skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah everyone says that they are interested in how you got there but this isn’t true in reality from my experience. Your bias inevitably judges them on the solution because you have many other candidates who got the correct solution.
New York can hardly be called "the US" culturally
Thanks. I'll check it out
"Just move north" is a common refrain from people who don't understand what climate change means.
> the fact that he has this much power totally unchecked.

I think this is just a symptom of the amount of power the office of the president has accumulated over the years. Musk has no authority on his own; he's acting on the authority of the president.

Due to the number of things Congress has delegated to the executive branch over the years, that's quite a lot of unchecked power indeed. But it's not Musk's power, it's the president's.
This is an example of the submitted questions. Because it is possible to search it on the web, it is not an example of the accepted questions.
Yes, without a doubt. We spent the last week conducting research on the V3 and R1 open source models: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42918935

Censoring and straight up propaganda is built into V3 and R1, even the open source version's weights.
Generally, people like to have fun and will pay premiums to live in cities where stuff happens. Cheap housing and money aren’t the only motivators, otherwise we would have a different landscape.
> I'm not a fan if present-ish day sci-fi though, reality is depressing enough as it is.

I subscribe to the Asimov's sci-fi short story magazine (I highly recommend it!) and yeah, I have to skip every story that starts with "the world was devastated by climate change 20-50 years ago, here's how we're surviving now above the flooded remains of our world." I just can't take it.
In the US, yes, but in New York we generally just pile up our trash bags on the sidewalk on garbage day. We don't have alleyways between our buildings and most of the street space is taken up by free car storage.
Maybe. Lots of companies don't localize their pay, or localize it based on country. Even those that do if you're comparing, for example, Pittsburgh and NYC/SF, you're unlikely to come out ahead in NYC/SF especially after you factor in state income tax.
The post complains about token cost and invisible tokens, but the feature is only available to subscribers who pay a flat rate (not per token).
IIRC it’s complicated because it can depend on the relative run times, and how fast the IO OPs are. By lowering the quantum you’re increasing the switching overhead (because there’s more handoffs), but it might allow the io thread to complete much sooner and stop contending with the cpu thread.

Python’s “new gil” (it’s some 15 years old...) uses a similar scheme, with a much lower timeout (5ms? 10?), but it still suffers from this sort of contentions, and things get worse as the number of CPU threads increase because they can hand the gil off to one another bypassing the io thread.
> That’s just the problem. Meta was going to give users a choice between paying with “private data” or paying money.

Well, per GDPR they aren't allowed to do that. Are they giving that option to users outside of EU? Why Not?

> The EU won’t let people make that choice are you saying people in the EU are too dumb to decide for themselves?

No I do not think that. What made you think that I think that?

What about sex and organs? In your opinion should businesses be allowed to charge you with those?

> But how is your data that you give to Facebook “private” to you?

I didn't give it to them. What is so hard to understand about that?

Are you saying that your browsing data isn't private to you? Care to share it?
It’s amazing how cheap it is to build these models once you’ve done the easy work of gathering massive capital and domain expertise. It’s almost like there’s some economic phenomena that kicks in once you scale an operation upwards.
I’m using an app named Snipd that has a Readwise highlights integration. It changes the “back” button behavior to save snippets while driving, or you can use the app to do so (speech to text). Once the highlights are in Readwise, they become part of a larger info synthesis process within my PKM, where I add them to various ongoing notes. If one were very serious about this, there are various tools for spaced repetition that also integrate with Readwise.
Interesting, though I think this type of thinking os overly black and white. All art is inspired and derived from the context in which it was created. While there are obviously more and less original works, genre boundaries are often soft. This may just have more to do with what you were exposed to first or when you were born?
I feel like I'm one of the few people who won't touch the tech for anything work related. I've used it to generate character backstories in Dungeons and Dragons, but I wouldn't trust it for anything reality based. I don't know what everybody is smoking.
Don't you think the delta in cost of living between Michigan and NYC/SF is a lot more than $50k/yr?
Chiang is a silly blob of meat, of course he's not capable of actual reasoning, much less "intelligence".

We grant him personhood, but personhood, like the LA Review of Books, is just a social construct.
You mistook my meaning.

Great thought from op.

Horrible implications.
Government can't solve affordable housing. It is the problem causing unaffordable housing.

