skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Breakthroughs, BY DEFINITION, come from people going against the grain. Breakthroughs are paradigm shifts.

This is wrong. It's not inherent in the meaning of the word "breakthrough" that a breakthrough can occur only when someone has gone against the grain, and there are countless breakthroughs that have not gone against the grain. See: the four-minute mile; the Manhattan Project; the sequencing of the human genome; the decipherment of Linear B; research into protein folding. These breakthroughs have largely been the result of being first to find the solution to the problem or cross the theshold. That's it. That doesn't mean the people who managed to do that were working against the grain.

> Yet we often act in reverse, we discourage going against the grain. Often with reasons about fear of failure.

I don't know which "we" you're referring to, but just about everybody would agree with the statement that it's good to think creatively, experiment, and pursue either new lines of inquiry or old lines in new ways, so, again, your claim seems clearly wrong.

If you're discussing just scientific research, though, sure, there are plenty of incentives that encourage labs and PIs to make the safe choice rather than the bold or innovative choice.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43109172
I’d contest the statement that humans don’t need to be trained to use a calculator. It certainly isn’t instinctive behavior.
I always wondered about that. I thought it was just for euphemistic purposes to create more separation between the food we eat and the animal that it came from.
Anyone with skill and agency needs capital, exposure, resources.

Companies currently provide this.
Thanks—I know these things aren't necessarily ill-intentioned but I think it's good for community to let each project/startup have its launch.
> why does cursor have $100m ARR then?

First mover advantage.

They are not safe against Microsoft, who have the resources to copy every feature that Cursor has into VS code and can afford to offer it for "free" for a very long time and Microsoft also has access to the exact same models as Cursor.

So not only that tells you there is no moat, but offering the best tools and models for free is exactly what Microsoft's modern definition of "Extinguish" is from their EEE strategy.
He can go to help it by himself ASAP. Or, at least his Hiccups.
Julia is not a scripting language, or in other word, Julia scoping rule are not scripting friendly

currently if in a file i have

local s = 0

for i = 1:10
t = s + i
s = t
println("$s")
end

println("$s")

and I execute this file, I will get an error

ERROR: LoadError: UndefVarError: s not defined
Cool. I've been using Cyberduck as my awesome/free S3 GUI, but it's always great to see something new and different!
The difference between a real crypto exchange and a scam crypto exchange is that you can actually withdraw your cryptocurrency from the exchange.

This nuance lost on the common cryptocurrency speculator given that they have no idea what cryptocurrency actually is or how it's supposed to work.
There was a medical student who ate 720 eggs in a month and his blood test numbers actually improved. The idea that consumption of large numbers of eggs is unhealthy was never true.
This is an awesome tool! Been using it since day 1 and will keep using it. Would recommend to anyone looking for an LLM Eval tool
This gets repeated a lot but in reality hiring is a skillset that good programmers sorely lack.
I think that the data isn't really the problem, it is the workflow.
Lessons from Building AI Coding Assistants: Context Retrieval and Evaluation
Were the Dragon capsule missions not turning a profit?
I'm not sure about other cryptocoins, but Bitcoin does not use encryption, it only uses authentication, which requires a DSA (Digital Signature Algorithms). Bitcoin's current DSA would in fact be broken by a cryptographically-relevant quantum computer (CRQC). However, there are DSAs - like Lamport signatures and Merkle signatures - known since the 1970s, whose security depends only on the existence of ANY secure hash function. There is no known way to break any widely used hash function using quantum computers. So I reckon that the only change to Bitcoin would be to swap out the current DSA for a different one.

I'm not sure about the downsides of quantum-resistant DSAs.
Much simpler way:

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Yep, something I'm realizing is a lot of guidelines/expectations around how long something will take to heal seem to be based on people in the 30-45 range. In your teens and twenties you might get injured and heal faster than expected and think "huh, must be my genes/technique/etc" when really it's probably just youth. Suuuuucks when you start to realize that superpower of yours is fading.
Probably, but no telling.

