skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The french get yet another thing right.

For use as communication in public, is the only thing I like about SMS...
Really looking forward what all that GPU compute is going to do for non AI stuff once it quiets down a little.
I love this approach. It feels far more like brand and messaging tuning and less like search engine algorithm hacking.
Electric kettles mostly aren’t popular because of a perceived lack of need.

Most Americans don’t drink tea and most coffeemakers heat water themselves. For most other applications using a pot on a stove is not a deal breaker.
Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock from Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein
If you're in a country that uses type-G plugs, almost* all of those extension cords have fuses that break well below the current that will cause a problem.

* Currently using a cable spool which will have problems before blowing the fuse if it's wound up and I draw too much current. It has a thermal cutoff, but I still unspool some extra wire on the floor.
I wonder if this is true for all cohorts. There are a lot of children who are just fundamentally not intelligent, and deal with math classes by basically memorizing things and repeating them without real understanding. But for children who are understanding what they’re learning, I would expect academic learning to translate to other things.
60 is the easier one, in that you can divide it by 3/4/6/12 and have an integer frequency. Probably the reason why a lot of Babylonian math used base 60, which is where our time and angle measurements come from.
> the "facebook suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop" conspiracy theory

Didn't that one turn out to be true?[0]

[0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/zuckerberg-admits-fa...
I am aware. Doesn't mean it's not an option, or even a bad idea. Or maybe there is a third option; I don't know.

By the way: I don't agree with Hellwig, insofar I can judge things, I'm just saying his opinion is valid, and that "Linus agreed on Rust, so therefore we can merge this patch" is not really a valid argument.
> Some of us don’t agree with the rampant waste in our government.

Sure, there's waste as in any large organization, and streamlining is great. But to say that all US foreign aid is "rampant waste" and USAID should be shut down? Because it's not being shut down because it was "wasteful" but because it's full of "radical leftists" (supposedly).

None of the purges at any of these agencies so far have had anything to go with "government waste". They are based on ideology.

Come on, open your eyes -- they're being pretty open about what this is about.
A friend of a friend took MDMA + Ketamine every weekend. K-hole doses. Developed monday-blues which turned into a sort of servere depression as he pressed on. It took a year of abstinence before he felt “normal” again.

Drugs that affect the serotonine system can do this. Burnout from (repeated) overload sort of situation IIUC.

I’m no doctor, but I suspect it’s extra dangerous if you’re already suffering depression.

I couldn’t read the whole note. What a tragedy :'(
Many things developers wanted to help users are made impossible by MV3. That’s bad for the users.
This is really, really cool and thanks for making it!!

We must think at least somewhat similarly, last few times I was apartment hunting I did the same, though I never polished it up like this (more plugging numbers into a spreadsheet).

Honestly the biggest thing this does for me is validate that the data APIs must exist for what I'd really want, which is write something to make much larger and more complex "programmatic" maps -- the list of places being generated by a more complex sequence of steps for instance, and the combining function for different criteria including nonlinearities.

Curious how you're computing the walking distances, I'm guessing this is combining some off the shelf API for it with another for the points of interest? Though it would be badass if you did it from scratch starting from just OSM. ;)
I'm in the "failure" camp, because the true correctness of an answer comes from how it was reached. [0]

The correct (or at least humanly-expected) process would be to identify the presence of mangled word, determine what its missing suffixes could have been, and if some candidate is a clear contextual winner (e.g. "fried chicken" not "dried chicken") use that.

However I wouldn't be surprised if the LLM is doing something like "The OCR data is X. Repeat to me what the OCR data is." That same process could also corrupt things, because it's a license to rewrite anything to look more like its training data.

[0] If that's not true, then it means I must have a supernatural ability to see into the future and correctly determine the result of a coin toss in advance. Sure, the power only works 50% of the time, but you should still worship me for being a major leap in human development. :p
Operation Denver
As of November 27, 2024:

> We are working on making the functionality available for organizations that were incorporated less than 3 years ago. We don't have an ETA yet to share.

From your link at [2]
All those "forks" are dependent on regularly rebasing their patch sets on top of mainline (or they never get updated and lose what semblance of support they had once the SoC they were made for reaches EoL), so they're pretty much irrelevant to this conversation. We have seen no indication that it's feasible for anyone to hard-fork the kernel and continue development in a way that's independent from what we today call "mainline".
In the article, it references a paper from July 2024, weird...
> DoD leadership has been captured by the defense industry

That explains why you wouldn’t start there. Assuming what DOGE is doing can work at all, it’s easier to start in an easier place.
That'll obtain the right average but won't have the same pairwise relations as an independent, unbiased coin.

