skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"researchers seek to leverage their human knowledge of the domain, but the only thing that matters in the long run is the leveraging of computation" - Rich Sutton
How? Besides the scoring mechanism involving poker hands, and the cards being standard 52 cards, it basically has nothing to do with gambling. It’s a standard press-your-luck roguelite style game.
Exactly, we don't understand, but we want to believe it's reasoning, which would be magic.
I believe it’s intentionally arrogantly named to draw exactly this sort of criticism and attention.
A Mind Forever Voyaging is much overlooked IMO because it's less of a puzzle game. But it has some of the best writing of the Infocom games. Hitchhiker's is hard--maybe too much so but then I mostly struggled with Infocom games a bit absent over the phone hints from Steve :-)

The Infocom-oriented cut of @textfile 's Get Lamp documentary is worth a watch. (As is the original cut of course.)
why would I want to move the field forward?
Cloudflare R2 Incident on February 6, 2025
But how is development of new forms of media? Which hold even more data, write and read it faster, and last longer. And thus can be used as long term backups?

How much innovation and progress is happening in that?

Microsoft has Project Silica but that's crazy expensive. Only huge corporations, government and maybe churches could afford it. Not individuals.

What are the chances we some day see something like Project Silica as a cheap commodity product, femto lasers and all?
A possible concern is the task force may inadvertently target allies of freedom and the American people.
Can you show number of references as though they were number of favorites or likes?
Established democrats are petrified of upsetting anyone. They have no real plans. Democrats are horrible at public relations and messaging, so they routinely get roasted by Republicans, despite being right most of the time.
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> On-call attempts to re-enable the R2 Gateway service using our internal admin tooling, however this tooling was unavailable because it relies on R2.

It's comforting to see this happen to a big tech co!
I think this misses the mark. We know LLMs can learn facts. There are lots of other benchmarks full of facts, and I don't expect that saturation of this benchmark will mean we have AGI.

The missing capabilities of LLMs tend more in the direction of long running tasks, consistency, and solving a lot of tokenization and attention weirdness.

I started a company that makes evals though, so I may be biased.
It might help the programmer but confuse the quantum physicist or algebraic topologist. It’s an interdisciplinary field and we do our best (well, I’m out of it so it’s not really “we” anymore). The abstract differentiation stuff that makes up the backbone here also gets used in homotopy theory and is applied to algebraic geometry.
What's more important than the current state is the direction where it's heading.
Rust has energy, vision and momentum - additionally it has a powerful niche that it dominates.

Scala has unfortunately fizzled out, I would say mainly because of incompetent leadership (or more precisely academia-driven) but also because the alternatives got much better since it got introduced (Java mainly). Which is a shame as it is a great language that offers elegance and great power.
AIUI they (were) stopped by the end of 2023.

Their proposal got no support from any vendor, and was also rejected[0] by the board of directors.

They were shown they were wrong, and thoroughly educated on the matter by other members. SiFive even made a presentation[1] about it.

RISC-V has long moved on from that incident. RVA23 was ratified. Multiple vendors have announced IP implementing RVA23.

0. https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-profiles/topic/rvi_bod_decisi...

1. https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-profiles/attachment/353/0/RIS...
NSF grants are already hard enough to get as it is. A reduction of the budget to this extent would just make it a total waste of time to apply for NSF grants. It would have the effect of pushing academics further towards industry funding - which might be the entire point.

Industry funding is incredibly selective, and many industry funders are basically looking to turn university researchers into extensions of their R&D divisions. This will be disastrous for the concept of academic freedom - and the ability for people to explore interesting problems that might not have immediate commercial impact.
Not that it's "possible", that it requires them to add nothing new.

That is a much much easier to reach bar.

It's like if a restaurant sells cheeseburgers, and I want a hamburger. "How do they figure out ~~what~to~cache~~ the cheese to ketchup ratio without adding cheese?" They can just skip that part. I'm not asking for sushi and supporting that by saying "sushi is possible".
This is what I'm trying to do since 2017 [1], except the earning are merely 5k a month.

From what I can see around me, the rate of oss dev who make a living out of their project is similar to amateur / pro football player, with the big star everyone talk about, namely redhat & gitlab. I only know personally 1 other oss dev who is doing better but still way under what you get working for someone else

If you're doing oss and managed to get things to work, please reach out to me, I'd love to talk to you.

[1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash
I got so burned on QuantumScape stock I haven't been able to think about solid state batteries since then.
We rewrote The New York Times' text editing library. Then we open sourced it
We all know why. This administration is behaving indistinguishably from one installed by a foreign power.
Putin and his henchmen got a rebrand?
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Curious, when you do these exercises, is for entertainment or learning? If the latter, do you find it still worthwhile to read the blog post of this thread, since you didn’t implement anything yourself?

