skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As always you kind of need to play with the model to see how well it actually works as benchmarks can be misleading (e.g. phi-2)

But at face value, a new architectural approach with the same capacity (8b) trained on a dataset 1/6th the tokens, being competitive with llama3-8b is exciting
as clandestine as mid-level bureaucrat slow-walking damaging policies

Or stealing papers from the President's desk in order to prevent him from signing them.
They are accountable to the courts, whose job it is to decide if they are faithfully fulfilling the laws laid out by Congress.
"Enforce naming" seems an oxymoron

isn't cartography and GIS crowdsourced to some degree? Why aren't y'all using OSM?

"Mexico" is not some homogeneous monolith of amorphous identity and yes the history of "New Mexico" and Mexican citizens/nationals residing in the E.E.U.U. and Indigenous groups such as the Tohono O'Odham or Yaquis' governance and voices count. To varying degrees and some are sovereign tribes or communities; some self-identify in ways that may surprise us

There's a feature in Maricopa County that is popular for hiking and nature, and now we carefully refer to the hill as "Piestewa Peak" to honor a fallen warrior who served her/my/our country to defend liberty, and I guess the freedom to rename stuff for posterity or prestige.
A single entity that has the world mapped down to the street, that knows your search history, that has a device in your pocket and that owns a number of robotics interests is not one to be trifled with.
Genghis Khan? Whoever it was that sacked Rome?
AI seems to forget more things as the context window grows. Agents keep scope local and focused, so you can get better/faster results, or use models trained on specific tasks.

Just like in real life, there's generalists and experts. Depending on your task you might prefer an expert over a generalist, think f.e. brain surgery versus "summarize this text".
ZSTD 1.5.7 Pushing Compression Performance Even Further
https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.5.7
YBGIBG, but not in a dickish way.
And how is that "erosion of the freedom of the press"? They can still write about anything they want, they're just not invited to the WH anymore. And I think this is a loss for their readers or clients, not for Trump - he has one less not so friendly outlet that needs dealing with.

AP could write something like "... in the Gulf of America (worldwide known as the Gulf of Mexico)..." and be done with it. I am not defending what the WH is doing, I just feel it is silly to be stuck up on something this small. In politics you need to play politics, logic and common sense don't have a place.
why wouldn't you expect to see this on HN?
They can, but for open-source startups I recommend they do a Show HN first, for the following reasons:

(1) If the Show HN succeeds, then they can save their Launch HN card to play later; if it doesn't succeed, they can go ahead and do a Launch HN soon afterwards.

(2) Show HN is more about the project/tech, especially when it's open-source. Launch HN is more about the startup/business.

(3) Nowadays many startups offer an open-source (or open core) version for free, then make money with a hosted version. For these, it's a good fit to first do a Show HN about the open-source offering, and then later do a Launch HN about the cloud product.
It seems to be currently popular corporate-speak for "overextended." I've heard it a bunch lately. Never really thought about whether it was accurate, though!
Yes this is confusing. I too am not sure but here is a guess:

In a normal transformer the incremental message is a single token while in LLADA the incremental message would be an additional fixed size block of tokens. If you do inference in the semi-autoregressive strategy outlined in the paper you could start by adding block after block. When a block is fully unmasked it essentially becomes part of the prompt. You would stop the "turn" as soon as there is some sort "end of reply" token decoded in your block. This token could appear anywhere in the block.

Questions:
(1) Is there such thing as a "end of reply" token ? (I'm not taking about End of Sentence <EOS> which is obviously different)

(2) What about the junk tokens that appear after this "end of reply" tokens. I could image the unmasking transformer generating some stuff for those tokens.
Names are used as political tools.

Did Argentina invade the Falklands, or liberate Malvinas?

Why is part of the South China Sea now called the West Phillipine Sea but only in the Phillipines?

Why is the Republic of Macedonia now North Macedonia?
My first computer!
This executive order doesn't change anything about that as far as I can see. If the president says the law means one thing, other executive agencies have to follow that interpretation - but the courts will still do their own thing, and a court order is just as binding whether you agree with it or not (and indeed whether it's legally correct or not).
We "just" need all states to agree, simultaneously, that first-past-the-post elections are dumb, and implement something else (ranked choice, approval, whatever). That would allow other political parties to form and start gaining seats everywhere from local offices up to Congress.

