skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A similar phenomenon I think: Some time ago there was a report that AI was able to detect lung cancer from x-rays earlier and more reliably than a human radiologist could. The strange thing was that the AI relied on patterns in the imagery that did not correspond to anything in the corpus of training that doctors receive.
Really? It seemed to me that people were shouting it from the rooftops prior to the election.

And then the Democrats were accused of only taking about the threat to Democracy instead of the price of eggs.
Aphantasia is different than mental simulation. It's specifically to do with visualisation and doesn't seem to affect things like reasoning/planning.
Lets say 10% of people have a side job. Are we gonna put stupid rules in place and piss off the other 90%?

That dude who posted updates on the wrong channel? He deserves to get fired. That said, lets say he was doing his job well and he was posting the right updates to the right company channel, then why does anyone care if he has 1 job or 10? Sure it is ethically dubious - so is not providing raises, not keeping up promises, withholding promotions for no reason etc (one of my team mates was hired at a very low salary with the promise that they will pay market rate after 6 months, it has been more than a year now, they refuse to honor their promise. He is fantastic and still gets treated like this). Ethics works both ways.

Suppose person A is sharp and fast and finishes his work in 4 hours while person B takes 8 hours for the same set of tasks. Is A going to be paid twice as B? In knowledge work, why does anyone care if a person works 2 hours a day or 20, as long as they finish their work in the agreed upon time?
> the intuition of _why_ it works has never really clicked.

In terms of why it aids compression, or why it's reversible?

As far as the first goes: it transforms n-grams into repeated characters.
That’s one of the decisions; on the other hand, the director was made removable at will (by the courts, in response to a challenge, and contrary to the original statute), and there have been other proposed challenges. This change has proved consequential.
it's nice but deepseek-r1:8b is not the same at all as real 671b deepseek:

https://digitalspaceport.com/how-to-run-deepseek-r1-671b-ful...
Yep. You should stop and answer “why does this commit exist?” since that is the question you will be asking yourself when you discover it with `git blame` or `git bisect`. It amazes me how many devs are just willing to slap a -m on `git commit` and just say “fix bug” or “pr feedback”.
Tired of LLM wrapper Saas
Both are factual, the longer statement has more nuance, which is unsurprising. If the emphasis on the castle and SBF - out of all the things and people you could highlight about EA - concisely gives away that I have a negative opinion of it then that was intended. I view SBF as an unsurprising, if extreme, consequence of that kind of thinking. I have a harder time making any sense of the OP story in this context, that's why I was seeking clarification here.
there's no need to build more housing if you're not actively increasing the demand which would naturally decrease due to birth rates.

hey look, I made a problem, why aren't they fixing it? because they're evil
I do own a T460s as well and have to say, the build quality of the Framework is not as good in comparison. But given that the Framework is cheaper, I think it's still a fair deal.

One thing I should point out here: you can order a Framework without RAM and SSD, then buy these components from a regular store with regular pricing.
The HN title added the word "rationalist", which isn't in the source article. This is editorializing in a way that feels kind of slander-y. Their relationship to the bay area rationalist community is that we kicked them out long before any of this started.
In the big picture I'd probably mildly agree with his view that the defence industry proper isn't the US's biggest problem right now and railing against Military-Industrial complex is using the wrong term. But his arguments are a bit weird.

He classifies the Tech companies as not part of the military industrial complex, which seems like a mistake. The US tech industry is integrated with the US intelligence establishment and is effectively part of their military presence. Musk, for example, was making a very visible contribution to the Ukranian war effort with Starlink. Google & Facebook are a bigger threat than the US military when it comes to governments being taken out in my opinion and the US military is probably more of the same mind than they let on.

He's also very focused on earnings which is a headscratcher. He has revenues right next to that, and revenues are what matter. Earnings just say the US weapons producers are an inefficient industry which isn't a matter of controversy because it doesn't matter much. He seems to be confused about what figures to look at.
That's no excuse for YouTube because (a) audio processing can be done in JS/WASM and (b) they have the influence to improve browser playbackRate implementations to something better [1].

