skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I'd take this with a HUGE grain of salt:

Next, when examining whether responses written by ChatGPT and therapists were rated higher, lower, or equal in line with the common factors of therapy, we found a large and reliable difference (d = 1.63, 95% CI [1.49, 1.78]) favoring ChatGPT. Given that common factors undergird and act as a mechanism for much of the evidence-based treatment literature [27, 28], and the direction and size of the effects, consulting with ChatGPT may be a way to improve declining or stagnating effect sizes within the evidence-based clinical psychological sciences [34, 35].

The second aim is likely to be critiqued for several reasons. First, these are responses to therapy-like vignettes and may not generalize to actual therapy. These responses represent a hypothetical “snapshot” of therapy. Second, vignettes were based on couple therapy scenarios and the results might not generalize to individual therapy. Third, the outcome measured was brief and might not fit neatly into varying definitions of what is (or is not) therapeutic. Other criticisms might be with the clinician sampling plan, how responses were selected for comparison, or the therapist group. Future work should include clinicians from different backgrounds, modalities, and theoretical orientations to solidify these findings. Including more diverse therapists may produce responses perceived as more therapeutic than those written by a large language model.
We did this in elementary school in Seattle. I feel like the muscle memory might still be there!
I have similar thoughts all the time. What behaviors are incentivized and what are punished? And it has little to do what leadership says and a lot to do with what it does, and we all know those can be drastically at odds with one another.
They're classics, so you might have read them, but the Culture series and anything by Le Guin are top tier books.

The Culture books are often 'cloak and daggery', though I don't known anything about Metro 2033.
Yeah after reading that paragraph I took a look at his other articles, he seems to be some genre of alt right. Not really someone I want to promote.
They certainly have access to classified intelligence-related information, since they published it (regarding NRO), whether or not they have access to intelligence systems.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/doge-website-posts-classified-inf...
I'm approaching a year of exclusively gaming on Linux with very few hiccups. Most of it being on Steam Deck, but also switched to Bazzite on desktop.
What is a good method for sandboxing models? I would like to trust these projects, but downloading hard-to-analyze arbitrary code and running it seems problematic.
Hoover Institution: How Should the US Economy Adapt to the AI Boom? [video]
Google has a very long history of downgrading or even outright blocking off their services based on User-Agent. Them doing it to Opera in particular was a big story back in those "early days". And no, it's not because it wouldn't work - people literally made it work by spoofing the UA.
Someday chatddit.com if I code it a bit.
> not replacing the core skills that make a developer

so far
Inference has 2 meanings too
TBF, the Computing Tabulating Recording Company became IBM in the 1920's when they were selling punch card machines to businesses and governments around the world, including the Nazis thru their German subsidiary, Hollerith.
I mean, Henry Ford is the only American mentioned and quoted in Mein Kampf and was cited as inspiration for the design and management of concentration camp. Hitler was such a fan he gave Ford many medals, before and during the war (of which, Ford was proud of), and Hitler kept a photo of Henry Ford on his desk of all places. Ford was additionally proud Nazi all the way to the end.
In my experience they can usually cite something that they don't like about the candidate. In the case of Harris I often heard her position on Gaza given. And they'll always find something, since we're talking about an office with life and death on the line.
A lot of developed countries do this.

They just sent you your assessment automatically with they you think you/they owe if anything, you need to file anything only there if you believe there is difference .

The US system is pretty backwards really, most of the taxes are deducted at source anyway the system already has a good idea of your income/taxes owed.

If IRS calculate returns at scale using tax deducted at source and employer info(W-2 etc) , unless you dispute their calculations there is no need for audit or paperwork at all reducing the cost of running IRS too.