Do you remember the "Heartbleed" exploit in SSL many years ago? There were allegations that the NSA knew about and used that exploit for many years before the public ever knew about. However, that is not exactly an easy statement to confirm nor deny.

Edit: I also wanted to add something I remember from a talk I saw with a person who once worked for the NSA. He was intentionally only talking about surface-level concepts, but he did mention that the one thing the NSA has, that most do not, is unlimited time and patience.

He said something along the lines of how they can just sit and watch a server, for example. Say that the server is on version 1.0.0 of whatever. Well, the NSA can find an exploit in version 1.1.0 and keep it under wraps. All they have to do is just wait. The second the server is upgraded to 1.1.0, then boom, they're in.

He also used the example of BYOD ("bring your own device") in workplace settings. Say they cannot can entry into somewhere. Well, if they can compromise someone's personal device, then they can just wait. The second the personal device connects to the network they want/is in close enough proximity to the network they want, then boom, they're in.

Be it one second, one hour, ... 10 years, etc.. They can wait. All it takes is one brief instance of a hole in the defense.

Truly some boogeyman level stuff, but I just hope they use their powers for good when possible. Though, I imagine plenty of other countries also have similar "arms race" abilities, which does complicate matters.

Some days, I just want to get a cabin in the woods, and get away from all this dystopian technology.
I absolutely love this characterization of modern discourse.
I think that the scenario you describe requires one of two conditions:

1. The attacker knows the time and medium through which the two persons call each other, and have control over the medium, being able to inject themselves;
2. The attacker coerces one of the two persons to perform authentication.

You have a much bigger problem if any of the above is true.
> Humans require no training at all for calculators, as they are such intuitive instruments

I don't think that's even true though. If you think this, I would suggest you've just internalized your training on the subject.
Two reasons:

1. LLMs "think" in terms of tokens, which usually are around 4 characters each. While humans only have to memorize 10x10 multiplication tables to perform multiplication of large numbers, LLMs have to memorize a 10000x10000 table, which is much more difficult.

2. LLMs can't "think in their head", so you have to make them spell out each step of the multiplication, just like (most) humans can't multiply huge numbers without intermediate steps.

A simple way to demonstrate this is to ask an LLM for the birth year of a celebrity and then whether that number is even or odd. The answer will be correct almost every time. But if you ask whether the birth year of a celebrity is even or odd and forbid spelling out the year, the accuracy will be barely above 50 %.
If anything his interest is to keep the space station since SpaceX is the preferred, and now the only provider of transportation to/from the station.

It's actually a pretty clever way to avoid the conflict, have others push to keep the space station and thus the necessary transport contracts with SpaceX. Not only this but it also aligns with his stated decades-long goal of focusing on a manned mission to Mars.
Guy that identifies as vaguely libertarian keeps expressing libertarian opinions. He gathers so much power that it's news whenever it happens. But it has to be little less shocking by now.
Does this same reasoning apply to social and cultural systems…?
Are there consequences?
Sure, but what kind of image manipulation do you think would actually belong in the HTML spec? That just seems way out of scope to me.
DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards
I don't think elected leaders in the executive branch should be allowed to supersede the role of the elected legislature in formulating public policy.

The whole problem can be sidestepped by pulling back on the excessive levels of discretion and rule-making that have been delegated to executive agencies in the first place.
Not at all easy. It’s a PITA using all sorts of odd sources.
Results don't seem that bad for 9b https://huggingface.co/blog/eurollm-team/eurollm-9b
I don't think intellectually honest people can support the current takeover.
The official EU "Google alternative" was Quaero (not Qwant which is something else). Announced in 2005 and ended in 2013.

