skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can even "leak" memory in java if you keep references to objects you don't need anymore xD

Also what is the point of .at()?

try {

myarray.at(invalid_index);

} catch(std::exeception& e){

// how do you handle a logic error in your code?
// does that even make sense philosophically?

}

Yet you could also enable bounds checking for debugging on operator [] or use address sanitizer.
You may also want to use this function to set up binfmt for QEMU:

https://codeberg.org/keks24/dotfiles/src/commit/3ee332253c00...
Go's garbage collector is concurrent, too. GC assist makes sure the GC can keep up with allocations.
How Hizbollah is using cash and WhatsApp groups to shore up power
https://archive.ph/sCkrP
He is not titan in tech industry nor on the path there. Your typical script kiddy does not become tech titan. What it takes to be tech titan is actually irrelevant to whether DDoS is impressive.

> being a business titan requires a different particular set of skills, skills this guy apparently has.

Just about the only thing he has is lack of ethics and morals. Lack of care for harm he causes. Yes, those are necessary to be a tech titan, but not nearly sufficient.

There are many low level guys without much ethics that never ever become tech titans.
My friend group chat was suddenly RCS after updating iOS today and it’s great - no more “So and so liked ‘the entire message body’” messages, we all just see the thumbs up reaction
> The history of computing has many examples of products and languages winning out over technically superior alternatives for non-technical reasons.

While this is undoubtedly true, i suspect that there are also many cases where people presume the reasons are non-technical but when examined closly turn out to have hidden technical issues.
> The increment will always end up in the right place afterwards

That is completely untrue.
OT: What is a good place to discuss the original video -- once it has dropped out of the HN front-page?

I am going through the video myself -- roughly halfway through -- and have a fw things to bring up.

Here they are now that we have a fresh opportunity to discuss:

1 - MATH and LLMs

I am curious why many of the examples Andrej chose to pose to the LLM were "computational" questions -- for instance "what is 2+2" or some numerical puzzles that needed algebraic thinking and then some addition/subtraction/multiplication (example at 1:50 mins about buying Apples and Oranges).

I can understand these abilities of LLMs are becoming powerful and useful too -- but in my mind these are not the "basic" abilities of a next token predictor.

I would have appreciated a more clear distinction of prompts that showcase core LLM ability -- to generate text that is acceptable as generally grammatically correct, based in facts and context, without necessarily needing the ability of a working memory / assigning values to algebraic variables / doing arithmetic etc.

If there are any good references to discussion on the mathematical abilities of LLMs and the wisdom of trying to make them do math -- versus simply recognizing when a math is needed and generating the necessary python/expressions and let the tools handle it.

2 - META

While Andrej briefly acknowledges the "meta" situation where LLMs are being used to create training data for the training of and judge the outputs of newer LLMs ... there is not much discussion on that here.

There are just many more examples of how LLMs are used to prepare mitigations for hallucinations by preparing Q&A training sets with "correct" answers etc

I am curious to know more about the limitations / perils of using LLMs to train/evaluate other LLMs.

I kind of feel that this is a bit like the Manhattan project and atomic weapons -- in that early results and advances are being looped back immediately into the development of more powerful technology. (A smaller fission charge at the core of a larger fusion weapon -- to be very loose with analogies)

<I am sure I will have a few more questions as I go through the rets of the video and digest it>
I can tell you that, having seen some before, injured, and transplanted photos of facial transplant patients, their faces rapidly look much like they used to, regardless of the original person their face was transplanted from.

Bone structure is, as far as I can tell as a layperson, the major determinant of how people look. I found it quite surprising as I thought it would be the other way around.

The only obvious change was hair and skin color, essentially.
Agreed. Although this line (only) is still white for me:

"Get the discussion going with a few curated questions"
No the price will become 1.05 and when customer buys 2 it will be 2.10 not 2.05
Already done in France in 1962 by Jacques-Yves Cousteau : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A9continent_III
The problem is however that the internalized advice is shortened to "don't use global variables" and not "avoid global mutable variables when using concurrency".

Constant global variables can be very useful. Mutable global variables can be totally fine in a singlethreaded (e.g. typical embedded) program. I agree that you should still use them with caution, but every advice that says: "don't do $X" should come with instructions under which circumstances it is valid and under which it isn't — and how to get the intended behavior instead with e.g. message queues, locks or whatnot.
Hey, thank you for posting my link!

Since I can't make links on raw txt blog posts, visitors needs to be creative (at least a little bit), and update the url in order to access the list of articles (written in html, sorry but I really wanted to have some clickable links available), just here: https://misc.l3m.in/txt/
What kind of a take is this? UD has the cess but it is also archival and useful. I use it several times a year to do topical writeups for friends about words.
Would a reference file with filename, size, source and checksum count towards the OSI definition?
Vertical tabs, tab groups, usable profiles - all upcoming non-AI Firefox features.
Can you elaborate on your pension? How do you achieve that?
How does this play out? They pay a fine? Tim Cook is extradited? Something in between?
I'd say this is a top of the market indicator if ever there was one. $20billion for the services of one man......
Sarcasm: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%2FS

It evolved from the fake HTML tag "</sarcasm>" to "
" [1] (not referring to the actual 
 strikeout tag), to "/s".

