skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wouldn't be doing this: https://investors.palantir.com/news-details/2024/Anthropic-a...

It wouldn't specifically brag about doing it, while leaving out that they were specifically dealing with Palantir, because they know what they're doing is unethical: https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-access-to-claude-fo...

Being available for use by militaries is incredibly irresponsible, regardless of what scope is specifically claimed, because of the inherent gravity of the situation when a military is wrong. The US military maintains a good deal of infrastructure in the US; putting into their hands an unreliable, incompetent calculator puts lives at risk.

It would be structured as a non-profit (there are no teeth to a PBC; the structure is entirely to avoid liability, and if you have no trust in the executive body of an organization, it has zero meaningful signal).

It would have a different leadership team.

It would have a leader who could steelman his own position competently. Machines of Loving Grace was less redeeming than Lenat's old stump speeches for his position, despite Amodei starting up in an industry significantly more geared for what he had to say, and Lenat having an incredibly flexible sense of morality. Its leader would not have a history working for Chinese companies and jingoistically begin advocating for export controls.

It would have different employees than the people I know who are working there, who have a history of picking the most unethical employers they can find, in a fashion not dissimilar to how Illumination Entertainment's "Minions" select employers.
And thus we have the AI problems in a nutshell. You think it can reason because it can describe the process in well written language. Anyone who can state the below reasoning clearly "understands" the problem:

> For example, in the top‐left 3×3 block (rows 1–3, columns 1–3) the givens are 7, 5, 9, 3, and 4 so the missing digits {1,2,6,8} must appear in the three blank cells. (Later, other intersections force, say, one cell to be 1 or 6, etc.)

It's good logic. Clearly it "knows" if it can break the problem down like this.

Of course if we stretch ourselves slightly to actually check beyond a quick visual inspection you'd quickly see it actually put a second 4 in that first box despite "knowing" it shouldn't. In fact several of the boxes have duplicate numbers, despite the clear reasoning aboving.

Does the reasoning just not get used in the solving part? Or maybe a machine built to regurgitate plausible text, can also regurgitate plausible reasoning?
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I do love having a full complement of matching translucent blue accessories (SuperDisk, PD/DVD-RAM drive, FireWire webcam shaped kinda like Orbb from QuakeⅢ with a human-foot-shaped metal stand, etc) to use with my “Blue & White” G3 tower (PowerMac1,1), so it worked on me! :)

Nine 2004-era comments now purged from Microsoft's current site: https://web.archive.org/web/20210125145431/http://bytepointe...
I expect more 'automation' to happen through the API than 'augmentation'.
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I don’t think people bother to write them, more likely it’s built in to whatever cli lib they happen to be using and they enable it.
Really? All people on X are advocating for the extermination of the Jews?
America can beat China on energy
o1 high got this after i gave it the hint that the first five letters are not a single word.
Surely the reason the learning curve is hard has more to do with syntax than with grokking basic FP concepts such as immutability. Right?
Americans already consume more healthcare than anyone in human history by a huge margin. A large proportion of that healthcare isn't really healthcare at all, because it does more harm than good.

If you're paying out of pocket, you have the right to demand as many tests and as many treatments as you can afford. If you're relying on an insurer to foot the bill, then that insurer has two choices - refuse to pay for some treatments, or watch costs (and premiums) trend towards infinity.
-ette is still productive but collides with the female sense

-kins (I've only heard it with an s) is arguably still productive, but in very limited contexts - unlike other diminutives, it seems to only be used when an actual small baby is involved, not for mere endearment, though in this context it can be used either for the baby or for the people around the baby.

-let is still productive (applet = small app; even Aplet = candied apple is only documented a century back); only takes ordinary nouns.

-ling feels still productive, but new archetypes are rare so it's mostly used with preexisting words.

-ole and variants might be productive in science but are otherwise not even recognized.

-poo is apparently productive but not something I ever reach for

-ses I'm not convinced is actually correctly analyzed; it appears to just be a redundant plural, similar to how "bestest" is a redundant superlative

-sies is actually just -s (diminutive/filler) + -ie/-y (diminutive) + -s (plural). Usually the first -s is required for a word that ends with a vowel (but also after n (including nd/nt with the d/t weakened), m, ng, r, l, p, or b; the need for disambiguation is also relevant)

But -y/-ie remains by far the dominant diminutive. It shouldn't be confused with several other uses of the suffix though (such as with the meaning of -ish).

Influence from Romance languages is strong enough that foreign diminutives are now more common than some of the traditional English diminutives.
This is a fine take, there's absolutely reason to not want to screw with one's body without cause. If youre 65 and obese though, probably its worth the risk rather than die within 10 years pf a heart attack
Lol congress that just had to have the Judiciary tell them they actually have to do their jobs and not let the agencies run roughshod?

