skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term I’ve seen used the most is “basal cognition”. It’s used to describe agentic problem solving behavior seen at lower scales and in different problem spaces where we normally have trouble imagining intelligence. Michael Levin’s paper, “Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds”[0] is a good, readable explanation of the concept. He does a ton of YouTube talks explaining it as well.[1] Very watchable, and pretty mind-blowing. It’s not wishy washy animism. He and his lab are doing rigorous experiments and finding some very unusual things.

[0] https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/systems-neuroscience/ar...

[1] https://youtu.be/StqX-LH0IN8?si=NhwMdWxBLZrghUom
It's wild that there was a feeling when that computer came out of "this is the coolest computer design ever," and then the world moved past that.

You can look at the iMac line and see that they moved to a more laptopy everything-in-the-screen design, which got rid of the base altogether. But it's weird and sad that there was a "best" and then things that came after the best that were less fun, and two decades later we all still seem to feel that way.

I suppose part of that was all the attention that shifted to touchscreen phones, and computers becoming thought of as practical work tools.
That's also how the Doom demos worked right? :D
That was bad. This is also bad.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, opinion columns aren't exclusively written by employees, though. Sometimes they have guests.

I'm also a little skeptical of the NY Post and Daily Mail as sources, considering both are tabloids... do you have any others on hand?
The answer is not giving the government even more power to decide whether what is published is “fair”.
>Google was created with the help of NSF and MDDS/CIA grants etc.

Nerds to Oligarchs.

Things are so dire than Yann LeCun wrote a post on LinkedIN regarding grants cuts.

Chinese scientists who have lived in USA for 40+ years migrated to China to lead researchers just because The Administration decided to pick on minorities.
I like this idea in principle, but I think this approach won't be workable for a lot of people who use open source software.

From the FAQ: "If you find yourself returning to check on issues, or review answers to questions others ask, or download updates to the source code, you are still using the project and need to pay the Maintenance Fee."

If I can't pull updates to the open source code then it's not open source.
Don't look at what he says but rather what he does - that is, at how he says it, because that is how the Washington Post will say things going forward:

* He uses the current popular propaganda of the right-wing business elite - especially in Silicon Valley - claiming his positions "proud" and patriotic and implying inescapably that people who disagree are anti-American.

* He also uses the current businessspeak: When a top editor quits, Bezos projects uncaring disregard for any negative implication and instead he aggressively claims it was his idea and he wants it to happen, a way of making himself look invulnerable to criticism, powerful beyond restraint. (That trick should look familiar to everyone by now.)

* His claim that the news media needs a voice supporting these positions is obviously false, as they are probably the most widely supported positions supported by the most powerful people. But he brazenly makes the claim anyway with no care for its truth, only its power.

* Absent is any serious examination of the merits. The whole thing is all BS and propaganda.

And that's what we may expect to see from the Washington Post going forward: BS and propaganda. It's an aggressive embrace of those things, and a disregard for serious thought, fact, or merits. His message isn't about free markets or patriotism, but that Bezos and the Washington Post have made this their mode of communication, that he can brazenly lie and mislead and nobody can stop him - like so many others. (It also suggests that Bezos blows with the prevailing cultural winds.)
Having experience in this area, audit, legal, confidence intervals are essential. No, you don't end up "passing every single document" to human review. That's made up nonsense. But confidence intervals can pretty easily flag poorly OCR'd documents, and then yes they are done by human review.

If you try to pitch hallucinations to these fields, they'll just choose 100% manual instead. It's a non-starter.
> But geothermal cooling would be great on the moon too. Run a pipe 2 meters under the lunar surface and it is -21C.

Isn't the moon geologically dead though - no water or geological movements?

I worry this would just result in the ground absorbing the waste heat and eventually becoming too warm to effectively cool anything. Especially because the ground itself would eventually still be limited by the rate of radiative cooling into space, right?
The amount of genius talent that is being wasted making addictive products for Meta is borderline criminal.

Congrats on shipping a huge hit
I hope the TypeScript team at Microsoft sees this and goes: "What have we done! We have created a monster... we need to tame and simplify this beast. Or at the very least stop adding more features."
My view is let the sleeping dog be. I see no compelling argument to change it other than spite.

While never personally bothered by then legacy terms, I can accept that they cause unease for some. On the other hand, I find resisting change or advocating to undo this change in the name of preserving history to be simply spiteful.

