skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, yes, the very safe endeavor of publicly criticizing a group of powerful people known for open revenge on their critics. I’m sure folks are lining up to be the first.

As Morgan Freeman put it in The Dark Knight:

Lucius Fox: [to Reese] Let me get this straight, you think that your client, one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante, who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands, and your plan is to blackmail this person?

[Reese's face falls and Fox smiles]

Lucius Fox: Good luck.
> The president isn't in alignment with Gender Ideology or "wokeness" as is often put. The large majority of these programs support those ideas.

When you say "large majority", do you have any evidence or data to point to that isn't just Elon going "Look at all this fraud I found!!!" and then none of it turns out to at all be fraud?
Got a link handy? I'm not finding it so far.
Stupid question: Is there any chance that I, as an engineer, can get away from learning the Math side of AI but still drill deeper into the lower level of CUDA or even GPU architecture? If so, how do I start? I guess I should learn about optimization and why we chose to use GPU for certain computations.

Parallel question: I work as a Data Engineer and always wonder if it's possible to get into MLE or AI Data Engineering without knowing AI/ML. I thought I only need to know what the data looks like, but so far I see every job description of an MLE requires background in AI.
I can't see how what I was saying could be framed as a 'luxury' preference. It's more like, here's government intervention in favor of factory farming. We should be able to go down to our local butcher and get wild caught meat, but this would be deflating the price of meat (or at least deflating the yield). Allowing the sale of wild caught meat provides an affordable and ethical option to people who lack the inclination, time, or ability to slaughter animals. The only problem is that it's money being diverted away from established corporations with their grubby fingers all over government.

(I raised the point about zoonotic disease to contrast the supposed justification of restricting wild caught animals due to disease)
Again, why the high bar? Why does different branding of two nearly on identical things matter? If it's 90% the same you can conclude it was the plan all along.

Also, no one is even pretending. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/republic...

You are arguing something even congressional Republicans don't bother arguing.
Are you conscious? A conversation between Richard Dawkins and ChatGPT
Oh wow okay, definitely didn't expect this. That's quite the power move. I guess it's also why it's disappearing, at least partly.
https://xkcd.com/1217 aka "just remove the cancer"
> Your first link is a not a list of settings, it's an explanation.

The Jellyfin documentation is poor and lags. I would screen shot what I worked out for myself but that ship's sailed and moved on. I did have to tweak some profiles but ultimately I got all media playing on pass through with no transcoding so it is doable.

My apologies for not being in a position to cough up details, that was my second pass through Jellyfin, I now like it much better than I did the first time through. If I set up a third instance for someone else I'll take to the time make notes and maybe feed them back into the community docs (if they're relatively easy to update).
The ideal outcome is that government fails, then they can point at the failing government and ask, why do we want to pay for something that is failing.
tmux is session management. Mosh is low latency udp transport.
Yeah lots of dups without direction today especially.

Granted a lot of the dups just lead to flagged discussions lately.
> but that causes me to consider whether such critical services should be in the hands of for-profit companies?

I believe the idea is that you can have multiple companies for a given purpose and switch between them (or form your own) depending on what you think works best for you and your community. You cannot have multiple governments - if the one elected on an piece of land you happen to live on does not act in your interests, you're pretty much SOL at least until the next election cycle (if it's a democracy) or the next coup (if it's not).

The obligatory caveat is that - of course - this does not work in practice. At the very least, it requires a perfect free and fair market which means it needs us all to be well-informed rational actors. And there are probably more requirements than just this.
The opposing view is that drivers written in Rust using effectively foolproof APIs require far less maintainer effort to review. Yes, it might be annoying for Christoph to have to document & explain the precise semantics of his APIs and let a Rust contributor know when something changes, but there is a potential savings of maintainer time down the line across dozens of different drivers.
What is the data classification of the data that they're accessing? Are they authorized to view it? Did they follow the normal procedures for accessing that data? Was their access limited to the information they needed to perform their stated function and nothing else? Was the data stored on or transferred through any systems that were not adequately secured?

It is entirely possible for an insider or internal data incident to be a "breach," regardless of whether the data leaked outside the org or they had the permission of the President. If someone came in to my office with an employee badge, said that they had been personally hired by the CEO, and demanded super admin access to all systems, I would laugh in their face. If anyone actually agreed to that person's demands, it would be a massive, all-hands-on-deck incident to figure out what they touched and how much we were going to get fined for the breach in security controls.
Weak, divided governance, so that they can ignore it.
DOGE may not be doing much to actually benefit the American people, but it's sure providing great entertainment value; reports read like Onion articles. If this was a movie script it would be rejected with "wildly unrealistic".
Who will, technical merits, programming languages or maintainers?
I've had the same experience, especially with making changes - places I've worked where we could arrange the travel, changes would be easy since we'd book flexible, make changes through the airline's web site and not pay fees, but with the travel agent we'd often have to call, so we couldn't easily make changes out of business hours (when we often needed to) and then we'd have to pay the agent a fee for the service of doing something we could have just done on the airline's web site ourselves.
Checkboxes now tabs. Always finding a novel place to get those coveted pixels
>Interesting, how are you remixing the order of questions? If we're talking about an academic benchmark like MMLU, the questions are independent of one another. Unless you're generating multiple answers in one go?