I don't believe anything was ever made public.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero
I think it would be profitable to write a smartphone app that takes the floor plan of a trade show or exhibition hall with the exhibitors' booths shown, allows the user to select the booths he or she wants to visit, and solves the travelling salesman problem. I wonder if it could be licensed to trade show organizers for big bucks by offering kickbacks on all the extras. The extras could include bribes from exhibitors for the heuristic to favor paths that go by them, or that get users to visit them ahead of their competitors, or that push promotions to users redeemable at the booth but only within the next five minutes, or that lets exhibitors buy a list of the names of everyone who selected their booth, or lets them buy a list of the other booths those people also selected, etc..
Delta offers $30k to passengers in Canada plane flip
You just don't get it. When it's announced by the EU, it's red tape PDF crunching soulless bureaucracy wasting our time. When it's said by a glorified CPA of an American unicorn startup it's the vision, innovation and triumph of entrepreneurial spirit.
Thank you for adding that. I should have added one of the things I heard was a parent strategy recommendation to move to avoid having that competition. If that’s at all rational, it seems like a searing indictment of the whole system.
It is different enough that it will lock me to a certain workflow.

Obsidian is great, because it is not like other apps. Using it daily will mean moving to another app will be some work.
I certainly do pine for the early years of civil discourse
The Executive can also do this.
Somewhere I read a story about a group of TI sales engineers in Britain who put together a much more "typical" micro-computer system using the 9940 or 9980 CPU. They, of course, lost out the the 99/4 design because of politics. Though to be fair, I've heard there was A LOT of confusion over the 99/4's requirements. It supposedly started as a video game console after the Atari VCS was released to great acclaim in '77. But by the time they released it they decided they wanted to compete with the personal computing trinity: Apple ][, TRS-80 and Commodore PET.

I think it was certainly possible for SOMEONE to have come up with a better design targeting the nascent PC market. Also remember the 99/4 was pretty cheap compared to "real" computers. A typical CP/M or Apple ][ machine would have cost somewhere around $2500-$3500 in 1979. The 99/4 was a "bargain" at $1150. You have to think a 9900-based system that had a front-panel, floppy disk, RS-232 interface like contemporary CP/M machines wouldn't have cost too much more than a CP/M device. It may be a scratch more expensive cause you would likely want a bit more memory than the 16k that was common in the Altair or IMSAI machines at the time.

Every now and again 99/8 prototype systems will surface on eBay and sell for THOUSANDS of dollars. I just saw a CC-40 Plus system go for about $3500. Alas, I can't really justify that many dollars for these old systems. When TI got out of the business, they had the 99/8 and CC-70 in development. Assuming they were able to sell them for a decent price, they couldn't have been as bad at the 99/4 and CC-40.
> It is even messier in protected mode, since now every selector is an entry in a table, so its value itself is meaningless.

Actually, my experience is that things are much easier in protected mode. Since selector values are chosen by the OS, that means you rely a lot more on internal relocations. And the use of segment selectors is a strong indicator that you have a pointer in the first place.

Unfortunately, ghidra itself struggles to apply these techniques, especially in the decompiler, which seems completely unable to cope with the concept of far pointers.
Well the last guy to publicly do that (Thailand caves) got it much worse so either Elon's developing a softer side or astronaut got off easy.
Can you make a reasonable case for why the experience must necessarily be worse in macOS than it is in iOS and iPadOS?
Wake me when robots can make a peanut butter sandwich
I don't believe that these comments (and if you scroll down there are quite a few nearly identical ones) are intended to do anything more than find an HN-safe way of expressing an ad hom attack with the hope that people won't read it or engage with the comments. I want to find a more charitable interpretation, but it's very difficult.

I kind of get it though, presumably a large number of people here have paychecks that depend on him being wrong, or least the perception that he's wrong for a while.
why are there two irc briges?
Small Rant on this:

I am happy to pay for services like element.io, and I in fact did pay for their hosting services. I am no stranger to self-hosting, and EMS was more expensive then other hosting services. But....I figured it would be nice to help pay for development.

