skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my text browser I came up with a way to implement these that doesn't
move boxes around the page.[0] In short: treat "position: fixed" as
an absolute child of the root box, and ignore "position: sticky"
(mostly).

This doesn't completely eliminate sticky headers/footers (problematic
when you actually want to use them), but they behave like normal
elements at the start/end of the page (instead of the screen).

I initially did it this way for technical reasons, but now I kind of
prefer it to what mainstream browsers do.

[0]: https://git.sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/tree/e56399f92d2323f9af95e0...
(not a great explanation - it says "bottom", but like "position:
absolute" it's placed at the top if only "top" is specified, etc.)
What if I want demarcation right inside the router?
That's not what the Supreme Court said. They said that virtually anything the president does is possibly an official act, and therefore can't even be prosecuted, unless the prosecutors first prove to a judge that it wasn't an official act. And if the judge isn't convinced it wasn't an official act, then the president is immune from any prosecution for that act. So if Trump ordered the military to kill Harris and Obama, this would be an official act and he would be free from any legal consequence for it - the judiciary couldn't even investigate the reasons for it, because that would encroach on the power of the executive branch.

However, this laughably broad, king-level power still doesn't grant him the power to just make anything into law. He can't be prosecuted for anything, but that doesn't mean that anything he wants is now law.
The lower level seems to work eg, “Dopamine regulates decision thresholds in human reinforcement learning” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41130-y
I don't understand what that's supposed to be denying. I'm just explaining how HN works. The connection between tech and politics is hardly new and it's discussed on HN all the time. I mentioned there is a current events discussion on the front page right now and I got it wrong - there are two, and that's not counting the many places these topics come up in other threads. I just don't see how you arrive at this 'looking away' business. Not having a thread for every Elon Musk goosestep is not 'looking away', it's just no the sort of place that has a thread for every Elon Musk goosestep.

There's links to literally years of explanations of this stuff in my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907475
It’s not just one thing. Corrupting is a big part as extracting money from a government via good policies doesn’t work but handling a government project does.

Businesses and money can move outside the country, infrastructure can’t. Subsidize someone manufacturing heavy equipment or other businesses and the business is ultimately at a disadvantage as long as it stays where it is. It would be better off relocating so you’re stuck with an endless handout which stops working when the oil money runs out.

However large scale projects like roads have huge ongoing costs without directly generating revenue. A hotel should be self sustaining and revenue producing after construction.

And beyond corruption, foreign investment, cheap foreign labor, prestige, etc all play a role.
The way I look at it is that if I am an expert in a field that the LLM is not likely to know much about, then I have a competitive advantage.
The slight pause as your brain parses this headline really shows why it makes no sense to have capitalization like this in headlines. It just adds ambiguity.
So your claim is that success stories are some kind of emergent phenomenon that comes from people chasing dopamine highs?
These revolutions were literally won and maintained at gunpoint. Places like HN would be shut and people running them imprisoned.

Might still happen to the US but still far away.
>I don't particularly want a commit log at the top of every function

If thats what you got from my comment then you misinterpreted it.

Nobody wants docs to look like commit messages. They want them to be relevant to the context.
I remember, they took the money for delivering fast internet then lobbied to change the definition of “fast internet” to specs they already provided. So the government investment became profit instead.
If an LLM can solve a riddle of arbitrary complexity that is not similar to an already-solved riddle, have the LLM solve the riddle "how can this trained machine-learning model be adjusted to improve its riddle-solving abilities without regressing in any other meaningful capability".

It's apparent that particular riddle is not presently solved successfully by LLMs, as if it were solved, humans would be having LLMs improve themselves in the wild.

So, constructively, there exists at least one riddle that doesn't have a pattern similar to existing ones, where that riddle is unsolvable by any existing LLM.

If you present a SINGLE riddle an LLM can solve, people will reply that particular riddle isn't good enough. In order to succeed they need to solve all the riddles, including the one I presented above.
Free preprint:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.20.576352v1
Ask HN: Breakthrough in Protein Folding
Hello HN,

I am reaching out to introduce a major breakthrough in protein folding, allowing complex structures to be accurately modeled in real-time—a significant improvement over traditional Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations.

Key Achievements

Successful folding of an intrinsically disordered protein (IDP), a challenge for AI-based methods and MD, completed in seconds instead of weeks.
Simulation of viral capsid formation, reducing the typical computation time from years to seconds—critical for vaccine and antiviral development.
Accurate modeling of membrane proteins, handling steric constraints efficiently while reducing atomic clashes by 98%, surpassing traditional refinement methods.
Validated on large multi-domain proteins, achieving correct biologically relevant conformations with exceptionally low computation time.

