skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You actually don’t know that. The question would be, what proportion of human experiments are successful, and you don’t know the answer to that question, so the victims of experiments could dwarf the beneficiaries of successful research. That’s always the hard thing with basic utilitarianism.
Trump Tax Priorities Total $5 to $11T
The problem is not that OpenBSD doesn't follow the standard, it's that the standard is wrong. The default random number facility should be cryptographically secure. Most developers do not know the difference; giving them a deterministic, somewhat more performant, but completely insecure RNG by default expresses the fallacious assumption that they do. This is not the 1980s anymore, virtually every computer is connected to the Internet, there are hundreds of millions of software developers across the globe across all skill levels, and now we have them using LLMs to contend with as well, such naivete is no longer sustainable.
It was for examples of overwhelming forms to your #1.

Apologies for the confusion - that wasn’t clear at all.
I can't really fathom how disconnected from reality you have become if you honestly believe this. I do hope you drift back to consensus reality at some point.

be well.
Seeing the high prices they are charged for a digital licence which expires after a fairly small number of loans, I feel it'd be better for my library if I pirate when possible. Save those limited loans for someone who prefers/needs them.
Yes, he went to Harvard; the laptop was plugged in at MIT using his Harvard Fellow credentials to access JSTOR.
Default/Override: An Elegant Schema for User Settings
Or the emacs philosophy, or the lisp/smalltalk philosophy. Which ultimately means core utilities, tied together by the user on top of an hackable distribution.
If there were a way to magically ensure that only the good guys had access to the information, I'd be way less concerned about these measures. (There are only a few things that I care about being secret for the sake of secrecy, and I can easily keep those off of computers.)

Every encryption backdoor is a huge vulnerability. Even if we somehow ensure that the powers-that-be remain entirely trustworthy (something that, historically, we can't even manage for a century), they're not the only people who'll have access to the backdoor. It's not possible to make an encryption backdoor that only authorised parties can use: as they say, the laws of mathematics do not respect the laws of Australia.
The best way to start a design is with one drawing of something unique.

When I start I don’t know if its beams or walls or trusses or tensile fabric. I don’t know where the water comes from. I don’t know where it goes because I don’t know the shapes of things. Don’t know the form of the whole.

Sometimes computers are appropriate to the work. Sometimes they are not. I started learning CAD in 1989. My understanding of the work is different now.
There are two RL approaches - process reward models (PRM) that provide feedback on each step of the reasoning chain, and outcome reward models (ORM) that only provide feedback on the complete chain. DeepSeek use an outcome model, and mention some of the difficulties of PRM, including both identifying an individual step as well as how to verify it. The trained reward model provides the gradient.
Also too many dogs it seems, as the infinite and finite loop examples also produce "dog".
How you see it depends on how highly you think of non-STEM work, I guess - but I will say anecdotally that the folks who were good at math/science when I was in school also seemed to be solidly above average at English.
Use GRPO policy locally with Qwen and Unsloth
The second line actually is an output. I've modified the README. The last example is a typo. Fixed. Thanks!
No, i would consider the prior to be in the vein of civil rights if I believed it happened in an even remotely similar way.
Doge of Venice
Discussions

(555 points, 4 hours ago, 284 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42971761

(132 points, 8 hours ago, 107 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42970412
I don't think there's "the point" when it was pretty much modus operandi for years.
The development challenges posed by wealth inequality was quantified in numerous studies: "Outliers: The Story of Success" (Malcolm Gladwell, 2011)

https://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwe...

And the psychological impact on vulnerable children has also been studied: "Inducing learned helplessness: video fragment"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTqBP-x3yR0

Notably, the advanced mathematics guidance programs from the institutional outreach for children were usually by invitation only. Thus, unless you were identified as "gifted" early on, the academic content for your development is very different.

Personally, I think grade-school kids in grade 7 should be introduced to physics with calculus, discreet mathematics, and linear algebra. However, the content should not be part of a graded curriculum, but rather a set of trivial daily puzzles to solve.

The current academic institutions are often engaged in all sorts of policies that have nothing to do with science, or students cognitive development.

YMMV, and hold out hope for tenure... lol =3
Exactly, imagine the legislatures facing their irate teen daughters for bricking Apple devices.
> Richard Feynman is just writing about his personal experiences

Let's see

1. The personal experiences of a guy with no formal training in pedagogy or education

2. A research paper in nature written by expert education economists

Hmmmmmmmm
well it was nice knowing you, UK
The purpose of having an executive branch of government is explicitly to apply the law based on subjective opinions.

