skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's far below the level of discussion here or anywhere where there is discussion with varying views. The reason is that the book is broken in near to every single argument it makes, often intentionally by relying on misleading arguments or assuming the lack of knowledge of the reader -- knowledge which, crucially, I'm fairly certain they themselves had or should have had with even cursory level research on the topic. In a forum with debate those arguments rapidly emerge.

So for instance, their very first effort is to try to 'debunk' the idea of having Mars as a sort of 'backup' to Earth by claiming that even in the case of a doomsday event Earth would still be far more hospitable than Mars. That statement is completely true but also completely irrelevant.

Take a typical doomsday event, an asteroid impact or a supervolcano. Both kill you the same way which isn't the initial event, but rather the sun ending up getting blotted out for years by mass debris/ash not only causing an extreme freeze across the planet, but also ending photosynthesis rapidly killing all plant life which starts a mass extinction on up the food chain to animals that ate those plants then animals that ate those animals and so on.

This is the sort of event that could easily completely kill off humanity, but it's not because it'd make Earth a worse place than Mars. Even at the climax of mass extinction, Earth would still be dramatically more hospitable than Mars. The reason it will be so deadly is because it's so different than the conditions to which we prepare for -- more people die in the desert of drowning than of thirst. An offworld colony in this case would help ensure humanity is perpetuated, Earth is recolonized, rescue survivors, ensure global order, and so on. In fact this is the case for most of all conceivable disasters.

I wanted to dig into more of their arguments but this is already fairly lengthy. If you mention what you found most compelling, I can offer the data (or, as in this case, logic) to the contrary.
Straw man. I can’t imagine how culture could exist without some people being thrown in prison. That doesn’t mean that criticizing a law or law enforcement practice is equivalent to arguing for abolishing prisons.
Indeed you did.
Update: finished the paper, and as I suspected, there's a serious downside in speed and memory consumption. LLaDA model has to process the entire output sequence on every time step - without anything like KV cache. Also, full quadratic attention happens on the entire output sequence on every time step, which makes it unfeasible for sequence length longer than a few thousand tokens.
That will require inoculating the population against propaganda.
Yeah also given that I don't know any further attempts to do this, looks like it remains just an intellectual curiosity.
Please add a "touch snow" feature for those living in the north ;)
The HP calculators were so well designed. In college, a HP salesman stood before the engineering class and hurled a TI calculator at the cement wall. It exploded. Then he threw the HP calculator against the wall. It bounced off the wall. He picked it up and followed up with…. “Ok give me two numbers…”
If I'm reading this correctly, is this just the "public" areas of apartments, and not the doors to the actual suites themselves? There's a huge difference between getting access to those two.
Ah no. The use of second person was meant to be applied more generally. You may have taken it personally, but it wasn't my intent.
The one thing I really want is for someone to make it so I can use it in F#. Presumably it's possible given how the python bit is implemented under the hood?
The article talks about that. That's just not true in medical literature
I originally was against auto commit as well, but now I can’t imagine not using it. It’s essentially save points along the way. More than once, I’ve done two or three exchanges with Aider only to realize that the path that we were going down was not a good one.

Being able to get reset back to the last known good state is awesome. If you turn off auto commit, it’s a lot harder to undo one of the steps that the model takes. It’s only a matter of time until it creates nonsense, so you’ll really want the ability to roll it back.

Just work in a branch and you can merge all commits if you want at the end.
Round 2 of open source releases from an actual "Open AI™" company and licensed under MIT.

Once again, DeepSeek is more open than the $157B+ one that is claiming to be "Open".

Almost no-one is talking about Meta's Llama and everyone should expect them to release Llama 4 with reasoning.

The objective is to not be squeezed in the middle of the race to zero.
Not alternatively. They're both important and competent officials do not stop database abuse, they only lessen it.
I am working on a ZZT-like game engine called "Super ZZ Zero". (Someone who is interested might try.)
am I so unusual in just skimming past and ignoring the AI search results? I didn't think a majority of people outside the silicon valley tech bubble were all that keen on getting their questions answered by a chatbot
> This is strictly about how much memory LuaJIT can address on that platform

No it is not.

https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/285#issuecomment-197...

> If your workload fits inside 2 GiB (IIRC) it will be fast.

This has nothing to do with the issue being mentioned here.
You are understating the severity of this issue and seem to be confusing it with a different issue that is no longer relevant in 2.1.
OpenAI Lawsuits partially dismissed by California court
"Martínez-Olguín wrote that a claim of vicarious copyright infringement was dismissed on the grounds that the authors had not shown that there was “substantial similarity” between their books and ChatGPT’s output. The authors’ claim that all ChatGPT outputs are “infringing derivative work” is “insufficient”, she added."
> But we're here talking about an article about typewriting devices, and in the context of the kinds of things you'd write long-form on a typewriter, "just use a notebook!" is insultingly unhelpful.

