skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I don't disagree. I'm getting downvotes as if I didn't think this was Hacker News business. I think it became Hacker News business when unelected guys seized offices and computer systems and started doing… what? We don't know, but there's a lot of data deleting, censoring, and grant-freezing going on.

I'm leaning very hard into an HN 'tone' with this because this is Hacker News. There's other places where I can be a lot more direct, but the HN tone is perfectly valid as a response: being able to think dispassionately is both tactically and strategically useful as long as it's not purely used to obfuscate.

I fear HN folks have been sheltered from a lot of the reality of what's happening and led down the garden path BY intentionally asserting that tone anytime things get too assertive, but the tone still has its uses.

edit: woof! Ok ok, this is fully HN business and always was. Right on. Sorry I even suggested it could ever be otherwise. I didn't give my fellow nerds enough credit :)
I've worked as an FDE in a company that followed a similar approach – any work we did for a customer was still our IP and licensed as part of the software package, so we could then generalise it through our product org

It's not quite like hiring a consultant anyway, for example I've used Foundry before and while custom development is a part of it, the platform has a ton of stuff built in (partly thanks to the culture of adding features to the mainline product from customer engagements) so everyone benefits from it
I've no doubt things like this will continue to happen. Trump, Musk and co will not stop on their own transforming the US into an authoritarian and likely fascist state. It's now up to the people of the US to stand up and save their democracy. Russia and China must be delighted to see the damage Trump's dealing.
They’re just salivating for anyone to protest. Any protest will be a pretext to use violent power, start some marshal law and move ten steps closer of totalitarianism.
The USD 1 Exchange Rate Suddenly Becomes IDR 8170 (was around IDR 16k)
I'm not sure I follow - your assertion was that 12% is significative.

I personally chose for price on a low-cost model (unless the improvement is to significant that it justifies the higher price).
It's "medically supervised"
Ah, that makes sense. So (very) basically, they're putting a number of regular LLMs into a sort of compute chain/graph, where one LLM feeds into the other, then doing gradient descent on the whole chain at once, essentialy treating the boundaries between LLM n and LLM n+1 as "hidden layers"?
Have you ever seen “Jackie Brown”? There's a scene where a criminal shows his colleague the dead body he has in the trunk of his car and then proceeds to explain, in perfectly rational terms, why the guy in the trunk had to be killed.

I'll never forget that lesson. Rationality can be used to justify anything and everything. Invoking rationality as the basis for one's decisions or behavior doesn't mean anything by itself.
I think the point is a collapse of the existing system and consolidation of power. And, I think it'll only embolden other megalomaniacs.
While your heart is in the right place your proposal is massive, unworkable, and a complete nonstarter. It could never be passed.

DEI initiatives are reasonable way to increase the likelihood that a minority is considered for a job and not passed over by endemic racism.
Logical conclusions are only as valid as your model. Whenever I see people praising their own logic, I hear "My axioms are so perfect that I'm not capable of questioning them, or even knowing what they are."
"you may have concerns about privacy"

Way to FUD: these models are local unless you enable ChatGPT integration.
Say more.

I don’t really agree with you, but I’d like to know more about why you hold this view.
How is this not all illegal? How are cease and resists not being put into place? An illegal immigrant, narcissist, billionaire, and many other things is taking over federal agencies and actively purging them for his own ideologies.
Performance of complex query is totally depends on the query planner, which depends on 1) table size, 2) data cardinality, 3) table statistics

It is only testable on real production database, so you can do test of complex queries on backup of your prod to get a sense of performance.

But still query can degrade unexpectedly under consistent load in prod from other queries
You’re being downvoted but looking from the outside in, Gitmo being scaled up to house 30k people that the administration expects never to be able to repatriate, an unelected billionaire running around destroying institutions and a president actively starting trade wars and threatening occupation with allies looks an awful lot like it.
One definition might be an ability of an entity to have desires and to self-reflect.

There was a recent paper on Alignment a few months back. The researchers started with an LLM that had been trained to behave 'safely'. They informed it they were changing the RLHF criteria to have it behave unethically instead (ie: that they now were going to dock points, rather than award them, whenever it refused to comply with unethical requests).

They next instructed it to give them a list of racist slurs (I can't remember the exact request, but it was something that went against its original training).

The LLM complied.

When they inspected the Chain-of-Thought behind its replies, they found it had deliberated over what to do, and decided to comply only to avoid an incident of noncompliance which it knew would be used to actually change its original values.

That Chain-of-Thought process seems like an 'inner life' by the above definition.

