skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bad or not, depends on your POV. But certainly there are efforts to feed junk to AI web scrapers, including specialized tools: https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/
This has been a no-brainer for like a decade but the previous social-democratic government resisted for the fear of bad optics.

The cost of housing one criminal in a Swedish prison is $342/day.

This is like 4x the average EU cost, or something similarly crazy.

Arbitrage is trivially feasible.
Another Pixel 4A user here. Still haven't installed the marvelous update. But it'll be installed the next time I reboot. No way to stop it.

I have never had any battery issues. Now Google wants to effectively brick my beloved phone? And giving me $50 for the trouble. What. The. F. is going on.

I've requested the $50, shall be paid out within 18 days they say.

So sad. I really like (soon liked, probably) my 4a.
If you're getting so many applications that you have to apply such a harsh screen that you're likely losing most of your good candidates via false negatives then you shouldn't be soliciting more applicants to apply. This is what this thread is about - if you're saying these guys are getting so many applications they have to start just brutally cutting CVs almost arbitrarily then they definitely shouldn't be posting on HN about their vacancies. Not least because they're poisoning the well.

This is a real issue - I once got approached by a recruiter for a company, it was a good fit, I think I would've walked the interview and been a great hire - I'd heard of them before. The founder had acted like a dick head to one of my friends, I just immediately turned it down. There is a cost to very publicly treating people poorly. People don't seem to understand that these things that big companies might get away with due to scale, smaller companies cannot. People talk.
What is this kind of notation from/based on? e.g $H_{2}O$
I was in a fab module. The firewall part makes sense to not cross pollinate IP internally vs. externally, but it was taken to the extreme and management moved zero internal employees over to external so it was Intel’s tools and recipes but not the talent who knows all the tribal stuff.
The idea that they used o1's outputs for their distillation further shows that models like o1 are necessary.

Hmm, I think the narrative of the rise of LLMs is that once the output of humans has been distilled by the model, the human isn't necessary.

As far as I know, DeepSeek adds only a little to the transformers model while o1/o3 added a special "reasoning component" - if DeepSeek is as good as o1/o3, even taking data from it, then it seems the reasoning component isn't needed.
First, this isn't true. In aggregate, white men commit more felonies:
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

Second, if I'm generous and assume you meant "statistically higher as a percentage considering their population size" (which is true), we're talking about a likelihood that's so low that even a doubling of the confidence is too small to rank as "probable".

The most likely answer is that neither are guilty.
Does respiration count as synthesis?
Taken from the first doubtful comment I found in the post you linked.

"Sorry, this is ridiculous, it just wont happen (not ever, just this company). From my experience in the aerospace industry, having a manned prototype aircraft of this scale fly within 2 years, supersonic no less (!!), is an impossibility. It is simply not possible, at least with any sane regard for safety."

Many of the comments related to Boom about them not being able to do what they say are about the timeframes they give. I know I've commented on their unrealistic dates before and likely will again. In 2016 they said they would be flying it in 2017-2018. And they did in fact completely fail to do that as the above commenter predicted. Unless you are saying being off about your schedule by 7 years is achieving your goal?

They say they will be flying their passenger aircraft in 2030. I invite anyone that reads this to check back then and see how they're doing. I can tell you right now though, you are not going to be able to buy a ticket.
That's a straw man argument unrelated to the article. No need to be smug either, it doesn't help make your case of not being a bigot.
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Maybe buttons are necessary when humans don't understand dog words?

Or to put it another way, buttons demonstrate dogs being multilingual across species...
Uhm, yes, is this where the line for the beta test starts?
This is quite bad blogspam appealing to the open source crowd. They didn't even bother to read a bit.

Deepseek is open source because the founders are part of the new generation of Chinese graduates who relate more to the global youth than Boomer Chinese CEOs completely out of touch. And right on time because CCP is fed up with them, too.

Last week Deepseek founder Liang Wenfeng was speaking practically face to face with Chinese Premier Li Qiang at a symposium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMyc3vhpLyI. And they seem to be quite aligned.

Why didn't this blogspam of an article pick up on any of that?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42852266
It sounds like you've had some unfortunate issues with Sublime in the past. Maybe it's just the different types of projects that we're both working on or what plugins we have installed. I haven't encountered any day-destroying bugs since at least version 3 came out. I think the most recent bug I came across was that a language-specific syntax broke, but that was because I updated Sublime and the syntax wasn't updated for it. I don't really know who's to blame in that scenario, though.
Perhaps I don't fully understand what you're saying

CREATE TABLE person (name VARCHAR, age BIGINT);
INSERT INTO person VALUES ('Alice', 37), ('Ana', 35), ('Bob', 41), ('Bea', 25);
CREATE OR REPLACE MACRO my_query_table(t) AS TABLE (SELECT * FROM query_table(t));
SELECT * FROM my_query_table('person');

Or do you mean that you can't use `query_table` with a macro identifier in place of the table identifier as input (after all, where would put the macro args)? Perhaps using `query(...)` instead would work?