Housing affordability is 100% because we let people tell their neighbors they cannot build as much housing as they want to, where they need to build it more slowly. There's no middle ground, there are no acceptable structures of land use law if you want affordability. If you get to tell your neighbor how much housing they can produce, bureaucracy will form around that and it will drive up the price of housing.
Yeah seconding this. If you want to think about it in terms of your resume, putting a bullet point or two to tell the story of how your presence moved that team from not performing to performing well would be very beneficial. That's true even if they're not performing because of social problems, because you might be able to provide the team some alternatives to underperforming. Going above senior engineer is not always about solving the technical challenges, and frankly if you're a staff engineer I would expect you to be willing to dig in on social issues within the team or organization where they hinder your technical initiatives.
PowerShell Scripting with Racket
I disagree that this is a useful springboard. And I say that as an AI optimist.

A report full of factual errors that a careful intern wouldn't make is worse than useless (yes, yes, I've mentored interns).

If the hard part is the language, then do the research yourself, write an outline, and have the LLM turn it into complete sentences. That would at least be faster.

Here's the thing, though: If you do that, you're effectively proving that prose style is the low-value part of the work, and may be unnecessary. Which, as much as it pains to me say as a former English major, is largely true.
I have the $200/month version. Deep Research arrived this morning.

So far I tried it on one problem and it seems limited by the "front end" being 4o-mini. It ignored most of my initial prompt and also ignored the previous research it asked for which I provided. The final output was high quality and definitely was enriched by the web searching it did, but it left out a crucially important dimension of the problem because it was unable to ingest the background info I provided adequately.

I'd like to see a version of it where the front end model is o1-pro
This is a really nice write up! It's giving me motivation to go back to my WASM implementation
https://archive.is/oNkB2
Many large insurance companies leaving Florida. Their last-resort insurance, Citizens Property Insurance Corp, is perpetually one bad hurricane away from insolvency. Well technically they cannot be insolvent but they are allowed a premium surcharge on everyone, including those who do not have their insurance.
Very cool! This definitely has the potential to make eavesdropping on strangers significantly more accessible. I'm a tad worried about this kind of proliferation but this kind of thing is probably inevitable and getting something out there at least lets people to start discussing it openly with a concrete reference.

I really like interacting with models via voice while typing through other apps but its infeasible in loud environments, and feels bad and kind of invasive in places like airports. Looking forward to trying this out more aggressively.
WebAssembly can communicate through buffers. WebAssembly can also import foreign functions (Javascript functions in the browser).

You can get output by reading the buffer at the end of execution/when receiving callbacks. So, for instance, you pass a few frames worth of buffers to WASM, WASM renders pixels into the buffers, calls a callback, and the Javascript reads data from the buffer (sending it to a <canvas> or similar).

The benefit of WASM is that it can't be very malicious by itself. It requires the runtime to provide it with exported functions and callbacks to do any file I/O, network I/O, or spawning new tasks. Lua and similar tools can go deep into the runtime they exist in, altering system state and messing with system memory if they want to, while WASM can only interact with the specific API surface you provide it.

That makes WASM less powerful, but more predictable, and in my opinion better for building integrations with as there is no risk of internal APIs being accessed (that you will be blamed for if they break in an update).
This is an interesting approach, great work!

For anyone that wants to check where the meat is at, is mostly in this file: https://github.com/irrio/semblance/blob/main/src/wrun.c

Thinking out loud, I think it would have been a great idea to conform with the Wasm-C-API (https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasm-c-api) as a standard interface for the project (which most of the Wasm runtimes: Wasmer, V8, wasmi, etc. have adopted), as the API is already in C and it would make it easier to try for developers familiar with that API.

Note for the author: if you feel familiar enough with Wasm and you would like to contribute into Wasmer, we would also welcome any patches or improvements. Keep up the work work!
> We'd never hire someone who just makes stuff up (or at least keep them employed for long).

This is contrary to my experience.
There was a fringe-y program in WW2 run by Skinner to try to train pigeons to act as primitive guidance computers for glide bombs. It only got minor funding and AFAIK was never tested with actual birds in actual bombs but they were able to train the birds and it seems like it could have worked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
Housing is cheap because the job market is poor. Should enough remote workers choose to relocate to the same rust-belt city we’d see higher housing prices in that city. The challenge is that rust-belt cities are just not desirable enough for enough remote workers to reverse the decades of decline. Furthermore, there is no reason that remote workers would cluster by geography other than fear of loosing their remote job and having to return to office, so I don’t think remote workers will be able to turn the tide of the rust-belt.
"Dark Gothic Maga" is a phrase Elon made up to describe himself, and the video covers Peter Thiel directly saying he wants to destroy America. Watch the damn video.
Daniel Stenberg Awarded European Open Source Achievement Award
The same applies to food production, but is there a food shortage?
EU Commission to take a 'holistic' approach against Temu, Shein
I agree, this is just how I go about it. Not defending it on any general grounds whatsoever.