Besides, their Android and iOS apps do slow music as bad if not worse than on web.

[1] https://bungee.parabolaresearch.com/compare-audio-stretch-te...
Weber State saves students millions with free textbooks
For anyone obsessively following Severance, don't miss the just-released ebook/audiobook version of "The You You Are" by Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD. It's very, very good. https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-you-you-are/id6738364141

I posted a (very slight spoiler) extract in this book review thread on MetaFilter FanFare: https://fanfare.metafilter.com/25459/The-You-You-Are-by-by-D...
I'm not suggesting child labor laws are bad, I'm saying automation is good and not sinister. Automation inherently reduces labor, which can inherently lead to someone not needing to work a job that is now automated. That we want to protect people from suffering doesn't mean we should be suspicious of all new technology because we can imagine a way someone might lose a job.
I'm not sure if software services are part of this tarrif? Can anyone confirm?
and it is absolutely fucked that we do it
Happens at big companies a lot where there's a ton of excess people that need to be, but aren't, managed out.

including a lot, if not all, of middle management as well as some of the highest performers
There's no reason a feature can't be a problem though. Many would point out that inheritance is both.

Interfaces solve most of the problems of inheritance with none of the problems. Some people would point out that you can implement interfaces yourself, but that isn't a real solution since either people won't bother or there will end up being a library everyone uses to do it.

I think it's a useful abstraction and leaving it out will slow the adoption of Zig.
Has anyone reached out to Lady Gaga to see what her view of this release strategy is?
The problem is the oblivious users who aren't tech savvy. Enable a feature like this by default for every user, and you've got a big chunk of people "using" it, which leads to some product manager or sales person or whatever somewhere deep in the pits of the hell that is the corporate ladder getting a nice bonus and possibly a raise.

It's precisely why we need more stringent regulation that kills any kind of bullshit like this. Leave my fucking device alone you vultures.
One of the best endings of any show I can remember. It answered the biggest question of the show (concerning Stan) so well, and the ending was both surprising and fully earned. Masterful television.
if you can't fix it, "It's a feature not a bug"

--insert butterfly meme here--
Ok this is getting a little too...hot for HN so just a heads up I will not reply after this one. You are absolutely right that there is no protection that can prevent administrations from modifying websites, otherwise websites would never get redesigned! However, there is a federal law that requires government agencies to retain records and different agencies have different requirements. I will leave it as an exercise to the reader on what could facilitate a records retention change within different agencies.
I’m not a big George W Bush fan but this quote of his has stuck with me for years:

> Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions
Show HN: How good is your color vision? Find out in my new game
R1 is interesting.

Since I have access to the thinking tokens I can see where it's going wrong and do prompt surgery. But left to it's own devices it gets thing _stupendously_ wrong about 20% of the time with a huge context blowout. So much so that seeing that happen now tells me I've fundamentally asked the wrong question.

Sonnet doesn't suffer from that and solves the task, but doesn't give you much if any, help in how to recover from doing the wrong task.

I'd say that for work work Sonnet 3.5 is still the best, for exploratory work with a human in the loop r1 is better.

Or as someone posted here a few days ago: R1 as the architect, Sonnet3.5 as the worker and critic.
The work is mysterious and important.
It's timeless.
> since Xcode only got this crappy recently

Xcode has been slow, messy, buggy and all around atrocious to use since day one. Being forced to migrate from MPW and Code Warrior to this utter piece of garbage has actually pushed me to web development.
I'm getting that touch is kind of a sensitive issue, I'll have to find a solution to it
They're also hitting the classic "strategy tax"

When Apple secured the OS from third party, they also purposefully closed the door on deeper third party integration to privilege their ecosystem.

macOS only being half as useful for Android users makes it harder to be the "best" for that swath of users. iPadOS being the only tablet form in the ecosystem will also distance other users etc. They just can't please everyone while locking them in a limited ecosystem.
The ATC is faultless in the incident: listen to the audio, he confirmed multiple times the handoff to visual separation. At the last second, he even asked if they had visual as he saw the potential collision and alarms were going off. Fairly certain the fault like 100% with the helicopter pilots.
How about simply refusing to work with them ever again?

