skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a ton of experience gluing PETG--the one I've used is "PETG Gloop", which I don't think he tested. I wonder if there's a close analog, or where it would fall in his rankings.

(PETG Gloop SDS is available here, if you want to see the chemical components: https://www.3dgloop.com/sds )
Nope, it was not. But 2020 is when it was first addressed by the US federal government (through various means including the CARES Act), and the US federal government was run by one Donald Trump. So it seems disingenuous of you to place the blame specifically on Democrats without citing what the Democrats did wrong but Donald Trump did right.
It is possible to just not use a phone number.

I mostly connect through Signal. I do technically have a phone number that my close friends and family have, but its a random VoIP number that I usually change every year or so. Surprisingly no one has really cared, I send out a text that I got a new number and that's that.
Either you care about being correct or you don't. If you don't care then it doesn't matter whether you made it up or the AI did. If you care then you'll fact check before publishing. I don't see why this changes.
Yes.

A super is a like Kroger's or Walmart Express.

A hyper is a Walmart Supercenter.
That's 2 parts:
1. Global variable (mutable)
2. Local function with context argument (mutations)

You have clear tracking of when and how functions change the global variable
Think of it like a vaccine.

The majority of human written consultant reports are already complete rubbish. Low accuracy, low signal-to-noise, generic platitudes in a quantity-over-quality format.

LLMs are innoculating people to this kind of low information value content.

People who produce LLM quality output, are now being accused of using LLMs, and can no longer pretend to be adding value.

The result of this is going to be higher quality expectations from consultants and a shaking out of people who produce word vommit rather than accurate, insightful, contextually relevent information.
To go from partially automated to fully automated is thousands of non trivial edge cases and unforeseen decision points that must be tamed.

To say this is trivial is like saying the one shot ai prompted twitter clone is the same thing as twitter.

Peak HN indeed.
I found myself accidentally behind the secured area of this solar installation while driving in the Mojave National Preserve. It is truly bizarre to see up close - the glow that you see around the towers in the photo on the article is quite bright in person.

I wondered when I saw it - is that glow the air turning into plasma? Are otherwise-invisible dust particles reflecting the absurd amount of light hitting them? Is the heat enough for the air to start scattering light?

It's no surprise that it would incinerate birds, in any case.
When Trump (or Republicans, generally) say "free speech", they patently do not mean what the rest of us mean by free speech. They mean:

1. Everyone should be able to say horrible things about sexual and racial minorities.

2. Everyone should be able to deny scientific facts that are inconvenient to Republican ideology, the fossil fuel industry, or any of their friends.

3. There can be no consequences for (1) or (2), even when it obviously contradicts other laws (libel, incitement of violence, fraud, etc.) or oaths (to truth, to the constitution).

4. Stating a fact or opinion contrary to (1) or (2) is in fact trampling the free-speech rights of right-wingers, and is therefore forbidden.

They don't want free speech. They want free speech for themselves, and enforced consent, if not assent, from everyone else.
This doesn't seem to have anything to do with my comment. I was asking for the data where the grandparent was saying the economic effect is net negative.
He also could have named it "Super Alfaro" or "Super Jose".
I would love an iOS setting that blocks all network access for certain apps
It would be interesting to see video of the birds getting incinerated in mid flight.

I presume there is video of the aftermath ("workers have nicknamed the smouldering birds "streamers", because they leave tiny wisps of white smoke behind as they burn up in the sky.") of the incinerated birds here: https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-solar-bird-de...
“But once you're already experiencing symptoms, there are other problem which clearing out the amyloid alone won't stop.”

Ok, maybe we’re just arguing different points here. I’ll grant that amyloids have something to do with all of this. I’m having a more difficult time understanding why one would suggest these drugs to a diagnosed Alzheimer’s patient at a point where it can no longer help.

