skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, I disagree.

By "unpedagogical" I mean: very hard to learn, and even when you learn it, often hard to explain. It's information that doesn't compress well, generalize well, or really convey direct understanding of what's going on. Maybe not the best word for this. Really, I just mean "bad". To me it's incomplete knowledge; it needs to be improved upon so that it makes more sense for people who need to know it. In doing so it will also become easier to learn.

I think quaternions are confusing, GA bivector notations are less confusing but still confusing, and the operator version which I endorse is the least confusing of the three. This is just an aesthetic judgment on my part. IMO if things were taught in the way I prefer, more people could learn them, faster, and come away with a more solid understanding afterwards for less work. (You and I agree that GA's version is better than quaternions for the same reason. I just think that there are better versions still.)

If you want to tell someone that exponentiating an area gives a rotation, you need to basically deal with the fact that that sentence sounds like nonsense. An area's an area, why would exponentiating it... do... anything? My preferred explanation of all this stuff avoids that saying things that sound like nonsense.

(I prefer to think of a bivector not as an oriented area per se but as a type of tensor which happens to represent those things, but also represents other things, including the logarithms of rotations, due to the properties that those two things happen to share. That's a perspective that generalizes very well, compared to the GA version, because it separates the tensor representation from the operators; the two sides end up generalizing in different directions as you go to more complicated objects. When I get around to writing to my own exposition on this I'll go through that perspective very methodically.)
I think he's trying to generate engagement on X through controversy.
The recent change to search, which now shows posts from people you've blocked (with no options to turn it off) suggests this too.

The problem with this strategy is that you have to keep escalating otherwise it gets boring fast, and it attracts people no one wants to advertise to. My feed is full of racebaiters and anti-woke culture crap despite telling the algorithm I’m not interesting. I’m not sure there's much else left.
Show HN: GPT-Reasoning Made Translator
It offers a "DeepTranslate" functionality in which the model reasons before making the translation. It results in much better results, as it takes context and idiomatic expressions into account.

In the future, tone (formal, informal, and custom), as well as infinite context and file translations, will be supported.

Note that even if the model reasons, it does not use a reasoning model, like o1 or o3-mini! It's a manual reasoning process performed with gpt-4o-mini, which has been shown to be the best translator besides Gemini 2.0 Flash.
not my best comment, but I can't delete it now.
FWIW, at least one other comment seems to correlate job complexity with job security: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197623
I would accept that medium can be well defined. We can say an oil painting is not a macaroni sculpture with a high degree of certainty. Within the medium though, no I don't think you can make such defining lines in genre, in categories of artistic composition.

I would say "evokes feeling" is absolutely a characteristic of a poem. Slam poetry is often characterized by the performance, the visceral experience, more than anything about rhythm, rhyming, or meter.

Epics [1] are one of the oldest forms of poetry. A 70000 word narrative can not only be a poem, such works are some of the oldest artistic expressions in human history.

> Because to you deign it to be what?

A poem. And my friends understand what I mean when I say that. That you don't understand is hardly my concern, like I said I find this amusing, convincing you is not a goal of mine. The purpose of such categories, their only value, is to be understood by the communities which use them. Whether David Bowie's 1980 album Scary Monsters is art rock or post-punk has no real bearing on the album itself, no value beyond being understood by those discussing it.

We can take this one step further, and say that the community of milesrouts rejects such labels and has a different understanding of these words, a different set of values they choose to express, and this too is a valuable thing to recognize.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_poetry
It's absolutely able to replace the majority of customer service volume which is full of mundane questions.
I'm hopeful that someday we'll have a good system for "caging" cells to prevent an immune response (in either direction) while also permitting the visitors to sustain themselves with blood nutrients and regulate hormones or clean waste.

Sort of like the role of the blood-brain barrier, or maybe a placenta.
The constituent pork is worthless now, it's all about Musk pork now.
Will this be questioned by the FAFO offices?
They've been caught in the past getting benchmark data under the table, if they got caught once they're probably doing it even more
This was a fun book. One story I remember from this book was that working a telegraph was a full time job. And there was a decent amount of downtime, so they had sort of their own subculture, chatting, playing chess over the wire, etc.
thats preferred stock baby. Startups still a scam to work for.
I remember when I prepared for system design interviews in FAANG, I was anxious I would get asked about Paxos (which I learned at school). Now that I'm working there, never heard about Paxos or fancy distributed algorithms. We rely on various high-level services for deployment, partitioning, monitoring, logging, service discovery, storage...

