skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is not to say that one should not try to improve equality, but I think that introducing intentional unfairness (e.g. tampering with school or class or job qualifications) or trying to reduce excellence is a valid way to do it. Instead, it’s possible to improve equality by increasing the fairness of some parts of the overall system.

I'm a bit confused. Was there a missing "not" somewhere in the first sentence? Your second sentence there begins with "instead", which makes it seem like you're saying you don't believe in "introducing intentional unfairness" but the first sentence says you think it is a valid approach.

Overall I agree that tinkering with specific details like test score thresholds is not a great idea, although I think my perspective is a bit different from what you're saying here. My view is that these various manipulations of educational parameters won't work because the differences in educational outcomes are largely a result of differences in parents' economic circumstances. Or, put another way, the "inputs" to the educational system, in terms of where kids are at when they enter it, are at least as important as what the system does once kids are in it. We cannot equalize the outputs without equalizing the inputs.

That's not to say that things like the Dallas approach you linked to are bad or will have zero effect, just that it can only get us so far.
Please ChatGPT, decapitalize that comment above for me

at least for now, maybe this is the best way to tell if a text is written by an llm or a person. an llm will capitalize!
It's not differentiation when everybody else is adding AI features "just because."
There are a lot of people on HN who doesn't want to hear about politics (which everything involving Elon Musk inevitably is) and it doesn't take many flags to kill a submission.
Most likely yes, that prompt has been repeated too many times online for LLMs not to pick up the right answer (or be specificlly trained on it!). You'll have to try with a different word to make them fail.
Missing data means == no payments until data is updated.

This creates a driver, somebody who is motivated to get it fixed. If the person does not exist they won’t be calling for their check, or if the entry fraudulent, fraudster will run the risk of exposing them self in the process of trying to get the checks flowing again.
New horizons for Julia
Are they claiming these robots are also silent? They seem to have "crinkle" sounds handling packaging, which if added in post seems needlessly smoke-and-mirror for what was a very impressive demonstration (of robots impersonating an extreme stoned human.)
Nyx is the OG Rust-based astrodynamics library and much more mature.

Lox started as a vehicle for myself to learn Rust and at that point I did not feel comfortable contributing to an established code base.
Some data points from Lexington, KY, USA:

18 eggs today (February 20th, 2024): $8.19 [0]

18 eggs ~1 year ago (March 2nd, 2024): $3.34 [1]

18 eggs a tiny bit over a year ago (February 2nd, 2024): $2.74 [2]

18 eggs, oldest order I can find (April 9th, 2023): $2.33 [3]

A 2.5x increase in a years time. Just insane

[0] https://cs.joshstrange.com/05JYvxsf

[1] https://cs.joshstrange.com/lVlCFcRs

[2] https://cs.joshstrange.com/w5zQcZ2l

[3] https://cs.joshstrange.com/kZ8VjPxP
I'm so fed up with subscriptions that I didn't realize it was a one-time payment.
Time to get my license :)
Lets start with Trump and Musk.
I'm trying to be charitable as well — I suppose to both sides of the debate. Myself, I see pros and cons. The hype absolutely needs to be shut down, but a spokesperson that is more even-handed would be more convincing (in my opinion).

Here is his post, FWIW: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/grok-3-beta-in-shambles
Seems to work fine on iOS Safari and Chrome
What doesn't heal better when you use it?

Didn't we learn this when that Australian nurse invented physical therapy for treating children with polio in the 1920s? (It took decades for consensus to form that PT was better than immobilization for polio.)
> instead of shoehorning it into a DBMS

Disclaimer, I'm the CEO of the aforementioned DBOS.

That's an interesting way to phrase it. We like to think that we've taken advantage of 50 years of development on DBMS by optimizing how it is used. We also take advantage of the fact that your application is already accessing the database for application data, and we sit right next to it, not on another service. So our added latency is in the single digit milliseconds (an order of magnitude faster than any external solution).

Since we are on the same database as your application data, our throughput scales with your application seamlessly as you scale your database to meet your application needs. It's part of our lightweight promise for durability -- no external services required.
> I first aired my concern in March 2022, in an article called “Deep learning is hitting a wall.”

In March 2022, GPT-3 was state of the art. Why should anyone care what he's saying now?
Great points! I agree with everything you said here with exception to the point about it not being a monetary solution. I've built an "extremely" janky coop for almost no cost in the past. At one point I got absolutely sick of eggs because there were so many than I ended up trading neighbors for other goods. The whole thing ended up making/saving me a ton of money in the end. Let me reiterate how unsafe this coop was however... it was as spacious as it was dangerous (very).
You can absolutely give read only access in COBOL systems. That's just lazy administration and IT security on a shoestring budget.
Mixnet would be a solution. Like what you described, have inbound packets held for some period of time and released as a group so that you cannot as easily correlate the inbound and outbound traffic.

