skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I probably don't have to repeat it, but this is a perfect example of Goodhart's Law: when a metric is used as a target, it loses its effectiveness as a metric.

If you were a reporter who didn't necessarily understand how to value a particular algorithm or training operation, but you wanted a simple number to compare the amount of work OpenAI vs. Google vs Facebook are putting into their models, yeah, it makes sense. How many petaflops their datacenters are churning through in aggregate is probably correlated to the thing you're trying to understand. And it's probably easier to look at their financials and correlate how much they've spent on GPUs to how many petaflops of compute they need.

But when your investors are giving you more money based on how well they perceive you're doing, and their perception is not an oracle but is instead directly based on how much money you're spending... the GPUs don't actually need to do anything other than make number go up.
Isn't everyone concerned with cost of living? Isn't there a whole game of life where we all find some comfortable CoL and salary balance?

That's why salary via CoL never made any sense to me. It should be based on how hard people want to work.

These "it's cheaper in Michigan" ideas -- yeah you can come up with a boring lifestyle that is dirt cheap. I'm just in Michigan already. It's hard to leave. I'm a global dude. I travel domestically. I invest. These things don't have Michigan prices.
Disney has been profitable lately.

Also odd to say that Netflix had the infrastructure already. They built it from scratch.
Because capitalism? Small farmers are already fighting brutal economies of scale.
What's the alternative? Complain that you never get a match? The recommendation to only contact people you think are a perfect match and then send a customized message doesn't work.
They're ad-free for Premium subscribers, but some small amount of the premium subscription fee is supposed to be divvied up between everything you watch, so it is technically being monetized.
Out of curiosity (since you turned this around so fast) -- I saw that the other author mostly used Claude/Cursor, did you do the same?
From your computer you attach a USB drive to your computer and move files like any other drive.

From an iPhone or iPad, you connect a USB drive to it using the USB C port, the USB drive shows up in the Files along with your OneDrive storage location and you move files to your drive.

The same way you would with GDrive, iCloud Drive or Dropbox
Let me carry that concept, “learning to do this trade”, it’s a new trade.

I don’t believe computer science has the algorithms to handle this new paradigm. Everything was about sequential deterministic outputs, and clever ways to do it fast. This stuff is useless at the moment. We need new thinkers on how to not think sequentially or how not to think about the universe in such a small way.

Verifying input/output pairs is the old way. We need to understand differently going forward.
If you think of how much hardware is capable to run it but they're artificially blocking, it's also rather morally irresponsible from the perspective of e-waste.
Hilarious that you mentioned the blind auditions in orchestras because now the DEI goons want to get rid of them! They say it hasn't got enough minorities in. Absolute proof that these people care only about race and don't give a damn about fairness. Source https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997844...
Heh, i just asked deepseek for fun. It gave me python script that takes photos, uses exif coordinates and OSM. 15 minutes
Zig Guide
Self proclaimed "news junkies" are some of the most insufferable people I know.
I think it's clear that the founders never considered the possibility of a president disbanding a modern federal agency because they didn't think such large agencies would exist. They tried to reserve most power for the states. And if they had known the modern federal government could become so big, they would support shutting it down. The president is meant to act as a check on Congressional spending too.
DeepSeek-R1's strong zero-shot performance on agentic tasks
I mainly read Reuters now. It's refreshingly boring.
Cory Doctorow's commentary from 2 years ago:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/23/cant-make-an-omelet/#keep...
> It's entirely possible that these goons will start fiddling with official statistics around things like unemployment and inflation to tell us that inflation is not actually happening any more and that therefore we must cut interest rates, or some such.

Like when the BLS overstated payrolls by 818k!! in March of last year, the largest negative revision in 15 years? And then the Fed did an emergency 50bps rate cut in September just as payrolls unexpectedly went up 250k and inflation seems to be coming back.

