skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The essence of the article is that self-correction exists as a nascent ability in base models already (more robustly in some like Qwen than others). This is highly reminiscent of Chain of Thought, which was found to be a capability already present in base models too. The result of RL is to reinforce already present authentic self-correction patterns and down weight superficial self-correction.

Thoughts:

- An analogy you shouldn't zoom too close into is going from CoT to reasoning traces is like going from purely ballistic trajectories to including navigation and thrusters. RL is for learning how to use the thrusters for adjustments based on its internal encodings of rare samples† where some author fully spelled out their thought process.

- This might also explain why SFT on reasoner traces seems to be surprisingly effective. If it were purely an RL mediated phenomenon, SFT for reasoning would not work nearly as well.

- Deepseek struggled to get RL to work on smaller models, if this is replicated, it might be the case that larger models encode self-correction patterns more robustly while having them as more probable.

- Imitating traces is easier than pure RL for bringing such patterns to the fore, for smaller models. However, we still want models to learn how to dynamically adjust their thrusters, SFT does not provide ample opportunity for this. Further training with RL or alternatively, replacing SFT with methods like [Critique Fine-Tuning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17703) are needed.

- The article incidentally reinforces that having a low temperature means consistency not correctness. Except for high confidence scenarios, the highest greedily computed probability answer is generally less likely to be among the best ones the model can give.

†Question: First thought is blogs by people who discuss what didn't work. But, I wonder how much of reasoning model patterns and ability is shaped by Detective Conan transcripts?
> If you sincerely want to move within an organization, you should ... ideally mentored a replacement for yourself

This just isn't feasible in a lot of orgs. There often isn't the budget allocated to hire a suitably-levelled replacement until the senior-most IC announces they are leaving.

Should you be making sure your junior engineers are equipped to handle the day-to-day? Yes.

Should you be putting them in the line-of-fire with the VPs? Probably not.
From what I've heard, it was more of a version information disposal system.
People may not be amoral, but corporate structures often incentivize behavior that prioritizes profit over morality
Google doesn't differentiate between any activity linked to the same account, and it's a viral thing so that "bad behaviour" by even vaguely associated accounts will "tar and feather" everything associated.

An example that came up was someone's GCP being wiped out because he was engaged in "ad theft". The guy had a personal video channel where he was uploading videos and then checking them for quality. Because he was a significant percentage of the viewer count, his account was flagged as "faking views to get ad revenue" and his online presence was nuked by Google. Email, VMs, YouTube channel, everything.
> where women don't focus on what's on a man's head

You can't pick what is attractive. Attraction is not decided by rational thinking, therefore it is pointless to tell women what they should find attractive. Just as it won't work to tell a man that he should find the personality, not the looks of a woman, to be attractive.
I'm actually surprised we haven't heard anything on HN from USDS employees - I'm pretty sure some of them are HN members/readers...

It must be truly chaotic atm with everything from dept. renames/new mgmt to time limited 'buy out' offers...
if the IC is actually discussing their promo case with a VP, as the OP suggests, then there aren't a whole lot of skip-levels in this scenario...
Thankfully there will be copies made in India and China for a tenth of the price.
This is why I predominantly use CLI tools where it makes sense. Two CLI tools are more alike than two AI tools, theh tend to respect the user and their intelligence more, there is no sign in, it works together with other software and it will work for decades.

I'd love if GUI applications were similarly stringent or even had the goal of creating an ecosystem, but they don't, they are competing against each others trying to grasp user attention, bending them to their wills, locking them in. Not all of them of course, but the mental overhead with CLI is much smaller.
I would say that the evidence on red and processed meat and CVD and CRC is at least a “B”, so we’re meeting your goalposts here.

When we look at the totality of the evidence via meta analysis, we see effect sizes in the 10-20% range for IHD. If 20% change in one of the leading killers in the western world is “small” to you then fair enough, but I’d suspect that’s a fairly proprietary use of the word that wouldn’t accord with what most people mean when they use it.

I’m not sure what variables you think are uncontrolled in these studies, you’ll have to be specific about which uncontrolled variables you think are having an effect.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2021.1...
Not less efficient, useless.
Imagine instead of directly powering the car by combustion engine, you first use a combustion engine to generate electricity to fill the battery.

How would the car benefit the environment?
We can reverse the question and rather wonder why outside creatures waste so much of light getting on us
I think by the time it's commercially ready (if ever), the battery landscape could look very different
There are already many actions to correct pilots. But human efforts are never perfect and we don't expect them to be, for both the pilots and the air traffic controllers. Which is why they're designed to backstop one another, and why compromising either one of them increases the probability of a collision.
You know… I'm grateful that they moved quickly and decisively to bridge businesses through that time. We'd all be worse off without this having happened. I'm willing to accept a certain amount of waste for the importance of speed.
So you trade your health for more pollution for others.
That's "negotiate with terrorists" logic. I'm not going to pretend to take some company's bullshit seriously because they implicitly threaten to fire their employees at random if I don't.

