skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> LLMs give no attribution. I deserve to be credited for my fractional contribution to the collective output of humanity.

I disagree, respectfully. You’re unable to accurately credit the myriad of people, sources, and works that’ve all educated and influenced you along the way. Suppose even if you could, you’d not be able to resolve their dependencies ad infinitum. Nor would it even make sense—arguably, as a species we’re defined by the compounding and shared nature of the knowledge we learn, implicitly and explicitly. Shoulders of giants, and all that.

If your contributions were a significant portion of the entire training corpus, then perhaps we’d have a separate discussion to have, but there’s no single person for which you can reasonably argue that’s true. Maybe for authors of hyper-niche topics or cutting edge research?
Can you add 100 digit numbers reliably in a short amount of time over a large sample size? How about without a piece of paper and a pen? Can you even remember a 100 digit number? It’s likely quite difficult…

This is not about comparing to reliability “of a computer” but rather to a process which responds to a wide array of natural language queries (both human processes an algorithmic processes)… and obviously the reliability goes up once tool use is included.
> There is no general compression theory in which BWT could be described as a special case.

I would not really say this is true. BWT is spiritually similar to the various Prediction by Partial Matching (PPM) algorithms, except that instead of needing to decide how much context (i.e., preceding symbols) to use to model the next symbol, and carefully learning the probabilities for each unique context, it naturally sorts symbols with the same context (of _any_ length) so they appear next to each other, and relies on adaptation to update your learned statistics as you move from one context to the next, without ever explicitly tracking context boundaries [0].

[0] N.J. Larsson, "The Context Trees of Block Sorting Compression," 1998. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/672147
> Never quite panned out.

I don't know what you're talking about, honestly. Maybe you're many years behind the current state of affairs.

.NET (core) is a very real thing. A extremely successful and powerful multi platform framework.
I'm probably the furthest thing from an active supporter of trans (whatever you take it to mean, I'm old-fashioned about gender). But how does it matter to this story at all? You could take any group of people and find a crazed group of killers among them.... And people tend to stick to people like them, so again, how is it relevant?
> That’s pretty normal for fiber. They usually want their own device at the end of it.

US? Not Verizon/Frontier or the shared fiber networks. I'll need their ONT, if that's what you mean but it's always my router.

AT&T is another matter. I avoid them whenever possible.
Data is disappearing.

Data is a perfectly valid uncountable noun these days. In fact, it's the de facto standard for amorphous collections of digital data, used by most writers, data analysts and laypeople alike. The uncountable form is awkward and out of place in all but the most specific contexts.

Language is fluid. Used outdated forms is distracting.
True, though in order for brains to do that at all, they need data to analyze. Data is a necessary prerequisite for trying to understand things at all. Removing said data means there is not even the chance to achieve understanding or change. Which is kinda the point.

Barring said data being fabricated, deleting data seems to be a sign of bad faith.
Half crazy, half too pure to get their hands dirty. 0% sensible discussion of absurdity that can only be explained by actions undertaken extremist ideology that benefit the ultra-rich and harm everyone else.
Why scare quotes? There are political organizations representing trans-people (and doing quite a bit of activity).
The paper is recent and being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42889786
The margins are terrible, but they make it up in volume. :P Seriously though, having a volume product that covers its costs keeps the business running; even if it doesn't make a lot of margin, it enables producing products that do have reasonable margins. Zen, especially since Zen 2, can probably pay for itself now, but it's still nice to have two high volume customers.
If anyone is trying to reach mouseless nirvana on Windows, I maintain a tiling window manager[1] and a hotkey daemon[2] (though you can bring your own thanks to the architecture choices I made), the former of which provides a very robust event subscription system which you can integrate with using any language of your choice.

One of the cooler parts of my little mouseless ecosystem is that I automatically have different keyboard layers (QMK style) activate depending on which application is currently focused, saving me a whole bunch of time fumbling around with obscure hotkey combinations for changing layers![3]

[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

[2]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/whkd

[3]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komokana
Similarly, everyone feels like a camera captures truth except the people who operate cameras for a living.
> move the demarc to the Ethernet port on the inside of the router, which makes getting support significantly easier. I care about that more than control.

> I spent decades as a network engineer and then architect.

As an engineer, you've no interest in hosting your own services?
Same thing that happens always when prices go up

* Poor people stay poor

* Middle class complains but is largely unaffected minus not being able to buy a new iphone every year

* Upper class doesn't give a fuck.
How can we know who is deleting the data? How do we know it’s a long time employee, or know it’s one of the newly appointed loyalists?
I am so so sorry you have to deal with this. As an Australian I have been watching on in horror this week at the way trans persons are being demonized and oppressed in your country. I know HN is meant to be an apolitical space, but I hope that the mods here have the sense to allow a certain amount of push back again this fascist nonsense.
I don't think it has meaningful volume to be considered a winner. Mental to physical share ratio is low, similar to Boston Dynamics in robotics, RISC-V in processors, etc.
CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised
I think the breathless hype train of twitter is probably the worst place to get an actually grounded take on what the real world implications of the technology is.

