skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never been a fan of leading commas. How often are we hastily moving column expressions around?

I also have a somewhat controversial style preference in regard to capitalization. Because SQL is case-insensitive, I will always type everything in lowercase and let syntax highlighting do its thing. I hate mixed capitalization. Not only does it feel like keywords are yelling at me, but also the moment someone else gets involved there will be inconsistent casing. Do you capitalize just the keywords or do you include functions? How about operators (e.g. “in” or “like”). More often than not I see individuals are inconsistent with their own queries. So I say to hell with it all and just keep it lowercased
Three myths about NPM Malware
> WDC WUH722222ALE6L4 22TiB

Careful... that is 22 TB, not 22 TiB. Disk marketing still uses base 10. TiB is base 2.

22 TB = 20 TiB
My tesla model 3 on "autopilot" (just keep speed) will ghost break if it sees some cars merging into an adjacent lane. Really dangerous, nobody expects a car decelerating from 130kph down to 50 on the nearly empty Autobahn. My previous car (VW) got that right. Overall it is a nice car (with a massive and increasing brand toxicity problem), but how can one trust the "full self driving" if it can't/doesn't even keep speed in supposedly trivial cases where the driver has control?
Right. This "smart" knob is symmetrical, with no pointer that you can feel before turning the knob. So it's hard to use without looking. This is inferior to a simple mechanical knob.
I am no expert. But wasn’t part of deepseeks success to use synthetic data, atleast for code and math?
Yes, but in this case the RL stage doesn't actually need a huge amount of data. Most of the data is ingested in the pre-training phase, which in this case was done by Alibaba.

There was a recent paper [1] that showed that for one particular model it was possible to get very good reasoning performance by finetuning on under a thousand examples of reasoning.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03387
Snowflake and DuckDB are two flavors of SQL that allow things like trailing commas. My personal favorite feature is `GROUP BY ALL`.

select
c1,
c2,
c3,
...,
c50,
sum(c51),
from
table
group by all
> That sounds like wrapping a whole bus with an ad.

They were talking about the standard landscape side panels. Didn't make much sense to me either but that was why the bus companies were throwing money at them to get LED panels working (aside from the financial bonus of being able to book multiple ads for the same bus, obvs.)

(As an example of how efficient TFL's advertising swapping was - there was a poster at Deptford Bridge DLR advertising a Gorky exhibition in 2010 that wasn't changed until late 2017/early 2018. And all that involved was opening the street-level case to put in a new poster!)
Overton is, as best as I understand it, a one dimensional phenomenon, shifting the average. Here it's as if everything is slightly rotated in every axis.
And then there's this to consider too:
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/behind-todays-stunning-j...
The Butter Thesis (2019)
No, the secret is to take outputs from previous models and put them in a clothes dryer with starch to give them the gently worn appearance of organically collected data.
Salvador Dali would hold an object like a spoon in his hand while sitting in front of his canvas and fall asleep. This would cause him to drop the spoon waking him back up and then he would draw what he saw.
Most safety problems, including the child in a Halloween costume, can be solved by the advanced AI technique called "Don't hit anything. If it looks like you're about to hit something, slow down or stop."

Trouble is, when the company deliberately ties one hand behind its back by insisting on camera-only vision, it is never going to be perfect at not hitting stuff. Either multispectral imaging, radar, or lidar would help avoid edge cases like the Halloween costume. The camera might not even realize there's a three-dimensional object in front of it if there's snow on the ground. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
They would run the risk of us creating another AI that could be a threat to them... It is safest for them to make sure.
In America, all the gates (I have been to) subject you to constant noise pollution in the form of announcements over the public address system.
This is one of the many things my dad did in his 40+ year career as an engineer at GM. I'm really excited to share this with him and grateful for such a write-up.

A big thank you to the author, the person posted it here, and all those who upvoted it.
I wrote this blog article to address several misconceptions I hear when I talk to engineering or infosec teams. The problem of malicious software packages isn't really well understood, so I thought I would try and tackle some misconceptions head on. I hope you enjoy it!
There are already huge conversion blocks outside the PSU. That's why they figured there's no need to keep an extra one inside the PSU and run more wiring everywhere.