Of course, some of the greatest works of literature were written long-hand, i.e. as manuscripts!
** Roast ***

* You've spent more time talking about your Carnatic raga detector than actually building it – at this rate, LLMs will be composing ragas before your detector can identify them.

* You bought a 7950X processor but can't figure out what to do with it – the computing equivalent of buying a Ferrari to drive to the grocery store once a week.

* You're so concerned about work-life balance that you took a sabbatical to think about your career, only to spend it commenting on HN about other people's careers.

*** End ***

I'll be in my room crying, in case anyone's looking for me.
I learned recently that Elo isn't an acronym but the last name of its inventor, Arpad Elo.

I also learned the Pilates (exercise) isn't a reference to Pontius Pilate or something, it's the last name of Joseph Pilates. That's right, you have Joey Pilates to thank for those funky machines.
> I like thinking about it like a bunch of skateboarders lugging the video camera around to capture the moment. (They did this before social media!)

We sure did! I’ll never forget my first vx1000 with a death lens.
The argument about politics here is that it is more important than most tech discussions, so could easily crowd out the tech and 'interesting' (but perhaps kind of obscure) articles.

For instance a discussion about Ukraine... what happens there is life-or-death for thousands of people.

It's tough to look away from it right now though. At nearly 50, I still think tech is fun and interesting, but I'm getting to an age where I want to leave a better world for my kids and it looks like what they'll actually get is perhaps much worse than what I grew up with.
That looks... out there. Is it parked at a Lagrange point?
We live in such a moronic time that I believe the reason that we are dropping the post-WWII Rules Based Order, is that it is also called the "Liberal" International Order. [0]

Watching a historic empire destroy itself is beyond words. I will miss Pax Americana.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_international_order
We have seen it happen over and over again.

When was the last time real science came out of Russia?
Yes, there's some in the csrc/kernels directory. Search for 'asm' to find uses of it.
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is discredited pseudoscience bullshit. The exercises will make you a better drawer but not for the very stupid reasons the author claims, but because they are drilled exercises.
May I ask how Hypership differs from Vercel etc?

Coincidentally I'm currently looking for a new hoster / platform to start a new project with (probably nextjs or laravel) but having a difficult time deciding on one of the modern cloud providers like you because of the heavy vendor lock-in and hidden costs collecting in the shadows and threatening to crush my product before it can break even.

How would I prevent this from happening using e.g. Hypership?
The wings say USAF, which is Air Force. Though clearly in space…
> We have seen individuals just trying to get free accounts week after week, who when nudged once pay immediately

This pattern is everywhere. It was foreign to me for a long time because I'm the type of person who likes to play within the rules. There are a lot of people who get a kick out of gaming the system to their advantage, even to the point of breaking the law.

Many people have zero qualms about stealing things when they imagine it's a faceless corporation on the other side. They might even rationalize it with mental gymnastics until they think they're doing the right thing. You see it most often when the topic of media piracy or sharing Netflix logins comes up.

This mindset is very common in startup communities. I've heard so many stories from founders gloating about how they abused some system or used a loophole to avoid paying for something they could clearly afford. It's like a badge of honor to some people. I know one guy who bought an EV but hasn't installed a charger because he drives it to a business down the street and uses the EV charger they installed for their employees every night. Another guy used to brag about sneaking into a cafeteria for another organization and stealing lunch every day. A while ago I talked to a guy who liked to "dine and dash" without paying his tab, even though he could easily afford it. For them, it's all about getting away with it and winning a game.

As soon as you make it obvious that someone is watching them, they cave. They don't want to be the type of person who abuses actual people. They only like to abuse what they see as faceless systems.
So basically you see this as helping to get working vector search in MongoDB? It sounds as if the attraction, then, is that it integrates easily with your existing Atlas usage. Or is there more?
Google's own browser phones home with the URLs you put in it, presumably for malware scanning or some other "security"-excuse reason.

I don't remember if there was a setting to stop that from happening, or if there was, whether the setting may still exist today, but that would be a good way for them to get otherwise-private URLs.
"OK, I opened the explorer, but I don't see it."

"Type 'kindle' in the search."

"Alright, hold on... do I want kindle.com? I'm on Amazon, now where do I go?"

A slightly more experienced fastball realizes grandpa has opened his never-updated Internet Explorer on his old Windows box.

Maybe your family is tech-savvy, but there's many who aren't.
This is cool! They mention they aggregate from over 3000 sources. What are the usual sources for something like this? Is this public government data from cities?
That’s a lot of words to say you’re not great at marketing yourself
Can someone link to (or post copies of) the offending questions/statements?
Posting multiple replies under my comments, then replying again in other threads is some weird attention seeking behaviour...