This kills intuit so will never happen, but if it does it would be the single biggest revenue boost to the Government easily in tens if not 100's of billions of dollars.
you owe elon musk 80 years of your life - x.gov
You're going to feel really weird when, in response to the US's waning engagement with global geopolitics, a bunch of countries form trade organizations and jettison their dollar holdings. Kinda like how a bunch of dairy and grain farmers felt when they realized the "welfare" programs they loved to bitch about were actually poorly camouflaged agricultural subsidies. Whoops.
If you're wondering if the "Efficiency Department" is actually about efficiency, or if they're just cosplaying political Santa Claus, look for cuts to the IRS.

The IRS is the most bang for the buck government department. Every dollar spent there nets out many more, because they're chronically under-resourced to audit the whales who can trivially hide their tax obligations.

Naturally whenever there's a hint that the department could be even close to properly funded, the media, overwhelmingly owned by the class of people who evade taxes as a sport, gin up controversy. It's no wonder that the richest man in the history of the world has bought his way into the building and been provided with gasoline and matches.
This is wishful thinking of the highest order
Yarvin (aka Moldbug) outlines his proposal in this talk from 2012. It's worryingly prescient. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZluMysK2B1E
> We have people in CA affected by fires, people in Carolina who still need help rebuilding after flooding, people in Hawaii that need to rebuild after their own fires.

Trump wants to end all federal disaster relief.
Don't you think he doesn't know that? Pro-tip for you: when someone mentions the pain of losing their companion, do not give them pro-tips.
Good riddance. Shame to see another swath of the internet go to crap, but I'm looking forward to them being supplanted by a better upstart.
You actually think Trump is going to forcibly capture land from Canada?

Zero chance that happens.
Could you use a capacitor? Charge them in series with the high voltage then discharge in parallel for the low voltage.
Remember the movie Brazil (1985) when someone got swatted, inprisoned and executed because of a typo caused by a fly?

Imagine how the appeal process will "work" once the IRS introduces LLMs for this...
"Last September the IRS announced it would hire 3,700 new agents to help increase scrutiny of taxes paid by corporations, wealthy people and the private investment funds they increasingly favor. " [https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2024/02/inside-the-irs-unit...]

"IRS launches new effort aimed at high-income non-filers; 125,000 cases focused on high earners, including millionaires" [https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-launches-new-effort-aimed-a...]

"The Internal Revenue Service today announced the agency has surpassed the $1 billion mark in collections from high-wealth taxpayers with past-due taxes.
" [https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-tops-1-billion-in-past-due-...]

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Your ideological view of reality and what the IRS are objectively doing do not seem to remotely line up.
Cherrypicked parial comment:

> Reality check, because everyone always gets excited about this: the power density of these devices is on the order of 10 µW/cm^3 - about eight orders of magnitude lower than a lithium-ion battery. Technical advances may improve that somewhat, but it will never be competitive with conventional power sources.
“etcd, apiserver, and controllers.”

…and containerd and csi plugins and kubelet and cni plugins and kubectl and kube-proxy and ingresses and load balancers…
Technology ran by the current oligarchs and billionaires, made off our backs and works, are the reason we are in the hellscape. That is why we are all so intuned about all of this.

Billionaires shouldn't exist, and they certainly shouldn't control the government, and both are happening by using the same technology that was supposed to save the world, not enslave it for the bottom dollar.
It's not a moral crusade, it's just a kleptocracy that uses a moral crusade as a fig leaf.
Where does this dichotomy between Kubernetes, and superficial understanding come from? It is not consistent with my experience, and I don't have speculation its origin.
>. Single threaded execution more or less stops at 2 GHz and has remained there.
2012-2022 - no one notices single threaded is stalled because everything moves to VMs in the cloud

Single Thread execution, I assume you mean IPC or may be more accurately as PPC ( Performance Per Clock ) has improved steadily if you accounted for ARM design and not just x86. That is why M1 was so surprising to everyone because most (all) thought Geekbench score on Phone doesn't translate to Desktop and somehow M1 went from nonsense to breakthrough.

Clockspeed also went from 2Ghz to 5Ghz and we are pushing 4Ghz on Mobile Phone already.