I'm sure HN would be enough to reach critical mass and send Ellison back where he came from.
This smells of a trade war. Should be interesting to see how this shakes out in ten years.
Well, I have done consulting working for AWS. Just because you haven’t learned how to adapt doesn’t mean the rest of the world hasn’t adapted.
My immediate questions are:

- where can I set machine-owner-key for rEFInd to do secure boot with Linux?

- where can I set the *real* machine-owner-key to load only a copy of board firmware compiled from not-license-encumbered source code on a machine I control?

- can I remove the wireless network interface so that I have a wireless network interface that does not run binary blobs?

- is there a clean interface to remove the Intel Management Engine binary blob and replace it with something that I can see the code so don't need to worry about something opaque and untrusted having "ring -3" access to my system?

I feel like I already know the answers to these questions. But these are questions anyone who has one of these machines should be asking themselves.
A rumour from my mainframe days was that Digital Equipment hired lacemakers from france to show people how they did it. This was wiring up the core memory planes for the Dec-10 (I have one, a folded 3 part card) which just barely squeezes into the mainframe class.

The guy who told me this was the Australian engineer sent over to help make the machine to bring back for UQ. He parked in the quiet side of the Maynard factory, not realising why the other drivers avoided it. Then his car got caught in a snowdrift.

A prior engineer told me about the UUO wire wrap feature on the instruction set backplane: you were allowed to write your own higher level ALU "macros" in the instruction space by wiring patches in this backplane. Dec 10 had a 5 element complex instruction model. Goodness knows what people did in there but it had a BCD arithmetic model for the six bit data (36 bit word so 6 bytes of six bits in BCD mode)

A guy from Latrobe uni told me for their Burroughs, you edited the kernel inside a permanently resident Emacs like editor which did recompile on exit and threw you back in on a bad compile. So it was "safe to run" when it decided your edits were legal.

We tore down our IBM 3030 before junking it to use the room for a secondhand Cray 1. We kept so many of the water cooled chip pads (6" square aluminium bonded grids of chips, for the water cooler pad. About 64 chips per pad) the recycler reduced his bid price because of all the gold we hoarded back.

The Cray needed two regenerator units to convert Australian 220v to 110v for some things, and 400hz frequency for other bits (this high voltage ac frequency was some trick they used doing power distribution across the main CPU backplane) and we blew one up spectacularly closing a breaker badly. I've never seen a field engineer leap back so fast. Turned out reusing the IBM raised floor for a Cray didn't save us money: we'd assumed the floor bed for liquid cooled computers was the same; not so - Cray used a different bend radius for flourinert. The flourinert recycling tank was clear plastic, we named the Cray "yabby" and hung a plastic lobster in it. This tank literally had a float valve like a toilet cistern.

When the Cray was scrapped one engineer kept the round tower "loving seat" module as a wardrobe for a while. The only CPU cabinet I've ever seen which came from the factory with custom cushions.
I watched when it was originally aired, but never came back to it. It didn't come together in the end in a satisfying way.
If we cared about making refrigerators more efficient, we would just put the heat exchanger outside or better yet underground
Sounds promising. Are you going to build this on Wix?
Are there similar devices in different form factors for custom IoT purposes? I would guess that BoM costs would be pretty similar, but I don't know that there's enough demand.
Show HN: Click and Discover Any Point on a Map
I added a Discover page where you can click any point on a map and retrieve information from an LLM(s). Supports Sonnet-3.5, DeepSeek V3 and GPT-4o.