[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%3C%2Fs%3E
Pretty sure this is the lifestyle most people wish they could have (including Europeans).
Obviously very stupid reasoning going on, but reasoning nonetheless? It makes me think we're on the right track that it basically seems to know what steps should be taken and how to step through the steps. I don't know why it is getting so incredibly tripped up, maybe it's extremely uncertain about whether it can map "9.9"["tenths place"] => "9". But this is still impressive to me that a machine is doing this.
I realized that the intersection of "understands computers" and "understands basic business management" is absolutely tiny.
Why so extreme, I believe they only will have to stop providing their premium iCloud service to the UK as this is the one that have E2E encryption and thus would be affected?
Autopen: Editor with LLM generation tree exploration
Because Meta called them in this way to differentiate themselves from "Open"AI and everyone else followed the suit.
The article you linked is from Sept '24 and points to the ARC-AGI test as "evidence" that we're not getting close.

We're in Feb '25. ARC-AGI (at least the version they're referencing) already has been solved by AI at above average human level.

>everything points to incremental progress with signs of diminishing returns.

Seems like everything in just Dec '24/ Jan '25 points the other way. These models are already helping PhDs in novel research, they're already getting super human at coding (yes yes, they're not perfect and I'm sure someone on HN has this weird coding job that AI can't replace yet and they're very excited to shit over AI), but they've already replaced a lot of real software dev jobs.

Also aren't you contradicting yourself?

> everything points to incremental progress with signs of diminishing returns

> corporation replacing employees with AI

If we have incremental progress, how are corporations going to replace employees with AI?
The perfect place to exfiltrate information and absolutely no need for this level of security skills there unless they intended to break into government systems they were not given access to by e.g. the courts.
Not sure how that is any different besides construction of an object rather than a file with globals?
Did you not get a manufacturing defect car
The 8% battery loss per day comes from sentry mode. It's draining your battery like crazy.
>exponentially

quadratically
It's resally common knowledge if you work as a Cyber crime responder or visit some of those forums (e.g. breachforums). Krebs of course has to have a few good contacts in those circles.

From Europol:

> Violent online groups are targeting and manipulating vulnerable children and young people across widely accessible online platforms. There are multiple groups, associations and evolving subgroups that make up the online network known as The Com – short for community. The Com is a virtual community of groups and individuals who conduct illicit activities that glorify serious violence, cruelty, and gore.

> Elements of The Com network are known to have extreme ideological views and victimise children, coercing them to commit violent acts. Predators groom their victims through different methods – one approach is establishing friendships based on trust or romantic relationships. Another technique involves the use of power or coercive tactics with one goal – taking control over the victims, while getting them to engage in serious violence, self-harm, or other gruesome. It’s a vicious cycle - the predators in this network influence children or young people into conducting acts that increasingly shame, incriminate, or isolate them, this in turn makes them more vulnerable to further exploitation.

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/law-...
lol no way trump would let the UK extradite a US CEO.
If Elon wasn't so busy talking crap on Twitter all day long, he could maybe pick up on stories like these if it went viral, and get something done. This is unacceptable. Teslas, in principle, are great cars.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but concurrent GC only means that certain phases of GC can be done in parallel.

GC pauses are a necessity exactly for the part that can't be done in parallel, and Go is definitely not using ZGC's next-generation design that would decouple the pause's length from the heap size, so we still have our "arbitrary long pause" problem on the table.
8% seems like a lot. Car usually stays plugged in at home so I haven't seen it drain. I wonder if it's having trouble since the cameras aren't working, and constantly trying to detect objects or something?
But its cousin Micro-Fit is what melted, and it's been happening for a while, so infinitely parallelizing these sounds a bit sketchy to me.
I'd say that the critique points out that this "information from a previous model" itself needs tremendous amounts of data. Now, did we see any better generalization capabilities with all data counted?
As long as the company operates as a legal entity in the country, the government can force it to comply with its mandates. It doesn't matter if the specific service is offered in the UK or not.
You can also write txt files to blog, you don't even have to worry about formatting, and search engines are able to generate titles and descriptions for you (source: I got a txt file somewhat popular on hn a few years ago, and google decided to index it very quickly, and generate a title & a small description).