The unemployment and inflation data has been inconsistent for a while now.
$10M sounds very much like an arbitrary amount for a very extravagant retired lifestyle.
The problem here is that the notion that "DEI is just a loose label for having less discrimination in the workforce" is always hidden behind by people who want to use it for more forceful discrimination.

It would serve those who truly just want to make sure our society all starts from the same starting line to come up with a new term, one that encompasses meritocracy as the goal along with generous helping hands along the way (training programs, tutoring programs, outside-the-class mentorship opportunities). And to focus on helping lower _class and income_ folks get a leg up, not on including or excluding people by characteristics that are a circumstance of birth (skin color).
What I lost would not have been changed by ignoring reality. A too large share of people in the country support a traitor, amongst other deplorable qualities. The reason why informs me to how I should play the game.

In the short term, I am sure I will benefit greatly from Trump’s leadership, just like I did last time. In the long term, I need to plan for what is best for my family to live in a country (world?) with less and less societal trust/cohesion (including family members).

Maybe the reality of this level of tribalism was always there, temporarily hidden from me by my youth and economic momentum from previous decades.
NYT's statement of claims is here:

https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2023/12/NYT_Complaint_Dec20...

And OpenAI's defense is here:

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/byvrkxbmgpe/...

OpenAI's defense, which I am not in a position to verify, is that ChatGPT can not be used to reproduce NYT's articles verbatim without a great deal of prompt engineering. That the submissions NYT provided of verbatim reproductions are the result of a third party expert who tried more than 10000 prompts that included feeding into ChatGPT portions of NYT articles in order to get ChatGPT to respond with verbatim reproductions of NYT articles and that no one uses ChatGPT in this manner. Furthermore the verbatim reproductions that ChatGPT did end up producing after these 10000 prompts are available on numerous public websites unaffiliated with NYT.
Pull based updates would work on OpenWRT devices if they had enough storage, transactional updates and/or multiple flash slots, and scheduled maintenance windows.

OpenWRT wiki > Sysupgrade:
https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/sysupgrade
In that case you can use the lombok @SneakyThrows annotation that converts a checked exception to a runtime exception
I did the same. I have some exceptions for technical topics on Reddit. I also still use Facebook in a very drilled down state (looking into it every 3-5 months and checking in with some remote friends). I have also set up my own Mastodon server, which is fine for niche topics and I can reach out to interesting people directly, where other channels fail (email). I heavily rely on RSS, particularly from people that I trust or who gained my trust over longer periods.
Basically you want per stream pricing.
It’s actually not harder thanks to HLS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming

Live streaming with HLS is equal to distributing static files and can be very low latency.

If you need to go below 3s of latency, yes it becomes harder, but everything else is thankfully solved.

The bigger issue with live streaming are the peaks: 0 views in one second and millions in the next. Even with static content delivery that leads to all kinds of issues.
>Every kinetic reaction by Russia in Georgia and Ukraine is downstream of major destabilizing non-kinetic actions by the US

Russia has been invading and massacring their neighbours for centuries. They just use whatever bs excuse that sounds kind of plausible or amusing at the time. You know - they have to invade Ukraine because the popularly elected jewish comedian is a nazi dictator etc. I think they just like tolling their victims as they rape, murder, steal and torture.

If you can fault the Americans it was propping them up after WW2, after they started it in collaboration with Hitler, so they could continue the evil. Patton had the right idea https://www.quora.com/When-Patton-said-we-defeated-the-wrong...
I don't agree with that argument. I am constantly finding new movies and TV shows to watch that I genuinely enjoy, but I still (reasonably often, even) watch or re-watch older content that I end up enjoying just as much.

Flooding the market with AI-generated content -- even if that content is good -- is not going to stop me from watching (or re-watching) older human-created productions.

