish Apple would stop focusing on these AI features and get back to basics.
Don’t worry, you can charge an iPhone!
That is just a false statement. I use VSCode on MacOS for my ASP.NET WebAPI development, including EFcore and SQLite and PostgreSQL. I deploy to Linux and never had any issues. No "fat" IDE needed at all.

Btw, I learned writing C# with vim back in 2008 on Mono. You don't need any IDE at all to do anything with C#, all compilation etc. can also be done by invoking the compiler or build system and editing project config files any your editor of choice.
This is why I don't update things anymore. Even if they claim to have security updates. That well has been poisoned. The updates themselves are a security threat.
I notice that I trust LLMs a lot nowadays, because I spent a lot of time trying to understand the answer to the first question, thinking I was just "not getting it", until realizing that it's just wrong, and then also realizing that the question doesn't even make sense in the slightest.
Just 671b is the real thing.
I run a monitoring startup (StackScout) where I'm rewriting the main API from PHP to C#, but the actual agent you install on your servers (so typical systems programming) is and will stay written in Go. It's ok to not have all your tech stack in a single language.
But you can still play DRM content on them?
Local model - no.
Using deepseek.com - absolutely. Do not put anything private there.
There is nothing I can do to engrave my body in a way that benefits by business. It’s an interesting case, but it seems to make sense. Buying a car for myself to use for my business doesn’t make sense at all; it’s actually bad for my business and creates a significant liability.
or ... our minds and bodies will quite rapidly adapt!
It's gets out of date with conflicts, etc. Because it's ignored, if this was the upstream project of Ollama, llama.cpp the maintainers would have got this merged months ago.
Does Internet Archive have any plans to move their data off U.S. soil?
Oh! I didn't know that actually. That's useful information.
FYI, You are comparing the modern version of DotNet (the first link) with the old legacy version (the second link).

The modern version of DotNet, "Net Core" is effectively a reboot of DotNet, with a very cross platform focus and redesigned API's based on decades of experience.
This is good art. It really speaks to me.
C# and Clojure are probably my two favorite languages, but I've done much much less Clojure in production, and for my personal disposition C# is my overall favorite.

For bread-and-butter concurrency (make a bunch of external service calls at once, collect them up and do something) you've got async/await, but you probably knew that.

Some other things you might look into as far as distributed/parallel libraries/frameworks go:
- Orleans, a framework for using an actor model in C# to build distributed systems
- TPL Dataflow (Task Parallel Library), a lib for composing "blocks" to create parallel dataflow graphs

Productivity wise, the tooling for C# imo is pretty top notch, and I'd just be repeating what the article said.

Something I radically prefer about Clojure is the LISP heritage of highly interactive debugging and app dev. You can get great feedback loops with C#, but it won't be what you can do with Clojure and Calva or Cursive (is cursive still a thing? it's been awhile)

On the other hand, I personally prefer strongly typed languages, especially with C#, because of how good some of the static analysis and refactoring tooling can get in things like Rider (a JetBrains IDE for C#).

I think deployments are going to be a toss up. For my money Go is still the gold standard of "just make a binary and chuck it out there" and Clojure and C# are more normal "once you're used to it, it's completely fine, but it won't blow you away"
Nitpicking. Nothing is truly instant. Gasoline isn't truely instant either, yet people refer to it as so.

The many different makes ans models of H2 cars recharge instantly by this metric, and so will this.
Pessimistically, if you have a product you want to sell to the government, this stuff is all just "veto bingo" where someone could turn you down, or move development.

Optimistically, it exposes clear marketable opportunities in existing suites.
Unfortunately in my case my small business would be 100% transferable to any other individual. But that’s a very interesting grey area.
> you are acting as a mouthpiece for Apple

No bro, read my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42899513

> You just turned on a thing

You appear not to read. It's not one thing.

My point is that people are lumping things together also because of Apple.
I switched to cursive in my journal about a month ago. Can't wait until OCR+AI gets good enough for that.
If it’s actually available, it can’t be that much worse than R1 which currently only completes a response about 50% of the time for me.
Interesting and surprising to see, but 3-4 t/s is not practical overall.

