skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These decryption requirements are being put in place in part because the UK wants to find potential criminals no matter where they operate from in the world. So, they make requirements like back doors and make requirements on companies that amount to "we will fine you a % of your global revenue unless you impose these requirements on all potential criminals" (which inherently also means decrypting everyone's messages)".

Totally OK, given the precedent?
Go hug your wife
Same, but ISTR we had some Cisco gear where NAT (or PAT as they insisted; yes, I know difference; no, no one cared) had a different license or hardware requirement or something from firewall rules.
I wish somebody would build a platform where people can actually put their money on these things like the Simon–Ehrlich wager [1]. I'd happily be putting down £100 with internet randos that (absent a nuclear war) presidential elections will happen in the usual fashion in 2028, or that Trump won't serve more than 2 terms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager
Unfortunately not the case because of GPT's bias towards React (the point of the article).
I often wonder about super-intelligence, mostly in terms of what one would actually want, but the chatbots of today often make me wonder what it is that people want of them. I doubt that LLMs are this today, and perhaps they never will be, but what if there was such a system that you could ask any question of, and it would give you an absolute and true answer? What would people want to know from it? Would you really want to know if there is some sort of life after death? Would you want to know if humanity is bound for extinction?

I don't think that we humans deal too well with the realities of our existence, and if one thinks minor issues like bad words or pictures of humans without clothing on are objectionable, I wonder how that same one will do with meaningful, existential questions.
Well saying 'arse' is very dangerous, not like some lies that i.e. politician tell repeatedly to milions.

Makes totaly sense...to someone...maybe...
The next step will be gopher and/or gemini :)

That is where I blog, maintenance is very easy, just edit locally and scp to the site. Or you can edit directly using tramp in GNU Emacs.
FYI, it looks like inline_completions_disabled_in is no longer a thing :-)
This is great, but I’m pretty sure this is trivial using Emacs and org mode. You could then use pandoc to convert org to markdown
I meant the fundamental ones, mostly:

* CUDA Driver API: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-driver-api/index.html
* NVRTC: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/nvrtc/index.html
* (CUDA Runtime API, very popular but not entirely fundamental as it rests on the driver API)

the CUDA C++ library is a behemoth that sits on top of other things.
Why should this be surprising? He's a businessman. His allegiance will lie with whoever makes the business run. Ethics are capricious.
Seriously, thank you very much for that excellent breakdown.

I never really got into Lisp, as I preferred imperative programming with C et al, but it looks like my preference is for my programming language requiring up-front a complete specification of the semantics of the program, i.e. no runtime dynamic parsing of strings into code or the like.

From your description, it looks like the Lisp guys codified (NPI) how to mix static and dynamic abilities into the same language, thus uncovering the analysis problems for how the dynamic parts can be processed with respect to their interface with its static core.

Thanks again. Learning something like this is a wonderful way to start my day in this troubled world. Peace be with you, and best of luck in your endeavors!
It seems self-evident it will, and it's largely self-reinforcing.

Less documentation/examples of new tech -> New model doesn't have enough info on new tech to be useful -> Less uptake of new technology -> Less documentation/examples to build a corpus....

I do wonder if this problem could get solved by basically providing documentation explicitly written for LLMs to consume and produce more detailed "synthetic" documentation/examples from. No idea if that's possible or even wise, but probably a problem space worth exploring. Or if these LLMs develop some sort of standardized way to rapidly apply new bodies of work that avoids costly retraining - like kernel modules, but for LLMs.
> Updates to GPT-4o in ChatGPT (January 29, 2025)

> By extending its training data cutoff from November 2023 to June 2024 […]

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9624314-model-release-no...
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Let's assume you program it so that if it believes with 95% certainty that a patient has a certain condition it will present it to the doctor. While the doctor doesn't agree with it, the whole process between doctor-patient-hospital-insurer might be automated to the point where it's simpler to put the patient through the motions of getting additional checks than the doctor fighting the wrong diagnosis, thus the doctor will have to spend more time to follow up on confirming that this condition is not really present.