EMS then decided to say that if you didn't have a minimum of 50 users (at 5$/user), we wouldn't support you. So I had to migrate my instance, where I pay less for more service (etke.cc doesn't make you pay per user).

I mean....it's EMS' call that they don't think supporting a single user instance is worth the hassle, and I get it, supporting what they do is expensive, but it rubs me the wrong way to see posts like this that they are complaining about operating costs when I used to pay to support the operating costs.
You're telling us to trust the word of people who were caught either lying or being staggeringly incompetent. It's irrational. You're letting your political sentiments cloud your judgement. You're having an emotionally-driven reaction.
I think the 'law of large numbers' says that it's very unlikely for you to follow 4k and have _none_ of them posting. You could artificially construct a counter-example by finding 4k open but silent accounts, but that's silly.

The other workaround is: follow everyone. Write some code to get what you want out of the jetstream event feed. https://docs.bsky.app/blog/jetstream
Presumably Elon and hist staff were planning this and -maybe?- training for this for months, perhaps since before the election.
So he is going to accelerate the existing $843 million dollar contract for free? If not, that sure sounds like a conflict of interest to me.
Basic math problems should be treated as a special vs general tool use. Why use Python when the computer evaluating the LLM can do math itself?
If they are a brain in a jar, meaning they have no legs, and have been commanded to answer the question directly, they will not go get anything.
Yeah I loved my LaunchPad. I bought like 20 and handed them out like candy at school
Speak for yourself. I would never eat a cat or dog because to me they are pets, and I would feel terrible doing it.

Whatever they taste like is very very secondary to that.
Yes and according to the article, there are still interesting things planned in the meantime. Meanwhile, who would benefit from working on and sending a replacement up?
do you plan on adding descriptions of figures and tables?
I hope you're never in charge of anything in which other people find meaning and community.
> they're finding waste that doesn't align with the Presidents vision for America. It's as simple as that

In other words, it is partisan but you, more or less, agree with it.

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

The VA is woke? The FAA is woke? Cancer research is woke? Nuclear weapons security is woke? Bird flu researchers are woke?

If it were just some DEI directors getting fired most people wouldn't care, but the haphazard blowing up of the government is not about "waste", it's an obvious political agenda.
You mention semver, yet you also show that this API breaking change was introduced in a minor version.

Not entirely sure that's how things work?
Because AI programmers only know python (is the path dependency / real reason)
Sure, but people make mistakes too. There is no point on wasting an LLM's capacity to multiply

Try doing coding with Cursor or Windsurf, those use tools all the time. Windsurf sometimes has trouble for me on Windows because it wants to write paths like

/c:/something/or/other

and it will try to run its tool, get an error, ask me for help, I'll tell it "you're running on Windows and you can't write / before the c: and you should write \ instead of /" and it does better. I just asked copilot to multiply

839162704321847925107309452196847230165937402194385627409536218 * 582930174682375093104627481695

and the first thing it did was write out the expression, I told it I wanted the integer and it gave the same answer Python gives which is

489173261817269091475894827953471001727389372345981246974410480760096492908180614917234529510
Time for the community to support a standards body effort to define S3 compatibility under its own brand and standard.

Having a way for vendors to publish some Level of compatibility would be a great help. Eg Tier 1 might mean basic upload/download, Tier 2 might support storage classes and lifecycle policies etc.
Right now is just a confusing mess of self-attestation.
Fifth would be 150 ml, so around 3 shots. It’s slightly excessive but I wouldn’t call that raging alcoholism level.
At least in the UK, overheads are usually over 100%.
> - You may have to euthanize a chicken, likely by hand (literally) via cervical dislocation. It still ranks among the worst things I've ever had to do in my life. Imagine euthanizing your dog or cat by hand...

I visited a farm as a kid and we had fresh chicken for dinner one day. They had one of those orange road cones with the top cut off a bit to fit the chicken in upside down so they could easily chop off its head. They then run around for awhile after that because their nervous system is still working for a minute or so. Just something to interesting to learn as a 5th grader, I guess.
This is about industrial research, not about some product.

