skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think they’ve improved much for common use since GPT-3.5, to be frank. They’re cheaper and more ubiquitous, yes, but when it comes to summarizing and generating basic text, they’re pretty much the same as they were back then

Maybe we're just getting more used to make it part of our workflow.
they seem to be the same people behind Willow: https://earthstar-project.org/docs/future#willow-protocol

> All of these above features are enabled by the new Willow General Purpose Sync Protocol we've been working on. It's a new protocol inspired by Earthstar, refining and building upon its concepts. We will be publishing a new website with complete specifications for this protocol.

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https://willowprotocol.org/more/compare/index.html#compare_e...

> If Earthstar feels very similar to Willow, then that is no coincidence. Willow started out as a reimagining of Earthstar, future Earthstar versions will build upon Willow, and the core maintainer of Earthstar is one of the two Willow authors.
> autistic

A lot of people say this, but I think it's the wrong word in an important way.

I'll give you P(autistic|rationalist) > P(autistic), but beware the base rate fallacy. My guess is you're focussing on a proxy variable.

To show some important counter-examples: Temple Grandin, famously autistic and a lot of people's idea what autism means - not a rationalist in the sense you mean. Scott Alexander - fairly central example of the rationalist community, but not autistic (he's a psychiatrist so I trust him on that).

EDIT: also P(trans|rationalist) > P(trans), but P(rationalist|trans) I'd say is fairly small. Base rate fallacy and something something Bayes. Identifying these two groups would definitely be a mistake.

EDIT2: maybe this series (1 post so far) is worth bookmarking: https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/what-do-effective-altru...
cancel culture from the left came from grassroot movements - kids at uni get offended and they ban certain words and heckle certain speakers.

cancel culture from the right is coming from POTUS.

can you tell me if you think there's any difference at all between the two?
char p[1], q[1] = {0};
uintptr_t ip = (uintptr_t)(p+1);
uintptr_t iq = (uintptr_t)q;
if (iq == ip) {
*(char*)iq = 10;
print(q[0]);
}

I am genuinely a little scared of this C program.
So you're saying a broad consensus of academics as powerful as the executive branch, which also justifies the executive branch shredding the constitution in order to stop them and therefore not upholding their constitutional duty.
If you don’t see the difference in quality of responses between GPT-3.5 as it launched in 2022 and o1/o3 then I don’t know what to tell you. I am using these models daily and the difference is night and day.
Those are the same people that say he's highly religious (specifically Christian). They're a bizarre set.
one bans by organising their friends and community to shun the other. the other takes control of the apparatus of the state to ban the first.

you and I have very different definitions of banning.
draw.io can do similar diagramming. You can generate diagrams programmatically through their CSV format.

Unfortunately documentation for using it programmatically is a bit lacking, but you can for example host a CSV somewhere and use their editor to load it. It's all client side so will automatically update.
Meta was sending LLaMA 1 to anyone with an .edu email. It was always meant to be publicly released.
> Another obvious solution was to use C to compile a basic compression and decompression tool. However, C wasn’t available—buying it would have been expensive as well!

I would have thought in the (IBM) mainframe world, PL/I (or PL/S) would have been the obvious choice.
> Trump is a singular force in our current politics.

I hope you're right. He will eventually die. Who has enough clout to take his place without splitting the Republican Party?
It's essentially "Big in Japan" (eg on Apple platforms but nowhere else). Even on Apple platforms I winder if ObjC is actually still more popular ;)
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> Everything in the universe is either Hydrogen or Helium

Not sure what point you're trying to make here but we don't live in a star.
Like the law matters anymore. The Supreme Court already said that everything Trump does is an official act and thus legal. If Trump declared that Musk can run for president then that is now legal and the law.
I'd agree if this bribe was made to anyone else, but the reasoning here is a bit different: everyone is afraid of Trump making an example of them. Remember that the new president has stated many times over the last years that he wants to throw Zuckerberg in jail, that he wants to ban media and social networks that are "unfair" to him.

This wasn't a bribe to settle a lawsuit, it was a bribe to get on the good side of an authoritarian who campaigned on being a tyrant.
My thought was that their ultimate goal is to recreate the mind of their founder and place it into a cloned body.
> cancel culture from the right is coming from POTUS

Not really. Trump is channeling something that probably came from the book-banning religious conservative crowd.
Google successfully fooled everyone into thinking that "Gemini Live" is the same as Advanced Voice Mode in ChatGPT. It's not, Gemini Live is a "stupid" speech-to-text and text-to-speech and not multimodal like AVM.
1. Rust has proper references with much stricter aliasing requirements. So no, it would be C that would slow down. Rust would still be able to take advantage of these optimisations.

