skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they figured out how to enforce this effectively, the role of something like OpenAI’s Operator could end up being played by a human much of the time. Then there would be click farms similar to call centers. Presumably an AI could watch as long as humans were clicking, which could make click farms more viable through real time quality control. This would also be a boon for projects like Worldcoin to verify distinct humans. I’m having trouble coming up with a scenario in which this works well.
Transformer – Spreadsheet
It's a horse trading thing. You are less likely to get your bill passed if it will impact small businesses. think less about SV startups who know what they're doing and more about some indy barber who buys an off the shelf scheduling assistant -- should they have to bury themselves in legal code first?
I agree that this may be a misunderstanding.

Federal grant proposals require budgets that outline how you intend to spend those dollars along with text describing those line items. Some of this can be extremely detailed. These agencies have a lot of restrictions so yes, other sources are required in many cases.

Then as you spend those funds many of these grants will require monthly or quarterly (or even more frequent) text and budget updates.
Six Effective Ways to Reduce Compute Costs
www.getpdfai.com
One of the best science fiction books I have ever read.
Nobody generalizes too far outside the areas they're trained for. Probably that length, 'far' is shorter with today's state of the art but the presence of failure modes don't mean anything.
LinkedIn would be in shambles if this became law.
Ask HN: LLM Prompt to Machine Code?
Is there anyone working on having an AI directly generate machine code (instead of generating source code like Copilot)?
Looks like author never heard about single pointer double linked list. That could save him 2 pointers per each node.

The idea: for simplicity taking list. single pointer saved in the node is xor of next and previous nodes. When moving forward we xor current ptr with prev. Moving backward xor with next to get prev. That it. How do we get prev/next for xor? The only way to get in the middle of the list is using iterator. Which can hold one extra pointer. For the first/last nodes extra pointer is NULL.

The same for EB tree, as navigation can be done only using iterator it can hold extra pointer.

These are my $0.02, you are free to implement and use this algorithm. No fees, no references required.
I like that this bill partially implements the second law of robotics:

"1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2) A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law."
what if they don't know they are bots like in this short film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VrLQXR7mKU

or any blade runner..
Oh that explains why it's not a popular architecture.
Wait, are you posting these as evidence that he's not racist...? I'm not following your first line.
For some reason, most of these (and other narration AIs) sound like someone reading off a teleprompter, rather than natural speaking voices. I'm not sure what exactly it is, but I'm left feeling like the speaker isn't really sure of what the next words are, and the stresses between the words are all over the place. It's like the emphasis over a sentence doesn't really match how humans sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pQdjwliLMA

From 2009. A year before Burj Khalifa opened. It is truly legendary.
Seems she's moved on - now at Microsoft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi_Hart those videos were such fun, shame they're not there anymore.
their approach is a one which is fully stateless on the chip (see their documentation for why)

theoretically this is quite desirable but various protocols aren't build in a way enabling it

e.g. TOTP pushes a secret from the server to the client, instead of having some form of deterministic key exchange

similar while FIDO protocols and passkeys could have been designed in a way which can work fully stateless they are not

now it doesn't mean you can't make it work with tkeys but it can get more complex e.g. for TOTP using TKey to guard a local password vault which then does the TOTP instead of having the TOTP on the key directly (but then while TOTP is better then SMS 2FA it's still pretty bad compared to what technically is possible, like much worse then a lot of people realize)
I will do that I just need someone to buy the domain name first lol.
That you've been using it that long is pretty bizarre to me. I guess it was just a way to stand out? Express some personality with a bit of semantic flair? I get that.

And no, in answer to your deleted replies, I'm not American, just someone that doesn't like seeing ambiguity created unnecessarily or misinformation spread, but I see now you were doing it more for stylistic reasons.
I guess I'm just confused now. I can't do technical since that's too commodified, but I can't do business since I'm a youngster with no real world experience.
BBC says 10 million illegal immigrants came in under Biden: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jp4xqx2z3o

How do you get lower rates under Trump? Are you saying Biden was deporting 2 million+ people a year to offset that?
So why increase protests when this administration is, allegedly, friendlier to immigrants?
Discussion (30 points, 2 days ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936185
Recently, the Trump administration took credit for using threats of tariffs to badger Canada into announcing a $1.3B border reinforcement plan.

One problem with that claim is that this plan was already announced in December: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2024/12/g...
Diversity has its benefits because no where in my public/high school/university education did I learn what "goatse" is. :)
Lovely implementation! The slow fading is a really nice touch.
I don't understand how that's different than a regular park in the middle of a city. Why would having a skyscraper in the middle of a park instead of beside it result in higher crime?
You probably missed the news that RedHat decided to systematically violate the GPL:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis...

tl;dr: They no longer publish source packages except to paying customers. If the paying customers republish the source, then RedHat closes the account.