Or is the long term thought that drugs like these will eventually be used a lot earlier as a prophylactic to those at high risk?
Yea but following your example/analogy you have gas-gas but brain-llm. So how can we then experiment? It's a simulation at best.
What do you do that doesn't crush souls?
Automobiles have serious positive externalities. Even just ambulances and fire trucks are a major societal benefit.

I’m drawing a blank on the positive externalities gambling provides to offset its downsides? Reducing illegal gambling...
1.5B Broadband Connections
It’s not that it’s cheaper overseas, rather it’s often not available domestically at any price. People don’t realize just how absolutely gutted America’s commodity/heavy industrial production capacity really is and the whole system makes it nearly impossible to rebuild.
Depending on what kind of software you tend to work on, you may have written a lot of subtly incorrect C.
I would encourage you Google something to the effect of: super Mario-branded food

I would have posted a lmgtfy link for you, but I have faith you can manage it yourself.
“Citizens must vote only through X, with verified ID.”
Neural networks are a simplification of our brains, they are not a replication of it. It is just a modeling method that was inspired by how human neurons work, that's it. It's not 1 to 1 or anything.
re: clancy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo8FhChnyq0
I don't know. OpenAI is so bad in naming... the average person on the street will confuse Deepseek with Deep Research. Also not to forget o1, o3 ... 4o
It wouldn’t be obvious they’re using a scattershot approach when they’re a good match, though. I don’t see the downside.
> We find significantly increased emission variability in the 2–3 hr before flare onset

Is this within the band of existing "advance notice of flare" signalling? Without being a competent astronomer (soler or otherwise!) I can't tell if this in itself is significant, or if the analytics of why these spectral elements change behaviour is the (sole) key point.
Jan 2025 article, https://apnews.com/article/california-solar-energy-ivanpah-b... via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42913376

> What was once the world’s largest solar power plant of its type appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening... “The Ivanpah plant was a financial boondoggle and environmental disaster,” Julia Dowell of the Sierra Club said in an email. “Along with killing thousands of birds and tortoises, the project’s construction destroyed irreplaceable pristine desert habitat along with numerous rare plant species,” Dowell said. “While the Sierra Club strongly supports innovative clean energy solutions.. Ivanpah demonstrated that not all renewable technologies are created equal.”
> One switch.. that ignores user setting and turns on after every update.

Ah. That is indeed irritating, but at least it's easily fixed once you know about it, even if it shouldn't have to be. Even when you know it needs to be done, it's very cumbersome to go through every single app, separately toggling off Siri (and, I guess, now Apple Intelligence? I don't know if that's another toggle). Fortunately this process seems to be "sticky" across updates, which is a win, but it still isn't something I should have to do for tons of apps at start, and then for every app I ever install after.
The descriptions of the product sounded substantially more impressive than the actual samples tbh.

Still I think there is a big market for this sort of „go away for 30 mins and figure this out“ style agent
>Its not. Apple still owns your stuff. There is no difference between Apple and other 3p retailers.

That could be taken to mean anywhere between "Apple controls the software on your iPhone, therefore they control your contacts" and "Apple gives out your data like the data brokers mentioned in the OP". The former wouldn't be surprising at all, and most people would be happy with, and the latter would be scandalous if proven. What specifically are you arguing for?
> they are probabilistic language models

This is like arguing an Airbus cannot possibly fly because it is 165 tonnes of aluminum, steel and plastic.

The proof is in the fact that it flies, not what it is constructed from.
https://archive.md/xohsC
Having lived close enough to it to "pick up the vibes" I'm going to say the only thing that's really changed is the flavor of the propaganda. USSR might have started as a leftist thing (I wouldn't know), but it didn't behave like one toward the end. It was all about power & corruption.
bidirectional causality
> the average person on the street will confuse Deepseek with Deep Research.

That’s probably a feature not a bug (from OpenAI’s perspective…).
It's very close to Euler's constant, e.
But the book was written as a guide to how to take down USA. Implementing the book for local politics = helping Russian goals.
But not as frightening as the seemingly-widespread expectation that corporations should serve as the "champions of the people", against the peoples' own elected government.