Seeing the 100th example of an llm generating some toy code for which there are a vast number of examples of approximately similar things in the training corpus doesn’t give you a clearer view of what is or isn’t possible.
Performance of OpenAI o3 in the ARC-AGI challenge fits the bill, however the model is not released publicly.
You have a typo in your ollama.service:

Environmetn="ROCR_VISIBLE_DEVICES=1"

The 't' and 'n' are transposed.
Executive overreach has been the growing problem since at least the 80s.

The actual term "unitary executive" dates from then.

The problem is the government has gotten too big. Congress can't or won't rein it in. The President doesn't have the scope to do it either. So in effect, alot of power is giving to the various organizations, and under unitary executive power, the President devolves his authority to the various organizations. This leads to the growth of unaccountable bureaucracy. I know this sounds contradictory but it isn't. The bureaucracy reports to the President who under unitary executive theory is their only real boss. An absent boss if the best kind of boss.

The twinned parties like this because they can force through policies they really, really want when they hold the executive, but everything else sorts of just happens.
That's the rub. It would've been a non-issue in the late 90's when extremists weren't in power and there was just moderate levels of corruption rather than gold bar senators or Department of Fox News Defense. It's imperative to call-out absurdity where it interferes with the continuation of organized multicellular life rather than be silent, because silence gives consent (Qui tacet consentit).
Trump ordered random water released from dams in California last week. That is a dictate, not sound policy. There was zero documentation on our tariffs on over 40% of goods coming into the country as of this morning. The press secretary last week tried to clarify the freezing that was initiated, ultimately leading the the rescinding of the clarifying order that were given to the entire US government. That is dictatorship, not sound executive policies in line with the office of the President. Those are all dictates from the person on top. Yes, offices would be correct in ignoring them. In fact, the Army Corp of Engineers ultimately did have to stop release water due to potential negative outcomes. And the Army Corps acted correctly. But according to you, they acted wrongly and illegally.

I'm not going to give a basic civics lesson. The executive 'executes' the rules and policies established by the legislative branch. Government employees execute those rules, the President oversees. The only people the President gives orders to are the military. Musk has control of the National Checkbook, with no oversight, protocols or security to limit his actions. That is dictatorial power, not Constitutional executive authority.

Sorry bud, you want blind following of dictates. That is not the American system of government.
I am reminded of this Reddit post from November last year, except this is fifth grade math homework:

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1gippqm/...

The puzzle is a grid of simultaneous equations with 9 unknowns:

9 + ? - 6 = ? - 3
- = - = x
4 + ? x 5 - ? = 6
/ + + - -
8 - 5 = ? - ? x 2
x - - - x
? + 1 + 7 - 4 = 8
= - = + =
7 = ? x 3 - ? - 2
What's the ISP's motivations towards preventing BYOD?

If they're desperate for the $10 per month box rental, I'm sure they could just levy a $10 per month BYOD "support fee" to make equal, but it sounds like in some places they're charging way more as a penalty.

I know some of them were very aggressive about using home routers to provide coverage for roaming Wi-Fi, but that doesn't seem as big a push as it was. I suspect this corresponds with a lot of them getting into the MVNO business lately.

Do they result in a disproportionate volume of support inquiries, or maybe ones that they can't just dispatch by trying to send a remote-reboot signal down the line? I could see addressing that by moving towards a fee-for-service-call model if you need to call the "custom configurations" hotline.
True, numbers alone mean nothing. And the surrounding context alone also doesnt paint a sufficient story. You need both, for without both you can't be effective.
Unless said data/context is fabricated, trying to suppress either seems like a clear case of acting in bad faith.
> i hope so at $100-$125/port

Ooof. pfSense on retired hardware is cheap, like free. Using them since 1.2.something. Mid 00's.
Gosh, it's almost as if ALL things heat-up under the sun. ;)

Given their (cough) publication history, one would hope UW would've learned by now avoid the terms "smart" and "nano particles".

In actuality, this is the university's PR department completely dropping the ball on how to describe a non-phase-change passive heater https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42114-024-00994-4 .

