skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It turns into write the messages/prompts to get the answer you wish you’d received and put it somewhere where it can be used to train the AIs and in the meantime searched by humans
It's interesting, but not the kind of thing I'd expect to disrupt much. Looking into the details a little more, this place has a long ways to go before it lives up to those claims. Far from doing away with administrative bureaucracies, the academic catalog currently lists roughly as many administrators as faculty.

In boasting it won't have "club-med amenities" you might expect it to be cheaper than typical schools, but the tuition is $30k, and the total cost to attend is almost $60k! You can go to state college for less than that and they have an order magnitude more classes to take. Not to mention climbing walls.
There's a pond surrounded by fallen leaves. Somewhere in the leaves is a key. The key opens a shed, the shed contains an enchanted garden hoe that apparently hits like a truck. I never did find that key.
The Kubernetes Mirage: When Scaling Up Becomes Your Greatest Downfall
(replying to myself after some further research...)

Issues for me with Google Authenticator:

1. The cloud backups are not encrypted: https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity_help/comments/1fysqij...

2. There's a strong possibility that if my laptop gets compromised my Google account will be compromised simultaneously.

3. I try (often in vain) to limit my Google exposure because if I lose access to my Google account, it will be hard to get it back due of Google's limited support offerings.
Your argument already breaks down when you ask me personally. The argument is “how much are we willing as a society to keep people we incarcerate safe?” The answer should be “as much as it costs” instead of “that is not my problem.” It is our problem if the incarcerated are not safe when incarcerated, because we are incarcerating them.

I pay >$100k/year in federal income tax alone, I am not allergic to paying taxes to buy civilization. I’ll pay more, and I would expect others at my economic strata to do the same. My problem is with the people who argue to lock up “dangerous criminals” and don’t want to pay the true costs. Their danger doesn’t cause them to not be entitled to safety vs violence in imposed captivity.
I'm not sure if emergence is the correct cause but they can form relationships between data that aren't stated in the training set.
Seems like a fair play given the history...
I don't know if you've been watching politics for the last 4 months...
Just because someone needs a job doesn’t mean I need to blow up my well meshed team consisting of sane, non-assholes with some twat whose head is 100x the size it should be. They can work for oracle or something.

We tried meta folks before. Every other sentence was “at Meta…” what works at Meta does not work everywhere else.

Plenty of other places for them to work. I am not responsible for their well-being.
This is what I do in my introductory data structures and algorithms course at a Bay Area community college: I teach binary search as part of my introduction to recursion, and then the following lectures are a series of lessons on sorting algorithms, beginning with selection sort and then insertion sort. After teaching these O(n^2) algorithms, I spend a lecture on merge sort and then have a lecture on quicksort, both for covering O(n lg n) sorts and for introducing my students to divide-and-conquer recursive algorithms.
Job hoppers.

Cisco management - truly horrible people.

We see a lot of applicants from Red Hat who “drank the kool aid” there for way too long.
Sierra AI's docs are restricted
First Fast Radio Burst Traced to Old, Dead, Elliptical Galaxy
In many countries, the secrecy of your mail is protected by law (secrecy of correspondence)

There is -as yet- no laws as strong for 'telephones'. But people communicate a lot more by mobile phone than by snail mail these days!

I think people should be free to do or discuss whatever they want via their phones, just like is permitted for paper mail. Phones should should get very stringent legal protections, including at borders, just like for paper mail.
I honestly like the Paradox model, game mechanics breaking until patches aside.

Give a chunk of new base functionality as a free update.

Charge for a more expanded form of that functionality as a DLC.

We can quibble over whether this DLC or that DLC was worth the price, and there are certainly balance issues that are patch resolved, but it keeps expanding their games for years with pretty serious new stuff.

That's more than you can say for other publishers' post-release behavior.