In cases where huge corporations have managed to bend a government to their own will - how often has then worked out well for the ordinary people?
This is a hard question for language models since it targets one of their known weaknesses.
You can search any nonprofit or corporate entity? That doesn't seem safe..
> The idea of a perfect language seems somewhat ill defined in the first place

I'm not a linguistic expert but let's say that a person know ten languages then accoding to that person it must be one of them is the best comparatively, because each of them has exactly same purpose of expressing and articulating the speakers thought and ideas. Whether the person admit it honestly, that's a different story.

I'd suggest you go to any random person that speaks several languages including Arabic, and ask the person which one is the best according to his opinion. Do this over large samples perhaps several thousands multi-lingual persons to get rid of the bias, I think the answers will most probably Arabic.

Fun facts, original Gospel is being spoken in Aramaic, and the language is much closer to Arabic than Hebrew [1]. Another fact, scholars agreed the original name of Jesus is without J, most probably Isa or Iso, and in the Quran the Isa is the name correctly given in the Quran. If Jesus is walking in the street of Bethlehem today, he probably will not has responded if someone call him with his Bible name.

The Old Testament of Bible, is considered by most scholars was originally spoken and written in Hebrew but the language was dead for several centuries, that's why eventhough Jesus is Jewish they didn't speak Hebrew at the time. Hebrew is a close cousin of Arabic, and both are Semitic languages. Based on the experts of Hebrew and Arabic (in which I'm not), the Hebrew language is like a dialect of Arabic. Both has Allah, the name of almighty God as singular deity without gender. There's no such thing in Arabic or Hebrew the plural for Allah, gender or extension thereof like you have in God, with plural God, or woman Goddes. That's why in Islam and Jewish, you have committed the biggest sin if ascribing any partners in worship to God.

[1] Aramaic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic
In Greek mythology, Jason's maternal great-grandfather was Einstein.
If you have the equipment (e.g. a spare Linux computer and WiFi router) and know-how, you can set up something like mitmproxy (looks very similar feature set to the Android App, but likely requires more effort to set up) to your home network. That's what I did some weeks ago, and then basically the same exercise you did (just my whole network instead of just phone), looking what's going on. And yeah...it's not good.

Even if I trust some companies to be trustworthy, I can't possibly vet a gazillion entities getting telemetry requests, and not all of them can have their shit together, security, privacy or ethics-wise.

It made me ditch some Microsoft software, but overall escaping spying feels like a lost battle, unless you go do spartan Richard Stallman-like computing (IIRC he had pretty hardcore stance over the software he'll use).
Deepmind is not a consumer product. Gemini is part of it but nobody calls it deepmind.
1 percent gain from that seems wild.

I wonder how they arrived at this. Seems like it would be ideal for some sort of evolutionarily algo perhaps
Show HN: I have made shinobi-proxy, just a funny tool getting over firewall
shinobi is a alias of ninja means Japanese spy in old era.

Don't worry about it, this tool is not any malware or spyware. It's just a funny tool.

You can access to processes on a Linux host which drop packets to the processes by firefall, when shinobi-proxy is running on the Linux host.

Simply saying, shinobi-proxy reads all packets from NIC via rawsocket, filters and sends them to the inner process on its same Linux host via TUN device.

If you interested in this tool, I'm glad for you to play it. I prepared a simple scenario to play it on the README.

Thank you!
You're not wrong but it feels like bikeshedding at this point.
From the demo: “Use bullets and tables where necessary for clarity.” It’s weird that it would be necessary to specify that. I suppose they want to showcase that you can influence the output style, but it’s strange that you’d have to explicitly specify the use of something that is “necessary for clarity”. It comes across as either a flaw in the default execution, or as a merely performative incantation.
You don't need a pardon if you're not guilty, for one thing. These are not crimes that would be a matter of opinion. There would be finances that could be linked back to Hunter and Joe. By the way, did you know Hunter is selling "art" made with his own feces? Do you think that is in any way legit? Or is it another channel of illicit payments?

