skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come on, you know they wouldn't agree with the spirit of the full quote? They're cancelling DEI programs because they don't care about the disadvantaged; precisely because they think they are worth less, socially.

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...

> All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. [..] Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

And to achieve that, because "entitlement" isn't enough for the end result of people actually enjoying those rights regardless of who they are, you have to sometimes help people out so they get equal footing.

It is a project that might take centuries even if everybody committed to it in earnest.
Huh? What are you talking about? I can manipulate page tables just fine from userspace through the magic of MapViewOfFile.
"as we get closer to achieving AGI, we believe that trending more towards individual empowerment is important; the other likely path we can see is AI being used by authoritarian governments to control their population through mass surveillance and loss of autonomy."

The AI being controlled by megacorps scenario conveniently left out.
PhD students aren't necessarily the brightest (which is probably why many of them don't end up with tenure), but studying something at the graduate level does open your eyes to a particular kind of knowledge which is generally unavailable otherwise. So, yes, of course the work is more important than the credential, but the credential often stands in for the work that gives that knowledge.
The question no one is asking is why does the federal government have so much "sensitive data" on it's citizens in the first place?

When you build a machine like this you should ask, "would I be comfortable if my political opposites had control of this?" If the answer is no, then you DON'T BUILD IT.

Meanwhile someone goes in there to try to break up this 30 year pile of technical debt and it's all lawsuits and handwaving theatrics to try to stop it.
I'm sorry, but this is a persistent myth about this space. Lots of research is done every year on the genetic components of behavior and cognition. The field doesn't see it as a yes/no question; there are questions about how far you can get with classic twin studies vs large-scale GWAS, questions about the malleability of intelligence, questions about the validity of IQ tests (see things like test-test reliability), questions about the meaningfulness of psychometric "g", all actively studied.

Again you can just go read Turkheimer's Vox piece for an refutation of your "basically zero impact" thing.

My big thing here though isn't to convince you that you're wrong about your belief that intelligence is innate and fixed. Rather, it's that you opened this thread with a citation to heritability research, and your usage of "heritability" was broken and misleading. With that cleared up, I don't think we need to drag this out.
Is there a real source to this? I'll humour you and try to find one. The rabbit hole leads down sketchy sites to sketchy tweets, to someone who eventually sources it as "vBulletin, Biden basement" and links to a Musk tweet with no further info. [0]

Smells a lot like "flooding the zone with shit", but I don't think anyone is pro-corruption.

Assuming this is true, and it seems like misinfo, I hope that the right has a plan to remove all the corruption they are current in the process of installing -- obviously starting at the top with a leader that launched a memecoin to fleece true believers (also quoted as saying "I love the undereducated").

[0] https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1888581827285148067

EDIT: it's even sketchier. Following the source leads to this very likely biased [1] page that estimates her net worth as approx 10M-30M based on... what? It doesn't even match the sums of the document below.

She clearly made 1M-5M as an advisor for Chamath's Social Capital, and has some decent savings before that (on the order of a few million) but this estimation of net worth and faux-outrage is laughably transparent.

[1] https://www.insidebidensbasement.org/appointees/samantha-pow...
Did everybody already forget only a month ago it was revealed Chinese hackers had access to US Treasury computers including US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's own?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-16/chinese-h... (https://archive.ph/xeEaO) (January 16, 2025)
lol, lmao even

1) give me more money and i will make you rich
2) don’t look at deepseek
3) I repeat: there is no reason to not keep giving me EXPONENTIALLY more money to boil all of the oceans
My guess is no, 1. Remove the competition, 2. Milk the IP, 3. Good staff eventually leave as they now become a tiny cog.
Funny how people are taking massive doses of copium and not wanting to see how 2 big conmen are now in charge of the country, and they (as in, the people like grandparent commenter) are not willing to see that it's all in service of the grift.

Well, maybe not funny, but understandable, "con" is short for "confidence" anyway, and just like the Nigerian scam victims refusing to believe all evidence to show them they're being scammed, so are many Trump voters digging in...
This doesn't even line up with what Elon is saying publicly. Mike Flynn searches a public database for grants to organizations with the word "Lutheran" in them and then Elon tweets that they're all illegal and will be canceled. How is that a thoughtful process for identifying wasteful spending?

Or Elon saying he's "deleting" the IRS free file group. How is that wasteful? It's providing a service that actually solves a real problem for people - people have complained for years about having to pay TurboTax to file their taxes. What metric is being used to decide if it's wasteful? It seems entirely like government by whim.