I'm surprised none of the upstream developers have sued them for violating the license. There's no way I'd trust an organization that was behaving so unethically with control over my machine's package manager.

Anyway, I've been pretty happy with Devuan (Debian without SystemD). I find it much more stable than Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, etc., and all the userspace stuff I care about works great.
> 2922 (305 points, 119 comments)

Dude. Can I borrow your time machine?
The term is much more broadly known than the content of that (rather silly) paper.... I'm not even certain that it's the first use of the term.
No it's because, "Sure, here's your answer..." screws with evals.
My bad. I’m carrying on two threads within the same post. This was my suggestion to another question

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42968258
There are loads of successful implementations! Just look outside of the US to Nordic countries or, say, Japan or Korea. The US does a lot of things pretty badly.
The way it was explained to me when I was at Amazon is that the intent of that principle is that good leaders should “make themselves correct” by gathering the data they need to have well informed judgement.

So in retrospect they’re “right a lot” because they actively seek to align themselves with reality and therefore are better able to predict the outcomes of their work.
OpenAI cofounder John Schulman is joining Mira Murati's startup
it should not apply to non interacting “bots”
Sounds pretty awesome, what are you thinking about building this in?
It works the other way around: a void is created and it gets filled with business matching the demand.
They aren't friendlier to immigrants, they just aren't yet as capable of being as hostile to immigrants as Trump wants them to be.
i wonder if someone has rlhf’d an llm into thinking it is human
> It feels positively bizarre to read this comment and then read the final sentence.

Sometimes ChatGPT hallucinates like a college student who just discovered mushrooms. Or maybe it's a human who did same.

Either way, there is a high probability hallucinogenics are involved.
We didn't really build them, we do billion-dollar random searches for them in parameter space.
I think tomorrow I'm going to write a detailed blog of exactly what I did building out WikiTok. One last little bit of info on this subject (and at the end of it I'll say that I'm open to work or whatever).
Yeah I've seen it, no worries! :)
> any description purely in terms of pairwise relationships would miss the fact that the three rings are connected.

Here is one:

A is connected to B

B is connected to C

C is connected to A

This is a description in terms of pairs, and from it is trivial to deduce how the rings are connected.
No customers piling up for Copilot+ PCs
Pardon? This is about how Thomson Reuters was funded by DARPA to do a study on defending against social media attacks at scale. It has nothing to do with any of the points you brought up, and I fail to see the connection.
> TL;DR - Red Hat views the minimum criteria for open source AI as open source-licensed model weights combined with open source software components.

That's not open source!

I'm going to call this "Wizard of Ozzing". You give away the spectacle of magic tricks, but none of the science and machinery to do it yourself. You're still hiding it all behind fake virtue signalling.

Open source in AI is open weights, open training scripts, open inference scripts, open training datasets, and associated helper utilities. Without the science lab, you cannot replicate the science.

Weights in a vacuum are not open. It's a trick.
They have 50+ year life spans

Exactly the sort of thing the planned-obsolescence cartel doesn't want.
I never had strong opinions when I was younger but now I do. I never wanted to be a lead but now I see it as a salvation from bad ideas. So yes, I think being right a lot is a real thing.

Continue to learn and grow in knowledge while maintaining self-awareness about what you truly know and what you don't.
When someone says "i'm in the cult that believes X", don't expect a water tight argument for the existence of X.
None of my phones can run WhatsApp, even though they do have SIM cards. That's because none of them runs iOS or Android.
GitHub Copilot brings mockups to life by generating code from images
This is a blog post about a recent paper covering the Fiat-Shamir transform. It involves zero-knowledge proofs and verifiable computation, not simple logic.
> алл тхе

“all the”, written in Cyrillic script, in case anyone couldn’t follow.
It doesn't quite work out for a centralized utility scale battery unless it gets built gradually over the expected lifetime of the component batteries, as most existing infrastructure projects tend to get financed and built all at once, so all the batteries are the same age and are likely to require replacement around the same time. On a small scale that is quite visible with UPS batteries in data centers that all fail at once.

The easiest way to avoid that is to slow things down and build up a decentralized grid scale battery over time through incentives.
Related OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic (403 points, 6 months ago, 280 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41168904
SEO folks working for whom?
I read somewhere they had to make a fork because it wasn't possible to implement some features if it was an extension alone. Can't find where I read it though.
A lot of people who broke US immigration law are now naturalized citizens.
that's interesting since i said that with my grammatical habits of chinese, or, Chinglish

but I didn't know why it looks like Russify English, can you explain more?
Highlighting what the IC wants instead of the promo thingy is a great piece of advice.
- Sveltekit or Nextjs
- Supabase
- chatgpt api

I'm thinking of making it like this.
Can I make it when I see the indicator? I'm worried because it seems like it's a bit small.
One of the challenges with simulated hydrology, especially in procedurally generated games that I’ve found, is that water accumulates and can affect nearby cells, which affects other nearby cells, and so on.