I posted a txt "blog" post just a few hours ago just here: https://misc.l3m.in/txt/raw_txt.txt

And here's a list of all the blog posts: https://misc.l3m.in/txt/
He learned Russian to infiltrate Russian hacker forums. That shows he's dedicated to learning.
Open source implementation of OpenAI's deep research agent
VanillaJS LLM response streaming animation
You can use this webcomponent to simulate LLM agent streaming response to client or hook your own logic to really receive chunked data and render it for the client. Supports multi-chat mode and custom parser logic. Includes a rudimentary diffing to make sure only the last node is re-renderend.
Well imagine a robot that goes to work for you everything else being equal
I agree that decentralising is without any doubt the best option. The best option for consumers. But it's not the best option for Apple: they want to remain tightly and firmly in control.

But removing Apple entirely from the "cloud" integration would be the best bet. E.g.: take a path similar to IMAP and CalDAV, where any third party provider can be used.
Re file streams yes classic macOS did have them current macOS does not but it does not need them as you can use Bundles instead which are Unix directories that are treated as a whole by the SDKs.
I blog about things I mess up on but learned something about. That way, I feel less bad messing up and if someone else has the same idea, they can learn too
I think the hatred of global variables comes from the fact that they are hard to use correctly. This article also makes the point that to use correctly you need to follow a bunch of rules.
if you are trying to but a tesla, then you have only yourself to blame when something goes wrong.

tesla is (in)famous for customer service and quality issues.
Decentralize iCloud doesn’t solve the problem because the majority of users (myself included) would want to keep using their hosted/“official” version due to the Apple subscription bundles we’re already paying for (the blog mentions this) and wanting the smoothest/most fully featured version. If the UK mandates some sort of encryption backdoor then that will follow anywhere the protocol is used (in the UK, that is. Apple would certainly use a non-backdoored version everywhere else it’s legal).
I'm ready to provide witness statement in front of court about the 8% per day battery loss from sentry mode on a 2022 M3P. It's not even on a busy street, just a shitty software. Not sure why you want to argue about that.

Edit: Sorry maybe this sounded a bit too rough, but unplug your car and check it yourself. It's like someone is siphoning gasoline from your vehicle every single day.
That is incorrect -- you do not have to provide the full training data to meet the requirements.

I recommend reading the actual Open Source AI Definition[1] and the FAQ[2]. There's also the whitepaper[3] that goes into much more detail about the state of affairs.

[1]: https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition

[2]: https://hackmd.io/@opensourceinitiative/osaid-faq#What-is-th...

[3]: https://opensource.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-OSI-D...
You can also use it to write your best responses to topics so that you can just link to it instead of writing a custom response every time.
Tesla sales are plummeting all over the world currently, also in the US. But with Musk in the US government, I wonder how long it will take before there will be tariffs on foreign cars big enough to pretty much force US citizens to buy his Tesla's.
Shades of the similarly sarcastic "Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm", attributed to JFK.

<https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/john_f_kennedy_143149>
Security clearances being marked on documents as worthless because the government has told employees to "just pick" a specific cleatance from the dropdown, even for things like "lunch meeting Tomorrow". The clearance people were told to use is "never to be cleared" - meaning it's intractable.

It was abused, so I don't buy the legal argument.

Put another way, if everything is top secret, nothing is.
Wait, those strong neodymium magnets are only produced in China?!
i've been lucky with my model Y purchase in that there have been no issues with the car itself so far. i would certainly never buy a tesla again, however.
If people were claiming that a computer might be able to, but will be to slow, that might be an angle to take, but to date, in these discussions, none of the people arguing that brains can do more have argued that they're just more efficient, but that they inherently have more capabilities, so it's an unnecessarily convoluted argument.
It's very odd to read a piece which only talks about Jobs in the post-1990 sense ("Jobs was considered a visionary who revolutionized product design in the 1990s and 00s"), with little awareness of what Jobs did in the 1970s and 1980s.

FWIW, lots of people knew Jobs used LSD, as did others at Apple, and he didn't care to keep the topic secret.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

> By his senior year of high school, Jobs began using LSD. ... After seven months, Jobs left India ... During this time, Jobs experimented with psychedelics, later calling his LSD experiences "one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life".

https://www.folklore.org/Gobble_Gobble_Gobble.html

> For example, Burrell, Steve and I interviewed Angeline Lo's former manager ... I could tell that Steve was losing patience when he started to roll his eyes at the candidate's responses. Steve began to grill him with some unconventional questions. ...

> Steve changed the subject. "How many times have you taken LSD?"

https://www.folklore.org/Joining_Apple_Computer.html

> Steve Jobs and I became close friends. ...

> Inspired by a mind-expanding LSD journey in 1985, I designed the HyperCard authoring system that enabled non-programmers to make their own interactive media.
Which goes to show why *nix won over more feature rich alternatives - the human element. Being feature rich makes the learning curve (usually) much steeper but tends to help in the long-term, while shifting the complexity in to userland means that if I don't need a feature, it needn't concern me.