Our entire domain is defined by constant change and you swim needlessly against the current to lament that we do not go back to some prior state.
freelance rates have way more to do with the economy than with merit/skill. You want to be early to a major platform shift (mine was Reactjs) but not too early - your offering needs to be both unique and in high demand. And then the big money gets made when this hype wave aligns with an economic boom such as 2018-2023 where companies everywhere are flush with cash, trying to pull projects forward, bidding up rates without looking too closely. Which is not exactly the case right now. Right now, you have to earn it. The first Solana cycle was another example where early freelance rates were out of control. Cloud cost optimization was another good niche (if you’re reducing spend by millions per year it’s easy to charge a good chunk of that). “Data engineering” before that. “devrel” in the startup scene during covid when everyone was stuck at home.

the other thing is - big tech pays better than that historically, has that changed? economy is bad everywhere, i’d be surprised if freelancing was the better gig
Psychopathy + Capitalism = Destruction
https://orbitbymozilla.com/
Really depends on the deal, but porting, marketing, localization and cash advances are common ones (Porting for the switch for example is known to be a big one, even for experienced solo/indie devs)
A halfway tool that would let you take the text and auto-typeset it in would probably be a big thing. All you would need is the equivalent of a subtitles file at that point. The tool will identify regions to change and how to change them, the original text and the machine translation text. Then, all you would need is somebody who can do translations properly afterward to give a better translation, and with less friction, it will happen a lot more. And you could have a user rating of which translation is better.

I could also imagine a tool that would take a page and describe per panel. Then, the translation files with LLMs could have a better idea of the context and probably make a better translation versus a speech bubble by speech bubble type translation since they would only interact with the intermediate 'subtitles' file. It would also be a good accessibility thing for blind people to read a comic.
society create the überman myth to keep the working class down, thinking they will never be the top of their game. the ones doing the hiring know that those putting in 18hrs a day are the unicorns, i.e. the best they can hope to find.
Democracy is at least partially a social "technology" for avoiding civil wars. You have to let the "wrong" people win elections occasionally. If they ever become convinced that winning elections is impossible then they'll fall back to violence to get their way.

This is a general observation about human societies, not a dig at any specific US political faction.
Can someone buy up every single server so that no one can publish anything on the web?
About $0.60 currently in the USA, which is quadruple what they were at this time last year. Supposedly this is mostly because many egg suppliers had to cull their flocks due to the current H5N1 bird flu. But there is also concern that egg prices have been rising in general in the long term due to industry consolidation and monopolization.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/business/egg-prices-bird-...
Put a pair of fake boobs in front of Bezos and he’ll do anything
>Ads? Too obvious.

Have you dealt with people paying for ads? They want your rapt attention, not some possibly subliminal suggestion. The "good" thing about chat AIs is that they can, with a little work, make it nearly impossible to block. You want to use it for free, you get ads.
This seems true to get the most out of an LLM, but you could also say Google has this problem too.

Seems like not a huge stretch to apply how you use Google to LLMs and get good milage.
It is hard to understand what you mean by type signature, but I think what you mean is something like the type signature in Java, Go or C.

That isn't what people are talking about when they talk about formal verification with a type system. They are talking about much more complex type systems that have equivalent power and expressivity to formal logic.

This intro is good at introducing the topic. Unfortunately, the correspondence between advanced type systems and logic is itself fairly abstract and uses lots of concepts in non-intuitive ways. This means that you can easily wind up in a situation where you can do lots of proofs about number theory using a tool like Lean4, but you don't really see the corresponding types (this is what happened to me).

https://leanprover-community.github.io/learn.html
Saw your benchmark, looks great. Will run our models against those benchmark and share some of our learnings.

As you mentioned there are a few caveats to VLMs that folks are typically unaware of (not at all exhaustive, but the ones you highlighted):

1. Long-form text (dense): Token limits of 4/8K mean that dense pages may go over limits of the LLM outputs. This requires some careful work to make them work as seamlessly as OCR.

2. Visual grounding a.k.a. bounding boxes are definitely one of those things that VLMs aren't natively good at (partly because the cross-entropy losses used aren't really geared for bounding box regression). We're definitely making some strides here [1] to improve that so you're going to get an experience that is almost as good as native bounding box regression (all within the same VLM). [1]

[1] https://colab.research.google.com/github/vlm-run/vlmrun-cook...
This kind of attitude is quite literally an exemplar of the kind of thinking that can either lead to the right conclusions or to racism. Either you think these behaviors are the consequence of a complicated asymmetrical, dynamical system or the consequence of inherent bodily qualities (race).

The world is complicated. Consider that the following possibilities are all more likely explanations for the behavior you think you are seeing:

1. You have a limited perspective and your sample size is insanely small compared to global scale behavioral phenomena. Perhaps you are simply not attending diverse meetings.
2. Historical priors are a significant causal factor in behavior. If you are born on a farm, you are much more likely to have milked a cow than if you are born in a city. If you are not born into a scenario into which attendance in certain circles is not already established practice, the likelihood that you will attend those circles is lower.
3. In relation to (2) your historical-social conditions also determine the information to which you have access. Information is not equally, symmetrically distributed. Your access to information (such as information about local events) will determine your ability to act.