Why This Matters

Massive Speed Improvement – What previously took weeks or months can now be computed in near real-time.
Universal Application – Works for de novo proteins, large assemblies, and constrained environments without requiring extensive computational resources.
Potential Drug Discovery Impact – Enables rapid structure-based screening, antibody modeling, and enzyme engineering, accelerating early-stage research.

Next Steps

I can perform the folding of a protein of your choice to show how serious i am,
Contact: sam.khedjam@gmail.com

Looking forward to your thoughts,
I think it'd actually look better if the hover target just occupied the picture.
This is an interesting and approachable write-up.
I've been saying this ever since GPT 3 came out and I started toying with it.

It's unfortunate that for all the people who work in AI most of them barely even know what Prolog is.
I'll jump in before the haterade engine wakes up -- great bit of engineering work here! I can't imagine a better level of abstracting away the unnecessary stuff while still retaining that level of manual control.

The only thing I don't see is setup for local/in-house LLMs, but it's easy enough to spoof OpenAI calls if necessary.
That is not true. You absolutely need the popular will, or at least assent, to govern. Even in the deepest, darkest dictatorships, like North Korea, if the vast majority of the population decided to rise against the leaders, millions would die, but they would ultimately win.

Any leader of any type has to convince the populace that accepting their rule is better than fighting it. Even if current weaponry allowed an army to kill the entire rest of the population of a country, that still doesn't allow a leader to rule by force alone: for one, the army will revolt at some point before killing the majority of their brethren. And even if they didn't, the loss of the majority of the population would ultimately leave the country far too economically devastated to serve any purpose, even for the glorious leader.
Mixed results. I suspect you might have an ES (engineering sample) of your CPU.
I don’t get your point. Are you saying that gender studies in science is political?
Usually compiling and linking extensions is a basic feature from enterprise level RDMS, PosgreSQL is only doing what is already expected.
I'm not saying they wouldn't like to try that, but I'm not sure exactly how that may happen.

Do you think flooding the zone with shit will work? If they actively rig the next elections do you think that any attempt to point that out will be met by "you were saying all the time that elections cannot be rigged"?

It seems society has been caught off guard by the transformation in the media landscape and the resulting fragmentation of attention.
Related: a few years ago had to select microSD models for reliability (longevity): turned out that because of scarcity of available technical details*, the best indicator seemed to be the length of the warranty (5yrs, 10yrs, lifetime...).

Do you have better advice?

* cpr the article:

> [manufacturer] doesn’t publish any detailed specifications about the cards’ internal workings [...] I shouldn’t have to go this far in hardware reverse-engineering to just ask a simple question of what Flash SanDisk used in their high-endurance card

--

About details in the article, instead: it states that 3D NAND should be more reliable (3D has less interference than planar) - but actually I read that 3D NAND can be more fragile physically, and that the bits-per-cell value remains crucial (the less the better)...
I wish it was possible to run a Debian VM on iOS.

For laptops, there are many nice options. But for tablets, the latest iPads are currently unmatched at under 600 grams for a 13" tablet. So I would love to use one of those.
I can't be 100% certain, but I think the good news is: no. There seem to be the exact same number of safetensor files for both, and AFAICT the file sizes are identical.

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3/tree/main
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1/tree/main
Coming up with a reward model seems to be really easy though.

Every decidable problem can be used as reward model. The only downside to this is that the LLM community has developed a severe disdain for making LLMs perform anything that can be verified by a classical algorithm. Only the most random data from the internet will do!
Yea, this is what Ezra Klein seems to think as well.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...
Which is why, when we're talking about heavy weights in the RDMS space, all provide tooling for debugging and optimising stored procedures.

Thanks for the upvoting.
The point the poster above was making is that banning certain words in all published research is literally political correctness, just of the opposite persuasion than typically considered.

As such, it's deeply hypocritical that the very people who complained constantly about the perils of political correctness are now gleefully applying it themselves, and even more forcefully than the left ever did.
That seems less extreme than this thread makes it out to be
I feel like if you take the underlying transformer and apply to other topics, e.g., eqtransformer, nobody questions this assumption. It’s only when language is in the mix do people suggest they are something more and some kind of “artificial intelligence” akin to the beginnings of Data from Star Trek or C3P0 from Star Wars.
I figured this whole thread would have been about hyprland and nvim, then the sharing of various dotfiles.

Am disappointed.
> Just read through this thread and see how few people are saying anything like "you should still learn how cryptographic primitives work though". It's almost nothing but negativity and discouragement.

