skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - Can’t eat the eggs This isn’t necessarily a chicken problem but mostly a problem with chemical industry. We’ve had a lot of PFOA/PFAS contamination and public health advise says to not eat eggs from backyard chickens

The research done was mid at best. They just went "oh yeah there was huge variance in the hobby chicken PFAS data so we took the average". Most of the hobby eggs had little to no PFAS in them.

Furthermore, because of privacy laws, they weren't allowed to know where the eggs came from. They say they found no correlation between PFAS contaminations in eggs and known high PFAS areas but that's actual bullshit if you can't look at location data.

It's absolutely attrocious they were allowed to publish like this and that no one called them on their bullshit.

Overall, unless you are in a place where you know you have high PFAS concentrations, it's most likely fine? You could send off a few eggs for testing to make sure, that's a 200 euro test or something. Do that once per year just to make sure and you should be OK.
Don't forget to wear your cowboy hat when interviewing at google. Very important.
The connection isn't immediately obvious, but it's simply because solving for the maximum entry distribution that achieves a given expectation value produces the Botlzmann distribution. In stat mech, our "classifier" over (micro-)states is energy; in A.I. the classifier is labels.

For details, the keyword is Lagrange multiplier [0]. The specific application here is maximizing f as the entropy with the constraint g the expectation value.

If you're like me at all, the above will be a nice short rabbit hole to go down!

[0]:https://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/classes/calciii/lagrangemult...
I'm pretty skeptical of that 75% on GPQA Diamond for a non-reasoning model. Hope that xAI can make Grok 3 API available next week so I can run it against some private evaluations to see if it's really this good.

Another nit-pick: I don't think DeepSeek had 50k Hopper GPUs. Maybe they have 50k now after getting the world's attention and having national-sponsored grey market back them, but that 50k number is certainly dreamed-up. During the past year DeepSeek's intern recruitment ads always just mentioned "unlimited access to 10k A100s", suggesting that they may have very limited H100/H800s, and most of their research ideas were validated on smaller models on an Ampere cluster. The 10k A100 number matches with a cluster their parent hedge fund company announced a few years ago. All in all my estimation is they had more (maybe 20k) A100s, and single-digit thousands of H800s.
I was using the indeterminate "you" for a hypothetical question, one that gets asked often

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

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

ATProto moderation is technically and fundamentally different from ActivityPub: https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-12-2024-stackable-moderati...
Complete Guide to Installing Tailwind CSSv4 in Frameworks
As a developer who regularly works with PHP Laravel and Python Flask, I encountered several challenges while upgrading to Tailwind CSS V4.

After resolving these issues step by step, I've written this blog post "Complete Guide to Installing Tailwind CSSv4 in Frameworks" to supplement the official documentation and help others who might face similar installation and configuration challenges.

Integrating Tailwind CSS 4 into backend frameworks primarily involves correctly configuring three key files: input.css, package.json, and the new vite.config.ts. The main focus is ensuring these files properly reference your project's directory structure.The most crucial modifications include:

- Setting the `type` field to `module` in `package.json`
- Correctly defining the `outDir`, `input`, and `output` paths in `vite.config.ts`

These adjustments ensure proper file resolution and build processes in your framework.
Illegal in the UK now.
Like I say:

> It is not inherent in Java though

"Coupling by annotation" culture (which diminishes many of the benefits of using a typed language, as it pushes coupling to runtime and by means of reflection) IS inherent to SpringBoot. Hence my distaste for it.

Java's okay, prefer Kotlin though these days.
Did you factor in the cameras and 10g Ethernet you ran to the coop for ‘future proofing’? Hehe. It’s ok to have hobby, and if you get eggs out of it, even better.
Do i understand corretly?

The executive shall enforce orders, because it is bound by laws to do so, which for the executive can only be interpreted by the president?

Sounds like a power grab to me.
their claims can't be trusted because they fail at basic accounting and reading. Something something malice incompetence.

https://twitter.com/electricfutures/status/18918983362081056...