And Moores law, in terms of transistor density ends when Intel couldn't deliver 10nm on time, so 2016 / 2017 give or take. But that doesn't mean transistor density is not improving.
The Paradox of Skill
They never actually define what “efficiency” means, so it can be anything they want, and then they can claim any victory they would like by playing with numbers and definitions.
$reddit_award
You left out the cost of medicare from that calculation: $1.02 trillion of outlays in 2023 per the CMS (CBO has $800 billion here). Medicare taxes were $350 billion in 2023 per the CBO. Where does the rest of that money come from?

Medicaid is another $600 billion and is also supposed to be supported by the Medicare tax.

Social Security is mostly covered by its ~12.5% regressive tax (an extortionate rate, IMO). Medicare is not. In 2023, Social Security, per the CBO, had a ~$200 billion shortfall also (draining the trust fund), but that's small potatoes compared to the >$1 trillion hole in medicare/medicaid that is being supported by your income taxes.

You linked a nice fact sheet, but the reality as shown by the group who actually oversees where the money goes is a bit different.
Henri Michaux review – delirious artist who took mescaline so you don't have to
Your reply is borderline mis-leading. I will give you the benefit of the doubt and direct you to the article. You will see people did not know about this situation until recently. It took a lot of effort to find this - including FOIA requests.

[edited typo-sorry I am on mobile]
What we really need is shared playlists so you can listen to the same things as your friends, but even when you're not hanging out
mock-possum wrote: ...but it’s so hard for me to get past the thought, “why don’t they just stop being that way, and start making friends who they can open up to?”

Past a certain point it’s indicative of pathology, and not necessarily one they brought on themselves. Looking at the CDC data on suicide (while it’s still available) it says the suicide rate among males in 2022 was approximately four times higher than the rate among females. Males make up 50% of the population but nearly 80% of suicides:

https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/data.html

I was fortunate to grow up in a family and a section of society in which being connected was natural for men and women. I benefited from it, but I did not create it. So I get no credit for it. I don’t know how mock-possum grew up, but if you grew up as I did your current healthy state is certainly good for you, but you had a head start. Like my head start of growing up in a big stone house full of books, with lovely educated and academic parents who read to me. I didn’t create that situation. I just showed up. I inherited that emotional and intellectual wealth. I did not earn it.

And men who grew up being beaten, literally, for emoting, and frankly for not being brutal, did not create their own situations either. They do, unfairly, have to do the work to get themselves out of what they did not get themselves into. But it requires more than to “just stop being that way, and start making friends you can open up to.”

Obviously not everybody is suicidal, but at the extreme you’re saying to certain people “instead of wanting to kill yourself, why don’t you stop feeling that way? Don’t despair, don’t feel suicidal, just cheer up instead!”
This does not seem like it is going to help the IRS do a better job with tax arithmetic.
Gary Marcus discusses AI's technical problems
One of the biggest reasons 3D tv failed is the lack of socializing while using it. You were required to have glasses for each person watching which limited the ability to use in group settings.

This makes that problem even worse.
What I’ve realized is that a positive feedback environment isn’t just beneficial —it’s essential. When feedback is only about improvement (which is already a tough skill for managers to get right), employees start associating their actions with negative reinforcement. Over time, this conditions them to avoid risk, stay quiet, and play it safe — not because they were told to, but because they’ve learned that speaking up doesn’t feel worth it.

On the other hand, an environment that practices positive feedback doesn’t just recognize good work — it reinforces behaviors that encourage growth, confidence, and innovation. Over time, this creates a workplace where employees feel safe to take risks and contribute freely, rather than holding back.
The IRS Individual Master File, running on IBM mainframes, may be the oldest software alive. Perhaps there's a need for an update.
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/636196-ol...
There is a market but it most likely requires a thick software layer to enter the competitive space. Modal Labs, Anyscale, and Outerbounds are examples of companies competing for "data science stuff" and have thick software layers over the VMs.
Then and now doesn't ring true to me, not since WinForms.