But yes I do think it is very wasteful, as the article says it can cause serious inflation issues to dump $1T into the economy like that. Not at all economically conservative nor a useful behaviour of an agency claiming to want to save money, similar to the federal firings I critiqued as non-productive in the other thread you followed me from.
USAID saved thousands and thousands of lives every year. And that is a massive understatement of the suffering and misery USAID prevented.

It’s gone. People are dying because it’s gone.
I would like to share the existence of Comic Papyrus: https://befonts.com/comic-papyrus-font-finally.html
Hi Kushal and/or Vivaan,

"The world is trash" is not an excuse to make it worse, and this kind of statement only digs you a bigger hole.

This is not the end of your startup, it could just be a bumpy start if you are able to find a different angle for this technology and turn the boat around. It could be a really nice story tbh, you have the whole world looking at you which is the most difficult thing! No publicity is bad publicity.

But leave that attitude behind ...
This is shocking to read. Even attempting to choke the legal speech of web PKI contributors with legalistic bullying is a gross inversion of the purpose and goals of the organization, and IMO warrants revoking everything to do with DigiCert on the spot.
While I don't flag them, I also don't typically vouch/upvote them. I just comment for however long they might last, with the idea that a certain amount of off-topic-ness is inevitable and a kind of safety-valve.

As much as I like a good politics/law discussion, for this "DOGE stuff" on HN I try to limit my support to items which are either:

1. News about technical details

2. Discuss information-security policies and principles

3. Contain a significant niche educational component, like how Impoundment has been historically used and how Nixon's abuses of it led to the Impoundment Act of 1974.
"For extreme performance, we discover and use a behavior-out-of-doc PTX instruction: ld.global.nc.L1::no_allocate.L2::256B. This instruction will lead to an undefined behavior: accessing volatile GPU memory with non-coherent read-only PTX modifiers .nc. But the correctness is tested to be guaranteed with .L1::no_allocate on Hopper architectures, and performance will be much better. If you find kernels not working on some other platforms, you may add DISABLE_AGGRESSIVE_PTX_INSTRS=1 to setup.py and disable this, or file an issue."
I wrote one https://wstein.org/books/modform/README.html
Ars previously covered some additional information on the X-37B

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/10/the-us-militarys-x-37b...
I'm usually very good about just not eating the random snacks and candy in the office kitchen, but every now and then they bring madeleines into the rotation and I can't resist those :) it's always a mild relief when they're in the off-again phase.
Also HN is not that efficient at flamewars. When a new iphone generates 2k comments, you have to logout to visit (enables cache/cdn/?), cause it stops responding otherwise. Now imagine 10 politics threads on the frontpage with thousands of flamers piling in. HN simply can’t do that. It’s a niche lisp server for discussing this week’s ai-generated ts frameworks. Politics go reddit.
The unrealistic assumption of someone offering to pay the part of your electricity bill that comes from lighting, no matter how big? Ok, yes, that’s clearly unrealistic,
but, the cost of this presumably wouldn’t be like, totally insane, right?

Of course, I don’t mean that in realistic scenarios that the amount of energy used for lighting would decrease directly by the proportion given by the increase in efficiency of light-per-power, which would only happen if you had exactly no demand for more lighting than you have even if it was free,
but that doesn’t mean the energy used would necessarily increase, just that it wouldn’t decrease as much as it would if you consumed the same amount of lighting.
They say on the internet, a direct result of DARPA funding.
I'm not happy with the situation, but I agree with almost all of what you've said.

> Do we need a better system? I'd argue yes. But all the others are worse

I think there's a lot of room for improvement here. Eliminate the senate. Dramatically expand the house. Eliminate the electoral college. Sane district boundaries. Etc.
In the second paragraph:

> Contrary to this statement, I received a letter from DigiCert’s lawyers, Wilson Sonsini, regarding posts made by Sectigo’s Chief Compliance Officer in bug 1910322. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1910322
Nitro is good! And showcases a great many of the foundational architectural concepts in PCC.

But there is a major difference that is germane to the topic of Apple’s investment in US server manufacturing: The hardware root of trust. Hardware tampering is the weak point and afaik AWS doesn’t describe any process to certify their supply chain integrity. I think the most they’ve done is commission a review of their architecture document.[1] PCC actually has an auditor sign each server node in the datacenter.

Thank you for mentioning them though. It’s an important advancement in generally available confidential computing infrastructure.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/aws-nitro-system-gets-i...
which country is this btw ? I'm assumming UK ?
feynman-brazil-education was an amazing read. Thank you.