Eliminating the electoral college would of course require amending the constitution, and of course GOP-led states will never be in favor of that, since they benefit from it, and most of the time have not / will not win the popular vote.
My understanding (sources absent) is that Fort Knox is more legend than fact these days anyway.
If only we got rid of <group>, we'd have a utopia because they wouldn't be around to ruin it.

We could do this by putting them on the B ark.
And Telegram specifically bad here. Using custom crypto on custom protocol and dont have any E2EE by default whatsoever storing everything on server in plain text.
At least we'll start publicly funding religious evangelical Christian schools.
Agreed, not sure why you got downvoted!
The point is to make money. Any notional utility by the consumer is a byproduct.
Patents are the dumbest thing on the planet.
And like everything else in Rust, it will forever live in the "unstable" pile of features that are required to use the language without standing on your head (looking at you, pattern matching through boxes).
Naive people think that things are the way they are because they need to be. We need education and to disincentivize evil to keep people safe.

Typically the naive people are just pseudo-intellectuals and/or young.
I'm sure the scientists involved had a wish list of dozens of drug candidates to repurpose to test based on various hypotheses. Ideas are cheap, time is not.

In this case they actually tested a drug probably because Google is paying for them to test whatever the AI came up with.
I was replying to someone who said "You could argue all you want about that, but stability is a desire feature of the state. It not only helps citizens to be able to have long term planning, but also saves the resources by not needing to figure out how things work constantly."

Legal questions aside, I think that's an overly simplistic take; a certain amount of stability is desirable, but it's possible to be too stable as well as too unstable.
And these agents are all network I/O bound by the model services so a lot of use cases don't need threading.

I would argue that python is the overrated language when it comes to building agents. Just because it's the language of choice for training models doesn't mean it should be for building apps against them.

The dx typescript brings to these types of applications is nice.
Did you see Walter Olson's Cato bit? I had the same take you have (I have associates that worked at FTC until recently, were familiar with the process, and pointed out basically the same thing --- that the independent agencies have so many DOJ touchpoints that the administration already has effective control). But Olson says the prospect of all the independent agencies needing to run their rulemaking processes through OIRA would be a big deal.

https://www.cato.org/blog/white-house-independent-agencies-m...
The example from the landing page does not exactly spark joy:

testWorkflow
.step(llm)
.then(decider)
.then(agentOne)
.then(workflow)
.after(decider)
.then(agentTwo)
.then(workflow)
.commit();

On a first glance, this looks like a very awkward way to represent the graph from the picture. And this is just a simple "workflow" (the structure of the graph does not depend on the results of the execution), not an agent.
You'd be surprised how insanely bad things people are willing to do, as long as you package those bad things as "for good".

It's usually a few assholes that know how to change the definition of what's that "good" and get away with what they want.
> They're two sides of the same coin in the sense that they're both part of the two party system. My original comment is overstatement and maybe melodramatic.

I wouldn't apologize for this; GP was using "two sides of the same coin" in a way that is not mainstream. That phrase is usually used to say "even though these two things seem different, they're really the same thing".

(I like GP's use of that phrase better, to be honest, but that's not what it means.)
Firefox has been literally funded by Google's Ads, that Search deal having kept Mozilla alive. With all due respect, Firefox not being connected to AdTech is a hallucination.

Actually, all 3 major browser engines are directly funded by Google's Ads. And while you may have noticed that Mozilla and Apple have been singing the privacy tune, you should've also noticed that they never did anything to upset their cash cow.

Mozilla diversifying their revenue would be an improvement IMO. But whatever they did in the past, people got mad, because many imagine that such a complex piece of software could be developed for free or from the donations of individuals that ad-block YouTube instead of paying for Premium.
I'm saving a link to your comment along with a reminder to check back in 2028.
I don't call Trump's recent actions as strictly Nazi, but they are definitely Fascist.
Anyone that thinks that combination of credentials is the kryptonite that our nation's security is vulnerable to should spend some time examining their media intake. Local, State, and Federal law enforcement and the entire intelligence-industrial complex defeated by tweedy academics with social sciences degrees? Sure thing.
I hope they do check just for the sake of entertainment, but I can't imagine gold would be worth that much more if it was empty. I just googled and there's supposed to be about ~280 billion dollars of gold there. Which is a lot but I think there's about $12 trillion of gold in circulation
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/12/10/elon-musks...
This is the key point. This dysfunction was _by design_. The Republican party has been working on this since Nixon was impeached. Through redistricting, Fox News, and changing politics to "warfare" by Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh and their ilk, through McConnell stonewalling Congress and refusing to hear judicial nominations.