Short version: if a model can answer a very high proportion of questions from a benchmark accurately then the next step is to ask it two or more questions at a time. On some models the quality of answers varies dramatically with which is asked first.

>Docs for synthesizer's here: https://docs.confident-ai.com/docs/synthesizer-introduction, there's a nice "how does it work" section at the bottom explaining it more.

Very good start, but the statistics of the generated text matter a lot.

As an example on a dumb as bricks benchmark I've designed I can saturate the reasoning capabilities of all non-reasoning models just by varying the names of objects in the questions. A model that could get a normalized score of 14 with standard object strings could get a score as high as 18 with one letter strings standing for objects and as low as zero with arbitrary utf-8 character strings - which turns out mattered a lot since all the data was polluted with international text coming from the stock exchanges.

Feel free to drop me a line if you're interested in a more in depth conversation. LLMs are _ridiculously_ under tested for how many places they show up in.
Fair point, I don't often get drawn in to respond to such obviously bad faith commenting .. it happens to us all now and again.
Re: the efficacy of Community Notes, Musk claims that Community Notes are being manipulated by governments and "legacy media" and that he's working to "fix" that.
Anyone had the archive link?
(edit) Looks like this is the original (9 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43119269

With most discussion here (71 points, 64 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43120107
So the entire benchmark scheme is worthless?
I'm a bit baffled that automated ad blocker tests exist in the first place. Historically the main difficulty in writing an ad blocker are the rules. How are you going to accurately test these rules by ... testing if they match your imagined rules.

I guess there is always an opportunity to peddle a useless metric. If you actually wanted to do this right the obvious way would be manual review: pick X websites, visit them with each ad blocker, deduct points for visible ads and lost functionality. Repeat for each ad blocker, then rank them by score. That would also give you a nice score whether ad blockers or the advertising industry is currently "winning" the ad war
welll, i just use all of them then. to me, those are more real world scenario than the one they link.
...So, do they need any American software engineers to work in Mexico who want to spend about four years outside of the United States for reasons that will not be enumerated. Asking for a friend.
To be fair, I remember that some 5 years ago a lot of ML was quite accessible to programmers as it was often just a couple lines of python using tensorflow, or later pytorch.

I am almost in disbelief that LLMs are the thing that reached the "tipping point" for most companies to magically care for ML. The amount of products, that could have been built properly 5 years ago, that exist now in a slower form because of "reasoning" LLMs, is likely astonishing.
it would make an interesting mouse controller if it was accurate enough. I wonder if the tongue would get tired.
A Social Network for Developers?
> Are you suggesting they want to allow states to reinstate slavery?

Not as an immediate goal, but they would be ok with it.

> That sounds very conspiratorial

On my part? I wish. I wish I was delusional and could be proven wrong with certainty. The real conspiracy is happening right before our eyes.

Note the highlighted text from the wiki link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin#:~:text=He%20has...
This is why the types-as-comments proposal for ecmascript could be a game changer, most ts files would magically become valid js files; no compilation needed
Dealing with (Hypothetical) Sham Packages
It certainly seems to be the goal. Military purges will be starting soon.
It'd be sufficient if a system involved somewhere in the process converted null values to strings. There's innumerable ways, but here's a simple one in Java:

final String myNullString = "" + null;
System.out.println(myNullString);
What specifically are you worried about?
There would be 3-4X the people, yet still the same amount of roads, services, and public utilities. Why is densifying always seen as some unalloyed good? I constantly see this pitched as a plan for housing problems without the basic consideration of whether human beings thrive in such an unnatural environment.

If you're going to force-densify anything, why not actual low-per-capita population areas [0] and develop mass transit, so North America can have the successful China city-tier model [1] with spread-out opportunities instead of cramming everyone together in one place.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:California_population_map...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_city_tier_system
Gene therapy in children with AIPL1-associated retinal dystrophy
this is the second time i found your tool/app (insomnia) now yaak

i was so sad when insomnia felt like it went down hill :( barely could handle grpc properly and odd need for an account then i saw this by kong thing and was like well shit.

yay now i can have a normal app again, and thanks for making tools i use pretty much everyday.
There is a great Radiolab podcast episode about the woes of null names:
https://radiolab.org/podcast/null
How is this even an argument?

