skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see a ~3x difference in memory usage in case of JIT-compiled Java vs Go, but AOT-compiled Java comes in at less memory usage while still being faster than Go. I believe Java AOT uses the Serial GC, while the "normal" version defaults to G1, so there is that (the GC code is actually reused between Graal and OpenJDK, so we could remove this "variable")

Don't forget that the JVM has to allocate memory for all its subsystems as well, like the JIT compiler, so that 3x memory is not entirely heap usable by the program.

And I deliberately linked this benchmark, as the topic at hand is the GC itself.
Are these really reasoning challenges? Seems like they are really solved via brute force or guess and check
Since you (not me) brought EU up: what are EU laws that Germany doesn't follow?
Fascists always despise disabled people. This is entirely on brand.
Good idea: having someone audit wasteful government spending

Bad idea: having someone hire a bunch of H1-Bs[0] to take root access onto a bunch of Treasury Department servers and leak everything they get their hands on by asking an LLM to do the work for them

[0] My politics considers migration as a human right. However, since we don't live in that world yet, we have to consider that H1-Bs are hired not for their merit as programmers but for their willingness to wear golden handcuffs in exchange for potential future immigration opportunities.
See? This is already a much better argument than what parent posted. If you tone down Russian hysteria angle ( not wrong, just pointing out how it is coming across ) the other side may be able to hear you.

This is basically my point and that point is the same point I make for Zuck, Thiel and others. There is already plenty of real things to complain about.

How about we focus on those?
I mean if you have that many violations that points to other problems, but sure if you are in that situation I can see how catching by name might be helpful. It's not a panacea.
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Don't click into the comments would probably be a good start.
People mentioned Elon's DOGE team is about 200 people including lawyers and accountants. I am guessing the focus on the 6 youngsters is mainly because here's a bunch of former Deloitte lawyers/accountants is not a newsworthy thing to focus on especially if your angle is to discredit the effort.
Claude’s web UI has some strange limitations. You may be better off using another provider that just uses Claude 3.5 Sonnet API. One example of many is Kagi’s interface. You can set a system prompt and Claude will actually follow it instead of trying to be too clever. If your prompt says “give full and complete code files at all times unless specified otherwise by the user” it tends to follow that way more accurately than Claude.ai. May be worth a try for you to check out some other providers/interfaces.
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I guess peak Linux is to use Nix on Arch Linux for ultimate smugness.
I wonder what was the thought process there: hey we save an engine maybe, but everyone inside the plane gets cooked in 39 seconds. Ship it!

Comments on that youtube video are filled with industry insiders and it’s just wild. They even think someone has died from a similar fuming event back in December…
> Obviously the operative line is the central one about not rewarding journalists who try to destroy people, "Ever". That means regardless of who the target is or their age.

Does that apply to politicians or billionaires as well? Considering Musk's history of doing that?

On a more general note, if it's racist remarks everyone is coming out with "lets forgive them", "they were young", "lets not destroy people because of some innocent remarks", but god forbid they say something that is being perceived as "leftist" ... burn them!
It depends on your tolerance for error.

When you have a machine that can only infer rules for reasoning from inputs [which are, more often than not, encoded in a very roundabout way within a language which is very ambiguous, like English], you have necessarily created something without "ground."

That's obviously useful in certain situations (especially if you don't know the rules in some domain!), but it's categorically not capable of the same correctness guarantees as a machine that actually embodies a certain set of rules and is necessarily constrained by them.
if the team chose a bad book, i can't have been obviously bad unless you pick books at random or without even reading anything about them before selecting. it also depends on how much people read. in our group most members are well read and a good part of the nominations are books that at least one person has read already. people nominate books they read before and liked or have heard good things about. other sources are awards or nominations for awards the authors received, or articles like the best 10 books in this genre, etc...
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> I'm starting to wonder if Vitamin D and Omega 3s are indicators, not drivers.

That is not true. AFAIK there have been several studies using supplements of Vitamin D3 & Omega-3 that showed that it improved biomarkers of various diseases.
I think the authors misunderstand what's actually going on.

I think this is the crux:

>They are vastly more powerful than what you get on an iPhone, but the principle is similar.

This analogy is bad.

It is true that the _training objective_ of LLMs during pretraining might be next token prediction, but that doesn't mean that 'your phone's autocomplete' is a good analogy, because systems can develop far beyond what their training objective might suggest.

Literally humans, optimized to spread their genes, have developed much higher level faculties than you might naively guess from the simplicity of the optimisation objective.