The downside is that it gets much slower, and feels 'bad' as an end user. Each packet takes longer.
I fully agree. Just pointing out other things to think about when trying to avoid Amazon. Good luck on your journey.
Especially when you look at how it is distributed. At least market cap weighted... Makes me really question just how high can the line go.
This doesn't seem to really address synthetic data, let alone RL-based reasoning.
Well, like any tool, hopefully using it where it makes sense. We already know that asking it to count vowels, etc. is not what we should be doing with these things. Writing code in Python however is a very different story.
They have full admin access to all USAID systems (which, let's be real, also includes some US intelligence service cover material, since USAID has long been used for that), and are actively seeking full admin access to the systems for every other federal department.
The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trump's Grip on Congress
I've never seen hiring completely in the domain of HR. HR filters incoming candidates and checks for culture fit etc, but technical competency is checked by engineers/ML folks. I can't imagine an HR person checking if someone understands neural networks.
Sam Altman's GPT5 Tweet - Line by Line Analysis
John Reed Stark, former Chief of Internet Enforcement of SEC, explained it best on 60 minutes:

Crypto is a scourge, it is not something you want in your society. It has no utility. It is pure speculation. There is no balance sheet to crypto, there is no financial statements. There is no audit inspection, examination, net capital requirements, no licensure of individuals involved, and there is no transparency into it. That creates real systemic risks, not just risks for investors.

But the other part people don't talk about enough is the dire externalities that are enabled by crypto. Every single crime you can think of, is easier to do now because of crypto. Especially ransomware, human sex trafficking, sanctions evasion, money laundering. North Korea is financing their nuclear program using crypto.

Crypto companies accounted for almost half of corporate donations in the 2024 election cycle, with some contributing tens of millions of dollars to help Trump win a second term in office. Trump previously called Bitcoin 'a scam against the dollar', but after crypto industry plowed tens of millions into the election, Trump is now for it.
Agencies all have their own lawyers, and it’s frequently useful to have them hash out agreements for the same reason that it’s useful for scientists to get peer review. Beyond the basic efficiency argument, it’s good to have multiple people validate your reasoning.
I think we have already crossed that threshold. There are videos today that you'd have a hard time telling if they are AI generated. Not always, but sometimes.
> In many ways, the whole point of AI applications is that it should feel like magic because something that you previously had to do by hand is now fully automated with believable intelligence. If you’re thinking about taking traditional forms of UX and adding AI to them, that’s an okay starting point but not a defensible moat.

No. Stop! Please! I want my UX in an app to do the damn thing I precisely intend it to do, not what it believes I intend to do - which is increasingly common in UX design - and I hate it. It's a completely opaque black box and when the "magic" doesn't work (which it frequently does not, especially if you fall outside of "normal" range) - the UX is abysmal to the point of hilarity.
Is this me or is AI stuff turning out to be really stupid and cringe like this

superbowl salesforce Ad that friend shared with me to get my comments. I still have no idea wtf this is or what AI has to do with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcLAeURXvHY
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You do realize one of the first users of private computers was the IRS. You miss the other side of the coin when it comes to efficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is a large bureaucracy. There is no possible way the IRS could do it's work today without computers. The rules are too complex, and computers made it possible to have such complex rules.
Here’s a piece from their current CEO about data openness: https://stephango.com/file-over-app
So you trust a war criminal and Israels propaganda arm more than your eyes?
So are you saying that the President's office could not get this information, or any information it needed, from government agencies before? Of course it could. doge going in and getting unfettered access to computer systems is not at all the same thing.
>I just want to use Django package XYZ that says it's only compatible with Django 3.X on Django 4.

Indeed. One of the biggest recurring themes I've seen in Python packaging discussion is that package metadata can't be updated after the fact. When you publish something that depends on the just-released foolib N, you don't know if it will be compatible with foolib N+1 (you might not even be completely sure it will work with N.0.1) because it doesn't even exist yet so you can't possibly test it. In other languages, where the environment can contain multiple versions of the same library, it's common to assume it won't. For Python, there are lots of good reasons to assume it will (https://iscinumpy.dev/post/bound-version-constraints/), but people will blame you when you're wrong and the fix isn't straightforward. (AIUI, the best you can do is make a .post1 release with the updated metadata, and "yank" the existing release.)
The degree to which "AGI" appears to be a quasi-religious fixation cannot be overstated. At the extreme end you have the likes of the stranger Less Wrong crowd, the Zizians, and frankly some people here. Even when you withdraw from those extremes though, there's a tremendous amount of intellectualizing of what appears to be primarily a set of hopes and fears.