So although procedural generation is often a great case for parallelizing, one of the cases you’d most want parallelization for can’t really be parallelized on unbounded domains.

I haven’t seen a lot of exploration of this topic.

One of my favourite people on the internet working on this stuff is https://nickmcd.me — he’s got some of the best procedurally generated terrain I’ve seen.

But his work is also domain-constrained due to the simulation design.

I’ve thought about potential solutions and I think the best way would be to procedurally generate water shed boundaries that can’t be broken. Then you can parallelize and simulate an entire water shed at once.

It’s such an interesting problem, but it’s also way out of my knowledge domain so I’m mostly just an observer.
Oof. I've heard recent AI generated narrators, and they were OK (much better than a few years ago, much worse than professional humans), but something about the digital postprocessing in this article's youtube video reminded me of fingernails on a chalkboard.

I couldn't get half way through.
It's a human bias that also exists outside of this current problem space. Take programmers for example, there is a strong bias that is pushed about how mathematically oriented minds are better at programming. This bias has shown up in the training phase of AI, as we believe programming patterns lead to better reasoning (train them on code examples, and then distill the model down, as it now has the magical prowess of a mathematically oriented mind, so they say). When it comes to AI ethics, this is an ethical problem for those that don't think about this stuff. We're seeding these models with our own agenda.

These concepts will be shattered in the long run hopefully, because they are so small.
I want to build but I don't know what. The ideas don't appear. This is what I've been trying to express.
It's just a bunch of macros to this, no ?

There are a lot more hairy/pressing issues given how old the CL spec is (the type-system esp. comes to mind).
> similar while FIDO protocols and passkeys could have been designed in a way which can work fully stateless they are not

It's been a while since I've looked deeply at FIDO, but I think they would have had to make a handful of nontrivial security concessions to make WebAuthn stateless. One pretty important one that comes to mind is the token counter, which in principal enables RPs to detect a cloned credential.
It's true, the windows one didn't fade. But the basic idea is that all the pixel values are just in an array. You draw the whole array to the screen on each frame. So each frame, you run through that array and divide all the color values by 2 for example, and any which are less than a certain threshold you just change to zero. Then you fill the specific points in the array where you want the next line to be drawn. The net effect is to fade out the old lines over time. You don't need to keep a list of past positions, or have any objects ;)
But they're not pairwise connected.

In the text:

If you only consider two of the rings and ignore the third, then any pair can be smoothly separated.

and from looking at the diagram. Carefully looking.
It started as Jomax Technologies, I believe.
It's not nearly as reliable as my typo machine (corrected)
"Expand the architecture" .. "get something much more powerful" .. "more dilithium crystals, captain"

Like I said elsewhere in this overall thread, we've been here before. Yes, you do see improvements in larger datasets, weighted models over more inputs. I suggest, I guess I believe (to be more honest) that no amount of "bigger" here will magically produce AGI simply because of the scale effect.

There is no theory behind "more" and that means there is no constructed sense of why, and the absence of abstract inductive reasoning continues to say to me, this stuff isn't making a qualitative leap into emergent anything.

It's just better at being an LLM. Even "show your working " is pointing to complex causal chains, not actual inductive reasoning as I see it.
Certainly, if we're talking about their effects on people who aren't privileged to participate in the capitalist economy itself. Being colonized is much the same experience regardless of what economic system your colonists' families live under overseas. And I'd expect illiberal capitalist economies to cause famines, too; liberalism is more important than capitalism for preventing famines.
I'm not trying to express that, it's that I can't find many meaningful projects with them.
This is a cool website, would love to see more like it in other states.
So, using my 9PM-12AM for so many days, I built HackerComments.ai – a reimagined way to explore HackerNews discussions. Instead of scrolling endlessly through nested threads, HackerComments extracts, summarizes, and organizes comments into these sections:
TL;DR – A quick summary of key takeaways
Comments Mind Map – A 3D force graph to visualize discussions
Comments Highlights – Top topics that people are debating
User Perspectives – Insights from key contributors