> The single biggest ticket item is a DHS contract listed as saving $8 billion. Wow, that's a huge contract! Actually no, it's $8 million. They must have tried to automate scraping the FPDS form and failed.
https://www.artifact.engineer/
The interview is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o

One hour long, and Thompson tells a lot of entertaining stories. Kernighan does a good job of just letting Thompson speak.
Looks like they started posting sole data - not sure what FPDS is but the documents all look rendered in OSX aqua theme lol.

A lot of cuts looks “sensical” at first, until you realize things like “cutting magazine subscriptions” are more like “cutting financial news sources off from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau” or “not renewing reputable news subscriptions for people who really need to understand current events”.

And then there’s a lot of DEI/diversity training cuts which feel targeted not at their war on Actually Being Nice to People, but at the groups those trainings help employees serve - cutting DEI for SNAP…so, there’s a reported (haven’t verified but allegedly from USDA data) 5 ethnic groups, as well as “race unknown”, that are enrolled in SNAP. Now imagine how you’d train people to understand, interact with, and help people in different ethnic backgrounds _who need this assistance_. I believe empathy and understanding are incredibly good skills to have in a role like this, and DEI helps train that - for all involved.

The going notion on the right is that DEI is racist, and against white people, but it leaves out the idea that anyone non-white might also need this training? Like, DEI is about understanding differences, and then the right reads it as “understanding non-whites” and get offended that they even have to think about other cultures.

And another cut funding for training on gender, and that training was for an office involved in tech and engineering…a professional field notoriously male-dominant for a long time. Again, it makes sense to me that this kind of training would be good, because I’ve heard the way people in tech talk and act towards women and queer folx, so yeah let’s have some training.

These kinds of programs aren’t meant to tell people what to think - if they can’t empathetically interact with the world, work training won’t change that - but it will tell them that in a professional capacity they need to know how to interact and be productive. In business this is so you make more money, in government it’s how you help more people - including your own employees and also the communities you serve.

So Trump is doing what he said, and the details are grim.
Or why should the "bond" cause us to not eat animals? They aren't pets we eat in a panic, but animals we raise with the intention of eating but still bond with them and continue the process through consuming them and letting the animal go on to fulfill a higher purpose of providing sustenance to the humans they bonded with.
I'm not familiar with that many languages, but I'm pretty sure that romance languages have words for both.

“Security” refers to active protection against existing threats, whereas “safety” refers to the state of being protected.
> We’ve had a lot of PFOA/PFAS contamination and public health advise says to not eat eggs from backyard chickens

Where?
Dialing for Videos: A Random Sample of YouTube (2023)
This is a weird takeaway from the recent changes. Right now companies can scale because there's stupid amount of stupid money flowing into the AI craze, but that's going to end. Companies are already discovering the issues with monetising those systems. Sure, they can "let go" and burn the available cash, but the investors will come knocking finally. Since everyone figures out similar tech anyway, it's the people with most tech improvement experience that will be in the best position long term, while openai will be stuck trying to squeeze adverts and monitoring into their chat for cash flow.
Yup - it was the same for me with the 2016 SE. Still runs perfectly fine, we're still doing the same old CRUD web shit for apps, but apparently now our apps are so much more advanced that there's no possible way they could keep supporting that "legacy" hardware.

https://blog.bschwind.com/2025/01/11/the-original-iphone-se-...
Old:

Let them eat cake

Newly voted in:

...stock up on luxury ice cream.

...indulge in caviar.

I am out of ideas, so is Copilot.
I saw somewhere that it often takes "just" 3.5% people taking to the streets to protest to overthrow a government, because for that to happen a much larger number needs to be supportive of the protests.

Even in the worst police state, the dictators power ultimately depends on enough of the people going along with it.

Americans could change this, if enough people cared beyond pressing like on facebook
Thanks to a particular culture in the US, those companies have a very strong argument against morals: money. If you can make $440k per year as an engineer at xAi, do you really care what your boss says in public? How many people sit in jobs right now getting paid much less and still have to endure similar shit from their execs?
Not that simple, It could cause resource curse [1] for developers. Why optimize algorithm when you have nearly infinity resources? For deepseek, their constrains is one of the reason they achieve breakthrough. One of their contribution, fp8 training, is to find a way to train models with GPUs that limit fp32 performance due to export control.