(Which, to be fair, is obviously very strongly inspired by VCL; and C# has quite a few things from Delphi the language, as well.)
It is quite possible, bit surprised a minor systems detour would burn months but alas. This inspires me to figure out how to sell it, sounds expensive...
Little Sisyphus A physics-based platformer for the NES
the bogeyman is real. the quality of science is bad, we are having all sorts of crises in the sciences because in large part because the enterprise has selected for keeners who play games instead of honest people who do science. those honest scientists are quickly driven out and do other things with their lives.
At least the article warns you upfront of the sort of mathematical sophistication required to get some of the explanations. The Author is a financial engineering sort, so their big thing is SDEs and assumes (for some of the explanations) that you bring that sort of intuition with you. If the Author was a signal processing type, they might use Kalman filter analogies, or pure statisticians would cite autocorrelation.

Don’t try to catch all the mathematical Pikachus in the paper, just choose the insights that resonate with you. Thankfully, there isn’t a pop quiz lurking at the end.

In honor of the Bay Area roots of HN, “believe it if you need it, if you don't, just pass it on”. I liked the paper even when skipping the SDE material.
did you just provide links from Biden administration and have missed we have a new President? :)
Consider exposing commands that the user can then assign to their own preferred keybindings instead of choosing for them
What a cool, well written article. I'd hardly noticed how long it was until I was nearing the end. Although I never played this and honestly didn't even know it was a thing, it makes me wish more people took time to document histories of things in this fashion.

It sounds like he has awesome parents. I wish I had 1/10th the zeal and entrepreneurship his Dad(and seemingly his uncle) had.

The only thing I didn't quite grasp is this excerpt. I feel like it's implying something I don't pick up.
Is it saying they didn't work together? Was sending the sample sets rude?

> He did make a final good-faith effort to partner with the sport's originator, Wayne Godinet, offering to purchase $20,000 worth of product. It was almost a third of the profit earned from reselling the Japanese shipment. Godinet sent back two sample sets with a bill for the cost of goods and shipping.
It's great that you were able to debug that. It may have come at an opportunity cost of being able to solve some more specialized problem within your domain.

In my job I develop a React Native app. I also need to have a decent understanding of iOS and Android native code. If I run into a bug related to how iOS runs 32 bit vs 64 bit software? Not my problem, we'll open a ticket with Apple and block the ticket in our system.
yes but they are my pennies
Not sure if sarcastic but it’s a bit premature to assume that’s how it’ll play out. The first part — indiscriminate firings - is underway. Whether anyone left will be capable to do the work that will still be there is yet to be seen.

Just today, there’s this whoopsiedoodle where it seems firings were a bit too indiscriminate and later rescinded. Just like twitter, only at the DoE. Most cool.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5298190/nuclear-agency-...
> “participants in most cases preferred ChatGPT’s take on the matter at hand.”

That doesn’t come as a surprise to me. I’ve tried several modalities and intensities of therapy from CBT and DBT to Psychoanalysis, and I find ChatGPT more beneficial. A crucial benefit of ChatGPT is its 24/7 availability. By reducing the barrier to availability, it becomes much easier to get help as unhealthy beliefs and behaviors emerge. Perhaps, LLMs could augment clinician understanding of the environmental factors that trigger patient symptoms.
if people felt the government was working for them

There's two things you need to make people feel the government is working for them:

* good social policies

* adequate education

One of the US parties has been working for decades to sabotage both, and with the help of the media they've successfully managed to deflect all the blame for it. So no, I don't agree that DOGE is a symptom of a larger problem -- unless you mean that the problem is 50 years of consistently undermining the government.
I liked the original article - since I've looked at semgrep, and I'm also hoping "closing the loop" can fix some of the downsides of LLMs

I'm also willing to bet money, and I'd even thought of a challenge for 10x or 20x that amount

But if you want to bet, then you have to have something well-defined and interesting to bet on:

- leave out the term "AGI" - this only confuses things, because everyone has a different definition of it.