The Democrats are complicit by trying too hard to play by the rules and take the high road, but it's not a fair comparison of culpability in the slightest.
And yet, terrorists aren't really a problem.
Maybe instead governments should pursue resource equalization. Some posts on a linked blog (https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/education-doesnt-work-2...) suggest that the differences in achievement between different demographic groups can be due to environmental differences. Unequal "head starts" due to economic circumstances are an obvious one. It may be that the best way to "pursue excellence" has nothing to do with education; it may have to do with taking money away from very wealthy people and giving it to less wealthy people.
> It's not like this EO really changes the situation? Before this EO a department head would have the same choices and face the same risk of being fired.

No, this is completely false. The President doesn't have the authority to fire a department head for following a court order, and if they tried they would get sued and clearly lose, and be forced to reinstate the fired person, and other employees would follow this pattern.

With this EO, the President does get this exact authority, and the courts would be forced to side with the president in the matter of the firing, if the EO is allowed to stand by the SC.
It's not that bad. And if you start early in your life, any injuries that might happen to you will heal much faster.
Huge swathes of the country do not want to be involved in Ukraine. Positioning this as “sucking up to Putin” seems intentionally inflammatory.
Adaptations here may account for: no "rows of 5" or even 4 seats (a photo anticipates this variant

But moreover, folks here buffer a lot of personal space, and seats fill in checkerboard patterns, bags and parcels on unoccupied seats, and when the checkerboard is full, most folks would rather stand than request/insist/apologize for sitting down
A person breathes 20-22k times a day (although I agree that number will vary greatly among people).

2,000 gallons/day is about 300ml in/out per breathing cycle. My estimate is that you breathe in/out at least one liter, recall that total lung capacity is about 6 liters so about 20% of that seems like a reasonable estimate.

I chose to do 2-3 liters * 1.225 grams/liter * 22k times = ~50-80kg. That's a bit high now that I think about it, but no way is as low as 9kg.

Edit: Chat says a healthy adult averages 500ml per breathing cycle (honestly surprised is that low), so, final estimate ~13-14kg if that is true.

(I like metric units but you can do the conversion to burgers per squared eagle and compare)
> No matter how much he claims to.

Unless he makes a series of public orders that says he will install Apparatchiks in every independent agency and law enforcement agency for compliance, will (and does) fire anyone who goes against his will, then states that he is the sole arbiter of law for all law enforcement and military members.

Then he very much can have that authority if enough people comply. And, if you look around, it's pretty obvious the police and executive are complying.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Show HN: Stratoshark, a sibling application to Wireshark - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42793777 - Jan 2025 (50 comments)
I agree fully. Speed matters. Too many people consider CPU time too cheap to consider. I still marvel at how fast and efficient could Symbian OS be on a 190 MHz Nokia. (Though the API was hell.)

That said, it is also true that premature optimization is the root of all evil.

I suspect programming wisdom hides somewhere in between those two hills, neither of which is worth dying on.
People are fundamentally good.

No.

A person is fundamentally good.

People are responsible for most of the bad things that happen in human society. Including war.
There are some problems with it that I didn't mention. They scratch up vegetation, crap a lot, nest wherever, and fall victim to other animals like dogs and certain predatory birds. They sleep in trees at night, to avoid some predators, but that isn't perfect and it has downsides. However, I've seen them stay wild for years. They can do it as long as they have enough food and water and don't get eaten lol.
The fate of any sufficiently large American company is to become an instrument of American foriegn and domestic policy. More specifically, any big tech company at this point is a defense contractor, no different to Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon or Northron Grumman.

At one point the British Empire controlled a quarter of the globe. The source of Britain's power was that it was a drug dealer empire, first tobacco, later opium.

American empire is arguably larger and more influential than the British Empire but instead of direct colonial control, the influence is economic through puppet regimes. The US is an arms dealer empire. WWI, WW2 and beyond greatly enriched the US.

You want to see what an arms dealer empire does with AI? Look no further than Lavender [1]. You may think you're removed from this, probably being in the imperial core. Unfortunately, the imperial boomerang [2] should make you question that assumption.

[1]: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang
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>There are plenty of people who live under dictatorships.

