skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say this but I have a ton of experience that "can lead" and "there is" come with a gigantic pile of caveats to the extent that they appear to be more false than true. Or they're technically true but practically meaningless. The world has been utterly awash in mass-perpetuated misinformation for at least all of recorded history without any real ability to stem the onslaught. This is not a modern problem just because a modern technology also exhibits it.

You should look up the percentage of Americans who believe in ghosts sometime. About as many people believe in ghosts as don't, so no matter which side you land on, the other side is enormous. One of the sides must be wrong, I won't claim which, though only the belief side fails a falsifiability check. Where's our accountability to believing and spreading ideas based in reality again? The believers believe because they learned about it from someone. It didn't happen spontaneously on its own.

It's all just been memes the entire time.
Of all the ways for China, Russia, Iran, Israel, etc. to get access to sensitive data like this, these events feel like they’re by a wide margin the most likely way for them to do so.

These people are going to cut corners and be sloppy and stuff is just going to end up on USB keys and whatnot.
I was at his talk as well and I found it interesting. Maybe you could open an issue in the Whippet repo to point at possible improvements?
Rust is the new C++ but safe. That's what it is trying to be and pretty much what it is.

Ada is not a 'good' language by moderns standards. If you tried to use it you would probably be extremely frustrated. This isn't because it's poorly made, languages have grown a lot since the 80's. The C++ they wrote in 1985 would be extremely frustrating to work with by modern standards too.
You wrote basically the same thing as the adjacent person, so rather than write the same response to you both, I'll redirect to my reply over there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42993981
Hungary's PM Viktor Orban gave speeches to Republicans to teach them how to destroy democracy so it is more like Hungary than Russia
Three Observations
I mean sure but then every mixed economy is going to have an identity crisis. You can advocate for public ownership of certain industries and still be a capitalist because that's the reality of it. In all
public the economy collapses, in all private the economy collapses. You need both because the public side is how you survive the bust.
The word “adjusted” before EBITDA for 2021 is an important one: it references a one-time legal settlement that Twitter paid that year. If you don’t take that into account, the EBITDA was $1.47 billion.
I didn’t say I was bothered, and I don’t think you were attacking me. I don’t think you misused anything and I fully grokked your context.

Sorry if my reply came off as snark or disgruntled.

Yes I am okay, my original comments was to make a point about general populace’s level of dedication to their employment and interest in the strict rules of good software design. The original commentary was a bit snarky.

Thank you for asking if I was alright it, it is important to reach out when snarkiness cannot be discerned from distress.
(2020)

> Three days wasted. I should have just written the PHP script .

The good news is that any leading class LLM today would certainly be able to one-shot translation of the script from Python to PHP or create it in PHP.
IV therapy is big business in places like Las Vegas.
Bananas are notoriously hard to turn into a cleaner wine, mainly because of the fact that most bananas that are not Cavendish have a lot of latex and turn into goop. Most of the places where banana wine is produced (tropics) ultimately also turn it into banana "gin", and there's an incredibly deep and long cultural history of its production, e.g. it's tied to British colonialism in West Africa funded by liquor revenues, regulation was a hot topic of local protests, and drinking bars used to be hotbeds of nationalist agitation. When Nkrumah's CPP took over Ghana, they legalized homemade wine/liquor as a symbol against the gin drinking imperialists (in 1890 a bunch of countries in Brussels banned liquor importation to Africa).

The other much easier to produce wine and spirit comes from palm sugar (akpeteshie in Ghana, toddy in Indonesia), but the time window of when it is fresh and can be consumed is counted in hours, so it's not stable enough as an agricultural product to sell. Banana wine is an easy way to turn surplus calories into surplus cents.
There are at least three technical reasons why none of these accelerators have worked:

1) systolic arrays without SIMT or general purpose multicore are not flexible enough, creating a flawed foundation

2) everyone targeting tsmc is building the same circuits, leading to no differentiation and no motivation to move off an incumbent

3) the CUDA software stack is so big it creates porting friction

So you have a flawed foundation that makes everything else harder together with no advantage and a huge porting effort

No wonder why no one switches

I’d like to see hardware startups take more risk and get off the beaten path in ways that enable fundamentally new algorithms

When you put all of this against the backdrop of Intel management, what other outcome could there have been?
the left has been venerating some very flawed people for a very long time. It’s hard to be outraged now when we’ve been selectively told to ignore the past of others.

Name one.

Let’s not forget that Trump is the pied piper candidate promoted by the left to make it easier to win elections....The left celebrated at the time because they assumed Trump would be easier to beat.

