skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> who try really hard to reason properly

Who are really big into talking about reasoning with formal tools which few of them make any effort to understand or use.

They might as well "try really hard to reason properly" with crystals and burning sage. I think actually I'd trust the results of a crystal-reasoner more... at least they're more likely to have a bit of self-doubt that the crystals are all nonsense.

Go ask one of them -- one without immediate access to an LLM-- what the conjugiate prior is for observations of a binomial trial (or the same question in lay language). You'll get blank stares, yet this should be a bread and butter question for exactly the kind of reasoning they (claim to) advance.

There is a level of mathematical reasoning that basically anyone can learn, such as multiplying payoff matrices with probabilities and getting expected values. But going beyond that (e.g. adding uncertainties and correlations, or reasoning backwards from observations to model parameters) being extremely mathematically complex very fast, and rapidly unreasonable to apply to most real situations. Even if you're comfortable with the required graduate level mathematics it just takes too much time. Maybe someone could make a handbook of shortcuts to do the math for many common cases, it's the sort of thing you might expect a "rationalist group" to do, but instead they spend their time making excuses for fringe edgelord politics disguised with a bunch of inapplicable formal language. Gotta eugenics the plebs for their own good and if you don't agree it must be because you reject MATH.

They use bayesian this and that as magic words and to put on a show of intellectual superiority. But for the most part they can't and don't use these techniques, and for perfectly good reasons-- too hard, pointless without better data, etc. But they endlessly talk about them. The whole community is a mix of larpers and people who feel inferior because they don't know the other people are larping.

In their original form, largely harmless larpers... other than the rejection of "cognitive biases" resulting in occasionally promoting gonzo policies and grifting/embezzling nonprofit monies (E.g. SIAI). But as of recent years they've metastasized into an anti-AI apocalypse cult. Their founder has been out in the media advocating the use of nuclear weapons against civilian populations to suppress AI development, so we should just be entirely unsurprised that there is a radical offshoot group out there murdering people.
Flagging makes things disappear, it's bad when it happens to truth.
It is not labor-intensive if you want a prompt to work in 80%-90% of cases and humans are good at that. But it is labor-intensive if you want to make it to work at 99%. Then you need to go through many cases and "optimize" the prompt, which is the advantage of optimizer.
Swift is getting out of hand after Chris left and Swift UI was introduced. The language has over 210 keywords… thats crazy
> I'm sure it's fine he can pick and choose

Pretty much every president has done this…so it probably is fine.
this cult leader hatched a scheme to house people on a fleet of boats… this is a great analogy for the rest of the story. she could have just moved.
You're kidding me, right? It seems like every other post on the front page is a discussion of this topic and nothing else. It's getting old.
I'm just going to go ahead and trust my own experience more than your expert opinion on that, and I'd advice anyone to do the same.
When I see a site that's clearly over enthusiastic about this stuff, I just close the tab. So their focus on keeping engagement with shenanigans actually shortens the engagement ending in a lost potential.
So, we're back to the space elevator as the only means to prevent burning a bunch of shit for every launch?

Personally, I'd abandone 99% of all launches anyway. We just don't really need 12 different competing 15,000 satelite clusters to start with...
Half of HN thinks this is precisely what's needed. The other half would like to talk about it, but it's flagged as being irrelevant politics.
Didn’t Trump just remove those checks?

Or maybe this is something else: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/21/politics/trump-temporary-...
the discussion is about what will happen, not the value of human life. even if human life is worthless, my predictions about the outcome of AI are correct and theirs are not
I’m just imagining you seeing a bank robbery and it’s hilarious.

Bystander: “call the police, he’s breaking the law!”

You: “You’re letting your mind rot. He broke the law? What’s the docket number of the case where the judge says this?”

/r/iamverysmart content here.

Anyway, the law is crystal clear. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11546
I’m routinely pulled out of it for a moment to appreciate how genuinely interesting and thought-provoking the writing is compared to what I’ve been seeing for years now.

Maybe I watch the wrong stuff, but I’m glad I gave this a chance. It’s so fun.
I literally litigate APA cases. The APA is what you invoke if the government grants you a permit and then takes it away without a good reason. But individual executive branch employees cannot invoke the APA to oppose an administrative policy they disagree with.
Uggghhh sir this is a Wendy's
...due to the clever way he wears pants over
Personally, I never liked AppCode. It was too much like Eclipse (which I also never liked).

Me not liking something, does not make it bad. It’s just not my choice. I’m glad it existed, because it probably prompted Apple to do better with Xcode. Lots of people that I respect, used it.