What you are seeing are the effects of years of historical domination and subjugation. When your ancestors were literal slaves and explicitly excluded from information and opportunities, across generations you are fighting a losing battle. Couple this with the fact that, if you do find your way into one of these circles, hardly anyone else looks like you, and there is some degree of likelihood you'll meet a person who harbors a slew of unjustified assumptions about who your are and how you'll behave, simply because of a property of your body, which is totally irrelevant. Women face the same exact challenges when it comes to sexism.

All it takes to correct your perspective is to think for two seconds about the scope of the information you have and the scope of the conclusions you are drawing, it makes no sense.
Ironic you bring that up, because there was a time in America where the Supreme Court had ruled that children could be forced to recite it.
There are plenty of people who defend free markets...but both political parties are increasingly against them.

Biden and Harris both campaigned on price controls. Trump is all in on tariffs.
I'm so glad that he promised that his ownership would never affect the editorial decisions...
I’m close to one of these types and I get taken advantage of a lot and desperately wish I could turn it off. It presents in weird ways that are hard to navigate politically - often I will end up on a team and be outputting a large majority of the work, people/egos get hurt or threatened, still inevitably make the same anyway. It's never really led to any kind of career or financial success I'd have thought it would have years ago.
How much impact to you think internet influencers had on your sales? I recall seeing it being played there first.
Mao offered Kissinger 10M Chinese women (2008)
https://archive.is/Ph1Bi
Thanks for your kind words!

Sure, you can DM me on X (on my profile), or use the contact widget/email address from the landing page. I am always happy to discuss and answer any questions!
No, that is not what you wrote. You wrote “document ranking reduces to these hard problems", which means that document ranking can be solved with an algorithm for one of those hard problems. The article discusses the opposite: those hard problems can be solved by using algorithms for document ranking (which is itself a non-trivial problem)
I really like the work Kenny Vaden has done (mostly written in R of all things). His website is https://vadenart.com/ and instagram https://www.instagram.com/kenny.vaden

He also posts on the r/generative reddit and is really responsive to questions/feedback.
Thank you for putting it this way.

I watched people scam VCs with drone tech, and Theranos, and other things.

Can people please do any amount of critical thinking around this sort of stuff? It steals funding from serious efforts and pollutes the pool.

What is special in this approach compared to literal decades in the field?

What is special about these young dudes compared to better-funded ventures that haven't pulled it off yet and who have been working on it longer?

What is the difference between "yeah we can do design work look at all this stuff (that's the easy 60-80% of the problem space)" versus "we can actually solve the remaining work that's got everybody so screwed up"?

This feels like a scam y'all, knowingly or not.
Revenue loss for all though. No customer wants this crap.
I like the idea, I think they would need to be staggered though, Author A writes an article giving their best case supporting X, a week later Author B writes a rebuttal to author A (let's assume it's well thought out and civil because we can still dream) in a follow up article, this continues for as long as it's an interesting conversation. Probably a hard sell to the modern audience and attention span, but I would read it as long as they both were substantive and well-reasoned.
> Embrace the jank

Love this! I wish you would be been involved with the release team for Helldivers II.
Heh, thanks for that oddly-specific example that is an exact device that I worked on a few years back :)
Yeah absolutely. I worked at a startup awhile ago with a really incredible designer. She insisted that everyone in the company sit in on one or two user interview sessions she had organised with our potential users. It was an incredibly eye-opening experience, and I can't recommend it highly enough.

I highly recommended doing the same if you can swing it. Its equal parts insightful and motivating. And the clients generally love it - since it shows your team really cares about their problems and use case.
How does it deal with wordplay and double entendre? As I understand, a lot of Japanese comedy is based on that.
> Unless I'm misunderstanding, opinion columns aren't exclusively written by employees, though. Sometimes they have guests

It's important not to mix up "writing" and "publishing"

Something might be written by a guest writer but it is absolutely published by the employees of the magazine

I am sure that Bezos doesn't really care what anyone writes as long as the things he doesn't want published don't get published.
Reminds me of that section of Life of Pi.
> This giant shift in strategy will surely decrease the paper's market size and reputation for breaking news (as it did with Watergate and Snowden).