2. In this case, I would say the effects are much more obvious. Just take the example in the article. The compiler cannot replace a pointer access with its value if there has been any other pointers access in between. The compiler also cannot reorder any statements with pointer accesses. They would basically behave as memory barriers (if I understand them correctly). That will cause slow downs in runtime (the compile time will speed up though).

3. Sure. Perhaps that is an option. I wouldn't call it a flag to "break program" though. Maybe a config file that tells the compiler which assumptions can be made (strict aliasing, associative floats, threading safe, etc).

EDIT: In point 3, I would also add assumptions like whether the code can be changed at runtime, etc (take a pointer to a function then write your own code there).
Reliability builds on skill redundancy.
That is from 2019!
I don't like Ubuntu either, and also ended up on Fedora. I don't know anyone who ever stuck with their first Linux distro and still think Ubuntu first is a sensible first distro recommendation for a web developer who hasn't used Linux before, for many reasons.
Yes it integrates directly to LinkedIn
Most things are in some way connected to politics and power and they're regularly discussed here, along with their political implications and power dynamics. That still doesn't mean every news story is worth discussing here given that it's a forum with the explicit goal of not discussing most news stories.
I use LLM’s daily so I’m no skeptic. We are not seeing enormous improvements every 6 months, that’s hyperbolic. There has been a significant improvement since GPT 3.5, I’ll give you that, but even in those ~2 years I don’t think I’d describe the improvement as “enormous”. The capabilities are similar with output quality improving by a noticeable degree.
The article makes it sound as though this is something only humans have. Which struck me as very odd.

But the paper in Cell says:

"• Found globally in diverse niches, obelisks also occur in human stool and oral microbiomes"

https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(24)01091-2

Much more reasonable.
As someone who - by default - has Bluetooth disabled, I can safely say: Same with Bluetooth.

I'm slightly annoyed I have to check settings every update, but it's not like it's something new, it has been that way for years.

E: typo
AWS has a native service for this called AppConfig and has agents that can pull and cache flag values so your services only need to make localhost requests.
> And the next one will have way bigger things to unfuck than some missing documents.

Assuming there is going to be a next one which isn’t wholly aligned with the current one. That’s far from a given.
Science is predicated on healthy skepticism, especially if something has fervent support. Anyone who argues that science is "settled" or that it should be "trusted" is a priest trying to evangelize, not a scientist.

That healthy skepticism likely won't cause any paradigm shifts in most cases, of course, but the point here is that is no reason to surrender the skepticism.
really random question - but what is used to create the images in this blog post? I see this style quite often but never been able to track down what is used.
More like asking whether road signs are effective for Americans who are passengers in cars. No, it doesn't directly do her any good that they're technically accessible since she can't act on it, but it sure as hell affects her life that other people have access to the information provided by road signs.
i.e these - https://adriacabeza.github.io/img/tinylfu.png
"the buck stops here". he controls the most powerful army in history. I don't care whose arm is reaching up his colon to move his lips - he's responsible. it's his signature on the orders.
But will the militry agree or like south korea resist?
The “quadrillion days of happiness” offered to a rational person gives away that such allegories are anthropomorphized just for the sake of presentation. For the sake of what the philosophers mean, you should probably imagine this as an algorithm running on a machine (no AGI).

It’s a mental tease, not a manual on how to react when faced with a mugger who forgot his weapon at home but has an interesting proposition to make.

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

It’s what the comment here [0] says. If you try to analyze everything purely rationally it will lead to dark corners of misunderstanding and madness.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902931
You meant to ask "Has r1 made SFT obsolete?" ?
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It's about Musk but also SpaceX now controlling the US finances...

"Elon Musk staff has been caught installing drives inside the OPM office":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42903499

"Elon Musk's DOGE reportedly gained "full access" to the federal payment system":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902670
Backdoor in Contec CMS8000 monitors may allow faulty patient readings
Underrated comment....
This would benefit from some data supporting the suggestions. Why are they the best? Do they fit with Google Trends keywords for related search? Are there existing backlinks?

There are so many factors in selecting domain names. Simply claiming that these are the "best choices" requires more context.
Ask HN: Most underrated CS publications from the '70s and '80s?
Do you have any favorites of that era that you consider to be deeply overlooked and rarely if ever mentioned or maybe containing ideas that barely if ever been implemented in practice in software or hardware but still have huge practical potential even in modern times? Or maybe some gems that never been translated to English?