> This assumption doesn't match biology

Ok? How? Because you say so?

> It's not a proto-person

Ok? Again, just because you like to say so?

What is this mythical point of "viability" that you speak of? Let's say we develop sufficiently advanced tech that could incubate a baby from 6 weeks, then would it magically become a person? Back in the 1700s, when babies probably couldn't survive outside the womb if born prior to 32 weeks, was abortion okay until roughly that point?

Your argument is very mixed up.
No. It is the good weather capital of the country.

Mild winters, mild summers.

Not too much rain.

No serious threat from tornadoes or hurricanes.

That’s a very big draw and it wouldn’t go away by making more dense housing, even if the rest of the peninsula was developed like Manhattan.
I mean there are plenty of US embassies in Mexico, so not impossible to do.
If there are multiple systems involved, one of them produces a null and the other takes that as a key to create a record, but somewhere in between it gets stringified, then the string null might be accepted by a system using string keys.
What makes you think that he has to justify his opinion to you? What in your resume makes you the arbiter of independent thought?
It turns out that there are always things to improve. You can decide to ignore those improvements for 50 years too but then people generally don’t want to use your language anymore.
Interesting work. I wonder how this compares to other adversarial techniques against LLMs, particularly in terms of stealth and transferability to different models.
I mean, I'm just sharing the practical ground truth of how a resume like yours effects recruiting in certain contexts.

Just like there are innumerable brilliant, effective engineers who would contribute tremendously to a FAANG but don't suit the modern interview funnel (leetcode, etc), smaller companies surely do miss out on strong, suitable FAANG engineers in anticipation of negative experiences they've had with others.

There are a lot of people who accumulate FAANG entries on their resume and many of them really don't suit smaller companies for a number of reasons.

Honestly, though while I'm only seeing a very narrow picture of you here, it sure sounds like you see these "tier one" companies as a desirable place to work, with prestigious colleagues and profound learning opportunities on high scale problems that just don't exist elsewhere, and surely for much more money. Are you sure you're really going to be happy somewhere else? Or might you get restless? That's precisely the kind of concern these smaller companies carry when seeing FAANG stuff on a resume, and it doesn't seem like it should be baffling that they would do.
Only if your friend is willing to get paid a local salary ;)
A “fifth” of alcohol is a 750ml bottle (about a fifth of a gallon). So someone drinking a fifth is drinking more like 15 shots.
I think the issue is that the client (the SDK) is complaining about a missing header it’s expecting to receive due to a new default in the client.

My guess is the client has options you pass in, they added a new default (or changed one, I’m not clear on that), and the new default sends something up to the server (header/param/etc) asking for the server to send back the new checksum header, the server doesn’t respond with the header, the client errors out.
Well, we know can't be to "save America from bankruptcy" because as a currency issuer, the federal government of the USA can't go bankrupt the way a currency user like a corporation or state government might.
I think you misread my response. I think assuming Amazon did this to hurt “s3 compatible” services is cynical. Amazon implemented a feature, well within their rights. Writing a blog post saying they “broke backwards compatibility” is cynical and disingenuous. Amazon never committed to supporting any random use of their SDK.
So if you're a well-off retiree living on long-term investments and don't want your finances public, then, what, you have to donate extra money to the government? Because long-term gains are simply taxed at a lower rate. It's not some kind of special tax-avoidance scheme you can just refrain from doing.
Dont know, sorry. But the performance is not that awesome, but works well enough for my setup doing realtime object detection with a few cameras.

My main reason for getting one was power efficency compared to a traditional GPU for this task.
iiuc, it's both. drag / paste an image into obsidian it will automatically be stored in your attachments folder (regardless of what note you're in) and a preview is placed in the note itself
>IMHO, this goes against the raison d'etre of this site.

It really doesn't.

>On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'll also add that "politics" bans are always a struggle. My best example was a small social network I was on with other folks who like computers. People often posted every day events in their lives. One day someone posted how their local government had banned adoptions for people like them. This was a serious blow to them and a very personal event. BUT some folks felt like it was politics because ... politicians had passed a law.

To them of course this fit just fine with the typical personal blogging that occurred, the event very much impacted them personally and not mentioning it because some people didn't want to "see" politics made no sense.

The usual divisions occurred, folks who didn't find the law objectionable felt it was "just politics" and others felt it was more than that.

But let's assume HN is just "tech" (it's not but let's assume) while HN might not do a lot of personal blogging, dramatic government change certainly impacts tech... and the personalities involved in recent events very much involves tech.
It's straighforward in all democracies to point out that people claiming that bad policy enactment "is what most people wanted" are making a false statement.