If the behavior of top LLMs didn't convince you of this, they clearly develop much more powerful internal representations than an autocomplete does, are much more capable etc.

I would point to papers like Othello-gpt, or lines of work on mechanistic interpretability, by Anthropic, and others, as very compelling evidence.

I think that, contrary to the authors, using words like 'understand' and 'think' for these systems is much more helpful than to conceptualise them as autocomplete.

The irony is that many people are autocompleting from the training objective to the limits of the system; or from generally being right by calling BS on AI, to concluding it's right to call BS here.
> GIMP's starting time: many times faster

I think what you discovered is that GIMP is written primarily for Linux, rather than that Windows is shit. I mean Windows is shit, but that's coincidental. GIMP for Windows probably loads slowly because it "has to" load GTK and all its components like Cairo, but on Ubuntu these things were loaded already when the desktop started up.

I put "has to" in quotes, because it could have been rewritten to use Windows APIs, but that would be, you know, a rewrite. And GTK was made for GIMP. So like a lot of ported Linux programs it's basically going to bring half the Linux desktop with it so that the devs don't have to leave their comfort zone, and as a result it loads slowly. (And then the next one, Inkscape maybe, will also load slowly, since it loads its own versions of the same things.)
I firmly believe AI will become heavily taxed and regulated.

It would be foolish to ban it, but equally foolish to allow it to replace a large percentage of your country’s workforce. It would completely destabilize the economy and society as a whole.

AI can do a lot of great things for humanity. Putting vast amounts of people out of a job is not one of those things.

There needs to be more smart people talking about and studying what the future realistically looks like.
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> but when billions of dollars have been spent so I can ask the computer to write me an ffmpeg invocation

That was an unnecessary spend then. You should ask yourself why ffmpeg still exists if if it's that hard to use. There's a plethora of simpler tools that exists for simple uses (handbrake, XLD,...). The truth is that if you want versality, there's no better than ffmpeg and it's core usage is relatively simple. It's an input | filter | output pipeline, with various options to fine tune each one. If you don't have the domain knowledge, it will be hard, just like a layman inside a plane cockpit. But if you do, everything makes sense.

Same with a lot of other software. There are bad design out there, but if something persists with no other incentive than its users, you should probably ask why first.
It's not that hard to just name the things you care about instead of relying on auto-generated stuff from the database. PG lets you do this easily.

> if you have that many violations that points to other problems

No, it doesn't. This is a sophisticated design choice. You might be out of your depth here.
Gross, this isn’t Reddit.
Discussion (17 points, 3 days ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42968396

https://archive.ph/shLE1
Useful information for HN from the original Google blog-post:

> First, the 2018 analysis flagged one particularly large job code (Level 4 Software Engineer) for adjustments. Within this job code, men were flagged for adjustments because they received less discretionary funds than women.

In other words, "some jobs" here is mid-level software engineers.
Current LLMs are not the end-all of LLMs, and chain of thought frontier models are not the end-all of AI.

I’d be wary of confidently claiming what AI can and can’t do, at the risk of looking foolish in a decade, or a year, or at the pace things are moving, even a month.
The benchmarks don't necessarily use all of the cores though, and memory bandwidth has increased considerably since those original benchmarks, so you should expect pause times to decrease from that alone.
While I understand the sentiment (and support it with a lot of political content on HN) the start of this administration has an undeniable tech angle. If you don’t want to read the stuff, don’t click. But it belongs here.
The preferred approach is (1) flag the stories you think are off-topic for Hacker News, and (2) make peace with the fact that the front page sometimes has stories that you feel don't belong there. This is true for everyone, including me. It's a consequence of the site being under conflicting constraints, and frontpage space being the scarcest resource (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

Oh and (3) if you browse HN while logged in, you can always click 'hide' on a submission and the software will not show you that particular one anymore.
That 18 year old recruit goes through training and has to pass tests before they’re allowed to use that rifle. Ask a vet how much time they spent training on following orders, using force only when and how authorized, etc. and the difference will obvious. Nobody is saying that the administration can’t hire people, the objection is to bypassing all of the rules which previous administrations have followed.
I had a professor organize a group of older women to encircle me and shout insults and tell me how horrible I was because of my race and gender. The rationale was that those women were taking out their frustrations from being abused by men on me. Ironically, they were unaware that I had been beaten, molested, and burned by my mother. There are social actors with whom this isn't just a communication perception problem.