[1]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/resource-curse.asp#:~:t...
The reentry of a Falcon 9 upper stage over NW Europe on 19 February
Frightened mind is easily manipulated.

In 15-44y category its going up with excessive deaths.
Why do you want them to refuse audit requests? There is no upside to hiding egregious government waste other than paying politicians via kickbacks more than what is legally mandated.
China creating cheap ripoff is what they do best.

No one in the West would use a Chinese model otherwise, so their best strategy is to destroy the US' ability to establish dominance and more unicorns.

Expect them to keep putting out models for free.
Tor for me is unusable because of its speed.
1. what are you wanting to create?

currently agents and workflow endpoints are created at `/api/workflows/workflow-id` and `/api/agents/agent-id/` for workers and agents

2. we are thinking about it -- curious what you'd use it for?
Well, I agree with your premise of needing more diverse and resilient food production but I fail to see how backyard chickens (and homegrown vegetables) can't be a part of it.

I say this while I'm also - on principle - extremely wary of pushing systemic change on individuals.
Loosely connected: I read recently about an Austrian pilot project in Wien, where they analyze patients' tumors and let AI suggest treatment. They had some spectacular successes, where the AI would recommend drugs that aren't normally used for that type of cancer, but when deployed, worked well.
You make no mention of feed cost. Do you just depend upon free range "pecking" in the grass, or kitchen scraps... or what? 13 chickens is a lot of daily feed!
I disagree.

An optimization that speeds a program by x2 has the same effect as running on a faster CPU. An optimization that packs things tighter into memory has the same effect as using more memory.

Program semantics are usually referred to as “all output given all input, for any input configuration” but ignoring memory use or CPU time, provided they are both finite (but not limited).

TCE easily converts a program that will halt, regardless of available memory, to one that will never halt, regardless of available memory. That’s a big change in both theoretical and practical semantics.

I probably won’t argue that a change that reduces an O(n^5) space/time requirement to an O(1) requirement is a change in semantics, even though it practically is a huge change. But TCE changes a most basic property of a finite memory Turing machine (halts or not).

We don’t have infinite memory Turing machines.

edited: Turing machine -> finite memory Turing machine.
Man whose eye 'melted' in acid attack thanks placenta donor who helped him heal
another ai hype blog entry. Not even a mention of the differently colored bars on the benchmark result.
For me, grok-3 does not prove/disprove scaling laws in any meaningful capacity.
"UI" is part of the definition they give in the glossary

https://atproto.com/guides/glossary#app-view
They will have had to impose this too.

The systems were built as separate systems to avoid (in a systems designers most fevered nightmares) a scenario like this.
Both exist tbh. My more medicinal shampoos smell of nothing or bad (assuming because of the active contents and not to smell more medicinal). Sensitive shampoo/detergents seem to be very lightly scented. Kinda just enough to where you can check if your kid washed their hands by smelling them but it doesn't release a citrus bomb around the sink.
thanks, i researched into this and bought a boox go color 7.
now i can have both the kindle app (for books i can't buy anywhere else or already purchased) and new books outside of kindle app. bonus, it has text to speech which kindle doesn't really want to let you do so it won't lower audible purchases. not the same quality as audoble, of course, but free.
> At a rate of less than 1% of territory gained

Capturing Texas wouldn't enlarge Russia too much percentage wise, because it's already massive, not that this metric matters at all.

You keep assuming that Russia needs more territory that's why this war is happening, whereas in reality Russia does not want a powerful Ukraine armed to the teeth with NATO gear right next door, that's it, that's what the Russians have been saying all along, their position has never changed, you can look up the Mins k agreement.

> 400k+ casualties per year

It's not per year.

> Russia would exceed the total Soviet losses for all of Ukraine before even reaching the halfwaypoint at the Dnieper river.