I don't have a crystal ball, so this is a made-up scenario.
See comment above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43048326

Throw those into Google search along with term iOS or Android.
I think it's relative.

In the future, if Musk has a leftward shift, I think it would be newsworthy as well.
It doesn't mean anything for Chicago. "NYSE Chicago" is an electronic exchange hosted in New Jersey. It has Chicago in the name because NYSE bought the old Chicago Stock Exchange in 2018 (which was partially hosted in Chicago and partially in NJ... it was weird). To my knowledge post-2018 NYSE Chicago never had any trading operations in Chicago. NYSE does have sales people in Chicago because of the large prop trading community in the city and it would be hard to see how this NYSE Texas situation changes that.
Supporting anecdata: I was interested to see that chatgpt doesn’t know how to use one of my (small, not too popular) open source python packages — despite having blog posts and documentation on them, all from more than five years back.
> Significant bits of code at NVIDIA use SPARK.

That is a vacuous statement, because:

* We don't know what constitutes "significant"

* We don't know what it's significant _for_

* "code at NVIDIA" is an extremely wide definition.
React is better than all of those because of the existence of React Native, React Three Fiber, Remotion, etc…

It has the best ecosystem of libraries and it’s not even close.

If you write your web app in Vue and decide you want mobile apps later you won’t be able to share much code there.
Because the asset price would crash if they tried to cash it. One is simply it would crash from the supply of that asset, but also it reflects to the broader public that the asset holder values cash higher going forward than the other asset which means that others would use that signal to value cash higher as well leading to a snowball effect.
Unlike caloric restriction diets, keto restricts carbs which is the macro that causes glucose spikes.

Glucose spikes is what makes you hungry.
And then they invented their own language with security holes.
Let's see, "Homotypical" sounds gay and there's some mention of DEI in the grant. It seems that some AI just flagged this, and the block will eventually be reversed (because it's not actually about anything "woke"). I don't even think a layman would mistake this for a "woke" grant, and I expect it to potentially be reversed. On the other hand, what exactly is the application of this abstruse stuff? Is it worth the investment? Lots of research is actually useless.
RTX 5070 Ti retail listings appear in EU and US – Some models nearly double MSRP
I worked there for more than a decade, and I can never highlight enough:

- How great the place was for those involved in the open-source ecosystem

- How great Novell and Attachmate were as owners

The company had, like many others, good and tough times, but the people were very passionate about it.

I will never stop feeling lucky for it being part of me for so many years.
I feel guilty! Sitting in my office in Central Europe and flagging the relentless stream of repetitive, off topic content in my feed as it flies by. In so much pain, because I feel immense guilt when I see the constant whinging of those poor censored Americanos in need of a place to express their rage over their own political issues. I can barely handle it.
Using fish shell has largely solved my gripes with complex commands. It’s not AI autocomplete, but it remembers the complex commands perfectly, so I only need to work it out once. It’s suggestions are also uncanny - the right command and just the right time.
China's electric vehicle giants are betting big on humanoid robots
> Zuckerberg recently told podcast host Joe Rogan that Meta’s profit would double if Apple stopped applying “random rules” that tax his company.

So why aren't you lobbying Congress to get HARD rules set for app stores in the form of legislation? Ya know, to level the playing field for everyone. Oh right! Because that could--in theory--hurt future revenue from the Meta Quest store (and maybe other app store plans).

GET OVER YOURSELF already! Anti-competitive app stores are bad for everyone including Meta. Zuckerberg's visions of grandeur remind me of that quote from Steinbeck about Americans...

> "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

I swear, the richest businesses in America could be so much richer if they banded together to lobby Congress for legislation that benefits all of them. Example: Imagine if the US switched to a single-payer healthcare system; how much money that would save the big tech companies.