And Paxos doesn't require much maths. It's pretty tricky to consider all possible interleavings, but in term of maths, it's really basic discrete maths.
The problem is that when someone gets to that level of wealth there's really nobody left to say "no". Likely nobody in his circle has the guts to tell him what he needs to hear. This in addition to the alleged drug issues and his excessive time on X (which is also kind of a drug) is how we got here.
> My feed is full of racebaiters and anti-woke culture crap despite telling the algorithm I’m not interesting. I’m not sure there's much else left.

Why even keep using the platform?
Perhaps you've seen this, or maybe not. It's worth mentioning that you're not the only one to make that connection -- Jaron Lanier called it "Twitter Poisoning":

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/opinion/trump-musk-kanye-...
I find it doubtful he’ll send Mexican gangsters after Musk, but I admit it would be an extremely amusing development.
I've never subscribed to a Substack and I get these too. I imagine its just bots putting my many-times-over pwned email address in to boost stats or something, or whatever it is Substack needs my fucking email address for.
This is what you're looking for right?

https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection/...
Alarm? What about self-healing. That would be neato.
Hello? Do you have a pulse? LLMs accomplish like 90% of everything I do now so I don’t have to do it…

Explain what this code syntax means…

Explain what this function does…

Write a function to do X…

Respond to my teammates in a Jira ticket explaining why it’s a bad idea to create a repo for every dockerfile…

My teammate responded with X write a rebuttal…

… and the list goes on … like forever
There is no equivalent notion of rotor in EA. I would say its most important use is that you need it to define differential form in which we can define exterior derivative and integeration in arbitrary differentiable manifolds. It also enables to define determinant elegantly.
Nobody comes to HN to read what ChatGPT thinks about something in the comments
The expectation around the Riva 128 was intense. 16bit color, integrated 2d/3d, and a reasonable price were going to doom 3dfx. It was a little underwhelming, and wasn't until the TNT, TNT2, and Geforce 256 that it really became obvious that these guys were on a path to rule the market.

It really would be cool if someone could get a sitdown with Jensen to reminisce about the Riva 128 period.

Who else bought NVDA back in '99?
Probly doesn't have built-in test assertion functionality yet, but since it runs Python (via Pyodide) directly in the browser, you can write test functions with assertions in your Python code. The execute_python_code tool in our system can run any valid Python code, including test functions.

This is something we're considering for future development, so this is a great shout!
ooof, I assumed this was the same company.
I used to run it on a 4 core Celeron NUC with a measly 8 gig of ram and 1 TB SSD via the community fpm container: https://github.com/nextcloud/docker I now run it on a much more powerful system but performance wise it's the same.

Side containers
DB: I use postgres
Redis: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly as the redis container
Image processing: imaginary container maintained by the Nextcloud team

Most of this is available in the AIO setup but I prefer manually tuning things for my system

As it's a __big__ SAS product to run it well on lower end systems you MUST:

- Tune your PHP settings to your system.

- Tune your DB settings

- Set up caching properly

- Offload as much processing as possible to background processes (e.g. preview generation)

Probably tune your Proxy settings as well.

Big changes I've made:

- Switch logging to error only and syslog (not the normal file on disk) as it can hammer single disk systems.

- Switch to unix sockets for redis and the database for quite a performance boost.
> UC Berkeley, Google DeepMind, Stanford University

I've personally experienced how research around this time was being shut down because of AI doomerism. People were getting laid off because of it. It's clear to me that these institutions actively spread AI doomerism so that they have full control over it. They actively called for a stop in AI research so that their personal labs can leap forward ahead. It was a little too on the nose for Big Tech, but they don't understand nuance.
We need an open and independent alternative to Firefox Sync.
My politics are wingnut (left libertarian, and I don't expect any respect for that) but they offer me at least a different place from which to observe US politics.

From where I sit, where almost everyone wants someone "better informed" to "represent their interests". Which is to say, almost everyone in the US has a lot of faith in other folks making decisions for them.

If you don't feel that way, it doesn't seem like a big leap from a representational system (where we have little power over the specific policies, and often have no power over who other folks select to represent us) to a system where a single autocrat (soviet or king) makes those decisions.

Since I functionally have no input in any of those three systems, it's hard to see broad-strokes differences.

And, given that most of the folks who are now working under the neoliberal order were previously, only a couple of hundred years ago, working under absolute God-powered monarchs, it'd be not very surprising if they somehow returned to that position.