Anything lower than 10 t/s is going to give lot of wait time considering the reasoning wait time
Research on the Bongard Problems (2006)
...

do you realize you're an LLM?
I can type much faster than I can mouse. And for apps like IDEs, there is great keyboard support built into them. But take an everyday task like clicking the unsubscribe link in an email I’ve received; there are too many situations where keyboard navigation doesn’t work well.

Through a combination of two apps on my Mac, finally I can quickly navigate any programs with the keyboard.
> novel data, not present in dataset in a semantical sense

This is your error, afaik.

The idea of the architecture design / training data is to produce a space that spans the entirety of possible input, regardless of whether it was or wasn't in the training data.

Or to put it another way, it should be possible to infer a lot of things about cats, trained on the entirety of human knowledge, even if you leave out every definition of cats.

See other comments about pre-decoding though, as expect there are some translation-like layers, especially for hardcodable transforms (e.g. common, standard encodings).
Balance compassion for self and others.
People don’t understand how remarkably easy it is to be homeless. Believe me because I was homeless for four years. The fear they have instilled in them is what’s keeping them cowards.
OK, but still Xorg is a cross-platform solution, it works in Windows, ReactOS, OS2 and hopefully sometime in Haiku-OS and others.

There is OpenMotif and Tk.
Curious how people who are supposed to be rational, have never read what is anger (or “badness” and “evilness” as some people still call it) - the best way to do it is to read any recent meta analysis on what is the most effective anger treatment. It’s cognitive therapy and it not only explains the mechanics of it: misunderstanding - worry and resulting anger (anything enforced on another without consent is anger, even if you think it’s good for them). So we actually have predictive understanding of the mechanics of “good” and “evil” - a person without or with anger management problems. “Evil” is nothing more than misunderstanding, worrying and protecting yourself (often for reasons that they invented themselves after trying to read the mind of another - something that’s impossible) - forcefully enforcing something upon another. “Good” is nothing more than trying to understand another, not fearing (because you understood another and yourself) and as a result not trying to enforce your will upon them
Can you say more about how you made a DSL this way? I love C# but one of my (few) issues with it is that its “support” for DSLs is generally subpar compared to the JVM and how Kotlin and Java files can exist side by side in the same project. Would love to know tips about how you approach this!
would you participate in a general strike?
Police cars aren't very fast. The days of building police cars with special engines are long past. Most US law enforcement agencies use regular Ford Explorer SUVs for patrol now.

https://www.ford.com/police-vehicles/hybrid-utility/
EzBookkeeping – A lightweight personal bookkeeping app hosted by yourself
I think your definition is a little different from what others are thinking. I think of a burner as an alternate phone you can toss (burn) at a moment’s notice. For that, even the iphone se you described would be pretty expensive.

This isn’t to say you are wrong. Just that some of us are thinking something different when we see “burner phone”.
My understanding of bcrypt math is that the input to the algorithm is a random salt and a message, with the output being a hash.

I believe the actual implementation gives two output fields as a single value, with that value containing the salt and the hash.

This might be why we appear to be talking past each other - I consider bcrypt to be a salted hash because it takes a salt in the inputs and produces a hash in the output.

The fact that the output also contains the salt is, in my mind, an implementation detail.
Yes, that's how it starts. You may want to look at history a little more closely.
It’s very wrong. Improv requires empathy and awareness of the person you are in a scene with.

The dark triad personality traits are defined by an explicit lack of empathy and ability to connect with other people
Looks interesting, but it's not at all responsive. I can't view it without making my window larger than my screen and manually sliding it back and forth. Even basic TUIs know their output size. I know it's a UI demo, but that seems pretty basic.

How is this still so hard? Tk basically had this figured out 25 years ago.
Ribotoxic stress response drives inflammation&cell death in UV-irradiated skin
The thing is I'm not that interested in running something that will run on a $4K rig. I'm a little frustrated by articles like this, because they claim to be running "R1" but it's a quantized version and/or it has a small context window... it's not meaningfully R1. I think to actually run R1 properly you need more like $250k.