It’s a journey versus destination question.
California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots
Yeah, I'll add it quickly.
A couple of GGUF quantizations have been posted:

https://huggingface.co/bartowski/simplescaling_s1-32B-GGUF

https://huggingface.co/brittlewis12/s1-32B-GGUF
Typically the built environment is going to be a better place to find action for ne’er do wells looking for action. Not being seen doesn’t matter much without opportunity.

To put it another way, hundreds of miles of forest trails sounds like a lot of work.
> LLMs are so intelligent they don't know that a "how many" question is answered with a number.

I think this is to prevent the LLM from giving more details. The evaluation engine can presumably only check short exact answers.
> All tech is vanity.

> Sincerely, Grug \nSent from my RockPhone™ 5
Don't techies typically blurt out lines of code during sex?
I wish this legislation would also apply to AI generated emails, sales outreach, and LinkedIn messages.
Something that scores at least a "B" on the AFP Strength of Recommendation Taxonomy (SORT) would be a good start.

https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/authors/ebm-toolkit.html?cmpid...

So far the studies that appear to show a correlation between meat consumption and negative health outcomes have all been barely a step above junk science. We're talking about observational studies with poor controls (healthy subject effect), multiple uncontrolled variables, and small effect sizes.

https://peterattiamd.com/meat-consumption-and-diabetes/

https://peterattiamd.com/donlayman/
I recommend using a cheaper, better service that includes free whois privacy by default such as Dynadot.
I was promised hologram cubes!
Cursor for ArXiv Papers
What’s the control?
Drawing by hand is still often a simple thing that might work.
Also, political SMS messages and the messages you get from some other random number acknowledging the "STOP" message you just sent.

(Especially if it were in a machine readable form.)
Popular in:

2023 (204 points, 78 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38764353

2022 (305 points, 119 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32896580

Note they've had a couple of security vulnerabilities https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39830553 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40055726
Republicans control all three branches of government. Democrats are in the minority in the Legislative branch and, as such, have no real power. Add to that the capture of the Supreme Court by the Republicans, even legal efforts are unlikely to succeed.

This is what a plurality of US voters voted for so one way you can look at it would be "you make your bed, you lie in it." Too bad for folks who relied on the US government...
What branch of government do they work for? Because if it is the executive... Go ahead and find something else to stomp your feet about.
I already assume 99.9% of these are all generated by bots.
Hmm. I maintain a pretty big open-source project, so I guess I'm already kinda that? I honestly love computing moreso than I love coding. I'm not very familiar with business concepts though.
"Goatfucker" is a fair and accurate and intellectually rigorous label.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Popehat%27s%...

Popehat's Law of Goats

He who fucks goats, either as part of a performance or to troll those he deems has overly delicate sensibilities is simply, a goatfucker.

"He claimed he was just pretending to be racist to trigger the social justice warriors, but even if he is telling the truth, Popehat's Law of Goats still applies."
That sounds like a misunderstanding. Federal grants usually have excessively strict restrictions on what you can do with the money. To the extent that labs can't pay many reasonable expenses if they don't have other sources of funding.

Unless the project is particularly material-heavy, direct costs should be mostly labor costs, such as PhD student stipends and tuition, postdoc salaries, and summer salary for the PI.
I don't really mind sbt, but we migrated off maven a while back for gradle for java projects. There are some crazy sbt build scripts but it's fairly easy to keep things sane, but maybe the fact that sbt builds can look so different is an issue.

I really like the simplicity of the com-lihaoyi ecosystem but I also enjoy cats/fs2 and friends on occasion.
https://archive.ph/5s1bw
And social media.
I think the idea for this is anything that can be set in a literal exam for humans. So anything that would take the best human in that topic in the world say more than an hour to complete is out.

Also IIRC 42% of the questions are math related, not memorization of knowledge.
Maybe he's looking at Bluesky, it's made in Go.
The requirement doesn't kick in until 10 million monthly US users. I don't see why this shouldn't apply to smaller businesses.
Are you a bot? You gotta tell me if you’re a bot. /s
Should PUBG mobile players be told they are winning against bots?

Should psychics tell you they cannot really speak for the dead?
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Related Let's Encrypt Ending Support for Expiration Notification Emails (80 points, 15 days ago, 12 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42794787
In the paragraph right above the one you reference:

> Beneath that ice, the light sensors recorded an astronomically small number of photons: an upper range of 0.04 micromoles per square meter per second, a number very close to the theoretical minimum amount of light that photosynthesis can run on. The actual amount of light was probably lower.
The building was not connected to a sewer system because there was no sewer system when the tower was built. There is now a sewer system and the tower is connected to it.
If Trump were a tech bro, gaming SEO is what he would do.