Bezos's decision doesn't impact the news side, which reports on breaking news. The paper's editor in chief made a public statement backing that notion.
I'm kinda split between it and the original G3 range (slot loading preferably, but in the original bright transparent colours before it got weird with stuff like "blue Dalmatian"). The anglepoise Mac is kinda near beginning of the rather sterile Apple aesthetic that has never gone away, but it's also incredibly neat in a packaging sense that a CRT could never be. I kinda want a combination, but I'm not sure if you could get away with the colour bits on an all-in-one without the large area needed for the CRT neck...

The Blue and White PowerMac G3 is my ultimate best looking Mac, there's something about the giant G3 on the sides, and the bold colours for what is a "professional" system. Sadly it all got toned down for the G4...
> MSNBC as left leaning

Are they not in favor of Democrats? How is that left leaning?
Hi guys.

I don't claim to understand any of the physics and engineering challenges of fusion, but from all the general-interest material published, and the long history of fusion research, it seems that the capital cost of a fusion propulsion system is going to be far in excess of a conventional marine engine. I guess the hope is that the very cheap fuel might reduce the operational expenses such that it can compete economically.

However, if you've got a fusion power plant that a) has essentially free and practically-massless fuel, and b) the relationship between rated power output and capital cost is less than linear (again, not an expert on the physics but true of pretty much all such systems), I wonder whether the way to make a fusion ship economically competitive against conventional shipping is to max out the power and build a ship capable of much faster speeds than conventional ships.

I mean, we used to operate passenger liners back in the 1950s that averaged about 35 knots across the Atlantic, so presumably we could do considerably better than that.
PowerPC Windows NT Made to Run on GameCube and Wii
aside from all the practical arguments listed out in other comments, i simply don't support corporations building in space. space should only be multi-national projects, similar to the way the ISS is managed
You have to worry about changing the ground temperature even on earth FYI. When designing district heating/cooling systems with borehole fields, one of the things that you check for is to make sure that you don’t inject too much heat (or extract too much) seasonally - ideally it’s roughly balanced so any drift year over year is small.

Obviously things like the diffusivity (so conductivity, mass, density etc) of the ground matter a lot, as does the rate of heat exchange at the surface for it to reject (or absorb) heat to the environment.
As someone who actually values freedom consistently and not depending on the whims of money. This 180 from the tech main characters that just yesterday would've been pushing the most aggressive of censorships is so laughable.

I hope people who disagree with these people remember that corporations and politicians are not their friends, instead of simply asking for them to wage wars against the opposing political team.
> I suggested to him that if the answer wasn’t ‘hell yes,’ then it had to be ‘no.’

This is a concerning statement. It's the kind which is made by those who believe they are being generous and fair while they aren't. This is how people surround themselves with "yes men". I fear that is connected to the predicament we are in, and this infection exists in many corporations. It's hard to fight. We want validation while many "yes men" are just trying to survive (but some are manipulative). But this always results in the death of a business. Too big to fail just means a slow death because the environment discourages competition. Ironically the environment Bezos is creating while claiming to be encouraging. It might even be sincere. As adults we still feel young, is this also true for businesses?
Case in point.

I'm not actually taking a stand for or against, just emphasizing that the right didn't make this stuff up. It sounds like you agree with me on that—this is a very real subject that people really do feel is important.
‪The problem with making an app by yourself at night while watching a show is that you forget to test all the things. Case in point: view buttons on mobile. But the game works (I think)!‬
For programming, the tooling and ui is progressing. Like reasoning models and tooling around them that makes sure to write unit tests, compile the code and try the tests. If wrong, redo the code again. This causes other ui problems yet to solve like longer iterations between user feedback but the ui problems are not for the lack of progression.
They lost most of those readers due to an alarming shift rightward in tone and coverage. Not Fox News right but certainly further right than they have historically been.

Seems an odd choice to combat that loss by apparently shifting further right. You are never going to get large numbers of Fox News consumers to read WaPo. They have been told for decades how far left the Post is and that it can't be trusted.

Bezos needs a hobby I guess.
I recall Minecraft was initially written in Java back in the day, however, I see this decompilation is in C++. I see several files with class names like "BufferedOutputStream" and several others with Java stdlib names. Did MS do a rewrite in C++ but then convert some of the used Java stdlib classes 1:1 into C++?
I don't think it's actually playing audio or loading files. The required game data (.WAD) was presumably pre-transformed into the encoding that the virtual machine uses for data and passed to the program as type-level "input".

Edit: Playing music isn't really relevant here anyway given that it took 17 days to load the level and display the first frame, and that's as far as the author took it. He says that subsequent frames would likely have "only" taken an hour or so each - giving about 0.0003 fps.
> I just wish the news content was back to what it once was.

Back to when? 1970s?
Mozilla received a $1M grant from US Federal Government [video]