It is just as stupid for abuse to happen by the hands of women as it is at the hands of men. There is deep historical precedent with a lot of lasting ramifications. An eye for an eye makes us all blind and all that.
Kamala Harris was not a leftist candidate nor is the DNC a leftist party. They are both center-right, with a center-left fringe that votes Democrat largely for historical reasons. In fact, it is specifically the fact that the DNC is not leftist that renders them incapable of addressing Americans' concerns. Because the center-right is the "everything's fine" wing of the DNC, which bet that they could make leftists blink and vote Harris, and lost.
Why would you spend more if it's not solving problems?

You can certainly spend more, but on-prem/self-hosted, time is usually the limiting factor, either directly or through opportunity cost. Contrary to popular belief, time does not always equal money, if you need more storage and the blocker is that you need to build out an S3 equivalent (rather than just paying for S3), then you'll be blocked by hiring, by hardware lead times, etc.
The confuddling thing to me is how did we have years of decay and no ability to head it off.

If we are at a point where the FBI is being dismantled, where was the FBI this whole time during the build up?

Even if you believed the FBI was some evil deep state entity - it turns out it was completely benign one because it couldn't even defend itself from an approaching enemy thousands of yards away.
macOS’s terminal app does #1 but you have to option-click. It’s kind of a hack too, it just issues a bunch of right/left arrow key codes to the shell to move your cursor to the designated spot.

Your second point is definitely my #1 issue, at least it is on Linux and Windows (macOS at least uses Cmd-c everywhere and it works.) I have to constantly remember to use ctrl-shift-c to copy in the terminal but ctrl-c to copy everywhere else, and I constantly forget and use ctrl-shift-c in a not-terminal program, and do something stupid like open dev tools in chrome, ugh. This is, unfortunately, not fixable. Not without rewriting every app on my system to use a different copy/paste combo.
> a bunch of kids now do not even know that HTML is what gets rendered in the browser. They think that React is itself what browsers render.

Ironically, they are right and you are wrong.

HTML is a serialization format, which browsers use to construct a DOM in memory.

React renders directly to the DOM without ever serializing anything to HTML.

The fact that you got this wrong and are so highly upvoted really drives home the “old man shakes fist at clouds” nature of this thread.
would be interesting to know how many govt accounts are fighting over controlling the narrative in the comments here on HN

subjectively, the last two weeks have felt very astroturfy, although that might just be the nature of the major stories
If outsiders with the CCP's interests at heart are able to use this data, why can't outsiders with the U.S.'s interests at heart be able to use this data?

I always feel like there's a Monty Hall aspect to these discussions where people forget that the past has occurred and it has a bearing on the present. The choice isn't between "observe data protections" and "don't observe data protections." Something was behind door #3.
Counterpoint by Diogenes: "Behold, a man!"
MKE is a great mid-sized airport. It has, of all things, a nice used book store in it.
<< Elon Musk does not seem to believe that the government departments can answer data questions.

To be fair, having been part of many an corp at this point ( you would think they would want to have accurate data ), that assumption is not flawed.
which is good.
do you really want a deep-fake? that noone can distinguish?
The title is annoyingly ambiguous so I think it's useful to point out before half the comments discuss their own imagined idea of this article that it's "exposes" as in "exposed to vulnerability", not "uncovered existing vulnerabilities".
Maybe they were hiring all the unrecognized talent the other companies were passing up on because the talent happened to be women. Perhaps they offered better benefits or had better outreach? I agree that 5:1 sounds extreme, but you're also giving us a pretty vague description of a company and not naming them, so there's no evidence to back your claim up.

Also random things: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinecastrillon/2019/03/24/w...
srsRAN topologies implemented in ComNetsEmu/Mininet
Yet there is one and its reference shell (2022) ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39ob0IO2Za0 ) is .. interesting

https://arcan-fe.com/2025/01/27/sunsetting-cursed-terminal-e...
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UBI is nonsensical. Give everyone 5k a month, and everyone is not 5k richer. All you’ve done is decrease the value of the dollar.

Would love to be proven wrong.
Some context from the time: Google was facing a class action lawsuit for systematically underpaying women that they eventually settled for 118$ million dollars. It's a complicated thing and definitely not just Google hating men (their track record at the time on things like payouts to male executives accused of malfeasance shows that).

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/06/google-to-pay-11...
>In other words, a whole lot of intelligence was used to craft a maximally informative and distilled set of fine-tuning data.

Sounds like any textbook. (and generally the process of knowledge compression over generations that made us who we are)
> But definitely not within database functions and procedures.