EU4: 11 years
HOI4: 8 years
Stellaris: 8 years

How many games that old are still getting major feature patches/DLC?
Ref: WM Keck foundation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Myron_Keck
OpenAI Researchers Find That AI Is Unable to Solve Most Coding Problems
Airas Agent – Autonomous Web Navigation with AI Vision
Hey everyone,

I'm excited to introduce AIRAS Agent – an open‑source project that lets you see how AI can autonomously navigate the web.

AIRAS Agent is a web automation system that uses AI with vision capabilities to understand and interact with webpages.

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Key Features (in a nutshell)

- Multiple AI Providers: Choose between OpenAI’s GPT‑4V and local models via Ollama.

- Vision-Enhanced Navigation: The AI “sees” the webpage so it knows which buttons to click and when.

- Autonomous Decision Making: It processes both text and visuals to decide the next action.

- Real‑Time Feedback: You get live updates on what the tool is doing.

- Multi‑Tab & Smart Element Detection: It handles new tabs and finds the right elements on dynamic pages.

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I built AIRAS Agent to explore how AI can interact with the web in a human-like way, and I hope it helps you learn more about autonomous systems. Check out the code on GitHub, run some experiments, and let me know your thoughts or any ideas for improvements!

Happy automating, and thanks for reading!
You might want to "reduce white point" for that, if you are on iOS.
I don't really have a source for this: I've never used the "dark web" myself. But my understanding from people who have is that it's that it's possible to buy in large quantities, which seemed to me like it would only be useful for dealers.

Your point about the mailing address is a good one though. I had not thought about that.
The standard establishment reply s that "Ignorance of the law is no excuse".

Countered this with "Ignorance of how to write laws in plain language and make them easily accessible is no excuse".
Yeah, I made a note of that. I'm not sure anything I've written to my cheesy blog has hit HN before, so this is probably the biggest test I'm going to get.

If it were going to get any bigger, I'd want my own Mastodon server.

Edit: this is also why I made it an explicit user action to load the comments.
You chose your path poorly.

The correct order is Civ to classic Dwarf Fortress to EU4.
> I'm trying to pivot out of data which IMO is a scam industry

Would you be open to writing more about this? I work in data, and I find it valuable to hear criticisms of the fundamentals of the field from people with enough context to actually articulate meaningful criticism.

I saw this video a few months ago, and I thought it was pretty sloppy, but it made a few pretty good points: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOuBCk8XMC8
Such assertions are a lot more persuasive if you can point to significant errors the poster has made.
This seems to be the biggest (gameplay) complaint across the web, so I would be shocked if it’s not addressed in an update fairly soon.
Can you share your couple of tweaks?
Other than the massive profit?
Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm ever? (2021)
Uh … basic deduction and simple set theory.

Because donations are made for tax purposes and virtue signaling … someone is going to get this money. Many of the donors are alumni and will donate money to the school. It was already targeted to the university athletic departments. It’s not a big stretch for it to be donated to another university department that has a direct academic role.
applied to these guys, they are like agents layered over openai

I feel like I'm pretty plugged into the agents space, so was a bummer to not hear back from them when I applied to kind of get a feel for what they are doing

wishing them well
I’ve thought I’d found a compiler but maybe 5 times in my life and it has never actually been a compiler bug.

When I reflect on the ~25 years I’ve been programming C, all of the times I thought I’d found a compiler bug were in the first ~8 years. Dunning-Kruger hard at work :-/
Linear Algebra [pdf]
The problem is that Civ has never modeled military logistics.

That gap means death stacks are magically logistically-supported.

But fair, as that's not the kind of game it wants to be.
It’s a projection of their electorate’s fear more than the politicians’ own.
That seems a bit silly to call an achievement that pays you money superficial. Also no matter where you are in life, it is feels good to reach goals you aspire to.
> In particular, it is not always possible for HQ to ensure that when a process that spawns tasks (called worker) quits unexpectedly (e.g. when it receives SIGKILL), its spawned tasks will be cleaned up. Sadly, Linux does not seem to provide any way of implementing perfect structured process management in user space. In other words, when a parent process dies, it is possible for its (grand)children to continue executing.

