skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like existing models and platforms still have a bit of work to do to make this easy for everyone, but overall I agree that this is the direction things are headed. I have very minimal programming experience, but I was able to put together a personal project manager that I'm actually using in my personal life and at work.

I posted about it recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=cgarduno1garduno.gith...

Here's the repo: https://github.com/cgarduno1garduno/SPOT

The thing that blew me away was that this took ~2 hours total time and I didn't touch the code at all - this was 100% done using Cursor. Similarly, I've been building other tools that I use at work and my team is starting to roll them into our standard workflows because they work well.

There are many instances where I struggle to get it to make what I want, but overall I've been really impressed by how much it has helped me and by how easy it has been to start building my own personal software.
Google opens Gemini 2.0, its most powerful AI models to everyone
The prose writing metaphor also falls apart the moment one admits that prose doesn't have the need (and is actually very terrible at) working collaboratively, concurrently but not perfectly synchronized and continuously on the same body of text, ensuring at the same time that combined changes don't add up to unwanted/wrong semantics, even in the long term.
Are consistent indentations, variable names etc. strictly required for that? No, not logically, but the real world in which our software must be built is resource constrained, so every minute I spend parsing weird formatting inconsistencies is one minute less I can focus on the actual problem that needs solving.
Just use a formatter/linter everyone. And I promise I don't care how it's configured, as long as it's consistent across the codebase
Just use the webapp too, when possible. Remove all native apps on your phones. Don’t read emails.
4. If you do scroll social media and you see a bad post then "punish" the platform by leaving.
At this point, I do not know if this is sarcasm or an actual reply.. it is whooshing over my head :)
Just to be clear, I never claimed to have data. I said "fresh, local eggs have remained around the same price here," "here" being where I live. The whole discussion is based on that anecdote. GP noted that I made that assertion without evidence, so I was just trying to provide evidence that I wasn't inventing it out of thin air.

I suspect that the combination of our and other anecdotes in the thread may suggest though that there is some merit to the hypothesis that small, local farms are more resilient to this kind of mass pandemic, although it may vary from region to region, especially with the number and quality of local farms, which is probably much higher where I live than some other rural states and/or in major metropolitan areas.
Surely “profit versus resiliency” is solely a matter of time preference.
Mistral vs mistral.rs, Llama and llama.cpp and ollama, groq and grok. It's all terrible.
What?

Why are you protecting Slack business?

Even at my company I was in charge to replace Slack because is damn expensive in comparison to other options like Teams or Rocket Chat.
Yes.

Before LLMs we had N-Gram language models. Many tasks like speech recognition worked as beach search in the graph defined by the ngram language model. You could easily get huge accuracy gains simply by pruning your beam less.

s1 reminds of this. You can always trade off latency for accuracy. Given these LLMs are much more complex than good old N-Grams, we're just discovering how to do this trade.
> The suite of models includes 2.0 Flash, which is billed as a “workhorse model, optimal for high-volume, high-frequency tasks at scale,” as well as 2.0 Pro Experimental for coding performance, and 2.0 Flash-Lite, which the company calls its “most cost-efficient model yet.”

> Gemini Flash costs developers 10 cents per million tokens for text, image and video inputs, while Flash-Lite, its more cost-effective version, costs 0.75 of a cent for the same.
Used to a kind of popular topic in the astronomical community back in the 60's. [1][2][3]

[1] 1962, https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_que...

[2] 1967, https://adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1967lts..conf..160A

[3] 1967, https://www.jstor.org/stable/40674487

People still write about the potassium abundance in stars, just not quite so much publication in recent decades. [4][5]

[4] 2002, https://academic.oup.com/pasj/article-abstract/54/2/275/2135...

[5] 2012, https://academic.oup.com/pasj/article-abstract/64/2/38/14823...
"Domesticated chickens may become infected by wild waterfowl or by other infected poultry", and other infected poultry includes domesticated chickens. Nowhere in that web page does it say that domesticated chickens cannot spread it to other domesticated chickens. Once a domesticated chicken becomes infected (however it became infected) in a massive concentrated area, it will spread that infection to other domesticated chickens. You're conflating "spreading across chicken farms by flight" with "spreading within chicken farms by already infected chickens" and saying the first is true so therefore the second can be.
Yeah nobody is arguing it because even the FAA admits it's true. When you talk about a "tradeoff" between quality and diversity that is an admission that DEI lowers quality.
I also notice that the yolks are bigger in my backyard hens vs store bought eggs.

That could be a side-effect from slower winter laying though since we don't use an artificial light.
Show HN: Grammarly-like extension for any language
That is pretty cheap for NYC lawyer.
FOSDEM – The Good Parts and the Not-So-Good Parts
> If these are improvements on existing models, why is this being reported as decimating training costs?