...but no: Since that's not their "core business" it might as well not exist. This is true for so many things from credit card/transaction fees to health insurance to USPS shipping prices.
I use aider /copy-context command for that

https://aider.chat/docs/usage/copypaste.html

and with /paste you can apply the changes.
OP is saying they were underpaid. Giving the money back would only deepen the injury.
Why is it written as an initialism as if you would pronounce each letter individually? At least for English speakers, that's not the way, right?
> For example, in the case of Kagi, black links instead of blue feel off-putting.

Not exactly sure what you're getting at, but:

"Using CSS, you can fully customize Kagi's search and landing pages from your Appearance settings." : https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/custom-css.html
> no hunting through files, etc.

It’s easy to switch to files by name with a few keystrokes. Files are names to group things I’m looking for.

I would much rather do that than try to search through a 7,000 line file for what I need.

> I feel like this set up could integrate really well w/ AI models.

Massive files or too many files break AI models. Grouping functionality into smaller files and including only relevant files is key. The file and folder names can be hints about where to find the right files to include.
My 2 year journey to building a successful product ($2,700 MRR)
February 14, 2023:
Running a successful SaaS since 1.5 years back, but as the marketing/sales founder. It’s not the project I actually want to do. I want to be the one building products. Product is everything.

July 14, 2023:
0 coding skills. Signed up for App Academy free bootcamp to learn to code.

December 13, 2023:
Finished App Academy. Started building out my first product—a lead qualification form.

February 12, 2024:
Deployed the finished app.

March 3, 2024:
My brother joins me as co-founder in trying to market the app.

June 19, 2024:
Built another product on the side, Tinder Roast. Still trying to get users for the main app.

July 7, 2024:
First commit for 3rd product, Buildpad.

August 1, 2024:
After 171 days of trying to get the main app to work, we finally abandon it.

August 12, 2024:
Abandoned 2nd side project too. These are times of a lot of doubt.

August 19, 2024:
Launched the MVP of Buildpad. Get a few early users. Maybe we have something here?

September 2, 2024:
After 2 weeks of grinding marketing, we hit 100 free users on the MVP. The times are a-changing.

September 30, 2024:
Built out the full version of Buildpad and launched on Product Hunt. First paying customer. Relief.

October 25, 2024:
One month later, 40 paying customers.

Today:
Buildpad has now reached close to 150 paying customers and $2,700 MRR. We just released Buildpad 2.0 and I think this is the update that will take us to $10k MRR.

I know there’s a lot of people that find themselves on the same journey but in the part where there’s little success and a lot of uncertainty and doubt.

There’s only one way to get through it. Work harder. Writing out my journey like this makes it look easy but for most of it I had no idea if things were actually going to work out.

The only thing I could do was trust the work I was putting in. And that’s what I’ll continue doing to reach $10k MRR, $100k MRR, and go beyond.

You can do it too, if you want to.
Windows 95 Setup and MS-DOS graphics
It's always been a thing with modes of encapsulating knowledge. The printing press caused the freezing of language, sometimes in a weird place*

Where great documentation was make or break for a open source project for the last 10 years, I think creating new projects with AI in mind will be required in the future. Maybe that means creating a large amount of examples, maybe it means providing fine tunes, maybe it means publishing a MCP server.

Maybe sad because it's another barrier to overcome, but the fact that AI coding is so powerful so quickly probably means it's worth the tradeoff, at least for now.

*https://www.dictionary.com/e/printing-press-frozen-spelling/
This. It isn't (positive) leadership. It reminds me of a book Chris Hedges whose author was recently interviewed.[0,1] The worker bees vs. the managers. ICs including tech SWEs/PEs/SEs/EEs at Meta can become managers and a part of this problem, they haven't necessarily drank the Zuck Kool-Aid. Actually, only some (not all) of the senior IC6+ who might become managers are in this camp and not all managers (maybe 5-10%) espouse these beliefs. I'm kinda glad really that I got the ax on the 2nd round in 2023. (I was WFH semi remote. It's funny they tried to interview/rehire me in similar roles, but only for MPK or similar major hubs.)