I acknowledge that a lot of the media I consume ends up being just part of a genre, and that I often don't even know the originals and only have access to simulacra.

But when I think about what I wanna read next, what albums to buy records of and so on, I prefer to go as far upstream as I can or know about.
I think you have that backwards; it should decrease latency and decrease throughput.

I don't imagine the overhead will be too bad though, so it may decrease latency while keeping throughput essentially the same.

Of course you'll want to benchmark on your specific load. For example, at my day job it'd make no difference because we don't use threads, each Passenger worker has just one thread and handles one request at a time.
If it helps, here’s info from Dr. Derek Lowe, a 30+ year pharma chemist and author of In The Pipeline. For further research on the topic, he has many other posts on the topic, some of which are linked in the links below.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/aduhelm-again

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/goodbye-aduhelm

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/alzheimer-s-and-in...
Hey all--the author here.

I just want to clarify one thing that I didn't think to mention (but probably should have) in the article itself. I went out of my way to use eqn specifically because I wanted to use that particular tool here. I write LaTex a lot on a day to day basis, and wanted to play around with something else. So this wasn't a case of picking eqn because I thought it was the best tool for the job.
Where do you store full trash bags in between pickups?
This comment of mine is light, so don't take it too seriously, but I'm reminded that the factory in the film Minority Report (2002) has no people in it. It is entirely automated.
you can call anyone for any reason if you aren't doing it for your own business
Or every occurrence of the singleton pattern (except for when it's the flyweight pattern)
> Do dedicated sound cards offer tangible audio quality improvements over modern onboard solutions like Realtek?

Depends on motherboard, but: I had a top of the line, very well reviewed gaming mobo, and I’d hear a buzzing noise over the speakers depending on what the computer was doing. Moving the mouse? Distinct buzz as a function of speed. Compiling the Linux kernel? Distinct buzzing. Etc. this happened under both Windows and Linux, so I don’t think it was a software issue.

Having an external DAC allows you to keep the audio signal very, very far away from the rest of the electronics, which completely solved the problem for me. I went with a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 for about $200, connected to my two JBL 305 speakers — it’s been great. It wasn’t in my initial plans, but I later took advantage of the XLR microphone input to set up a Shure SM7B microphone (wasn’t quite enough gain, so I added a TritonAudio FetHead preamplifier and a DBX 286s for de-essing/eq/etc — very happy with the setup now).

So, FWIW, I’m a big fan of external USB DACs.
I agree for the most part, however the question is more about where the windows product itself is moving.
Given that the Ryugu sample was contaminated, how confident are we that these samples werent also contaminated?

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-ryugu-asteroid-sample-rapidly-...
Nah pretty sure it was Darude's law
It will accelerate and deepen the alienation that is already epidemic, and will lead to a great deal of societal, economic, and personal trouble.
I suppose "all of them?" would be wrong, but perhaps "all except those in space experiments" might fly.
We conducted further research on the full-sized 671B model, which you can read here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42918935

If you ran it on your computer, then it wasn't R1. It's a very common misconception. What you ran was actually either a Qwen or LLaMA model fine-tuned to behave more like R1. We have a more detailed explanation in our analysis.
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I said the Abrahamic God which is supposed to be all-powerful, omniscient, and other such things.
As soon as you do that, you tie in your state-preserving storage (a database?) with your language as your "programming environment", and it becomes harder to decouple them (or the design becomes overly complex with configurable implementations of a state-database interface).

So, I don't think this should be at the language level. Potentially at a programming environment level, which includes configuration for such environment, but separation of concerns is screaming loudly in my head :)
Living in Baltimore was a mess with rats until the city issued the rat-proof trash bins. Now I rarely ever see them.
This (older) collab is pretty nice:
https://www.vision.ict.e.titech.ac.jp/projects/WOW_TOKYO_AYA...
There is still plenty of low-hanging fruit in science
I'll call anyone I please, thank you very much!
As sibling implied basically every other major city in the US uses bins or dumpsters. Except NYC.
You can buy residential proxies to pretend you're a regular person IIRC, some of the browser automation companies do that to bypass rate limiting, captchas, etc.
Author is here. Thanks for sharing my post. I'm open for discussions / questions about this topic, as well as curious to hear thoughts on the subject.
The institutions are indeed better, but they are under a decapitation attack, and the attackers have a lot more successful historical authoritarian assaults on democracy to hone their attacks.