This was not true in 2016 or in 2024. Dems preferred Cruz as an opponent in 2016 because he was the one candidate even more disliked than Hilary. In 2024, DeSantis was undermined by Fox News and News Nation...at Trump's urging). Trump was already ahead of Biden in the polls dating back to summer 2023; Democratic leadership would have preferred DeSantis as an opponent because he was extremely disliked even by Republicans outside of Florida (one can't claim the mantle of "family friendly" and "business friendly" when they go to war with Disney, the largest employer in their state) and they would have at least had a shot to retain the presidency.
I would love to know what Trump supporters think of all of this, but the usual places where Trump supporters hang out online (e.g., r/Conservative) don’t seem to talk about anything of the current administration’s controversies at all. I guess I was hoping they would at least talk about why they think they’re good or not that bad, but the mere mention of them seems to be suppressed. :sigh:
Yes. I mean, either you're talking about statistical properties of a population or you're talking about something else. These discussions usually devolve into "something else" almost immediately.
Totally agree here. I visited the page and scrolled through it to see what it was all about and saw a bunch of pull quotes and couldn't work out what I was looking at. It just looks like a light magazine article or brochure until you either click on the hamburger menu to see a full table of contents or scroll to the very bottom to see the table of contents there.

This really needs some design improvements if they want people to read through to the actual lessons. Most people are going to drop off after scrolling through that landing page.
The "Ick"
Now I wonder if there's some insight to be gained from looking at the crowd behavior in the frequency domain, i.e. through a Fourier transform?
At the time, Tesla's shares were so resilient that banks must've equated it to gold. And you can borrow any amount of money if you can provide the equivalent amount of gold as collateral.
sure, but in that context there's no ambiguity (and technically, it's not the "times" symbol, that's the cross product symbol). We don't really use "x" in vector maths, it's all "a", "b", "v1", "v2", etc =)

(at best you might use a .x subscript for 3D graphics but when did anyone ever do that by hand)
That’s true. And in most other posts, the HN community is predominantly supportive of cyber criminals redeeming themselves as security experts. It’s informative that this case receives the opposite reception.
You cannot get a PhD (in the US) without also passing an examination that, nominally at least, demonstrates you have broad and deep knowledge about your field. The qualifying exam is not the most important part, but it is a necessary part.
SpaCy – Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing in Python
The article is -- if anything -- generous to Intel. The unvarnished truth (which I have heard from several different Intel insiders) is quite a bit less flattering, and shouldn't be surprising: Intel's failures at this point are fractal.

(If the article has a failing, it's that it's somehow trying to hang the failure of Habana inside of Intel on Avigdor, which is absurd.)
Memento: FOSS, mpv-based video player for studying Japanese
Buddy, you're doing something called Source Bombing. I've read through 3 of these links and they directly contradict what you argued. I'm not going to waste my free time reading through the rest if you aren't going to bother reading at least one of them yourself.

With regards to Ketamine.

> There you go (for instance): "Cohen suggests a low rate of prolonged psychotic reactions in LSD users (1.8 per 1000) [19]"

That is a description of one of the many studies included in this meta-analysis. This is from the same article.

> Taken together, the effective risk of psychedelic-induced psychosis or worsening of pre-existing psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia -as well as in the early stages of the psychosis spectrum- remains incompletely understood

Also

> Overall quality of studies was low and only few studies (n = 9) could be included in the meta-analysis, hence the presented findings should be interpreted with caution.
The companies EBITDA is nearly double from when he purchased it so although revenue is down the company is making more money than before due to efficiencies. It’s probably worth about what he paid for it today. If advertisers come back, which I can see occurring with the huge cultural shift, it will certainly be worth well more than what he paid.
Is it? Good luck loading large models over PCIe 4.0. Or running things over multiple cards. And it has older HBM2e which is ~2x slower than H100 HBM3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Bandwidth_Memory#HBM2E

"N5, PCIe 4.0, and HBM2e. This chip was probably delayed two years." -wmf
I think that's generous. He is chopping entire departments after scooping up all their data. He doesn't seem to be doing any analysis at all. And a lot of his public statements have been patently false.
I think you could reconsider DeepSeek-R1: it's actually really good.

In comparison, o3-mini gets very vague in its reasoning, and gives surprisingly unhelpful answers (getting too short).

Plus, let's not forget, R1 is available to use and modify under MIT license, which is great.
The situation is closer to if we had 10,000 variants of Encyclopedia Britannica in 80s that all looked like distinct bodies of work, riddled with different errors while looking like they were written from scratch.
There are some discussions to add optional generational regions to Go: https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/70257
That makes sense, thanks. We are all in part into this situation, because one bit here, one bit there, that's what we, as a collective entity, built, and there are clearly things that are not working as expected. It's hard to acknowledge that and improve the situation, since it also creates frictions in the way we work day-to-day, but still I hope to see this improving, in some way.
In this case it is a shorthand for specialist level knowledge. Thre kind of information you would expect a person pursuing a PhD in a specific field to know but someone not doing that to not know.