0. Liu, Catherine. Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class. University of Minnesota Press, 2021. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctv1fkgbjx. Accessed 14 Feb. 2025.

1. https://youtu.be/PuIb4j_hxSw
Tip: If you ever need to do this on a public GitHub repository you can use "gitingest".

This will open a website that creates a copy of all the file contents of the repo (code, docs, ...)
It's a great tool to use when using new/obscure code with LLMs in my opinion.

The UX is so just easy and great, change the URL from <https://github.com/user_name/repo_name> to <https://gitingest.com/user_name/repo_name>

//edit: fixed URLs
sync is not guaranteed to do anything. And sometimes it does way more than it should. Direct I/O semantics are the correct thing here because it bypasses the cache entirely.

I've had a lot of issues writing partition and disk images using DD on modern Linux systems because of caching. And these all kept happening even though I would use `sync` like you describe. But setting oflag=direct resolved all of the issues I was having.
Your router almost certainly has that option.
> It's not surprising that google has such a huge mote with their highly illegal and unethical activity of scanning and digitizing billions of pages of copyrighted work to train their models.

Excellent Freudian slip (proverb allusion suggesting Google has a blind spot, while discussing OCR).
It was both. The universities needed help recovering from WW2, and they got that plus more thanks to Vannevar Bush.
I guess it's not on Elon's twitter feed yet.
Yes thanks to React we can finally retire this meme. It was very true before react became dominant though.
https://archive.today/Cnu4r
"I'm sorry, Karen. I'm afraid I can't do that."
The original name of the company was S.u.S.E. with the dots. "Software- und System-Entwicklung" (Software and system development)
> It is officially part of the town of Mexico.

Mexico, New York, of course.
do you think they aren’t being forthcoming about their intentions and motives?
The question is what is OCR for ? If it's to answer questions and work with a document, then VLMs do actually contain self correcting mechanisms. That is, the end to end image + text input to text output is statistically grounded, by training.
So the question to ask is what do you need OCR for ? Fedding an LLM? Then feed it to the VLM instead. Some other usage ? Well, to be decided.
But near now, CTX and lstms are done with, because VLMs do everything: finding the area to read, reading, embedding, and answering.
OCR was a mid-step, it's going away.
https://wanderlog.com/trip-planner-ai
LoRs are there in every field.

But when you are in the social sciences, your mentor takes responsibility for whole of your career.

They see to it that you are ultimately "placed" in life.

Also, what papers are deemed good or influential depend a lot on who you have good relations with, as there are no clear definitions of good/influential like there are in exact science fields.

I am just saying what I have seen.

If you are familiar with 90s-00s vocabulary, you will know what I mean by "Rabbi". It has nothing to do with Judaism or Jews.

> rabbi

> (noun) By metaphor from the Jewish religious role, an older, more powerful or higher-ranking person in the corporation where one works (but usually not in the chain of command) who can give good advice about office politics, and may be able to pull strings, remove heads, or otherwise provide protection from hostile forces.
Zuckerberg never had leftward shift
Can you please let me know which part of my reply made you think I was arguing that the US medical system is perfect?
> To take HN's fave example Rust: it has a type system that removes "viligance and dicipline" as a requirement for memory management.

Nope, it doesn't. That's what the 'unsafe' keyword means in Rust: it's just short for "vigilance and discipline required".
Indeed, it is probably not a coincidence that George Orwell set his novel in the country that he's from. I think you might be onto something there!

> I'm not interested in finding every. single. incident so you can dispute it one by one to keep trying to defend the UK

When I Google, pretty much every instance of the police interviewing people about transphobic tweets (that aren't actually hate speech) occurred before the court judgment I linked to. What you're saying in effect is that you want to go with the vibes about the UK you get from Twitter but don't want to look into the specifics and check their basis in fact.