It is very rarely what the minority that voted directly for a specific party of candidate wanted. That's just a dull bald fact, not at all convoluted.
Oh he's not going to like that.
Medicare "cuts", it's 100% of Medicare, and big % of foodstamps as well. And increasing debt ceiling, seems like most of it will go to tax cuts for the rich.
I mean in relation to the 'current political events' - which I presume to mean Russia/Ukraine negotiations. You clown.
This is a really unfortunate perspective. The people that you are casting as "more ape than man" believe you to be doing the exact same thing you accuse them of; emulating and elevating people they think are also ruining the world.

I genuinely don't understand how you can comfortably make such sharp insults towards people who don't agree with you. I understand that it's easy to get caught up in echo chamber - which any website that uses upvote/downvote based ordering and hiding schemes inherently encourage - but the people that disagree with you politically aren't apes. They're not narcissists. You are not special or above others.
If you move slowly, agencies will circle the wagons and organise resistance.

I don't endorse it, but it seems like the "strategy" is mainly speed and surprise.
Kioxia unveils flash memory with 33% faster data transfers
Actually on second glance I think it's about both.

I'm all for the government using more decentralized networks and platforms, I don't frankly care whether they post or not to X, and I get the sense that anyone who does isn't doing so based on logic but on ideological and narrative control.
I'm no kernel dev, but I assume that DMA bindings (what this round of drama was originally all about) fall squarely into "stuff that drivers obviously need".
Maybe, but adding search to this element is still a lot easier than a fully custom one.
UK's oldest scientific academy may do to Musk what it hasn't done in 150 years
I think OP is just trying to demystify the complexity of compliers for the sake of an educational resource. It's high quality work, compressed to a very small line count
Blackmailing Grok
It doesn’t work in practice. So needs regulators or you end up with cartels. And for regulators you need a government.

We got where we got because this already failed.
SF is kind of neither though. If you spend any time in the city, it definitely feels overstuffed. The houses may be cute and small but they are stuffed with roommates. The city is stuck in nostalgia and ignoring that it's bursting at the seams. It's like wearing clothes that are too small and pretending you are still skinny.
Maybe I need to read more on this regression, you might be right.
Yes. They are largely unrelated. Just go to Nvidia's site and find the docs. Or there are several books (look at amazon).

A "background in AI" is a bit silly in most cases these days. Everyone is basically talking about LLMs or multimodal models which in practice haven't been around long. Sebastian Raschka has a good book about building an LLM from scratch, Simon Prince has a good book on deep learning, Chip Huyen has a good book on "AI engineering". Make a few toys. There you have a "background".

Now if you want to really move the needle... get really strong at all of it, including PTX (nvidia gpu assembly, sort of). Then you can blow people away like the deep seek people did...
What risk? Why would it have been riskier than any other regular mission to the ISS?
I started "Prime Target" on Apple TV last night and I knew the premise of this story sounded familiar! The protagonist is obsessed over a prime number problem.

Unrelatedly, I'd be curious what this couple thinks about using AI tools in formal math problems. Did they use any AI tools in the past 2 years while working on this problem?
I did, mea culpa!
SwiftSoup
Your neural network (LLM or otherwise) could be undetectably backdoored in a way that makes it provide malicious outputs for specific inputs.

Right now nobody really trusts LLM output anyway, so the immediate harm is small. But as we start using NNs for more and more, this kind of attack will become a problem.
What a clown show:

> The memo, dated Tuesday, calls for military leaders to provide a proposal for eight percent in budget cuts each year for the next five years. The proposals for the massive cuts to the Pentagon’s budget of approximately $850 billion are due by February 24, less than one week after Hegseth issued the memo.

> It was issued the day before President Donald Trump endorsed the House’s budget plan which includes a $100 billion increase in defense spending, suggesting a major disconnect within the administration. Hegseth himself called for an increase to the defense budget one week ago. While visiting Stuttgart, Germany, Hegseth said, “I think the US needs to spend more than the Biden administration was willing to, who historically underinvested in the capabilities of our military.”
Why do they need to see any tax returns?
Which other leaders? Any who aren't about to be impeached for rugpulling memecoins?
First is reduce cost, if it takes more paperwork to reduce costs then so be it.
IMO absolutely yes. I would start with the linked introduction and then ask myself if I enjoyed it.

for a deeper dive, check out the sth like Georgia Tech’s CS 8803 O21: GPU Hardware and Software.

To get into MLE/AI Data Engineering, I would start with a brief introductory ML course like Andrew Ng’s on Coursera