For example how in the “Humanity's Last Exam” AI evaluation dataset they have this question: “Hummingbirds within Apodiformes uniquely have a bilaterally paired oval bone, a sesamoid embedded in the caudolateral portion of the expanded, cruciate aponeurosis of insertion of m. depressor caudae. How many paired tendons are supported by this sesamoid bone? Answer with a number.”

That’s the kind of “PhD knowledge” which this evaluation does not require.
The recent book Unaccountability Machine (Dan Davies) made the rounds a while back on this site a few years back. A few years before that, Ted Chiang's essay in the New Yorker entitled "Will AI Become the New McKinsey?" did likewise.

There's a bright red through line here. I get the sense that the intellectual ferment is starting to develop an awareness of the risk (and if you're cynical, potential) of LLM deployments in business as a systematic strategy for absorbing accountability for decisions.

For the time being, it usually seems like there's someone who is accountable, or at least can be scapegoated. But how long will that last? As Davies points out in his book, we didn't need LLMs to create bureaucracies where the buck fails to stop anywhere and instead irretrievably slides between the tracks. As Chiang points out, the "efficiency maximization" of McKinsey served as a way for organizations to outsource accountability for major decisions to an entity very, very good at working backwards from desired outcomes while acting like they were just led to a fait accompli by the numbers.

[0] https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781805220794-the-unaccountabili...

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intel...
when you receive a message on communication apps like whatsapp or messenger
For better or worse Jerry isn't a PR person
Writing something for others is teaching, and teaching is one of the steps of the Feynman technique. Even if you don't follow it, writing and teaching forces you to organize the subject in your head. You force yourself to make the subject clear to your audience, and you are part of your audience.

If someone will read it or not is out of your control, and it's completely unpredictable.

Using some examples of mine:

1. Once I wrote a blog post about writing a quicksort in Python using only lambdas, based on the lambda calculus theory which I found very interesting and challenging to explain in clear way. Some people liked it, but it was not proportional to the hard work involved: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38848905

2. Once a friend asked me why I write my scripts in Ruby, I told him a few reasons and I wrote in my blog just as a personal reference, to have in hands if someone else asks me the same thing. Turns out that it reached the #1 here in HN and even the creator of Ruby tweeted about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40763640

So, don't do it for the others. Do it for yourself. And I won't say "keep doing it and someday someone will see", I can't guarantee that, but a least you'll have a chance.
For what it's worth, and in case anybody's interested, the "shrimp treadmill" was funded by NSF, not USAID, and was exactly the kind of basic science research that the NSF is supposed to fund. Here's an article from 2011 that gives a lot of useful backstory about that story: https://www.npr.org/2011/08/23/139852035/shrimp-on-a-treadmi...
I tried it and it sounded nothing like me at all - just some random "generic" male voice that translate what I said into german. My wife put it as "that's shit - sounds nothing like you". Nuff said.
It's American for "I voted for Trump but you can't blame me for whats happening because I didn't want to vote for the other team".
Quasi-mandatory orientation week training about safely drinking really worked – I know college kids who'll eat while they're drinking, and apparently they make make "BORGS" with electrolyte drinks mixed in too.

I just wish they had training about all the avoidable mistakes you'll make in college relationships...
> all new discussions that reference Musk are being systematically flagged by apparent supporters of Musk.

I'm not a Musk supporter at all, but I flag these discussions for several reasons.

1. To keep my sanity. These stories are pretty much everywhere and will be all over for the next 4 years at least. I don't want to engage in them and lose even more time and get even more anxious.

2. The comments aren't useful and don't bring new information. It's pretty clear what Elon and the oligarchs are trying to do. Those who don't see it won't change their mind at that point.

HN is one of the rare forum to avoid flame war, let's keep it that way.
The term for the stress-energy tensor has the wrong impact on expansion for a simple relationship of any kind.

You can rescue it with pseudo-tensors, but then you force the existence of a preferred reference frame. Which undermines the principles of GR.

Some still argue for that. Others don't.
Altadena isn't exactly far from civilization. The point isn't that wild fires happen, it's that maybe these little places should go "off grid" so everybody can get a lower price. Everybody but them probably.
Xai or whatever it's called was pumped with $6 billion, by, wait for it, fidelity. And, they still value X at 1/3rd of its original price. So, yes, the numbers will look good to people like you doing basic ebitda and revenue back of the envelope math. There's also no denying that the product sucks and users are leaving, which in turn will make your cute ebitda numbers look even bigger a few years down the line when there's only naz1s left!
Yeah, I know. I'm not talking about tramp. What I'm saying is that you could do precisely the same thing vscode does, probably without adding any new code to emacs, as long as the client and server architectures matched. The client would just send its own elisp interpreter across the wire and run it, giving itself a remote repl you could have it run anything in.