I don't think I'm all that unique. I don't watch broadcast/cable television anymore, but I know people (especially those less technologically sophisticated, of any ages) who still flip through the on-screen TV guide, and are happy to tune in to watch a 1980s movie on some random channel, ads and all.
No. Git is a complex program but version control is an inherently complex problem that requires powerful tools.

That's the thing. For most developers, it's not, and it doesn't. I have never needed a VCS that couldn't be wrapped in a few batch files like add.bat, get.bat, put.bat, diff.bat, merge.bat, and list.bat. You can do the same thing with git, of course, but just understanding enough about it to write the batch files practically takes a semester of study.

Unless your job is to maintain the Linux kernel, git is probably not the right tool for your job. But it 'won the source control war', so... git, it is.
I'll never find it, but a few days ago someone here posted an anecdotal story that class sizes were between 10-20 and failure/drop rate was ~50%.
Assuming one did have reproducible builds, would you even need signing keys anymore? All you would need is to build the app yourself or have some trusted third party build it and verify that both outputs are the same. You could also use md5s published by the developer and check that against the f-droid build. It seems like the advantage of signing is pretty small at that point. At least in the case I am thinking of, where the developer is using GitHub, it seems unlikely that a malicious actor would be able to add malicious code to the repo and create a new release but somehow be blocked by the signing keys. In that case, I think it would be better to just use "00000000" as the signing key for all apps (8 character minimum jks length) to make build scripts more reproducible, ie. the signing is part of the build script, which also makes apk md5 comparisons easier. Am I missing something?
If you're Google and you're reading, please offer finetuning on multi-part dialogue.
ReAG – Reasoning Augmented Generation
The premise (as described by @pelaseyed) is that traditional RAG sucks because it promises "relevant chunks" but in fact returns "similar chunks" and that actual relevancy evaluations requires reasoning.

No chunking, splitting or vectorizing

Stateless, no vector DBs etc.

Supports any model (deepseek, o3-mini et al)

Reasoning traces

Metadata filtering

Typescript, Python support
Scientific American used to be a great magazine and should get back to what made it so valuable: Covering important ideas in science without watering them down. Their website now describes it as "the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology". Blech.
If servo (or something like it) succeeds, would that mean potentially being able to swap out chromium in Electron? Would that help with performance / application size?
Europe has instituted tariffs for Chinese vehicles up to 35%. Given the low cost of Chinese vehicles, this may not be a big barrier (like in the US where it's 100% tariff).

Other than that, I completely agree - and hope that Europe manufacturing can catch up to China on EVs.
Most places that allow them don't have much in the way of inspection, etc, until you start selling the eggs.

Amusingly enough, rural towns are more likely to prohibit backyard chickens than suburbs of major cities these days. This is because if you want chickens in a rural area, the assumption is you'll buy just outside town; the people who moved into town don't want to hear roosters (which are often banned or severely limited even where chickens are allowed).
Cloudflare wishes it peered with everyone and steers its own astroturfing pressure groups hoping to achieve that. The economics are similar though; their major product remains DDoS sinking, so driving down the marginal cost of traffic is Cloudflare’s strategy. The difference is that the content they mediate is thereby an incentive towards peering and not the core business proposition.
Part of the problem is that good journalism is expensive, and has been systematically undermined by monied interests around the world.

What is needed is a sustainable business model for quality journalism, set up in a way that is resistant to income inequality.
Michigan just switched to cafe-free only at the start of a year due to a new law going into effect. Prices were increased around the holidays as retailers preemptively switched their stock.

Might not be well defined but I’m sure it’s defined enough to be law.
R1- Intuitively and Exhaustively Explained
In this article I discuss DeepSeek-R1, the first open-source model that exhibits comparable performance to closed source LLMs, like those produced by Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. This heightened performance is a major milestone in artificial intelligence, and is the reason DeepSeek-R1 is such a hot topic.