There's no purpose of having an executive branch of government separate from the other two branches if not to cushion the inflexible and glacial nature of the other branches of government.
Stanislaw Lem’s novel “His Master’s Voice” is about just such a project, where it proves impossible to translate the alien signal.
slappers only I hope
Generating documentation with different agents, each in their own image? Yeah, been there. A shared base image would've definitely simplified things.
I read the same thing earlier today on Reddit, weird!
https://archive.is/u0Vyj
I think the absolute least one could expect from notionally respectable businesses is to not invite people currently staging coups against the US to their shitty promo days.
> don't need to google Richard Feynman...

My friend that is the textbook definition of celebrity status.
Linus Torvalds on Community Influencing
Later Adams played Myst and got interested in game development again, resulting in the rather cute Starship Titanic game.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Titanic
They already exist

import numpy as np
from qiskit import QuantumCircuit

# 1. A quantum circuit for preparing the quantum state |000> + i |111> / √2
qc = QuantumCircuit(3)
# generate superposition
qc.h(0)
# add quantum phase
qc.p(np.pi / 2, 0)
# 0th-qubit-Controlled-NOT gate on 1st qubit
qc.cx(0, 1)
# 0th-qubit-Controlled-NOT gate on 2nd qubit
qc.cx(0, 2)
I was about to say the same thing.

It even happens in the FOSS world. Open Source theorists tell us all the time that "free" only means "free-as-in-freedom". That we can share the code and sell the builds.

But whenever someone actually wants to charge users money for their own FOSS apps, even if it's only a few bucks to pay for hosting and _some_ of the work, outraged users quickly fork the project to offer free builds. And those forks never, ever contribute back to the project. All they do is `git pull && git merge && git push`.

Maybe the Google+Apple move was a strategy against piracy. Or maybe it was a move against the FOSS movement. And maybe the obsession with zero-dollars software was a mistake. Piracy advocates thought they were being revolutionaries, and in the end we ended up with an even worse world.
Responding in good faith:

Winning the popular vote does not make you dictator. It makes you president within the existing laws.

You want to change the way things are done? That's fine. You have a mandate to do so based on the vote? Also fine. Do it within the existing laws.

There are laws in a number of areas (firing federal employees, impoundment, spoils system, probably others that don't come to my mind immediately) that Trump seems to be violating. He doesn't get to do that. He has to stay within the law, because it's the law that makes him president instead of "most popular guy this year".

And it doesn't seem to be that he just missed a few steps. He doesn't seem to care about the law at all. That's democracy failing - having a president who thinks he can do whatever he wants, and the law doesn't bind him. That's a president who's trying to be a king.

Now, that's kind of a "vibe" thing. It's not one action; it's more a perception of the cumulation of all his actions. Which means that other people can perceive it differently from how I do, because they assign different weights to his actions. But to me, the trend of the whole is troubling.
Hmm, if it was by the caller then methods on the inline type can't know if members are copied or shared in assignment, I wouldn't think.

Seems trivial to box the inline types like most languages do.
The AI Tool Putting Me Out of Work(and Possibly You Too)
Why did you assume the context was "bad guys?" It's a well-known fact that there's a lot of geopolitical tension between Russia/China and Western Europe. The comment is raising the point that by setting this precedent they are opening the doors for their geopolitical rivals to publicly do the same (we already know it happens through private state-sponsored cyber gangs).
RIPA and key disclosure law came in under Tony Blair's labour government as well, along with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Data_Bill_200..., arguably the precursor idea to the IPA that this notice was issued under.
I think my main hangup is that the thing I wish to markup is preceded by the link, instead of succeeded by it
Escaping the Memeplex
It's not a pet theory, it's exactly how the Five-Eyes system is meant to work. I remember when Total Information Awareness was announced and they even had a cool badge designed for the new govt department. It wasn't a popular idea.
I don't think that's true. I have seen R4L folks reiterate time and again that C changes are allowed to break Rust code, and they will be the ones to fix it.
I still don’t believe explanations for gravity…let alone dark matter!
Well yes, Switzerland is pretty much the only place in Europe where income/wages are overall on par with those in the US (of course not in all sectors). Other countries are generally very poor in comparison.

> Taxes are usually higher, but not incredibly so

So again.. would you rather make 60k and pay 45% in taxes or make 100k and pay 35%?

