skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mastodon is working to add the controversial 'quote posts' feature
That's what you get when you only have a handful of complete juniors reporting directly to a capricious CEO. There needs to be adults in the room.
>Olson signed a form, giving Idaho police consent to search her cellphone. They extracted and copied the contents of her phone for review.

Bloody idiot.
This stuff was incredibly valuable when my SO and I were on vacation overseas. Also, I'm sure there are a ton of consular and embassy employees around the world that rely on USGS data. It's just an accident that it's also exporting the work product of the US government overseas.
The government does: https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/CFO/documents/2024-Budget-i...

I guess he got flagged as I was replying, but there's his transparency. The government isn't a private corporation.

As you mentioned DOGE is looping some holes to not disclose their budget nor staff. That's not how the government works.
The xLSTM could become a good alternative to transformers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04517. On very long contexts, such as those arising in DNA models, these models perform really well.

There's a big state-space model comeback initiated by the S3-Mamba saga. RWKV, which is a hybrid between classical RNNs and transformers, is also worth mentioning.
Or like MicroSoft - Microcomputer Software.
You can always just use the native AWS services around CloudWatch alarms and metrics
I don't know if you're being serious, but Twitter's financials are not in any better shape since Musk took over.
Wild. I read the bit about "Close your eyes and imagine...", and immediately also thought of the third note of "Tears in Heaven" without having read the rest of the comment. Those are either crazy odds or that's just THAT memorable of an opening to a song
I haven't used Windows seriously in 20+ years, so I don't know, but did any of those upgrades also require hardware (not RAM or disk space) upgrades?
https://balajis.com/p/americas-175-trillion-problem

Might have something to do with all this.
That's not at all what I'm saying.

This specific case involves a specific group of people. I'd be equally annoyed if people on the other side of the spectrum used what amounts to a bug in HN to influence search ranking for a smear campaign.

HN makes flagged posts and subthreads invisible to its average users (you need to link to the subthread), but keeps them fully searchable. And does not moderate them. As a result, it's an easy way to deposit unreviewed content on a high-reputation website, leeching of that reputation.

It's got nothing to do with politics, and everything with the fact that when you allow a community to be publicly associated with content without letting the community see or moderate the content, you're damaging the community's reputation.

HN should fix the bug. That's all. Everybody involved in this particular drama is entirely entitled to say whatever the heck they want, just not under the cover of being pretend-part of this community.
Can you point out where I made that claim?
I absolutely prefer modern OneUI on Samsung phones to the Pixel variant or stock AOSP. The Galaxy store is only used for updating Samsung native apps and isn't "pushed" at all in my experience. I don't use their native apps for the most part and them existing isn't a problem for me, Google apps are preinstalled and work as expected set once as the default.
LLMs are not human, they see the whole context window at once. On the contrary it’s ridiculous to assume otherwise.

I’ll reiterate what I said before: put the whole source of the new library in the context window and tell the LLM to use it. It will, at least if it’s Claude.
> Did Trumps tax cuts put money if your pocket?

Yes, the standard deduction effectively doubled. That helped lower my federal income tax, and probably the taxes of anyone who didn't own multiple properties. I'm not a fan of Trump at all, but he did cut income taxes in his first term.
> The ones funding skepticism are the fossil fuel industries. The ones lobbying for mitigations would be the likes of coastal real estate owners.

As if billionaire oligarchs don't own both. ... It's not the companies f'ing around with the world as much as it's the oligarchs that own them. They don't give a damn who you voted for. If they can manipulate you to their ends, they will. Oh, and in case it wasn't obvious, the oligarchs are the ones with the money, not the <insert scapegoat culture or heritage here>.
Either it would or it wouldn’t help in most cases, but the absence of consideration of it at all weakens the article’s arguments from a carrier perspective. IPv6 adoption was at 90% by US mobile carriers a couple years ago, and the US is not known for its telco infrastructure investment; so, while using IPv6 may not be a uniform cure for their issues, the article’s total focus on legacy IPv4 NAT issues is in stark contrast to its availability carrier-side in one of the weakest examples available. China regulates that IPv6 be supported and enabled by default on all hardware sold for use in-country since last year, and telcos have six months left until a first-stage IPv4 new-hardware prohibition goes into effect later this year, so the assumption that most cellular modems don’t support IPv6 seems unlikely as well given their regulatory climate. This deserves more research or at least an explanation of why such was not done for the initial release of the paper.
I posted a link to where DOGE is publishing their cuts in response to the comment you are replying to and it was flagged and removed instantly.

Which, you know, is why liberals on this site and Reddit and Bluesky are so shocked at how many conservatives they have created by silencing them.

Let me repeat I VOTED FOR HARRIS. I just want to get real information! Flag away, censors!
I’m working on a side project that actually probably could use AI later on and I’m doing everything I can not to “put a bird on it” which is the phase we are at with AI.