These days, Xcode is Big Bug Ranch. When “Delete the DerivedData folder” is S. O. P. for developers, and Apple tweaked Xcode to reduce its impact on the project, you know that they have waved a white flag to bugs.
Go to definition still broken on neovim for me :/. I should be seeing SourceLinked stuff but nothing happens
And you honestly believe these "special" news sources are not spun to at least the same degree.

I think you have a few nasty surprises coming up.
And the majority voted for this. Unbelievable.
They are different processes.

- RLHF: Turns pre-trained model (which just performs autocomplete of text) into a model that you can speak with, ie. answer user questions and refuse providing harmful answers.

- Distillation: Transfer skills / knowledge / behavior from one model (and architecture) to a smaller model (and possibly different architecture), by training second model on output log probs of first model.
> LLMs are used to launder my code,

> deprive me of credit

> and deprive users of their rights.

> Can we agree this is harm?

I might consider it if any of those claims were true.

I think the opposite is true -- especially with Open-Weight models which expand user freedoms rather than restricting them. I wonder if we can get the FSF to come up with GPL compatible Open-Weight licenses.

At this point in time I'm not entirely convinced they even need to. But if future lawsuits turn out that way, it might solve issues with some models.
Who or what is this bill trying to protect??
I would suggest reading the books, because they go into a lot of detail about those specific elements.
US AI incumbents.
Now try with the n-word.
Having recently cancelled AT&T fiber service, their router (Arris BGW210-700) was definitely still AT&T property and they seemed to have every intention of collecting it from me. They had been charging $10/mo "equipment rental" fees for the entire time.

When the prepaid shipping box never arrived, I called them and inquired. The representative told me that, since it was 5+ years old, they didn't want it and I should throw it out as e-waste. I still have it in a closet somewhere.

Might be a regional difference, but in my case I never felt that the box was mine.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and search for "politics".

Additionally, political discussions on HN are hamstrung by the guideline to "assume good faith", which doesn't work well for political topics because there is a lot of bad faith commentary.
It's neat, but there aren't answers to many important questions:

- How fast is this process? All videos are sped up.

- Is the resulting material close to isotropic, or is the layer to layer bond weaker than the longitudinal bond. That's the usual weak point of 3D printing. Heating up the previously laid down area with lasers is a good idea, because it gets you away from trying to weld a hot thing to a cold thing. That never gets a really good bond.

- How much laser power does this take? They say "small" lasers, but don't give the power level. Probably over 100 watts each on stainless steel.

The interviewer doesn't seem to know enough about metalworking to answer the right questions.

A modest sized machine for this would be useful. Would have liked to have had one in the TechShop days.
So if I write say the ORM code for a system that causes some kind of (completely unknown to me) harm, I'm guilty.

Sorry, that doesn't compute for me.
A big purpose of primaries is a sanity check for election suitability. Unfortunately whatever elites shit-canned Biden forgot that they need primaries almost as much as the people do.
That’s a feature not a bug.

We congregate here, from all over the world, to discuss tech adjacent nerdy and learn from each other. Not US politics.
For someone clearly interested in Cold War era espionage movies ("my voice is my password"), you should definitely go back and finish The Americans...
You're saying that 7 people could vote with the rest of the nations staying home, and then when Bob wins with 3/7 votes, I can say: "Look, the people spoke very clearly that they wanted Bob!"

No, that'd be frickin' insane, since:

1. Basically none of the "the people" ever "spoke" at all.

2. Even when non-voters somehow aren't "the people", there's nothing remotely "clear" Bob winning with a minority.

The moral fiber of nonvoters is irrelevant, this is about how you exaggerated a weak signal to the point of outright falsehood.
According to this: https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5134/8/2/52 you get better heat control / precision at the cost of being slower. Apparently people are also working on a process combining arc and laser.

One thing I notice with physical stuff is that hundreds of tiny individual advances (each one seemingly inconsequential) seem to really add up over time. Like a 2025 FDM printer is "fundamentally the same" as a reprap from 2014 but I get much more utility from the 2025 printer.
I was very happy with how Patriot ended though - it's probably heavily influenced by where my head was at when I watched it but it left me deeply affected for days, and it's the only show to ever do that.
Fake news by democrats is an antidote to stress and make people smile.
Hm, I have to admit I have the same feeling.

But it is a shame, because many of the ideas are good imho.
Ah, I see. Tbh, I actually like the lack of ternary and elvis, they are nicely handled by if expression (as the other comment notes)
For what it's worth, they ship a solid VS Code extension and LSP. Their swift-testing package is the new open source and cross-platform successor to XCTest. The same can be said of swift-foundation as compared to Foundation.

The path they've chosen is not to open source Xcode, but to move the things Swift needs on all platforms to the Swift language project and common implementations.