> nowhere near what America spends

Sure, if you are above median higher will likely more than compensate the higher healthcare costs (unless you’re very unlucky of course).
Show me the audit.
> has anyone else noticed that Stephenson loves the word "firmament", not just in this book

This is the ultimate tangent but yes, I had noticed that. In fact, I was also listening to an interview with Reid Hoffman the other day where I noticed the same thing — he must use the work "firmament" 1000x more than the typical person. And I know he has also talked about how Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash changed his life. Perhaps the influence is so deep that it's changed Hoffman's vocabulary.
Love swinging through here to collect the latest crop of:

- that’s silly
- they can’t do that legally
- this makes no technical sense
- this is a bad idea
- this will never happen

The entire globe becomes Xi Jinpeng’s China with American Characteristics after the iCloud encryption system is neutered and a court warrant is no longer needed.
A LLM is not a person. That is the legal difference...until we have Citizens United v2
I mean, you're right. People think "end to end" encryption helps them, but they forget that Apple controls both the server and client more than the user does.
Lib Dems did vote against the Investigatory Powers Bill (2016), and Nick Clegg blocked the original Snoopers Charter (Draft Communications Data Bill). So they have good form on this.

However, since 2016 the party almost exclusively shifted focus to opposing Brexit... which is ironic for a party that describes itself as "Liberal Democrats," trying to overthrow a public referendum (the strongest form of democracy)

The party seems to have lost its way, sadly.
The paradox of self-building agents: teaching AI to teach itself
Brilliant job! Love how fast it is, I'm sure if the rapid pace of speech ML continues we'll have Speech to Speech models directly running in our browser!
To be fair, Apple seemingly has no qualms letting the CCP surveil iCloud: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351
I don't think you're reading me in the way that I intended, and I think you're being very uncharitable.

I did not claim that their concerns about replacement were well-founded, merely that they were understandable. Again, go back and read what I actually wrote: we cannot both acknowledge that there is a decline in the proportion of whites in America, that there are policies being pursued that help with this (again, no moral judgement, simply a statement of fact), and also that the people who are scared about losing majority status are completely without basis in their concerns.

If you cannot understand the tiny pier of truth that these people use as a foundation for the massive pile of other nonsense they've stacked (or had stacked) upon it, you will never be able to get them to change.

I'm not asking you to agree with them. I'm not asking you to say that the whole of their beliefs makes any sense at all.

I'm asking you to understand that they aren't pulling this completely out of thin air, and that if you want to have more success than you've had it may be worth it to acknowledge their concerns and try to show how your preferred policies would serve them better and how their current preferred bozos are manipulating them.

You and people like you might assert that they're idiots, misinformed, evil, or whatever else--but their vote counts as much as yours, sometimes moreso, and so you ignore or misunderstand them at your peril.
“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain
The real-word scenario that has happened to us was that it was completely misinterpreting words, for instance it stopped working because our file contained the word "retard", this was a localization file for the French translation where "retard" translate as "late", we needed to change the entire order of the file to avoid this problem and keep the auto-complete.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/79223
Seeding it was probably most societally useful thing Meta ever did.
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42970039
Having your random number generator be deterministic by default is extremely bad. Using a deterministic seed should be the exceptional case.

In those cases, they provide deterministic operation under a different set of functions so nobody does anything as stupid as using deterministic RNG as encryption
Ah sorry I missed that part. You are right that this sounds like more replacement for people
The Feynman Lectures are great at giving you an intuitive understanding, but is no substitute for the regular curriculum. You don't find many people who read only the Feynman Lectures who can then go on to solve physics problems well. You do find many who read the regular textbooks and who can.
Looks like different flavors of doing it "clean" and going "hacky". No real content here imo tbh - Hat analogy is fun though
I don't agree with their definition of bad faith, but if your goal is to change someone's mind debating is generally the worst way to do it.
Hey HN! Creator here. Sorry for the downtime and dizzying spinning coins.

I was surprised to see this on the frontpage this morning and the scale is pushing the limits of our quantum randomness generator

It should be working again now as I'm pushing fixes. Thanks for your patience.
> humane police force

Societies are innately tribal, so I think realistically such a project will devolve into something inhumane in any society, regardless of perceived racial or religious homogeneity, because of inter-group competitions. Moreover, no one really ever trusts the policing apparatus in any state, regardless of its true nature or intention, so there will always be resistance to any such policing. However, people are likely to trust culture, and ideas related to that culture, with the caveat that there is some principled approach to updating laws per the needs of the population as conditions change; the latter half, principled updating, is currently missing from democracies as the current modus operandi is updating laws by request via petitioning or lobbying, so whoever is the loudest or most well-funded wins. The end result is that there is discontent because democracy by favoritism, or policing, is not a democracy. If the goal is to maintain cultural and national stability, then governance structures should be flexible enough to absorb shocks from changing cultural viewpoints. Practically, that looks like what is commonly derided as centrism, or essentially, not holding allegiances to political tribes, but instead to a sense of upholding cultural and national strength. So, I think instead of building literal policing structures, which will always be inherently fragile, democratic nations are better off focusing on building a sense of national cultural identity for heterogeneous populations, without any particular focus on race or religion.
Whale song shows language-like statistical structure
before migrating to the u.k - immigrants prepay for services e.g nhs etc. then still get taxed when they work for those same services. & remember some of these services are not easily available. yeah NHS is free - but good luck getting an appointment at the doc.