(I do advocate for laws against arbitrary firings and encourage employees to unionise and/or move to jurisdictions with strong labour laws).
> I need you to understand that people don't have conversations where they randomly recommend operating systems to one another

Maybe you are in the wrong crowd, but the crowd that does do recommendations on operating systems it is rarely windows that is recommended
The real challenge is finding a chemistry that balances density, stability and sustainability without major compromises
Wh not transition out?, sure fire way to promo on switch (i mean to the next corp)
I got into interaction design and UX design because so much of it was so bad. At some point along the way it seems we got too good at it. Many of the points in this article frankly makes me feel somewhat embarrassed to describe myself as a UX designer. Maybe I should start to think of myself as a… personal computing designer? small software designer? dignity designer? (No, surely designing ”dignity” is somehow an even worse pretense than designing ”experience”.)
Absolutely! Battery advancements seem to be the bottleneck for so many emerging technologies
I think there's some hidden life lesson here: the same chemical process can be beneficial in one scenario and a hindrance in another
https://archive.is/3Pp0U

(Although I was able to access the article in full on the original URL)
One thing I have noticed is that local businesses don't have websites any more, they have Facebook pages instead. So if you want to find out about local events, Facebook is the only way.
My understanding is that power plants have scrubbers that reduce their environmental impact more than tailpipes. Also, power plants tend to be located in places that are not as heavily populated as neighborhood streets.
Rather than break the security promises it made to its users everywhere, Apple is likely to stop offering encrypted storage in the U.K., the people said. Yet that concession would not fulfill the U.K. demand for backdoor access to the service in other countries, including the United States.
Next, paid answer by real human.
They're more likely to claim the agency knowingly gave $100 million worth of paperclips to the Taliban as part of a Marxist plot.*

If you're going to make stuff up, why not go big and viral.

* And yes, if you're not keeping up with the news cycle this is a thing that really happened, just with condoms not paperclips.
Unfortunately immediately undermined by the decision to not address nullability out of the gate. It's fantastic that null pointer exceptions are well-defined on the JVM - but they still tend to bring your program to a screaming halt.
> The Model 3 came out in 2017, which was a while back. The Model S did get a mid-cycle refresh.

The Model 3 got a refresh last year

> Tesla is behind in batteries. They can now make round lithium-ion cells, the previous generation of technology. The current generation is more like BYD's "blade" battery, packaged up in rectangular modules.

Tesla uses other people’s (usually Panasonic[1]) batteries, they manufacture them, but don’t develop them on their own. In China and Europe, they even use BYD’s blade batteries.[2]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/panaso...

[2] https://carnewschina.com/2023/05/22/first-tesla-model-y-with...
That’s right. On our standard self-service plans we automatically charge a better rate as volume increases. You only pay the difference between tiers as you move through them.

It’s rare that anyone makes that kind of mistake. It probably helps that our rate limits are relatively low compared to other APIs and we email you when you get close to stepping up a tier. If you did make such a mistake we would, like all good dev tools, work with you to resolve. If it happened a lot we might introduce some additional controls.

We’ve been in this business for over 12 years and currently have over 700 customers so we’re fairly confident we have the balance right.
They can hold a surprisingly big amount of cargo if you pack things right. Here in Spain they're definitely used for weekly hauls of groceries, although it might be pushing it if have more than two kids.
Presumably the US government will have no compunction in using this to view US citizens private materials under UK government access rights, irrespective of US privacy law.
Haha, right, I was like “wow that site still exists?” when I read that and then I remembered I had it blocked on Kagi.
When you’re a professional procrastinator, you get used to the background hum of anxiety in your mind - it becomes little more relevant than a buzzing fluorescent tube over the kitchen table. An annoyance, but not something you particularly feel the need to do anything about.

Generally this arises because you’ve procrastinated on so many matters that resolving any one of them simply won’t make a difference, and you know that resolving all of them is an impossibility, particularly those where the deadline has been, gone, had children, and moved to the country in its senescence to spend more time in nature.
I've never met anyone who's used Quora, nor have I seen it mentioned or linked to anywhere except inserting itself here and there into search results. Who is using Quora?
> a somewhat broken async situation

Isn't Rusts's async situation "somewhat broken" in the exact same way the C++'s async situation is?
>I've seen what a week's worth of groceries looks like for four people

>short of a rickshaw you ain't getting all of that on a bicycle with or without panniers

Four Americans, maybe.
Software Engineering is difficult to verify because it requires dealing with ambiguous understanding of the end-user actual needs / value and subtle trade-offs about code maintainability vs feature coverage vs computational performance.