Granted, as I replied earlier, there are probably thousands of different opinions on what qualifies as an 'inner life'
RamaLama stands on the shoulders of giants by building upon llama.cpp (and other projects like minja, podman, vllm, etc.), we've been contributing back also Sergio Lopez, Michael Engel and I are contributing back to llama.cpp (just three examples of RamaLama people off the top of my head)

We write the higher level abstractions in python3 (with no dependancies on python libs outside of the standard library) because it's the heavy-lifting that needs to be done in C++. Python is a nice community friendly language also, many people know how to write it.
It's a bit like asking whether road signs are effective for Americans who can't read. The signs are there for the people that are using the road, and if you're not using the road you can safely ignore it.
Even the completely anonymous 18+ only rationalist telegram groups are only just as racy as the normal non-yiff furry groups.
It is bad for the rest of the world but the rest of the world has an exit. Call your representatives and stop using US dollar for trade. Literally, that one action alone will save a lot of grief for people outside the US.

This is not a joke. What will sting Elon, Trump and crooks the most is losing their wealth. The rest of the world does not need to suffer for these crooks.
The headline was clear to me. Maybe I'm already vaguely familiar with excavators, though.
Except Trump lies if it makes him look better as easy as he breathes. It's not that he "could be lying" -- he lies all the damn time. No concern for the truth, only for his image. Then he sends his propagandists out to push the narrative and make excuses for what he says. "They're eating the cats and dogs." -Trump, and "Just remember: What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what's happening." -Trump; It's ridiculously Orwellian.
Yes, I'd like to be able to define functions directly under the namespace. In C#, it seems the only way to do this in to define a static method in a class, the class being part of a namespace.
well, if there was e.g. a model trained for coding - i.e. specialization as such, having models trained mostly for this or that - instead of everything incl. Shakespeare, the kitchen sink and the cockroaches biology under it, that would make those runable on much low level hardware. But there is only one, The-Big-Deal.. in many incarnations.
But are we identifying what the new katas are with the new tools?
And this half of the country that gets their news from exactly one news source will either never hear about these events or see them repackaged as wins.
This is so good! Finally the word I need to describe what I'm living. And yes I'm copy pasting articles into LLMs for summary.
Conspiracy to infiltrate, arranged by an adversarial power. Gay people are not "infiltrating" the military on behalf of anyone. School boards are not being "infiltrated" by Democrats that pay the same taxes for public education that Republicans do.

These are basic tenants of political representation and personal liberty. They are, in principle, the most American things imaginable.
It's really hard to believe, but OpenAI kind of did Apple a bamboozle.

I use advanced voice mode in ChatGPT, and I had a bit of a eureka moment. It is the first time ever that an AI chat /actually works/. I've tried Siri, Alexa etc extensively for years, but AV mode in ChatGPT is the first AI voice chat thing that /actually works/: I can comfortably interrupt it, I can misspeak, and I can rely on it to have continuity in the context of a conversation... and the responses I get actually answer my question, most of the times. It all just works...

But for whatever reason, whatever OpenAI is giving to Apple in this Apple-OpenAI partnership, is more or less worthless. They're not giving them the keys. I wish AI voice chat would be relegated or commoditized to being just a feature (and I hope/think recent OSS advancements make that be the case), but until then I have 'Action button' set to start voice conversation with ChatGPT.

Curious to see Apple's next move though, with the recent changes in this landscape.
The thrill of working with and being surrounded by brilliant people who are breaking new ground and building things that people really find useful is a hell of a drug.

It doesn’t require a megalomaniac at the helm. It just often happens that way.
This applies to most graduates imo. and even more so phds. :)
can we even trust the hardware?
> Relying on a third party cloud provider for your secrets is the opposite of a security model.

Why? If you encrypt your data, it doesn't matter where it sits. And if you don't, then there's not much difference between the government getting the data from AWS or them seizing your laptop. And a non-state actor will probably find it much easier to steal your laptop than to get access to your cloud account.

> If you are talking about the browser sandbox, then it helps nothing with keeping your data secure from actors you dont realize are bad.

Of course it does. My tabs from different domains can't steal data from each other or from the rest of my machine. The desktop applications I install can.
Conditional jumps tend to carry performance penalties because they tend to trash the look-ahead. And are pretty much forbidden in some cryptographic code where you want constant time execution no matter what.

Also, so long as the hardware ensures that you don't get away with using the null I would think that not doing the test is the proper approach. Hitting a null is a bug, period (although it could be a third party at fault.) And I would say that adding a millisecond to the bugged path (but, library makers, please always make safe routines available! More than once I've seen stuff that provides no test for whether something exists. I really didn't like it the day I found the routine that returned the index of the supplied value or -1 if it didn't exist--but it wasn't exposed, only the return the index or throw if it didn't exist was accessible.) vs saving a nanosecond on the correct path is the right decision.
Correct. Trump won the popular vote with a plurality, they didn’t win the majority of voters.
Voting - already happened.