That’s what the “implied” part of my comment means.
I think that most of the developers who advocate for AI coding have never worked all by themselves on projects with over 500/1000 files. Because if they had they would not advocate for AI coding.
> Clearly your framing is driven by ideological hatred

Is that the current trope in American political discourse? If someone points out there are brazen acts which haven't happened before you just tack the label "ideological hatred" or "partisan" and think that covers all ground?

They are random goons, DOGE wasn't signed into existence by Congress, the "officer" in charge of DOGE has not been through the process of confirmation by Congress/Senate. Those people are getting access to the Treasury without any checks and balances process.

I cannot believe that Americans are falling for this, you were supposed to fight against the tyranny of highly-concentrated power in a single person's hand and yet now it's ok to do it because it's a team you support? This is all so stupid to watch from the outside, a bizarro-world of hot takes without any regards to civics, government function, nor democratic distribution of power across government branches.

What is infuriating is that any argument against it is then met by some twist of an ad hominem boiling down to "this is partisanship/ideological hatred". It's just all so, so stupid.

Edit: also forgot, I don't think anyone like you shouting "partisan" or "ideology" has ever heard about "The Network State", I recommend going through it to see the playbook you are all participating in.
> You can imagine the trouble if that wasn't the case.

While you're absolutely right, just wanted to take this opportunity to point out that we may well not need to imagine this particular scenario, unfortunately, as it might happen very soon indeed.
I also really enjoyed Chiang’s “Exhalation” anthology.

There are some great short stories in both collections.
There are 2 separate metrics - obviousness (=provability) and reality.

Courts operate on provability (and for good reasons).

However, reality is I have used someone else's work and pretended it's my own. Now, ironically, there are cases where the act of masking it can be more time consuming than writing it from scratch. That is still plagiarism, although it might not be provable.
As the counter argument goes, the first amendment does not grant the right of amplified speech. If the government act as a publisher, with discretion to choose which information they choose to publish, then there is no conflict. Feel free to provide examples of first amendment being used to compell the government to publish someone else book or study.

I would like to reassert that censorship is harmful regardless which side does it, especially when the purpose is to silence opposing political views. The filtering should occur at the end points and in control of the user, not governments or companies.
Ruby and the Interface Segregation Principle
I have seen the effect of tools building in several contexts. The most successful were teams that respected the process in that they each, could and would build tools themselves and would adopt other's tools.

Without the symmetry then the creators has to make sure to keep up the pace on the global progress or be label as distracted by the tool creation.

Worst case the tool creators get separated from the main production and have to maintain the core groups utilities (which will become any code they don't want to maintain).

Tools have to be short to build, widely useful, and placed in a repository that is collectively maintained.

Remember the context that created the need for the tool may move on and the existing tools will have to be upgraded. The group should have a plan how to handle that.
Well in an attempt to at least show where the bias, if that's what it is, comes from:

- Affordable Care Act
- the entire Covid response
- GDPR
- the "TikTok Ban" act

To name a few, those are all examples of us having granted larger powers to the government in hopes that they will fix problems for us that we won't fix ourselves.
Nice, but most people have some helicobacter without much problems. Some ulcers are not even caused by helicobacter.
Wow! The blog post was an inspiring read. Thank you for showing what’s possible.
Can those actually place/receive phone calls (actual phone calls, not WhatsApp or whatever) and send/receive SMS messages these days? Last I checked, which admittedly was 5+ years ago, the answer ranged from "no" to "sometimes, when the stars align on a Thursday". Merely being phone-shaped does not a phone make.
Even Aristotle knew that reason was just an aspect of being a human and not the whole thing

To be honest the only philosopher I know of who convincingly argued that everything is reason is Hegel, but he did so more by making the idea of reason so broad that even empiricism (and emotion, humour, love, the body, etc.) falls under it...
> (intersex is on the order of 1 in 1000)

Whoa, honestly, that is much more common than I expected in my mind.
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Praise Kier.
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Try entering a 20 digit number into your calculator.
> The “quadrillion days of happiness” offered to a rational person gives away that such allegories are anthropomorphized just for the sake of presentation.

So what? It's still presented as if it's a interesting problem that needs to be "remedied", when in fact it's just a basic maths mistake.

If I said "ooo look at this paradox: 1 + 1 = 2, but if I add another one then we get 1 + 1 + 1 = 2, which is clearly false! I call this IshKebab's mugging.", you would rightly say "that is dumb; go away" rather than write a Wikipedia article about the "paradox" and "remedies".

> Similarly the trolley problem isn’t really about real humans in that situation, or else the correct answer would always be “do nothing”.

It absolutely wouldn't. I don't know how anyone with any morals could claim that.
China doesn't care about climate change either.
> answer user questions and refuse providing harmful answers.