Personally I think the main problem with the language, besides Apple's earned poor reputation in FOSS circles, is the compile times. In the source-stable era of the language I'm not sure how they can really be fixed to the degree I'd be happy with.
I was thinking about this as I needed to get another mouse, my Mx Master 2's scroll wheel is nasty/didn't want to bring it into the office... But I ended up just getting a 3 and bringing that in $100 damn... I'm trying to avoid having multiples of something eg. a laptop barely use.
The average consumer who uses teh internetz probably isn't all that savvy

So when an ISP borders (and often more than that) on criminal practices or being malicious - which is a lot of them - they're laid prone to all the upstream garbage

(Defaults matter)
Sometimes, sure. Sometimes it’s circling the wagons.
There's such a thing as being too early.

My university had a great shared browser bookmark management system, even with a basic discussion support for them. In 1998. It was not super popular because people just didn't have that many links to share, eventually it fell offline and got accidentally deleted in 2001.
Scandals with sex pests, minors kept in group houses, partnerships with ponzi scammers, orgies, grit sham charities that pocket the money, etc. isn't normal. It happens elsewhere, sure, but it's not normal.

It's gonzo.

But it's also not new, there are plenty of works of fiction with groups like this in them, perhaps inspired by actual experience with 1960s new wave and prior counterculture groups.
Sponsored by Josh Hawley, the guy who sent fundraising messages from inside the Capitol during Jan 6.
> especially the ones that give you money

Last time I checked, their market cap was North of $3T, so someone is giving them money…
Lol I think anyone who thinks legal and illegal mean anything, has still not gotten the plot.
>1) What form it is (i.e. can I see it?)

You would need to spend thousands of dollars to become a customer, if you are not already one.

>An agent interacts with a user.

Correct, they are asked to describe their problem. There are some follow up questions, then some very specific questions if the form still isn't filled out.

>The agent has free reign to fill out the form fields.

Correct but there are actually very few free form fields and a lot of selections.

>Guided by the user, the agent helps will out form fields in a way which is more accurate than users typing into the field themselves.

Correct, the form is filled out correctly more often now

>Guided by the user, the agent helps will out form fields in a way which is faster than users typing into the field themselves.

No, I specifically said it is not. I can fill out a junk but valid form in about 10 seconds and valid with relevant data for testing in about 30 seconds. It is not a long form, but your selections will change the next selections. But I also helped build the form and have seen it go through every iteration.

>At any time the user can opt to stop interacting with the the agent and fill in the fields and the agent must understand what's happened independently of the chat context. i.e. The form state has to be part of the chat bot's context.

Would be a nice feature upgrade but if the user abandons the bot they just fill out the form as normal, same as if they decided to skip the bot at the beginning.

>At the end, the details filled in by the agent are distinguished from user inputs for user review.

Do you mean how do we know if the chat bot was used or whether it fills out the form. Both are trivial.

>Has it increased the number of people filling in the form, or completing it correctly (or both?) ?

The ideal case is that they never need to request help, but nearly all users will need help maybe once or twice a year unless something is really wrong. But yes, the number of users filling out the form incorrectly has decreased. Seems like the users don't mind spending 2-5 minutes per year chatting with the bot.
he said modem... he also have own router dowstream.
Yes, family and close friends. I live in a deep red state. Why? [Edit] I will give you this - many of them simply would not be willing to entertain that any of what is going or what Trump has done in the past represents corruption. So maybe in that sense you are correct. On the other hand, my family went from being appalled on Jan 6 2020 to voting for him again.
A top-down, “just follow orders” system is exactly what we have within the executive branch. There isn’t even an “executive branch” in the constitution. It’s literally just “the President.” https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/art... (“The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.”). Article II empowers the “President” with all the powers of the executive. If imposes all the obligations of the office on him personally. Everyone in the executive branch works for him.

The APA was enacted to provide stability for members of the public affected by agency action. It wasn’t intended to govern the relationship between the President and executive branch employees. Among other things, the APA applies only to “agencies,” and the President is not an “agency” whose actions are reviewable under the statute: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=176481246527537...
It's all public data. There's even free apis to get live data. What are they hunting for that needs more access than that? Do you believe the data feeds are fraudulent in some way that the balance sheets are not?
Excellent description of how things can go off the rails, very far off the rails.

It also brings to mind the role of FU money insulating people from consequences and allowing them to live with near-zero empathy or common sense, or consideration of how their actions will affect others.

Brings to mind what entirely un-elected Elon Musk is doing tonight, having just gotten full access to the full set of highly internal US treasury payment data, which would ordinarily be considered a massive security breach...

[0] https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-elon-musk-doge-treas...
I can answer this as a serial FOIA litigator.

If the data is still in the possession of the government (e.g. in backups, on paper) then it is FOIA-able.