That's probably easiest to see if you imagine approaching an infinitely biased coin (100% heads, 0% tails). Your strategy alternates between 0 and 1 almost always. The listed strategy throws away most flips but gives actualy unbiased results when a pair does pass.

Another way to look at it is from an entropy perspective. An unbiased, independent coin flip has 1 bit of entropy. A biased coin with, e.g., 99% heads has 0.0807 bits of entropy. On average, you need at least 12.377 such flips to emulate an unbiased, independent flip. Any strategy without some sort of rejection/continuation/... (like your proposal) is doomed to fail.

I haven't checked if their proposal is actually optimal. Empirically, it's suggestive of having room for improvement. I'm seeing something like 101 flips on average instead of 12.377 for that 99% bias example.
Take a look at these results:

https://youtu.be/rZ7QQWKP8Rk?t=2054

Watch until the next slide - it shows a comparison of a port of a very fast C++ sorting algorithm to Rust. Rust is faster due to algorithmic changes. Ignoring those they are very similar speeds; certainly not an issue.
We are aware of the problems the US has. But the question "Why would anyone in a democracy accept" is easily answered, and as such I did.

As for the statements on encroachment or protections: this is about public data, not about private data or secrets.

The argument made in court is about research facilities due to the outsized impact X can make. You want to play in someone else's country, you'll have to follow their rules. This works the other way around as well, if a German company were to host their data in the US, they would have to accept that the government can snoop on that data whenever they want since the US does not protect German citizens. (and as such, privacy laws in Germany and in the EU since around 1995 do not allow private data to be transferred by default)

Something more countries might want to do is protect citizens from large corporations. They are not your friends.
https://postimg.cc/7bQbB7gB
If the change was _technical_ (streamline systems for greater efficiency) I would be supporting it.

But it's clear the change is _ideological_. And even if you think that one ideology is better than the other, ideological purges of civil servants (who may hold personal political views but whose offices are apolitical and usually there for decades regardless of the party in power), are very dangerous -- just two steps away from fascism.
I think the issue is that the font used by the author does not support fraction pixel sizing. I changed the body font size from 1.2em (16.8px) to 16px and the issues are gone. I'm curious too as for why it happened. I'm guessing the font was originally designed for Japanese, not Latin. See: https://fontmeme.com/fonts/m-plus-rounded-1c-font/
I've had limited but good experience (with both English and French text) with Tesseract, then getting ChatGPT to fix problems with clever prompting (e.g., pretend you are an expert OCR corrector, blah blah, blah).
honestly, having my head in the sand has been keeping me sane… but I acknowledge the coup. Just not sure what I can do, beyond that. Our country has been genocidal since its founding. So, not to be too cynical here, but, same shit, different day, I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8mJr4c66bs
You might enjoy the experimental editor Lapis.

This Pantograph somewhat reminds me of that lightweight structure editor, though Lapis is able to find regularities on the fly without a need to follow a perfect tree structure, just by finding bottom-up syntax of language elements (mostly HTML and basic data types).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapis_(text_editor)
(Look at the links for an archived download page)
Don't believe me, just research your bill.
It would also kill it for 99% of humans.

My entire extended family has two yubikeys: My key and my spare key.
Interesting, that's inline with Bogle's mission for low (0%) mgmt fees.

I think it probably doesn't apply to other majority holders like BlackRock though.
Optimizing Datalog for the GPU
yup, this is a pretty common occurrence in using LLMs for data extraction. For personal use (trying to load a receipt) it’s great that the LLM filled in info. For production systems which need high quality, near 100% extraction accuracy, inferring results is a failure. Think medical record parsing, financial data, etc These hallucinations occur quite frequently, and we haven’t found a way to minimize this through prompt eng.
That is not it, but was a good read, thanks!
Infrastructure always takes a long time to plan and build out. Even just the permitting for new EV chargers takes time to get.
Is this just a training issue? They just need to train a model specifically for OCR?
could you give some examples of "nice empty words"?
I don't understand how this is related to what I said.
> wonder if r1 or 03 can do it, with the right instructions of course.

for o3-mini-high it's too difficult to write even simple ebt. not many implementations on the web to learn from(?) reasoning isn't strong enough for this. besides what it produced is very inefficient.
I believe these are called contour maps not heatmaps (I might be wrong)
Not really. It's about cutting expenses so that he can pass a large tax cut (primarily benefiting corporations and the wealthy). No one is worried about the deficit anymore.
I was going to mention this as well. This is a link to Kaplan's paper : https://aclanthology.org/J94-3001.pdf which describes the work PARC did.
If you go on the further pages of /active you'll find a lot of flagged posts. An epidemic of flagging by the looks of it.
This is why I'm so bullish on OAuth for sites with logins - you get a strong real user identity to tie the agent's behavior back to. This means you have (some) proof that the agent is helping your end users consume more of your site, and you can also revoke access to agents that misbehave.
Makes perfect sense. Thanks both
fixed the year, good catch
> This is a challenge to untangle. It sounds like you're saying that there is no point trying to regulate, legislate or control what happens in the economy at all. But that sounds bonkers to me.