Uh, it does? It's called pid-namesp—

> There is a solution for this called PID namespaces,

I think maybe you've got the wrong idea about what "in user space" means? — processes running as root are still "in user space". The opposite of "user space" is "in the kernel".

> but it requires elevated privileges

I think that's only technically true. I believe you can unshare the PID namespace if you first unshare the user namespace — which causes the thing doing the unsharing of the user namespace to become "root" within that new namespace, and from there is permitted to unshare the pid namespace. I think: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/672462/6013

I have no idea why that hoop has to be jumped through / I don't know what is being protected against by preventing unprivileged processes from making pid namespaces.

Whether or not that fits well with HQ's design … you'd have to be the judge of that.

There's also prctl(PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER, ...)
Show HN: Subscription Billing and Payments for AI
Hey HN,

We built Stykite, a billing and payments platform designed specifically for AI companies. It was a manifestation of a problem that I personally faced 6 years ago and even today, setting it up takes weeks/months and various API integration. Even when 99% on SaaS onboarding and billing experience is largely the same (fixed price, seat price or even usage-based). So we asked ourselves a question, can there be something that can let SaaS/AI businesses go live in 10 mins. We're not there yet, but hopefully on the path.

Note:
- Our documentaion is half broken. (WIP)
- We did a UX revamp this month, but still needs some work I guess.

Would LOVE any feedback and questions specifically around our "product architecture" which is different from legacy systems out there.
the similarity being that it will remain a waste of time
Go to where the hosts are.
I spent many summers playing Ultima Underworld 1&2. Only got to try U7 one weekend.
Apparently it's now downvote-worthy to simplify recapitulate claims that were made in bog standard "here's how the mRNA vaccines work!" videos in 2021.
Skill Path: Run Any Database on Kubernetes with KubeBlocks
The AI isn’t the technology making it easier, though - industrial production and market economics are. Sigma Aldrich is a much bigger danger to civilization than ChatGPT is (or possibly will ever be).
Probability and Statistics: The Science of Uncertainty [pdf]
A Meticulous Guide to Advances in Deep Learning Efficiency
It would help if you expanded on the rationale for your belief beyond 'it should be so'.
Stealing from children is the MO of Epic Games
> a large number of whom will drop completely from the statistics forevermore.

U-6 unemployment and labor force participation rates capture everyone.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab...

There are also many other places un and underemployed people show up, such as income quintiles, tax return statistics, and eventually, revenue and net income in publicly listed business’ financials.
But then you'd have to include things like bombings and maybe bomb threats. And that might re-focus attention away from the chosen tools and towards the people doing it, which would make it less useful for election season.
H800 is the export variant that they had access to. They directly reference it in the repo:

>Achieving up to 3000 GB/s in memory-bound configuration and 580 TFLOPS in computation-bound configuration on H800 SXM5, using CUDA 12.6.
I read it rather that this is an economic question not a technical question.

There's no point working on a 3rd party feature if the OS will have that feature built-in. Economically that greatly reduces the likelihood of a return.

Especially in a market where customers expect, and will continue to expect this for free.
TLDR: Amdahl's law.
Do you never travel? Go camping? Spend more than 12 hours away from a charging location? Seems so stressful for a minor benefit :/
> knowingly insert backdoors into their software

Not true however and contradicts itself later. They have inserted backdoors, the backdoors exist. Them holding the keys to it does not magically make it not exist.
See also past discussions of this study:
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=trickle+down+
Something I wish I had done more. You think you don't need to make a note because it's fresh in your head at the time, but years later, even the context is gone. Expecting to remember arcane solutions to things you do rarely is unrealistic. I've gotten better but still have a ways to go. One thing that removes the barrier is to just have common log to put everything, perhaps with some tags, so you can quickly open it and type your thoughts when they're fresh, without having to worry about packaging it just right.
> Has the US fallen much in education quality in absolute terms? Or just relative to other countries? And how does that map relative to the percentage of the population being educated at that level?