Just say what the problem is, precisely

- leave out "FAANG staff engineer". Because computers are already better than staff engineers on dozens and dozens of tasks, like adding two 32 bit numbers, or compiling C++ code, or running Python code. Not to mention certain things involving LLMs.

i.e. it's extremely obvious that LLMs are better at engineers at certain things -- the ones they choose to use LLMs for. That doesn't mean LLMs can replace them, which is often what people mean by "AGI".
The name had to do with web services, which were the Hot New Thing at the time, at least as far as "enterprise" development went. One of the things that were prominently featured in all .NET 1.0 promotional material is first-class support for SOAP.
Yeah, I remember watching a video of (I think?) a European professor who helped with an issue devs were having in developing The Witness. Turns out they had a large algorithm they developed in high level code (~2000 lines of code? can't remember) to place flora in the game world, which took minutes to process, and it was hampering productivity. He looked at it all, and redid almost all of it in something like <20 lines of assembly code, and it achieved the same result in microseconds. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find that video anymore...

Frankly though, when I bring stuff like this up, it feels like I'm being mocked than the other way around - like we're the minority. And sadly, I'm not sure if anything can ultimately be done about it. People just don't know what they don't know. Some things you can't tell people despite trying to, they just won't get it.
Yeah fair enough. I think it's just the subjectivity of "durable" at play here. The value of the GPUs may halve in a single year (e.g. H100s), but they'll never* drop to zero in a month. That's at least some kind of durability, because you can get a transaction done in a month.

* never say never
One claim from that podcast was that the xLSTM attention mechanism is (in practical implementation) more efficient than (transformer) flash attention, and therefore promises to significantly reduces the time/cost of test-time compute.
Lots of locations have completely unrelated names in different languages. For example Germany is something like Dutch Land in most Germanic languages and Alemania in most Latin languages.
I think time-slicing for GPUs is likely the solution here.

If you could checkpoint a GPU quickly enough it would be possible to run multiple isolated workloads on the same GPUs without any issues.
Nope. Just clean carbs.
In companies where it is very clear that feedback is not welcome... they are the ones that make a big show about being open to feedback.

I worked at a company where our boss begged us to ask a question at the all hands meetings. Privately I told him if he gave me some questions to ask, I would ask them. I didn't expect it, but next meeting he handed me a small piece of paper with a question, so I stepped up to the mic to ask. He was so happy.

Nothing changed at the company of course, the culture was long since set. But he felt good, I felt good I did it for him. One of those moments where playing the game made everyone happy.
> Life pro-tip: In your day-to-day human encounters, if someone mentions the pain of losing a child, do not bring up your dead dog.

Witnessing a cherished part of your life die, while you do not and can do nothing about it, is a uniquely powerless experience. Because, while you continue to live, a part of you dies.

If a person can empathize with this experience in a genuine way, what matter is it their loss?
Oh joy. More FUD to fuel our society.
What is "evil" about C#?
Move to EKS and you still need a k8s engineer, but one who also knows AWS, and you also pay the AWS premium for the hosting, egress, etc. It might make sense for your use case but I definitely wouldn’t consider it a cost-saving measure.
Those similar gestures are people waving. Most of them aren't even clips, but still shots of the wave when the hand was extended forward. It is really disingenuous to compare them.

It is disappointing that we are pretending someone with the responsibility Musk carries couldn't foresee what his own body movements portray. He was at best trolling, and that is a pretty shitty thing to troll with.
Even taking that unsourced statement as true, a single anecdotal accident doesn't invalidate an entire mission statement.
>For almost twelve hours, she was six

This is an incredibly poetic, heartbreaking statement.
No, I don't want a big 2d screen... I just want the virtual court side experience.
Discussion (113 points, 1 day ago, 93 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43041726
It always does. Always. Never a spare inch when moving a couch.