OK!
Nonprofits make a social contract, purporting to operate for the public good, not profit.

Trust that their operations are indeed benefiting the public and they are acting truthfully is important for making that social contract work.

Shady companies doing shady things and keeping shady records doesn't incentivize any type of market participants -- investors, consumers, philanthropists.
> XTGETTCAP does that (kindof), it's implemented by xterm, kitty, and foot.

Oh, cool. Agreed we need to bring other terminal emulators up to speed. I might as well do Emacs's.
One of those interesting cases where a scientific development seems on its face to rebut scientific racism, and instead becomes incorporated into it. Because scientific racism is a degenerate research programme, its adherents were able to jettison any hypotheses that seemed like part of the core and replace them with new ones. As long as you realize that the actual core is the racism, not the science, then the dynamic makes perfect sense.

They could now argue that Out of Africa was in fact proof of the superiority of whites, who had clearly evolved since leaving Southern Africa. Of course, any evidence that this is not the case can be ignored, keeping the true core of the research programme intact.
Going with the Flow: An Introduction to Normalizing Flows
Levels of Friction
> But what happens next generation? When a partner named ABC with two surnames should be combined with my name

Look to Hispanic countries. They've been dealing with this for a very long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_naming_customs

Generally, if a parent has two surnames, the child will take the first of them, so you normally will have two surnames, the first or only from your father, and the first or only from your mother. (Note that this algorithm does eliminate matrilineal names, because a child will effectively be receiving their two surnames from their grandfathers.

From what I understand, if the genetic lineage is particularly elite, you might keep more. My wife grew up in Latin America among the Hispanic elite, and apparently some of her friends had more than two surnames because their bloodlines were extremely blue and they wanted to preserve reference to the lineage.

This is a bit like how Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's kids have the surname Mountbatten-Windsor. The former is a cadet branch of the German House of Hesse, and the latter is a rebranding of the extremely German Haus Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (and of course right there is a triple-barrel name, Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha.
I blogged about this: https://blog.reverberate.org/2025/02/10/tail-call-updates.ht...

It uses a technique I published several years ago for writing fast interpreters with tail calls: https://blog.reverberate.org/2021/04/21/musttail-efficient-i...

There is also this tweet from the author: https://x.com/kenjin4096/status/1887935698906529903
Claude is mostly used by software engineers. That's an important distinction to make.

I love Claude, but let's not ignore that in the LLM race, they're not exactly the leading player.
Do you think it more likely that people are "incapable of understanding" or that people are intensely suspicious of what Musk's idea of a "reasonable tax code created from scratch" would be and how it would benefit Musk a lot more than everyone else?

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trum...
" Since everything is text, serialization is trivial. But serialization is vital if you need to work remotely between different shells."

Serialization is trivial in PowerShell but also much more powerful because you can pipe the output of any command to ConvertTo-JSON or ConvertTo-CliXML which gives you very nice STRUCTURED serialization that is much easier to consume.
This is including both MS and PhD.
> 90% of anti-rust sentiment is "Gross, people like using it so much they tell others that they like it".

More like "Gross, people like using it so much they imply (or just outright say) other languages are inferior."

edit: apparently I'm "posting too fast", so I'll reply in an edit. What you (sophocles) said is effectively equivalent to "other languages are inferior", although I appreciate how you twisted the words up like that. Computers can be used effectively in a wide variety of languages. Do some languages age poorly? Sure. But not all of them.
Powershell has very good tab completion. It isn't a problem. And it is case insensitive.
Certainly we could rule it out as a widespread normal practice, but transcription errors or spelling changes would happen, right? Especially from languages that have letters that don't exist in English.
>Is this not consensus yet that people in the model layer are fighting commoditization and so-called wrappers have all the moats?

Yes. It will become a duopoly, where the leading frontier model holds >90% market share, and most useful products will be built around it. With the remaining 10% being made up by large portions of the other big vendors, and then everyone else for niche cases.

The idea of picking and choosing between individual models for each specific use case is going away rapidly as the top ones pull away from the pack, and inference prices are falling exponentially.
> not everyone has a first name - for example I don't.

> E-Mail is first name at my domain.
Tangential, but the Plame thing was very much done by the political establishment types which tends to go beyond parties. For instance the person who outed her (Richard Armitage - Republican/Bush's Deputy Secretary of State) endorsed Clinton and was a never-Trumper. The motivation is that her husband's work (as well as her own) revealed that a lot of the pretext for the Iraq War was built on outright fabrications and lies. They apparently refused to play ball and were going public, so "they" destroyed her.