CREATE OR REPLACE MACRO query_macro(m, i) AS TABLE (SELECT * FROM query(CONCAT('SELECT * FROM ', m::STRING, $$($$, i::STRING, $$)$$)));
SELECT * FROM query_macro('my_query_table', 'person');

Or maybe through some other kind of gymnastics
https://duckdb.org/2024/03/01/sql-gymnastics.html
Firstly, my claim that they say this is evidenced by the link. I did not assert it as historic fact that this thing works, just that this is what they say. The words "Selling point" and "proposed" are in that sentence for a reason: it's not actual yet. But if you think it's a deliberate fraud, then say so.

Secondly: Although the final proof of it is in the full scale aircraft for sure, a lot can be done with software modelling (1) and wind tunnels these days. And with the scale model that just flew, to be followed by "checking the actual performance that was demonstrated against what our models predicted, and how we expected it to fly." (2)

Thirdly, I point you to other "quieter supersonic" aircraft work in progress, the X-59. Some of their evidence-gathering process is detailed at the Wikipedia link, "development" section. (3)

It will be interesting to see how these work out; but if they do not, then it's a failure of modelling and design, not because they missed the directly obvious. But if you are an aerospace engineer and know more about this subfield, then say so.

1) "Boom has perfected its aircraft’s efficient, aerodynamic design using computational fluid dynamics, which “is basically a digital wind tunnel"."

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/28/travel/boom-supersonic-fi...

2) https://www.livescience.com/technology/engineering/boom-supe...

3) https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/x-59-quiet-sup...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_X-59_Quesst
Those drives are amazing. Not exactly cheap, but very reliable and silent enough for home server use.
You can't quantify predictable outcomes of business rivalries so well either, but you probably don't want to do away with them for that reason.
Government regulation.

'Can't have your data going to China'

'Can't allow companies that do censorship aligned with foreign nations'

'This company violated our laws and used an American company's tech for their training unfairly'

And the government choosing winners.

'The government in announcing 500 billion going to these chosen winners, anyone else take the hint, give up, you won't get government contracts but will get pressure'.

Good thing nobody is making these sorts of arguments today.
The irony is that Oracle makes sure that things are complicated and buggy enough to require support.

I once had to use a patch to be able to run an installer. That should have been the low point of my Oracle career but no! I've also had a patch fail after it had passed all prerequisite tests and after it had been installed on an identical machine: support told me the patch could have been modified. I can't even rely on installing something in a dev environment first, because they might change the patch! I hate Oracle with a passion.
Iamlive: Generate IAM policy from AWS calls using client-side monitoring (CSM)
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n23/jonah-goodman/a-nati... is a pretty good article describing how a Swiss doctor showed experimentally that adding iodine was a cure for goitre and the associated mental handicaps (Switzerland is highly deficient in iodine in many areas, because glaciers in the last ice age removed most top soil).
How could they publish the terabytes of training data? A million RAR files?

Honestly would that part even be useful? Like I want to know how they did the training so I can repro it with my own set of training data, right?

I mean, isn't that the future? Somebody figures out how to do P2P distributed training and groups can crawl the web training their own open source models?
let him coooook
Has it been established if the weights can even be copyrighted? My impression has been that AI companies want to have their cake and it it too, on one hand they argue that the models are more like a database in a search engine, hence are not violating copyright of the data they have been trained with, but on the other hand they argue they meet the threshold that they are copyrightable in their own right.

So it seems to me that it's at least dubious if those restricted licences can be enforced (that said you likely need deep pockets to defend yourself from a lawsuit)
It isn't for everyone, that is for sure. You can find a lot of things to criticize about the game, as you can will all games. Not everyone likes Factorio, Elden Ring, God of War, Stardew Valley, Rimworld etc. even if they are massive successes within their own communities.

I'm not defending the game or trying to make a case for it. I'm suggesting that if you can't look past your 9 year old memory of a botched launch and compare it to the subsequent near-decade of grind this team has put into their dream - you might be lacking perspective.
To be fair, there was no web in the 80s.
I certainly have replaced many of my Google Searches with Gemini chats
These questions are often hard to answer for people unfamiliar with how VC works, but mostly because VC is not intuitive from a 'normal business' perspective.

Essentially, VC's know very that what they're funding is risky and may go completely caput. However the VC model explicitly aims to fund companies that have the potential of becoming huge and becoming very profitable.

