skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Julie Gray, who was there when he visited Auschwitz, said the following:

> I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.

More from her here: https://juliegraysays.substack.com/p/elon-musk
why not start by analyzing the entire arxiv paper from the url. the image cut-n-paste is confusing.
>The Sea Change gets deliveries of hydrogen from a truck, which is comparable to what boats already do, receiving a refueling of diesel. There’s no new infrastructure required; just a new kind of power.

Where do the trucks get it?
> Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada will respond by placing 25% counter-tariffs on C$155 billion ($107 billion) worth of American-made products. That will include tariffs on C$30 billion worth as of Tuesday, with the rest coming later in February, to allow Canadian companies to adjust their supply chains and find alternatives.

> American beer, wine, food and appliances will be among the many items subject to Canadian tariffs, and the country is also considering measures related to critical minerals, Trudeau said. He encouraged Canadians to buy locally made products and skip US vacations.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-02/-complete...

https://globalnews.ca/news/10992959/donald-trump-tariffs-can...
I discuss this a bit in footnote 1. Thousands of things were built on frames before computers, of course. However, IBM both built computers from semi-portable cabinets built around metal frames and also referred to the computer's units as "frames", including the "main frame".

Telephone systems used main distribution frames, but these are unrelated. First, they look nothing like a computer mainframe, being a large rack with cable connections. Second, there isn't a path from the telephony systems to the computer mainframes; if the first mainframes were developed at Bell Labs, for instance, it would be plausible.

As for Colossus, it was built on 90-inch racks, called the J rack, K rack, S rack, C rack, and so forth; see https://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/lorenz/colossus.htm
This feels like a category mistake. Why would R1 make RLHF obsolete?
> I believe that this long game of Swift being "good for everything" but "better for Apple platforms" will be detrimental to the language. T

uh, wasn't .NET open-sourced under exactly the same pro/con, except towards Windows hegemony?
I dont know what to tell you either.

I hate "It works for me" as the end of troubleshooting.

But whether you can replicate the issue on other systems is valid diagnostic information.

It could legitimately still be a firefox bug, one that relates to your system in particular. But I have no way to tell from over here.
When looking for fraud and abuse you want access to the single source of truth, not secondary derived sources.

People need to accept that Trump won and is now directly in charge of the executive branch.

Imagine holding the belief that a company's CEO should wait until the CFO publishes financial statements to the market to understand how the company is performing. That's what people sound like when they complain about Musk et al querying government databases.
Holy unnecessary use of terminology to explain a reverse graph traversal. “Loss”, “gradients”, “differentiating”— no! stop!

This must be what AI hype actually is. Complete incoherent language to explain a very straight forward concept.

This is just: LLMs judging intermediate node outputs, and reverse traversing the graph while doing so until it modifies the original prompt.
The most genuinely good person I've known, my wife's very devout grandmother, who belonged to the United Church of Christ and whose husband was a preacher for a United Methodist Church, never once went out of her way to proselytize (in my presence at least.) That's not to say she wouldn't talk about God or her beliefs if it was somehow directly relevant to a conversation, but I never saw her trying to "spread the word" just to do so. She emphasized caring for others and the "love your neighbor as yourself," part. Her favorite scripture was the story of the Good Samaritan and that was what she requested to be read at her funeral. She didn't spend time talking about what Jesus wanted, or trying to convince you to believe, she set the example by living it.

The unfortunate part is, in my 38 years of existence, she is possibly the first "real" Christian I've known: Christian through her acts, not just her words. In the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats, Jesus bases judgment not on religious rituals or verbal professions of faith, but on acts of compassion towards others: feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, welcoming the stranger, clothing the unclothed, caring for the sick, and visiting the imprisoned. This seems to emphasize practical love and concern for the vulnerable as true evidence of discipleship, rather than one's ability to proselytize.

Isn't the most important part of the New Testament the Gospels and almost everything that comes after is more about institutional Christianity? Acts, describing the spread of Christianity after Jesus' ascension, with little new information about his teachings. Epistles focus primarily on doctrine, ethics, and church organization rather than Jesus' words and actions. Revelations...well I'll leave that to others to interpret.

If Christianity is built around Jesus, shouldn't his teachings and words be the focus rather than the institution of Christianity itself? I don't think there is anything wrong with proselytizing per se, it's obviously critical to ensuring the survival and expansion of any belief system and from an evolutionary standpoint, ideas that encourage their own reproduction tend to thrive. But it seems misguided to focus on spreading the faith rather than doing all the things Jesus says you should do.
I don’t mean the more effective voting system — I mean the more effective system overall. I don’t really think that’s controversial. As I said, I like the Slashdot voting system
I don't get why there's not legal action then? Maybe its a matter of nobody having standing?
I mean it’s sort of a no true Scotsmen thing, but I’ll say it anyway: Trump is not a conservative.
We have been running RaptorCS servers for years, are evaluating RISC-V based options in a lab, and we are looking at Oxide.