It's not going to replace good 'ole phase-change pocket warmers or, god forbid, lighter-fluid burners (check out the W/m^2/s), and there's going to be some serious manufacturing R&D to make these fibers into wearable fabrics (hint, substituting phase-change for length-change (color is micro-length adjustment) does not bode well for durable stitching), but it's neither an outright outlandish engineering proposition nor as remotely as "sci-fi" as the article claims.

FWIW, the 600 W/m^2 is often used as a stand-in source for nominal solar irradiance though I can't find the specific spectra of the source. If you're changing color (length), spectra really matters.

I have little doubt the authors of the paper cringed when they saw that headline, but I'm also likewise as sure they're happy to get any press.
(Turns out the Black Hawk did have a black box and it is expected to be recovered soon.)
Show HN: One_TUI: A terminal based onedrive client
I built one_tui, a OneDrive client for the terminal, written in Rust. Browse, upload, download, and manage your OneDrive files—all without leaving your terminal.

project link: https://github.com/Riken7/one_tui
It's not that they want to keep the training content secret, it's the fact that they stole the training content, and who they stole it from, that they want to keep secret.
A Lenovo that is so low-end and generic that they don't even bother assigning it a coherent model name/number and a Lenovo Yoga 7.

To be blunt, I am on the other side of the fence: I am quite skeptical when people make blanket statements about Linux not working. One of the benefits of open source is the ability to distribute software with few restrictions. One of the benefits of many Linux distributions is the frequent update cycle. Those two factors mean there is a fairly strong possibility that hardware will work straight after installation. Of course there are exceptions. Some hardware simply isn't supported. It is also possible choose a distribution, like Arch, where the end user is expected to configure almost everything themselves. That said, Windows isn't exactly great on this front either. While the hardware is likely supported, manually installing drivers can be intensive.

End user applications, including things like the desktop environment, are an entirely different situation. Here too, I am skeptical of blanket statements. The biggest hurdle is a lack of familiarity: most people are brought up on Windows. They expect software to work as it does under Windows. I'm on the other side of the fence. Having used Linux for over a quarter of a century, I expect software to work as it does under Linux. I can assure you that I have as many problems with Windows as most Windows users have with Linux. As for bugs: Windows applications have those too. The big difference is that you paid for them and there is a relatively low chance they will ever be patched. Granted, I am not advocating for open source software based on the ability of end users being able to patch bugs. Almost no one does, because almost everyone realizes that most end users lack the skills to do so.
> And what legal basis does X have in their suit against former advertisers?

Thus, the article...
I'm assuming at this point refusing will be a badge of honour but one which is terminal for federal funding, in this 4 year term if not longer. You would need very high confidence in your future career trajectory to do that.

We had a mini storm over government censorship of CSIRO science in Australia and it got pretty ugly, but this is much uglier.

If they do the same for NSF, earth sciences, DoE and AGW it's going to be pretty nasty.

I don't even have to agree with the science. This kind of mass bad-topic-ban is really unhelpful. I wonder if the editorial boards are also going to put up a fight? I can imagine some kind of "retracted because of Trump policy, not because the peer review process asked for it" markers.

Genetics, and Lysenkoism comes to mind. A stain on soviet science which echoed down the years.
I ran a few replacements because the puzzle is probably in the training data somewhere:

Englishman -> Scotsman
Spaniard -> Welshman
dog -> parrot
Coffee -> Kombucha
green -> scarlet
tea -> butterscotch
Ukrainian -> Romanian
ivory -> pink
snails -> scorpions
yellow -> turquoise
Milk -> Red Bull
Norwegian -> Brazilian
fox -> bear
horse -> mule
orange juice -> rum
Japanese -> German
blue -> brown
red -> purple

Here's my new prompt after replacing those words:

H01 There are five huts.
H02 The Scotsman lives in the purple hut.
H03 The Welshman owns the parrot.
H04 Kombucha is drunk in the scarlet hut.
H05 The Romanian drinks butterscotch.
H06 The scarlet hut is immediately to the right of the pink hut.
H07 The Old Gold smoker owns scorpions.
H08 Kools are smoked in the turquoise hut.
H09 Red Bull is drunk in the middle hut.
H10 The Brazilian lives in the first hut.
H11 The man who smokes Chesterfields lives in the hut next to the man with the bear.
H12 Kools are smoked in a hut next to the hut where the mule is kept.
H13 The Lucky Strike smoker drinks rum.
H14 The German smokes Parliaments.
H15 The Brazilian lives next to the brown hut.
Now,
Q1 Who drinks water?
Q2 Who owns the zebra?

Then I ran the new prompt through o3-mini-high and it gave this answer (after a thought process that looks legit to me, like it actually did reason through the puzzle and not just spit out an answer it had seen):

Q1: Who drinks water?
A: The Brazilian (in Hut 1) drinks water.