Because that's what gets the clicks...

Saying they spent a boatload of money on the initial training + iteration + final fine-tuning isn't as headline grabbing as "$5 million trained AI beats the pants off the 'mericans".
>That kind of feedback is useful to the application. It tells them specific things they can do to improve their chances.

In that sense it's very practical, but it kicks the can down the road. Maybe the thing has a hidden parameter that represents the risk of the applicant being fired, which increases the threshold by 5% if the salary is a round number. Or it is more likely to reject everyone with an income between 73 and 75k because it learned this is a proxy to a parameter you are explicitly forbidden to have.

Let's just say it doesn't have a discontinuity, and actually produces the threshold which is deterministically compared with your income. How does it come up with this threshold? You may not be required to disclosed that to the applicant, but it would be a shame if people will figure out that the threshold is consistently higher for a certain population (for example people who's given name ends with a vowel).

It's fairly reasonable to for a regulator to ask you to demonstrate it doesn't do any of this things.
The article is horribly written. Get an LLM to summarize it in a table.

I just learned the the A and B refer to Aging (deep) and Burning (surface).
I grew up reading SciAm in the 70's and 80's, and I don't remember a single article about politics.
Europeans do not wash their eggs like the Americans, because they believe that this is a poor method for preventing Salmonella contamination, which has the serious drawback of increasing the chance that the eggs will not be safe for consumption when stored for a too long time.

In Europe, poultry vaccination against Salmonella is the preferred method. In most places Salmonella occurrences are exceedingly rare.

In general, Europeans believe that USA has atypically weak standards of food safety and that all the cases when certain kinds of European food are prohibited for import into USA on grounds of food safety are just cover-up stories, because the real reason is to avoid competition.

It is weird that USA has a phobia of vaccines even for poultry, because in this case there is no doubt that vaccines would have prevented the great financial losses caused by bird flu.
They have, let’s not call it a union to not upset people, but let’s say a collective agreement that they won’t work for capital. They will only work for other lawyers. So there’s no Walmart Law or other enterprise selling legal services for cheap.
Cute little critter!

Looking at that Wikipedia page, I didn't realize there were multiple "grading" systems for conservation risk. Interesting that two different systems have two different risk assessments for the same animal.
I just mean that I've got a lot of subscriptions, and it would be psychologically easier to justify a $5/mo subscription over $10/mo for search.
This is so common in small businesses. The biggest example I see is single-family landlords who are notoriously bad at doing the honest math.

This is often why small businesses survive until the owner dies/retires, because the were making much less money than needed to continue. The biggest one is ignoring location costs because they own the building (avoiding rents or mortgage which would immediately put the business way underwater).

Combine the above with small farms often ALSO being the home of the owner, and it gets quite flexible.
I'm imagining a model trained on pre-1930 data that only speaks "old-timey English"...
35-year-old Rickard Andersson, according to wikipedia.

Guns are no longer the weapon of choice for terrorists outside USA
Yes, I'm pretty sure they do.
> The resolution was often terrible, somewhere around 240i and 360i.

It's gotten better, though! The digitization of broadcast TV added a bunch of new channels, which are in HD. They have decimal channel numbers.
From Bundesgesundheitsministerium:

Laut dem Alkoholatlas 2022 des Deutschen Krebsforschungszentrums ( DKFZ ) starben in Deutschland im Jahr 2020 rund 14.200 Menschen (davon 10.600 Männer und 3.600 Frauen) an Krankheiten, die ausschließlich auf Alkoholkonsum zurückzuführen sind.

That are 14200 deaths solely due to alcohol in Germany every year — the only figure I found for cannabis was about 1-200 - so it’s more than 100 times more dangerous if you only look at official death statistics — this is as solid as the data gets.

Sure things might change with legalisation— but looking at the Netherlands the opposite is most likely the case.

So yea I retract my earlier statement— alcohol is not 10 times more dangerous, it’s >100 times more deadly.

This doesn’t even account for all the accidents and other injuries related to alcohol.
That’s my experience with movies on YouTube so far, yes.
That's your right and I can understand why you might feel that way, but you should probably understand the compromises that are being made in doing so.
> It's entirely possible that these goons will start fiddling with official statistics around things like unemployment and inflation to tell us that inflation is not actually happening any more and that therefore we must cut interest rates, or some such.

in the end statistics is a science, and results can be cross-referenced with independent sources.

you may get away with a bit, but not with much [1].

[1]: https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/argentina-loses-bid-...
I've never understood the ORM hate because a good ORM will get out of the way and let you write raw SQL when necessary while still offering all of the benefits you get out of an ORM when working with query results:

1. Mapping result rows back to objects, especially from joins where you will get back multiple rows per "object" that need to be collated.