Well, that and it turns out that for a LOT of people "it talks like me" creates an inescapable impression that "It is thinking, and it's thinking like me". Issues such as the absolutely hysterical power and water demands, the need for billions worth of GPU's... these are ignored or minimized.

Then again we already have a model for this fervor, Cryptocurrency and "The Blockchain" creates a similar kind of money-fueled hysteria. People here would laugh in your face if you suggested that soon everything imaginable wouldn't simply run "on the chain". It was "obvious" that "fiat" was on the way out, that only crypto represented true freedom.

tl;dr The line between the hucksters and their victims really blurs when social media is involved, and hovering around all of this are a smaller group of True Believers who really think they're building God.
> Twitter and all forms of instant messaging (SMS, WhatsApp, Discord, and the older ones like AIM/MSN/ICQ) have normalized it for many years.

Half true. In SMS it was just easier, but in IM it mostly was a thing because the IM client's message boundaries acted as markers for beginning/end of sentence, making the formatting unnecessary. That's why using correct capitalization and periods for single sentences came to be associated with a more formal/serious tone, it was unnecessary so including it meant you wanted to emphasize it.

Even back then we'd use regular formatting outside of IM or when sending multiple sentences in a single message.

> He's adopting the native culture rather than setting a trend.

If this was the intent, it's really coming off as that "Hello, fellow kids" meme, rather than genuine.
There's no way this is 100% real though. No startup demo ever is.
Computer science studies and invents logic whereas the math community has departed from logic as a whole.
Yeah, it might even be worst than that. If I were a scammer I would seek out these small-town banks looking for my mark.

And while we're at it, find the business owners of the auto dealerships in any metropolitan area. These families and the ones that own the largest construction contractor companies are the lesser-known millionaires living in our midst that might have large bank accounts.

And who knew small town church coffers might have millions lying around.
It's not under-reported. If they had produced AGI it would be a giant story. No need to report a negative.
Will you find it to be different?

Honestly, ground meat is ground meat. What makes you think ground chicken is "quite different"? Why are you putting it in scare quotes? The chicken breasts used to make McNuggets are literally no different from the standard chicken breasts sold at your average grocery store.

And in both cases the ground meat/chicken is mixed with binders and flavorings to keep it together and keep it moist and make it even tastier -- variously including flour, breadcrumbs, water, salt, spices, etc. depending on the recipe.

Obviously nuggets are battered and fried. But then so are traditional Italian delicacies like arancini.
The US has actual independent auditors at various agencies. They're called inspectors general. Trump is trying to fire all of them: https://apnews.com/article/trump-inspectors-general-fired-co...
Thinking about engineering leads I know who aren't about leading huge teams, it's still about mentoring, talking to people, making connections, often talking to external audiences, etc.

I think a lot of that is "soft skills." Maybe not becoming a stereotypical sales person. But it's also not don't ever bug me and let me code.
Reasoning LLMs getting better at ARC-AGI prove that they are able to solve tasks that are symbolic without putting in specific search on the CPU (which is the brute force method).

It's never ,,pure scaling'' (just running the same algorithm on more hardware), but there's continues improvement on how to be even more algorithmically efficient (and algorithmic scaling is faster than hardware scaling).
https://archive.ph/ugmW4
Classic deflection and whataboutism.
There is no one-size-fits-all for software developers. Different companies are looking to hire people at different experience/pay levels, with different skill sets, etc. Just as with dating, most companies are also going to have some understanding of their own "attractiveness", and not try to date out of their league.

FAANG companies offering industry leading compensation packages and prestige are in a position to be able to hold out for the best (even if their interviewing practices may fail to achieve that), but most companies are just looking for someone that checks the boxes and seems like a good fit.
Added reflection system, self knowledge, filter to my neural web architecture
Added reflection system, self indectification, knowledge filter to my neural web architecture. The architecture is designed to simulate a neural network with hierarchical memory management, dynamic adaptation, and performance optimization. The goal of this architecture is to present an alternative to modern neural models, which are often complex and resource-intensive, taking inspiration from our brains. Neurons are decentralized, organized in layers, allowing them to interact with themselves and change themselves over time in more than just states and weights, while also creating a dynamic memory system.
Has he actually released it yet?
Can confirm. We used to own a mean rooster and he would certainly stalk me when he was out of the run. Not sad that a fox ate him. Would have preferred the hens not also been eaten though. Our current rooster is pretty chill and just ignores me. He even consents (begrudgingly) to my young daughter picking him up and holding him.
> A series of foundation models for transparent AI in Europe

Am I the only one who doesn't see any link to any model? Too many words, no actual outcome.
Cheap snarky comments like this have no place on HN.
> That's only true for a subset of programming languages, and it requires you to already know how to program in at least another language of the same family. Knowing Java will not help you with Haskell, but it will help you with C#.