I think Democrat/Republican loses meaning in these sort of contexts. I've never once voted for a Republican in my life yet I also am extremely supportive of what's happening right now, mostly because of a strong anti-establishment inclining. I find that when powers grow too comfortable, they trend towards corruption and abuse, exactly of the Plame sort as but one tiny morsel of such. A bit of a shake-up now and then keeps everything far healthier for everybody (the country itself most of all), and it's far nicer doing it this way than by watering Jefferson's Tree of Liberty.

I assure you, as DOGE starts to look at the Pentagon, which has failed audits repeatedly, to 0 consequence, expect to hear all sorts of establishment Republican yelping.
I don't think anyone takes it as a positive. It's just not what voters vote on. If they support one candidate's policies more than another's, they won't flip because of that issue. The example of Bill Clinton demonstrates that this happens across the political spectrum, and his feminist supporters were the ones making this argument back then. They got criticized for being hypocritical, but in politics you have to prioritize.
Most of social sciences today is 'degenerate' by your definition, at least a plurality of those researchers openly admit that following the evidence is not the highest virtue, but arriving at the most socially correct result is.
> I fear the economic reality on the backside of this kind of spend.

Minor nitpick. Use of the word 'spend' as a noun is not widespread and not well known.
Yes, Dick has been a nickname for Richard for about 800 years but only got its modern slang meaning in probably late-19th or early 20th century. It seems to have come out of the British military from the phrase "Tom, Dick, and Harry", which were such common names that the phrase meant every ordinary man. (Tommy was already slang for "British soldier".) And from there, one more evolutionary step for mankind....
Use the error bands to find a close-enough round number: 2200 or 2300 mph or "almost 3 times the speed of sound on earth"

Anyone pedantic enough to notice the conversion mismatch should be smart enough to understand the concept of "error bars".
> The principle is that if DeepSeek had have spent 10 or 100 times as much as they did their model would have been a few times better.

If this is the case then OpenAI must have a model that is a few times better. Where is it?
There have been clinical decision support systems that were pretty decent at doing DDX for decades, well before the current crop of AI LLMs. The issue is getting relevant data about patient history, symptoms, signs, etc into the system and then convincing doctors to actually use it. For most simple cases, using any form of clinical decision support (whether it's based on AI or simpler deterministic algorithms) just slows them down and they don't have time to waste.
> within a population are larger than variations between populations

That doesn’t really change anything, though. That low variance still might allow (and well.. obviously does) enough space for significant genetics differences (that impact everything ranging from physical properties to intelligence) between individuals or subgroups to manifest themselves.

In theory we could certainly produce a “breed” of extremely physically fit “super-humans”. Same probably applies to other traits. Not that anyone should be ever allowed under any circumstances to try something like that.

With modern understanding of genetics eugenics would be more or less scientifically sound on paper (of course a dystopian society which regulates human breeding would be a horrible place to exist in even if it was made up of objectively “genetically superior” individuals)
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Aristocratic tutoring doesn't work, because it isn't scalable. But a new "aristocratic" tutoring system powered by Chat-GPT o3 or Claude Opus just might.

Also, it turns out that ability grouping has very bad structural incentives if you aren't exceedingly careful about how it's done. The typical outcome is that the best teachers teach the best students, and the worst teachers teach the worst students - because those are the students no one else wants to be stuck with. Which then leaves struggling students with no real hope of catching up and sets them up for even worse failure.
I'm not sure that matters but one hill I will die on is that all members of homo are humans too.

If we're renaming things I'd rather we call ourselves homo gregarius. There's no evidence we were individually smarter than our Neanderthals cousins, rather we were a variety of humans which lived in larger groups and thus could sustain a more sophisticated technological toolkit.
There's a rumor that the doge team went and did their metadata dump at treasury on midnight on the 21st or whatever. But what I think would be more interesting is if musk hasn't done anything, and all this crying and screaming is just at the threat of peeking at the books.

Because that seems more both their style.
Only making it down .19% before being outmatched is quite humbling for the human species.
Yes, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5931631/

Note that the National Library of Medicine is hosted on NIH, and the administration has been scrubbing much of that content, so I think the link works now, but I can't promise that it will stay good.
> Elsewhere he says that model intelligence is determined by the log of the resources used to train it, and this relationship has been constant for many orders of magnitude.

If this relationship is constant then you must have a way to quantify "intelligence" in such a way that it can be compared like this. Care to share it?
I think it was more common until Apple normalized the one button mouse.
Yeah I'm a fan except for when I'm looking for things to buy or comparisons of products,which I suspect is less a Kagi issue and more the fact that it is trying to correct for spam and advertorial which unfortunately comprises most of that content online.
I am often surprised by how many HN commenters can't see a joke even when it is pointed out to them that IT IS A JOKE.
The fact that you and others find it enjoyable would imply that we will see more of this going forward.
10 years ago the NLP lab I was working in was trying to build a system like this for autoimmune disorders partnered with a hospital.