You are assuming that Ukraine has their forces uniformly distributed across it's territory which would make it the dumbest army in the universe, in reality most of it's armed forces are near the front, if they are gone, there won't be much left to defend the rest of Ukraine.

> Russia hasn't even reached the hardest part yet: major urban areas like Kharkiv (pop. 1.7m) and Zaporizhzhia (840k), where the heaviest fighting could be expected, remain in Ukrainian hands.

They don't have to, they can bleed the Ukrainian army by dragging them into a meat grinder elsewhere, Russia does not want Ukraine, they just want to destroy the Ukrainian army and permanently make sure Ukraine will never have an army that is a threat to Russia. The crazy thing is Zelensky is doing the work for the Russians with his media stunts like Kursk and Krynky.

> Note the timeframe too. Both Germany and the USSR rolled through Ukraine in 12 months. In a week, the Russian war against Ukraine will enter its fourth year.

Wonder how well both would have done with drones and HIMARs involved.
Actually, Fastly and Akamai also provide exits. Cloudflare isn't the only provider.
I haven’t used it personally, but examining some in https://www.recraft.ai/community?imageParentType=vector_illu..., I presume they’re producing raster images, and then auto-tracing. I looked at a few of the line-art samples they had there, and https://img.recraft.ai/--CWuHOOd2OaTTKRrIUsA-2nRJt-52M8NnXRt... has all kinds of artefacts that are just like autotracing tends to produce.

For use on a plotter, the line art specifically needs to be a stroked path, rather than a filled path, and so for tracing you need centreline tracing, as discussed in the article. So you probably get absolutely no benefit from taking SVG—you’d need to turn them back into raster and trace them properly.
> PICO_USE_FASTEST_SUPPORTED_CLOCK=1
Deep Dive on OpenTelemetry Go Auto-Instrumentation Powered by eBPF
Tarbomb Implementation – Xkcd 1168
Humans don't grow exponentially indefinitely. But there's only something in the order of 100k AI researchers employed in the big labs right now. Meanwhile, there's around 20mn software engineers globally, and around 200k math graduates per year.

The number of humans who could feasibly work on this problem is pretty high, and the labs could grow an order of magnitude, and still only be tapping into the top 1-2% of engineers & mathematicians. They could grow two orders of magnitude before they've absorbed all of the above-average engineers & mathematicians in the world.
have you found much use for termux? i use it for quite a bit, running python scripts, yt-dlp and ffmpeg stuff. neovim.

you cant run things like vscode but there is an app called andronix that lets you run a full linux os and then you remote into it from a browser. its probably clunky though
We would probably be better off with non-profits run by non-profit oriented CEOs.
Biggest-ever AI biology model writes DNA on demand
>First, its not just about LLMs. Its not an LLM that replaced human drivers in Waymo cars.

As far as I know, Waymo is still not even remotely able to operate in any kind of difficult environment, even though insane amounts of money have been poured into it. You are vastly overstating its capabilities.

Is it cool tech? Sure. Is it safely going to replace all drivers? Doubt, very much so.

Secondly, this only works if progress in AI does not stagnate. And, again, you have no grounds to actually make that claim. It's all built on the fanciful imagination that we're close to AGI. I disagree heavily and think, it's much further away than people profiting financially from the hype tend to claim.
DeepSeek has built their software on Nvidia hardware which needs ASML and TSMC hardware to be built.

Even China has not yet managed to even remotely catch up with this hardware stack. Even though the trail has been blazed by ASML, TSMC and Nvidia.
Until we see progress slowing down, I don’t see venture capital disappearing in the race to ASI and beyond.
Back in 2012 it regularly happened that we called them because the network was gone, because our monitoring seemed to be better. Or at least quicker than what they showed.

Back in 2006 my coworker claimed he was the person responsible for them adding a "exchange my dead HDD" menu point on the support site because he wrote one of those tickets per week.

When I got a physical server, the HDD died in the first 48h, so I've not exactly forgiven them, even if this was a tragic story over the last 18 or so years...