I might be willing to use a SAT solver or linear algebra on it if I ever get to that point but there’s a lot else to do first. The problem space involves humans, so optimizing that can very quickly turn into “works in theory but not in practice”. It’d be the sort of thing where you use it but don’t brag about it.
Godwin's Law doesn't apply when discussing actual Nazis.
> Which genetic markers constitute a black person? Which constitute a white person? You clearly think such is the case, so I’m curious to understand how your definition of race functions.

The races are visually distinguishable. This is possible because there are genetic (i.e. biological) differences between the groups, which are expressed as differences in skin color, hair color, eye shape, etc. These genes aren't what defines race per se, they're merely proof that race--commonly understood in terms of membership in a geographically defined population--cannot be said to be some arbitrary social distinction with no basis in biology.

The paragraph you cite is a rhetorical slight of hand. They argue that that "pure races... do not exist". But nobody argues that "pure races" exist. This is the strawman fallacy in its most basic form.

I'm equally fascinated by your position! After a bit of thought, I might understand where we're getting mixed up.

It's possible that our disagreement comes down to a difference in what we mean when we say that race is/isnt "a biological concept". If the differences between races are insignificant compared to those between genus or species (I have no idea if this is true for all species distinctions, but i'll concede the point), and there is no existing concept in biology to account for such trifling differences as our racial differences, the it can be reasonably asserted that "race is not a biological concept". Another way to say this is "there are biological (genetic) differences between human racial populations, but they are so small that there is no analogous concept in biology/taxonomy."

Thus defined, the idea that "race is not a biological concept" is a narrow and purely semantic assertion. The problem arises when you conflate this semantic assertion with unrelated ideas like "race is meaningless" or "race isn't real". It was your use of the phrase in this latter manner that prompted my response.

Original comment:

> This is a White America thing and it is why we are in the situation we are in as a country but people want to pretend that race and culture doesn't play any role in anything.

Your response:

> It's not a White America thing to reject race as a biological concept, it's consistent with scientific study.

So you're saying the words "race is not a biological concept", but are you saying it in the narrow semantic sense in which it is true? It doesn't seem like it--an assertion about biology nomenclature would make little sense in context! It sounds like what you meant was something like "race is meaningless." But that is an entirely different assertion which (as I have been vainly arguing in previous comments) is not proven nor directly asserted by the papers you linked.

I suppose I'm trying to say that even though "race isn't a biological concept" is true in a narrow sense, it doesnt support your (apparent) assertion that race is meaningless.
No candidate received more than 50% of the votes cast in the last US presidential election.
And the content online is now written by Fully Automated Eternal September
There are alternatives that optimize around the edges. Like Deepseek’s Multi-head Latent Attention, or Grouped Query Attention. DeepSeek also showed an optimization on Mixture of Experts. These are all clear improvements to the Vaswani architecture.

There are optimizations like extreme 1.58 bit quant that can be applied to anything.

There are architectures that stray farther. Like SSMs and some attempts at bringing the RNN back from the dead. And even text diffusion models that try to generate paragraphs like we generate images i.e. not word by word.
> I don't quite understand the motive. I mean the motive of the masses who cheer this on. Is it just to own the libs?

You're surely being obtuse. I'm a progressive independent and even I understand why they are doing it, even if I'm not convinced this is the correct way to do it.

This is why they are doing it:
https://www.usdebtclock.org/

It's just their idea of austerity.
I have no reasonable defense against the logical truth.

Just want to point out that the first paragraph does offer the likelihood that there are exceptions to the conclusion one could reach by reading the second paragraph.

The third point you make is very sad though it has not always been true. We are certainly in the dumb part of the cycle. With the right leadership and structural changes in state programs we will retake the high ground. I think this is a deep hole that they have dug but luckily there are only 7 more places to fall before our embarrassing situation takes us even lower than the lowest US territory scores.

Maybe we're already there. I'm just hoping for future generations of Texans that there will not be a dead cat bounce at the bottom.
I don’t know. We should start there, though. In 1995 a majority of Americans believed interracial marriage was wrong, and now it’s 5%.

We, the people who love civility and good governance and peace, have work to do. But social norms can and do change.
"... it's just a matter of time until someone else steps in to exploit that feeling for their own gain." Someone just did ...
I'd be interested in using it for auto racing. Usually the tracks are too large to see all at once, the cars are going by too fast to track, and in most cases both apply. Especially if you could zoom in on areas of interest as they happen.
I was actually commenting for Herman Cain. Sorry, for this mistake.

Yes, they made announcements without clearly thinking how they will be perceived. I agree that it was unnecessary and then dying suddenly didn't look good.