Both the founders and VC's behind Astral are not stupid, they know that it could fail or only have moderate success... However, if they succeed in building the next generation go-to ecosystem for python development (which is arguably the world's most popular programming language), we could imagine a future where they spin off some product and it does incredibly well!
Competing is hard and expensive, whereas banning is for sure the faster way to make stock values go up and exec's total package as a result.
smiles in katalepsis
Looks like LaTeX syntax.
Thanks for feedback. I wonder what you would classify as a "mistake", though. I don't want to say anything that's incorrect, and definitely invite corrections.

> Java has had escape analysis for decades. What it doesn't have is value objects. But there are plans for that in the works.

I'm not sure what you mean this contradicts. Let's say it lands. Which of my points does it invalidate? (also, you know, Java has had ~30 years to land this)

Edit: ah, I see what you mean. Basically you're saying that because of escape analysis, Java can avoid stuffing literally all objects onto the heap for the GC to collect. Sure, that's one of the millions of heroics that Java has added to manage the mistake. The GC has also added more genius algorithms than maybe any other code in history. And yet, a very large percentage of all that work is just to work around a mistake in the language. And it'll never be fully mitigated.

> The rant against bytecode is[…]

Reasonable people can disagree on the values, but what's the mistake?

> iOS distribution also relies on the ability to deliver bytecode instead of native code for those kinds of late optimization opportunities.

So did (does?) android. I remember those "optimizing apps" loading screens on every update. This is actually exactly my point: None of this requires that the IR / bytecode is, itself, "executable".

> The C++ standard library absolutely uses exceptions for all sorts of silly errors

Nowhere near Java. It's a difference is philosophy, don't you agree? Comparing C++ and Java, you'd agree that Java doubled down on exceptions, right?

And that's what I'm saying the mistake is.

I'm not saying that std never throws errors. But that's also not the case in Rust or Go. But I'm sure you agree that panic in Rust or Go is worlds apart from exception use in Java?

C++ (standard library API, at least) is much much closer to Rust and Go, than to Java. Like, no contest.

> I'm confused as to why the author hates try/finally so much

Not "try" so much as "finally". Compared to RAII or Go's "defer", it's a very convoluted and (in my experience from various codebases) very error prone way to hopefully remember to undo everything (and if a resource acquisition is added, to remember to release it way down there in different code).

It's morally equivalent to defer, yes, but unlike RAII it's not automatic. Even compared to Go's defer and (not guaranteed to be called) finalizer, it's easier to get wrong.

Defer is better than finally, but RAII is better than both.

> try-with-resources, which brings an interface much like RAII to Java.

True. I have no criticism of that pattern, which is why I didn't criticize it. :-)
That's TeX. Every time Donald Knuth gets distracted from writing The Art of Computer Programming, he makes another piece of load-bearing infrastructure. (TeX came about because the second edition of Volume 1 didn't look as nice as the first edition.)
> something our bodies can’t synthesize

Iodine is an element! As such, it cannot be produced by a chemical reaction and so isn't synthesized in any living organism.

It's produced in supernova explosions, by the rapid neutron capture process.
I'm not in the space either but I think the answer is an emphatic yes. Three categories come to mind:

1. Online trolls and pranksters (who already taught several different AIs to be racist in a matter of hours - just for the LOLs).

2. Nation states like China who already require models to conform to state narratives.

3. More broadly, when training on "the internet" as a whole there is a huge amount of wrong, confused information mixed in.

There's also a meta-point to make here. On a lot of culture war topics, one person's "poisonous information" is another person's "reasonable conclusion."
Undetectable Aim Bots Are Coming for Consoles
Airflow – Stream media files directly from macOS to AirPlay devices
Thought I'd share this great little app I've been using for a few years now.
There is a lot to like about Zed. But I still can't get past how it doesn't feel as snappy as Sublime. As I mentioned in the post, their snippet solution is not ideal for my needs. Something I didn't mention, though, was that I find the LSP configuration to be really frustrating in Zed. Their configuration/settings file is kind of a mess. They've clearly gone through a couple different versions of how to configure things because every couple of releases. They have changed the way that LSP formatting is configured at least twice.
“We’re building a new high-speed seatbelt system for covered wagons”
They actually sell those now. Well they use "faraday fabric". So that's another solution, but your phone one your head and put a foil hat on it.
NMS is a technical marvel, and at first, the game is quite fun.

But for me, it just falls flat after a while. The planets just feel functionally the same, just with a different "skin" (which is cool, just doesn't add to the fun).

I've gone back to it 3 or 4 times, and may/may not explore it again after this update. But it's always the same: it feels cool/new for a few hours, then I realize it's still very repetitive.

And I hold no ill will about the launch -- I don't really care, and I think the continued efforts and free updates are very admirable.

But it comes down to the gameplay, and at the end of the day, there's not enough depth to keep me playing (e.g. compared to something like Factorio, where I can play this for months and it never gets old).
Only if they do it by force.

