skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not excited, because HTML is not a great UI framework at all.

It just happens to be the most widespread by accident, because hyperlinked documents - HTML - became huge and then more and more UI elements were bolted on top of it. And suddenly it became the goto, because the plattform run everywhere.

But it is still a ugly mess underneath and you might be right, that it is the future, but it is not a great one. I hope a great one will surface one day and then we can start new with something sane.

"I'm excited for the new crop of browser engines because they could fix those deficiencies"

And I cannot see what fixing those deficiencies could mean other, than throwing most of the standard away. It doesn't mean all of it needs to be thrown away. WebAudio API, WebGPU, etc. all became great standards. But simple UI elements, like a slider or color picker are still just ugly and impossible to make beautiful and behave sane, besides making a new one by hand, or using a libary from someone who did that. But - with WebGPU especially - I am excited for the possibility to build a sane framework on top of some subsets of the browsers capabilities.
How much is this saying when just a couple decades ago a 9 year old could imagine that a broomstick was a sword and that they were fighting knights on the battlefield?

A child can fill in tons of gaps with their animation (see: Rugrats). We're talking about "is AI good enough to enable a 100% non-technical user able to create software on the fly without the non-technical user losing patience?" This is the discussion.
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Unfortunately a bicyclist on the road will be exposed to far more tire microplastics than drivers in their enclosed cabins with filtered and recirculated air.
Ya and every anti-DEI argument really boils down to it's not fair that a better candidate who isn't white got hired over me.
So what "trolling" are you referring to?
I've forgotten so much of that, but I'll go to my grave remembering that

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writes "A" to the screen.
Main discussion (114 comments) from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42930974
With a pretrained LLM most of the work is done. RL just steers the model into a 'thinking' mode. There is enough signal for that to work and for the inefficiency to not matter.

The downside is that you are limiting the model to think in the same language it outputs. An argument could be made that this is not how all humans think. I know that I rarely think in language or even images, just concepts (probably isn't even the right word) mix and transform and often I don't even bother to make the transformation to language at the end, just action.
Living in Poland ruled by trumpists for 8 years I have these experiences:

- Get subscription of high value newspaper or magazine. Professionals work there, so you will get real facts, worthy opinions and less emotions.

- It is better to not use social media. You never know if you are discussing with normal person, a political party troll, or Russian troll.

- It is not worth discussing with „switched-on” people. They are getting high doses of emotional content, they are made to feel like victims, facts does not matter at all. Political beliefs are intermingled with religious beliefs.

- emotional content is being treated with higher priority by brain, so it is better to stay away from it, or it will ruin your evening.

- people are getting addicted to emotions and victimization, so after public broadcaster has been freed from it, around 5% people switched to private tv station to get their daily doses.

- social media feels like a new kind of virus, we all need to get sick and develop some immunity to it.

- in the end, there are more reasonable people, but democracies needs to develop better constitutional/law systems, with very short feedback loop. It is very important to have fast reaction on breaking the law by ruling regime.
> It's not about favoring anyone despite qualifications and never has been.

> DEI is not "reverse racism" as so many want to put it

I have been in the room where HR/hiring managers have explicitly stated that they want to hire [specific race/gender] for an open role. This has been at major companies. In states where this is explicitly illegal.

In the very high level abstract, the goal of DEI programs may not be to engage in explicitly illegal race/sex discrimination, but in practice, this is how it often turns out.

I will let others give their own anecdotes, as cases like this are widespread.
But how does one get the composability of multiple dispatch? A problem with the Python world IME is the need to reinvent everything in Jax ecosystem, in the Pytorch ecosystem, etc -- because of fundamental language limitations. This is tedious, and feels like a lot of wasted effort.

Another example: It's frustrating that Flax had to implement it's own "lifted" transformations instead of being able to just use jax transformations -- which makes it impossible to just slot a Flax model into a jax library that integrates ODEs. Equinox might be better on this front, but that means that all the models now need to be re-implemented in Equinox. The fragmentation and churn in the Python ecosystem is outrageous -- the only reason it doesn't collapse under its own weight is how much funding and manpower ML stakeholders are able to pour into the ecosystem.

Given how much the ecosystem depends on that sponsored effort, the popular frameworks will likely prioritize ML applications, and corollary use cases will be second class citizens in case of design tradeoffs. Eg: framework overheads matter less when one is trying to use large NN models -vs- when one is trying to use small models, or other parametric approaches.
> Can anyone speak on how it is to move from an older assembly, to a modern CPU?