I understand that there are deep contradictions in my own views (which probably seem dumb when people can't see the contradictions in their own positions), but still, I am very much in agreement with the statement that a lot of folks I know want some authority to take care of them even if it doesn't seem super "weird" to me.
That is how it works. It happened to me. I found my vouches no longer worked and was told my vouching privileges were revoked because I vouched for "controversial" comments too often.
I found the headline confusing. It would have been helpful to include the type of cancer in it. Or if it's a pan-cancer treatment, to say so explicitly.
It's like mush lives in a glass house and just hangs out online all day chunking rocks. I don't know Carlos Slim so maybe this is or maybe it isn't the pot calling the kettle black. Unless someone has evidence that can paint Carlos Slim with the same brush as the one mush uses on himself then I tend to believe that Slim's friends are a lot less shady than mush's.
Excluding the realtime-iness, humans do at least possess the capacity to do so.

Besides, humans are capable of rigorous logic (which I believe is the most crucial aspect of intelligence) which I don’t think an agent without a proof system can do.
> Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?
4.5 lies on a different path than their STEM models.

o3-mini is an extremely powerful coding model and unquestionably is in the same league as 3.7. o3 is still the top stem overall model.
> My feed is full of racebaiters and anti-woke culture crap despite telling the algorithm I’m not interesting. I’m not sure there's much else left.

I'm sincerely curious, why do you still have a twitter account?
Granola was never healthy even in moderation. It's just pure sugar.
Type 1 diabetic here: you're right, it's a bad tradeoff. We already can do pancreas transplants for T1D, but the reason it's very uncommon is that immunosuppressants are a very bad tradeoff. Insulin treatment is preferred in the vast majority of cases.

Stuff like this will never be a breakthrough until it doesn't need immunosuppressants. The best advancements in diabetes treatment will most likely continue to be on closed loop artificial pancreas systems.
Building Query Compilers [pdf]
Curious about what this is about. I don't pay very close attention to the news cycle.
The problem is sometimes people can't help but share their ish with you. Getting a text at random hours saying that you're a dumbfuck, for thinking X, from someone you still love, because if only they share this one post with you, you'll finally be convinced, and join their side, gets tiresome.
no alternatives? there's tons of different browsers
And for every Warren Buffet, there are a number of equally competent people who have been less lucky and gone broke taking risks.
IDK why but it ironically brings me joy to find typos in old code. Maybe a reminder that we're all human (well back when code was written by humans /s).

https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection/...
Do you think anyone does serious business in Mexico and doesn't run into the cartels?
Yep. The hard, if not kear impossible part will be just resetting the one part of the immune system attacking the islets without turning off or resetting the immune system.
It just feels natural to me. The person knows the language but they are not trying to sound smart by using words that might have more impact "based on the words dictionary definition"

GPT 4.5 does feel like it is a step forward in producing natural language, and if they use it to provide reinforcement learning, this might have significant impact in the future smaller models.
I read the timelines of people who only use twitter. Local journalists and people who talk about about specific issues.
Dupe (662 points, 4 hours ago, 159 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197131
I'm well aware and have contributed to OpenTofu project in a small manner. I hope you'll forgive me slightly misspeaking - any version of terraform before that license change is OSS. It is, however, perfectly free to use and most companies I've worked with are hard-pinned on a particular version of terraform and rarely on the bleeding edge.
Yes, wealth is constantly being created, however let's look at the facts

- Market prices: ~15% annualized increase over the last two years

- House prices: 5-7% annualized increase

- Gold: 10-12% annualized increase

- Compared to GDP growth of only 2.1-2.7% annualized

If GDP growth is only 2.7% while the wealth of the top who own assets is up 15% annualized, where is the 12.3% coming from? It's coming the bottom.

We live in an economy that has wealth redistribution. It's being distributed from the majority to a small minority.

In other words, yes the pie is growing, but the slice of a the top 10% of the pie is growing much faster.
Envisioning the Future of iOS Design
> If your AWS is small there is no real motive to look for alternatives. Just stick with the brand you know.

Lots of reasons. Maybe you want a vastly simpler interface and feature set. Maybe AWS doesn't offer servers in your country, and you've got sensitive data. Maybe the US is threatening your country with economic warfare, and you want to move away from US services.
Everybody knows that we're all saying it! That's what I hear from people who should know. And they are so excited about the possibilities!
I think trying to shoehorn everything into sequential, imperative code is a mistake. The burden of performance should be on the programmer's cognitive load, aided where possible by the computer. Hardware should indeed be simple, but not molded to current assumptions. It's indeed true that concurrency of various fashions and the attempts at standardizing it are taxing on programmers. However, I posit this is largely essential complexity and we should accept that big problems deserve focus and commitment. People malign frameworks and standards (obligatory https://xckd.com/927), but the answer is not shying away from them but rather leveraging them while being flexible.
Some people postulate his mental decline might be drug related.
Everything has tradeoffs, but there's value in reducing both line and character counts as well.