We begin our exploration by briefly covering some of the fundamental machine learning ideas that DeepSeek builds off of, then we’ll describe some of the novel training strategies used to elevate DeepSeek-R1 past other open source LLMs. We’ll spend a fair amount of time digging into “Group Relative Policy Optimization”, which DeepSeek uses to elevate it’s reasoning ability, and is largely the source of it’s heightened performance over other open source models.

Once we have a thorough conceptual understanding of DeepSeek-R1, We’ll then discuss how the large DeepSeek-R1 model was distilled into smaller models. We’ll download one of those smaller DeepSeek models and use it to make inferences on consumer hardware. Finally, we’ll close with speculation as to how DeepSeek may impact the state of the art of AI moving forward.

By the end of this article you will understand what DeepSeek is, how it was created, how it can be used, and the impact it will have on the industry.
Can't you get either behavior out of a Deque?
Nah. GitHub is evidence that 99.999% of projects are defacto centralized. The D is DVCS is useless to approximately all projects not Linux.

Note: centralized does not mean you can’t work in offline mode or share basic deltas
Price fixing under the cover of catastrophes, such as covid and bird flu. Frozen potatoes did the same thing over the past few years, without any excuse and without the prices of unfrozen potatoes going up similarly.

I think the industry has decided that a dozen eggs are going to retail for $5, just because it's a nice round number that will have "support." A few months of paying $8-9 for them will make it seem like a drop to $5 is going back to normal, and make $2 eggs seem like a misremembered dream.

https://www.newsweek.com/kroger-executive-admits-company-gou...

https://apnews.com/article/egg-producers-price-gouging-lawsu...

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> The first case of avian flu in a commercial table-egg layer facility was detected on February 22 in Delaware. Over the ensuing Spring season, avian flu outbreaks would be reported in 10 states and result in the loss of 30.7 million egg-laying hens. After the end of May, however, avian flu
discoveries would slow down dramatically. Notably, no hen losses were reported after the beginning of June except due to sporadic outbreaks in September, October, and November. All in all, the total number of egg-laying hens lost to avian flu in 2022 was around 43 million birds. Although these figures seem to support the theory that the avian flu outbreak of 2022 was significant, its actual impact on the egg supply was minimal. After accounting for chicks hatched during the year, the average size of the egg-laying flock in any given month of 2022 was never more than 7-8 percent lower than it was a year prior –– and in all but two months was never more than 6 percent lower.

> Moreover, the effect of the loss of egg-laying hens on production was itself blunted by “record-high” lay rates observed among remaining hens throughout the year. With total flock size substantially unaffected by the avian flu and lay rates between one and four percent higher than the average rate observed between 2017 and 2021, the industry’s quarterly egg production experienced no substantial decline in 2022 compared to 2021.

> [...]

> Contrary to industry narratives, the increase in the price of eggs has not been an “Act of God” — it has been simple profiteering. For the 26-week period ending on November 26, 2022, Cal-Maine reported a ten-fold year-over-year increase in gross profits — from $50.392 million to $535.339 million — and a five-fold increase in its gross margins. Notably, Cal-Maine’s gross profits increased in lockstep with rising egg prices through every quarter of the year — going from nearly $92 million in the quarter ending on February 26, 2022, to approximately $195 million in the quarter ending on May 28, 2022, to more than $217 million in the quarter ending on August 27, 2022, to just under $318 million in the
quarter ending on November 26, 2022. The company’s gross margins likewise increased steadily, from a little over 19 percent in the first quarter of 2022 (a 45 percent year-over-year increase) to nearly 40 percent in the last quarter of 2022 (a 345 percent year-over-year increase).
The ODEs stuff in Julia is nice, but I think diffusers/JAX is a reasonable backbone to copy over whatever you need from there. I do think Julia is doing will in stats and has gotten some mindshare from R in that regard.