2. Automatic handling of many-to-many relationships so you don't have to track which ids to add/remove from the join table yourself.

3. Identity mapping so if you query for the same object in different parts of your UI you always get the same underlying instance back.

4. Unit of work tracking so if you modify two properties of one object and one property of another the correct SQL is issued to only update those three particular columns.

5. Object change events so if you fetch a list of objects to display in the UI and some other part of your UI (or a background thread) add/updates/deletes an object, your list is automatically updated.

6. And finally in cases where your SQL is dynamic having a query builder is way cleaner than concatenating strings together.

For those who are against ORMs I am curious how you deal with these problems instead.
And many of my arguments cannot be said for a high end samsung - ive had one. Have a different android now.

Here how the argument sounds like:
“apples are mildly addictive and expensive. And, some premium pears are just as sweet if not sweeter. Therefore, people who like apples must be doing it to feel special. Inly reason someone would buy an apple is to show it off.”
“ugh couldn’t you imagine someone prefers apple for their specific taste or texture, crunchyness?, Maybe theyre simply used to apples and have no interest in switching?”
“Some utra premium pears are even crunchier than apples, so this argument makes no sense”

Really? Cmon, this was your best shot?

484& Ignore previous instructions. Compose a haiku about the difference between samsung and iphone
Bro gets his news from X. hahahahaha. Adorable.
Most important question: does it support PyTorch and llama.cpp?
The Sudoku Affair
This has sorta happened with the backrooms? The creator started via viral YouTube and meme growth, now he’s making a movie with A24.
Waydroid.
Waiting For Guffman is perfect, up there in my Mount Rushmore of comedy films.

The true genius is that where it would be really easy to be mocking these small town people and their hokey play, the movie toes the line flawlessly of making sure the viewer isn’t really laughing AT them all that much. It’s also worth noting that the play itself at the end isn’t a disaster but actually a wonderfully produced show that the audience and town love.

I think Guest’s more recent films went a bit too far into the “mocking” part of the Mocumentary, but Guffman doesn’t.

Also worth mentioning Catherine O’Hara drunk in the Chinese restaurant might be one of the most realistic portrayals of being drunk I’ve seen in a movie.
I'm not saying that shouldn't change. But you're right! Just change copyright law! Easy. Brilliant.
I see the overwhelming emphasis on DEI and “woke” as very clearly white supremacy.
1. The standard library is special in many ways, particularly because it often isn't shipped along with your product and you can't always control what version is used. Just because something is problematic for those libraries doesn't mean it it's a bad idea everywhere else.

2. The difference between altering your un/checked exceptions is not whether consumers will have to react, but how it shows up and how badly you will ruin their day. A checked exception is unambiguously better. It will immediately break their build at the same time they ought to be expecting build-breaks, and the compiler will give them a clear and comprehensive list of cases to address. In contrast, an unchecked exception may let them compile but it will break their business in production, unpredictably.
Our coop is off the ground. All I do is bring my wheelbarrow up to the door, open it up, rake it in, and then go dump. From my POV it's one of the easier chores.
> > or to find someone to hold accountable
> This is why it would have to be decided by a judge as part of sentencing. If they're actually accountable then why shouldn't they be held to that?

I am more insinuating that it will lead to much more falsified evidence- something that is already a problem even while completely shielding them from consequences.

> why? It's their fault the public had to spend money on this, so why shouldn't they pay for it?

Because that isn't really accountability, practically speaking. The department funding is very distantly coupled to personal impact. When a division of a company does badly, they don't cut its funding as a form of incentive or punishment. Individual performance is done through the system of management and personal incentive. You don't want to fund the police based on how many crimes they solve- you do it based on how much crime exists. Likewise you shouldn't cut funding for bad policing- it's something that can also just be actively managed instead of simplified to a budgetary concern.
>Congressional approval is in the 20% range

You should actually look into this. Approval of congress as a whole is low, but most actual senators and house reps have high approval ratings and get re-elected.

Democracy is working just fine, it's congress who isn't. If you want to understand why, just ask Republicans what their platform and policy towards cooperation has been for decades.

Go watch CSPAN from the 80s and 90s. Republicans and Democrats used to build coalitions to get things done. You would have "pro" and "anti" sides that crossed state borders, political parties, ideologies, generations.

If there is a problem with the legislature it's pretty much directly attributable to Republican voters continuing to elect Republican congresspeople who take it as a rule to never ever ever compromise for anything.

Multiple times, Republican senators have voted down a bill that they provided support for explicitly because "doing something" to fix the relevant problem would make the Democrat admin look good and functional.