And if they really think there are great people in these departments, why are they terrorizing them? Right now federal workers are facing daily emails telling them to quit, their bosses calling them unproductive, chaos and upheaval at work, and many of them are going to have to make these huge life changes to suddenly return to the office (long commutes, disruption to childcare and other schedules, maybe having to move on short notice). To my knowledge, all of the companies that did RTO gave much more notice.
No, it’s not the only route they have at all. There is a long history of companies screwing over their own customers to make money. I can’t honestly believe that you aren’t aware of this.

Just look at how Wells Fargo a while back was opening up accounts and charging fees to customers who never authorized it.

Or Purdue Pharma that gave kickbacks to doctors to prescribe opioids and misled the public about how addictive they were.

Or payday loan companies that suck people into vicious cycles of debt. Or the numerous companies that profit from gambling addiction.

Or the big banks that gave out dubious mortgages and lied about risks to investors, which precipitated in a global housing meltdown and recession in 2007.

Or how cigarette companies lied about the dangers of smoking, leading to countless deaths.

Companies will lie, cheat, and scam their way to profits if they have to. Not all of them, and not all of the time, but the endless quest for more money is always corrupting.
Why is there no one explaining this?
Thank you very much — fixed!
Achiral hard bananas assemble double-twist skyrmions and blue phases
Yes, I do agree with you. Just wanted to inform you that it may still be possible in principle and as you can see with development speed, build system, dependencies etc there is a potential angle.
> Over time, in fits and starts, the steady march of human innovation [alongside monumental efforts of risk mitigation of each new innovation] has brought previously unimaginable levels of prosperity and improvements to almost every aspect of people’s lives.

Anyway, AI/AGI will not yield economic liberation for the masses. We already produce more than enough for economic liberation all over the world, many times over. It hasn't happened. Why? Snuck in here:

> the price of... a few inherently limited resources like land may rise even more dramatically.

This is really the crux of it. The price of land will skyrocket, driving the "cost of living" (cost of land) wedge further between the haves and have-nots.
We had a gas furnace but an electric water heater. Last month we paid $0.196/kWh (including distribution charges, supply charges, taxes, and various minor fees.) Better than CA, worse than TX. Average power use over January was a shade over 4 kW.
Absolutely. Great point. I just finished updating accordingly.

My design options are a bit limited so I went with a simple link to the next lesson.
Sadly it’s one of the only ways of getting through the thick skulls of dumb middle management that seem to always be leading software projects despite having no technical background.

If it’s not got a familiar marketing thing going on, they’ll refuse to acknowledge it even if their devs are practically begging for it.
> team of teenage

Maybe it's a question of wording, but I would agree if the word were "inexperienced" instead of teenage (in reality, they are young adults).

I have no horse in this DOGE race and all the discussions, but I find this "reverse ageism" (for lack of a better term) quite sad, 'cause it does not sound condescending but infantilizes youth and hides one of the biggest elephants in the room in the modern world, which is the real lack of representation of youth in politics (and maybe in the public service?) [1][2].

I was a 19-year-old holding an assault weapon in my daily work in the military with the power to terminate the lives of almost 99.99% civilians, friends with 23 starting piloting USD 5 million machines, and it's just sad to see that we as a society do not see young adults as capable as their older counterparts.

I speculate that at least in Europe, due to this credibility bias in favor of older politicians, we are facing one of the biggest violations of the intergenerational pact, which is the fact that this same youth will end up without retirement [3].

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/congress-age-de...

[2] - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/both-republicans-and-de...

[3] - https://www.dw.com/en/pension-fund-crisis-looms-in-germany-a...
It's easier to make a list of things Musk DOES understand, and my word it's a short list. Politics, ethics, international relations, the value of soft power... would not be on the list.
Baby Boomer Deathclock
As another commenter said, Telegram.

404 media has ran multiple stories on them. Here is one:

https://www.404media.co/inside-the-com-world-war-robberies-b...
Go ahead, put some legislation in place. I'd love to see transparency as the Swedes have where you can see how much tax your neighbour has paid. Or at least how much subsidies which company received. I'm sure rich people will LOVE to know the competition got half what they got... Btw, did Trump's tax returns get published yet?
TLDR:

1. The intelligence of an AI model roughly equals the log of the resources used to train and run it.

2. The cost to use a given level of AI falls about 10x every 12 months, and lower prices lead to much more use.

3. The socioeconomic value of linearly increasing intelligence is super-exponential in nature.
Yea, sure I will delete emails if asked to, but no one has ever asked.
> where is DOGE’s evidence of all of this corruption?