The modern CPU with orthogonal instruction set is just as easy (possibly easier because you have more and larger registers, making it easier to get ‘real’ results) until you start to look at performance.

Then, you hit the problem of having to understand how your target CPU does out-of-order execution, how large its caches are, how they are organized, etc.

Modern CPUs out there that have very little of that exist, though.
I could probably be a pretty damn good cook, perhaps even a sous chef. But there is so so much I want to do that is not cooking. Is it really so difficult for CEOs and devrels of AI companies to imagine that some people don't want to spend their time making software, even if it is accessible?
IBM executives are on record stating that hiring too many white or Asian men will cause hiring managers to lose bonuses.

I have on good authority the same was true at Microsoft. They also required candidates who identify as non-diverse have their applications sorted behind some minimum number of diverse applicants.

Finally, from the article in this post:

> Google’s commitments for 2025 had included increasing the number of people from underrepresented groups in leadership by 30% and more than doubling the number of Black workers at non-senior levels.

It is not possible to set race or gender based targets without discriminating against the groups that aren't in those targets.

These practices are all forms of discriminating on the basis of race and or sex, i.e. they are racist and sexist. This is how DEI has manifested. It is a fringe ideology and it actively harms the goal of a truly egalitarian society. You cannot solve racism with more racism.
Ya maybe cause you refused to fill out a form that everyone else could fill out just fine. They probably thought you couldn't follow instructions and thought if they can't do this why would we proceed? You ever consider that?
Idea sounds great but the realisation sounds like "I will make peace! Let the bloodshed begin"
Yeah, we learned that trick from Biden. But when Biden does it then there's no problem with it.
Is it me, or the affiliations are totally missing in the cited paper?? Looks like they come from a mix of UK / US institutions
For context, this is presumably the Tobin who caused significant tangible damage to the Pale Moon project on his way out.

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=28265
I’m willing to be further educated, but before agriculture was prominent we really had not many other options aside from seafood (which for the record I consume in similar amounts to red meat). A majority of non farmed or cross-bred vegetables and plants in the wild would have been toxic as they are today (try eat anything in a random forest that looks like lettuce - you won’t have a good time), and modern day fruits look nothing like they used to. Carbohydrates would have been far less dense in fruits and more fibrous. The carb exception being honey which is essentially pure sugar, but I don’t know the percentage of early humans that would have consumed it or how often. I see the example of the inuits and hunter gatherer tribes of Australia being key examples of low carb, high fat and protein civilisations which I would say would have been the norm up until around 25,000 years ago.
> Do you see this rather simple point now?

There's no need to talk to me in this way, either.

Whether or not you're right, you're not doing your arguments any favor by being mean to other commenters with no reason.
And how are they breaking that?
Hold on, in the Rust example, how does `err_on_truncation` get set? TFA completely ignored that there's a setting somewhere (probably incorrectly defaulting to false)
That's a great example of a DEI-inspired policy that should be, at least in most cases, pretty non-controversial, and very beneficial to the company itself.

I think there are also some other types of policies (whether formal or informal) that were much more controversial. For example: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/lawsuit-claims-google-...
> I live a 5-minute bike ride away from the Delft Technopolis, and 20 minutes by train to Leiden's Bio Science Park.

Where you live is comparable to somewhere like Raleigh and not comparable at all to NYC/SF.

There is a saying that Europe is better if you are poor and the US is better if you are rich or middle class. I think that is broadly speaking true.

Of course European countries don't allow poor Americans to migrate so the only people who would be better off aren't allowed to move.
Well, we don't know what else happened in his life (at least I don't) and we all seem to agree that assholes demanding things and even use threats are a problem and not an easy to solve one.
ARM borrowed most of its design from 6502. So if you learn 6502, you've learned many of the tricky parts of ARM (such as how the carry flag works with subtraction).

Many of the instructions have similar mnemonics, such as the conditional branch instructions (BEQ, BNE, BCC, BCS, BMI, BPL, BVS, BVC), as well as the arithmetic instructions like ADC, SBC, EOR.
I'm still using Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25 on my desktop.

The internet is so much better like this! There is a 2010 lightweight mobile version of Google, and m.youtube with obviously cleaner and better UI and not a single ad (apparently it's not worth to show you ads if you still appear to be using iphone 6)
> involves shutting that down and promoting global stability

Hungry, shelterless people desperate for medicine are not good for global stability. There are about 100 million refugees on the planet.
And I suppose for advertiser's it was buying a pig in a poke, you never quite knew how many views you would get. With streaming it must be a much better metric.
> I am certain of my decision to resign and my choice to resign is fully voluntary. I understand my employing agency will likely make adjustments in response to my resignation including moving, eliminating, consolidating, reassigning my position and tasks, reducing my official duties, and/or placing me on paid administrative leave until my resignation date.