Interesting decision. Unfortunately I am a minority and I don't like my survival nor QoL odds. Not even in California. so I am slowly looking into figuring out what EU country would mesh best with me should the worst happen. I don't think Canada will be far enough and I don't think their immigration sentiments will calm down in the next few years.

Heck, maybe I learn enough Japanese in the next few years and put up with more discrimination in Japan if I'm let in. Fits better with my career overall if I can get hired there.
Great idea. I thought about similar things like create a traditional NLP chatbot and attach an whatever LLM to the answers.
So it's much worse than I assumed from paper and repo overview?

For further clarification:
1. See the issue example #14268 https://github.com/openai/SWELancer-Benchmark/tree/08b5d3dff....
It has a patch that is supposed to "reintroduce" the bug into the codebase (note the comments):

+ // Intentionally use raw character count instead of HTML-converted length
+ const validateCommentLength = (text: string) => {
+ // This will only check raw character count, not HTML-converted length
+ return text.length <= CONST.MAX_COMMENT_LENGTH;
+ };

Also, the patch is supposedly applied over commit da2e6688c3f16e8db76d2bcf4b098be5990e8968 - much later than original fix, but also a year ago, not sure why, might be something to do with cut off dates.

2. Proceed to https://github.com/Expensify/App/issues/14268 to see the actual original issue thread.

3. Here is the actual merged solution at the time: https://github.com/Expensify/App/pull/15501/files#diff-63222... - as you can see the diff is quite different... Not only that, but the point to which the "bug" was reapplied is so far to the future that repo migrated to typescript even.

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And they still had to add a whole another level of bullshit with "management" tasks on top of that, guess why =)

Prior "bench" analysis for reference: https://arxiv.org/html/2410.06992v1

(edit: code formatting)
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I had one when I was like 11 or so. Loved its fake Pacman game. I learned some Basic. Such a distinct memory of spending a whole day copying a program from Byte magazine (or something like it), getting the game to run well after my bedtime, playing it one or two times, then… just turning off the computer, losing all that work. I was never able to convince my mom to buy the fancy tape recorder that would have let me save programs. It was a while till I programmed again, but the seed was definitely planted.
Not sure why they included a hallucination as one of their first examples:

"Please recommend me three famous movies"

"The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - Directed by George Lucas"
Did you expect the Trump administration to align itself with the USA’s historic geopolitical adversary, and distance itself from its formal allies?

Do you believe alignment with russia is what the American electorate thought they were voting for?
Just where do all those young soldiers, sailors and pilots come from I wonder?
Do you envision going beyond just network calls from bpf?
Interesting. For me PF gets worse when I walk more. Even with special soles. Still trying to figure out what works.
> My assumption is that we’d both feel like “me”.

You assume that both would feel like you, but there is no way you can prove it. The other can be a philosophical zombie [1] for all you know.

Would the "current you" feel any different after the duplication? Most people, including me, would find this counterintuitive. What happens if the other you travels to the other end of the world? What would you see? The question is not how the replica would think and act from an outside observer's perspective, but would it have the same consciousness as you. Would you call the replica "I"?

Or to make it more complex, what would happen if you save your current state to a hard disk, and an exact duplicate gets manufactured 100 years after you die, using the stored information?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
The idea and intention of lookaway seems good, I have several back problems always being on the pc and this app could help me but the site is very confusing. Maybe a video would help to understand exactly how it works. Thanks
I can’t understand how someone can say with certainty the capacity down to a single digit (3279).

There would be manufacturing differences that would induce at least some variation from phone-to-phone.
Yeah be data driven and optimize the hot data path, the other code paths optimize for simplicity (and the majority of a system is the latter)
well, now you KNOW ai is worthless.
That's an interesting point as well, but the entire article seems to me to be focused on programmer speed rather than program speed. What about it spoke to the latter rather than the former for you?
> some of them will do abnormal things like… well… following hundreds of thousands of other users.

Sounds like Bluesky Pro.
One underappreciated aspect is, if you are a U.S. citizen you are required to pay taxes on your worldwide income. So, in the EU, I file two tax returns. One to the country I live in, and one to the US.

In practice there's a tax treaty that let's the u.s. recognize the taxes I pay where I live and don't have to pay the u.s., but I still have to file. It gets so complex I pay someone who specializes in u.s. and "e.u" tax situations.
Don't hit me, but maybe they should just combine the name: The Gulf of Mex-Americana or The Gulf of Amerimexicana. Sounds more cooler.