Any CS/computer engineering topic is welcomed - operating systems, database management systems, computer algebra systems, general algorithmic topics, hardware design, CAD/CAM, pattern matching, computer graphics, whatever floats your boat.
Not noted there, but I think use in headlines is restricted to the US (?). This does illustrate the problem with over use.
Unfortunately, the standard TLS protocol does not provide a non-repudiation mechanism.

It works by using public key cryptography and key agreement to get both parties to agree on a symmetric key, and then uses the symmetric key to encrypt the actual session data.

Any party who knows the symmetric key can forge arbitrary data, and so a transcript of a TLS session, coupled with the symmetric key, is not proof of provenance.

There are interactive protocols that use multi-party computation (see for example https://tlsnotary.org/) where there are two parties on the client side, plus an unmodified server. tlsnotary only works for TLS1.2. One party controls and can see the content, but neither party has direct access to the symmetric key. At the end, the second party can, by virtue of interactively being part of the protocol, provably know a hash of the transaction. If the second party is a trusted third party, they could sign a certificate.

However, there is not a non-interactive version of the same protocol - you either need to have been in the loop when the data was archived, or trust someone who was.

The trusted third party can be a program running in a trusted execution environment (but note pretty much all current TEEs have known fault injection flaws), or in a cloud provider that offers vTPM attestation and a certificate for the state (e.g. Google signs a certificate saying an endorsement key is authentically from Google, and the vTPM signs a certificate saying a particular key is restricted to the vTPM and only available when the compute instance is running particular known binary code, and that key is used to sign a certificate attesting to a TLS transcript).

I'm working on a simpler solution that doesn't use multiparty computation, and provides cloud attestation - https://lemmy.amxl.com/c/project_uniquonym https://github.com/uniquonym/tls-attestproxy - but it's not usable yet.

Another solution is if the server will cooperate with a TLS extension. TLS-N (https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/578.pdf) provides a solution for this. That provides a trivial solution for provenance.
Try this https://excalidraw.com/
This kind of closed mindedness is part of a huge shift in programming culture since the heydays of Perl.

Someone can post a tortured looking piece of awk code here and people applaud. Post the same thing being done in Perl and we are likely to see comments like these — despite the fact that the Perl version will almost certainly be more readable and maintainable than anything you can write in awk.

It’s sad to see this happen to such a revolutionary-for-its-time language.
In all honestly, the only existential threat AI poses is a threat to egos.

People define themselves through their works and their ideas, so some hope, while others fear, that the AI revolution will replace a person with something which will work better, and produce better ideas.

It’s good for human species evolution to develop a tool which exceeds its own capabilities. Obviously, and has been said by many before already, any existential threat to species will arise from a competitor species seeking to dominate or subjugate. The tools we’ve built so far are nowhere near any level to autonomously compete with humans as a species.

Again, our current set of tools is only a threat to the egos of individual humans who fear being made irrelevant. So, many of these anti-AI treatises read like saying “don’t built the printing press because scribes will lose their jobs!”. But I think human life doesn’t exist to “create jobs”, and individuals are not the sum total of their products or works. If human potential has any merit or capability, then it will be fine because one thing advanced human cognition does really well is cognitive flexibility.

In some sense, I hope the AI revolution results in a human intellectual revolution, where an individual is forced to think deeply of what it means to live besides fulfilling primal needs. The pessimist in me thinks the most likely scenario will be some kind of resurgence in spirituality and religion, which is a bigger existential threat to human thought and freedom than AI.

The practical consequences of AI replacing individual jobs means that governments will have to introduce some sort of universal basic income, and other types of social welfare programs, to ensure and maintain social stability. If there is a threat to human existence it’s bad governance and leaders, but not bad tools.

Sorry if some of this is already captured in the article somewhere, I skimmed through it because I am not well. I sincerely appreciate that so many scholars are thinking about the practical implications of the tools people build.
> For me listening an mp3 is like a sanding an ear

There is such a broad spectrum in thr word mp3 that you need to be more specific. I can absolutely pick the difference between certian high bitrate mp3 encodings and wav files, however a different mp3 with exactly the same bitrate, effectively indistinguishable.