Those are fair questions that I don't have the answers to. I share your suspicion that a larger number of people have received a high school education and that in absolute terms more people are educated than ever. That is why I do not think it is the reason why there's been a decline in critical thinking.

> You bring up "the replacement of newspapers that invite critical thinking by yellow journalism" as if the term Yellow Journalism wasn't literally used to critique one of the major US newspapers over a century ago.

Correct, and it seems we have regressed back to those days. I do believe the post-war period was an enlightened era in journalism where the press went from a vehicle for propaganda to an independent institution.
One of the reasons I avoid commenting on YouTube whatsoever is the risk that an automated filter flags my comment and then nuke the whole account.

This idea seems similar. I have some accounts on social media that is being used for read-only. That's unfortunate reality.
Well, the thing I was referring to isn't GCP regions with data residency requirements. It sounded like a clone of the entire stack installed on hardware owned by the customer government.

I guess the King of America could still shut down the ability to provide support updates.
If you want to be able to spawn processes that fask then `fork()` is NOT your friend. You want either `vfork()` (or `clone()` equivalent) or `posix_spawn()`.

`fork()` is inherently very slow due to the need to either copy the VM of the parent, or arrange to copy pages on write, or copy the resident set of the parent (then copy any pages paged-in when those page-in events happen -- all three of these options are very expensive.

Also, what I might recommend here is to create a `posix_spawn()`-like API that gives you asynchronous notification of the exec starting or failing, that way you don't block even for that. I'd use a `pipe()` that will be set to close on exec and which will therefore close when the exec starts, but if the exec fails I'd write the `errno` value into the pipe, that way EOF on the pipe implies the exec started while read on the pipe implies the exec failed and you can read the error number out of the pipe.

https://gist.github.com/nicowilliams/a8a07b0fc75df05f684c23c18d7db234
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30502392
https://github.com/famzah/popen-noshell
"It's all just information" is a valid take on modern physics, with quite a few adherents.
If you want to use Matrix instead of Mastodon for your blog's comments, there's https://cactus.chat/

There's a rather long list of other solutions over at https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/

And there's https://github.com/carlitoplatanito/disgus for adding Nostr based comments to your static blog.
No, it's O(n) worst case. (The Wikipedia sidebar says "O(mn)," but that's apparently for a maimed version of the algorithm without a key part they're calling "the Galil rule." That's a special usage of the phrase "worst case"! In the absolute worst case, your implementation could have a bug and never terminate at all!)

Anyway, the point is that it's O(n/m) in the usual case. Which remains technically linear, not sub-linear; but at least it's O(n) with a constant factor smaller than 1.
Here's a coupla questions for ya.

When media become available showing robots "having sex" with other robots, will it be classified as porn ? And, what form will the uncanny valley take ?
Computer Simulation of Neural Networks Using Spreadsheets (2018)
I want to believe that the author did not authorize the subtitle of this article because it spoils the first impression of a long read that upon further examination looks interesting.
Oh yeah, 'charging up' your wetsuit is great. The replacement is fairly limited with a good suit especially if you have booties and a hood, but who cares, people pay a lot of money for skin care products with urea in them.
The author made some sane choices by having the user press a button before loading the comments
Luckily with Proton, it is incredibly easy to export everything and delete everything, unlike Google which makes it extremely difficult to delete things (notwithstanding the 2FA screen you get when deleting data from each service, which leads to "too many logins, wait 5 minutes" even if you login with the correct password/TOTP every time). I recommend downloading a "google takeout" to confirm all your data is actually gone.
Before smartphones, I carried a book wherever I went for just this reason. I was bullied mercilessly for it, but didn’t care - that’s preferable to being bored.
How can they signal mistrust towards all of the candidates?
But how do you explain those results?

- Brian Nosek's team examined 100 studies from high-ranking psychology journals in 2015, and could only reproduce 1/3 of them.