But it's hard to tell because most of the stuff posted is people trying to do duct tape and bailing wire solutions.
Most people value privacy, but they’re practical about it.

The odds of a cloud server leaking my information is non-zero, but it’s very small. A government entity could theoretically get to it, but they would be bored to tears because I have nothing of interest to them. So practically speaking, the threat surface of cloud hosting is an acceptable tradeoff for the speed and ease of use.

Running things at home is fun, but the hosted solutions are so much faster when you actually want to get work done. If you’re doing some secret sensitive work or have contract obligations then I could understand running it locally. For most people, trying to secure your LLM interactions from the government isn’t a priority because the government isn’t even interested.

Legally, the government could come and take your home server too. People like to have fantasies about destroying the server during a raid or encrypting things, but practically speaking they’ll get to it or lock you up if they want it.
'Once upon a time in San Francisco', perhaps?
o1-pro got turned off? and o3-mini-high is significantly worse than o1-pro :(
Is copying something and then lying about how much it cost you to do it really a surprise? The only surprise for me was that so many people, especially people here, took China's word at face value.
you are so confused it’s not even funny
To me that looks less impressive, as most humans do have very fine hand control. But that shouldn't take away any of your pleasure. I assume that the sport is competitive enough to have a high bar for entry.
Touché. We should have stuck with Swatch Internet Time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
What difficulties did you experience? I’ve upgraded many projects from ancient C# v2 and more modern versions. There are always some things that need to be addressed, but as long as you look at the changes from the one version to the next it’s easy enough to figure out what needs to be changed. Most modern IDEs will point out the issues in an upgrade report.
Scientists discover a mechanical basis of Alzheimer's disease
Would you elaborate on why counting braces is different from counting spaces to determine hierarchy? Or is it more about the repetition of higher levels keys in chunks (which could be done in JSON)?
> To me it is a predator-prey abusive LARP that got out of scope and feeds on fragile people looking for sense in their lives. Just look at how new comers are hazed and tested when they come on their forums and discords and what not

Yeah I think this is exactly what it is. The most eloquent charlatans end up roping in people who are lost or looking for meaning.

It’s always interesting to think how much self awareness the leaders have. Do they drink their own kool-aid or they laughing to themselves while they pouring the next dose for the others?
I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t that mean that it is somewhat trivial to find all the censorship in the model and prune it to create an uncensored model? Just ask it for all of the things it cannot say, in hex, and reply, in hex.
Apple isn’t paying OpenAI anything for the ChatGPT integration: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-12/apple-to-...
And that analysis is being relayed credulously by possibly the most influential libertarian think tank in the US, so perhaps a spoonful is warranted.
Hydrogen work vehicles require hydrogen storage and delivery. PEV work vehicles can also use hydrogen powered generators on site but they can also use anything from an on-site solar to a standard grid connection.

As long as 98% of our hydrogen is coming from fossil fuels it’s only a net negative here.
Purple means royalty, kingship, other forbidden.
Maoism is against any kinds of individuality.
With the interface keyword (java/c#).

You just define the required methods and that's the interface.
I think you're being pretty dismissive here. That person is talking about someone who currently isn't working and is struggling to find work. "idle bandwidth". Nobody is saying it's simple or easy, but if you're in this field you have the skills to at least try. I've been laid off for 9 months so I understand the toll it takes mentally, but having a pessimistic attitude won't help you in the short or long term.
> The DeepSeek shock exposes an uncomfortable truth: American tech exceptionalism and the xenophobia that underpins it mean the broligarchy will keep being surprised.

Granted there is more to xenophobia than just demographics, but it should be noted that, in this sample [1], Whites are underrepresented at 18/23 of tech companies, while Asians are overrepresented at 23/23.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250127210140/https://informati...
Yes, many people did that back then, it was called a newspaper column.