>To me, because there was nothing to the allegations surrounding Ukraine, the prosecution of Hunter Biden seems entirely political.

All the prosecution conducted against Trump was political so it is understandable that Biden could have this fear of retaliation. But the entire establishment worked to suppress the Hunter Biden story and all lines of inquiry about Biden's mental health. If you aren't suspicious about these people after all the antics they've pulled, you're just not paying attention.
I was curious, so I ran your zig version myself and ported it to rust[1].

I think you forgot to run your benchmark in release mode. In debug mode, I get similar results to you. But in release mode, it runs ~5x faster than you reported:

genericWriter - 4035.47ns per iterations
appendSlice - 4026.41ns per iterations
appendSliceOptimized - 2884.84ns per iterations

I bet the first two implementations are emitting identical code. But appendSliceOptimized is clearly much more efficient.

For some reason, rust is about twice as fast as zig in this test:

generic_writer time: [1.8812 µs 1.8837 µs 1.8870 µs]
append_slice time: [2.0019 µs 2.0065 µs 2.0126 µs]
append_slice_raw time: [1.6932 µs 1.7041 µs 1.7182 µs]

(1µs = 1000ns)

[1] https://gist.github.com/josephg/e2dd6e7baf0a764a21bd724f8a2e...

Tests running on linux 6.8.0, CPU: Ryzen 7950x. zig v0.13 / rust v1.84.1.

Zig command: zig build --release=fast -Dtarget=native run

Rust command: RUSTFLAGS='-C target-cpu=native' cargo run --release -- --bench
We're looking at trends that may well obliterate the economic value of a well trained human mind sitting behind a keyboard all day. That is a bit of a threat to most people on HN if the trending continues at the current rate and direction.
"Deep research was trained using end-to-end reinforcement learning"

Does this mean they skipped supervised fine tuning like DeepSeek did with R1?
> But, of course, more advanced users might know what they’re doing and want to bypass this hack, so:

explicit auto s = f"{foo}";

> Does what they programmer actually typed, so s captures foo by reference.

Wouldn't this problem be best solved by... not declaring s to have a guess-what-I-mean type? If you want to be explicit about the type of s, why not just say what that type is? Wouldn't that be even more explicit than "explicit auto"?
I think a lot about how differentiating facts and quality content is like differentiating signal from noise in electronics. The signal to noise ratio on many online platforms was already quite low. Tools like this will absolutely add more noise, and arguably the nature of the tools themselves make it harder to separate the noise.

I think this is a real problem for these AI tools. If you can’t separate the signal from the noise, it doesn’t provide any real value, like an out of range FM radio station.
Aramaic
I’m having a more difficult time understanding why one would suggest these drugs to a diagnosed Alzheimer’s patient at a point where it can no longer help.

My central claim is the the drugs help quite a lot, by slowing down the disease progression by 30%, and that it's highly misleading to say "only 0.45 points benefit on an 18 point scale", since literally 100% halting of the disease could only have achieved 1.66 points efficacy in the 18 month clinical trial.

This is like having a 100-point measure of cardiovascular health, where patients start at 90 points and are expected to worsen by 10 points per year, eventually dying after 9 years. If patients given some treatment only worsen by 7 points per year instead of 10, would you say "only 3 points benefit on a 100 point scale"?

Or is the long term thought that drugs like these will eventually be used a lot earlier as a prophylactic to those at high risk?