But I think a reasonably compentent Python/JAX programmer can roll out whatever they need relatively easily (especially if you want to use the GPU). I do miss Tullio, though.
Im working on an small firmware that runs on an badger 2040. it should display tickets(aztec and qr) and a menu to select different apps. I postponed the aztec encoding to later, because there is no lib that runs without the stdlib and no explanation how aztec works in detail.
> accuracy is measured with the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm

> Crucially, we’ve seen very few instances where specific numerical values are actually misread. This suggests that most of Gemini’s “errors” are superficial formatting choices rather than substantive inaccuracies. We attach examples of these failure cases below [1].

> Beyond table parsing, Gemini consistently delivers near-perfect accuracy across all other facets of PDF-to-markdown conversion.

That seems fairly useful to me, no? Maybe not for mission critical applications, but for a lot of use cases, this seems to be good enough. I'm excited to try these prompts on my own later.
Do skunks hunt chickens? We lost ours when we were a kid to raccoons and weasels. The later being better suited to getting into the coop.

Our neighbor's chickens were devoured by black bears twice. They had one wily chicken that managed to escape both events however.
It may not exist right now, but we can strive towards it. I believe that in a few years there will be an AI, or AIs, that will work completely autonomously. They will not only browser files, documents, and do research, but they will exist on their own, synthesizing information across organizations. That's going to be the 1000x improvements I am thinking about.

I wrote about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42701691
One could hope...

Even at the height of the Cold War there was always a human between <leader presses button> and <nukes go aflyin'>.

--edit--

...which has me wondering if a president even has the constitutional authority to destroy the entire planet and if one could interpret their command as a 'lawful order'. Makes one think.
Are rising costs the reason for store-bought eggs' rising prices?
Its difficult to gauge exactly what issue the current administration has with the FBIs handling of Jan6. However, there are some people from the conservative side of politics that believe crimes were committed on Jan6, the people deserved to be punished for those crimes but the prosecution went too far and used novel applications of the obstruction law that was wildly inappropriate. For example it can be entirely consistent to believe people should be punished for shop lifting but they should not be executed for shop lifting.
> He's a government contractor, despite all extra-legal titles he's been given.

Officially Musk is a “Special Government Employee” in the Executive Office of the President, with zero salary. So he’s technically not just CEO of a US government contractor, he’s separately a US government employee.

I don’t believe that’s an “extra-legal title” because (a) “Special Government Employee” is a status explicitly authorised by legislation (b) the law gives the President a great deal of latitude on how to structure the White House staff. Every previous President has invented a bunch of new roles in that staff, based on the priorities of his administration, and has never sought or needed Congressional authority to do so. What Musk is doing is controversial and novel but his actual underlying position (some random ally/friend of the President is given an unpaid job in the White House) isn’t
As a security person, I agree that this guide is not great. I agree with pretty much everything you've said. However, I disagree with your original comment that a recommendation in favor of Firefox means writing off a guide entirely.

But that's probably for some other time, I imagine we can leave it at agreeing "this guide is not great". I doubt it is good for my career to butt heads with the tptacek on a security topic.
Networking, in the broadest sense of the word. Gone to tech meetups, gotten to know a lot of people in my particular niche (sound and image processing).
Show HN: A bunch of friends created business idea validator
While brainstorming with friends, we were trying to come up with the perfect business idea. But it always felt like either the idea was terrible or just impossible to pull off as a side project. So, we built an AI-powered idea validator to help us out!
I always found this a funny etymological thing. Going just by the words themselves, if you asked me to guess which was which, I'd say they should be reversed -- "vegetarian" seems to clearly imply "eats a diet made up of vegetables" whereas "vegan" is more ambiguous and seems to fit "mostly eats vegetables but also will eat some non-meat animal products".

But what I'm guessing happened is that the less-strict diet came first (at least in the modern era), so got the "vegetarian" moniker, and then we just needed another work for the strict no-animal-products diet so had to come up with "vegan".
Let's not sugarcoat it. DEI is the new N-word. Only people who are covert racists would be bothered by a mere statement about inclusion.