Your CPU steps down 12 volts to 1 volt and a bit. So does your GPU. If you see the big bank of coils next to your CPU on your motherboard, maybe with a heatsink on top, probably on the opposite side from your RAM, that's the section where the voltage gets converted down.
PUC Lua uses setjmp/longjmp and it’s still perfectly fine.
has anyone figured out what their event page means? Supposedly its a hint of what they're announcing. https://frame.work/framework-event
The Time I Broke My High School Mail Server
No, fine tuning doesn't require that

and models are using synthetic data sets now, for like 2 years

as in, the huge models did the crawling and then the next models had conversations with the huge models

oversimplified but basically the scraping ship has sailed, artists/writers will never be satisfied, and other companies bragging about using whatever aspirational goal post of licensed material are just doing it for brownie points
'Save This Life' pet microchip company ceases operations, unlinks registry
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Reminds me of m5stack's dial
https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5stack-dial-esp32-s3-smar...

I got a few to play around with for my home automation system, but haven't had the time.
There are services (I use one, but I think there are several) that just do like 2 page summaries of these sorts of books. I just read those.

That said, I feel like I know most things in most books of this form. My trouble is actually doing what they say. And before you suggest something like Atomic Habits -- I also read the 2-page summary of that book.
DARPA, ARPA-H, etc.
I feel like you both may be missing the point. The article isn't just about the present. It takes a very long view:

> The problem isn’t that some Americans didn’t come out ahead after four years of Bidenomics. Some did. It’s that, for the most part, those living in more modest circumstances have endured at least 20 years of setbacks

> The bottom line is that, for 20 years or more, including the months prior to the election, voter perception was more reflective of reality than the incumbent statistics.

In other words, the official statistics have been misleading for a very long time, misleading in the sense of not showing the true hardships of the economy on the voters.

"Year X is better/worse than Year Y" is not really the point.
12vhpwr has almost no safety margin. Any minor problem with it rapidly becomes major. 600W is scary, with reports of 800W spikes.

12V2x6 is particularly problematic because any imbalance, such as a bad connection of a single pin, will quickly push things over spec. For example, at 600W, 8.3A are carried on each pin in the connector. Molex Micro-Fit 3.0 connectors are typically rated to 8.5A -- That's almost no margin. If a single connection is bad, current per connector goes to 10A and we are over spec. And this if things are mated correctly. 8.5A-10A over a partially mated pin will rapidly heat up to the point of melting solder. Hell, the 16 gauge wire typically used is pushing it for 12V/8.5A/100W -- that's rated to 10A. Really would like to see more safety margin with 14 gauge wire.

In short, 12V2x6 has very little safety margin. Treat it with respect if you care for your hardware.
Does anyone have any good simple prompts for testing new "reasoning" models like this one?

"Count the letter Rs in the word strawberry" is a bit dull!

I'm trying this one locally using Ollama and the smallest quantized GGUF version (769MB) I could find - https://huggingface.co/bartowski/agentica-org_DeepScaleR-1.5... - I ran it like this:

ollama run hf.co/bartowski/agentica-org_DeepScaleR-1.5B-Preview-GGUF:IQ3_XXS

Here's the answer it gave me: https://gist.github.com/simonw/5943a77f35d1d5185f045fb53898a... - it got the correct answer after double-checking itself 9 times! And if you look at its thought it made a pretty critical error right at the start:

"Strawberry" has the letters S, T, R, A, W, B, E, R, F,
U, R, E. Let me count each 'R' as I go along.

Hopefully the versions that aren't quantized that tiny do better than that.
Because it's a competitive industry, and further efficiency gains are either not available ("can't do" option) or were deemed strategically unsound to roll out for now ("won't do" option), possibly both. It's an active dimension of sprawl.
I wish him luck in his purchase, but even if he does buy it I suspect he'll struggle to get planning permission for an open-cast bitcoin mine.