In this context, to a large extent it holds. Yeah. It’s probably more true of mainstream languages roughly related to each other, but in an interview, you’re not testing for knowledge of syntax and keywords. You’re trying to test for ability to build and problem solve.

I share your concern about prompt “engineers” who don’t understand the underlying codebase, language or system. But I don’t know what to do about it in the context of a technical interview.
The deficit hawks don't understand how money works. Everything about DOGE and their mission has a fundamental deep misunderstanding of why governments with their own currency must have deficits. Literal accounting 101. Unfortunately Elon has an economics degree, which means he is completely uneducated in accounting.
800,000 is also larger than the population of several states, and local cost of labor is a lot higher in SF, driving the cost of pretty much everything other than buying commodity goods a government might do higher.
I always see the words pensions in civic deficit news. I'm early 30s and pensions are a concept that nobody my age or younger will ever benefit from yet is footing the bill for.
> despite a moratorium on data centers

Singapore placed a moratorium on new data center construction from 2019 to early 2022. It was not a "15-year moratorium" as Patel claimed, so he was pulling numbers out of his behind. Since 2022 Singapore has been expanding DC capacity quite aggressively as well: https://www.edb.gov.sg/en/business-insights/insights/singapo...

The fact that Patel didn't bother to verify something so easily Googleable speaks volumes about his credibility.

And here's a statement by NVIDIA:

"The revenue associated with Singapore does not indicate diversion to China," a statement by Nvidia reads. "Our public filings report 'bill to' not 'ship to' locations of our customers. Many of our customers have business entities in Singapore and use those entities for products destined for the U.S. and the West. We insist that our partners comply with all applicable laws, and if we receive any information to the contrary, act accordingly." (Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...)

Honestly many of the things Patel said in that podcast (not just about Singapore, but in general) belonged on r/ConfidentlyIncorrect.
> Not in science. Not in AI. Not in maths or politics or entertainment or media.

That is the professional Twitter class and is not at all representative of the norm. Click through to the replies. Sentence case is probably in the vast minority.

I promise you that it is neither a fad nor started with the AI bro.
Do you have anything better to offer them? Because Malaysia can definitely not build these data centers without foreign investment..

As someone from a certain poor country, I can attest that your tone sounds very condescending. It makes it look like such countries lack the agency to choose for themselves and need a savior to swoop in and rescue them from their predicament.
But in NYC people don't really drive, hence why it's in particular weird that they have the same behavior as suburbanites. If you were really starving food is just a 3 minute walk away.
Curiosity Mars rover discovers evidence of ripples from ancient Red Planet lake
You make the very weird assumption that this will go "back to normal" at some point.
I think that Kalai here is very seriously understating how fringe/contrarian his views are. He's not merely stating that there's too much optimism about potential future results, or that there's some kind of intractable theoretical or practical bottleneck that we'll soon reach and won't be able to overcome. He's saying that any kind of quantum advantage—a thing that numerous experiments, from different labs in academia and industry, using a wide variety of approaches, have demonstrated over the past decade—is impossible, and therefore all of those experimental results were wrong and need to be retracted. His position was scientifically respectable back when the possibility he was denying hadn't actually happened yet, but I don't think it is anymore.
This all reminds me this "The Mitchell and Webb Situation - Farming" sketch :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDTiFkXgEE
you typically have to sample multiple times until you can build up the distribution that you can convert to a solution to your problem.
"whatever shade yo want to throw at AI, 6 months from now they're going to cast it off" - like hallucinations? To me, that was and still is LLM's achilles heel. For the first couple of years we kept hearing assurances that this issue will be soon overcome. Now it seems AI labs have resigned themselves on this issue and just trying to minimize it. Humans make mistaks too, they say. But humans make human mistakes, whereas LLMs often make completely surprising mistakes, because they don't understand the text they're producing, but there's enough intelligence in them to make these mistakes very hard to spot for us humans.
Hm. A lot of other political news don't get flagged...
The only downside I see is agpl. Im not anti agpl, but truth is this would slow commercial adoption.
This is a good summary of the downturn of Google search. It constantly tries to offer you the kind of results it thinks you should want, not what you actually searched for. Thank god for Kagi and other up and coming alternatives.
I meant that the distinction between i and -i is entirely arbitrary, because it is
Asian teen rejected by 16 colleges hired by Google, files discrimination lawsuit