Algorithmic puzzles, on the other hand, both require reasoning and are easy to verify.

There are other things in coding that are both useful and easy to verify: checking that the generated code follows formatting standards or generating outputs with a specific data schema and so on.
My best friend tadalafil got you covered:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16839328/

Daily tadalafil reduces estrogen by 16.5 percent.

Finasteride increases it by about 15%.

That should cancel itself out + increases libido.

IMHO a finasteride 1mg and tadalafil 5mg combination pill should be offered, as it would mostly eliminate libido and breast growth side effects.
since the invention of llms it's not that much of a deal that search engines are useless
Definitely. The speed Rails gives you is very valuable especially when building a new product. And it’s fun. And way less boilerplate code.

You may want to watch a talk about Rails and startups: https://youtu.be/-sFYiyFQMU8
I doubt you can find a single Clojure-is-not-Lisp person who denies that McCarthy's LISP 1 and 1.5, MacLisp, BBN Lisp, Interlisp, Lisp Machine Lisp, ZetaLisp, Portable Standard Lisp, Emacs Lisp, XLisp, VAX Lisp, ISLisp, EuLisp and even AutoLISP ... are Lisp.

I made a Lisp. It's not Common Lisp, yet I've never had anyone tell me it's not Lisp.

I believe Clojure is better than AutoLISP.

I wouldn't use McCarthy's LISP 1.5 for anything; it mainly of historic interest. But it is undeniably Lisp.

"Lisp or not" is not the same thing as "good or not". It's more like "different or not". Difference is what makes certain words apply to some things and not apply to some other things.

This is not some gender issue of inclusivity, like what is a woman. It has nothing to do with being nice or not. It's a technical matter of using the correct term for the things to which it applies.
Not sure about "security implications", but a mining site writes "Greenland is considered one of the last frontiers for exploration by mining experts."[1]
There's oil, and some companies drilling, various gemstones, and iron.

[1] https://www.azomining.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=59
That's the way it's supposed to work, yes. But it requires you to get the courts to agree and the executive to enforce. Which isn't a given anymore.
Yes cyborg. The more you unite with the machine, the more you will be used like one. There are no free rides. No calculating or politicking your way out of the metaphysical toll.
Please, do take the US "talent" away. Most of real world progress and wealth creation comes from engineering style tinkering and copycatting, and not from pure academic style science research. But the latter gets all the hype, media coverage and the Noble prizes. This system of glorified scientific research is a vestige of anti-communist, anti-Soviet era, which is no longer useful, if it ever were.

The smart thing is to outsource pure science research where it's the cheapest, but commercialize it where it's most profitable - that's what China is doing and doing it very well too.
> Having a high IQ is kinda hard to verify directly.

No it isn't. You literally just give them an IQ test. That costs at most 2 hours and maybe $150 at most.

Ironically, having a high IQ is a much more easily verifiable claim than any of the other claims on your list ("pleasant to work with", "practical" etc)
Probably these guidelines are related:

> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
With search engine results polluted with "AI slop" (often long-winded and useless articles, not answering the questions; a relatively advanced SEO spam), I notice that Stack Exchange websites are among the good ones now: if there are answers, they tend to be decent. It is disappointing to see it heading that way, though commercial projects tend to fall into something like that (if not slop, then ads, feature creep, UI bloat/annoyances/captchas, "enterprise" and any hyped stuff, paywalls). SE had its issues before as well, but even if it will become unusable, there is a potential for better Q&A places in the future, maybe federated ones. A quick search did not reveal any projects like that though.
Too many developers learn this the hard way.

It’s one of the top reasons larger organisations prefer to use hosted services rather than doing it themselves.
How much was it if you don't mind answering?
I tend to rely on old traditional methods and recently came across this dissection which opened up my interpretation of the whole dreaming process (a way in which we are "renewed"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz4SRe-PH7A
I'm not sure "craven" is the right word, but it's definitely something.

> These executive orders (and what "DEIA" exactly means or constitutes, legally speaking) have not been litigated or clarified yet.

All of these DEI efforts were and are blatantly illegal. They were just never litigated for long enough that everyone was comfortable with doing them openly. The point of the executive orders isn't necessarily the orders themselves, but a clear signal the new administration will litigate these efforts that have always been illegal.