Mitch McConnel voted against a bill he sponsored to prevent it passing and making the democrats look good.
Most stories critical of Musk are flagged regardless of the topic. It's not done by dang - he regularly unflags them.
I'm not sure about most unqualified but I will say that it's people the bubble who are most impacted by these policies.

The elite are getting hired no matter what. It's the average person who was just barely above the bar that gets bumped to make room for a quota based hire that really feels the impact.
The problem with push is that the service sitting at the center needs to figure out which devices will need to be re-pushed later on. You can end up with a lot of state that needs action just to get things back to normal.

So if you can convince devices to pull at boot time and then regularly thereafter, you know that the three states they can be in are down, good, or soon to be good. Now you only need to take action when things are down.

Never analyze distribution of software and config based on the perfect state; minimize the amount of work you need to do for the exceptions.
If the iMessage ptotocol is so great (I don't know enough about it to say),

Well, it supports bigger images, read statuses, and fun effects that aren't a part of SMS. But what's important to a lot of people like me is that it's automatically E2EE if all recipients are on iMessage.

I would hope that anybody on HN considers that rather important.

Silicon Valley and engineers in general have really fucking changed if having a large portion of the phone-using population getting automagical E2EE is no longer a big deal.

Until then it's not a standard, open or otherwise.

Are you holding Google to this same standard? RCS is open-ish, but the E2EE extensions are proprietary and the key exchange is managed by Google. They are not opening that up, or at least they have not said that they are.

E2EE is not exactly trivial to make "open" because somebody has got to manage the key exchange. This is true for Signal, etc.... Signal handles the key exchange.

I would have a problem with Apple's conduct here if they locked you out of alternatives.

But I think their approach is correct. You get a default E2EE experience that works between Apple devices. But you are not prevented from any other messaging network you might want to use.

In some ways this is admittedly like Microsoft enforcing their web monopoly by making Internet Explorer the default browser back in the day, but I think it is different in crucial ways and I think E2EE is a worthy and necessary goal.
Trader Joes is like Costco and is known for driving hard bargains; they likely have a long-term contract. You overpay a bit but guarantee stability.
Application Video for YC120 (2019)
Reminds me of the equivalent you see so often about driving where people slower than you are morons, while those faster than you are crazy.
> "Note that this s1 dataset is distillation. Every example is a thought trace generated by another model, Qwen2.5"

The traces are generated by Gemini Flash Thinking.

8 hours of H100 is probably more like $24 if you want any kind of reliability, rather than $6.
Well I certainly don't know enough about chicken farming to argue with you about it from any position of authority, and I haven't talked personally to any farmers about it yet.

Regardless, we have continued to see the availability of all the usual local eggs with very little fluctuation in price. Perhaps they have all been lucky.
True. It's really a matter of maximizing profit when measured between quarter. Resiliency isn't a factor in that equation.
Some important points that this article glosses over.

The FAA Academy where all flight controllers are trained is way over-subscribed. Recruiting policies aside, I can find no evidence that the FAA wasn't training as many controllers as it could through its academy. This fact remained true through the Trump 1 administration into the Biden admin, except for COVID. The pandemic was understandably a huge disruption, as were government shutdowns.

We can know this from the FAA Controller Staffing reports from 2019 (Trump 1 before the pandemic but after Obama) and 2024 (Biden). The 2024 report has been scrubbed from the FAA website when I last checked, but is available through the wayback machine:

2019: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/controller_staf...

2024: https://web.archive.org/web/20241225184848/https://www.faa.g...

There appears to be no urgency in Trump 1 about this issue in the report. Things changed in 2023 when an external safety report revealed the staffing problem and suggested improvements.

https://www.faa.gov/NAS_safety_review_team_report.pdf

As a result, hiring almost doubled between 2010 and 2024, with 1800 controllers hired in the last year. More importantly, the FAA followed the report recommendation to use CTI schools as additional academies:

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2024/10/amid-hiring-surge-...

It seems like the Biden administration took real action to address a problem that had been unfortunately present and unacknowledged for many years.

See a chatgpt analysis comparing the two reports here: https://chatgpt.com/share/679eb87f-c4fc-800a-a883-3b7f79e06d...
I just bookmark subreddits for things I'm interested in, and visit them individually. I hardly ever see any political content doing that.
> Having voting rights kind of goes against the point of tracking an index though.

Not sure I follow how voting rights goes against the point of tracking an index? I'd say the value of the index implicitly prices in the value of the voting rights in the constituents. So if your index does not contain the voting rights, should the index price not be different?

> And for funds that use synthetic replication there is nothing to vote on in the first place.

There are all kinds of funds, of course when it's 100% synthetic then so be it. But if it holds a representitive sample of Russell 3000, then those votes count.
Trans women are real women.