I wonder why this thing can have so much hype. Here is the NewGCC, it's a binary only compiler that refuses to compile applications that it doesn't like... What happened to all the hackers that helped create the open-source movement? Where are they now?
You can, with ish (https://ish.app). It is a bit slow though and doesn't support the newest releases. (Well and by default it runs Alpine instead of Debian)
There are other sites where you can deliver this kind of homily to your heart's desire.
Very interesting.
This longevity aspect frequently comes up in the Wii U modding community. It is tempting to plug in a simple USB stick to store the game files, but, because of the intense read/write nature, it is deemed to be prone to failure. Recently use of high-endurance SD cards has grown, but some say it is still not as safe as an external HDD. It would be interesting to hear thoughts from someone more experienced about the safest storage option as the last thing you want is for your save files to get corrupted.
Highly recommend UHK for an initial ergo split setup with a traditional row staggered layout. I put an apple trackpad in between the splits. But now considering getting into column staggered layout splits with integrated trackball/pad like the Sofle

https://xcmkb.com/products/sofleplus2
> master of analogies

analogy, in other words, embeddings?
I think the hope was that the US electorate would be better than this and see through the bullshit. They weren't.
They actively look for ways for infinity to happen. Look at Eli's irate response to Roko's basilisk. To him even being able to imagine that there is a trap means that it will necessarily be realised.

I've seen "rationalist" AI doomers who say things like "given enough time technology will be invented to teleport you into the future where you'll be horifically tortured forever".

It's just extrapolation, taken to the extreme, and believed in totally religiously.
I knew about that case (though I don't know the specifics of how sophisticated the LaMDA model was at the time, I don't know if it ever was available online so I could try it). AFAICT Blake Lemoine was not concerned with copyright at all, he just genuinely believed the model was sentient.

What I meant ("none" is obviously a hyperbole, though not by much) is that people argue that "AI" (they always use this term rather than the more descriptive ML or LLM or generative models) is somehow special and either that the mixing of input material is sufficient to defeat copyright or that it somehow magically doesn't apply for reasons they either cannot describe or which include the word "intelligence".
What happens as websites disappear? With a blockchain in 2090 you can point to a website post in 2060 as support that your hashes on data posted in 2030 are still valid. That’s useful when preventing people from rewriting history is the goal.

There’s also a size advantage. You can keep a diff on the archive for each hash being posted instead of the full index for every time you post a hash.
USA turning into a Russian style oligarchy fits neatly in the "interesting new phenomenon".
I think they are effectively locally as powerful. And I'm not defending what Trump is doing; I'm generally pro-trans, let alone pro-rule of law. But it does honestly have a nonzero aspect of schadenfreude to it; not to the victims, of course, but to the people who thought this degree of power and behavior entirely acceptable and valid when used in the other direction.
What does this mean? You are just going in circles and basically saying "no, you" to a pretty valid criticism about a power grab.

It's fucking scary to see how easily people can jump into camp A or camp B, and simply blind themselves to any sort of criticism because actions come from their own camp.

American politics is done for decades, I don't see how you can recover from the erosion of public discourse steadily degrading for the past 30+ years, it just got worse and worse. The final nail in the coffin seem to be social media, it really hastened this downfall, there's no common narrative, no budging from your position; it's all based on shitstorming and hunkering down in your own trench.

It's just so stupid and sad, Nikita Khrushchev would be in fucking glee "We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within". And the thing is, I don't even believe Putin/Russia did that much, it was all self-inflicted, you are just imploding by your hands...
Strict intersex, as in can't decide via genetic tests and physical examination is rarer.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex for why it's not straightforward and why the edges are pretty fuzzy.

The main take away would be that some people are born that are neither male nor female, others are born where assignment isn't clearcut or easy, and such births are more common than the frequency of gold in the earth's crust.
It’s pointless. They aren’t rational. Any argument you come up with that contradicts their personal desires will be successfully “reasoned” away by them because they want it to be. Your mistake was ever thinking they had a rational thought to begin with, they think they are infallible.
Companies are bad about doing this on purpose. If they set out to build AGI and accomplish something novel, just call that AI and go on fund raising from people who don't know better (or more likely don't care and just want to gamble with others' money).
Ironically, you exemplify the standard of discourse that the rationalist spaces of discussion like lesswrong strives to go above, which is what makes them so valuable.

Loaded question (well, affirmation), on a confident sneery tone while using poorly defined terms ("essential humanity") and very poor comprehension of object-level facts of the ground ("Markov chains"). And no sign of even trying to understand the other side, just trying to score rhetoric points on a internet board.
(downvote this comment, unrelated to article)

What a horrible website. Menu-banner floating near the top, bisecting the text, and the undismissable cookie banner taking up almost 100 pixels. It was a genuine chore to read and scroll.