So many of these companies are backing away from the efforts and hoping that show of goodwill will ameliorate their potential upcoming legal risk. If they play ball, the new administration might accept the peace offering and not go full legal scorched earth.
On my off hours, I’ve been working through volumes 4A and 4B. They are really wonderful, I highly recommend them. They’re not practical for the vast majority of programmers, but the way he designs and writes about algorithms is remarkable, truly unique. The Dancing Links implementation in 4B in particular (updated significantly from his famous paper) is like a work of art, it’s such an intricate and gorgeous data structure, and blazing fast as well. Man still got it, in his 80s.
AlphaBeta Directory
Based on practical experience, NPS is garbage because:

1) Even with stable mean and median, NPS tends to vary month over month, at least for my B2B settings where samples are probably much smaller than for B2C. Then, management goes nuts because of very subtle shifts in the distribution caused by NPS' arbitrary aggregation into promoters, neutrals, detractors. Of course, often investors are married to NPS, so educating management does not solve the problem.

2) NPS varies unreasonably across cultures. We used to say, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, that NPS is a US-centric metric, where things are either amazing or awful (with little space in between). E.g., in northern/central Europe, an 8 can be pretty amazing.
It also shows that zero dollars has been outlaid for the grant over the last 5 months. It's entirely possible that none of the money would have been used by the expiration of the grant.

That said, I wish these were required to be a lot more verbose. I can envision a program with that description I would totally approve of, and I can imagine programs with that description that I wouldn't think are useful. Being more transparent around the programs would help in cases where wild unsubstantiated claims are made.
That's the way it's supposed to work. But it requires both the courts to say so, and the executive to follow along.
Well, the top US engineering colleges which they're hiring from also has an under-representation of whites and this is due to the Asian disapora being higher from also international students' representation (thus, analyzing diversity metrics is less so relative to the US population and more so for the global population).
Looks great. Similar model to what I was having in mind: open source + premium model with additional features. Is the revenue enough to work on it full time?
Java IDEs can debug third-party code just fine with decompilation. C# IDEs can get the original source code (https://www.jetbrains.com/help/rider/Debugging_External_Code...). Having to build all dependencies would be slower with no significant benefit, especially since the code compiles to bytecode, not native code. Forking is also doable, e.g. with an internal package feed (and you don’t need to integrate your build stuff with theirs).
I couldn't disagree more.

It sounds like you were listening to top 40 stations exclusively.

Gotta check out the good stuff, stations like KBCO in Colorado or any of the more local, music focused stations
How does it "encapsulate" anyone?
If it is too big just zip it and feed chunks of the resulting zipfile to the AI. AI can do anything, right?
> He went on to point out that they had calculated the
amount of memory the application would leak in the total possible flight time
for the missile and then doubled that number.

I half wonder if the calculation cost more than just fixing the code.
Software is so abysmal that when I find a good product I scream it from the heavens. For example I've moved multiple teams off whatever ticketing system they were using and moved them to Linear.app which was extremely painless and paid dividends.
Laughable whine from delusional faux car-haters.
What does IC mean, besides Integrated Circuit?
Ask HN: Any "complete" books about developing CAD/CAM software/3D editors?
I am looking for literature describing concepts and implementations of computer aided design and generic 3D modeling. I have no idea about literature in this field. Does any "fundamental books" presenting more or less coherent analysis of this subjects exist? I'm also interested in ancient and highly theoretical publications.
so we all become PM's, got it.
Do not blame the pendulum for swinging back. Blame the person who pushed the pendulum in the first place.
Honestly a shame it has to come to this. Sure, people elected this administration and I guess with that comes with a bunch things I disagree with. But the removal of years of scientific research and data from the web (paid for by citizens with their taxes) is absolutely unacceptable. Ravaging CDC data, climate data, etc is horrendous and unforgivable.
Yeah, it's probably a fishing expedition to uncover some "scandal": https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/the-twitter-files-playbo...
Unfortunately, a simple normalization of kanji --> hiragana throws away pronunciation information.
I understand that the ability to place stuff "into" a TKey would be needed to support discoverable WebAuthn credentials ("passkeys"). But would it also be needed for non-discoverable credentials?
UX can be used and abused. The biggest sin is that instead of thinking about the big picture of someone sitting at their computer and trying to do a thing that requires multiple programs to work together, bad UX designers assume they start from scratch without any existing environment and have only to anseer to their own project.

Imagine if something like Command line pipes would exist for GUI applications and then ask yourself why it does not (the closest thing might be copy/paste).

If you as an UX designer try to empower your users and do that in a way that does not break all existing convention without a good reason, you will be fine.

A industrial designer can design medical injection systems for drug cartels with the goal of catching more sheep or for a medical non-profit with the goal of making actual medical help cheaper — design is not the problem, the business interest it might be used for is.

Designers aren't always in the position to make their decisions freely, but you can put your weight behind the right side and everybody in here will appreciate you for doing so.
DeepSeek's Breakthrough: Model Innovations That Slash Training Costs