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What Purism offers with its Pureboot and hardware security chip that enforces deemed-tolerable ME payload is sufficient enough for our ask.

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> Are there any modern Intel systems that can

The lack of availability of a product does not change the desire for the product to exist. RISC-V is already successfully playing in a market space with products that satisfy my asks above, maybe Intel can catch up some day.

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> clients' needs,

Our clients came to us and were clear about what their ask was. I'm kind of chuckling right now, because one of clients in particular, if he saw your post would shoot back with "it's not called the Bill of Needs".

Some of the other ones are government. But I appreciate you trying to be helpful.
For what it's worth, we have no reason to believe this stuff is actually popular. But yes, the right wing propaganda machine has been shockingly effective, and you have a whole lot of people on this forum now trying to contort themselves into odd shapes to justify a coup because their heroes are either 1) at the helm or 2) cheerleaders for it.

Trump won the election by a very slim margin and his popularity will only go down from here. Don't be discouraged by the online stuff. Twitter in particular is just an information weapon now.
Gwen, not Gwern. Gwen Danielson, if he is still alive, is wanted for his possible involvement in multiple homicides related to the Ziz cult. Not Gwern.

And unihemispheric sleep (Gwen’s word for what they do; they like to invent their own terms) is one of the techniques the Ziz cult uses.
How come? Assuming we're in a function, the `q` in question has just been allocated on the stack, and its address never left the context of the fragment, e.g. was never used as an argument of any function call; even the `print` receives the value of `q[0]`, not the address. Nothing else should know where `q` even is, let alone modify it behind the scenes.

What am I missing?
SFT can be used to give negative feedback/examples. That's one of the lesser-known benefits/tricks of system messages. E.g:

System: You are a helpful chatbot.
User: What is 1+1?
Assistant: 2.

And

System: You are terrible at math.
User: What is 1+1?
Assistant: 0.
Did you just "I know you are, but what am I?"
There is no inconsistency at all. A policy that uses protected class as a factor, in any way, is discriminatory.

> But elsewhere, you've said that changing hiring processes to ensure that URM and women are searched out and interviewed, is bad discrimination.

"changing hiring processes to ensure that URM and women are searched out and interviewed" is a vague statement that encompasses both discriminatory and non-discriminatory practices.

Examples of non-discriminatory hiring practices that could boost women and URM participation include: anonymizing hiring processes to prevent bias or recruiting at events like Grace Hopper or at HBCUs. Examples of discriminatory practices include: Quotas (whether they're quotas on hiring or interviewing), reservation systems that prohibit non-diverse candidates from segments of headcount, or bonuses paid out to managers when they hire candidates of a particular race or gender. All of these practices serve to increase diverse turnout, but the former do so in a non discriminatory manner and the latter do so in a discriminatory manner. The problem is, only the latter can guarantee equitable outcomes.

You're using financial aid as a motte-and-baily here. Financial aid and preferences for low-income applicants in university are legal. Preferences for race and gender in hiring is not. Both are discrimination, yes. But the former is legal, and the latter is not. There's no inconsistency in supporting the former, and opposing the latter. And the conversation is about racial and gender equity.

> What it avoids doing is making the assumption that giving all people the same treatment (the same price) is the best approach

When it comes to race and gender in hiring, it is mandated by law that you give applicants of all races and all gender identities the same treatment. Anything less is illegal. I guess it's possible to think that the best approach is to flout the law and carry out illegal hiring practices to push towards equity. And at 3 out of the 4 companies I've worked at that's what they did, so you'd be hardly alone in that position.

> I'd agree that equitable programs require discrimination in that third sense, but I disagree that such discrimination is necessarily unlawful or immoral

Again, the conversation is about racial and gender equity in hiring. I don't care about your opinion on financial aid about preferences for low income college students. When you wrote this statement, "I disagree that such discrimination is necessarily unlawful or immoral", are you referring to discrimination on the basis of race and gender in hiring?

I highly suggest you read up on employment laws, especially since you're putting your employer's name in your profile.
Oh, absolutely. And they’ve managed to create multiple diverse income streams as well- so if this little racket is shut down, well we have a shitcoin for sale, or some branded sneakers, how about a bible or watch? Heck why not just have a publicly traded company with your name on it and no business fundamentals as another vehicle for grift.