that's extra revenue for the u.k gvt.

the security guards, the care workers etc - which people are working those jobs ? immigrants or spouses of immigrants.

right now the conservative leader Kemi is campaining to increase permanent residency to 10 years. & citizenship to 15 years. who's gonna stay for that in a country where electricity & basic bills are expensive as hell.

skilled native british people are leaving & getting replaced by migrants. the doctors at the nhs majority are foreign trained.
It's not true that computer randomness is predictable, all recent computers have entropy sources which are essentially quantum in nature - thermal noise.
This would've been a cool event if they didn't invite elon. He adds no value to this event
Go ask Sartre.
Given a more immediate time frame of next 20 years or so, a job being replaced with cheap A.I. will most definitely come down to context of the job regardless how talented the person was filling that role. Even mission critical circumstances, A.I. will probably end up doing the heavy lifting with talent overseeing all aspects of the A.I. performance - that is providing training data is or becomes sufficiently knowledgeable.

Some fields are going to be more susceptible to being replaced faster and harder, given a long history of knowledge which has already been published and peer reviewed that is suitable for more than 90% .. 95% of existing issues.
As it happens some fields just are not well documented, cryptic at best and any ideas A.I. would be adequate will cost whatever company dearly.

In saying that, since so much information has been or in the process of being censored, those running A.I. will have to be very careful to ensure their knowledge is complete as it can be. The company will have to get their hands on obscure books and work out some copyright deal with numerous publishing companies. I say that as the web seems in recent years to have been uncluttered of small but fascinating facts, with a focus of streamlining broader facts into single entry easy to consume packages.

Here is a specific example where I expect A.I. to fall short hard -- when I found out an intolerance condition I had worked out myself in childhood, that actually I in fact was not alone to being extremely sensitive to olive oil back in early 00s, especially extra virgin olive oil, the web was full of half decent articles describing the issue in detail and I was actually surprised the condition had a specific name for the sensitivity to the extra virgin component. Given Google search returns nothing of value (yup I well know the various common seed oil components (which is not what it was - I tolerate other seed oils much better) or adulteration and contamination are separate things) I doubt their A.I. would actually be able to display the name of the condition which was specific to extra virgin olive oil sensitivity /toxicity.
Yes, exactly. Why do you think I meant something else?
Requirement changes on cost plus contracts are endemic. And it's not one way - typically the pipeline is starting to work on the project with requirement A under the assumption it will cost X, find out a decent way through that it's going to cost way more than X, then change to requirements B under the assumption it will only cost Y, repeat two or three times.
Yep looks like it. They don't seem to use Postgres storage layer at all.
Yes, sorry, server was a bit overloaded. It should be more reliable now.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42971847
Great analogy, and agreed. I want to understand the difference between good enough code that works, and great code. Ideally writing the latter myself, but some blend of traditional/new might get us there faster.
As I posted under another comment, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Data_Bill_200... - communications data bill 2008 / interception modernisation programme. A precursor to what became the IPA.
Nor does Satya. He has no expertise on the topic.
A design system for building CLIs in Swift
What about people who aren't interested in autocratic racists who throw out the nazi salute?
Will AI agents eat SaaS?
You are precisely right.
CowPilot: An AI cowsay for your terminal
I was showing my daughter cowsay the other day and thought it could use and upgrade. Hope you all enjoy!
When I was an adjunct a couple years ago, I would use money for the more introductory stuff in Python.

I figured that for better or worse, every single person in that classroom will have to deal with some amount of "money math" in their life, and "money math" is still "real" math, and programs involving money are still "real" programs. If nothing else, I couldn't really get the "when will I ever use this????" kinds of questions.

A lot of people seem to have almost a "phobia" of mathematics; they are perfectly fine doing the relevant calculations in regards to stuff that's directly used, like money, but seem to shut down when mathematical notation is used.
This has always been the case. Laws are only as good as their enforcement. This is why the business class is so aggressive about tearing down regulation until they can wield it as a weapon. Do as I say, not as I do, etc etc

If you as an individual can prevent the enforcement of a law, or be sure that it will not be enforced against you, then it does not apply to you.
Presumably because the answer is "of course yes".
How does he have time for that beside CEO-ing several companies and hacking the government?
>"I don't think it has a neuroanatomical description included"

Genuinely curious, but then why bother?
if you're 18/19 and know how to install kali linux, you might be able to attend this event and leave with a job at the helm of the treasury department