I generally find Hungarian notation silly, however, there's a compelling argument to have them in functions and procedures — perhaps more than for views. The type of the variable matters just as much as where/how it was declared, such as in/out params.

That's the 'steelman' argument for them, as I understand it.
My current secrets:

* cht.sh is a great way to avoid a lot of this stuff - there's a commandline tool as well

* usable cli ai setup:
simonw's llm (https://github.com/simonw/llm)
+ openrouter (https://github.com/simonw/llm-openrouter)
+ free models (https://openrouter.ai/models?max_price=0)
+ glow (https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow)
+ adding this to your .rc file:

function lm {
local input="$*"
llm -s 'Answer as short and concise as possible' ${input} | glow
}

Here's an example,

$ lm "ssh command to forward the port 5050 on user@remote to my localhost:7001"
ssh -L 7001:localhost:5050 user@remote
$

Now for a sophisticated use-case I have a small tmux program where I can capture what's on the pane, enter a prompt and it will query an llm so I can say things like "How do I fix this error" or "what debian package do I need to get this to run right?" ... both these are recent patterns I've started and they've been real game changers

Some lesser game-changers:

* tmux extrakto - opens an "fzf" like search of all the text on the screen. So after a "git status", I can do git add (run extracto - enter partial path, press tab) and continue: https://github.com/laktak/extrakto

* mcfly history: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly just watch the demo, you'll see

* ugrep: grep with a powerful tui: https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep - I became an instant convert.

* batcat: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat ... you really need to use some of its other features to leverage it. It's really nice.
I met plenty of Norwegians while living there who refused to eat local Salmon, they have a pretty good idea where it comes from.
Solar would make good use of the big advantage rural has, that land is dirt cheap and space is plentiful.
Hi real quantum physicist, yup, you pretty much got it. This is a prototype demo of the concept – and is using real IBM quantum computers. The queues are between 10s and 10min generally.

This is explained very closely to what you've said in the "Technical details" help section. Occasionally you'll get a real-time result. I'll check out the links you sent next, thank you!

Do you think qBraid could support this with more real-time latency?
I didn't realize how bad I was at writing and also how incomplete a lot of thoughts and ideas were until I tried blogging about them.

Definitely made me respect the bloggers I read even more.
A book I read a couple years ago (I think Peter Attia's) said one of the clearest nutritional studies just sent a weekly bottle of olive oil to half the participants, who had better health results than the control group. They didn't track exactly what people ate, but figured they probably used recipes with olive oil and ended up closer to a Mediterranean diet.

Of course that doesn't necessarily mean it translates to extreme longevity.
> the DOGE teen is a former denizen of ‘The Com,’ an archipelago of Discord and Telegram chat channels that function as a kind of distributed cybercriminal social network for facilitating instant collaboration

To be honest, this is my first time hearing about The Com. Does anyone have any more reading on this? You'd think they'd use something more secure than Discord (which has 0 encryption) and Telegram which doesn't have encryption by default and whose gov't backdoor is basically an open secret[0]

[0] https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/telegram-ecdh/
This company's sitemap is publicly exposing more than a million microchip IDs and some pictures of cute animals. I am saving those to web.archive.org in case it might be helpful in future.

https://www.savethislife.com/sitemap-part/part-1.xml
https://www.savethislife.com/900164000215773

They really should hand over the microchip IDs and owner contact info to another party so that vets can still look up owners.
Source is my own lived work experience. In the healthcare companies I've worked in, the size of teams to investigate benefit coverage, to bill, and then to nag insurers to actually pay us works out to roughly 15% of the total staff. This is where _providers_ are about 25% of staff. Add to those salaries the costs of the tools we have to employ to manage it all, track it, and management of all of those folks, and it bloats the cost by 20%.

We're actually working with an AI company to build a tool that uses AI and lots of data to predict with better accuracy benefit coverage. All because insurers want barriers to treatment to lower their costs.

If we went single payer, we would virtually eliminate benefits investigation teams because Medicare is honestly super easy to determine benefits of a patient unless they're on the private Medicare Advantage plans. We could eliminate the need to work with clearing houses as we'd have one payor, not hundreds of payors each with dozens of plans and single-case agreements. RCM departments would shrink because with one payor, providers wouldn't have to constantly nag payors to actually send the money.

The admin overhead is sickening.
Modern TTS engines use tokenizers to convert words to phonemes. See: https://github.com/FunAudioLLM/CosyVoice/issues/202