I really do not appreciate this mischaracterization of my position. Focus on my actual words. I don't care about 'winning' this online argument. I take effort to engage because I am disturbed by the number of intelligent people who believe if only _THEY_ were in charge (or at least the right person), we would be able to fix all of society's problems.

> For starters, there are (and should definitely remain) absolute limits to business activities...

I agree with everything that follows. Government needs to be around to keep the peace. I want to be explicit: When I say "centrally planned/controlled economies" I am NOT talking about the general concept of regulation. If you are debating in good faith, this should be obvious. Look at all the history of failed states who tried to implement top-down control of their economies.

Also, YSK that not all regulators are government entities.

> Thirdly, we must consider what makes one economic system better than others. One way to measure this is to look at how efficiently it converts resources to social utility.

Never before in history has mankind been so prosperous. What system would you like to emulate? The US capitalist system is not perfect (and never will be)...but it blows all of its peers out of the water in terms of economic prosperity. Here's a couple data points: (Please read the technical definitions if you are truly interested in this subject)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...

- https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/rankings_by_count...

> I'm far from convinced that it's efficient to employ our brightest minds to build trading models...

This is where my "closeted dictator" quip comes from. Nobody is "allocating" these minds...they are acting on their own free will. Why should you or anyone else be the arbiter? What if individuals disagree with your beliefs? Space exploration is a great example of a debatable "worthy endeavor"
There was chart about startups wealth distribution: 50% to investors, 40% to founders and 10% to employees. The latter group includes execs that take the lion's share of the pie, leaving rank-and-file employees with breadcrumbs.
would love to give this a shot with pulse! feel free to reach out to me at ritvik [at] trypulse [dot] ai, and i’d be very curious to give these a run! in general, i’m happy to give some general advice on algos/models to fine-tune for this task
Yep, it seems like most founders I've met feel this way -- at least at some point in their journey -- but nobody wants to talk about it because of it.

I think this quote [0] from a similar post by Scott Hanselman really nails it:

> I think the more you know, the more you realize just how much you don't know. So paradoxically, the deeper down the rabbit hole you go, the more you might tend to fixate on the growing collection of unlearned peripheral concepts that you become conscious of along the way.

It echos my experience of 'success' making imposter syndrome worse.

[0]: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/im-a-phony-are-you
https://lamptest.ru tests for flicker too. I don't know if those models are sold in the US, though. Philips, Osram and IKEA should be.
>Do you have specific questions? I really don’t think it is complicated. They’re doing what they say they are doing: instrumenting up the government to see what it is doing, and reorganizing it from the ground up to be more efficient. So far all their actions are in line with this.

I think this is pretty much correct. The media, however, is taking full advantage of creating as much panic as possible.

I am curious though - what do you think about Curtis Yarvin being invited to the Coronation Ball in DC? It's things like that that make these theories spread. Why are they friends with a guy who openly calls for the fall of democracy and even invited him to high-level events?
ChatGPT Deep Research on the Extent of Borges' Library of Babel
I gave Deep Research a very tough prompt inspired by a book I'm writing. I found its response insanely impressive -- the vast majority of people wouldn't know how to begin to approach the matter.

It was a little bit too dismissive of my trick question, or perhaps it was just tired by the time it got to that point. There aren't infinitely many ways to encode John's story. Still, that mistake aside, it did a remarkable job.
Using LLMs to support Firefox developers with code review
With that much power, we’ll be able to reliably predict a hundred thousand years into the future of our societies and shorten the period of barbarism after the fall of the galactic empire.
DOGE follows pattern – and turns attention to Social Security Administration
There are multiple comments that meet the exact definition of sabotage. If this:

"You might not like my answer, but I will do everything I can do to stop this."

is not intent to sabotage (even if it might not be successful as Linus could pull in the patch anyway), then what possibly could be?

Pointing out the ridiculousness of comments like this and suggesting the R4L folks push forward while ignoring them doesn't scream toxicity. Refusing to compromise with the R4L devs and calling the additions a 'cancer' has expectedly caused a stir.
for most (text-dense) documents without much layout differences, these small prompt eng tricks work pretty well! scaling this to complex layouts and 1000+ page docs, we found the models don’t stick to their instructions. perhaps there’s some work to be done with 1M+ context length models so they don’t lose layout memory.
Maybe ask it to return the bounding box of every glyph.
I wonder what the cost of running this website is?
LLMs can easily order more GPUs over the internet, hire people to build a datacenter and reproduce.