I do believe that they will be more (close to 100%) efficacious when used in this way, yes.
Do those change during program runtime though? I don't think many people have problems with global constants.
Don't miss another excellent takedown of the Da Vinci Code by a renowned linguist:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000844.h...
Could you tell me where this was posted? I thought no one would see this after I got no comments the first day

No one I showed this to complained about the first example but online many people did. I wrote a completely different article which I think is much better that uses examples I would have used in the follow up. I'll post that article next week
I'm not a fan of many of the practices you complain about here, but I will say this: We get paid too little for what we do for way too long....6 years of grad school (24k/yr) 6 year post-doc (42k/yr) in California, when I was in those positions anyway. Today, at UC Davis, assistant professors in the UC system start at $90,700 [1, for salary scale], which is often around 12 years after their undergraduate degree. That's in California, where a mortgage costs you $3,000 a month, minimum.

[1] https://aadocs.ucdavis.edu/policies/step-plus/salary-scales/...
HN is full of people who want to feel smart by complaining.
it always surprises me how much data is locked up in garmin's (ancient) sdk.

for example, the FIT file format, used exclusively for programming workouts on all bike computers, are only supported in one or two apps!

I suppose that's our fault and we should build on the sdk
It's FOSS, you're more than welcome to inspect the code yourself
Surprised more comments aren't mentioning deepseek has this feature (for free) already. Assuming this is why OpenAI scrambled to release it.

The examples they have on the page work well on chat.deepseek.com with r1 and search options both enabled.

Do I blindly trust the accuracy of either though? Absolutely not. I'm pretty concerned about these models falling into gaming SEO and finding inaccurate facts and presenting them as fact. (How easy is it to fool / prompt inject these models?)

But has utility if held right.
AI Stocks: Tech Giants Face 'Show Me' Moment as China's DeepSeek Roils AI Trade
I understood the OP to have said something along the lines of if we have a fixed cost per object then we should bias towards smaller objects if we want to minimize that cost.

And totally legibility and/or simplicity. I'll take something I can reason about and maintain over something more complicated just to eek out a tiny better hit ratio. That said, if you're caching at scale your 0.05% hit ratio can be a big deal.

As a matter of personal taste/opinion I also shy away from close loop systems. Feedback makes things complicated in non-intuitive ways. Caffeine seems neat in terms of using feedback to adjust the cache to the workload - as always test with your workloads and pick what is best for your situation.
Google publicly announced a model named "Deep Research" on December 11th: https://blog.google/products/gemini/google-gemini-deep-resea...
Can AI shrink the billions we spend developing drugs? BioPhy says it knows how
McKinsey mode
Of course we should, if only to line his and Nvidia's pockets even more.
This was precisely what motivated Turing to come up with the test named after him, to avoid such semantic debates. Yet here we are still in the same loop.

"The terminator isn't really hunting you down, it's just imitating doing so..."
Why doesn't the iPhone screen spammers yet? Pixel has had this feature for a decade.
I gamble and buy the cheapest ones on EBay in lots of three (some have adapters included plugs for USB-C/micro USB, though it seems like as time passed by, more and more are separating the plug purchase from the cable purchase). The recently announced tariffs will put a damper to this since the last few I have bought were dropshipped from China.
That's exactly why I used this specific example. I seen many code bases that use clone to avoid mutation problems so I wrote this specifically to show it can become a problem too.

I wrote a better article on globals. I plan on posting it next week
Divide by the 111 million buildings in the US of which 90% are single family homes.

So it’s what ~1,000x as bad as the average structure but we’re talking about something several times the size of the average single family home. Plop down a housing development on those same 3,500 acres and it’s likely to kill far more birds.
I couldn't have said this better.
Not everyone keeps defensive weapons at bottom of backpack.

Pack does not attack fast (as single animal would). They have hierarchy, and first try to encircle victims. The situation will literally unfold in "leisure manner", they have overwhelming force, and are not in hurry. They also go first after smaller targets (children, your dogs). You will have a lot of time to watch.

Often you find some semi-safe spot (tree, high ground), but can not leave.

The danger is not to get bitten a few times by alpha dogs, but to let attack continue long enough, you get overwhelmed and all dogs join in.