Any fraction of one of those schemes would have doomed a previous administration. Now we’ve become numb. It’s disappointing.
AFAIK those language features are all handled in the frontend before outputting LLVM IR. LLVM optimization, code generation, linking, etc. should all be the same regardless of the source language.
TAI64 in the wild is (sometimes) not TAI
You make use of several independent authorities for each timestamped document.

The chance is exceedingly low that the PKI infrastructure of all the authorities becomes compromised.
> It's only the Xbox and Xbox One, PS4/5 where AMD CPU got used.

i think maybe forgetting about gpus?

gamecube → wii → wiiu = amd/ati gpu

xbox 360 (amd/ati gpu) → one → series = amd gpu/cpu

ps4 → ps5 = amd gpu/cpu
One thing worth noting is that you don't need the ethernet ports to be on the router itself. You can always add a switch for more ports. 2.5G switches are pretty cheap now, and if connected to a 10G port on your router should provide plenty of bandwidth. (Could even get a 10G switch, but that'd likely be overkill.)
> This should be more than enough time for authors of books, papers, music, art, and other creative works, to get fully compensated for their efforts (including longer-term projects such as movie adaptations).

not sure I agree. a lot of work only get recognized broadly long after published.
I wish you'd take the extra couple minutes to type out your thoughts before submitting, rather than rapidly sending a 2 line reply and then immediately going back to flesh it out into a full thought.

I think we generally agree more than we disagree, but it's difficult to have a dialog when while I'm typing a response, your existing comment morphs underneath me.
I think if your app is on the App Store, it's kind of trusted by definition, isn't it?
They didn't boycott, it was just a pause.
I'm afraid you're not going to get an answer that you're going to like.
Python is not compiled, it is interpreted, and it has many warts.

Kotlin depends on the JVM and is also not compiled.

Rust? Now you're talking. Except that it has warts, too.
Unless they're prepared to build The Great Firewall around America it's kind of cute that they think they can stop us from downloading these models. And of course stupid to want to try to stop us because if there's something to be learned from them they need to be distributed widely so that we can figure out what they've done and where they're headed.
"trans vegan murder cult" is the best band name ever
Civilized? It won't be for long if people drag political topics in here.
>Not any more than electricity

>H2 can be made clean, and so can electricity. No difference.

Which electricity is clean? If you have clean electricity then you don't need hydrogen.
Strongest argument in favor of libertarianism that I have considered.
The 1976 celebration was exciting.

I am looking forward to celebrating this in 2026, if our country still exists.
You misread. A lot of us have been warning about this and fighting against it for 10+ years. We have protested, and voted, and passed laws, and conducted investigations, argued in court, impeached him twice, and defended against a legislative coup, and a literal insurrection - every legal, constitutional, and peaceful method was exercised at the federal and state levels.

But at the end of the day a lot of people didn’t listen and voted for this direction instead.

So the people who protested and tried everything for a decade are done. Now we are just waiting for the 70 million people who still support this direction to finally burn themselves on the stove and discover it is in fact hot, just like we’ve been saying. The next protests have to be Republicans and Democrats or there’s no point.
Show me a civics textbook that says federal employees have any independence from the president. You won’t find one. The founding fathers created a very specific system, not a general vibe. The government as a whole isn’t dictatorial—there are three branches that check each other. But within each branch it’s close to dictatorial. The Supreme Court justices decide the law. Their staff can privately express their opinions, but have no independent power. Same for congressional staff. It would be unthinkable for a Supreme Court clerk or congressional staffer to declare “Resistance.” The same should be true for federal employees. Express your concerns through proper channels, but otherwise keep your mouth shut and follow the directions of those with constitutional authority.

The branches have to be dictatorships inside themselves. The founders were very deliberate in creating a system with democratic accountability. Everyone with power is either elected or appointed by someone who is elected. Career civil servants are not elected. Voters have no way to influence them other than by electing the president. And so career civil servants cannot have powers beyond the ministerial. Otherwise you end up with a government that isn’t responsive to elections—where people can’t change the course of government by voting.
I think you're right. The library at the center of this is ratatui - a TUI library for Rust. The web translation layer is new.
Musk's team given access to U.S. government payment system
> we're unlikely to redefine society in the name of making less than 1% of the population feel better

If I can deal with idiot conspiracy theorists the evangelicals can deal with trans people.
Agreed. Beautiful typography on some of these!
"Does the booze really cook off?"

No, not all of it. Even a long-cooking stew can have 5% of the alcohol that was added at the start.

https://www.isu.edu/news/2019-fall/no-worries-the-alcohol-bu...