Presumably this was published by DOGE: https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/at-usaid-wast...

I encourage everyone to follow the links and determine the accuracy of the claims being made.
Everyone is asking that. It's the main thing people are asking.
Apple NeXT and PA Semi?
What kind of programs did they teach you to write in the language?
Thank you, and as a non-designer, I've been quite impressed with Shorthand in the short time I've been using it.
It shows a pattern of Intel investing in Israel due to ideology versus business reasons. Zionists may not like it, but it’s directly related to their Jewish supremacist beliefs that Intel keeps investing so much money in the middle of a war zone.

Do we really want to avoid discussion about ideology in business investments? The fact that this site flags any mention of Palestine is irresponsible. This site really needs to figure out a way to not let Zionists control the business discussion.

It’s Ok to allow discussion of the negative consequences of Zionists ideology on technology businesses.
We asked our target audience, 19-year-olds. They had a strong preference for this style. I know....
The problem is no differentiation

If you have to do more work to port for no benefit, it doesn’t make sense except to commoditize it
Waze, Android, face.com, Shazam, GitHub - there’s tons but they don’t make headlines if everything works.
google has botched or killed any number of acquisitions, but google earth and google docs are spectacular success stories that involved acquiring practically unknown startups and then scaling them way up. (I do realise this is likely a simplification of the actual stories behind them.)
> This research demo is not open to residents of, or those accessing the demo from, the States of Illinois or Texas.

Not accessible if you're in Illinois or Texas.

They must have anti-AI laws, probably with voice conversion moreso than image segmentation and cartoon animation.

Hopefully the lawmakers see beneficial use cases and fix their laws to target abuse instead of a blanket coarse-grained GenAI restriction.
How could the US government do things like collect tax or regulate the medical industry without sensitive data?
> Is it good for one person (the writer) to save time, only for lots of other people (the readers) to have to do extra work to understand if the work is correct or hallucinated?

This holds true whether an LLM/AI is used or not — see substantial portions of Fox News editorial content as an example (often kernels of truth with wildly speculative or creatively interpretive baggage).

In your example, a responsible writer who uses AI will check all content produced in order to ensure that it meets their standards.

Will there be irresponsible writers? Sure. There already are. AI makes it easier for them to be irresponsible, but that doesn’t really change the equation from the reader’s perspective.

I use AI daily in my work. I describe it as “AI augmentation”, but sometimes the AI is doing a lot of the time-consuming stuff. The time saved on relatively routine scut work is insane, and the quality of the end product (AI with my inputs and edits) is really good and consistent.
Listen, the government exists soley to redistribute the wealth to Musk, Bezos, and Zuck. Elon is just making it more efficient, ok?
> When Elon stripped the Twitter organisation down to its fundamental parts, saved tons of money and the service is still ran like usual, people said the he’s a moron and the service couldn’t possibly run without a bloated and inefficient workforce.

- The bot problem is much worse than before the acquisition

- Search is completely broken, borderline unusable

- Financial data is hidden, so no way to compare
Show HN: Encrypt root partition of a Raspberry Pi stock image (Debian Bookworm)
Was a fun ride to update this to the newest stable release!

Feel free to try it out yourself. :)
> It was also getting harder and harder to debug as JavaScript has no timeout functionality I would have had to wrap that request in another promise.

I'm pretty sure you could use an AbortController to address this? But it's one of those things you have to know about. I completely understand the author's frustration with CORS, but I don't think JS is to blame here. I have felt a similar level of frustration whenever I try to use a language other than JS to work with JSON. Does that mean the language sucks? I would say no. I don't think this made a compelling case for avoiding JS, but I would never want to deny someone the catharsis from venting about technology.
How often have you seen acquisitions of technology work out? What often happens is new company gets tacked onto an existing business unit and there are pretty massive culture clashes, the tech was oversold, and at best there’s an aquihire of decent engineers.

I’ve more often seen it’s something seen as easy and very visual thing that looks like you’re solving a problem instead of looking internally and making tough choices. Or having to take a critical look at leadership.
Do you have some examples of this? Sounds interesting. But unsure what is different to plain composition approaches?
I have used the htdemucs_6s a bunch, but I prefer the 4 stem model. The dedicated guitar and piano stems are usually full of really bad artifacts in the 6s model. It's still useful if you want to use it to transcribe the part to sheet music however. Just not useful to me in music production or as a backing track.