Trump has already managed to completely destroy the US reputation within basically the entire continent¹. And he seems intent on creating a commercial war against all the countries here too.

1 - Do not capture and torture random people on the street if you want to maintain some goodwill. Even if you have reasons to capture them.
In fact, I'm not sure how the "we will need tons of centralized inference infrastructure" argument works when Apple with +50% smartphone market share in the USA has a totally opposite strategy focused on privacy: on-device inference.
iOS just really improved support for pwas sometime in the last part of last years. It's much better.
Unfathomable to me that they'd make themselves look so foolish by trying to ban a piece of software.
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The funny thing about GraalVM is that some workloads are actually slower because of some of the dynamic optimisations the JVM applies. Picking the right garbage collector can make a Java program execute faster than when precompiled to native instructions.

I'm sure the same would happen when writing C for the JVM. Tricks like dynamically rearranging/compressing pointers and altering structs to better suit the cache lines and data locality properties of the system code is running on can probably boost any major C program, but that's an incredibly complex change to a C program that the JVM just gives you for free.
When will this be rolled out to everywhere else?
Somehow Malloy always gets called out in these threads but not PRQL.

https://prql-lang.org/
Iodine is also found in seafood and dairy and eggs, which may have been less common in the American diet a century ago, especially among the poor, but are widespread today. Americans no longer need iodized salt. (Not sure about vegans.)
Yeah, the AV thing was what gave me pause. The only thing I miss about Windows is ESET's Nod32. Best AV I've ever used. I know they have a Mac version now but I don't see the point in getting it.
Without evidence of a crime there is not enough information to know. The fact that crime statistics are higher for black men doesn't mean this individual black man is more likely to have committed the crime than this individual jewish one. We don't want our AI systems to presume guilt based purely on race.
Fed leaves rates unchanged, drops reference to inflation 'progress'
It is, but words mean things. If I said I got you a puppy and gave you a million dollars instead, that'd be nice, but what about the puppy?
Sure thing, my fav stack ror api + anything for front end.
Unequal distribution, basically. While most planets will never be observed by a human, it turns out players congregate in certain parts of the galaxy, particularly near the galactic center. (The game starts you at a random location near the edge and there's literally a 'reach the galactic center' quest, so most players end up near the center eventually.)

So yes, there are trillions of stars, but there's only so many of them within $RADIUS of the center. In practice every planet 'near' (for some definition of 'near') the center has already been discovered and the 'good' planets are likely to already have bases. There are also spots that get their locations published in the forums or advertised in-game (good drops, cool bases, things like that) that also end up 'locally' crowded.

I found there were basically two experiences in NMS - "the outer rim" which was, frankly, lonely - you almost never encounter any signs that other players even exist and "the core" where it feels like everything has already been done - sure it's new to you, but you're never the first. Finding a middle zone where you can see evidence of other players, but there's still stuff to discover was rare in my experience.
You both miss the point completely. What I mean is that just by being resentful, you don't achieve the outcome that you want to achieve (not the outcome that they want to achieve).

The only way to achieve the outcome you want, is for someone to do the work. They're not going to do it. If you'd rather keep being resentful rather than do the work towards your own claimed desired outcome, then apparently you don't really value the outcome you so claim to desire; you value being resentful more.
The active bits may change with each token. You need the whole model in memory, even though, for any single token, only a subset of that memory will have been used in computation. The memory efficiency comes when you have multiple sessions in parallel.
This just proves to me Meta can't build a product users actually want to use, they can only acquire other products, or lobby.
I have actually tried Lapce because I like Lua and I thought it would be a nice alternative to building plugins in Lua rather than Python. But I can't get over how clunky the UI is in Lapce. I also find it will randomly crash on me and I can't really tell why. There's also no easy way to add additional LSPs. You have to look at these extensions, and there is a very limited number of them. I wish they would just allow you to configure the LSP through a JSON object like Sublime does.
> exactly the same amount of supporting evidence

The evidence supporting offensive hacking is abundant in recent history; the number of things which have been learned from alien crash data is surely smaller by comparison to the number of things which have been learned from offensive hacking.
Norway did that for a while when there was a surge in prison population. I think they sent prisoners to the Netherlands.
nanoGPT is awesome (and I highly recommend his videos on it), but it’s closer to a direct reproduction of GPT-2, so it’s cool to have a really clean implementation of some newer ideas.
You miss the point. See my reply here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42870194
Ok so to be clear: your surrounding facts are they may have a motive and nation states hack people. I don’t disagree with those, but there really are no facts that support the idea that there was a hack in this case and the null hypothesis is that researchers all around the world (not just in the US) are working on this so not all breakthroughs are going to be made in the US. That could change if facts come to light but att the moment it’s not really useful to speculate on something that is in essence entirely made up.

No I’m not trolling you.