- Tim Errington did the same for cancer papers, and could not reproduce most of them either (he spent 8 years for this efforts btw)

- When you aggregate the reported p-value in scientific publications, it often reveals a "funny" distribution (Leggett 2013, Ookubo 2016)

They are not picking up rare misconducts by low-profile researchers. Fraudant research (from p-hacking to data rigging) is
very common and a very serious issue.
And the fact that these scam centers primarily target rich western countries that are at political odds with the CCP?
Show HN: My first open source project – daily SMS goal reminders
Please let me know any feedback on how to improve this OSS project. Hope a few people find it useful and customize it to their needs.
It sounded like Google was providing all the software necessary to use a cloud system effectively, including IAM. And you could get all of the other GCP services like BigQuery or PubSub etc. I don't remember what it was called though.

So that seems to be the value add. Of course the software will eventually need updates...
Insights on Cross-Coder Model Diffing
Any attempt to engage with scarab92 has been a waste of time. That person truly believes what they say to a fault, there's no amount of evidence of Elon's lies that phases them.

It's rather sad but they are true-believers, best to just move on before they post another flamebait comment.
If they rip out their chargers doesn't it mean they have to charge their EV's somewhere else? That somewhere else could well be a Tesla charger, which gives Elon a cut for every kWh they buy.

I'm sure he's pretty confident the federal government will be predominately buying EV's in a few years years regardless of what else happens.
How does one get started doing this?
There's been no fundamental change in the kernel level representation of pthreads, they are still clone()d processes with just some sharing flags set differently that eg affect how PIDs work.
It isn't illegal for chinese companies to buy H100 cards. It is illegal for USA companies to sell them to China. So the "admit" part wouldn't be on Chinas side.
I came across a similar video a couple weeks ago about how many ways you can turn a 2 into a 4... https://youtu.be/VEQOv61Gveg
H20 is a Hopper GPU, and they are allowed to be sold in China.
I had this same issue for years on Android with Bitwarden. I’m not sure how the password manager related APIs work to make it appear on android, but since switching to iOS, it always presents me with a generic “passwords” option, which then gets me to Bitwarden. Sometimes it’ll flag the specific account, but not always - this seems to be like the android quirk. I’d much prefer if android has that generic “password” option at all times, even when it didn’t know Bitwarden had an account for this service.
They're doing this because the expected value on lives saved is positive, not negative.

It's the exact same thing as "defund the police" except applied to the entire government. If policing is net negative, reducing it will save lives. If this government program is inefficient / worthless / net negative, cutting it or disrupting it will save lives.
At the very top, schools don't need to worry too much about competing to attract top students, because they're the best schools and the top students are going to be trying to get into them anyway. Private schools below that (like Stanford, USC, etc) use discounted tuition to try and convince top students to attend, leading to the merit-based tuition I described.
Search engine rankings, both live and historical, have value to marketers.

Google makes it challenging to reliably crawl their rankings at scale, so there is a real cost to collecting this data.

As a result, there aren't good, open, public archives of rankings. There are paid services like Semrush, though.
Fun fact: Folks just uncovered that the "Grok" model Musk controls was set with a secret prompt item... "ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk or Donald Trump spread misinformation."
Does it also have the option to legally chose something like:

You're all insane! Go die in a fire!, so that the vote is counted, but not for any of the grifters?

Meaning 90% of people voting like that, leaving 10% so called "legitimated" candidates, government falls flat, just like that. Repeat until stability emerges...
Same here. I thought I hadn't flagged anything. Whoops. Unflagged now.
I once read an article claiming ghat Chinese are do good at math for two reasons:

1. Their words for Numbers are based on Base-10 system (so no nonsense such as „eleven” and „twelve”)

2. Their words for Numbers are short, one syllabe, so they can keep morę of them in their short term memory at once

Not saying there’s any truth to that, but sounds interesting
The person who wrote the blogpost is a woman.