You trade ability for reduction of complexity - getting an operating system that you can learn in months instead of years, which - since the tech industry has been in hipper-growth phase for much of the last 30 years, was more important.
Not that famous, as they used to (maybe still do? I don’t follow) force customers into an NDA in order to warranty fixes.
> But Sentry mode was not activated.

Make of that what you will.
I think the word 'rare' in rare earths here is merely implies expensive. That's why having cheap alternatives is such a big deal.

Interesting to note that there is quite big movement towards rare earth free electrical motors in the last few years that rely only on cheap, readily available materials. Some expect that to grab up to 30% of the market in about a decade. Similar technology is also being used for creating wind generators that don't depend on these expensive/rare materials.
In Europe, they're currently even available for under a euro (or under two euros for a 'regular' expiry date and RSV as well) if you buy them online instead of at retail. For example [1] or [2] (I have no affiliation with the shop).

[1] https://altruan.de/products/safecare-covid19-influenza-a-b-a...

[2] https://altruan.de/products/fluorecare-kombischnelltest-rsv-...
Why Socialism? By Albert Einstein (1949)
Is it 0% per day if you turn off sentry mode?
> “can’t explain how they arrived at conclusions”

Imagine I would tell my wife, that whenever we have a discussion, her opinion would only be valid when she can explain how she arrived at her conclusion.
90s Basketball in NBA 2K
There are still other domestic manufacturers and those have enough political pull on both sides to stop any meddling on internal markets.
Your point is if you're interested in writing code to verify the validity of elections, that is evidence to the suspicion your employer sonehow corrupted the election? That does not sound like a sane line of reasoning.
Not saying IT security cannot be admins, sounds like you are bringing theoretical viewpoint. I already have some years of experience and certifications in the field - so it is hard to surprise me.

I am pointing out that in most places there is separation of duties so you don't give "red teamer" or "pentester" access to any databases when they are in offensive role.

Then most likely administrators (who can have formal education on paper called cybersecurity) who have loads of work so 90% is configuring and keeping all configuration proper will have requirements like background checks and you are not going to hire "mischevious people" for that role.

Security is a broad spectrum but still offensive testing is maybe 1-2% of the work that needs to be done, all those systems need people to configure them. Having good security 90% of work is waking up updating software and keeping configurations of systems documented and in proper state. If some company doesn't have their security posture basics fixed there is no point of doing "red team assessment" or a "pentest" with them, that would be waste of time.
This claim is already falsified by existing AI capabilities, which neither required simulating how humans solve similar problems, nor required understanding how to hand-code the relevant algorithms (and indeed we don't even have the interpretability tools to know what those algorithms are yet!).
I find different languages/ecosystems have different cultures around this. In Java/Maven land it's fairly common to have a self-contained project where all the helpers like linters etc. are set up in Maven so all you need is a vaguely recent JVM and vaguely recent Maven. But there are other ecosystems where people like to throw a bunch of shell scripts etc. in.
Show HN: WikiTok – TikTok Style of Wikipedia Discovery
I forked WikTok to implement some enhancements, including:
- Faster loading speeds for a smoother experience.
- Optimized mobile browsing for better performance and usability on smaller screens.

Let me know if you’d like to check out the changes or have any feedback!
A real Volkswagen then.
I've noticed that the tesla app is not super reliable in that regard. Sometimes it re-activates sentry mode, not sure if it is after updates or triggered by second key on different smartphone.

But luckily that car will be gone soon and I'm not gonna do any further free QA for this company.
On the other hand Trump killed the EV charger subsidies, so that doesn't really help Tesla.
Unlocking the potential of 1-on-1 meetings
I mostly use iCloud for photo sync. It would be nice if there was some sort of API or something that third party applications could use to upload and download photos automatically in the background, like iCloud Photos does.
Yes, 0% or 1% loss per day without sentry mode. When I first noticed I was dumbfounded. And they have this setting "sentry mode only at home", so when you forget about that and do your 50% battery charge travel and park the car for the weekend, then you come back on sunday to a ~30% charge you cry inside
not entirely, but it's maybe 1-3% over a week depending on the outside temperature
I consider blogging, in this modern internet area where most Google search end up with optimized SEO or LLM garbage, to be the right thing to do.

Provide something from one human to the other, just like i would help someone lost in the street and not try to sell him a map, is just the right thing to do.

It doesn't have to make me popular, or benefit me in the slightest way.

If one was to do it only for their own benefit, I'm not sure blogging would be worth it. Other way are either more efficient or just as good but less time consuming. X or Twitter for instance has better reach than a blog.
My X-feed is better now than before . I don't use the website but the app so i haven't encountered the bugs you mention.

But as always you need to curate the ones you follow to get a "for you" that's interesting.
Does his accuracy take a sudden precipitous fall when going from multiplying two three-digit numbers to two four-digit numbers?