This is a follow-up to the post from Christmas [1]. The aim with this project is to combine maps with generative models for location research and discovery. Please use with caution and expect hallucinations and/or potentially incorrect information.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42519562
This reminds me. During the television coverage of the LA Fires, the reporters kept using the word "dozer" instead of "bulldozer". Did anyone else think that was odd? All I could think of was that character from The Matrix.
Well people are also upset about the whole "President not respecting obligations to Congress" thing.

Any normal president wouldn't conduct the removal without being able to provide the substantive rationale. Which is then evidence Congress has about how the president is conducting his duties. Like "is this rationale consistent with the stated goals of increased efficiency".

Trump doesn't even care enough to make something up.
And I was just trying to help. :) Easy to miss that link. Unfortunately Wikipedia generally isn't great for motivation on math topics.

Tensor ops in e.g. pytorch are pretty opaque to me, too much implicit on shapes which can change as you go down a pipeline. Maybe I'll come to appreciate it better.
Why nobody can see inside AI's black box
To quote a hot potato of a previous age: all bankers may be Jews, but not all Jews are bankers.

We know where that one took us.
It does appear in the article.

> The group is a radical offshoot of the Rationalism movement, focusing on matters such as veganism and artificial intelligence destroying humanity.

You yourself seem to acknowledge this as a fact.
I'm just curious, if I was to run my application on a linux server.

How would I ever know what caused the crash?

when I compile using `swiftc main.swift` and run with `./main`, the error seems even more useless.

all I get is:

Swift/ContiguousArrayBuffer.swift:600: Fatal error: Index out of range
zsh: illegal hardware instruction ./main
Because demand and prices went up.

Honestly, you’re approaching on conspiracy theory territory with some of your beliefs about how the world works.
> Yeah, the fact that she can barely speak full sentences surely had nothing to do with it.

This is a bald lie, and is wildly unbecoming of discussion on this site.

But it’s also a hilarious assertion in the face of literally anything Trump has ever tried to say out loud.
ah yes the pineapple
In those "newer designs" there is no electoral college. Also various alternative electoral systems have been tried. The winner-takes-all system of the US is known pathological and inevitably results in a two party system. Democracies in Europe most often result in many parties and a necessity to form coalitions. Ireland even goes as far as using IRV and STV.
My opinion is that the work they are performing it's not the point of them being there. It's about testing the limits of the exploitations of human beings.
see: https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/encode-opus

Modern CPUs seem to be able encode opus at around 266x speed. In other words they can encode 266 seconds of audio in 1 second. The tests results also don't scale with core count, so the program itself is probably single threaded and therefore you could encode even faster if you have concurrent streams. It's highly unlikely that even with VCUs, a server can encode video streams at several thousand times faster than playback speed.
You met your quota you must be very happy! We're proud of you, indeed, we're inspired by you!
Interesting can you lmk why you ditched all non native? We're discussing what decision to make on this now.
I wish swift was built against normal LLVM instead of against Apple's fork of it.
Very cool! Any video demos for sample tasks? I didn't come across any on the website (browsing on mobile).
Probably not the Manson family, but probably the Branch Dividians. Just like I’d call the Salvation Army a Christian paramilitary.
it's sad that the the Peripheral second season got cancelled. the concept was really interesting (esp the way corporations/scientists used it).
Does the world need yet another build system? (not sure, just thinking out loud)
Maybe enforcing open sourcing the models is the best route to go. At some point everything worthwhile ever created will be processed. Models can be seen as the processed, collective cultural output of humanity. It seems fair to me to force publishing the models in the vein of some kind of copyleft clause.
You’re being sensationalist to try to make a point that doesn’t stand on its own.

Most studies show that productivity per hour doesn’t go down until about 60 hours, or higher for low skilled work.
But that is a set, so is it like a lineage path to the ultimate mother?
Or is it like the full family with children, uncle and everything (in which case we still have to find the ultimate mother)?