I had a gov agency temporarily throw all the materials into a trash can when I requested them and argued that since they were sitting in a trash can they were not available under FOIA.
Not really. It's only the Xbox and Xbox One, PS4/5 where AMD CPU got used. ATI has some more design wins. Earlier generations were somewhat exotic in comparison to PC.
I think that would just be a pretext to annex Canada much like civil disobedience in the US would be a pretext for martial law and entrenching his position. As a Canadian: nothing polite to say about the USA going forward.
I think the architect mode might be worth looking at but i'm going to attempt to aider.exe $(*.txt) and then switch to /ask mode and see if it can be used as a 0-shot document query.

because even a rudimentary, garbage implementation would be fun to have, i think.
Sweating is a property of humans, animals don't sweat, and we know Superman is extraterrestrial, so he must have some other way of cooling, that's it. You wouldn't sweat if you could cool down by other means. Skins, including those of some animals, also produce an oily film that resembles sweat.
It doesn't really seem like you're interested in having a serious discussion about the points outlined, which is unfortunate, because I suspect it'd have seriously challenged some of your worldview that you appear to passively hold.

Anyways, just in terms of "vibe", I regret to inform you that your response, which I understand and empathize that it resonates heavily and even implicitly with you, is something you literally need to already agree with to engage with meaningfully.
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Never did FFI for exactly the stated reason; there are portable, mature libraries for almost anything.
Stop coping. Repeat out loud after me: "The US has collapsed similarly. A coup has taken place like that similar to Putin when he rose to power. China, the US, and Russia are three single-party dictatorships which are controlled by the party in a totalitarian manner."

The sooner everyone starts admitting this, the sooner something can be done about it.
uvx posting

https://posting.sh
Truth. I follow the RSS and there are so many flagged or dead posts that never make the front page.

There seems to be a hard right turn in the tech circles.
Likewise bus bars, and hence data bus
She actually stole that code from a user named slaren and was personally banned by Gerg from the llama.cpp repo for about a year because of it. Also it was just lazy loading the weights, it wasn't actually a 50% reduction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35411909
Have a look at today's Swift track FOSDEM talks.
1. Christianity (like other religions) has built-in protections against false teaching within their own theology, which isn't really the same for secular philosophical frameworks.

2. There's a level of outlier visibility going on with a lot of people who abuse Christianity. The Christian who sincerely follows Jesus and walks in obedience don't seek out visibility or to exalt themselves. Even ones that evangelize do it on a local scale most often. Meanwhile people who abuse Christianity (Prosperity gospel, Christian nationalists, etc.) try to seek out large followings to bolster their power or wealth, making them seem like the "face" of Christianity whe
HN standards typically avoid political discussion that doesn't intersect with technology. But it's hard not to talk about seeing the far-right seizing total political control of the executive branch and destroying the entire bureaucracy and the concept of fact.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902355

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902678
Boys are facing key challenges in school: the effort to support their success (2023)
With the TikTok ban and now this idiotic bill we’re seeing the beginning of a censored US internet.
That's not a very good answer, imho.
I've known one couple, in Southern California, who entered a family arranged marriage.

They were still happily married last time I saw them...

Whereas many many couples that married for "love" (another one of those addiction economy products in many cases), went on to viscous divorces.

Just one anecdote...
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. The perfect way to draw companies to embrace open source.
remember when verizon got a few Billions to deliver affordable rural access then pocketed the money and delivered nothing?

you ougth remember because it happened three times.
Hacker News might try to ignore politics, but politics isn't ignoring tech.

You have impending tariffs on chips on the way to wreck tech businesses, and incoming xenophobic immigration policies coming to kick out the talent pipeline.

But sure, let's flag any posts that might hint at everything not being totally awesome. Did you hear that some build tool got open sourced?
In similar news: The German regulator (BNetzA) just re-confirmed two weeks ago [0] that passive optical networks are not exempt from § 73 (1) of the TKG (Telecommunication law) which mandates that the interface between provider and customer is required to be a passive interface (i.e. mandating an ONT is already in violation of that).
And that is fine. The different PON standards are reasonably well standardized and can operate in these standard modes for most equipment manufacturers. The NSP may lose some proprietary features, but the past has shown that equipment manufacturers have adapted for the German market accordingly.
The law does allow exemptions, mainly if required for access technology reasons, but clearly states that even in that case the device that connects the end-user devices to the service (i.e. router) cannot be mandated by the ISP. They can provide one, but they cannot prevent you from connecting your own.

I do sometimes miss living in Germany.

[0]: Press release in German: https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilung...
You can look right now. This story + a related one at the bottom of 3rd page. Not sure where you get that sentiment from. Maybe under submissions?
I don't really care about decisions; I care about truth and wisdom, and there is plenty to be found in this document.