Q2: Who owns the zebra?
A: The German (in Hut 5) owns the zebra.

Undoing my replacements, that's the Norwegian drinking water and the Japanese person owning a zebra. Which I think is the solution from the original paper.

Here's my o3-mini-high transcript: https://chatgpt.com/share/679efae7-8544-8006-960b-a744cc1fea...
A "kill-fixed" bookmarklet that kills anything with position "fixed" or "sticky" is essential to making websites usable. The "best" is Substack, where I load the page with JavaScript disabled, then enable it to kill the red fixed-position bar telling me that JavaScript is essential.
Mill looks like an interesting option to try all around.
Huh? This isn't a corporation, nothing about corporate change of control applies.

Political, not civil, servants taking over these systems without any oversight is truly brazen. Sounds like you're saying that since there wasn't a prior act of Congress declaring this illegal, it's just whining. Please clarify.

You're right that oversight would be influenced by the party in power. Generally, the inspectors general would be relatively independent but guess what, they all got sacked just a few days ago. And Republican congresspeople behave as if they represent the president, not their constituents. The system functioned with some level of decorum before, but this looks like war.
Here's another analysis which comes from a slightly different angle.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1361045568663945216.html
I may have worded that wrong. Articles say that they will hurt American consumers and don’t address the actual purpose of the tariffs, which is to put political pressure on their targets. If the tariffs didn’t have at least some chance of succeeding at this, the targets wouldn’t be talking about retaliation.
Russia's California Colony
> Just install the binary package from whatever distro you use? Why do you need to build it?

Cuz I'm actually a packaging maintainer for a couple different old operating systems. Regardless I thank you for being thankful even though I feel like you were being backhanded and demeaning on a number of levels.
If you look at the temperature deltas, we really don't do much to cool our food. You can verify this by comparing the power requirements of a fridge with just about anything that heats water or food.

You could save some power, but not very much.
> Often hard to use your own stuff with fiber systems.

This is the 2nd time I've heard this in this thread and it baffles me. Setting up a fiber connection is how I know I won't have to fight for control at the edge.

> I get AT&T fiber...

Okay, okay. AT&T excepting but that goes without saying. Wherever they are you want to be elsewhere.
Last I touched it they only had glitchy make files and I don't like cmake particularly, I was just like "bespoke make files are fine if they're posix compliant, but these aren't"
Income inequality in the US hasn't increased since 2014 and is sharply decreased since 2019. Lower income people are making more money than ever. There was a period of no income growth for upper-middle class people, however, which probably made them unhappy.

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31010/w310...

What did happen in the last two years was there was a "vibecession" where everyone decided to pretend the economy was bad even though everything about it was objectively good. You can see this in surveys, because everyone answered them with "I'm personally doing well, but I know everyone else is doing badly because I heard it on the news".

First described here:

https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-vibecession-the-self-fulfill...

Note, this was written at the tail end of the inflation period and none of the predictions of bad things quoted in the article actually happened.

Of course, that's the story up to the end of 2024. All kinds of bad things can happen now - I can't tell you about the future, but the present is easier.
Completely disagree… there are a crazy amount of cases that didn’t work, until the models scaled to a point they magically did.

Best example I can think of is the ARC AGI benchmark. It was seen to measure human-like intelligence through special symmetries and abstract patterns.

From GPT-2 to GPT-4 there was basically had no progress, then o1 got about 20%. Now o3 has basically solved the benchmark.
If they do give in though, they might face consequences after Trump’s term. The Supreme Court should definitely chime in quickly here, although the court is stacked way too heavily with conservatives who open to Trump’s new interpretation of the constitution.
Unfortunately, whatever ideal you hold of conservative doesn't exist. Trumpism is conservatism's current expression in America and Trump is its thought leader. If conservatives were ok tying their cart to a populist demagogue, then they're going to have to go along for the authoritarian ride.
"Gosh" is being used as a sarcasm/irony marker here, it's not being used in earnest.
Funnily or tragically enough I opted for the 3gig service from my provider and they require their modem however the same provider on the 1gig service supports using your own ont so long as you use their gpon / SFP whatever.
Yes, this. Please. I am so very tired, every day I wake up to the news that more legal protections are being stripped from me and the people I care about. I didn't need "trans terror" flashed in my face in large boldface type on top of everything else tonight. The GP didn't make this clear, but The Post Millenial is apparently a far-right publication and the author of that article seems to have built his brand on painting large groups of people as violent.
No one chooses to be anything. There is no free will and there never has been.
Oof. This is incredibly bleak, but also a good insight. Is the "settlement == bribe" comparison yours or did you read it somewhere?