I am from India, and I have a similar experience with my education — one that forces you to memorize, never experiment, and never connect the dots. It felt like reading about my own past and realizing just how bad it was.
Now with Claude 3.7 with thinking, you can skip the copy paste step entirely.
If you're taking suggestions, I have a frequent need to do basic arithmetic on fractions and not many "app" calculators do that well or at all.
The difference between $400m and $400k is approximately $400m
Do a search for "doge" or "musk". There are plenty threads that don't get flagged.
I try not to let perfect be the enemy of good. All benchmarks have limitations.

The Exercism problems have proven to be very effective at measuring an LLM's ability to modify existing code. I receive a lot of feedback that the aider benchmarks correlate strongly with people's "vibes" on model coding skill. I agree. The scores have felt quite aligned with my hands-on experience coding with most of the top models over the last 18+ months.

To be clear, the purpose of the benchmark is to help me quantitatively assess and improve aider and make it more effective. But it's also turned out to be a great way to measure the coding skill of LLMs.
>Why not frame things from the perspective of rewarding good performance?

This guy knows marketing. Agreed it would not have been as controversial
Benchmarking Counterstring Implementations in TypeScript
I mean, Trump palled around with Epstein, bragged about barging into teenage women's dressing room while they were naked and described "sex" as the thing him and his daughter have most in common.

I don't know that it would be a deal breaker to his cult
This thread is literally on the front page and not flagged.
The US Space Force was part of the US Air Force until just a few years ago, and a around 75 years ago the US Air Force was the US Army Air Corps.
I like https://mataroa.blog/
How far from earth are they to took that picture?
Imagine the next space station being that high up.
Pricing in externalities (such as national defense impact) is a basic function of economic policy.

I searched 'economics 101 strategic industries' and found this[1] within 30s which includes an overview of 'national self-sufficiency'. It presents the standard argument, including the parts you claim the standard argument ignores.

I personally favor decentralized planning over markets, but I find it unnecessary to slander economics.

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1: https://www.adamsmith.org/economics-101
> a strategy that proved reasonably effective for over 200 years.

not a student of US history, I see.
This is very different, but check out my https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/notebook.love
I know these cuts make almost no difference to the massive federal spending, but they are putting a spotlight on our nation's dire financial situation.

Most young people have no hope of owning a home or having kids and our federal government is "borrowing" money to pay for all of these things. Last year it added 1830 billion dollars to the national debt while paying 1126 billion in interest. Take a look at the dollar price of gold chart if you haven't recently. This is obviously not sustainable, maybe even in the short term.

To continue steal from our children's futures to pay for decades of accumulated corruption, appropriated by Congress, is a crime. Can anyone see a reasonable path forward where we don't make drastic changes?
> Nobody is going to make a single "dd" typo and erase their drive.

Alas, how does one learn if one cannot dd the wrong hard drive, wiping all the films you've spent most of the summer illegally downloading at night because you only had a dial up connection at the time.
Show HN: VaniSSH – generate vanity public keys
Yes, it's silly, but I try as I might to pretend to be too cool, I've already switched to "tagging" keys that will be distributed remotely so I'm sharing it with you all.
> Once you get really involved, you just wake up

No, that does not happen with enough practice. I can have crazy, long-running dreams with complete control.
Modest proposal: hacker news is not the most left leaning of web forums, However, there seems to be a fairly consistent and relatively unanimous view that the actions of the current republican administration are deeply problematic.

If you happen to be one of those people who thought that voting for the Republicans was in your best interest, yet you are shocked and horrified by what the Republicans are currently doing, I strongly suggest you reevaluate your political epistemology, and interrogate both your sources of information as well as your political stances.

Unlike you, others fully expected this as the outcome Of a Republican Administration and Congress.
Adding one more more web based tool for screen-caps as gifs:
https://gifcap.dev/
Yes. Because of the second part of what is required for a TRO. Irreparable public harm.

It should be news worthy
We can agree that prison and appropriation are both necessary for culture, regardless of their negative effects.

Your problem is the scale at which knowledge and ideas are being appropriated, but my point is that it was already happening a lot but it was far more implicit; now it's just explicit that it's happening because we see the process laid bare.
Sounds like you should instead be making these invalid states unrepresentable by encoding them in types and/or adding assertions. Especially if you're exposing them as interfaces, as your example function names would imply.
Days before landing, Blue Ghost spacecraft shares close-ups of the moon
It looks more like they're just trying to fire everyone. You know, "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
"That's a valid concern. However, it is tempered by the fact that the functions are presented in the order they are called. Thus we can expect that the reader has already seen the main loop and understands that candidate increases by two each iteration."

I think this missed the point entirely. If i had to read the entire code to understand the behavior of that method, then is it really cleaner? Side-effects are evil
On the topic of calculators. I discovered Figr[1] on HN a while ago, and it really helps when doing one off multi variable thing, like helping a customer estimate their bill etc.

Kudos on building this. I occasionally search for these on Google and am always disappointed by the mess. Bookmarked.

[1] https://www.figr.app/