I do have to wonder whether he even thinks he has a chance any more, or if he's merely fulfilling the terms of the funding he's received.
A good analogy from not-so-distant past is the outsourcing wave that swept the tech industry. Shareholders everywhere were salivating at the money they would make by hiring programmers in India at 1/10 the cost while keeping their profits. Those of us who have been in the industry a while all saw how that went. I think this new wave wave will go roughly similarly. Eventually, companies will realize that to keep their edge, they need humans with creativity while "AI" will be one more tool in the bag. In the meantime, a lot of hurt will happen due to greed.
you can run 32B and even 70B (a bit slow) models on a m4 mac mini pro with 48 GB ram. Out of the box using Ollama. If you enjoy putting together a desktop, thats understandable.

https://deepgains.substack.com/p/running-deepseek-locally-fo...
I think not, because doesn't ring a bell at all. It was a book related to stock market though, IIRC it was a Canadian author who described their career as a day-trader and how they thought of how markets work. I wish I remembered better but it was quite long ago, and I don't have said book anymore. My book likely came out after that book, so maybe my author picked it up from others.

That book however you mentioned, I just looked it up and it seems interesting. Might put on my read list.
Squirrels kept trying to get my squirrel proof bird feeder and then they’d get mad and chew on the furniture when they couldn’t get the seed. And they’d poop in the rails because they’re squirrels.

I smeared some Last Dab on the bird feeder support and cayenne on the furniture and railings and haven’t seen a squirrel since.
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> This problem sounds similar. A single fat wire is the easiest, but I guess it’s not that simple.

The problem is the 12V architecture, so the only way you can ramp power up is to increase amperage, and sending 50A over a single wire would probably require 8AWG. That's... really not reasonable for inside a PC case.

Then again, burning down your house is somewhat unreasonable too.
A card that draws 600 watts likely already has more than 6 phases of power conversion, so it could put a separate phase on each pin, and one more on the PCIe slot power, and then guarantee load balancing as well as being able to detect any single broken connection.
Designing car controls is easy. You take what engineers have spent 100 yeas fine tuning every element of, for precision and ergonomics, then you give to someone with an industrial design degree who throws it all out the door to make something shiny, and it kills Anton Yelchin, amongst others.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09PJYMK77/zcF9kZXRhaWxfdGhlbWF0aW...

I'm sure there are power supplies for servers that go above 1600 watts too. If you really want to, you can ... but you really shouldn't.
I’ve spent too much time helping figure out why their container is broken to agree with this. It’s true that I use more general Unix knowledge than Linux knowledge, but that still counts for a lot.

I would only agree it can be a Bus Number skill rather than an everyone skill. My point is some day there will be a new OS the kids will embrace because everything is new to everyone and it’s their chance to shine.
They ask the same question to multiple people. Whatever the majority answers is right.
When will they realize that layout is fundamentally a linear problem, which only needs a "constraint" as a building block?

That all these stupid width-basis-fit-minmax-fr-anchor-span combinations boil down to "Σ(aₙxₙ) ≤ b" and a couple of specialized distributors?

How many half-assed incantations and reiterations it will take?

Jesus Christ.
Pushing the boundaries of a simple connector is not innovation, that's just reckless and a fire hazard.
You mean like elm-ui?

https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/mdgriffith/elm-ui/late...

Fixing CSS would be nice.
You keep claiming managed care organizations are earning outsized profit margins, but the audited financials on their 10-Ks indicate otherwise, as do their subpar annual stock returns.

You can either accept that these business do not have a lot of pricing power, and they compete on razor thin profit margins (except UNH, but that is because they sell software and healthcare, not just insurance). Even then, their profit margin is only 5% or so, which is objectively a low profit margins.

Or you think there is a massive fraud and a nationwide conspiracy amongst 7 publicly listed businesses (UNH/Elevance/Cigna/CVS/Humana/Centene/Molina), and numerous non profits like Kaiser Permanente and various BCBS affiliated plans (because their premiums are basically the same as the for profit insurers).