Or, more simply.. just hack into a bunch of aws accounts, spin up machines, boom.
I agree each thing is not difficult to replace, but replace all SaaS products that are used might be more challenging. Some data out there from a quick google is saying companies use on average 300+ SaaS products. Not all of them are going to be from US companies, but probably a large amount is, so we're looking at probably over a hundred or 2 of products that need to be replaced with local or EU ones across all companies in Europe. That seems like a lot of work and disruption.
My daughter routinely asks hers to tell jokes.
> Rather than entirely shifting away from existing processes, teams should start to consider incorporating code reviews as a key step in the candidate selection process to identify those with a proficiency to effectively evaluating code.

They should indeed shift to code reviews to test the reasoning ability of the candidate's written code rather than already solved leetcode puzzles which is very easy for candidates to use LLMs to cheat. On last resort, I'd use leetcode but focused on the relevant language that I am looking for. (If I want to see the leetcode problem solved in Golang, I do not want to see you use Python to solve it.)

I would give the candidate a chance to skip the leetcode puzzles if they are able to demonstrate that they have contributed (at least two) to significant open source project(s) in the relevant technology in the job description and show an example code review of those commits.

This gives a public example of a candidate that is able to contribute to very high quality repositories that have been used by millions of developers and isn't afraid of public scrutiny or code reviews by the maintainers. Otherwise, I would give a standard leetcode task (hard) in the relevant language and code-review that in the second interview.

Eliminating 95% of AI frauds in one technical interview.
His mom is representing herself in the suit; no mention whether she is any sort of lawyer.

Instead of liability, I'd say the judge should require that she get some mental health care, then do some community service. The latter perhaps talking to young males who've been caught doing stupid & dangerous stuff, about how that might end badly for them.
I wanted to do this with a city I don't currently live in, but every time I did searches on specific locations it went for the nearest (bad) match to my current geographic location. It'd be nice to generalize it.

I do like that you used OSM rather than Google maps.
It's not a counterpoint. The Feynman excerpt and the paper support each other.

The paper's abstract ends, "These findings highlight the importance of educational curricula that bridge the gap between intuitive and formal maths."
The Feynman excerpt is about the issues caused by a lack of practica in education and how they should be resolved.

The paper's authors wrote, "These findings call for a maths pedagogy that explicitly addresses these translational challenges through curricula that connect abstract maths symbols and concepts to intuitively meaningful contexts and problems." And provide 2 examples of Randomized Control Trials of math courses in Brazil and India respectively that address the challenges successfully.

Even if you remove Feynman's name, it's still interesting that a Theoretical Physics professor and educator wrote clearly about a very similar issue they encountered over 60 years before the paper in question was published.
No, had nothing to do with native dependencies, they are even more rare in Elixir than Java. It’s simply a different choice in the design.

I know that I can step into a source package with the debugger, but editing that source and rebuilding doesn’t compile the change into my build does it? The last step of debugging is fixing the code, its much more convenient to first try this in the same project where you encountered it.
This is so useful! I have wanted a tool like this for years. Thank you for putting in the work and sharing.
Content moderation on text input is how I would assume it would be done, essentially the same way LLMs work now. But to be clear, I am not advocating for it. I’m just asking if they do it.
Same, and I add one even more amorphous criteria, 'not directly next to noise pollution like an airport or highways.'
Look. The general vibe of your comment was "this one cherry picked example was out of context in my opinion so therefore nothing is true", a disingenuous trolling strategy we are all familiar with by now, and you did that in the middle of a larger discussion about the current goings-on with DOGE, to try and cast doubt on the reporting.
yes they usually can! we delved into the mathematics behind this a bit in the blog, but tldr the LLMs are making educated guesses based on the embedding similarities - which can be detrimental for ocr systems.
To be fair, DDIA is a pretty deep book, so if you read it, took something out of it, and read it the second time (!), you probably deserve an offer.
All of the BigTech companies are forcing RTO. Hybrid work is just as bad RTO. Either way I can’t make an above local market wage and live in a low cost of living area.

Anytime any company reaches out to me and if I ask is it fully remote and they say “no” the conversation ends. I almost ended my initial conversation with AWS in 2020 when they reached out to me about an SDE position that would require an eventual relocation until they suggested I interview a ProServe (no longer there),

I’ve since stopped conversations for a similar position at GCP once they said it would be hybrid. Not that I would ever work for a large company again unless I didn’t have a choice.
https://archive.ph/uLiWX
I spend 90 minutes in a meeting with our CEO and two board members and the one guy went on almost the entire time about how amazing OpenAI Operators was and how we should find a way to replace most of our people with it. All because it was able to buy a plane ticket after he give it his login credentials.