Maybe this is what all those nifty DOGE engineers are doing.
We need a media that offer us at least 1 to 5 TB of Data, that is fast, low enough latency ( not tape ), cost less than $1 per TB to manufacture, durable that last longer than 50 years under ideal conditions and smaller than the size of our palm.

And right now we don't have something like that. Not even on a roadmap.
Well that’s disappointing. It was an extraordinary claim that really interested me.

Thought I was about to be learn!

Instead, I just met an asshole.
fwiw, my hashing library (http://guava.dev/HashFunction) went little-endian. It was probably for some reason.
The original title was too long: “ We rewrote The New York Times’ text editing library. Then we open sourced it. Then we rewrote it again.”

Quick summary:

- The original NYT library is this one: https://github.com/nytimes/react-prosemirror

- This is the author’s rewrite: https://github.com/handlewithcarecollective/react-prosemirro...

- They rewrote ProseMirror’s renderer in React instead of having a layer sit between the two.

- The author answered questions over on Reddit and had good insight into how their rewrite compares to other ProseMirror based libraries: https://old.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/1ij7lmb/why_i_rebu...
My Trip to Quit Sugar Quickly Became a Journey into Hell
Do these services restrict the content that their AIs give voice to? If so, what are the typical restrictions? Like do they seek to prevent their tech being used for scamming, erotica, hate speech, etc? Or is it pretty much anything goes?
Cryptocurrency "Dust Attack"
Yes, Godaddy are definitely frauds. They steal domains, me and several people I know have experienced this, and the internet is full of similar stories
Is this because it was built too far from existing infrastructure?

I was amazed when I noticed enclaves of rich govt workers in northern VA that have stupid expensive communities but are all on septic tanks and well water.
With spark 4 defaulting to scala 2.13, that does move things in the right direction since the 2.13 -> 3 interop is possible
Fault Localization via Fine-Tuning LLMs with Mutation Generated Stack Traces
They put more boots on the ground and apprehended fewer people? Sounds like Mexicans are doing their work for them again...
I don't like wading into this debate when semantics are very personal/subjective. But to me, it seems like almost a sleight of hand to add the stochastic part, when actually they're possibly weighted more on the parrot part. Parrots are much more concrete, whereas the term LLM could refer to the general architecture.

The question to me seems: If we expand on this architecture (in some direction, compute, size etc.), will we get something much more powerful? Whereas if you give nature more time to iterate on the parrot, you'd probably still end up with a parrot.

There's a giant impedance mismatch here (time scaling being one). Unless people want to think of parrots being a subset of all animals, and so 'stochastic animal' is what they mean. But then it's really the difference of 'stochastic human' and 'human'. And I don't think people really want to face that particular distinction.
It should be like ads.

Required a watermark that is NIST standardized

edit: sorry I though y’all would get the joke
Oh my gosh, this is just such nonsense. You think the whole world is about meta comments? Which demographics do you think say the most terrible things about South-East Asian people? This demographic does better in this country than any other and yet you think the parent does not feel oppressed because a recent social media site (in the history of this country) used to have more comment moderation? Is this real?
I really hate to say this. But open source contributions don’t matter either. It’s only what you do for a company. No one has time to look at an open source repository. Every open job these days have thousands of applications. They aren’t going to look at your GitHub repo.
Don't try and lift the veil. Point out the veil is stupid looking and people who wear it are dorks. We don't need MAGA people to agree with me, we need the apathetic non-voters of this country to see them for the weird, anti-social losers that they are, and loathe them for it.
Original source (12 points, 2 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42967527
math rick, the arch enemy of pickle rick
It'd be nice if it produced a list of bounding boxes + URL's you'd get if you clicked on the bounding box.

Then it'd be close to my dream of a serverless web browser service, where the client just renders a clickmap .png or .webp, and the requests go to a farm of "one request per page load" ephemeral web browser instances. The web browsers could cache the images + clickmaps they return in an S3 bucket.

Assuming the farm of browsers had a large number of users, this would completely defeat fingerprinting + cookies. It'd also provide an archive (as in durable, not as in high quality) of the browsed static content.
So all the anti-deportation/anti-border activists can relax, because it's not happening?
It's their turn to be spineless.
What makes you think they weren't vetted and this isn't what they wanted?
> Should psychics tell you they cannot really speak for the dead?

Yes?
For political stuff you need a human to press send. So it's a semi automated system.

I've volunteered before, and at least in CA, you basically have a gui that prepolutes messages and guides you through each number one by one.