Autoimmune diagnosis is broken, and it IS a systems problem. The hospital system itself incentivizes compartmentalization of your different body systems to different specialists, because it allows the hospital to do less central planning and smoothes out the financial side of things (e.g. which departments do we invest in next year).
I think this is exactly the life lie of Rust. It claims to be memory safe and equally suited for system programming. But you get memory safety only when completely avoiding unsafe and it competes with C only when using unsafe. And it is certainly not true that you get memory safety in the part not using unsafe or that you only need to review the unsafe part. The memory safety of the safe part depends on the programmer maintaining invariances in the unsafe part that the Rust compilers needs to ensure the memory safety. At the same time the safety prerequisites of the unsafe parts can be violated by logic errors in the safe part (as in the transpose examples). It still helps to isolate the unsafe part, but in practice I am not convinced that the typical Rust code I see for system programming is fundamentally more secure than equally well designed C code which was also written with an eye towards memory safety and with use of modern tools to find problems.
Fixing Ansible Playbooks
With respect, Rust isn't a great choice for web either. At least, not for web _sites_. I would still argue it's not very good for 90% backend API development either, but that depends on what's being done in the backend.
Standardize JSX while there's time
I don't think the core language should have AI in it for many practical reasons - offline operation, toolchain size, resource requirements, determinism, etc.. There is also a whole problem of LLMs non-deterministically generating incorrect output from correct inputs, and one of the Rust's values is that "generating incorrect output from correct inputs" is bad, and if it's non-determenistic, it's even worse.

but IDEs are a different beast - if a user likes AI they can install IDE or a plugin to help them, and there is no problem if that plugin requires huge downloads or tons of resources or always-on internet connection with paid subscription. And there is no impact on Rust's reputation if that plugin suggest nonsense.
I will note, half of the customer facing bugs I get are "works on nvidia." Only to find out that it is a problem with the game and not the driver. Nvidia allows you to ignore a lot of the spec and it causes game devs to miss a lot of obvious bugs. A few examples:

1) Nvidia allows you to write to read only textures, game devs will forget to transition them to writable and will appear as corruption on other cards.

2) Nvidia automatically work with diverging texture reads, so devs will forget to mark them as a nonuniform resource index, which shows up as corruption on other cards.

3) Floating point calculations aren't IEEE compliant, one bug I fixed was x/width*width != x, On Nvidia this ends up a little higher and on our cards a little lower. The game this happened on ended up flooring that value and doing a texture read, which as you can guess, showed up as corruption on our cards.

1 and 2 are specifically required by the microsoft directx 12 spec, but most game devs aren't reading that and bugs creep in. 3 is a difference in how the ALU is designed, our cards being a little closer to IEEE compliant. A lot of these issue are related to how the hardware works, so stays pretty consistent between the different gpus of a manufacturer.

Side note: I don't blame the devs for #3, the corruption was super minor and the full calculation was spread across multiple functions (assumed by reading the dxil). The only reason it sticks out in my brain though is because the game devs were legally unable to ever update the game again, so I had to fix it driver side. That game was also Nvidia sponsored, so it's likely our cards weren't tested till very late into the development. (I got the ticket a week before the game was to release.) That is all I'm willing to say on that, I don't want to get myself in trouble.
AIUI this is correct, yes.
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Don't forget Niklaus or Nicholson.
When a journalist asks you "Did you really mean that thing you just said?" you probably said the wrong thing.
You can do everything you're saying in Rust.

1. https://docs.rs/dimensioned/latest/dimensioned/

2. https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/trait.Index.html

3. Maybe const generics? e.g., Foo<N: 3> where Foo { array: [u32; N] } or something. You could also do this with less typed-ness with Foo::new_with_capacity(n) and some private size management.

It definitely takes aesthetically from the C-family of languages in the same way that Java and Go are all braces and semicolon languages. I can't exactly minimize this - because I am comfortable with languages that look like this and less comfortable with some languages that don't, so I recognize the effect is very real - but it doesn't affect the features of the language much.
The current guidance for weight loss is a maximum 2 year treatment window https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ta875/documents/final-appra...

I think diabetes doesn’t have a max treatment recommendation because most of the other interventions choices are also long term.
That's sweet, I'm planning to implement something like this on my project[1] as well (also a Christmas gift to myself). Right now it spits out points but regions and polygons is on my to-do list.
Suggestion: make the map cover the entire browser window/remove the black borders, it gives it a more HD feel and it makes it immersive.

[1] https://godview.ai
When did they ever propose anything like this on the campaign trail?
For an earlyish (but fictional, rather simplistic, and satirically intended) version of this, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engine .