I'll read up on it.
They should have been fully open source with full linux support and parity since day one.

That would actually help the language get traction. At this point it's a dying language.
I didn’t say “rationalist” should be investigated, I said “zizian” which is a small personality cult of ziz.
i dont think youd need 671b for something like this

this seems to be a command detection which 8b should be able to do just fine
>Also, why is data science a common thread?

People on the spectrum as susceptible to mind-viruses and enjoy grand ideas. At least two of them it seems.
What are you going to do, sue Oracle?
So very sad it did not continue. Another underrated gem: Wayne.
Well, until they are used as evidence in an impeachment trial.

Which of course isn't likely to happen in this case...
Except as soon as you report some QoS issue and a tech comes out, they'll tell you that it's your off brand router and you need to rent one from them.
We know the Cold Harbor file is related to Gemma/Ms. Casey. There's a theory that Mark is somehow resurrecting her by refining that file.
> Kotlin’s syntax is also weird/quirky in some ways.

I'm curious to learn what you mean by this! :)
There's not enough heat in the fridge to heat up any significant amount of water.

I would however like to see that waste heat being used for something like dishwashers or just being vented out (instead of into the room that might have to be actively cooled).
> Now that AI is actually making advancements, very little of that work seems to have had much effect. Theres the famous Vonnegut qoute about the combined effort of all preeminent artists protesting the Vietnam war having the effect of a pie dropped from a step-ladder.

One of the interesting things about any topic becoming the 'Current Thing' is that you get to see people making utterly irreconcilable, completely contradictory interpretations of the same public evidence while still somehow reaching the same conclusion.

For example, the day before you commented describing the effect as equal to a pie being dropped on the ground (ie. nil) and that is why they are bad, Palladium published a long (~5.8k words) piece arguing that they had a ton of effect... just in the opposite of the intended direction, and that is why they are bad: https://www.palladiummag.com/2025/01/31/the-failed-strategy-...

Obviously, you can't both be right. (You can both be wrong, though.)
>The complaint here seems to be that rationalists don't take progressive pieties as axiomatic.

A trans vegan gang murdering police officers is what's come out of this milieu.

I don't see how anyone can say they aren't taking "progressive pieties as axiomatic".

The OP is just taking the "everything I don't like is fascist" trope to it's natural conclusion. Up next: Stalin actually a Nazi.
But who's "us", and who is "them"?
Could it be a matter of perspective? Would it surprise you to discover that you're someone else's "them"?
it kept taking me to non existent websites that were a summary of what i asked it for
There's a subtext here of "what do I do when the high-level libraries like Sodium don't do exactly what I need", and the frank answer to that is: "well, you're in trouble, because consulting expertise for this work is extraordinarily expensive".

We have an SCW episode coming out† next week about cryptographic remote filesystems (think: Dropbox, but E2E) with a research team that reviewed 6 different projects, several of them with substantial resources. The vulnerabilities were pretty surprising, and in some cases pretty dire. Complaining that it's hard to solve these problems is a little like being irritated that brain surgery is expensive. I mean, it's good to want things.

† https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/
This is kind of what NSO Group’s Pegasus did to break out of iPhone sandboxing. They exploited a codec to bootstrap a virtual machine with a custom instruction set.
Interesting idea. With the web scraping utility, do I need to specify which websites I wish for the api to scrape from or do I essentially just say, "hey I want this data, go get it"?

If it's the latter, how do you go about making sure you're not about to download malicious data to my machine?
Not doing things atomically when they should be (incl. missing locks around tiny ops) would be a pretty large class.

With native multithreading data can pass from thread to thread millions of times per second, and you're much less likely to hit obscure interactions when limited instead to maybe a couple hundred context switches per second.
Not too many Fiber-PON routers out there that we can drop Linux OS into.