And, somehow, the smell of my mom's fresh-baked bread ties in with my adult sense of the odor of alcohol to say--yeah, there was some alcohol there, even if a small amount.
Wait a second.

The EO in question doesn't require that all mentions of more than two genders be taken down (beyond a few specific policies).

The CDC immediately pulls down data that went beyond the requirements of the EO.

And now Democrats are saying "this is so scary, data is disappearing!!"

But it was Democrats that took the data down without being required to do so?
I think Trump would fire any US Attorney who forces him to actually write a pardon. The clear expectation of federal prosecutors is that it's off-limits to criminally pursue Trump functionaries carrying out his orders.

He's fired 30+ AUSA's just *this week*, because they had previously prosecuted Trump allies.
> multilayer transformers indeed cannot solve certain complicated compositional tasks

> chain-of-thought prompting essentially turns a large problem into a sequence of smaller problems, making it possible for transformers to tackle more complex compositional tasks

--- [out of order]

> the model could be trained on 20-digit numbers and still reliably (with 98% accuracy) add 100-digit numbers, whereas a model trained without the extra positional embedding was only about 3% accurate
I'm Ready for You: On Balzac
Nope. If the cost to "reuse" the heat exceeds that of the status quo, it simply doesn't make sense.
There's basically nothing that's manufactured only in Canada...

The vast majority of our exports are raw materials, and of our manufactured goods most are foreign multinationals that set up shop to take advantage of our cheap(er) labour versus the US... They can and will move to the US because of these tariffs.

This will decimate our economy and it really feels like Trudeau simply wants someone to blame our shit economic performance on...
Secure Enclave, having to use only signed apps and kernel extensions, stuff like that I imagine.
Does anyone see were the raw data is downloaded? I see this [1], but looks like it might just be the list of ISBNs and not the titles. I suppose following the build instructions for this page [2] would do it, but rather not install these js tools.

[1] (Gitlab page) https://software.annas-archive.li/AnnaArchivist/annas-archiv...

[2] https://github.com/phiresky/isbn-visualization
It is terrifying. Especially since the Executive Order didn't require it.

Why is the CDC taking down data when it's not required to do so?
I think they still are.

Third world countries can't make sweaters without violating 100 EPA and civil rights regulations. But they mine lithium cleanly? I don't believe it.
When one of these limitations gets spelled out in an article, it feels like six months later, somebody has a demo of a chatbot without that particular limitation.

These limitations don’t seem in any way “fundamental” to me. I’m sure there are a ton of people gluing LLMs to SAT solvers as we speak.
By the time these academic studies get published they are usually already several months out of date. o3-mini was released yesterday and if one wants to know about the limitations of current technology they are much better to check twitter than some research paper
This angle is part of breaking the model's refusals, I prompt it to refuse in this way in the injected CoT
> temporarily throw all the materials into a trash

Just curious, did they pull it out of the trash later on?
The question becomes: Is this crime pardonable? If yes, how likely the current administration will pardon those people?
Show HN: A simple free VIN decoder
I built a simple VIN decoder on top of the NHTSA's vPIC database. I ported the database to sqlite and used web assembly to run it fully in the browser. I have been working on a larger automotive consumer application and I needed a lightweight VIN decoder to normalize ingested vehicle data and couldn't find anything. The code to port the vPIC database is [here](https://github.com/samsullivandelgobbo/vPIC-dl) hoping it helps anyone working on a similar problem.
No, it's malicious complaince.

You can read the EO here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defe...

Beyond a few specific documents, nothing in there requires the CDC to pull down all this data immediately. There is even a section about "progress updates by 120 days".

The CDC is still run by the same people as under Biden. They are the ones that immediately pulled down the data, not Trump hires.
> Nothing else should know where `q` even is, let alone modify it behind the scenes. What am I missing?

The variable iq knows where q is, no?

uintptr_t iq = (uintptr_t)q;

If you (the compiler) can't analyze beyond that, that's the end of the story: the address escaped somewhere.

If you can... well then not only that, but a decision was made on it:

if (iq == ip)

And then a write was performed on an address that you clearly can't prove was uncontaminated with q's address:

*(char*)iq = 10;
Sorry. I am typing on my phone and researching on a tiny screen is difficult. I don’t have any anger toward you- I am passionate about this subject (although not sure what I personally can do about it)

I’m curious to hear more about your viewpoint. I’ll refrain from editing my comments.
LLMs: Harmful to Technical Innovation?
"Them" are the rich and we are the rest.

Where do we draw the line? How about those of use who work to earn a living versus those who make money because they own a lot rather than because they work for it.

Of course, this does not include those who have worked all their life and have retired to live off their accumulated funds.