Its really weird
When Trump dies, do you think they will they stay home forever? Because he will die eventually (and is already past male US life expectancy), and I’m curious if the cult disbands at that point (if facts and policy don’t matter to them). If so, we’re really just defending against harm caused during his remaining life expectancy (unknown) and term (<4 years).
I thought the (I don't know the word) "pro business" voter liked funding public research? "Socialize risk. Privatize profit." and all that.
That's actually a major drawback on Rust to be adopted in enterprise settings. Any GPL library statically compiled would force the entire codebase to be licensed under GPL as well.
Cursor was an AmigaBASIC compiler for AmigaOS.
An interesting fact I learned from an evolutionary biologist is that when there's a gap in suitability life has a tendency to rapidly evolve and adapt to that gap.

That's why after mass extinction events, we see explosions in evolution in creatures that had essentially stagnated. Mammals being the best example of this. They went from being small little creatures with little distinction for generations to everything from a mouse to a mammoth. It wasn't until the rapid extinction of the dinosaurs with all the environmental gaps that created that we saw an explosion of different creature types. There were niches to fill.

This is likely part of the reason we see life in such extreme conditions. There was a hole to fill and the creatures best suited to survive in that niche did.
This is a great philosophical motivation for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidence_algebra
GoDaddy registered a domain name and put up a "for sale" banner within three minutes of me searching for it on their site some years ago.
H1Bs are OK, just not from certain countries. I've definitely heard that before from this group.
> It's interesting how some like to regulate the language of others.

No one is trying to regulate anything lol, you're as free to use whatever non-standard terms or words you like, you can even use irregardless if it's your hearts desire to do so.

You just have to keep in mind that people using a silly term to make a silly point ultimately just end up making themselves look silly. Using a term like 'USofAian' is certainly a silly term since it tries to solve a problem that doesn't exist, and actually creates instances of the problem trying to be avoided.
Trumps currently on track to deport less than Biden. ICE is underfunded and he realistically can’t get any new funding for at least a few months. Much like his first time around, he’s hoping deterrence etc will at least stop the inflow.

Maybe this changes, but I doubt it. Trumps not really an “America first” candidate - that’s just a ruse to get elected. He is on track to deport millions of Palestinians however.
Elon Musk's Demolition Crew
So you don't have to spend the rest of your life doing a robot's job.
This is an urban legend: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/52204/is-the-se...
Is there a place to download the old Infocom games, or play them on the web somehow? HHGTTG was my favorite game, but I never played LGOP or MFV and would like to.
it is legally binding if your company based on SV (only California implement this law) and they can prove it
Nomi's chatbot suggests suicide, but the company doesn't want to "censor" it
You find something you made up hilarious? That's kind of sad, don't you think?

I said individuals are routinely prosecuted, which doesn't take a massive effort, it takes a regular effort. It would take a massive effort to do something about Rick Scott's $100M+ fraud, and since he's in the Senate, you can be sure I don't think that.
So are you stupid, malicious, or a lawyer? I don't mean the term precedent as in the specifics of this legal case.

What I meant was that before this case ....there were a variety of limits and checks regarding money in politics from a variety of sources... and especially regarding corporate donations.... And after the case was ruled this way... money flowed in a way that it hasnt in 100 years prior. Any attempt to deny this is just criminal.
Interesting. I’m afraid this won’t really go anywhere, but it’s a good conversation to have

On one hand, judging by the comments, there’s quite a bit of interest on disclosure

On the other hand, corporations and big advertisers (spammers?) might not really want it. Or is there a positive aspect in disclosure for them?
Musk is not "requesting multiple staff to stop working" he's asking people to voluntarily resign and promising if they do they get paid until September 30 as if they had not resigned.

It's not clear to me that this is even a "direction" never-mind a "lawful direction".

The way the staff member opts into this arrangement is to write "I resign" in an email. There is no "direction" telling them to do this. It is entirely voluntary behavior on the part of the federal employee.

The issue being discussed I believe was whether they have any legal protections if they don't get paid.

I don't think anyone was claiming they'd go to jail for resigning or anything like that.

Since the promise to pay staff who resigned doesn't necessarily appear to be legal it doesn't appear they necessarily have recourse if not paid given their resignation was voluntary.
wow! The preview is amazing! I would've 100% assumed those were human narrations if I wasn't given leading context.
Discussion (99 points, 5 hours ago, 64 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42966412
Surely it was the new intern.
Nah dude * hits bongs, coughs * if you ask if they're a bot they _have_ to say yes
We developed a service like this internally at a previous company. It was nice to have a generic "preview" generating service.
How do I know if I'm a bot?
Congrats NeuralMagic team on being acquired! I don't know if you know this, but I worked with you on discord a few times. Your team's always willing to go above and beyond with pushing out popular models in specific quant formats compatible with vLLM. And one of the few huggingface orgs that my boss can actually trust. Well deserved!
Ah! Thanks. Didn’t relapse I had showdead on. Changed that now I never need to interact with those people.