The easiest thing to do though, is ask yourself why shareholders would accept lower annual returns if their business they own earns so much money?

Put their stock tickers in here:

https://dqydj.com/stock-return-calculator/

https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/

You would think they could do better than SP500 if they were raking it in. Although, UNH did do better, but that is because they sell more high margin stuff like software and healthcare.
At this point is the US that needs to rethink funding if it wants to continue to be competitive. The US funding for universities has been frozen (adjusted for inflation) for the last 20 years. It was enough when the rest of the world invested much less in science. But nowadays China is moving faster while US funding is still the same. Giving money to tech companies is not a substitute, because they only care about short term gains.
It's also of no use for the problem at hand, PCIe already uses 12V but that's way too low for the amount of power GPUs want.
> less likely than a _single_ party being pressured or even a single party's infrastructure being hacked.

Since Obscura uses a custom QUIC-based (?) protocol, you'd need to use their custom made (open core) app to pay & register with both Obscura & Mullvad. That means, all your apples are in their app-basket, which is built entirely by a single-party?

Private Relay, otoh, seems like a 3 party setup (Apple, Cloudflare, Akamai)?

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43017140
https://archive.is/mu49I
It is even worse if you consider the actual reality. US poverty measures OPM and SPM both underestimates the actual poverty. OPM is set to 3x USDA "low cost" food plan and was created in 1960s. It has only been adjusted for inflation. SPM is better, but is not official.

If you tie poverty as the bottom quartile (adjusted per person + addl. impact of children), you are likely to have a poverty wage of around $32,000 (a bit higher than SPM and much higher than OPM). That makes the functionally unemployed much higher. Add to the fact that your benefits like SNAP have a steep drop-off.. you earn $5 more per hour and suddenly, you lose all the benefits and you can see this in the making.
The cable and the connector are standardized, and no evidence of noncompliance has been demonstrated yet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also note that the only first-party cable NVIDIA provides is an adapter for converting between four 8-pin PCIe power connectors and the 16-pin 12V2x6 power connector. They do not provide a 12V2x6 to 12V2x6 cable nor a 12VHPWR to 12V2x6 cable, you're left with your PSU manufacturer's or other third parties' cables in those scenarios (which would include the reporter's).

I will say that it's regrettable that even derbauer's analysis was basically "idk man looks good to me". He did use a cable from the manufacturer of his PSU however at least for his own testing, so if you'd consider that a first or second party product, there you go.
Tech Hiring Bubble Bursts
I'm sorry I don't have that. It's partly supply and demand and looking at what the early adopters (Apple, these days) need. And then there's interplay with specs and related roadmaps (i.e. nobody develops their HBM PHY IP until the spec is mature enough). HPC traditionally requires specialist memory IP (e.g. CAM) and more SRAM varieties, so that comes later. Serdes also comes later since it pushes the process limits, both analogue and digital, and also is tied into ethernet standards. You might find public marketing material from Synopsys/Cadence?
> What power supply do you have that even has a 20A inlet?

ATX PSUs usually have IEC 60320 C14 inlets. The IEC 60320 standard itself states that this inlet is only good for up to 10 Amps.

UL is happy to ignore them and say that 15 Amps is okay. It wouldn't surprise me if someone else were happy to ignore that and say that 20 Amps is okay.

Even still, swapping a C14 inlet for a C20 inlet (IEC max 16 Amps, UL max 20 Amps) would be a relatively easy thing to do (EDIT: on a PSU that is already designed to take more than 15 Amps, obviously). Probably a warranty-voiding action though.
I've attempted to use the sandbox-exec utility, but didn't have the stamina to get a working sandbox file written.