That would, of course, be just as terrible an idea as when vscode does it.
If I read this post 2 years ago it’d sound really relevant and current. But today it sounds fossilized. Like it came from a world that hasn’t existed for a long time. It’s amazing how much has changed in the last year. Like the Berlin Wall fell.
This. Generating audio en masse is everything that's wrong with LLMs, and people trying to use them this demonstrate a *fundamental misunderstanding of music. The whole attraction of music is separate generators in temporary harmony, whether rhythmic, tonal, timbral. Generating premixed streams of audio ('mixed' implying more than one voice or instrument) completely misses the point how music is constructed in the first place. Anyone advocating this approach is not worth listening to.
> Luke Farritor of DOGE was given access to computer systems of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the department responsible for the security and protection of American nuclear technologies and nuclear weapons, by United States Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chris Wright, against guidance of the DOE's general counsel and chief information offices.

on the face of it, this sounded absolutely terrifying reading it on wikipedia. But, on closer inspection of the CNN article used as a source

> Farritor was granted access to basic IT including email and Microsoft 365, one of the people said. The chief information office only does a small amount of IT and cybersecurity work for the National Nuclear Security Administration, they said, including providing connectivity and running basic internet services for NNSA’s headquarters. It does not run IT systems for the nuclear agency’s labs controlling the nation’s nuclear stockpile.

Genuinely had me scared for a moment there.
There’s no multibillion dollar business if they can’t say everyone will be replaced by their models.
I think we both know the answer. Most of these DOGE people wouldn’t have been allowed in the building, much less the system root a couple of months ago because they’d never pass a clearance check.
Here is a somewhat different motivation:

"A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox"

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/search-query
Ada is the basis of SPARK, [0] which takes Ada and adds formal verification.

While no doubt massive overkill for 99.9% of applications, there are a small number of use cases (safety-critical or security-critical code) where it can actually make sense.

While in principle you could add formal verification to other languages, I'm not aware of any other such solution with as much mindshare as SPARK. Ada's feature set is already closer to what you need for that purpose than what many other languages offer, so even though SPARK still has to both subset and superset Ada, the same thing with other languages would arguably require both taking more away and adding more.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)
> So I’m skeptical. If there was an analysis that showed a drop in rates that was not 3X higher than the profit margins of the private utility I’d be more open to the idea, but as presented this feels like back of the envelope math that generates savings by ignoring all the details that didn’t make their way onto the envelope.

That's possibly because of a strong underestimation of the actual indirect inefficiencies that come with shareholder profit-oriented companies. Every investment is seen not as a way to maximise profit in the long run, but as a direct decrease in shareholder profit, and should therefore be avoided at all cost (ha!) or postponed for as long as possible.

Strong counterexamples, admittedly not from energy companies, can be found in the remunicipalisation of the water supplies in Berlin and in some districts of Paris. Both came with drastic decrease of user costs, better water quality and a decrease of outages.
It also doesn't apply to the structure of space-time. Which is not a situation that Newton's laws can deal with.
It is not just one airplane. It is still common in defense and aerospace software, as well as other safety critical code (Nvidia recently started using the SPARK subset for some of their firmware I believe). Just because you don’t know anyone using it doesn’t mean it isn’t used.
Oh I agree, but for people who suffer from excessive procrastination, its often due to things like ADD/ADHD that make it difficult to focus until something (like stress) focuses you. Also, I just don't think that its a criticism that is relevant to their product, as it is universally applicable to ALL productivity apps.
I'm having trouble reconciling the backgrounds of the people that you're describing with the effects of the work they're doing. When they suddenly closed USAID, vulnerable people around the world instantly lost access to food and medicine with no recourse. There were people enrolled in clinical trials who had devices implanted in their bodies and then suddenly all support was cut off. Even if you believe that America shouldn't fund these things, how can you possibly justify shutting it down in such a way that food for hungry people rots in warehouses and clinicians have to decide if they're going to defy orders to vaccinate a pregnant mother? I can understand how a 23-year-old can get so enamored by all this sudden access to power that he completely loses sight of the effects of what he's doing. I don't understand how someone with decades of experience in positions of responsibility doesn't ask the most basic questions about the consequences of taking drastic action.
I'm sure they don't care. Means to an end.
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What the shit is this?
Looks quite nefarious!
I agree but what does this have to do with this specific article?
MuseNet by OpenAI used to allow you to do this - but OpenAI took it down over a year ago.

https://openai.com/index/musenet

Also, Synfire is a somewhat difficult to grok DAW designed around algorithmically generating midi motif as building blocks for longer pieces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrtJjEiWBtI

It's not particularly well-known but it's been around for many years.