This was my first solo full-stack project, and I couldn’t have done it without LLMs and GenAI. I can build models and algorithms, but software and infra weren’t my expertise. AI made it all more accessible, from coding to simplifying complex discussions.
Cool story? Doesn’t conflict with what I said. Medicaid still does way more good than bad and has lower overhead and waste than private insurers. The alternative is the working poor dying in poverty from a lack of available care.
Certainly communism did eventually stop causing famines in the Soviet Union, but the Holodomor personally overseen by Stalin was worse than any Tsarist famine. And we have many other examples of communism causing famine: Mao's Great Leap Forward caused history's worst famine, for example (history's only famine worse than Stalin's Holodomor), but also, for example, the Ethiopian famine many of us remember from the 80s was caused by the Derg (who were technically socialist rather than communist), and one aspect of Pol Pot's democide in Cambodia was a famine, as well.

https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM has more details, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:20th-century_famines lists some other examples, along with the odd non-communist famine. But none in liberal capitalist economies.
Who just got a million dollars worth of training.
Ah right. Thanks.
Amazing resource, thank you!
You have the preferred form for making modifications, and the relevant permissions to now get in trouble for it.

If you actually go look at the open source or few software definitions, that's what they're about - being able to make modifications.

Just like an open source software project doesn't need a public record of the rationale for all architectural decisions in order to qualify.
“I’m Mr. Meeseeks, look at me!”
you mean nifty racist engineers like the one who just quit
For everything, both directly via the web interface and for coding via Copilot and Cursor.

For Python scripts and stuff I’m still using either ChatGPT or a locally running LLM, because I’m cheap and lazy and haven’t glanced at Claude API prices lately.
Unregulated markets are prone to natural monopolies due to network effects.
> TIL this github "list" feature

Same.
So the only things you check are HN, WhatsApp and Discord?
What you're not mentioning the personal and intellectual flaws of these idols and their followers, and the tens, if not hundreds of millions of people in the US, and billions all over the world. How the chances "seem" right now is rather moot and very likely to be wrong one way or another; historians can say that later on. It is what it is now. It's not like you're suggesting to invest energy into A rather than B, so instead of idly musing about chances of success, try to focus on what increases them.
Thanks for your reply. I think I'm going to have to start reading up on physics/differential equations. My linalg is ok but quite a bit of my computing background has been "here, this is how you calculate it" instead of concepts. I really feel theres something about Fourier that seems pretty important.
Yes microwaves can go far through ice but only 15 or less milimeters into water depending on the water's temperature. Microwaves are best for ready to eat frozen foods or reheating leftovers spread out over a plate.
More discussion 5 days ago (77 points, 73 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42901553
Did a check on “ice arrests Idaho” and got different results in DDG and Google -- almost all of them pointed to a copy of this article.

Fixed, or perhaps never happened. Hard to know these days
I disagree, productivity and ergonomics drives plenty of popular tools - React, Laravel, Rails, React Native, etc.
I was chuffed to read that Steve's favorite among his many puzzles was the same as my own (Sorcerer's time-travel puzzle).
Doodle: A Pure Kotlin UI Framework for the Web and Desktop
What's SineVibes? And it'd be nice to read the mentioned Ars Technica article.
I mean prop-65 does make the "messages" less frequent. You have to dispose of certain items listed in the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 different than other items. As-in companies can't just discharge cancerous substances down the drain anymore so you're going to want safer substances as an input if you can't avoid discharging it.
NIH is deleting grant applications from review based on keywords
NIH, under orders, is deleting grant applications with certain keywords, removing them from upcoming study section reviews. Politicians fingering the scientific review process corrupts that process, and is dangerous.

Flagging it does not make it false.
I stake my HN reputation on it; and I am a reliable source on these matters.
@dang
Or you don't understand the matter being discussed.

The classical definition of open source (cited in this release as Stallman's GPL definition of the preferred way in which to modify code) kind of breaks for ML programs.

This is a good update on the definition of open source from a quite reputable and influential FOSS source.

Your presumption that this article isn't sufficiently pure because in addition to being a company that does Free Software, it needs to do so without doing anything that resembles an ad or in any way ensures profitability is pedantic. If we had it your way the only open source software we would have would be mom's basement projects with shoestring budgets.
Cheers, will check it out.
I think this is because they're trained using RL, and math and coding problems offer an easy way to automatically assess an answer's correctness. I'm not sure how you'd score the correctness of other types of reasoning problems without a lot of manual (and highly subjective!) effort. Perhaps using simulations and games?
Less technical here doesn't neccesarily mean "worse engineers". It can also mean lawyers, marketing, sales, product, and leadership.

Someone is trying to learn something from you and you give them an answer so full of holes and caveats that it looks like fishnet stockings, you haven't imparted any confidence to them in your answer.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Stochastic%2C+...
> I'm surprised none of the upstream developers have sued them for violating the license.

Sounds like that implies that they probably actually aren't.
Feel like there will be a resurgence in demand for physical media over the next 10-15 years.