If you think there are numerous instances of this happening following the court judgment, and that these instances are easy to find by Googling, then it should be easy to provide sources. I am willing to change my mind if you do that, but if you continue to just assert that this is happening frequently without providing evidence, then I won't respond further. I personally was able to find exactly one incident by Googling (which I would not entirely trust the Telegraph to report accurately): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/15/police-drop-hate...
> Awww, no more new JavaScript frameworks and waiting only for established technologies to cut through the noise. I don't see that as a bad thing. Technologies need to mature, and maintaining API backward compatibility is another advantage.

I think this kind of discussion is immature and downplays the point of the article.

A good example of this that I just encountered: Rust. Just asked Claude/ChatGPT for rust stuff recently, and it still gives a lot old/depreciated methods for a lot of things. This has been the case for Godot 3 vs 4 as well.
So really, this is what “convinced” employees that maybe Zuckerberg wasn’t about making the world a better place?

This is like the naive folks at Amazon (former employee) who now are “rethinking” their jobs because how much Amazon has “changed”.

But Zuckerberg is a lightweight when it comes to bending a knee and influencing dictators compared to Apple and Cook. They deal with China.

Everyone working at BigTech just needs to admit to themselves that it was always about the money. They are all just going to shut up and let gobs of money appear in their bank accounts every month and stock appear in their brokerage account when it vests.

I did my bid at BigTech between the time I was 46-50, made a little money, put it on my resume and moved on.
I’ve purchased about 1000 ebooks via Amazon over the years and use this feature a ton so that I’ve got a local library managed by Calibre. Amazon’s own interface for managing a collection is really not great. They haven’t improved it alongside making this decision.

Next, lots of authors who publish via Amazon just aren’t easily accessible via other storefronts, which contributed to the stickiness of Amazon as a ‘one stop shop’ for buying all types of books for me. While a few authors do go to the effort of selling via multiple storefronts or having DRM-free options, a fragmented buying and selling experience is more effort.

Amazon is also important to how borrowing works for my library.

I’m sure Amazon have done tons of analysis of which customers will be most impacted and which may leave, have concluded their business will be fine, but this absolutely sucks. It looks like this will make it much harder to buy books from Amazon and read on Kobo.
Of course, it's probably the default everywhere, but with NAT the traffic never reaches me in the first place.
Royal Society urged to expel Elon Musk as fellows sign open letter
They don't have the best rendering or the best hardware. Jailbreaking is often readily stymied for periods of time. I found when I had a Kindle there wasn't even a workable font size I liked without jailbreaking, everything was too big or too small with not enough middle ground.

Kobo has near-identical hardware, doesn't require jailbreaking and has actually usable text options out of the box.
A couple of points. First, this study seems relevant to someone using these tools as a search engine. The prompts (aka “queries”) are basic questions like “How did Xyz find out?” With some prompt engineering (adding more context and instructions), I bet these error rates could be significantly reduced.

That’s said, there is no baseline which always makes me suspect. It would be interesting to see how humans would do on the same task.

Third, I think the interesting comparison is accuracy versus cost. Some tasks are very sensitive to accuracy, some are not. By looking at the cost curve compared to humans, we could make decisions about tradeoffs for any given application.

My advice, don’t form too much of an opinion without having built something like this yourself. It’s really easy!
Have you used your project on classical languages like Latin / Ancient Greek / Hebrew etc? Will the LLM fall flat in those cases, or be able to help?
After watching the entire world’s reaction to AI, at this point my conclusion is that hype driven development is human nature, and we just need to come to terms with that (but you will have to drag me kicking and screaming).
What's the best open source solution for a music server and playback primarily on Android? I've become really tired of Spotify lately, would like to recover my old music collection, but don't want to lose the convenience of having all the music available on all devices at all times. Should I go with Jellyfin and its android app?
What really sucks is the label "low performer" that will get attached to the reason you got laid off at Facebook. That was an intentionally cruel thing to do to people who lost their livelihoods.