Nevertheless, if I had a situation like where I know for sure that my odds are not great, I would do the same. I would live full life today because tomorrow I could be dead. Herman Cain most likely knew that he is not going to last long. It didn't make sense for him to be afraid of death and isolate for indefinite period of time. His bravery is an example to follow.
That's what happens when you believe the l337 hacker hype the script kiddie tells you about themselves.
Wish the executives who go on these rants understood it doesn't make them look strong, it makes them look petty and weak.

Exercising some tact takes effort and even skill. Throwing a fit makes them look like they're at the mercy of their employee's whims / can't handle feedback that they don't even have to abide by.

Dimon is in charge right? Make whatever rule you want and roll on like an adult...
A Notion Love Story: Connie and Kyle were two singles looking for love in SF
So DOGE now has access to data that Congress can't even see?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_(deep_learning_a...
You say no one would care about a nazi... have you seen the recent German tesla sale numbers, or for the rest of europe? Just because you dont care, doesnt mean that others will turn a blind eye.
We don't even need to go into the 2000's. The author openly dismisses Generalized Method of Moments (published in 1982 by Lars Hansen [0]) as a 'complex mathematical technique' that he's 'guessing there are a lot of weird assumptions baked into' it, the main evidence being that he 'can't really follow what it's doing'. He also admits that he has no idea what control variables are or how to explain linear regression. It's completely pointless trying to discuss the subtleties of how certain statistical techniques try to address some of his exact concerns, it's clear that he has no interest in listening, won't understand and just take that as further evidence that it's all just BS. This post is a rant best described as Dunning-Kruger on steroids, I have no idea how this got 200 points on HN and can just advise anyone who reads here first to spare themselves the read.

[0] edit: Hansen was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2013 for GMM, not that that means it can't fail, but clearly a lot of people have found it useful.
GitHub does have a setting in their branch rulesets to enforce linear history, it's kinda nice. But I agree with you that most people don't use it.
While edge functions and durable objects are both excellent examples of technologies that could be built using wasmCloud, they are (assuming we’re talking about either a CDN provider like Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai or Cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP) not readily available in many environments.

An example brooksmtownsend linked to elsewhere in the thread is an industrial use case where one of the wasmCloud adopters is shipping a device running wasmCloud (and thus their Wasm components) locally within an industrial site: https://wasmcloud.com/blog/2024-10-22-webassembly-adoption-t...

So from a deployment perspective, not being tied to the public cloud/internet availability in general is a huge benefit.

But beyond deployment, due to the way wasmCloud is designed with the concept of capability providers and components, you are able to write providers that can integrate with any other existing protocols, services, software or hardware to make them available for your WebAssembly components to talk to.

In essence, you use WIT (think Protocol Buffers, but for WebAssembly) to describe the interface you would like your components to be able to call, and then you fulfill the interface from the providers and code generate the “guest” (or client-side) of the calling code for your WebAssembly components.

This means that you are not locked-in to the services and API's of your edge function provider and your function is portable to any cloud or edge.
I hated maintaining a mid-sized Delphi code base too. Although this one might have to do with the fact that the main product code base was basically "a separate repository per each customer, copy-pasted from the least messy one when the development started".

I also remember it was very easy to slap a simple CRUD GUI on top of an existing DB. The trouble started when you had to evolve this. Putting some non-trivial reusable business logic between the UI and the DB was non-trivial.
If you believe the system is fundamentally broken, and has become an instrument graft to funnel taxpayer dollars to DC bureaucrats, NGOs, special interests, political allies, propagandistic media, etc., that would be a much less effective way to fix it.

I realize many people don’t believe this, and believe instead that government corruption and waste in the US is non-existent or acceptably low, and we shouldn’t rock the boat.

But if they don’t believe that, their actions make sense.
it may be a stage show, but it has real consequences. A huge number of NIH grants awards have not gone out. Already, I am facing a 15% shortfall in my budget from a grant that was all set to be awarded. This is not tenable kind of behavior form a major institution, and DOGE dog and pony show disgusts me.
There's no reason to believe anything they say. Believe only what they do.
No sure why this got downvoted, and I'm not sure what else people think "humans competing for that money" would look like?

You're gonna need to physically collocate those people if you are trying to ban computers and latency based trading. Possibly in a "Pit" maybe in a building called an "Exchange" in places with a lot of financial services people like say NY or Chicago. Probably need to have some sort of membership/license requirement due to finite space. I dunno. Sounds like a novel concept that's never been tried.
People get exposed to extremely strong magic fields when getting an MRI. So that’s probably not it.
if you think you own everything then there are no external threats
Yup, python pretty much wins due to training data
Fake Cases: Australian Courts Grapple with Lawyers Using AI
Have you tried Cursor instead of a chatbot? I don’t trust it to do much coding for me but it has this feature where you give it the URL of the documentation, and it indexes it for you. Then you can reference that documentation in the chat with the @ symbol and Cursor applies RAG to the indexed content to include relevant documentation. I usually index autogenerated API docs and any website docs the library has like guides and tutorials.