In general, I'd like to be able to sandbox more things. I'm using the app store version of slack because slack doesn't really need access to all of my files.
Science 'ignored' as Arla milk conspiracy theory spreads
"I'm still awake" can become a kind of assumption that survives falling asleep
Hypnagogia is the name of this state between sleep and wakefulness - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia
How does this affect LLM systems that already have their corpus integrated?
I'm a bit wary of this, but not for the reasons expected. The _whole_ point of the electoral college is states get to do literally whatever the hell they want. Most states do popular vote/winner take all, but as an exmaple, there is nothing that would prevent a state-level amendment that says the governor gets to select the votes.

So it's a tiny bit worrysome to see a federal agency work with a state on voting issues... definitely a conflict of interest. I'd rather a private firm do this.
Bi-pedal robot handling rough terrain [video]
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/politics/elon-musk-com...
found it, hn link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28764416 and source URL https://axisofordinary.substack.com/p/the-most-counterintuit...
Appreciate the detailed answer!

I highly doubt I'm doing this for status. Peers from my past sales life are probably laughing at me, flailing around with little to show. And I'm fine with that.

But I agree, I'm not doing this just for the money. Otherwise I'd probably be back in sales. It's the combination of money, and control over my life right here, right now. Not 20 years down the line, after working on something that I don't enjoy.

Anyway congrats on hitting your wealth goal! Money might not give you satisfaction right now, but I'm sure there are points in your life where you're glad to not be in need of it.
I remember seeing an interview where Linus said that at one time, he rejected a contribution and felt bad because he wasn't clear enough in that he didn't wanted that.

He said he now tries to be very clear about what he doesn't want. So I guess he is ok with how things are going, otherwise, we would be likely to see another of his famous rants.
Microsoft is weird.
The connector could reasonably be shrunk. It just now has essentially no design margin so any minor issue immediately becomes major! 50A DC is serious current to be treated with respect. 5A DC is sanely manageable.
If the executive is ok ignoring the courts, why would they respect the impeachment verdict from congress?

The constitution is premised on leaders respecting laws and norms.
It's Google Nest for your car.

OP mentions the Braun work on pots (potentiometers, the common lingo for rotary dials). I suggest they also check out the entire subculture around pots and faders in the music industry, where a lot of thought goes into them as relates to mixing board design and experience.
This is essentially recreating Tor with fewer relays. The use of QUIC is very welcome though because of latency
> Ultimately, investors mainly care about the returns

Not quite. It also matters how and when returns are generated. Some vol funds make 1–3% a year on average, but they still manage billions because when markets crash, they (presumably) crush it — and that’s when investors need them the most
It’s hard to know if this most recent move will be more permanent. The irony with Amsterdam was that they had a hell of a time hiring. They had to import 80-90% of their labor from Eastern Europe or elsewhere and everyone had visa issues and would take 2-4 months to start. I also think the company will get a rude awakening in a few years when they realize they can’t just fire everyone or do layoffs like they were in the US.
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You can test translation quality here
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Great. The stated goal of a lot of these companies seems to be “train the model on the output of humans, then hire us instead of the humans”.

It’s been interesting that media where watermarking has been feasible (like photography) have seen creators get access to some compensation, while text based creators get nothing.
You're not wrong, but at this point, there's close communication between the Linux folks are the Rust team, and the Rust team has committed to stabilizing things that the Linux team needs. There is basically no chance that suddenly one of the core things they need is going to disappear. They've already gone through the list and checked that it's all stuff that is eventually going to land.
I've been programming full time with an LLM in an IDE for the last two weeks, and it's a game changer for me at the end of my career. I'm in future shock. I suddenly can barely live without it.

But I'm not fearful for my job, yet. It's amazingly better, and much worse than a junior dev. There are certain instructions, however simple, that just do not penetrate. It gets certain things right 98% of the time, which make me stop looking for the other 2% of the time where it absolutely sabotages the code with breaking changes. It is utterly without hesitation in defeating the entire purpose of the application in order to simplify a line of code. And yet, it can do so much simple stuff so fast and well, and it can be so informative about ridiculously obscure critical details.

I have most of those faults too, just fewer enough to be worth my paycheck for a few more AI generations.