For example, nobody ever uses anything other than ijk for loop indices unless the index is particularly meaningful or they've written a deeply nested abomination. Why? It's not just laziness in typing; it gives more relative room for characters that matter. Longer names and patterns are acceptable if you can't make your point clearly enough with few characters, but length isn't the goal; communication is.

It's important to limit lines of code too (and their widths) because if an idea doesn't fit comfortably on your screen then you won't be able to leverage the pattern-recognition parts of your brain to figure out what's going on.

From a different perspective, you know that feeling you get when somebody dumps a 1000-line PR on you (or an excessively long HN comment...)? It's hard to digest because you can't grok the whole thing at once and have to switch to carefully analyzing each component just to even have the context to then give the thing a proper review. If that same PR could be wired together with a few high-level concepts (less code, but more involved baseline knowledge required to understand it), it would be instantly understandable to somebody with the same background.
I write a lot, including a couple of novels, and I realised as I found out about aphantasia that it explains a lot about what I read and write, and what I like. E.g. I skim or even entirely skip sections that focus on how something looks, unless it is beautifully written. I care about the language and the ideas much more than about any visual description, because I don't get much value from the visual description. I could, if I wanted to, sketch out a picture of things I've read a description of. E.g. I remember drawing some scenes from Lord of the Rings when I read it for the first time as a child, but I don't get the visual part of the satisfaction of those descriptions until I've drawn them.

But with some works - like Tolkien's, I will still enjoy the descriptions because the language itself is beautiful.

Just to make this weirder: I remember many things by appearance. E.g. I can find my place in a paper I've read years ago by what the page looks like. But I can't see it.

I do however see things when I'm dreaming, and I have one solitary experience I think of seeing things awake, during meditation. I say "I think", because there is the possibility that I fell asleep even though I don't believe I did, and the imagery was far clearer than during my dreams.

But I also can't recall images from my dreams while awake, and usually don't remember dreams at all past the first 30 seconds or so awake.
Brian May: "Nobody will be able to afford to make music" under UK AI copyright
Musk apologist are rampant on HN.
Thanks for a well-written and clear explanation!
That's the original C&C Red Alert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Red_Alert

But there was a sequel, C&C Red Alert 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Red_Alert...

Both were incredible at the time.
It's crazy to me how acceptable (or just prevalent) it's become to openly wish for murder online, even on this site.
Looks like Elon's tweet may have been retaliatory, in response to Slim's decision not to continue business with Starlink (but build out more land-based networks), rather than prompting Slim's decision (though it no doubt solidified it).

See https://expansion.mx/tecnologia/2025/02/26/america-movil-cor... (Spanish)
He’s doing all that despite his mental health issues. Not because of it. He’s just an embarrassment that needs to sort his shit out. Actually use his wealth to do something useful instead of hoarding more wealth and having more kids.
There seems to have been a clear decline. It's doubtful that he would have gotten to his current level of wealth if he was mentally in the space he's in now back 10 or 15 years ago.
I assume they are referring to this partnership:

https://www.t-mobile.com/news/network/t-mobile-starlink-beta...

"T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) introduced the next big thing in wireless — T-Mobile Starlink — to tens of millions of football fans. Now in public beta, this breakthrough service, developed in partnership with Starlink [...]"
man its so easy nowadays to duck out of any actual democratic institutions like debate, negotiations and compromises. You can run a "democratic "nations manufacturing sector and middle class aground and do nothing for a generation , and its all "foreign powers" and totalitarians. The house was hollow long before, the walls load bearing left and right, a constitution thin veneer smeared on rot.
> Anthropic appears to be making a bet that a single paradigm (reasoning) can create a model which is excellent for all use cases.

I don't think that is their primary motivation. The announcement post for Claude 3.7 was all about code which doesn't seem to imply "all use cases". Code this, new code tool that, telling customers that they look forward to what they build, etc. Very little mention of other use cases on the new model announcement at all. Their usage stats they published are telling - 80%+ or more of queries to Claude are all about code. i.e. I actually think while they are thinking of other use cases; they see the use case of code specifically as the major thing to optimize for.

OpenAI, given its different customer base and reach, is probably aiming for something more general.

IMO they all think that you need an "ensemble" of models with different capabilities to optimise for different use cases. Its more about how much compute resources each company has and what they target with those resources. Anthrophic I'm assuming has less compute resources and a narrower customer base so it economically may make sense to optimise just for that.
You're also badly misinformed and trying to gaslight me if you think Section 230 has nothing to do with freedom of speech and content moderation. The article you're recommending is from 2020, before the Supreme Court heard the case in 2023. This means you're actively spreading misinformation or just too incompetent.

Here's a more recent source instead of the Big Tech propaganda you're trying to push, https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/section-230-is-this-th...