From https://www.opm.gov/fork/

That is what resigners agree to. There is no guarantee of leave and it is up to their agency, not OPM. The FAQ has previously contained information contradicting the OPM Fork letter so it's not surprising the two pages disagree still.

It's not a buyout because it is not a lump sum severance. The payout for annual leave is given to all departing feds (resigning or retiring or RIF'd), it is not unique to this offer.

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/leave-ad...

OPM also says that admin leave authority rests with the agency, not them.
Sure, aid is propaganda. How do you get to regime change?
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FWIW the constitutional amendment to enable a third term for Trump is guaranteed to fail. No matter how it is drafted, even if they do a convention, the ratification still requires 3/4 of state legislatures to vote in favor. And Republicans don't have 38 states. They won't have them even if every single state with split legislature goes full red.
Have you tried giving meditation a try? I have no idea if it helps for OCD, but for me it gives space around all the thoughts that’s floating around in my head. That space gives me a bit more freedom to select which thoughts to listen to.
fait accompli
Did you try other vision models such as ChatGPT and Grok? I'm doing something similar but struggled to find good comparisons in between the vision models in terms OCR and document understanding.
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> It's to point out the earlier argument that the mere presence of a virology lab in a large city should be a point of suspicion.

But we know it's not just "a virology lab", which indeed is not uncommon. It's the world's largest collection of related viruses, and one of only two sites in the world (with UNC) known to have proposed to enhance a sarbecovirus by genetic engineering. That's a much narrower thing.

The comment that you responded to used carelessly broad language, but I did not. So why have you reverted to that?

> Even the most "suspicious" thing about the virus, the furin cleavage site, seems to be something with a natural evolutionary path:

That's one researcher's unfalsifiable speculation, and the unusual coding has also been proposed as evidence of genetic engineering. I think the ability of genomic evidence to resolve that question of origin has been generally overstated by both sides. After DEFUSE it's certainly not evidence against lab origin, though.

The reality is that we don't know. The CIA's updated position is "lab" with "low confidence", and both parts of that seem correct to me. Public opinion has swung further towards lab origin than I would; but after years of smearing anyone who entertained that possibility as a conspiracy theorist and banning their social media accounts, it's no surprise to see a backlash.

Almost all origin theories "blame someone", since the usual alternative to lab origin is trafficking of wildlife known (from SARS-1) to present high risk. So I don't think that bit of amateur psychoanalysis explains much.
It’s seen as rude here in Australia too. It’s not rude because of ego. It’s rude because of status.

If you know someone’s job, you can make a good guess of how much money they make. If that’s the first question you ask someone when you meet them, the assumption is you might only be interested in talking to someone if they’re sufficiently rich or something.

So here it’s polite to leave that question alone until you know them well enough.

Obviously we put all of that aside at conferences and work events. But if you meet people outside of work, it’s uncomfortable to immediately ask about your job.
Why isn't it better to redefine insertBefore of an already inserted element to being state-preserving? If I want to kill state, I can do a remove first.
From article:

X also reported to the investors 2024 adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of about $1.25 billion and annual revenue of $2.7 billion. Investors said that was a better picture than they had expected and that X's finances hit an inflection point a few months before the November election.

In 2021, Twitter reported adjusted Ebitda of about $682 million and about $5 billion in revenue. That was the last full year before Musk took the company private.
> Supremacy clause will likely protect them

Supremacy just covers removal [1]. The body of law being adjudicated doesn't change. And the President can't pardon state offences.

I'm not convinced all these folks will get convicted. But they're almost certainly spending their thirties in court.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_jurisdiction
What makes you believe that just because there is X percent of category 1 in set A it is "unjust" if there is not X percent of category 1 in an unrelated set B?

Also why do you think this principle applies to the categories Women and Blacks, and not for instance people with diabetes, psychopaths and people who like Taylor swift?
> Let's say 50% of the population are men, and 50% of the population are women - do 50% of the women actually want to work in, say, construction? If not,

I think construction is a unique case because men typically have higher muscle mass, which makes physically demanding jobs like construction easier. You're less likely to apply for a job if you think you're not physically able to match the work of your peers.

I think a good example is game development. Why are most developers (coding side) men? I'd argue that it's partially because stereotypes in society push that boys are into games and that happens from a young age.