On the other hand, I've been recommending their cloud vps for a couple of years because unlike with their HW, I've never had problems.
Unfortunately the current UK government thinks appeasing the far right is the way to stay in power.

Recently they were matching the local mainstream far right party, Reform on immigration - so of course now Reform has moved the goalposts.
Please, please set up a forge. I don't care if it's Git, I don't care if it's codeberg, Gitlab, or GitHub. I just want to not use email if I don't have to.
topological analytics shows that under like-like exchanges multiple distinct pathways exist in 2D (in 3D topology does not have distinct pathways for these exchanges). this permits real anyon particles to exist when the physics is confined to 2D within quantum limits such as in a layer of graphene. certain configurations of layers (“moire materials”) can be made periodic to provide a suitable scale lattice for anyons to localize and adopt particular quantum states

anyons lie somewhere between fermions and bosons in their state occupancy and statistics - no 2 fermions may occupy the same state, bosons can all occupy the same state, anyons follow rational number patterns eg up to 2 anyons can occupy 3 states
Scenario: You give someone $40B to feed people, and $1B actually feeds them while $39B vanishes into overhead and ideological reprogramming. Then they tell you they need more. If this is success, what does failure look like?
There are laws, but you will get fired if you try to follow them, and lawsuits to remedy that take time.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/usaid-sec...
Is there any reason this data shouldn't be public for everyone to read?
Show HN: Img-Dash – Centralised Dashboard for Virtual Machine Images
Hi HN,

I built this project because I wanted an easier way to visualise all Virtual Machine Images. It can be very inconvenient to view and manage all VM images especially across multiple cloud platforms.

Img-Dash is a simple dashboard for VM images across AWS, GCP and Azure that you can run locally.

Features:- Consolidated view of all VM images and their data - View, Attach or Delete contextual information (IaC code, Event Data, Compliance Scripts) - Even displays which VMs are using which Image - Simple search and list of images in the dashboard

I was also just very sick of people not following naming conventions and keeping track of images in spreadsheets.

As a DevOps engineer, it has been ages since I've developed a full stack application so feedback is much appreciated!

Repo: https://github.com/shaozae/Img-Dash
Super cool! We at BAML had been thinking about doing something like this for our ecosystem as well - we’d love to add BAML models to this repo!

If you haven’t heard of us, we provide a language and runtime that enable defining your schemas in a simpler syntax, and allow usage with _any_ model, not just those that implement tool calling or json mode, by by relying on schema-aligned parsing. Check it out! https://github.com/BoundaryML/baml
Trump has only granted DOGE read only access to government systems to allow them to complete their audit.

Anything more is accidental.
Why is it not on the LLM leaderboard?

https://lmarena.ai/?leaderboard

Do they not take part, or is the list not complete?
> use of AI to create child abuse images

That old rhetoric again.

They are trying to push a law (have pushed?) that brands anyone with an AI capable of generating cp a certified pedo.

So basically any diffusion model. Or in fact any llm? I imagine you can ask an LLM to generate you sketchy svgs.

Secondary thought to that, what about scary illegal texts telling you how to make explosives or hack. Sorry guys better brandish you a terrorist for having a local llm.
Who is getting really rich from this?
The bitter lesson is all about more data/compute. Doesn’t matter if it costs more because it’s not as efficient, the scale is what matters at the end of the day. Sure you’d reach farther with both scale and optimization, but raw scale still takes the cake.
Looks like it got popular and then dropped like a rock. https://hnrankings.info/43106012/

I have a suspicion there is massive (organized?) downvoting going on in the past few weeks or months but hard to prove since hn doesn't make enough data visible.
Executive power is derived from the President.

Congress can design an agency, set it's processes and procedures, and give it money to run.

But the President is in charge of it within those bounds. The President can't decided DOJ doesn't need an Attorney General (Congress already decided that), but the President gets to pick the AG and the AG reports to the President.
Your comment is vague so it's not clear if you are accusing voters in general of uncrtitically accepting obvious propaganda or if you yourself have believed obvious propaganda generated by DOGE.