The experience is night and day and it’s the only reason I pay for Cursor on top of OpenAI/Anthropic. The answers it gives are much more accurate when including documentation and it helps a lot with exploring APIs. Probably helps a lot with the code generation too, but I don’t use Composer as much.
I don’t like that this conclusion seems to be that if humans adopt every new technology before AI can train on it that their jobs will be more secure. That is its own kind of hell.
We actually used to start with a Wasm-first perspective by focusing on explaining what Wasm is before focusing on our value props. This is good feedback though, we should call these out with more in-depth resources for learning.

To name a few Wasm benefits:
- Starts in microseconds, so we scale to zero
- Isolation, Wasm can’t reach outside of its memory
- Polyglot
- Eliminates language silos
- Capability-driven security (granular secure-by-default)
It seems a bug to me. If content in the doc does not match the actual behavior, either the doc is outdated, or the software has a bug. Which is a bug either way.
With Los Angeles in need of housing, downtown's empty office towers have appeal
Today is Friday the 11490th of September 1993.
Re: this report that USAID was sending condoms to Gaza, that was actually in Gaza, Mozambique (which has one of the world’s highest rates of HIV/AIDS), not Palestine. Maybe they knew, maybe not. Anyway, I know many people who have been parroting that stat, so it was effective propaganda.
I thought that was the whole topic of this thread?
I think their combined market share is finally shrinking for leading edge projects. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43008190 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42388665 Also, AI makes a lot of terrible mainstream stuff because the natural bias is towards the mainstream. That's where I count its tendency to default to React if I ask for frontend code without further context.
Literally everybody doing cutting edge AI research is trying to replace the transformer, because transformers have a bunch of undesirable properties like being quadratic in context window size. But they're also surprisingly resilient: despite the billions of dollars and man-hours poured into the field and many attempted improvements, cutting-edge models aren't all that different architecturally from the original attention paper, aside from their size and a few incidental details like the ReLU activation function, because nobody has found anything better yet.

I do expect transformers to be replaced eventually, but they do seem to have their own "bitter lesson" where trying to outperform them usually ends in failure.
Law firms used to do this all the time, to save face when they had to lay off employees due to the firm's financial under-performance. It was really bad during the Great Recession.

There was a huge stigma attached to it, at first. But too many firms jumped on the bandwagon, and everyone realized that most of the terminated employees weren't low performers. It helped that a bunch of these "low performers" began stealing clients from their old firms and bringing them to their new firms, or working for their former clients and terminating their old firms' engagements.

Nowadays in the legal market, when a law firm fires a bunch of employees in a short window of time for "low performance" the default assumption is that the firm is having financial difficulties.
Amazing, this is why I visit HN :D

Combining the two ideas, "hand drawn" animation flip books could be neat. Start with a video, convert frames to a drawable vector, draw each frame with a pen plotter, assemble the flip book
Why is it a surprise?

Corporatism (not to be confused with corporatocracy) was one of the main tenants of Fascism (capital F) which various fascist movements of the era emulated in some way or another. Germany's corporatism though was a lot weaker than Italy's; corporatist bodies like labor unions and trade groups never got any legislative power.

Of course, these days corporatism is more associated with social democracy.
I have all my "Tuya" IoT devices on a separate network, isolated from my personal intranet, and the cloud servers these devices talk to are in China. I pay nothing to "Tuya" for their cloud service, never have. If the "Tuya" service ever goes down, my home automation is also down, and that sucks. I'm trying to replace it all with "Tasmota" devices now, but it's not quite as easy or as cheap to do.
From Wikipedia:

In 2023, Godwin published an opinion in The Washington Post stating "Yes, it's okay to compare Trump to Hitler. Don't let me stop you." In the article, Godwin says "But when people draw parallels between Donald Trump’s 2024 candidacy and Hitler’s progression from fringe figure to Great Dictator, we aren’t joking. Those of us who hope to preserve our democratic institutions need to underscore the resemblance before we enter the twilight of American democracy."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
How I wired my house. [video]
Didn't you read Elon's post? SSNs database isn't deduplicated!
It’s all bluffing and posturing and smoke and mirrors

Is that really how Elon became the President :)
It should be illegal for the government to keep redactions in anything made public/declassified. It's a slap in the face to see entire sections of text (that most certainly contain important context) blocked out with a white blob.
Russian Drone Sets Fire to Chernobyl's Containment Shield
I don't have a mailing list at the moment, but I will create one and send product updates to the people that have accounts, so if you create an account with your email I will send updates that way.