Plus, one party is aprox 100% corrupted and in on the assault, and holds power in both legislative branches and a large portion of the judiciary. For example, the biggest breach of critical US data on EVERY resident and business in the US Treasury has just been executed by unelected Elon Musk, and no one stopped him. He also forced his way into a SCIF (Secure Compartmentalized Info Facility) and other offices without being stopped. Musk has locked out those appointed to protect him, congress is abdicating it's responsibility & power, and law enforcement is not acting against the administration.

It is not entirely certain that money will continue being printed, considering Musk's assault on the Treasury. I would not be surprised to find he convinces Trump to route payments through his "Everything App" X, which he desperately needs to support (some serious & credible analysts are considering this may be a motive for those moves).

The investment markets are at this moment in free-fall, only two weeks into the administration.

This may provoke the people into a sufficiently massive response, or it may not.

Yes, the blue states are starting to work together to route around the Federal Govt, which may or may not be a good thing.

Avoided? Certainly could have been avoided. Stronger institutions preventing forcible targeted deregistration of 3.2 million+ voters before the election (enabled by a SCOTUS captured by illegitimate Senate confirmation games, which gutted the Voting Rights Act) would have helped when the margin was ~1.6 million votes. An independent press that did not normalize pathological and criminal activities by one candidate would have helped. The list would go on for a very long time, and the point is that the institutions are ALREADY very weakened. They barely held against a criminal administration last time. The size of the cracks appearing in only a fortnight do not bode well for this time.

[edit: add updated info in para.2]
Sigh.

// Please, just allocate a normal array instead, there is no benefit to this if it lives throughout the whole application lifetime
var bytes = (stackalloc byte[512 * 1024]);

// or, but, please, at least use a span instead of C nonsense of tracking offsets by hand
// it's not 1980 anymore
var ptr = stackalloc byte[512 * 1024]; // byte*

// or
[InlineArray(256 * 1024)]
struct CommandList { byte _; }

var commands = new CommandList();

// or
unsafe struct State
{
public fixed byte CommandList[256 * 1024];
}

Whichever you like the most, they do have somewhat different implications - stackalloc is C alloca while struct-based definitions have the exact same meaning as in C.

To avoid running into stack space limitations, you can place a fixed buffer or any of these large arrays into a static field. It gets a fixed static offset in the memory.

C# goes much further and also provides zero-cost abstractions via struct generics with interface constraints. Or without - you can also apply pattern matching against a generic T struct and it will be zero-cost and evaluated at compilation (be it with RyuJIT or ILC (IL AOT Compiler)).
> Documenting reality

The issue is reality not being settled or agreed upon. For disputed territories there is effectively two realities both officially backed by sovereign countries.

You can come up with some arbitrary criteria to split the difference, but your reality would break when you effectively set foot in a spot that works under the competing assumption.
I think this is great advice for folks who work on software that is well enough contained enough that you can run the entire thing on your dev machine, and it happens to be written in the same language/runtime throughout.

Unfortunately I've made some career choices that mean I've very rarely been in that position - weird mobile hardware dependencies and/or massive clouds of micro services both render this technique pretty complicated to employ in practice.
I guess I was wrong. What a world .
In trash rooms, hallways or alleyways if one exists (common outside of Manhattan).
A big problem with GrapheneOS is the fact it only officially supports Google phones. Google is apparently incapable of selling those things globally, limiting availability.

There's also the fact hardware remote attestation is creeping into the Android ecosystem. There's absolutely no way to daily drive something like GrapheneOS if essential services such as banks and messaging services start discriminating against you on the basis of it. Aw shucks looks like your phone has been tampered with so we're just gonna deny you access to your account, try again later on a corporation owned phone.

GrapheneOS is amazing from a security and privacy perspective but it doesn't matter. The corporations will not tolerate it because it works against their interests. They will ban you from their services for using it. Unlike Google and Apple, they have no leverage with which to force the corporations to accept terms unfavorable to them.