Bad mp3 encoding is a problem, not one I have experienced recently though. I think the bigger issue is people will rip a music video from youtube, then instead of extracting the existing audio stream into it's own container will reencode it. Mp3->mp3 encoding will be lossy just like any other encoder.
'Healthspan must not remain a privilege of the wealthy'
There is no such thing as a civil society when one group believes the other should be segregated, enslaved, have genocide committed against them, etc. That is just gas lighting one group so that they don't know they are the frog in the boiling pot. Trying to be civil in a tolerance paradox situation just makes sure you're eliminated, but maybe just not today.
I never understood why there hasn't been more investigation into Russian influence during the last four years. But maybe the ones to make a call about that didn't care.
I was talking specifically about him becoming the president of the United States. I even highlighted that he doesn’t need to become the president to have extreme power over the country.

Just my opinion, and I say this with love, but if you think Musk is going to become president, you need to turn off BlueSky and touch grass.
I suspect they used Excalidraw [1]. It's a nice, quick tool for this kind of sketching, and supports collaborative drawing.

[1] https://excalidraw.com/
I'm in the same boat as OP.

I used to run my own DIY router setup for about a decade until I realized it wasn't adding much value anymore.

Anything that needs to be visible publicly I just throw on a VM in the cloud these days. Keeps my home network "normie proof" and calm. Anyone visiting can find the modem, locate the password and get online without forcing a 45 minute IT change order circus in my own home.
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I have quantum fiber and am using a Dynalink WRX36 running OpenWrt. Needed the vlan 201 configuration but works well.

OpenWrt is pretty amazing, my router downloads torrents, blocks ads, runs a VPN client (enabled per-device) for watching geo-blocked streaming, serves content from a USB drive to my TV, among other things.

https://openwrt.org/toh/dynalink/dl-wrx36
MediaWiki is the way to go. Great to see magic joining the move from Fandom.
Trump eyes up to 100% tariffs on foreign semiconductors, TSMC in crosshairs
And yet the comments still provide more value than the article, almost always.
1: 33586.74 2: 47371.93 4: 65870.07

With `likwid-bench -i 100 -t load -w M0:5GB:1 -w M1:5GB:1 -w M2:5GB:1 -w M3:5GB:1 -w M4:5GB:1 -w M5:5GB:1 -w M6:5GB:1 -w M7:5GB:1` we get 187976.60

Obvious there's a bottleneck either going on somewhere - at 33.5GB/s per channel, that would get close to 400GB/s, what you'd expect, but the reality is that it doesn't get to half of that. Bad MC? Bottleneck w/ the MB? Hard to tell, not sure that without swapping hardware there's much more that can be done to diagnose things.
If you genuinely haven't seen any of it, then you are extremely uninformed and I doubt you should engage in politics at all.

- budgetary laws without congress: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/does-trump-administrations-...

- total immunity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States_(2024)

- pardoned jan 6 rioters (even the criminal ones): https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s1-5276336/donald-trump-ja...

- Trump claims Jan 6 was antifa: https://www.axios.com/2021/01/12/trump-falsely-blames-antifa...

- Trump blames the DC plane crash on DEI: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvmdm1m7m9o

- And everything else as well: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/trump-blames-dei-for-e...

- Trump praises Putin, Xi, Kim: https://www.semafor.com/article/08/13/2024/trump-praises-xi-...

Now give me a source on Biden's. And it's only been two weeks, Trump's approval is bound to plumet once the tariffs kick in and stat destroying the economy, we're still supposed to be in the honey moon.

Can't you fathom me dismissing what the relative majority was led to believe about the guy, in the light of the massive evidence of his corruption, incompetency and bigotry?
US Gov sued after mass emails to federal workforce sent from insecure server
Then what about new, unseen riddles that don't have a similar pattern to existing ones? That's the question people are asking.
very few philosophers dared to live by their theories. the famous failures of aristotle (in the case of alexander) and plato in syracuse (where he saw firsthand that the philosopher-king is at best a book character) are good examples. seneca didn’t live stoically: he was avaricious and didn’t bother to incite civil war over unpaid debt, if ancient sources are to be believed. he failed horribly with nero, who later instructed him to commit suicide for treasonous crimes. again, if ancient sources are to be believed, he fumbled his suicide out of raw fear.

the cynics, though, made a good life but that’s not because they had a better philosophy. it’s because cynicism is base/primitive logic available to the brute as well as the civilized man.
I ended up on Debian/XFCE. Lightweight enough and I've worked out how everything works and have it customized 100% to my workflow.
US FDA approves first new painkiller in twenty-five years