But I don't think it's up to a company to actively nullify this with diversity hires, instead it requires changes to eduction and society, which would naturally bleed into the company if it's hiring based on merit.

How about rather than spending money on DEI programs you sponsor coding clubs for girls at local schools?
There’s a big difference when someone stresses over minutiae and fails to see the bigger picture or why the overall design might be flawed.
Wanting to have code up to a given standard is a laudable goal but as with everything, it can be taken to such an extreme that people lose sight of the real value being delivered.
Code is not the end goal, except for some people it is.
Trump delegated to Musk to do this. I'm not sure if it's gone beyond his legal powers but the fact that the recently elected president delegated things to his assistant is a weak argument that we have a coup.
Their ethic is to win by any means.
The purpose of shock-and-awe is to change the facts on the ground,
before and institutional guardrails can engage.

It's less fait accompli than humpty-dumpty.
It feels like everyone forgot Reddit's roots as far as its politics are concerned. Namely, the place was Libertarian Central on the internet until 2015 when it got astroturfed basically overnight to swing the other way. I was there to witness it and the whiplash was something fierce.

Reddit has been basically unusable for anything concerning politics since, and nowadays with politics leaking out into every damn sub possible it definitely has a problem.
Why am I getting rickrolled where it's supposed to show a demo of the feature on that page? :)
No?

Edge still looks almost exactly like any other Chromium version?
Does something like this exists for firefox and opensource with local llm (one can dream) ?
Or are llm fitted for this still too resource intensive ?
Even the Zig compiler is built with ReleaseFast for the published binaries.
This goes back to the goals vs systems debate that Scott Adams talks about in one of his books. Over a long period of time, systems improve your life in compound.
Yeah, all this chaos rather shows how flawed the whole American political system is.

If the current administration is able to do all this, imagine what previous administrations have all done without our approval. Only now people are shaken up about it, because the current administration is rigorously changing things. But it doesn't mean that it was better before, it was always corrupt, now the corruption just becomes more obvious to us.
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This is great advice, thanks for this! Whenever I've been in a stressful work situation using this approach has always led to better outcomes.
The English speaking world outside of the US is left of Democrats and generally hates Trump, and not everyone on Reddit is USAmerican. Reddit is going to be left of the US and also not representative of the US.
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The difference is the kind of hallucinations you get.

Traditional OCR is more likely to skip characters, or replace them with similar -looking ones, so you often get AL or A1 instead of AI for example. In other words, traditional spelling mistakes.
LLMs can do anything from hallucinating new paragraphs to slightly changing the meaning of a sentence. The text is still grammatically correct, it makes sense in the context, except that it's not what the document actually said.

I once gave it a hand-written list of words and their definitions and asked it to turn that into flashcards (a json array with "word" and "definition"). Traditional OCR struggled with this text, the results were extremely low-quality, badly formatted but still somewhat understandable. The few LLMs I've tried either straight up refused to do it, or gave me the correct list of words, but entirely hallucinated the definitions.
Are you sure these high value professionals are fair? I saw this story the other day; don't have much idea about Poland. So verify yourself.

https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/02/03/polish-billionaire-of...
Except with Google you might never get the feature.

Still can't manage Google Workspace Calendar with Google Home, for instance. A feature that's been available for personal accounts for years.
What's weird to me also is that some people ask you directly "how much you make?".
Treasury bonds are non-callable, so a substantial portion of US debt can not be paid back early.
Its my article and I appreciate your feedback! I will write about this.
It technically can get damaged by moisture but it would have to be years in a very humid environment. Realistically not much can happen.
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Hey all, I spent some time digging into GRPO over the weekend and kicked off a bunch of fine-tuning experiments. When I saw there was already an easy to use implementation of GRPO in the trl library, I was off to the races. I broke out my little Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 powered laptop with 16GB of VRAM and quickly started training. Overall I was pretty impressed with it's ability to shape smol models with the reward functions you provide. But my biggest takeaway was how much freaking VRAM you need with different configurations. So I spun up an H100 in the cloud and made table to help save future fine-tuners the pains of OOM errors. Hope you enjoy!
In the past... we'd just eat the eggs, get the flu, spread it about a bit, take a day / week off work, go back to work. You know, normal life. Now we overreact and just cull all the eggs and/or chickens and jack the prices up. It seems kind of weak tbh. You're never going to purify the world and make it perfect. One day someone in the future is going to say, "Ew they ate real food instead of processed food pellets?" unironically.

Then a disease will arrive that will make the entire population vanish because their immune systems never had to interact with anything.