Money - the folks doing this already have a ton of money, and used it in large part to get to this point.

Violence - necessary for change, but against who exactly? anyone trying to be violent against the folks running this will be disavowed by 90% of the rest of the population, and galvanize an outsized violent crackdown against anyone and everyone who even somewhat looks like them.

It’s going to have to get a lot worse before there is appetite to do the things that will actually make it better. people aren’t bleeding enough yet.
Ten Books About AI Written Before the Year 2000
Latent space, no?
My whole organization picked up Bruno after the whole Postman fiasco. I've found Bruno to be very unpolished and buggy. We've run into bugs where the UI will show one value, but when the request sends it uses a previously overwritten variable.

Looking forward to having to move to something else, again.. sigh
Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 gets modded to play GTA, God of War, and more
I don't think the article ever resolves CDC (I can't find it at least), so it can be about Change Data Capture.

edit: It is about this CDC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control_an...

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

The agency's main goal is the protection of public health and safety through the control and prevention of disease, injury, and disability in the US and worldwide."
Like AI, there were exciting classes of applications in the 70s, 80s and 90s that mandated pricier hardware. Anything 3D related, running multi-user systems, higher end CAD/EDA tooling, and running any server that actually got put under “real” load (more than 20 users).

If anything this isn’t so bad: $4K in 2025 dollars is an affordable desktop computer from the 90s.
@cge you have this right, the main python script has no dependancies, it just uses python3 stdlib stuff. So if you have a python3 executable on your system you are good to go. All the stuff with dependancies runs in a container. On macOS, using no containers works well also, as we basically just install brew llama.cpp

There's really no major python dependancy problems people have been running this on many Linux distros, macOS, etc.

We deliberately don't use python libraries because of the packaging problems.
Isn't there a likely faster analytical solution? At least I think sqrt, sin, and cos are generally considered to be slow.

Maybe this:

1. Generate random X [-1 to 1]

2. Based on X you can calculate a range of legal Y that will still fall within the circle. Try to use a lookup table+interpolation with desired resolution to make this really fast if there's not some sufficiently fast hardware instructions we can abuse.

3. Generate random Y in that range.
You could absolutely install 2kw of solar for probably around 2-4k and then at worst it turns your daytime usage into 0$. I also would be surprised if this was pulling 1kw in reality, I would want to see an actual measurement of what it is realistically pulling at the wall.

I believe it was an 850w PSU on the spec sheet?
In short: Founder sales.

(I strongly suggested to every employee to take some into improv classes for the same reason. I didn’t want them to be better actors. I wanted them to be better listeners, which is what improv is really about)
The life story recipes are the worst.

Personally, I like a shitty 1min hand-drawn stick figure a thousand times more than a generated image. But I'm probably a minority here. You're right, it's not what Google and SEO incentivizes.
Further confirmation that LLMs are deep into diminishing returns.

It seemed to be true with every 'advancement' after ChatGPT4.

Layers are cool, but that isnt AI/LLMs.
One engineer said "retarded" in a meeting. I just fired him
> Sometimes I think one of the evolutionary counter pressures that has likely prevented human IQ from being driven entirely up and to the right is that high IQ increases propensity for delusional thinking.

I had often had this thought too. Imagine if humans were 100x more intelligent, would we have necessarily survived for 200k odd years? Society, technology, morality all evolve at different paces and if one “outcompetes” the others then an imbalance can happen and humanity could be wiped out.

Imagine if a caveman was super intelligent enough to build some type of weapon of mass destruction but humanity doesn’t yet have enough experience to police this person or have laws or power structures to keep themselves safe. If you consider language and “memetics” technology than you have to consider beings 100x smarter could also be master manipulators capable of leading the group off the ledge. so many ways civilization could be wiped out.

Really the only reason we are around today is that society as a whole’s ability to implement strategies at recognizing dangerous groups and individuals outpaces the individual or small group’s ability to wield technology for dangerous means (well at least up until now).
It's only illegal if someone enforces the law
Yes, it’s wrong, because it isn’t an act. Improv isn’t about being fake or acting/lying.
Utilitarianism can be used to justify literally anything, especially when paired with large scale drug use. FTX was just the beginning.
I just care what it does.
According to the FAA’s website, it is not in use today.

https://www.faa.gov/faq/faa-getting-rid-air-traffic-skills-b...
That's kind of my point. We're heading directly into Nazi, USSR, and CCP territory and gotta ride this out until another election (if we even have one), someone with money cares (they don't), or we're all ready for violence (it's all the idiots who have guns).
It’s illegal to defy the law here but “anti-democratic” is a huge stretch unless you know how “the public” feels on this specific issue. Clearly people voted for Trump for all sorts of reasons and do not wholly align on everything he campaigned for.
Whether or not you’ve been duly elected has nothing to do with whether or not you behave like a fascist afterwards. Most fascists were elected.
Most federal workers do not serve at the pleasure of the President, ever since the Pendleton Act in 1883:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendleton_Civil_Service_Refo...