Members of the project have previously produced both niche and general models, but without the arrogance and bluster of usian corporate subcultures.
In this case it was prompted by an astronaut calling him out on social media about lies he told about the ISS in an interview. Part of his response to was to call for deorbiting the station. It's the precise sort of thing you see from a five year old who's losing at a game or something. "Yeah... well... I'll just not play at all! And we'll not have a game!"
So, answering my own question, there is this.

https://sacra.com/research/cursor-at-100m-arr/

Sounds legit.
As a European, the sad reality is that I see parallels with the late-stage Soviet Union and its satellite states.

NOT when it comes to the level of violence and repression or quality of living. Those two things are world-class.

But in the sense that there's a more or less unelected political establishment that's

a) Recursive: It does things only to show them off to itself.

b) Not exposed to real-world consequences.

c) Has a non-falsifiable pretense to validate whatever they do and caution against undoing whatever it is. For the soviets, it was anti-capitalism. For the EU it's some notion of safety or sustainability.

d) Inadvertently benefits itself and other elites and harms the people they pretend to protect.

My hope is that as a democratic institution, the EU is capable of reform.
Thank goodness we have startup culture in the US, instead we can have “looks bad, doesn’t work, but Microsoft bought it so…”
"...EuroLLM-9B was trained on approximately 4 trillion tokens, using 400 Nvidia H100 GPUs on the MareNostrum5 supercomputer..."
OK, I'm aware, not sure what that has to do with anything here.
Are there a lot of examples written out of people talking through running that algorithm? I’d guess not.
> Bureaucracy doesn't have to be to the detriment of society.

Bureaucracy is an organizational model that reflects human intentions and choices, just like every other organizational model in society.

Attributing specific moral inclinations to an organizational model is as absurd as attributing them to any other tool. Debating whether bureaucracies per se have good or bad intentions is as ridiculous as debating whether handwritten documents convey better or worse intentions than printed ones.
I like the idea of the ISS and I want the ISS to remain.. With that said I do think it's past it's expiration date and we should replace it with something better.
And NASA? they just send robots in space to make pictures?
Not sure why you are here and not on TikTok with such anti science ideology.
Trump is not directing "wiretaps" or "break-ins" into entities outside the executive branch of the federal government.
I have dyscalculia and I still have no clue about calculators except I was taught how to make it give me the answer to math problems, I'm a bit embarrassed to say: even still I sometimes take a few seconds to boot into being able to use one. We often discuss LLMs like there is no divergence in humans, I don't know how many people math is intuitive for, but I know plenty of people like me.
You can't get 100% reliability from a human either.
How to Containerize Agents Using Dagger
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230502-a-fiery-end-how-...

Weren't the Russians pulling out of supporting it in 2025?

> Russia has even suggested it may pull out of the ISS as early as 2025.

Though I couldn't find an actual quote from Roscosmos just a BBC article.
Also, I don't keep cold brew on hand during the winter, but I can whip up a double espresso in under a minute and get ~150mg of caffeine, which is basically equal to my daily intake. And I can _consume_ it faster than trying to chug a 16oz cup of cold brew. Gulp, done. :) And yummy.

I could take the excedrin-style things but coffee is pretty easy. And the goal isn't "max caffeine", the goal is 150-250mg.

The funny thing is that I really have no idea if this caffeine+ibuprofen routine is actually effective. One of my doctors in grad school suggested it, as someone who also suffered aura-only migraines. He said it worked for him, and I figured that either it was sometimes effective, or I'd have some placebo action working for me, so I just adopted it. :) I'm OK with placebo if it's working. The caffeine is based on an older theory of vasoconstriction that seems to not be aligned with the modern thinking on migraines, but, eh, mine are pretty tame compared to what some people get so I haven't felt the need to work too hard to optimize this.
As someone who grew up in late-stage Soviet Union nope. Not even close.