My primary use is for creating backing tracks I can play piano / keyboard along with (just for fun in my home). Most of the time I'll just use the 4s model and will keep drums, bass and vocals.
Spanish colonialism in the new world was largely an extension of the reconquista abroad. The Spanish crown used wealth from conquered territories to placate and balance the power of Iberian nobility. With the conquest of the canaries and the fall of Granada, the only obvious place to continue that system was North Africa, which would have brought the Spanish crown into direct conflict with the kingdom of Portugal.

Then Columbus returned with news of a route to the indies that avoided the increasingly powerful Ottomans. The war machine just got pointed in a new direction until the realities of the new world eventually caught up.

A moorish kingdom would not have had the same approach to the new world, even if someone had discovered it.
They didn’t publish it all for everyone to use, did they? Not much transparency here, since all they did was steal it and use selectively for their purposes.
comments at the time, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34780696
Ada has already "package" term used in a different context.
Perhaps giving an inexperienced script kiddie full access was part of a broader plan to allow someone else to covertly “steal” the data without directly implicating those in charge.
Currently, OpenAI is the only real big corporation that controls it, but DeepSeek and the myriad academic researchers working on making the models even more efficient are smaller scale and fairly disruptive.
I’m struggling naming my views. Any recommendations? Same naming as tables?
I have two book and tons of blog posts only a few people have read.. Still feels good. I even wrote a blog post on why.
So why is their boss tweeting out outrageous lies about what they've found?

Don't they feel any moral compunction to say publicly, actually that is a complete misrepresentation of what we've found?
> Do you feel all of these programs should have been funded, or make sense when we are blowing through money and crushing people with inflation? Do you find the concept of auditing these organizations as bad, or is it bad because it's someone else doing it? If so can you explain why these actions weren't taken with the prior administration?

I don't take issue with auditing. I take issue with the possible illegal firing of officials that are meant to provide oversight, skipping over security clearances to provide sensitive data access to unvetted indivduals, and attempting to illegally cut spending when only Congress has that authority.

> The point being, step out of a partisan hat, or an emotional state of X person is Y. Look at the federal governments spend, fraud, waste, and abuse is prevalent. Someone has to do the hard part and clearly leaving everyone to manage themselves doesn't work. More so when they can't pass their own audits.

Let's be clear here because I see a lot of MAGA repeating this incorrectly. You are referring to a few agencies like the Pentagon when you say they can't pass their own audits. Most federal agencies have no problem passing their audits and all of those audits are available through GAO. https://www.gao.gov/federal-financial-accountability. The majority of agencies pass GAO audits. In fact if Elon was only targeting agencies that failed GAO audits I would have much less of a problem.

I think you are the one that needs to take off the partisan hat.
You might want to give feedback to the risc-v developers (although it might be too late at this point). What is the way to check if implicit cmov instructions are implemented in the CPU instruction decoder?

If AMD did not implement this in Zen 5, maybe we could ask them to add it in Zen 7 or 8. I assume it would be too late to ask them to add this in Zen 6.

Thanks for the caching tip.
Yes—I should have stressed that. More than anything, we've talked at great lengths about LLMs with over a thousand undergraduate students who we have taught in our courses since ChapGPT 3.5 launched in Nov 22.
> OpenAI shared they trained the o3 we tested on 75% of the Public Training set.

I'm talking transfer learning and generalization. A human who has never seen the problem set can be told the rules of the problem domain and then get 85+% on the rest. o3 high compute requires 300 examples using SFT to perform similarly. An impressive feat, but obviously not enough to just give an agent instructions and let it go. 300 examples for human level performance on the specific task, but that's still impressive compared to SOTA 2 years ago. It will be interesting to see performance on ARC-AGI-2.
Analysis of 2024 election results in Clark County indicates manipulation
This is of concern to the community given the apparent overlap with the technical expertise of a DOGE employee, Ethan Shaotran, and his prior work for a Musk sponsored hackathon where he created software that could spoof ballot tabulation.

https://github.com/DevrathIyer/ballotproof/tree/master

Apparently, Shaotran removed his name from the repo and is now listed as a private user, but it can be found in the archive of the devpost page linked from the repo: https://devpost.com/software/ballotproof-vision

https://web.archive.org/web/20250204131222/https://devpost.c...

Info from: https://bsky.app/profile/cartwright776.bsky.social/post/3lhr...

Could this be used to spoof the results, and are there artifacts that could be discovered to directly link it or rule it out?

Here is an image from the Election Truth Alliance analysis that shows a possible artifact: https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/9087f51c-d3bd-4002-9943-797...

PDF of their analysis: https://electiontruthalliance.org/clark-county%2C-nv