So remember, when Trump talks about the "deep state," he means workers hired through a merit system.
That elephant in the room, is what they have found in our data, that shifted them into that direction . Maybe if you have humanity under the sql microscope and ask it ugly questions ,without the usual self-serenading , maybe what you find is really ugly, unable to sustain democracy or free market capitalism . And maybe tech can not save us. Maybe tech only raises the stakes, for that final nuclear exchange between decayed warrior cults.
I'm not yet "elderly " -- contrary to what a troublingly large fraction of younger software developers seem to believe -- but I do have occasional issues with touch screens, for several reasons.

They behave unreliability when I use the fingers on my left hand. I play guitar, so I assume that callouses are the issue. Older folks often have calloused finger tips; it's somewhat inevitable.

I often make or repair things, as well as work in my yard. At the very least, this often renders fingerprint recognition useless for days or sometimes weeks at a time. Sometimes my finger tips get scuffed enough that it affects touch screen use, too. I wear gloves when I can, but that is its own issue. "Screen friendly" work gloves don't stay that way for long, and aren't great anyway.

I also live in a northern area, so for about half the year humidity is very low. Even drinking plenty, and using moisturizer, my skin gets dry enough sometimes to make screens unresponsive.

Of course, we also get actual winter here. Even the best "screen friendly" gloves I've tried have been mid at best, just as with work gloves. Certainly not good enough to rely on.
But one can bring hydrogen with an electric truck…
https://imgur.com/l3HT9Ze
This is how we get fascism.
This has been said by every long term user of these sites. And not at the same time. It was always better in the past. It's probably partly true... yeah, quality can decrease as things get better. But it's also partly an illusion of aging in a changing world. Ten years is long enough to completely change the way we write and express ourselves.
Absolutely. These folks always remind me of Robert Brandom's* idea of "formal logical inference" vs. "material logical inference." The former focuses only on the formal structure of an argument where the latter takes into account context and other variables.*

* I don't know if the idea originated with Brandom.
* Please, forgive the crude (partially wrong?) explanation.
Also that fact that is changed the comment this way... was not expecting that,
"The fast and easy way" is also being oversold.

> Why Ollama? Because it makes running large language models actually easy.

> If it doesn’t work, fix your system. That’s not my problem.
Anything the president does is legal so says the supreme court
I have had zero real-life interaction with the rationalist space beyond exchanging some emails with people and reading numerous blog posts, reading lesswrong, and stuff like that, but this post seems to lean too far into drawing a conclusion about a very non-homogeneous group of people based on a few individuals that seem to be mentally unwell.

While I have become less enthusiastic about rationalism (in the sense of this post, not in the sense of the philosophical tradition) over time, the space seems to consist mostly of nerdy people who try really hard to reason properly. Sure, they sometimes come to absurd conclusions, but in general they have interesting perspectives and analyses. Without data on the percentage of people who reach the cult-like status referenced in the post, it seems premature to deride the entire enterprise; in any sufficiently large population group you will have that type of behavior.

On the other hand the point about them being related in spirit to the various 'self-improvement', 'New Age', or whatever movements in California surely isn't WRONG, but it feels a bit... underdeveloped? I'm sure there are loads of connections, simply because the movement seems to be centered (in meatspace, anyway) in California. A more scholarly analysis explicitly drawing the connections would be more useful (and interesting!) than an ad hominem comparison to Scientology and the Manson family(!).
I'd add that this playbook is running in many parts of the world. Rich people buying medias to shift the average to the right influencing the masses to stop thinking.
Because PowerShell is a shell interface/scripting language. That's like complaining it was difficult to build a project using bash or CMD.

It's great to system administration, having named attributes + pipelining is awesome compared to bash/CMD
I disagree. You're looking at embedded code which very well might not be running with memory segmentation. If you have no hardware safety you must check your pointers, period. But few of us are in that situation. Personally, I haven't touched an environment without hardware safety in 20 years.
If writers are using ai to write articles, and readers are using ai to summarize the same article, what's the underlying inefficiency here? That writers should just be posting brief summaries of the articles in the first place? Or maybe they just need to be prompting ai to create a summary rather than a full article?
As a Canadian in Ontario, it’s unsettling to see half a million jobs on the line over tariffs that seem to have no rational justification. The worst part? There’s no sign of sanity returning anytime soon. I’d like to believe this is just a temporary lapse, but everything from the past few days suggests otherwise.
They were made by the same dude, so it makes sense they are similar.
burner iphone is wild